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:20180210T180023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180210T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Casual Gaming Club: Gaming Night Event! DESCRIPTION:Finish off the week right and come and hang out with us this weekend for a gaming night!What's going on? We'll be playing all kinds of games\, from video games on consoles that will be screened on projectors and PC games for those who bring their laptops. Card games\, board games\, and other activities on tables will also be a BIG highlight of the event!WHERE is this happening? Since we like to play at several different venues\, we have an event schedule and location list (go to the end of this description). Alternatively\, you may also check our Facebook group for updates (https://www.facebook.com/groups/CasualGamingClub/).But what if I come unprepared? Simple. We will provide many party video games and card/board games to play. If you prefer\, feel free to bring your own consoles\, games\, controllers\, and laptop PC if you want to play specific games with others. If you want to share a card or board game that you really enjoyed playing\, bring that too! Most importantly\, bring your friends!I WANT TO GROUP UP AND PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE. If you enjoy teaming up in a five-stack or six-stack to play team-based games like Overwatch\, League of Legends\, Dota 2\, or other group-party games\, bring your laptop and games and then reach out to your other fellow gamers by commenting on the Facebook event page or mentioning them in the Discord group's respective channel (i.e. @OverwatchGamers)!Reminder: If you're a CGC member and haven't connected your games/interests yet\, please remember to use the link below so that you can easily group you up with other similar gamers to play with at the event and online: http://45.76.18.247/ Hope to see you there! 🎮 Casual Gaming Club\, Full Event Schedule*1/6/2018 Sat 7:00 PM 10:00 PM League- Koessler (3rd Floor)\n*1/13/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*1/20/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*1/27/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*2/2/2018 Fri 8:00 PM 10:00 PM League- Henderson (3rd Floor)\n*2/10/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*2/17/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/10/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/17/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/24/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*3/31/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*4/7/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor) UID:47925-11131263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Refer to Full Event Schedule in description for location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816436@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T120013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Other:MCRHL Regular Season Event DESCRIPTION:Regular season games for the MCRHL. UID:47032-11599734@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Joe Dumars Fieldhouse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762514@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Other:OSU Ranking Tournament DESCRIPTION:2-day ranking tournament for B-teams at Ohio State University! UID:49788-11602533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49788 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Columbus, Ohio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237299@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T120020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Purdue Golden Grips 2018 DESCRIPTION:Purdue University's Golden Grips Invitational Gymnastics meet. UID:49445-11599874@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Lambert Field House CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667188@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802378@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802126@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802546@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310450@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T143508 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Wilderness First Aid Certification DESCRIPTION:This course covers all the basics you should know before heading out into the wilderness with family\, friends\, or by yourself. By providing a combination of medical knowledge and hands-on training this short\, intense course prepares you to react appropriately accidents\, injuries\, and illnesses.\n\nClass will take place over the course of three days at the Adventure Education Center\, 1120 N. Dixboro Rd.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48105.\n\nFriday\, February 9 from 3:00pm – 9:00pm\nSaturday\, February 10 from 8:00am – 5:00pm\nSunday\, February 11 from 8:00am – 5:00pm\n\nRegistration is required at https://recsports.umich.edu/trips/wfr/ UID:48347-11222723@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Health & Wellness,Outdoors,Professional Development,Rec Sports,Training,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T142427 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T120000 SUMMARY:Other:\"My Turn\" Special ASD Access Hours DESCRIPTION:Registration is required and opens one month before the event date. Visit myturn.eventbrite.com to register. For more information\, call 734-647-0522.\nUMMA is pleased to participate\, for the second year\, in a program created for families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). “My Turn” was developed by the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum to implement accessible and inclusive programming\, particularly for families affected by ASD. On Sunday\, February 11\, UMMA will open exclusively for a sensory friendly program allowing families to enjoy art in a fun and welcoming atmosphere. Families will have access to special hands-on activities in the galleries that will help encourage exploration and discovery.\n\nThe Museum will offer sensory reducing accessories and a quiet area with tactile toys for families who need to step away from the activities for a bit. This event is recommended for ages 5-18\, however all are welcome to participate.\n\n\"My Turn\" programs are coordinated by the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and take place on second Sundays throughout the year. For more information\, please go to www.myturncommunity.org. UID:48817-11308905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48817 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547255@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T134321 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Engaging with Art DESCRIPTION:UMMA docents will guide visitors through the galleries on tours as diverse as their interests and areas of expertise. Each docent plans a theme and includes a variety of styles and media to illuminate his or her ideas. Themes may be repeated but each docent's approach and choice of objects is unique. \n\nFor more information and events\, visit umma.umich.edu/events. UID:48809-11308894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48809 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,Tour,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889145@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T114701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T140000 SUMMARY:Meeting:WISE Mentoring Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Mentoring group membership required. UID:50062-11630749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50062 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mentorship LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 3230 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297786@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Theatre & Drama Studio Production: Wild Honey DESCRIPTION:By Michael Frayn.\nFrom the Comedy by Anton Chekhov. \nDirected by Gillian Eaton. \n\nA glorious few weeks in the hot sun drives a community of provincial characters into frenzies of wild passion. Adapted from Chekhov’s first play written when he was only 21 years old\, Wild Honey hilariously foreshadows his later works. UID:47095-11479090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47095 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Newman Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T141951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T150000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Guided Tour - Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters and New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:In the 1980s\, Japan’s strong trade surplus and currency were causing friction and antagonism overseas. In response\, three renowned Japanese artists took on the challenge of changing Japan’s global image through graphic design. Their eye-catching designs often incorporated familiar traditional symbols and motifs\, notably the iconic red circle against a white background of Japan’s national flag\, from which this exhibition gains it name\, 'Red Circle: Designing Japan in Contemporary Posters.' Paul Rand also crafted memorable graphic design in the second half of the twentieth century. Rand was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. This installation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign\, a rebus which transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. Join Docents as they introduce and connect these two exciting exhibitions focusing on graphic design.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo.\n\nLead support for 'Red Circle' is provided by AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. UID:48818-11308906@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48818 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Forum and Museum Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T130236 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Elephant Ears at East Quad DESCRIPTION:On Sunday February 11th\, East Quad Dining Halls will be featuring Elephant Ears. Come enjoy this classic carnival food! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48639-11264973@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386653@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180126T102347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Taco Bar at North Quad DESCRIPTION:On February 11th\, North Quad Dining Hall will be featuring a taco bar! Toppings will include taco beef\, carnitas\, pico\, shredded muenster cheese\, lettuce\, and two types of beans! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:49316-11417461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49316 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170918T135529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T190000 SUMMARY:Meeting:SLE Board Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the SLE Board! Gain leadership experience\, plan social events\, service learning activities\, sustainability projects\, and educational workshops. UID:41402-11465099@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41402 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Leadership,Sustainability LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Zouk Sundays DESCRIPTION:6:00pm Review Session7:00pm Foundations Lesson8:00pm Practica9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social\n\nLocation: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)\nCost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)\nEveryone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :) UID:48159-11183284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180226T123014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T213000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:JCPenney Suit Up Event DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/115330\n\nJCPenney is partnering with the University of Michigan to offer career wear up to 70% off. Everything you need to finish your look for the career fair or an interview. Shop suits\, dresses\, coats\, pants and shoes—all at deeply discounted prices.\n\nJCPenney will close their store to the public - this is a special UMICH student offering. Bring your UM ID to check-in and receive your 40 percent off coupon as you enter the door.\n\nA bus willbe provided by Central Student Government (CSG) that will leave from the Cube located 515 E Jefferson St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109. \nSee the bus schedule below:\n*6:30 PM University Career Center > Briarwood \n**7:00 PM Briarwood > University Career Center \n*7:30 PM University Career Center > Briarwood \n**8:00 PM Briarwood > University Career Center \n*8:30 PM University Career Center > Briarwood \n** 9:00 PM Briarwood > University Career Center \n** 9:30 PM Briarwood > University Career Center \n\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:48375-11225345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48375 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:500 Briarwood Cir, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T165049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Deutschtisch DESCRIPTION:\"Deutschtisch\" in the North Quad dining hall takes place each Sunday\, 7 p.m. You will need a meal plan or Entrée Plus to enter\, or you can purchase a meal at the door (note that this is not cheap) - but you may also be allowed to come in just to talk and not eat\, if you say at the door that you are there for the Max Kade event. The group has yellow signs with \"Max Kade Deutschtisch\" to identify where they are sitting. For questions\, contact Nico (nmpozsar@umich.edu).\n\nGerman students at all levels (101 and up) are welcome at all Max Kade events. UID:48673-11265210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48673 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Max Kade,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T154233 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Four Short Plays by Tennessee Williams DESCRIPTION:Students of Kate Mendeloff's class RCHUMS 481 perform four short plays by Tennessee Williams. UID:49300-11409077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Theater LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180209T121525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Christina Adams\, violin DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Corelli - Violin Sonata in D Minor\, op. 5\, no. 12\; Locatelli - Caprice no. 1\, op 3\; Ferrari - Sonata no. 1 or Violin and Basso Continuo\, op. 1\; Nardini - Duet no. 2 in E-flat Major\; Tartini - Sonata in G Minor (”Devil’s Trill”). UID:49686-11498700@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49686 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T130320 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180211T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Kitty Donohoe DESCRIPTION:The Celtic-influenced Michigan roots music of Detroit native Kitty Donohoe has been praised in Sing Out! for its \"intelligent\, literate songwriting infused with an inherent optimism.\" Over the years Kitty has opened for a variety of artists\, from Doc Watson to David Bromberg\, from Bruce Cockburn to Cheryl Wheeler‑and in 2008 she and sideman David Mosher took the stage at an Obama rally just before Bruce Springsteen. Her song \"There Are No Words\,\" written on September 11\, 2001\, has been performed by numerous other songwriters and has taken on a life of its own. Rich Warren of WFMT radio in Chicago has included Kitty on his list of the 50 most significant songwriters in the last 50 years. She has some great seasonal songs like \"Winter Dark\" that may be making an appearance on tonight's show. UID:45502-10197993@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45502 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816437@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T120013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Other:MCRHL Regular Season Event DESCRIPTION:Regular season games for the MCRHL. UID:47032-11599735@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Joe Dumars Fieldhouse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Other:OSU Ranking Tournament DESCRIPTION:2-day ranking tournament for B-teams at Ohio State University! UID:49788-11602534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49788 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Columbus, Ohio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237300@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180211T120020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Purdue Golden Grips 2018 DESCRIPTION:Purdue University's Golden Grips Invitational Gymnastics meet. UID:49445-11599875@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Lambert Field House CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291326@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T123609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Movie Night at East Quad DESCRIPTION:Every Monday night during Dinner\, East Quad dining hall will be having movie night! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48630-11264862@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48630 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932363@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932378@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802042@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802379@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802127@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802295@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802463@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802631@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310451@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era DESCRIPTION:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era showcases the works of Heidi Barlow\, Shaina Kasztelan\, and Bailey Scieszka\, three young women artists based in Detroit\, MI. Their work\, although varying in style and form\, speaks to a generation growing up with the influence of mass consumption\, internet shopping\, the glut of plastic toys\, fake jewels\, and tchotchkes. Whereas artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s reached first for paint tubes and canvas\, these artists use inexpensive and lowbrow materials to twist the signifiers of pop culture\, as they relate to gender politics and American ideals. It’s a balancing act between the icing and the cake\, surface and substance. \n\nBarlow’s confection-like constructs are unsettling\, much like an empty float or matted-hair Barbie in a backyard pool. Although enticing\, they allude to something lost in the translation\, some sweetness\, or idealism gone missing\, along with what once mattered. Yet\, the work isn’t cynical\, but embraces transition instead. We’ve hardened a little in the process\, much like the stiff and sugary piping Barlow often incorporates in her works. And maybe that’s a good thing. \n\nIf Barlow’s aesthetic leans towards Stepford Wives gone awry and the guilty pleasure of eBay\, Shaina Kasztelan offers us psychedelic Middle America. Her assemblages are disorienting\, vertigo-inducing. Technicolor sculptures conjure up hallucinations of the mall\, or spinning carnival rides that last too long. Kasztelan’s work is sinister\, even a little menacing. As viewers we are leery.\n\nFinally\, Bailey Scieszka takes this subversive garish ethos full tilt and invents her own world\, literally morphing into her own creation. Scieszka’s alter-ego Old Put\, a demonic shape-shifting clown\, becomes the artist/protagonist and creates work in performance\, video and drawing. Old Put collects pop culture references like artifacts of a lost civilization\, and seems as likely to commit a murder as bake a cake. \n\nFor Barlow\, Kasztelan and Scieszka\, outdated paradigms about class\, good taste\, and femininity are just temporal flashes in the pan. And it’s their party. UID:47322-10866224@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T124828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Computerized Investing DESCRIPTION:Using your computer can help you actively select mutual funds and ETFs for investment. We expect to improve your investing strategies as we present methods of using various investment options. \n\nJoin this study group for those 50 and over for open discussion of the value of asset allocation\, types of mutual funds\, types of financial advisors\, and questions to ask your financial advisor. We will make extensive use of information from web-based resources. \n\nInstructor Dale Brandenburg is a retired research professor and instructor Bob Shaw is a director and current President of the SE Michigan Chapter of Better Investing.\n\nThis study group will meet for 90 minutes on Mondays from February 12 through March 12. UID:47669-10973744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47669 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T085607 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Robot Garage Company Day DESCRIPTION:Come by to meet the owners of this Michigan start-up that has taken a dream to teach students about STEAM to what is now a quickly growing company with 3 locations\, 6\,000+ students\, and 80 staff members. The Robot Garage will be accepting resumes from students interested in full-time summer jobs at our engineering and robotics camps in Birmingham\, Rochester Hills\, and Grosse Pointe Michigan. Camp themes include Robot Discovery\, Minecraft\, and Game Design. In addition to robots\, we also love doughnuts so stop by to say hello and grab a doughnut. UID:49759-11529618@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49759 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Industry Session,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T160955 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Carey Salerno (Alice James Books) DESCRIPTION:Alice James Books is a prominent independent poetry press that was founded in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming\, Marjorie Fletcher\, Jean Pedrick\, Lee Rudolph\, Ron Schreiber\, Betsy Sholl and Cornelia Veenendaal. Their objectives were to give women access to publishing and to involve authors in the publishing process.\n\nAJB remains committed to its founders’ original mission while expanding upon the scope to include poets of all genders\, backgrounds\, and stages of their careers. In keeping with our efforts to foster equity and inclusivity in publishing and the literary arts\, AJB seeks out poets whose writing possesses the range\, depth\, and ability to cultivate empathy in our world and to dynamically push against silence. The press sees the work it publishes as instrumental in cultivating conversations that help us overcome the barriers we face as a nation.\n\nAlice James also stands out for its collaborative partnerships with authors\, as well as the level of attention given to the aesthetics of each book we publish. AJB believes in supporting writers throughout their careers\, connecting them to their readers\, and allowing them to tell their stories. UID:47699-10973775@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Literature,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T110316 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:DENSO Company Day DESCRIPTION:The ECRC is hosting a Company Day for DENSO on Monday\, February 12\, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Duderstadt Atrium. We invite University of Michigan students to stop by the Dude Atrium to learn more about DENSO' R&D Technologies!\n\nWho is DENSO? We’re one of the world’s largest global suppliers of advanced automotive technology\, systems and components \n\n-We have more than 150\,000 employees in 38 countries and regions around the world\; 24\,000 employees in the United States\, Canada and Mexico \n\n-DENSO International America\, Inc. is a leading supplier in conducting research and engineering activities in the fields of human factor for autonomous vehicles\n\n-We are looking for candidates to support research and development efforts in our DENSO R&D lad in Ann Arbor (16000 Huron Pkwy\, Ann Arbor)\n\nOpen Positions:\n\nDENSO offers full-time and internship opportunities for computer\, electrical\, artificial intelligence\, and HMI engineering majors\n\nCheck out our open positions and more\, and apply online today at densocareers.com UID:48959-11339487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48959 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547256@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546980@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" celebrates the remarkable life\, vision\, and heroic tenacity of a 20th-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest Ph.D.\, Ruth Gruber died in November of 2016 at the age of 105. The photographs in this exhibition span more than 50 years\, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947\, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints\, never before exhibited\, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. \n\nThe Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2018\, at 6:00pm.\n\n\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" is organized by the International Center of Photography and was made possible by Friends of Ruth Gruber. The exhibition is also co-sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost.\n\nPhoto: Unidentified Photographer\; Ruth Gruber\, Alaska\, 1941-43 UID:47419-10898820@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Exhibition,Graduate School,Museum,Photography,Rackham,Reception,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T133648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Developmental Area Brown Bag - The evolution of human ontogeny: Lifespan development in monkeys and apes DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nHumans exhibit a suite of developmental changes in cognition\, and some views link our species’ unique cognitive traits to our extended life history characteristics. I will discuss how studies of development and aging in other primates can provide new insights into the origins of human cognition. In the first set of studies\, I will examine lifespan changes in macaque monkey social cognition in order to understand human social evolution. In the second set of studies\, I will focus on changes in decision-making as chimpanzees make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. I will finally discuss ongoing projects linking changes in primate cognition and behavior to biological measures including health\, senescence\, and survivorship\, in order to understand the biological significance of these patterns.\n \n\nBio\nAlexandra Rosati is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at UM. Her research focuses on the evolutionary origins of the human mind. She studies a variety of primate species including apes\, monkeys\, lemurs in naturalistic contexts\, focusing on how cognitive abilities are used to solve evolutionarily-relevant social and foraging problems. She has an AB in psychology from Harvard\, a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from Duke\, and completed postdoctoral training at Yal UID:47447-10901450@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47447 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T091253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ebonics DESCRIPTION:Explore the verbal and nonverbal communication rules and patterns followed by native speakers of Ebonics. A Black History Month event hosted by the Hub and CSP. Bring your own lunch. UID:49610-11484666@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49610 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,brown bag,Culture,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,first-generation,Free,History,Multicultural LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180308T140905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen DESCRIPTION:Here's your chance to chat with our new director! Come by and say hello\, tell her what you love about UMMA\, or what you'd like to see change.\n\nOlsen\, now a little more than two months into her term\, is hosting open office hours in the UMMA Commons in February\, March\, and April. She is inviting visitors\, U-M staff and faculty\, students\, and community members to drop in and talk one-on-one about the Museum\, ways it might change\, and to ask questions.\n\n“I want to hear from the people that care about this Museum\, and who want to shape its future\,” Olsen says. “UMMA needs to be open to new ideas. A great way to get new ideas is by talking with people face to face.”\n\nOlsen will talk with visitors on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Visitors should queue near the director’s table in the UMMA Commons. UID:48813-11308907@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Office Hours,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T181619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantitative Biology Seminar | Synthetic Human Embryology in a Dish DESCRIPTION:Most of our current knowledge of mammalian embryology is derived from studies of the mouse embryo. However\, mammalian development involves substantial divergence in the mechanism and order of cell-fate allocations among species\, and there has been a critical lack of information regarding human development due to the scarcity of human embryo specimens. Recent studies from my laboratory and others have shown that under suitable culture conditions human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can undergo intricate morphogenetic events and self-organize to form patterned human embryo-like structures in vitro. These synthetic human embryo-like structures have sparked great interests in using such human development models for advancing human embryology\, embryo toxicology\, and reproductive medicine. In this talk\, I will first discuss our effort in developing a micropatterned hPSC-based neuroectoderm developmental model\, wherein pre-patterned geometrical confinement induces emergent patterning of neuroepithelial (NE) and neural plate border (NPB) cells\, mimicking neuroectoderm regionalization during early neurulation. In the second part of my talk\, I will discuss our work in developing a hPSC-based\, synthetic embryological model of human post-implantation development that recapitulates multiple embryogenic events including amniotic cavity formation\, amnion-epiblast patterning\, and primitive streak formation. Together\, our studies provide novel insight into previously inaccessible but critical embryogenic events in human development. Continuous development of these human development models will provide synthetic embryological platforms that open up previously inaccessible phases of the human life cycle to experimental study. \n\nJianping Fu is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, with a primary appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department and courtesy appointments in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Cell and Developmental Biology Department. He also serves as the Associate Director for the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care (MCIRCC). Dr. Fu’s research interests lie at the nexus of bioengineering\, biophysics\, and biology. Specifically\, his research group integrates micro/nanoengineering\, single-cell technologies\, and systems and synthetic biology methods with new discoveries of mechanobiology\, epigenetics\, and stem cell biology for advancing understanding of human development and cancer biology. Dr. Fu is the recipient of the American Heart Association Scientist Development Award (2012)\, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2012)\, the Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award (2014)\, the Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Research (2014)\, the Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award (2015)\, the Rising Star Award from Biomedical Engineering Society - Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (2016)\, and the George J. Huebner\, Jr. Research Excellence Award (2018). Dr. Fu's research group is supported by the National Science Foundation\, the National Institutes of Health\, the American Heart Association\, and some other foundations and agencies. \n UID:49553-11476262@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49553 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-11254315@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the LRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T110940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Anthony Monterossa DESCRIPTION:Title: The Role of Pre-Implanted Helium and Carbon on Cavity Evolution in Ion-Irradiated T91\n\nChair: Prof. Gary Was UID:49967-11608309@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49967 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower - GM Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T094030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Suspicious Minds and Anti-Poverty Policies DESCRIPTION:Suppose that a democratic society has an associative duty to assist a specific group of individuals\, the Usual Suspects group. Members of this group frequently do not go to their jobs. They are seen mostly in streets\, smoking\, drinking and having fun. They are defaulting debtors. They often cheat on the welfare system\, claiming to be unable to work. Since they run quickly out of money\, they often shoplift in small quantities and evade taxes. They are more prolific than their fellow citizens. Their children\, for some combination of a culture of poverty\, low opportunities and bad parenting\, usually miss classes\, medical appointments and reproduce the eternal cycle of poverty and dependence. \n\nA democratic society could assume this duty for several reasons: they are citizens\, they are humans or for their children extreme vulnerability. However\, this obligation can be fulfilled in multiple ways. Society can assist them conditionally or unconditionally\; can offer them lucrative jobs or can force them to work in exchange of meager assistance\; can give them cash or untradeable vouchers\; can demand sterilization from mothers or can improve public services\; can create special houses for their children. These choices depend heavily in the accuracy of Usual Suspects diagnose.\n\nIn this communication\, I challenge this Usual Suspects narrative in social protection\, which has been active since English Poor Laws to the expansion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin-America. First\, I will claim that there are no empirical nor normative arguments for taking suspicion as a default attitude to poor. Second\, I argue that there are relational reasons for reducing suspicion in social protection policies: it will not only improve the probability of the least advantaged of escaping poverty but it will also improve the most advantaged members capacities for moral reasoning.\n\n(Link to paper for pre-read is available below.) UID:49335-11420286@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49335 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Latin America,Philosophy,Politics,Public Policy,Sociology LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1171 (Tanner Library) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297787@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T095705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty\, industry professionals\, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:49609-11484685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Dance,Film,Music,symposium,Theater,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180706@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T154722 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Lecture Series. From Beijing to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo: The Rockefeller Foundation\, Cold War\, and Medicine in Brazil (1945-1964) DESCRIPTION:Based on US and Brazilian archives\, Gilberto Hochman will discuss the Rockefeller Foundation’s operations in Brazil during the Cold War and Brazil’s so-called democratic experience (1945-1964). In the post-WWII era\, the Brazilian scientific and medical community included a large number of members and sympathizers of the then-outlawed Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). Particularly in the field of medical parasitology\, a “Red network” linked several professors and researchers at a number of medical schools\, many with strong ties to international leftist organizations and some involved in key episodes of the Cold War. This network was severely repressed by the military regime installed in 1964 with dismissals\, arrests and exile of its members. \n \n The presentation explores the routine activities of Rockefeller officials in Rio\, who were immersed in the local\, national\, and global dimensions of the Cold War in the fields of science and medicine. At the office in Rio de Janeiro\, RF officials faced major challenges managing funds and scholarships for this scientific and medical community and implementing guidelines from the New York headquarters. The RF was pressured from the investigations then underway in Washington\, DC\, into possible funding of communists and anti-American activities by philanthropic foundations\, conducted by the Cox-Reece Committee (Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations\, 1952-53). RF office also had to deal with the expectation of the medical schools and respond to Brazilian government demands regarding the modernization of medicine and science\, especially from the Ministry of Education. The question was how to deal with these multiple pressures and to select the institutions and individuals that would receive funding balancing meritocracy and national and international politics. Through its Brazilian programs\, the foundation blended medicine\, science\, and the Cold War against the backdrop of Brazil’s democratic yet unstable environment. The RF programs administrated in Rio de Janeiro eventually entangled China\, Korea\, Brazil\, and the United States in a contextual fashion. \n \n Dr. Gilberto Hochman is a Brazil Initiative/LACS visiting scholar for 2017-2018. He is a Researcher and Professor at the History of Sciences and Health Unit of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz\, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz)\, in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. His acclaimed study on the history of public health was translated and published in 2016 as “The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation\, State\, and Public Health in Brazil\, 1889-1930” (University of Illinois Press). UID:48671-11265202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48671 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Discussion,History,Latin America LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T163357 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Personal Statement Workshop DESCRIPTION:Students in the midst of working on law school personal statements and application essays\, or those simply wishing to better understand the mechanics of the law school personal statement are encouraged to attend. UID:48143-11180774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Pre-Law LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 (Newnan Advising Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T135226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Decision Consortium - Science comprehension without curiosity is no virtue\, and curiosity without comprehension no vice DESCRIPTION:It has been assumed (very reasonably) for many years that the quality of enlightened self-government demands a science-literate citizenry. Recent research\, however\, has shown that all manner of reasoning proficiency—from cognitive reflection to numeracy to actively open-minded thinking—magnifies politically motivated reasoning and hence political polarization on policy-relevant science. The one science-comprehension-related disposition that defies this pattern is science curiosity\, which has been shown to make citizens more amenable to engaging with evidence that challenges their political predispositions. The presentation will review the relevant research and offer conjectures on their significance\, both theoretical and practical. UID:48576-11254276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48576 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T140147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Archives and Futures: A View From ‘The Most Distant Place’ DESCRIPTION:The Oxford English Dictionary describes Timbuktu as “the most distant place\,” a view that comes out of European explorations of West Africa and the challenges in reaching the place in the interior of the continent\, at the edges of the Sahara desert. Hardly anything was ever noted about Timbuktu’s place in a larger network of settlements with traditions of advanced literacy\, of scholars and scholastic manuscript book making and collecting. Centuries of learned activity were well-known among various local communities. Some settlements become more famous than others. “Timbuktu” somehow became the most famous name. But it was neither an invention nor without actual scholars. What can the ways these manuscript libraries were kept and conserved - but also dispersed and often destroyed – over the past century and more tell us about the place of archives from the period before European contact in parts of the African past? When and how do archives come to give us insight into more than experiences and conceptions of the past but ideas about the future? The recent attacks on cultural sites including libraries in and around Timbuktu provides an opportunity to ask questions about the constructions of collections and archives\, and their relation to writing about the past but also what they tell about visions of the future. These conflicts and the loss and hazardous movement of cultural artefacts and collections are far from over on the continent.\n\n\nShamil Jeppie is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cape Town and Director of the Institute of Humanities in Africa (HUMA). His research and publications focus on social and cultural history in South Africa and West Africa\, and he is founder of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project\, which explores the formation of a culture of collecting in Timbuktu. His books include Language\, Identity\, Modernity: The Arabic Study Circle of Durban (2007)\, and the co-edited volumes The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008)\, Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Colonial Legacies and Post-Colonial Challenges (2010)\, and Toward New Histories for South Africa: On the Place of the Past in Our Present (2004). UID:47612-10963386@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,History,Library,Scholarship LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171221T144300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Conversations on Europe. Spain's New Populist Left: An Impossible Hegemony DESCRIPTION:This lecture will address specific problems in the Podemos political party leadership in order to conclude that Spanish populism has already reached an impasse from which there are only two ways out: accepting the impasse and freezing into a marginal political party with about 15% of the general vote\; or cutting through it\, which might once again put Podemos before the plausibility of relative electoral triumph at a national level. The latter will require heavy work\, both political and theoretical. The current political climate\, heavily marked by the secessionist attempt in Catalunya\, has drastically diminished the possibilities for any kind of leftist government in Spain for the foreseeable future. It is important to note in this context Catalan nationalist populism\, which has forced Podemos into looking at an uncomfortable mirror. The political import of all of this is significant for Spain given the deep ideological crisis of PSOE\, the socialist party\, and also ultimately of periphery nationalisms\, which can no longer hide their thoroughly identitarian horizon. Indeed\, one could say that Spain is today a country that will be led by a weak and one-eyed right through the very absence of believable and non-catastrophic alternatives. \n\nAlberto Moreiras´ research interests include political thought and critical theory from perspectives that combine an interest in Continental philosophy (existential analytics\, deconstruction)\, psychoanalysis\, and Marxism. He is involved in research networks that interrogate contemporary Latin American democracies and the configuration of politico-theoretical responses to present social problems. He is working on concepts such as posthegemony and infrapolitics\, whose potential significance has to do with the possibility of rethinking the critical traditions of modernity. He has an interest in themes such as Latin American indigeneity\, narcotrafficking\, Italian contemporary thought\, present forms of Latin Americanist critique\, life philosophies\, and the return of Hegelianism\, but also\, and perhaps primarily\, in the study of a number of trends in the intellectual tradition that link intellectual life to an intensity of free enjoyment as opposed to the obligations of work for social and academic reproduction. He has written extensively on canonic Latin American literature and culture. He has strong interests in fiction\, and selective interests in poetry. His work is comparative and interdisciplinary in nature. While at times he focuses exclusively on Latin America\, at other times his overriding interest is Spain\, and he keeps an open mind in terms of the pursuit of more general European or Inter-American or Transatlantic issues. He is co-editor of three journals: \"Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies\,\" \"Res publica\,\" and \"Política común.\" UID:47513-10940123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Politics,Spanish Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T104521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:CSAS Lecture Series | Demons in Paradise Film Screening DESCRIPTION:Sri Lanka 1983\, Jude Ratnam is five years old. On a red train\, he flees the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker\, he takes the same train from South to North. \n \nAs he advances\, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. \n \nReminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers\, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots\, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again.\n\nDEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time\, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.\n\nJude Ratnam worked for an NGO before becoming a filmmaker. He obtained a degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Kamaraj in southern India\, before studying cinema at the School of Media Art and Managment in Sri Lanka. In 2006\, he left his post at the NGO\, no longer able to bear the hypocrisy of a job consisting in preaching reconciliation while civil war still raged\, and the country was violently divided and impoverished. He spent months thinking about how to reach the greatest number of people in an intimate yet political way. How could he tap into the emotions as well as the minds of his compatriots? His love for cinema suddenly made it seem obvious: He had to make films. It was this intuition that gave him the courage to commit to a project for 10 years\, despite the risks involved. He trained and had the backing of a French team (his co-writer Isabelle Marina introduced him to the producer Julie Paratian)\, along with some Tamil and Sinhalese partners\, since his aim was to put into practice a dialog of reconciliation during the actual shoot. On his way\, he met some key gures who each\, in their own way\, gave him the strength to carry on: Tue Steen Muller\, director of European Documentary Network\; Ally Derks of the IDFA BERTHA FUND\;
 Raoul Peck\, president of the Fémis film school\, when he attended the ARCHIDOC workshop\; director Rithy Panh\, his inspiration\;
 the founder of ARTE’s Documentary Unit\, Thierry Garrel\; and Christian Jeune and Thierry Frémaux\, who selected his film for the Festival de Cannes.
 Jude Ratnam is also a film critic and cofounder of the Colombo Film Circle\, and manager of the KRITI-A Work of Art production company\, which coproduced Demons In Paradise. He is currently working on 
some new film projects in Sri Lanka.\n\nV.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan\, a fiction writer and journalist\, is the author of Love Marriage (Random House\, 2008). The novel\, which is set in Sri Lanka and some of its diaspora communities\, was long-listed for the Orange Prize and named one of Washington Post Book World’s Best of 2008. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post\, Columbia Journalism Review\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Himal Southasian\, and The American Prospect\, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association\, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a contributing editor for Copper Nickel and Jaggery\, a founding member of Lanka Solidarity\, and a member of the board of directors of The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard\, and the American Academy in Berlin\, among others\, she is at work on a second novel\, excerpts of which have appeared in Granta\, Ploughshares\, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014. She is on the board of the American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies\, and is a founding member of Lanka Solidarity. In 2014\, she concluded a five-year stint as the Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2015\, she began teaching in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota. UID:47876-11035901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47876 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Film LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T181619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HEP-Astro Seminar | Computationally Probing Large Scale Structures DESCRIPTION:As understood today\, the history of our universe can be described with six parameters. We can constrain these parameters by measuring patterns in the large scale structure of our universe\, which are governed by the competition between gravitational collapse and the accelerated expansion of our universe. The most massive collapsed structures are clusters of galaxies\, comprised of hundreds to thousands of galaxies. For galaxy clusters\, the telltale cosmological pattern is simply their number count as a function of mass and time. In this talk\, I will discuss the challenges in using galaxy clusters as a probe for cosmology. We address these challenges through computational methods that explore galaxy formation processes such as energy feedback from active galactic nuclei\, synthetic observations of the superheated plasma that permeates galaxy clusters\, and methods that automate aspects of pattern-recognition. \n UID:49816-11543715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49816 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171213T114007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Marching Dykes\, Liberated Sluts\, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space DESCRIPTION:From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March\, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender\, sexuality\, war\, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and of themselves beyond their place in any broader movement.\n\nElizabeth Currans blends feminist\, queer\, and critical race theory with performance studies\, political theory\, and geography to explore the outcomes and cultural relevance of public protest. Drawing on observation\, interviews\, and archival and published sources\, Currans shows why and how women utilize public protest as a method of participating in contemporary political and cultural dialogues. She also examines how groups treat public space as an important resource and explains the tactics different women protesters use to claim\, transform\, and hold it. The result is a passionate and pertinent argument that women-organized demonstrations can offer scholars a path to study the relationship of gender and public space in today's political culture.\n\nMarching Dykes was published in 2017 by the University of Illinois Press.\n\n\"This book is a much-needed volume reflecting on feminist movements of the past to inform the future. As we face our contemporary era\, Currans's volume is urgent and pressing.\"--Kath Browne\, coauthor of Lesbian Geographies: Gender\, Place and Power \n\n\"As we enter a new era of public protest\, Currans offers a feminist and queer guide to holding public space. Her beautifully rendered and theoretically sharp ethnography illuminates the effect of organizing\, the ways that witnessing\, marching\, lobbying\, and demonstrating transforms lives in the process of developing counterpublics.\"-- Eileen Boris\, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State\n\nBook sales provided by Common Language Bookstore.\n\nEvent Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor. UID:47571-10950473@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171025T155948 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STS Speaker. Translating the Cell Biology of Aging? On the Importance of Choreographing Knowledge DESCRIPTION:This talk draws on ethnographic study in a cell biology of ageing laboratory that explored how the articulation between basic and clinical research is being crafted. I first describe how knowledge-making in the cell biology of ageing relies on two distinct epistemic and material cultures: visualisation and quantification. I argue that the focus on ‘mechanisms’\, ‘biomarkers’ or ‘clinical translation’ is related to how uncertainty is distributed across the two sets of skills\, instruments\, repertoires of valuation\, and types of objectivity. I suggest that funders and policy makers’ emphasis on innovative applications restricts the movement – the careful choreography – between these two epistemic cultures. This has consequences for the field's ability not only to re-open questions about the relationship between ageing and senescence but also to re-imagine the innovation regime for ‘aging society’. \n\nTiago Moreira is Professor of Sociology at Durham University (UK). In the last 15 years or so\, he has researched and published on the role of evidence in health care and on public controversies and activism on health care standards. More recently\, his research has focused on contemporary sociotechnical articulations between ageing and health. UID:46008-10353039@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46008 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Medicine,Research,Sociology LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T161210 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T183000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony DESCRIPTION:The Women of Color in the Academy Project (WOCAP) will present its 7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award on February 12th\, 2018 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Stamps Auditorium on U-M's North Campus. The award will be given to Dr. Naomi André\, an Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Women’s Studies\, as well as the Residential College where she serves as Associate Director for Faculty. A reception honoring Dr. André will immediately follow in the lobby.\n\nDr. André was selected as the recipient of this award in recognition of her scholarship and musicological inquiry into the representation of race\, voice\, and gender\, her deep commitment to diversity as an educational mission\, and her contributions to teaching and mentoring women of color scholars in the arts.\n\nDr. André’s publications include topics on Italian opera\, Arnold Schoenberg\, women composers\, and teaching opera in prisons. Her forthcoming book\, Black Opera\, History\, Power\, Engagement (University of Illinois Press\, Spring 2018) focuses on how opera has become a unique arena for expressing blackness and presenting new narratives about the intersections of race\, gender\, and nation\, in the West (United States and Europe) as well as in South Africa. Her earlier books\, Voicing Gender: Castrati\, Travesti\, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012\, co-edited collection) focus on opera from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries and explore constructions of gender\, race\, and identity.\n\nThe event is free and open to the public\; however\, registration is requested: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/7th-annual-shirley-verrett-award-ceremony/20171113 UID:47740-11004726@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Faculty,Free,Inclusion,Leadership,Multicultural,Music,Women's Studies LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386654@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T180012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:BSA Med/Grad Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join us for our graduate/professional students panel on Monday\, Feb 12! We are excited to be joined by med/PhD students from the medical school\, EEB (Ecology and Evolution Biology)\, Bioinformatics\, and Genetics Counselling! Drop by to get to know more about the different career paths\, networking\, and free food! UID:49627-11487353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1339 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T180011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Central Campus Bible Study DESCRIPTION:This semester we are covering the book of Exodus!Anyone is welcome to join. UID:49038-11367043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49038 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Room - University of Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T131439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EAC/ECRC Peer Advisor Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Engineering Career Resource Center and Engineering Advising Center are currently recruiting for the 2018-2019 joint Peer Advisor Program! This program presents a great opportunity for undergraduate engineering students to demonstrate LEADERSHIP\, COMMUNICATION and TEAMWORK skills\, while serving as ambassadors for the EAC\, ECRC and the College of Engineering!\n\nThe Peer Advisor Program provides students with an enriching summer leadership experience\, guiding entering first year students through orientation\; and ongoing professional development opportunities throughout the academic year\, as the role expands to support CoE students with job search resources and events. In addition\, the EAC/ECRC Peers collectively lead the PA Student Advisory Board\, to support and inform EAC/ECRC programming.\n\nJoin us for the EAC/ECRC Peer Advisor Information Session to hang out with this year's PA's and learn more about the opportunity to contribute to the college and support your peers! Program supervisors and current Peer Advisors will be available to share additional information and answer your questions!\n\nPizza will be provided! \n\nPeer Advisor Information Session Details:\nDate: ​Monday\, February 12\, 2018\nTime: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM\nLocation: 265 Chrysler Center\n\nPlease register through the Events section of Engineering Careers if planning to attend. UID:49290-11409040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 Chrysler Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T082641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:METS - Making the Most of Your Summer DESCRIPTION:Internships are not the only way to build your experience. Learn about research opportunities\, professional networking\, and taking classes. Use your time wisely so you're ready to go when you return to campus in September! UID:49461-11462138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49461 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students,Undergraduate LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T123021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ready\, Set\, Intern! for First Year Students DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/126499\n\nThis workshop is for UM Hillel students. \n\n*RSVP is required for this event. Please click \"join event\" on the Handshake event page to RSVP\nNot in Handshake? Click here: \n\nAs a first-year student\, figuring out what you need to do to get an internship or understanding what interests you have ishard -- 100 emoji. It’s difficult to know what employers look for or how might your interest equal a job. \n\nNo worries\, we designed an experience just for you. \n\nDuring this 50-minute workshop we hope to...\n- walk you through what employers look for in interns\n- help you set goals to prepare yourself to be a GREAT candidate\n- bullet point three\, what’s up!?\n- debunk major and career connection\n- guide you on how to use our office to gain experience\n\nYou should come if you…\n- Are a first-yearstudent!\n- Want to know what experiences employers look for and how to get it. \n- Have been asked at least 50 times already\, “what’s your major going to be?”\n- Aren’t totally sure on what the “Career Center” does.\n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as wellas 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:49743-11501578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1429 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T130328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Basics: Marketing & Entertainment DESCRIPTION:How do you market yourself to Marketing and Entertainment Professionals? Master the marketing resume with this workshop. UID:48875-11320041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48875 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Food,Free,Internship,Networking,Undergraduate,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore CCI! Student Org Transitions Workshop DESCRIPTION:Every year\, student organizations transition into a new executive board.  Let us help you create a smooth transition for next year!  Offered as part of the \"Explore CCI\" Series.\nLocation: Michigan League\, Kalamazoo Room (Second Floor)\nTime: 6:30pm - 8pm\n\n*For accommodations\, email uminvolvement@umich.edu. UID:49222-11397783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49222 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Kalamazoo Room (Second Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T094725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Organization Transitions Workshop DESCRIPTION:Every year\, student organizations transition into a new executive board. Let us help you create a smooth transition for next year!\nLocation: Michigan League\, Kalamazoo Room (Second Floor)\nTime: 6:30pm - 8pm\nRegister here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1790874 UID:49370-11450944@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49370 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T162211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Café Shapiro DESCRIPTION:Students\, nominated by their instructors\, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers\, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others\, it provides a fresh audience\, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.\n\nThrough its over 20 years of existence\, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers\, their friends\, families\, and the wider community. This year there are a total of 46 students participating over five days. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!\n\nMonday\, 2/5/18\nTuesday\, 2/6/18\nThursday\, 2/8/18\nMonday\, 2/12/18\nTuesday\, 2/13/18\n\nRead student work from many previous years in annual Café Shapiro Anthologies: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cafe?page=issues UID:49336-11420290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49336 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Library,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Bert's Study Lounge (Lobby) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T121955 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T203000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:CJS Film Series | Rashomon DESCRIPTION:Part of the “Enter the Samurai” Film Series sponsored by U-M Center for Japanese Studies.\n\nBrimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth\, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks\, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.\nWritten & Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA.\n\nPresented in Japanese with English subtitles. UID:49552-11476263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49552 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Film,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180227T183014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T210000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Huntington Bank Info Session DESCRIPTION:Huntington Bank's first of two info sessions this semester. Come to learn more about Huntington Bank and opportunities with the company.Learn More: https://careers.huntington.com/en-US/\n\nBe Bold. Challenge Tomorrow.\nWhat type of bank is Huntington? The type that’s never happy with the status quo. The type where an innovative mind is a job requirement. Sound good? Let’s get started.\n\nIn Pursuit of What’s Best\nAt Huntington\, our customers are neighbors\, friends\, local business owners —the people that make up our community. So we always work to look beyond account numbers and connect with the person.\n\nFearlessly Forward Thinking\nYou’re going places — eager to learn\, filled to the brim with ideasand ready to make an impact. And that’s great\, because we’re going places too. Join us as we take on the industry and create a new standard for banking.\n\nINFORMATION SESSION DETAILS\n\nWhen: Monday\, February 12th\nTime: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm\nWhere: AC Room 2220 \n\nThank you to our integrated partner Huntington Bank who sponsored our refreshments for all attendeesfrom Pizza House \n\nFULL-TIME AND INTERNSHIP AREAS\nOperations\nMarketing and Communications\nInformation Technology\nAudit\nData Analytics\nCommercial Banking\nHuman Resources\nRetail Banking\nRisk & Compliance\nFinance\nWealth\nCapital Markets UID:48181-11183399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48181 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross Academic Center, Conference Room, 1110 S State St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T130452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Albert Lee DESCRIPTION:British guitar legend Albert Lee\, regarded by many as one of the world’s finest guitar players\, with a career spanning more than 50 years\, needs no introduction for country Music\, blues and rock fans. Widely hailed for his fingerstyle and hybrid picking technique\, Albert Lee helped to redefine country guitar for a whole generation of players with his song \"Country Boy.\" Albert’s many career highlights include two Grammy wins\, five years in the Eric Clapton band (at Clapton's request Albert recently played the Crossroads Festival with Eric at Madison Square Garden) and stints with the Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman\, The Crickets\, the Everly Brothers\, Joe Cocker\, Emmylou Harris\, Rodney Crowell and many more. Take it from Emmylou\, who says\, \"When Saint Peter asks me to chronicle my time down here on earth\, I'll be able to say—with pride if that's allowed—that for a while I played rhythm guitar in a band with Albert Lee.\" UID:46583-10558543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46583 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T121515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180212T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble DESCRIPTION:This CDE concert features three “chamber symphonies” and a piece by SMTD Professor of Composition Evan Chambers.\n\nPROGRAM: Schoenberg- Chamber Symphony No. 1\; Wright: Chamber Symphony\; Chambers- Crossroad Songs\; Adams- Son of Chamber Symphony UID:47722-11004675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816438@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237301@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291327@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932354@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932359@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932364@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932379@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932384@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667190@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802128@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802464@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802212@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802632@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T115413 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Polish Paczki Day: Fat Tuesday DESCRIPTION:The Polish Student Association will be fundraising selling traditional Polish pazckis in Mason Hall in the morning until sold out. There will be opportunity to visit the Slavic Department and the table to find out more information for the Polish language and literature programs for majoring and minoring in Polish. UID:48842-11308954@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180228T063016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T100000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:JPMorgan Chase & Co. Networking Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Are you curious to find out how we can help match your interests to our opportunities? \n\nJoin us for a Networking Breakfast on February 13th. You’ll have the opportunity to engage with our employees and network with inspiring people.\n\n· Please register for the event using this link http://tinyurl.com/yddsylo3 UID:49288-11409037@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49288 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union, Anderson Room, 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889147@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era DESCRIPTION:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era showcases the works of Heidi Barlow\, Shaina Kasztelan\, and Bailey Scieszka\, three young women artists based in Detroit\, MI. Their work\, although varying in style and form\, speaks to a generation growing up with the influence of mass consumption\, internet shopping\, the glut of plastic toys\, fake jewels\, and tchotchkes. Whereas artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s reached first for paint tubes and canvas\, these artists use inexpensive and lowbrow materials to twist the signifiers of pop culture\, as they relate to gender politics and American ideals. It’s a balancing act between the icing and the cake\, surface and substance. \n\nBarlow’s confection-like constructs are unsettling\, much like an empty float or matted-hair Barbie in a backyard pool. Although enticing\, they allude to something lost in the translation\, some sweetness\, or idealism gone missing\, along with what once mattered. Yet\, the work isn’t cynical\, but embraces transition instead. We’ve hardened a little in the process\, much like the stiff and sugary piping Barlow often incorporates in her works. And maybe that’s a good thing. \n\nIf Barlow’s aesthetic leans towards Stepford Wives gone awry and the guilty pleasure of eBay\, Shaina Kasztelan offers us psychedelic Middle America. Her assemblages are disorienting\, vertigo-inducing. Technicolor sculptures conjure up hallucinations of the mall\, or spinning carnival rides that last too long. Kasztelan’s work is sinister\, even a little menacing. As viewers we are leery.\n\nFinally\, Bailey Scieszka takes this subversive garish ethos full tilt and invents her own world\, literally morphing into her own creation. Scieszka’s alter-ego Old Put\, a demonic shape-shifting clown\, becomes the artist/protagonist and creates work in performance\, video and drawing. Old Put collects pop culture references like artifacts of a lost civilization\, and seems as likely to commit a murder as bake a cake. \n\nFor Barlow\, Kasztelan and Scieszka\, outdated paradigms about class\, good taste\, and femininity are just temporal flashes in the pan. And it’s their party. UID:47322-10866225@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171231T135526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Getting into Michigan Musical Theater DESCRIPTION:Mr. Cardinal was previously the artistic director of the Connecticut Repertory Theater and the chair of the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Connecticut. Prior to that he was Associate Dean of Performance Arts at Adelphi University and the chair of theater at the University of Miami. Mr. Cardinal is a graduate of playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where he was honored with the ASCAP-Cole Porter award for best collected work.\n\nThe new Chairman of the University of Michigan Musical Theater Department will speak about the path that brought him to Michigan\, as well as the journey a high school student takes to be accepted into the Department\, which is regarded as one of the top Musical Theater training programs in the world. Only 22-24 freshmen are admitted from about 1000 applicants annually. More than 700 artists have graduated from the program over its 32-year history.\n\nThis is the sixth in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2017-18. A variety of topics will be covered. There is one lecture each month\, for a total of ten. The next lecture will be on March 13\, 2018. The subject is: You Are the ”Public” in Public Radio. UID:47932-11139090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47932 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Musical Theater,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181520 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Master Class: Alexander Kobrin\, piano DESCRIPTION:Alexander Kobrin is assistant professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music\, and was the 2005 Gold Medal winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. UID:47093-10790906@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47093 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547257@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004710@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180113T190853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ChE Seminar Series: Wilfred Chen DESCRIPTION:Wilfred Chen\nGore Professor of Chemical Engineering\nDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering \nUniversity of Delaware\n\n“Adding Logic to Complex Protein Functions”\n\nProteins are the most versatile among the various biological building blocks. However\, the strength of proteins - their versatility and specific interactions - also complicates and hinders their systematic design and engineering. Our lab has been interested in exploiting the modular nature of protein domains to design synthetic complexes that can perform new biological functions. By adding logical components into the design\, protein complexes that are dynamic rather than static in nature can be created to adapt to the constantly changing cellular environments. In this presentation\, I will outline several successful examples in connecting exchangeable protein domains for predicative engineering applications in (1) energy substantiality and (2) human health. UID:48695-11278312@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48695 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemical Engineering,Faculty,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,seminar LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Research Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T140610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Between Blood and Sex: The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China\, 1989-2013 DESCRIPTION:Do external interventions matter? Existing research has focused on the extent to which transnational efforts compel recalcitrant governments to reduce levels of domestic repression\, but few have considered how such interventions might also provoke new forms of repression. Using a longitudinal study of repression against AIDS activism in China between 1989 and 2013\, Professor Long will propose that transnational institutions’ provision of material resources and reshaping of organizational rules can transform a domestic repressive apparatus in specific policy areas. The intervention of transnational AIDS institutions in China not only constrained traditional violent coercion\, but also generated new forms of “diplomatic repression” that inadvertently contributed to expanded mobilization for urban gay men but demobilization for others. She will conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for understanding authoritarian innovation and sustainability.\n\nYan Long is an Assistant Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Indiana University\, Bloomington. She is a cultural and organizational sociologist interested in the evolution of technocratic governance as a transnational institutional model and its impact on existing forms of domination and resistance. Yan’s current book project\, \"Side Effects: The Transnational Doing and Undoing of AIDS Politics in China\" (under contract\, Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics)\, concerns the transformation of China’s infectious disease control driven by the conflict between transnational AIDS institutions\, the state\, and local activist groups. This book stems from her dissertation that won the 2014 ASA Dissertation Award. Yan was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society after obtaining her PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. UID:48657-11265183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,Public Health,Sociology,Women's Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" celebrates the remarkable life\, vision\, and heroic tenacity of a 20th-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest Ph.D.\, Ruth Gruber died in November of 2016 at the age of 105. The photographs in this exhibition span more than 50 years\, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947\, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints\, never before exhibited\, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. \n\nThe Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2018\, at 6:00pm.\n\n\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" is organized by the International Center of Photography and was made possible by Friends of Ruth Gruber. The exhibition is also co-sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost.\n\nPhoto: Unidentified Photographer\; Ruth Gruber\, Alaska\, 1941-43 UID:47419-10898821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Exhibition,Graduate School,Museum,Photography,Rackham,Reception,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171127T104449 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Biopsychology Colloquium Speaker DESCRIPTION:Talk title: Hacking into Sleep to Enhance Learning\n\nAbstract: Human learning often takes hold gradually and requires practice (memory reactivation). This practice need not be intentional. Recent findings suggest that memory reactivation during sleep supports memory consolidation and enduring long-term storage. In particular\, Targeted Memory Reactivation (TMR) with subtle sensory stimulation can modify neural activity while avoiding arousal from sleep. Sounds associated with learning can be presented again during slow-wave sleep to promote memory reactivation. TMR can thus systematically and selectively enhance learning\, including learning of object-location associations\, verbal associations\, skills\, and habits. Recordings of brain oscillations during sleep can provide evidence about relevant neurophysiological mechanisms\, and in this way elucidate critical contributions of sleep to memory consolidation. This approach to studying and influencing consolidation offers new opportunities for reinforcing learning offline during the many hours we spend sleeping. UID:47041-10776992@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47041 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T075924 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar DESCRIPTION:Dr. Robert Blumenthal\, Distinguished University Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Toledo\, will present a seminar on Tuesday\, February 13th\, 2018 at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall\, MS II. The title of the talk is: \"Bacterial Regulatory Logic: Restriction-Modification Systems and Beyond\" UID:49448-11462120@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49448 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biological Chemistry LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T121929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:DIY Aromatherapy Sachets DESCRIPTION:Do you ever wish you could carry around a burst of relaxation with you? Now you can! Join us for DIY Aromatherapy Sachet crafting! We'll supply all the materials with coffee and dessert\, we just need you! \n\nDate: Tuesday\, February 13\nTime: 12pm-2pm\nLocation: Michigan League\, 3rd floor\, room D UID:49636-11487520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49636 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Michigan League - 3rd floor, Room D CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T120028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T140000 SUMMARY:Well-being:DIY Aromatherapy Sachets DESCRIPTION:Do you ever wish you could carry around a burst of relaxation with you? Now you can! Join us for DIY Aromatherapy Sachet crafting! We'll supply all the materials with coffee and dessert\, we just need you!  Date: Tuesday\, February 13Time: 12pm-2pmLocation: Michigan League\, 3rd floor\, room D UID:49679-11490319@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, 3rd Floor, Room D CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T134717 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mini Grant Momentum Panel DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear about work being done by students on campus—work that is made possible through Library student mini grants and pairing students with a Library mentor. These brown bag events are organized by Library Student Engagement Ambassadors. UID:49642-11487526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T085956 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: Evolution of vision in butterflies: phenotypic plasticity\, gene duplication\, and sexual dimorphism DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE. Join us for our weekly brown bag lunch seminar. UID:47267-10855077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47267 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Graduate School,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T094153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:C21 Conversation Series DESCRIPTION:This series\, held monthly\, brings together four faculty members from different disciplines to offer flash talks about 21st-century arts\, culture\, and politics and contemporary research methodologies. In the discussion that follows\, we'll have the chance to think together about key questions produced by and animating our present moment. No pre-reading\; just join us for conversation and catered lunch! (Lunch will be available at 12:30\; presentations will start at 1:00)\n\nSponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies UID:47402-10891050@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47402 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian/pacific Islander American Studies,immigration,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Media LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T175810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CASC Info Session DESCRIPTION:Interested in learning more about the Community Action and Social Change minor? Come to our second session pf the year to learn more about the CASC community\, what CASC is and what it can offer you in your undergraduate program\, the types of courses you'll take\, and the available opportunities for CASC students after graduation! UID:48725-11297738@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48725 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social Justice,Undergraduate LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1794 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T095705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty\, industry professionals\, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:49609-11484686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Dance,Film,Music,symposium,Theater,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-11254330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the LRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180228T123014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:JPMorgan Chase & Co. CADP Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Learn about the 2019 Summer Opportunities in the Corporate Analyst Development Program (CADP)\, at JPMorgan Chase & Co.\nStop by for best practices on resume creation\, interviewing tips\, and professional networking! You’ll gain a unique perspective of what it is like to work at JPMC and be part of CADP – all while getting answers to your most pressing questions. UID:49173-11386607@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49173 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business, Classroom TBD, 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297788@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180707@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T100144 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Supporting Nontraditional Student Success: Methods for Faculty & Staff to Serve as Advocates DESCRIPTION:This will be an interactive session for students\, faculty\, staff\, and program administrators to discuss the emerging needs of nontraditional students at the U-M and the strategies that can be implemented to create a more welcoming\, supportive\, and inclusive campus climate. Participants will learn about the demographics of nontraditional students at the U-M and learn about best practices and programs to support student development.\n\nJanice Reuben is the Staff Program Manager for CEW. She has over 15 years of experience creating and implementing staff development programs in higher education. Janice manages the Women of Color Task Force project and serves on the UHR Organizational Learning Career Development Advisory Group. UID:48391-11230551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48391 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Inclusion,Staff LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T181649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Quantum Nano-Photonic Devices Based on Rare-Earth Ions DESCRIPTION:Quantum light-matter interfaces that reversibly map photonic quantum states onto atomic states\, are essential components in the quantum engineering toolbox with applications in quantum communication\, computing\, and quantum-enabled sensing. I present a new platform for on-chip quantum light-matter interfaces based on nanophotonic resonators coupled to rare-earth-ions in crystals. The rare-earth ions exhibit long coherence times on optical transitions\, which makes them suitable for optical quantum memories. We demonstrate a high-fidelity nanophotonic quantum memory based on a mesoscopic neodymium ensemble coupled to a photonic crystal cavity. The nanocavity enables >95% spin polarization for efficient initialization of the atomic frequency comb memory\, and time-bin-selective readout via enhanced optical Stark shift of the comb frequencies. Our current technology can be readily transferred to Erbium doped devices for telecom memories that can be integrated with silicon photonics. Besides ensemble memories\, single rare-earth-ions coupled to nano-resonators can be used as single optically addressable quantum bits where the quantum state is mapped on their Zeeman or hyperfine levels with long coherence time. Our solid-state nano-photonic quantum light-matter interfaces can be integrated with other chip-scale photon source and detector devices for multiplexed quantum and classical information processing at the nodes of quantum networks. I also discuss prospects for integration with superconducting resonators and qubits\, which can lead to devices for reversible quantum transduction of optical photons to microwave photons\, thus enabling optical interconnects between superconducting quantum computers.\n\nBiography: Dr. Andrei Faraon is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology. After earning a B.S. degree in physics with honors in 2004 at California Institute of Technology\, he received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Applied Physics both from Stanford University in 2009. At Stanford\, Dr. Faraon was involved with seminal experiments on quantum optics using single indium arsenide quantum dots strongly coupled to photonic crystal cavities in gallium arsenide. After earning his PhD\, Dr. Faraon spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Hewlett Packard Laboratories. At HP he was involved with pioneering experiments on diamond quantum photonic devices coupled to solid-state spins. He demonstrated the first nano-resonators coupled to single nitrogen vacancy centers in mono-crystalline diamond.\n\nFaraon left HP in 2012 to become an Assistant Professor at Caltech\, where he set up a laboratory specialized in developing nano-photonic technologies for devices that operate close to the fundamental limit of light-matter interaction. He is focused both on fundamental challenges on how to control the interaction between single atoms and single photons using nano-technologies\, and on using nano-photonics to build cutting edge devices for imaging and sensing. He is the recipient of the 2015 National Science Foundation CAREER award\, the 2015 Air Force Office of Scientific Research young investigator award and the 2016 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.\n\n\n UID:42201-9584889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42201 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T160255 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | The Way She Saw It: Introducing Gauri Lankesh DESCRIPTION:The talk introduces the life and work of Gauri Lankesh\, the courageous journalist and activist who was assassinated in Bangalore last year. After a fifteen year stint in mainstream English journalism\, Gauri became editor of Lankesh Patrike\, a major Kannada weekly\, in 2000. The subsequent years saw her emerge as an important social and political activist in Karnataka. What were her political concerns? What forms did her activism take? An engagement with these questions illustrates the challenges and dilemmas of being a secular activist in India. Examining the public responses to her death\, the talk also attempts to grasp the changing political culture in India.\n\nChandan Gowda's research interests include social theory\, Indian normative traditions\, caste\, and Kannada literature and cinema. In addition to his academic publications\, he has written for newspapers and published translations of Kannada fiction and non-fiction in English. Before moving to APU\, he was Associate Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion\, National Law School of India\, Bengaluru\, between 2008 and 2011. He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state. UID:48766-11306096@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48766 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,India,Literature LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T104714 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISP Lecture. A Fiction Reading with Saladin Ahmed DESCRIPTION:Join us for a literary reading with acclaimed science fiction and comic book writer\, Saladin Ahmed. Ahmed will read from his work\, which combines Muslim and sci-fi themes.\n \nSaladin Ahmed is the author of the Hugo and Nebula-nominated \"Throne of the Crescent Moon\,\" praised by George RR Martin as \"a rollicking swashbuckler.\" His essays\, poetry\, and fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, the Boston Globe\, Slate\, NPR\, and BuzzFeed. He is currently writing \"Black Bolt\" and \"Exiles\" for Marvel Comics and \"Abbott\" for BOOM! Studios. UID:49783-11532475@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49783 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts of Islam,Muslim,Visual Arts,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180308T140905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Office Hours with Director Christina Olsen DESCRIPTION:Here's your chance to chat with our new director! Come by and say hello\, tell her what you love about UMMA\, or what you'd like to see change.\n\nOlsen\, now a little more than two months into her term\, is hosting open office hours in the UMMA Commons in February\, March\, and April. She is inviting visitors\, U-M staff and faculty\, students\, and community members to drop in and talk one-on-one about the Museum\, ways it might change\, and to ask questions.\n\n“I want to hear from the people that care about this Museum\, and who want to shape its future\,” Olsen says. “UMMA needs to be open to new ideas. A great way to get new ideas is by talking with people face to face.”\n\nOlsen will talk with visitors on a first-come\, first-serve basis. Visitors should queue near the director’s table in the UMMA Commons. UID:48813-11308908@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48813 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Office Hours,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T090512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Super Powers in Turmoil: The Turn of the 7th Century and the Rebirth of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature DESCRIPTION:Spanning the 4th and 7th century we find a revival of Jewish apocalyptic literature. This period of turmoil culminated at the turn of the 7th century in the Persian conquest\, Byzantine re-conquest\, and finally the Muslim conquest of Palestine. This talk will explore how these episodes reverberated in Jewish messianic and apocalyptic literature. While thus far\, the late antique Jewish messianic matrix has been treated within its own limited boundaries -- that is within Jewish sources and own apocalyptic world-view -- Professor Irshai will argue for the importance of existing links between Christian\, Jewish (and Moslem) redemptive aspirations. Professor Irshai will highlight how these traditions used similar time frames (e.g. from the Book of Daniel) and interpreted natural phenomena (such as earthquakes) as heralding the approaching “end of times.”\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:46868-10658851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46868 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Jewish Studies LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T111113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Snigdha Panigrahi\, Department of Statistics\, Stanford University DESCRIPTION:The goal of eQTLS (Expression quantitative trait loci studies) is to identify and quantify effects of how genetic variants regulate the expression of genes in different biological contexts. The outcome variables (typically on the order of 20\,000) are molecular measurements of gene expression and the predictors are genotypes (typically on the order of 1\,000\,000). The identification of regulatory variants in eQTLS (Consortium et al. (2015)\; Ongen et al. (2015)\; Consortium et al. (2017)) proceeds in a hierarchical fashion: the first stage of such a selection identifies promising genes\, followed by a search of potential functional variants in a neighborhood around these discovered genes. Once promising candidates for functional variants have been detected\, the logical next step is to attempt to estimate their effect sizes. However obtaining samples corresponding to a human tissue remains a costly endeavor. Thereby\, eQTLS continue to be based on relatively small sample sizes with this limitation particularly serious for tissues as brain\, liver\, etc.– the organs of most immediate medical relevance. Naive estimates that ignore the genome-wide selection preceding inference can lead to misleading conclusions about that the magnitudes of the true underlying associations. Due to scarcity of biological samples\, the problem of reliable effect size estimation is often deferred to future studies and therefore\, inadequately addressed in the eQTLS research community. \n\nIn this talk\, I will discuss a principled approach that allows the geneticist to use the available dataset both for discoveries and follow-up estimation of the associated effect sizes\, adjusted for the considerable amount of prior mining. Motivated to measure these effect sizes as consistent point estimates and intervals with target coverage\, my methods are modeled along the conditional approach to selective inference\, introduced in Lee et al. (2016). The proposed procedure is based on a randomized hierarchical strategy that reflects state of the art investigations and introduces the use of randomness instead of data splitting to optimize the use of available data. I will describe the computational bottleneck in performing randomized conditional inference. To overcome these hurdles\, I will describe a novel set of techniques that have higher inferential power than prior selective inference work in Lee et al. (2016). UID:48864-11317270@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T123533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T171500 SUMMARY:Presentation:International Studies Information Session and Q&A DESCRIPTION:Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. The Program academic advisors will discuss: \n \n • Prerequisites \n • Major and minor requirements \n • Sub-plans \n • How to declare \n • Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute \n • Study abroad\, grants\, and internships \n • Relevance of an International Studies major or minor \n \nUpcoming Winter 2018 Sessions: \n \n 1/10/18 Wednesday\, 12-1 PM\, Room 355 Weiser Hall\, Advisor: Folaké Graves \n 2/13/18 Tuesday\, 4:15-5:15 PM\, Room 355 Weiser Hall\, Advisor: Kelsey Szpara \n 4/17/18 Tuesday\, 4:15-5:15 PM\, Room 355 Weiser Hall\, Advisor: Sofia Carlsson \n \nWesier Hall is located at 500 Church St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109. \n \nA half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information\, e-mail is-advising@umich.edu. \n \nParents and prospective students are welcome. For more information\, please e-mail us at is-michigan@umich.edu. \n\nProspective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related information sessions\, events\, and special announcements should sign up for the email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914 UID:46395-10478317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,International Studies,Majors,Minors,Undergraduate,Welcome To Michigan LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 355 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180228T123017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Willis Towers Watson Information Session DESCRIPTION:To find out more information about careers at Willis Towers Watson\, come meet our representatives from the Retirement Service Center and Pension Administration Group. We will be recruiting for Analyst and Intern positions in Detroit and other locations. Refreshments will be provided. UID:49886-11566242@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49886 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:East Hall, Room 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T103125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace DESCRIPTION:CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer life at the University of Michigan. CenterSpace creates space for people of similar identities to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. UID:48396-11230572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Inclusion,LGBT,Social,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center- 3200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T103125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace DESCRIPTION:CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer life at the University of Michigan. CenterSpace creates space for people of similar identities to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. UID:48396-11230586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Inclusion,LGBT,Social,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center- 3200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180202T105714 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EnginTalks: Building Solidarity DESCRIPTION:Join your peers for an informal conversation about campus climate with faculty and staff. Food will be served. UID:49684-11495915@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49684 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Faculty,Graduate Students,Social,Staff,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Basement CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386655@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T145142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Mardi Gras Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, February 13th\, Mardi Gras begins. To celebrate\, Mosher Jordan Dining Hall will be serving a variety of Mardi Gras foods at dinner! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47495-10932395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171201T173902 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Minding the Gap: Gap Year Experiences for Science Students DESCRIPTION:Have you considered taking a year after graduation to pursue a passion or opportunity before starting your career or graduate/professional school? So many exciting opportunities exist to develop your skills\, travel\, volunteer\, and to learn more about yourself as well as those from backgrounds different from your own. Come check out some of the options that could have you choosing a gap year for yourself. UID:47241-10824783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47241 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Science LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 100 (Hatcher Gallery) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171221T112954 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Anxiety and Procrastination DESCRIPTION:Sometimes when people are anxious\, they procrastinate. Sometimes when people procrastinate\, they get anxious.\n\nIn this wellness group\, undergraduate and graduate students will receive a presentation about anxiety and its relationship to procrastination. Q&A and a facilitated group session will follow to discuss challenges faces when coping with anxiety\, share successful strategies for managing anxiety\, and connect with other students who may have similar experiences.\n\nLight refreshments will be served. UID:47856-11033300@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47856 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T114923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:Schokoladenstunde (with games!): Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 and Wednesdays 5:15-6:15\, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad.\n\nSchokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All German students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.). Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell\, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak. UID:50109-11642067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50109 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180228T123017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Give Back with PwC DESCRIPTION:Join PwC on Tuesday\, February 13th from 5:45-7:30pm to learn more about our Elevate Leadership Program for Sophomores and Juniors interested in a career in Accounting. UID:49868-11557830@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49868 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ross School of Business, B5570 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180118T123143 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Breaking the Barriers of \"Voluntourism\": Respectfully Teaching and Interacting with Communities Abroad DESCRIPTION:Are you or your student group teaching English or volunteering abroad this spring break or summer?\nThe Quito Project is hosting a free educational workshop that is open to any student planning to teach English or volunteer abroad. At the workshop\, students will learn from faculty experts about best practices for ESL and respectful international engagement\, have the opportunity to share what they have learned from their previous experiences abroad\, and receive resources to help them during their time overseas. This workshop will not only help you prepare for your travels and lesson planning but will also ensure that you and your organization gain the tools to ensure that your initiative is successful and beneficial to the international community you are interacting with.\nFree dinner will be provided for all participants!\nYou may register to attend our workshop through this link: https://tinyurl.com/esl-abroad2. \nFor more information or if you have any questions please email: thequitoproject@gmail.com UID:48922-11331165@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48922 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Service,Culture,Diversity,Education,International,Language,Latin America,Volunteer LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery Lab Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T180017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Breaking the Barriers of “Voluntourism”: Respectfully Teaching and Interacting with Communities Abroad DESCRIPTION:Are you or your student group teaching English abroad this spring break or summer?The Quito Project is hosting a free educational workshop that is open to any student planning to teach English abroad. At the workshop\, students will learn from faculty experts about best practices for ESL and respectful international engagement\, have the opportunity to share what they have learned from their previous experiences abroad\, and receive resources to help them during their time overseas.This workshop will not only help you prepare for your travels and lesson planning but will also ensure that you and your organization gain the tools to ensure that your initiative is successful and beneficial to the international community you are interacting with.Our workshop will take place from 6-8 pm on Tuesday\, February 13th\, in the Gallery Lab Room of the Hatcher Graduate Library. Free dinner from Chela's Restaurant and Taqueria will also be provided for all participants!Please register to attend our workshop through this link:  https://tinyurl.com/esl-abroad2For more information or if you have any questions please email: thequitoproject@gmail.comWe hope to see you there!  UID:48870-11319911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Gallery Lab Room, Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T130617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Building your Brand: Social Media Makeover DESCRIPTION:What does your social media presence say about your brand? We'll help you figure it out... and start your social media makeover. UID:48877-11320043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48877 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Food,Free,Information and Technology,Internship,Networking,Social,Undergraduate,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180228T123020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Clothes Closet La Casa DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/129423\n\nLa Casa Event\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.\n UID:50018-11613961@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T073245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Entering\, Engaging and Exiting Communities DESCRIPTION:Introduces principles and practices for thoughtfully engaging with communities\, including motivations\, impact of social identities\, and strategies for engaging in reciprocal\, ethical\, and respectful ways. UID:47846-11540891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47846 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Social Impact,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Wolverine Room (1st Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180118T181828 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Professional Headshots DESCRIPTION:Make sure your profile picture is in line with the rest of your professional branding! RSVP required\, space is limited. In conjunction with the LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop \"Leveraging LinkedIn to Build Your Network.\" UID:48934-11331180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48934 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,first-generation,Free,Professional Development,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:LSA Building - Michigan Photography- rm 246 (basement) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T125219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:URBAN COOL\, ADDRESSING HEAT\, HEALTH AND HABITAT IN THE ANTHROPOCENE DESCRIPTION:Doug Kelbaugh\, Taubman College Emil Lorch Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning and 2016 Winner of the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education\, lectures on how cities combat climate change.\n\nThe illustrated talk will connect the dots on the role that the built environment plays in addressing the increasingly urgent problems of local and global warming. Urban Heat Islands and other forms of extreme heat such as heat waves kill more people than any type of natural disaster\, as well as threaten the sustained livability and health of many cities. Luckily\, the four design antidotes to heat islands simultaneously address climate change. And because heat islands are more immediately palpable than climate change\, they can motivate humans to act more quickly and decisively against the unfolding\, unprecedented and catastrophic climate challenge at both the local and global level.\n\nTaubman College Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Natural Resourcese Larissa Larsen and Urban Planning alumna Missy Stults (Ph.D. 2016) will respond to the lecture in a panel\, in this first ever collaboration between the Urban and Regional Planning Program and the Michigan Chapter of the Congress of the New Urbanism. Dr. Missy Stults is a climate adaptation expert who works with local\, regional\, and tribal communities to enhance resilience towards climate change and natural disasters\, and Larissa Larsen is certified environmental planner and landscape architect who conducts research quantifying environmental injustices related to urban heat islands and climate change.\n\nThis event is a collaboration between Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning's Urban and Regional Planning Department\, and the Michigan Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism UID:49410-11453752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49410 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Climate Change,Lecture,Urban Planning LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium 2104 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T120044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T193000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:#Adulting- Go or Stay\, Vacay Your Way DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for an adventure? Let us help! #Adulting- Go or Stay\, Vacay Your Way on Tue.\, Feb. 13 from 6:30pm-7:30pm in the League's Kalamazoo Room will be teaching ways to seek out adventure near and far on any budget! Let us help you plan for spring break or for a future experience near\, far\, or any other place you want to be! Register here: http://ow.ly/jdzW30i1bcJ UID:49623-11484726@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49623 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Social LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T180026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore CCI! Programming 101 Workshop DESCRIPTION:Learn the basics of programming\, partnerships and inclusivity to help your org through the planning process of your events\, whether they be large or small!\nLocation: Michigan League\, Room 4 (First Floor)\nTime: 6:30pm - 8:00pm*For accommodations\, email uminvolvement@umich.edu. UID:49223-11397784@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49223 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Room 4 (First Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171031T210720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Food Literacy for All: Chef Kabui DESCRIPTION:Food Literacy for All (ENVIRON 305 and EAS 639.038\, 2 credits) is a community-academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.\n\nStructured as an evening lecture series\, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address diverse challenges and opportunities of both domestic and global food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders\, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable\, health-promoting\, and ecologically sustainable food systems. UID:46414-10481180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46414 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Social Justice,Sustainability LOCATION:Angell Hall - Aud B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T161910 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Other:ONSF Info Session: Gates Cambridge Scholarship DESCRIPTION:The Gates Cambridge Scholarship was established in 2000 by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It provides a full-cost scholarship and living stipend for graduate study (Master’s or Doctorate) in any field of study available at the University of Cambridge. Scholars are selected for their outstanding intellectual ability\, leadership potential\, and commitment to improving the lives of others as well as fit for the proposed program of study at Cambridge. The aim of the Gates Cambridge program is to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.\n\nWe will meet on Tuesday\, February 13th\, 2018\, from 6:30 - 8 pm in 1330 Mason Hall.\n\nRSVP is required. UID:47755-11004739@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Honors,Onsf LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1330 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171108T100052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Products of the Hive\; Salves and Balms DESCRIPTION:A presentation by Michigan beekeeper Sheldon Schwitek.\nPresenter: Ann Arbor Backyard Beekeepers UID:46612-10566962@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Environment LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T095025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Programming 101 Workshop DESCRIPTION:Learn the basics of programming\, partnerships and inclusivity to help your org through the planning process.\n\nLocation: Michigan League\, Room 4 (First Floor)\nRegister here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1790912\nTime: 6:30pm - 8:00pm UID:49371-11450945@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49371 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League - Room 4 (First Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180118T081938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Author Talk: Peter Baker: Obama: The Call of History DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear New York Times Chief White House Correspondent\, Peter Baker\, discuss his new book\, Obama: The Call of History. Baker’s book is a vivid and in-depth illustrated account of Barack Obama’s eight years in office. With this authoritative history\, Peter Baker takes the measure of Obama’s achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man. \n\nPresidential historian Douglas Brinkley comments “With his unique gifts as a diligent journalist and a first-rate historian\, Peter Baker has given us a compelling look at a consequential presidency – an eight-year reign that will be studied forever. And here is where we will start that conversation: with Baker’s graceful and insightful account of Barack Obama’s victories\, defeats\, and evolving legacy.” \n\nFree Admission. Free Parking. Book sales/signing and reception follow program. UID:48906-11328384@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48906 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Obama,Presidents LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T162211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Café Shapiro DESCRIPTION:Students\, nominated by their instructors\, have been invited to read their own poems and short stories to a peer audience. For many student writers\, Café Shapiro is a first opportunity to read publicly from their creative work. For others\, it provides a fresh audience\, and the ability to experience the work of students they may not encounter in writing classes.\n\nThrough its over 20 years of existence\, Café Shapiro has evolved to become several nights of sharing among some of our best undergraduate writers\, their friends\, families\, and the wider community. This year there are a total of 46 students participating over five days. We'll have light refreshments available. Please stop by!\n\nMonday\, 2/5/18\nTuesday\, 2/6/18\nThursday\, 2/8/18\nMonday\, 2/12/18\nTuesday\, 2/13/18\n\nRead student work from many previous years in annual Café Shapiro Anthologies: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cafe?page=issues UID:49336-11420291@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49336 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Library,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Bert's Study Lounge (Lobby) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T162224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Winter 2018 Detroiters Speak: Revisiting the Kerner Report and People's Movements for the Future of Detroit DESCRIPTION:Our theme for the semester will explore competing ideas about \"development\" and visions for Detroit's future in the context of the 50th anniversary of the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders\, commonly referred to as the Kerner Report\, which was released in March 1968. Each week will feature different Detroit-based speakers and guests who will explore the given topic and engage the students through a combination of formal remarks\, presentations\, and public discussion. \n\nLight dinner provided\; free transportation from Ann Arbor to Detroit\; public welcome and encouraged to attend. \n\nFree Parking in the WSU lot located just north of the Cass Corridor Commons (4605 Cass Ave.) UID:49589-11476296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49589 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Detroit,Food,Free,History,Meal,Social Justice LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T180026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T203000 SUMMARY:Other:Campus Bible Study DESCRIPTION:The Isaachar Connection Bible Study is starting back up TONIGHT\, January 30th @ 7:30PM! UID:49515-11467864@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49515 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Alexander Kobrin\, piano DESCRIPTION:Alexander Kobrin is assistant professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music\, and was the 2005 Gold Medal winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. UID:47084-10790896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T130901 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Daimh DESCRIPTION:Come hear the Scots band Irish Music Magazine calls \"one of the most exhilarating acoustic bands on the Celtic music map\"! Dàimh (the word means \"kinship\" in Scots Gaelic) is based in Lochaber in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland\; an area as much renowned for its scenic beauty as for its rich musical and cultural heritage. A long‐established favorite at folk festivals in Scotland and Ireland and across Europe\, Dàimh recently took home Scots Trad Band of the Year honors at the Scots Traditional Music Awards\, Dàimh are also regulars on BBC television. Recent lineup changes have seen the introduction of Gaelic champion Griogair Labhruidh\, on vocals and Uillean Pipes\, adding the depth and power of his commanding vocal performances to an already phenomenal instrumental arsenal of bagpipes\, fiddle\, mandolin and guitar. From pyrotechnic jigs and reels to achingly poignant ballads\, Dàimh runs the full expressive gamut of folk music at its best\, and is justly renowned for their thrilling live shows. UID:44966-10015379@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44966 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180213T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Dan Graser\, saxophone\, and Kathryn Goodson\, piano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Benson- Aeolian Song\; Lennon- Symphonic Rhapsody\; Wanamaker- Deus Sax Machina\; Higdon- Concerto\; Etezady- Streetlegal UID:47171-10805429@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47171 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816439@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T164050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235900 SUMMARY:Other:Faces of Engineers Abroad Scholarship Priority Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:Applications for the Faces of Engineers Abroad Scholarship priority application deadline are due tonight at midnight. \n\nFor more information: https://mcompass.umich.edu/?go=IPEfacesofengineersabroad UID:48748-11297808@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Deadlines,Engineering,International,Internship,Scholarship,Scholarships,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 245 Chrysler CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237302@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932355@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932365@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667191@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633574@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802044@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802129@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802297@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802549@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802213@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802633@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T134222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): Guns and Pro-Social Behavior DESCRIPTION:Evidence from psychology shows that perceptions of our environment are influenced by the actions we can take in that environment\, and handgun access has been shown to increase the likelihood of perceiving others as possessing a handgun. Prof. Wozniak will discuss in-progress work that combines lab experimental approaches from economics and psychology to determine whether handgun access also influences higher order decision-making. The goal of this in-progress research is to determine whether randomized access to a realistic handgun object affects choices when subjects face real (financial) consequences. UID:49389-11453732@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889148@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171017T121354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference 2018 DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the MUSE Organizing Committee*\, you are cordially invited to participate in the 2018 Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference.\n\n- The annual flagship event of the MUSE Initiative\, the MUSE Conference provides a unique venue for sharing research\, building new connections\, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among all members of the University of Michigan community engaged in the broad range of sustainability and environment-related research. We welcome the involvement of U-M graduate students\, as well as University leadership\, faculty\, and research fellows from all disciplines\, including those in arts\, humanities\, engineering\, and natural and social sciences. The 2018 MUSE Conference will consist of interdisciplinary lectures by speakers including Susan Scotti Parrish\, author of The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History\, and Claire Vaye Watkins\, author of Gold Fame Citrus\, as well as panel discussions\, a poster session\, network-and skill-building workshops\, and a public keynote address and reception at Zingerman’s Greyline event space.\n\n- Participants will have opportunities to present both preliminary and final research findings. Thematic facilitated workshops will engage participants at all career stages in structured collaboration and discussion about emerging developments and debates in cross-cutting research topics.\n\n- Please consider participating in the 2018 MUSE Conference by submitting a short abstract. Abstracts on topics related to sustainability and environment may include (but are not limited to) human behavior\, environmental history\, policymaking and governance\, corporate social and environmental responsibility\, public health\, built environment and infrastructure\, land use\, energy\, water\, climate\, and ecosystems. Themed interdisciplinary sessions will be designed once abstracts have been reviewed by a selection committee. We encourage submissions to present either specific research outcomes or broader themes related to your research interests.\n\n- Both oral and poster presentation opportunities are available. Short-form oral presentations may be used to share preliminary results or brief research summaries\, while longer presentations allow for more depth. When submitting an abstract\, you may also opt-in to facilitate a workshop discussion and/or be considered for a brief Up-goer 5-style presentation at the public reception (explaining your research using the “ten hundred” most-used English words).\n\n- The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday\, November 9. Please see link for abstract registration. For more information\, please go to our conference website:\nhttp://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/. UID:45858-10321737@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:conference,Environment,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Sustainability,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era DESCRIPTION:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era showcases the works of Heidi Barlow\, Shaina Kasztelan\, and Bailey Scieszka\, three young women artists based in Detroit\, MI. Their work\, although varying in style and form\, speaks to a generation growing up with the influence of mass consumption\, internet shopping\, the glut of plastic toys\, fake jewels\, and tchotchkes. Whereas artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s reached first for paint tubes and canvas\, these artists use inexpensive and lowbrow materials to twist the signifiers of pop culture\, as they relate to gender politics and American ideals. It’s a balancing act between the icing and the cake\, surface and substance. \n\nBarlow’s confection-like constructs are unsettling\, much like an empty float or matted-hair Barbie in a backyard pool. Although enticing\, they allude to something lost in the translation\, some sweetness\, or idealism gone missing\, along with what once mattered. Yet\, the work isn’t cynical\, but embraces transition instead. We’ve hardened a little in the process\, much like the stiff and sugary piping Barlow often incorporates in her works. And maybe that’s a good thing. \n\nIf Barlow’s aesthetic leans towards Stepford Wives gone awry and the guilty pleasure of eBay\, Shaina Kasztelan offers us psychedelic Middle America. Her assemblages are disorienting\, vertigo-inducing. Technicolor sculptures conjure up hallucinations of the mall\, or spinning carnival rides that last too long. Kasztelan’s work is sinister\, even a little menacing. As viewers we are leery.\n\nFinally\, Bailey Scieszka takes this subversive garish ethos full tilt and invents her own world\, literally morphing into her own creation. Scieszka’s alter-ego Old Put\, a demonic shape-shifting clown\, becomes the artist/protagonist and creates work in performance\, video and drawing. Old Put collects pop culture references like artifacts of a lost civilization\, and seems as likely to commit a murder as bake a cake. \n\nFor Barlow\, Kasztelan and Scieszka\, outdated paradigms about class\, good taste\, and femininity are just temporal flashes in the pan. And it’s their party. UID:47322-10866226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180301T063013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T113000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Give 'Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking for and How to Get Them DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/120520\n\nThis program is closed for only PSYCH 120: Emerging Adulthood:\n\nGive ‘Em What They Want: Career Competencies all Employers are Looking For and How to Get them\n\nMost employers are looking for recent graduates that have these 8 career competencies. The hardest part is knowing what they are looking for an how to gain competence and skills in those areas. Join us as weexplore what the competencies are\, how to talk about your areas of strength\, and how to build up your areas of growth!\n\nYou should request thisworkshop if you:\nAren’t sure what skills and experiences you should begetting\nWant to learn how to give an elevator pitch\nWant to build up your strengths and develop ways to gain skills/experiences\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:49013-11345063@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:East Hall, Room 3021, East Hall, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171219T210750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T113000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The ‘CSI Effect’ DESCRIPTION:Prosecutors claim that jurors who watch shows like “CSI” on television are “wrongfully” acquitting guilty criminals when they don’t see the kind of forensic science evidence that they see on TV. The media has labeled this the “CSI Effect”. But is it true? \n\nThis class for those 50 and over discusses empirical research into real juror expectations and demands for scientific evidence\, whether it might better be called the “tech effect”\, and how the criminal justice system needs to adjust to these modern jurors.\n\nThis study group will meet for 90 minutes and will be led by Donald Shelton\, who directs the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program at UM-Dearborn. UID:47661-10973737@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47661 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Law,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Social Justice LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004711@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546982@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" celebrates the remarkable life\, vision\, and heroic tenacity of a 20th-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest Ph.D.\, Ruth Gruber died in November of 2016 at the age of 105. The photographs in this exhibition span more than 50 years\, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947\, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints\, never before exhibited\, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. \n\nThe Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2018\, at 6:00pm.\n\n\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" is organized by the International Center of Photography and was made possible by Friends of Ruth Gruber. The exhibition is also co-sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost.\n\nPhoto: Unidentified Photographer\; Ruth Gruber\, Alaska\, 1941-43 UID:47419-10898822@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Exhibition,Graduate School,Museum,Photography,Rackham,Reception,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T084857 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fulbright U.S. Student Program Info Session for Study/Research DESCRIPTION:U-M Fulbright U.S. Student Program Advisors (FPA) will detail specific components of the Fulbright application and provide helpful tips on how to design your application. UID:49214-11395007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49214 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fulbright,Funding,International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 447 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T081916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Brown Bag Series | The Quest for New Physics: From Atomic Physics to the LHC DESCRIPTION:The Standard Model of particle physics well describes a vast number of observables up to the TeV scale. However\, it cannot be a complete description of Nature as it cannot explain various experimental observations. For example\, it lacks a viable dark matter candidate and can neither explain the observed matter/antimatter asymmetry of our Universe nor neutrino oscillations. Thus\, physics beyond the Standard Model is well motivated. In this seminar\, we explore different methods to probe new physics at multiple energy scales\, from high energy colliders\, such as the LHC\, to precision low energy experiments. In particular\, we focus on searches for new force carriers at the LHCb experiment and in precision atomic spectroscopy. We show that the inclusive search for dark photons at the LHCb experiment already probes new parameter space and can be easily interpreted for a large variety of new physics models. On the precision frontier\, we explore the potential of isotope shift spectroscopy to probe new long range force carriers. UID:49947-11608279@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49947 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T131912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T123000 SUMMARY:Other:Live Robotic Border Crossers Performances DESCRIPTION:Join us as students from the Border Crossers project launch the robotic border crossers--transported via a student-made autonomous vehicle--at three campus locations.\n\nDuring winter semester 2018\, students across campus—from LSA\, Engineering\, Art and Design\, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie planning\, building\, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. \n\nMacMurtrie’s artist residency and interdisciplinary project\, \"Border Crossers\,\" led by the Institute for the Humanities\, encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities\, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national\, architectural\, environmental\, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.\n\nThe project symbolizes the humanities in action\, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together\, overcoming obstacles and divides\, and discovering creative solutions.\n\nChico MacMurtrie is an award winning artist\, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture\, whose work combines materiality and robotics\, the visceral and conceptual. MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works\, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\nVisiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project are sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art\, Michigan Robotics\, Michigan Engineering\, School of Information\, Penny Stamps Speaker Series\, Stamps School of Art and Design\, and ArtsEngin.\n\n\nBorder Crossers Events\nBorder Crossers installation\nFeb 16-March 23 2018\nInstitute for the Humanities Gallery\, 202 S. Thayer\nGallery Hours: M-F 9am-5pm\nLive Robotic Border Crossers performances\nFeb 14\, North Campus\, Engineering Grounds\, time TBA\nFeb 16\, In front of UMMA\, 525 S. State\, 4:30pm\nFeb 16\, Ingalls Mall\, 6:30pm\nSpecial Penny W. Stamps Lecture by Chico MacMurtrie & Artist Reception\nFeb 16\, U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Aud (lecture)\, 5:30pm\, followed by reception at Institute for the Humanities at 6:30pm UID:48986-11342276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ArtsEngine,Engineering,immigration,Science,Art LOCATION:The Grove CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180209T123013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Medieval Lunch. Medieval/Africa: Past and Potential DESCRIPTION:Professor Jeppie will ask and explore: What are the possibilities of bringing common questions— common to European and African history— into a comparative discussion? Was there a medieval Africa\, in the first place? UID:48863-11320058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48863 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,History,Interdisciplinary,Research LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T121150 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Social Brown Bag-Do Votes Speak Louder than Motives? Moral Judgments and Tolerance in the 2016 Presidential Election DESCRIPTION:. UID:49973-11611104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49973 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T095705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty\, industry professionals\, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:49609-11484687@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Dance,Film,Music,symposium,Theater,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-11254345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the LRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T094139 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T153000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Lost and Found in the Digital DESCRIPTION:As the number of digital humanities approaches continues to grow\, libraries and other institutions must increasingly grapple with how to catalog\, preserve\, and present digital work\, which means engaging big\, time-critical conversations about standards and possibilities in the face of constant technological emergence. In this presentation\, however\, I will be asking us to think about the smallness of individuals\, namely the interplay between the ephemeral and the institutional that has become increasingly recognizable as foundational to many scholars' intellectual growth. As the digital increasingly becomes part of the terrain\, what will count as a scholarly legacy? What have digital affordances fundamentally changed about our potential relationships to the scholarly industrial complex? What has been lost? Who has been found? And how do these considerations fit into a larger conversation about digital preservation?\n\nMarisa Parham is Professor of English at Amherst College\, and directs the Immersive Reality Lab for the Humanities\, which is a workgroup for digital and experimental humanities. She also serves as a faculty diversity and inclusion officer. Her current teaching and research projects focus on texts and technologies that problematize assumptions about time\, space\, and bodily materiality. She is particularly interested in how such terms share a history of increasing complexity in texts produced by African Americans\, and how they also offer ways of thinking about intersectional approaches to digital humanities and technology studies.\n\nMarisa Parham holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University\, and is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African-American Literature and Culture\, The African-American Student’s Guide to College\, and is co-editor of Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities\, and formerly served on the founding Board of Directors for the Amherst Cinema Arts Center. She is also a former director of the Five College Digital Humanities Initiative\, serving Amherst\, Hampshire\, Mt. Holyoke\, and Smith Colleges\, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. UID:49454-11462132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49454 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,Language,Library,Sociology,Technical Communications LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T123252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lost and Found in the Digital DESCRIPTION:As the number of digital humanities approaches continues to grow\, libraries and other institutions must increasingly grapple with how to catalog\, preserve\, and present digital work\, which means engaging big\, time-critical conversations about standards and possibilities in the face of constant technological emergence. In this presentation\, however\, Marisa Parham\, Professor of English at Amherst College\, asks us to think about the smallness of individuals\, namely the interplay between the ephemeral and the institutional that has become increasingly recognizable as foundational to many scholars' intellectual growth.\n\nAs the digital increasingly becomes part of the terrain\, what will count as a scholarly legacy? What have digital affordances fundamentally changed about our potential relationships to the scholarly industrial complex? What has been lost? Who has been found? And how do these considerations fit into a larger conversation about digital preservation?\n\nEmergent Research events are aimed at better understanding the various types of research undertaken across campus\, particularly as they relate to library services and support\, opportunities for collaboration\, data management and preservation\, and beyond. UID:49482-11464934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49482 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Library,Research LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180708@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180301T123013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114920\n\nAlready thinking about what you want to do this summer? Do you have some ideas about your dream internship experience? Do you have no idea what you're doing? That's OK. \n\nCome check out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour. So\, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of\, search for\, and find a great summer experience!\n\nChatwith folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you can useto build a great job/internship search strategy.\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. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114920\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.\n UID:48276-11194134@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180209T121340 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:BME 500 Seminar: Alex Cartagena-Rivera\, Ph.D. DESCRIPTION:This event is occurring at a different time and place than the other BME seminars in the series. Please note that Alex Cartagena-Rivera will be speaking on Wednesday\, February 14 at 3:30 pm in LBME 1123.\n\n \nAlexander X. Cartagena-Rivera\nBME Faculty Candidate and Guest Speaker\nNational Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders\nNational Institutes of Health\n \n “Cellular and Tissue Mechanical Regulation – Towards an Understanding of Self-Organization in Mechanobiology”\n \nAbstract:\nDetermination of critical physical parameters of complex biological systems is key for understanding the relationships between molecular structure\, biophysical properties\, and biological function of cells and tissues. Recently\, I developed novel minimally invasive atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods for the quantitative determination of relevant mechanical properties of the (i) actomyosin cortex of nonadherent cells\, (ii) apical surface and apico-lateral junctional complexes of polarized epithelia\, and (iii) sensory stereociliary bundles in the inner ear.\n \nThe cortical actin cytoskeleton lies just beneath the plasma membrane defining cell shape and mechanical properties\, and thus plays a key role in cellular processes such as migration and morphogenesis\, and contributes to the macroscale mechanics of tissues. I developed an AFM method for using an AFM with tipless cantilevers to determine actomyosin cortical tension\, elastic modulus\, and intracellular pressure of human fibroblast and melanoma nonadherent cells. I applied this new method to determine changes in cortical actin molecular dynamics after treatment with drugs and administration of siRNAs targeting the actomyosin cytoskeleton. The results suggested that myosin II activity\, actin polymerization\, and actin branching all contribute to cortex tension and intracellular pressure\, whereas the cortical elastic modulus is more dependent on myosin II activity. Subsequently\, I developed a novel noncontact AFM method to measure the apical surface tension\, fluidity\, and intercellular adhesive forces in polarized epithelia. This study demonstrated dramatic changes in epithelial mechanics of the adherent junctional complex after depletion of the tight junction proteins zonula occludens 1 and 2. Lastly\, I extended the noncontact AFM method to determine the elastic stiffness and viscous damping of stereocilia bundles in the inner ear sensory cells. The results suggested that deletion of the horizontal top connectors in the outer hair cells dramatically reduces the bundle mechanics\, which correlates with other studies showing that absence of top connectors eliminates bundle cohesion and the waveform distortion products.\nAltogether\, these novel noninvasive AFM methods\, designed to measure cell and monolayer mechanical properties are easily and generally applicable to a large variety of cell based experiments and should dramatically improve our understanding of how changes in mechanical properties are associated with critical cellular processes\, development\, and disease progression. UID:48973-11339499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48973 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Lecture LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering - 1123 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T094241 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | Active Space Experiments with Relativistic Electron Accelerators DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will discuss new space applications that are enabled by the recent development of compact\, relativistic electron accelerators. First\, I will describe a mission concept\, called CONNection EXplorer (CONNEX)\, to connect magnetospheric physical processes to auroral phenomena. CONNEX is based on an electron beam fired from a magnetospheric spacecraft along magnetic field lines and optically imaging the beam spot in the ionosphere. The mitigation steps undertaken for the successful development of CONNEX will be discussed\, with a particular focus on a scheme for mitigating critical issues of spacecraft charging induced by the electron beam. Second\, I will discuss application of relativistic electron beams for radiation belt remediation. In this context\, electron beams can excite plasma waves that can be exploited via wave-particle interaction to reduce hazardous fluxes of energetic particles to safer levels. I will also touch upon innovative numerical tools being used in support of these activities.\n\nGian Luca Delzanno obtained his MS in Nuclear Engr. (1999) and PhD in Plasma Physics (2003) from Politecnico di Torino (PT) in Italy. After a postdoctoral position with the Burning Plasma Research Group at PT\, in 2005 he moved to the T-5 Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory\, initially as a postdoctoral associate and later as a technical staff member. His research interests are in theoretical and computational plasma physics. His work addresses development of numerical methods for multi-scale plasma physics simulations with application to space-physics. The latter include the SHIELDS project to develop global space-weather models of the near-Earth environment including substorm physics\, the CONNEX project to study magnetosphere-ionosphere-coupling with relativistic electron beams\, and wave-particle-interaction physics.\n\nThe seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast\, please follow this link:\nhttps://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m9d97f09524b28e13c926e7d3449138ed.\nPassword: MIPSE\nMeeting number/Access code: 621 027 707\nAudio connection through phone: +1-510-338-9438 UID:48783-11306113@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48783 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Plasma,Space LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1005 EECS CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171219T110111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ASP Lecture | Modern Armenian Historiography: Suggestions for Periodization DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sanjian will analyze the development of Armenian historiography\, i.e. the study of the methods of Armenian historians from the Middle Ages to the present\, together with the changing interpretations of key events in the Armenian past recorded in the works of their predecessors. He will suggest a tentative periodization\, emphasizing the medieval period (5th-18th cc. C.E.) and the successive periods of the influence of Father Mikayel Chamchian in the late early modern era (late 18th-mid-19th cc.)\, historism (late 19th c.-1920)\, and Soviet Marxism (1920-1991)\, culminating in the present era of post-Soviet independence (from 1991). \n \nDr. Ara Sanjian is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan\, Dearborn. He received his master’s degree in history from Yerevan State University (1991) and his PhD from the University of London (1996). From 1996 to 2005 he taught at Haigazian University in Beirut and was the Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at California State University\, Fresno in 2003. His research interests focus on the post-World War I history of Armenia\, Turkey and the Arab states of Western Asia. UID:46854-10656089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Armenia,Armenian Studies,History,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T095807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquia | Comb-Based Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:49956-11608293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49956 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:West Hall - 411 (Please Note Room Change) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T181656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Comb-based Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy DESCRIPTION:Over the last 20 years\, there have been two seemingly disconnected developments in optical spectroscopy: frequency combs and multidimensional coherent spectroscopy. Frequency combs revolutionized optical frequency metrology and enabled optical atomic clocks while multidimensional coherent spectroscopy became a powerful tool for studying dynamics on ultrafast time scales in atomic\, molecular and solid-state systems. Inspired by a method known as \"dual comb spectroscopy\"\, we have recently combined these two developments by demonstrating comb-based multidimensional coherent spectroscopy\, which leverages the best aspects of both.\n UID:49901-11569059@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49901 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T093004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:II Round Table. The Future of International Justice: Lessons from the Yugoslav Tribunal DESCRIPTION:II Round Tables promote informed discussion on current world events and issues. This round table will examine the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the future of international prosecution of severe human rights violations. Established in 1993 by the United Nations Security Council\, ICTY was the first international court to prosecute war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. With 161 indictments in 24 years\, including notable political and military leaders\, the ICTY boasts substantial accomplishments\, and its impact extends beyond legal and political domains to the realm of psychological and sexual violence. As its official activities draw to a close\, what are the lasting legacies of the ICTY\, and how have subsequent international justice efforts been influenced? \n\nThe panel of four experts have direct experience in the ICTY and/or other international justice approaches. They will discuss their own experiences at the international courts and the future of international justice.\n\nModerator:\nSusan Waltz\nGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, African Studies Center\, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies\, Donia Human Rights Center\, Program in International & Comparative Studies\n\nOrganizer: Kiyoteru Tsutsui \nDonia Human Rights Center\n\nPanel:\nJohn Ciorciari\nDirector of the International Policy Center\nCenter for Middle Eastern & North African Studies\, Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Donia Human Rights Center\, Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies\, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\n\nRobert Donia\nCenter for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies\n\nDermot Groome\nPenn State University\, Dickinson Law\n\nSteven Ratner\nBruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law\, Michigan Law\nCenter for South Asian Studies\, Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Donia Human Rights Center UID:49151-11383817@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,European,Human Right,International,Law LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T181554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Perovskite – a Wonder for Photovoltaic & Optoelectronic Applications DESCRIPTION: A new type of perovskite\, a hybrid material with both organic and inorganic components\, has appeared to be a wonder for its excellent optical absorption\, long range charge-carrier diffusion and apparent tolerance to defects. In the last few years\, it has been emerged as a primary candidate material for various photovoltaic\, optoelectronic and photoelectronic applications. In just a few years\, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the perovskite solar cells has been improved from 3.8% to >22%. Moreover\, the solar cell fabrication processes based on the planar architecture have been particularly enthusiastic thanks to their low temperature fabrication and compatibility with a range of substrates. Comparing solution deposition and vacuum deposition\, the vacuum processes for thermal co-deposition and sequential deposition of PbCl2 and CH3NH3I materials are recognized as efficient means to prepare perovskite film with good uniformity and high surface coverage. \nA vacuum deposition process has been developed to fabricate high efficiency perovskite solar cells with high stability using alternating layer-by-layer vacuum deposition. The new deposition process allows us to relax the strict deposition monitoring and control measures\, while realizing superior uniformity in film morphology\, surface coverage and smoothness\, together with crystalline phase purity. More importantly\, we have developed a superior low temperature TiO2 coating and transferred the cell fabrication process onto lightweight flexible polymeric substrate. Our current status for the rigid thin film cell efficiency is 22% and that for the flexible device over 18.3%\, both are the highest for their respective category. Meanwhile\, the devices show very good stability over long term exposure in ambient with very low degradation. After a representative cell was exposed in ambient lab condition for a year\, its final cell efficiency is as high as over 95% of its initial efficiency with its degradation accounts for only smaller than 5%. Further analysis on the stability of the perovskite solar cells will be discussed.\nWe have also developed a series of single-crystalline perovskites with superior stability and optoelectronic performance.\n\nReferences： \n[1] D. Yang\, R. Yang\, X. Ren\, X. Zhu\, Z. Yang\, C. Li\, S. Liu*\, Advanced Materials\, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600446.\n[2] D. Yang\, R. Yang\, J. Zhang\, Z. Yang\, S. Liu\, C. Li\, Energy Environ. Sci. 2015\, 8\, 3208.\n[3] D. Yang\, Z. Yang\, W. Qin\, Y. Zhang\, S. Liu\, C. Li\, J. Mater. Chem. A 2015\, 3\, 9401. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nShengzhong (Frank) Liu (Shaanxi Normal University and Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) UID:41621-9391284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41621 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 Chemistry CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386656@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T145752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Valentine's Day Dinner DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate Valentine's Day at East Quad. They will be having a special Valentine's Day Dinner featuring chocolate fondue. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47498-10932398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47498 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T114923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T181500 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:Schokoladenstunde (with games!): Tuesdays 5:30-6:30 and Wednesdays 5:15-6:15\, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad.\n\nSchokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All German students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.). Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell\, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak. UID:50109-11642082@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50109 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180117T135014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T183000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Stepping Up Your Internship Search DESCRIPTION:Take your internship search to the next level with tips and feedback from our talented Hub staff. UID:48878-11320045@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48878 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Career,Food,Free,Internship,Undergraduate LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T180028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore CCI! Recruitment and Retention Workshop DESCRIPTION:Learn how to recruit and retain members who will help grow your org's vision and mission!  \n\nLocation: Union\, Pond ABC (First Floor)\nTime: 6pm - 8pm\n\n*For accommodations\, please email uminvolvement@umich.edu. UID:49224-11397785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49224 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union, Pond ABC (First Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T095301 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Recruitment & Retention Workshop DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Recruitment and Retention\nLearn how to recruit and retain members who will help grow your org's vision and mission.\nLocation: Union\, Pond ABC\nTime: 6pm - 8pm\n\nRegister here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1790926 UID:49373-11450946@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49373 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Rooms (First Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171219T084512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Magic or Miracle? How this Question Divided Ancient Jews and Christians DESCRIPTION:West Bloomfield Lecture Series: Jews and Judaism in Antiquity\n\nResearch into the “parting of the ways” between ancient Jews and Christians typically focuses on the ideological borders constructed by ancient authors. However\, these writings obscure the experience of non-elites\, for whom the exigencies of daily life – such as the health of one’s family – may have overshadowed rhetorical concerns. Rabbinic and patristic authors used rituals intended to preserve or restore health as a means of distinguishing Jews and Christians\, reflecting a common belief that ritual cures were miracles if they took place within one’s own community and magic if they took place outside it. Nevertheless\, Roman and late antique evidence from Israel suggests that non-elites were undeterred by this rhetoric and were willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial rituals\, such as the use of amulets\, even if they were similar to ones popular among foreign religious or cultural groups.\n\nPhoto Credit: Walters Art Museum [Public domain\, CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)]\, via Wikimedia Commons UID:47149-10801984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47149 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Jewish Studies,Lecture LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T121539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Stephen Shipps\, violin and Martin Katz\, piano DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled from 2/9.\n\nPROGRAM: Pasquali- Ysaÿe Sonata\; Ysaÿe- Poème Elegiaque\, Reve d’Enfant\; Chopin- Ysaÿe Waltz\; Bloch- Baal Shem Suite\; Chausson- Poème UID:49919-11577476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T131200 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:My Folky Valentine DESCRIPTION:This annual lovefest hosted by Annie & Rod Capps ( http://annieandrodcapps.com )\, features good friends who are couples that also happen to make beautiful music together. Over the years (13 to be exact) Annie & Rod have invited couples from all over the country to share the stage with them. This year\, they’re bringing back two of the original couples from one of the earliest My Folky Valentine concerts\; Jan Krist (http://jankrist.net) & drummer/husband\, Alan Finkbeiner and Allison Downey (http://allisondowney.com) & bassist/husband\, John Austin. Along with Annie & Rod\, this trio of duos just happen to boast the makings of one kick-ass band! They’ll swap song leaders backed by the sounds of guitars\, viola\, banjo and ukulele all in front of a powerhouse rhythm section.\n\nWill there be love songs? Sure. But this concert is not just for couples… It’s a night of top notch songwriting and musicianship that just happens to be made by people in love! UID:45369-10164274@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45369 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180214T220000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Mswing Open Swing DESCRIPTION:We play mostly current music\, but its a mix of everything you could potentially swing dance. We teach hustle which is a type of swing dance. So beginners are always welcome. As are people who want to learn aerials and flips. We are a group of people who just like to dance. Come and join. :) UID:48190-11185902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816440@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237303@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406228@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869339@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932361@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932386@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932391@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667192@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633575@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802045@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802298@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802466@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802214@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802634@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889149@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171017T121354 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan University-Wide Sustainability & Environment Conference 2018 DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the MUSE Organizing Committee*\, you are cordially invited to participate in the 2018 Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference.\n\n- The annual flagship event of the MUSE Initiative\, the MUSE Conference provides a unique venue for sharing research\, building new connections\, and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among all members of the University of Michigan community engaged in the broad range of sustainability and environment-related research. We welcome the involvement of U-M graduate students\, as well as University leadership\, faculty\, and research fellows from all disciplines\, including those in arts\, humanities\, engineering\, and natural and social sciences. The 2018 MUSE Conference will consist of interdisciplinary lectures by speakers including Susan Scotti Parrish\, author of The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History\, and Claire Vaye Watkins\, author of Gold Fame Citrus\, as well as panel discussions\, a poster session\, network-and skill-building workshops\, and a public keynote address and reception at Zingerman’s Greyline event space.\n\n- Participants will have opportunities to present both preliminary and final research findings. Thematic facilitated workshops will engage participants at all career stages in structured collaboration and discussion about emerging developments and debates in cross-cutting research topics.\n\n- Please consider participating in the 2018 MUSE Conference by submitting a short abstract. Abstracts on topics related to sustainability and environment may include (but are not limited to) human behavior\, environmental history\, policymaking and governance\, corporate social and environmental responsibility\, public health\, built environment and infrastructure\, land use\, energy\, water\, climate\, and ecosystems. Themed interdisciplinary sessions will be designed once abstracts have been reviewed by a selection committee. We encourage submissions to present either specific research outcomes or broader themes related to your research interests.\n\n- Both oral and poster presentation opportunities are available. Short-form oral presentations may be used to share preliminary results or brief research summaries\, while longer presentations allow for more depth. When submitting an abstract\, you may also opt-in to facilitate a workshop discussion and/or be considered for a brief Up-goer 5-style presentation at the public reception (explaining your research using the “ten hundred” most-used English words).\n\n- The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday\, November 9. Please see link for abstract registration. For more information\, please go to our conference website:\nhttp://muse-initiative.umich.edu/conference/. UID:45858-10321738@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:conference,Environment,Faculty,Free,Graduate Students,Sustainability,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era DESCRIPTION:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era showcases the works of Heidi Barlow\, Shaina Kasztelan\, and Bailey Scieszka\, three young women artists based in Detroit\, MI. Their work\, although varying in style and form\, speaks to a generation growing up with the influence of mass consumption\, internet shopping\, the glut of plastic toys\, fake jewels\, and tchotchkes. Whereas artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s reached first for paint tubes and canvas\, these artists use inexpensive and lowbrow materials to twist the signifiers of pop culture\, as they relate to gender politics and American ideals. It’s a balancing act between the icing and the cake\, surface and substance. \n\nBarlow’s confection-like constructs are unsettling\, much like an empty float or matted-hair Barbie in a backyard pool. Although enticing\, they allude to something lost in the translation\, some sweetness\, or idealism gone missing\, along with what once mattered. Yet\, the work isn’t cynical\, but embraces transition instead. We’ve hardened a little in the process\, much like the stiff and sugary piping Barlow often incorporates in her works. And maybe that’s a good thing. \n\nIf Barlow’s aesthetic leans towards Stepford Wives gone awry and the guilty pleasure of eBay\, Shaina Kasztelan offers us psychedelic Middle America. Her assemblages are disorienting\, vertigo-inducing. Technicolor sculptures conjure up hallucinations of the mall\, or spinning carnival rides that last too long. Kasztelan’s work is sinister\, even a little menacing. As viewers we are leery.\n\nFinally\, Bailey Scieszka takes this subversive garish ethos full tilt and invents her own world\, literally morphing into her own creation. Scieszka’s alter-ego Old Put\, a demonic shape-shifting clown\, becomes the artist/protagonist and creates work in performance\, video and drawing. Old Put collects pop culture references like artifacts of a lost civilization\, and seems as likely to commit a murder as bake a cake. \n\nFor Barlow\, Kasztelan and Scieszka\, outdated paradigms about class\, good taste\, and femininity are just temporal flashes in the pan. And it’s their party. UID:47322-10866227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171217T144727 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PLAUSIBLE FUTURES: APPROACHING ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN FROM A COMPLEX SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE DESCRIPTION:Geoffrey Thün is Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean for Research and Creative Practice at UM’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is a founding partner in the research-based practice RVTR. Thün holds an M.U.D. from the University of Toronto\, and a Professional B.Arch. and B.E.S. from the University of Waterloo. He uses a complex systems approach in his work\, which ranges in scale from high performance buildings\, to cities and regional territories. \n\nDrawing from examples of Thün’s work\, contemporary practice\, and what he perceives as the frontiers of research in architecture and urban design\, this talk will outline a manifesto for a future of design for the built environment based upon principles of ecological and complex systems. \n\nThis is the fifth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Architecture: Shaping Buildings\; Shaping Us. The next lecture series will start March 8\, 2018. The title is Behavioral and Social Sciences: Real World Applications. UID:47706-10994360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T091936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Transfer Student Open House DESCRIPTION:Have no fear\, the Sweetland Center for Writing is here! Learn about all of the free writing services available to you as a U-M transfer student. We can help you sign up and schedule your first appointment\, walk you through a typical writing consultation\, and answer any other writing questions you have to help prepare you for your first visit with us. Coffee and bagels\, of course. UID:49615-11484721@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49615 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - G219 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180302T063014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114921\n\nAlready thinking about what you want to do this summer? Do you have some ideas about your dream internship experience? Do you have no idea what you're doing? That's OK. \n\nCome check out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour. So\, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of\, search for\, and find a great summer experience!\n\nChatwith folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you can useto build a great job/internship search strategy.\n\nIf you're a Graduate Student wanting to attend we would like you to make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater to your needs more specifically. \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on theHappening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114921 UID:48277-11194135@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48277 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547259@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004712@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546983@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T113510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Imperial Japan and the Nature of Borders in Occupied Inner Mongolia DESCRIPTION:The multiethnic landscape of Inner Mongolia posed fundamental problems around governance and legibility for Japanese authorities after they invaded Northeast China in 1931. This talk examines how Japanese occupiers separated out nomadic and sedentary livelihoods along a new internal border through population transfers and rural development. Here\, Japanese imperialism transformed an earlier policy of assimilation into a blueprint for establishing zones of ethnic autonomy. Inner Mongolia later became the first of these zones in 1947. Instead of only seeing the origins of Communist rule as forged in the fires of war against imperialism\, this talk points to the significance of the Japanese occupation in shaping the ethnic and ecological bounds of modern China. \n \nSakura Christmas is an Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College. A scholar of modern Japan\, she focuses on the history of imperialism\, the environment\, and the borderlands. She is currently revising her first book\, \"Nomadic Borderlands: Imperial Japan and the Origins of Ethnic Autonomy in China\". UID:47716-11002098@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171011T121933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 SUMMARY:Meeting:U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE INVITED!\n\nThe University of Michigan Martin Luther King\, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public\, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme\, the artwork for the event booklet\, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students\, faculty\, staff and administrators across campus. \n\nWe welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice\, civil and human rights\, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal\, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events\, sharing department or org events\, and always reflecting on current affairs\, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community. \n\nSTUDENTS! (undergrad\, grad\, professional\, etc) We need your voice at the table!\n\nMore information about putting your event in the booklet or online\, the history of speakers\, and other ways to get involved\, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).\n\nPlease email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting\, so that we may have an accurate food count.\n\nThe theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections\, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past\, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act\, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence\, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division. UID:44869-9992127@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Community Service,Culture,Detroit,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,Inclusion,Multicultural,Social Impact,Social Justice LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - 1st floor lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" celebrates the remarkable life\, vision\, and heroic tenacity of a 20th-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest Ph.D.\, Ruth Gruber died in November of 2016 at the age of 105. The photographs in this exhibition span more than 50 years\, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947\, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints\, never before exhibited\, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. \n\nThe Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2018\, at 6:00pm.\n\n\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" is organized by the International Center of Photography and was made possible by Friends of Ruth Gruber. The exhibition is also co-sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost.\n\nPhoto: Unidentified Photographer\; Ruth Gruber\, Alaska\, 1941-43 UID:47419-10898823@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Exhibition,Graduate School,Museum,Photography,Rackham,Reception,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T161025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exhibit Tour: The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:Curators Juli McLoone and Sigrid Cordell give a tour of the exhibit The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet. Marking the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, the exhibit showcases significant early editions of Austen’s works alongside materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived. UID:47366-10880017@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47366 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T134826 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Introduction to Home Computing DESCRIPTION:Thinking of buying a computer? These lectures and demonstrations should be of interest to beginners looking for a broad overview\, and/or anyone who recently got into home computing. The course (for those 50 and over) includes a short history of computers and home computing\, help with the computer purchase decision\, what you might do with a home computer\, useful tips and advice about computing\, and demonstrations on the operation of Windows 10.\n\nInstructor Gordon Totty will lead each two hour session on Thursdays February 15 and 22. UID:47683-10973759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47683 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171213T090402 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Personal Finance Workshop for CoE Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:Would you like to be more savvy with your money? How much do you really know about taking control of your financial future? Come learn techniques and tricks to developing a strong budget\, building excellent credit\, and becoming more strategic in your approach to personal finance.\n\nLunch provided!\n\nRegister by 2/9/18 at https://goo.gl/forms/Qm6kNQj9bS4aQXdz2\n\nFor more information\, please email ajrose@umich.edu. UID:47543-10950445@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47543 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Free,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Workshop LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms, 3rd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171213T100002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 SUMMARY:Meeting:PSC Faculty Meeting DESCRIPTION:PSC Faculty Meeting UID:47565-10950468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47565 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 2234 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T100058 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Folk & Americana DESCRIPTION:You may know Lansing singer-songwriter and Interlochen alumna Jen Sygit from Earthwork Music Collective\, Lincoln County Process or Stella!\, an all-female roots music trio. Whether its mournful blues tunes\, haunting folk ballads or rousing bluegrass numbers\, Sygit sings with clarity and emotion. For this concert\, she performs with her frequent duo partner and fellow Earthwork Music member Sam Corbin\, an Ypsilanti-based performing songwriter and founding member of Lincoln County Process whose influences include the troubadours of Greenwich Village and the soul singers of Detroit. UID:48239-11191509@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48239 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T120020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore CCI! StrengthsQuest Workshop DESCRIPTION:Take a personal assessment to identify your top 5 talent themes and learn how they'll help you achieve academic\, career and personal success. (NOTE: This workshop is open only to students who have taken the online assessment previously. We will reach out to gather more information from you if you register for this workshop. If you have not taken the assessment\, we will grant you access).\n\nLocation: Pierpont Commons\, East Room\nTime: 12:30pm - 2:00pm\n\n*For accommodations\, please email uminvolvement@umich.edu. UID:49221-11397659@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49221 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Pierpont Commons, East Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T095653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:StrengthsQuest Workshop DESCRIPTION:Take a personal assessment to identify your top 5 talent themes and learn how they'll help you achieve academic\, career and personal success. (NOTE: This workshop requires taking an online assessment beforehand. We will send a follow up registration to all who indicate interest to gather more information to send you the assessment if you have not already taken it).\nLocation: Pierpont Commons\, East Room\nTime: 12:30pm - 2:00pm\n\nRegister here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1790945 UID:49374-11450947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49374 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - East Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T095705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T210000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty\, industry professionals\, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:49609-11484688@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Dance,Film,Music,symposium,Theater,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-11254359@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the LRC CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171108T100258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T143000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging DESCRIPTION:Create your own seasonal Ikebana arrangement with guidance by a certified instructor. Cost: $20 which covers flowers and instructor. Reservations required. Info: a2ikebana@gmail.com.\nPresenter: Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter UID:46613-10566963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Basic Science,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T125301 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T153000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Literature in Conflict/Literature in Peace DESCRIPTION:Discussions will focus on novels by writers from the Holy Land (Muslims\, Christians\, Jews\, and atheists). How do these writers see themselves and other parties of the conflict? How do these writers perceive “resolving” Palestine/Israel conflict? What do these writers dream of for their generation and beyond? Do we\, concerned Americans\, see that part of the world in ways similar or different from the ways those writers see it? Why do we agree or disagree with these writers? Participants in this course will understand Palestine/Israel conflict through the eyes of novelists from Palestine/Israel.\n\nThis study group for those 50 and over will be led by instructor Adnan Salhi for two hours on Thursdays: February 15\, March 29\, and April 26. UID:47670-10973746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lifelong Learning,Literature,Middle East Studies,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297790@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180219T000032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Golden State Invitational DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a weekend of sun\, celebs\, surfer boys\, and SLAYYYYING with Michigan LAX!I know it's sad\, we won't be in the great city of Ann Arbor for Winterfest.... butWHO CARES? WE'RE HEADING TO CALIFORNIAGet ready to show the world of CLAX what a championship team looks like!! UID:49753-11684531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of California, LA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T154138 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Resources on Copyright DESCRIPTION:This workshop from Justin Bonfiglio of the U-M Library Copyright Office serves as both an introduction and a deeper dive into resources like Cornell's Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States\, the US Copyright Office's Online Catalog\, and the Catalog of Copyright Entries. There are many good copyright resources available online\, but some of them can be challenging to navigate. What is the US copyright term for a work published today? Do you know how to search for a copyright renewal record? How about a copyright registration?\n\nPlease register via TeachTech or by contacting Justin at jbonfig@umich.edu. UID:48518-11243807@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Shapiro Library - ULIC (Room 4059) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T165258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Tea DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Teas are open to all\, and happen every Thursday from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. \n\nFor more information on the Hopwood Program\, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood. UID:48324-11222684@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Discussion,Free,Graduate Students,Literature,Poetry,Social,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1176 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T145523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interactive Video with PlayPosit DESCRIPTION:Interested in creating interactive videos for your course? PlayPosit is an online tool that allows instructors to do just that. LSA Instructional Support Services (ISS) and the Language Resource Center (LRC) invite you to learn more about PlayPosit and explore various ways it can be used in courses. Learn how interactive videos can be used for assessment\, engagement\, and reflective purposes as well as get hands-on experience building your own interactive video. Playposit offers a variety of question types including audio prompts and responses\, threaded discussion and branching\, in addition to standard multiple choice\, fill-in-the-blank\, and open ended questions. It also includes a live broadcast mode with audience response features. You will also have the opportunity to speak with ISS and LRC instructional consultants regarding your courses and plans for incorporating interactive videos. \n\nPlease come prepared with a video clip (i.e. link to YouTube\, Vimeo) from your course that you would like to transform into an interactive video. Sample video clips will also be available to work with. UID:48735-11297752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48735 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - Mac Classroom, ISS Media Center, 2001 MLB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T121657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:48839-11308929@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Literature,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T125330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Speaking American English DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this program is to offer speech support for people who would like to pursue additional guidance in speaking American English. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the distinctive accents of our clients\, but to enhance their communication skills in ways that will help them communicate a variety of settings. Each participant sets their own objective at the start of the workshop and works toward their personal goals with a licensed speech-language pathologist. This 10-week workshop will help you build confidence with both group and individual activities. UID:47453-10901469@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47453 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:V. Vaughan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T130330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Why I Like Ethanol DESCRIPTION:Margaret S. Wooldridge\nArthur F. Thurnau Professor \nDepartments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\nDirector\, Dow Sustainability Fellows Program\nUniversity of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\n\nFull seminar title - Successfully integrating sustainable fuels into the transportation sector – or why I like ethanol\n\nThe barriers to changing the fuels that currently power the transportation infrastructure are diverse and significant. However\, transitioning to sustainable fuels offers many benefits if fuel properties are leveraged well. In this presentation\, current fossil fuel use is briefly reviewed framing the challenges and motivation to move away from fossil fuels and towards low carbon renewable fuels. Bridging the gap between fundamental studies of fuel properties and engineering applications is critical to maximizing the benefits and minimizing the unforeseen effects of changing fuels. Experimental results spanning from the fundamental combustion chemistry of ethanol to the convolution of chemistry\, spray and mixing properties of ethanol\, and the impact of ethanol in engine studies are presented. The key outcomes from each study are highlighted particularly in the context of how results are transferred to technology implementation. \n\nBiographical Sketch\nProfessor Margaret Wooldridge is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering and the Director of the Dow Sustainability Fellow Program at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1995\; her M.S.M.E. in 1991 from S.U. and her B.S. M.E. degree from the University of Illinois at Champagne/Urbana in 1989. Prof. Wooldridge’s research program spans diverse areas where high-temperature chemically reacting systems are critical\, including power and propulsion systems\, fuel chemistry\, and synthesis methods for advanced nanostructured materials. She is a 2013 recipient of the Department of Energy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for exceptional contributions to the DOE mission to advance national\, economic\, and energy security of the U.S. She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)\, and the recipient of numerous honors including the ASME George Westinghouse Silver Medal\, ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal\, an NSF Career Award\, and the SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educator Award. UID:49890-11566249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49890 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T091535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Communication and Media Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how assumptions about humans as evolved\, embodied and embedded biological nested systems can be used to approach communication as a an adaptation that evolved to increase short term survival. Studies are presented testing hypotheses derived from this approach which explore how pictures differ from words\, how persuasion can be conceptualized as the dynamic destabilization of behavioral states\, how action perception theories reshape our understanding of what we remember from media\, and how video games function to destabilize real world behavioral attractors and create game attractors through action in a virtual world. UID:47644-10971133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Behavioral Attractors,Communication,Game Attractors,Grand Theft Auto LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T095240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice DESCRIPTION:This new Screen Arts and Cultures speaker series creates a space for film and media scholars and artists/practitioners to engage in dialogues about past and contemporary topics that influence media industries\, audiences\, and society at large. Aymar Jean Christian\, Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Northwestern University\, and Hollywood screenwriter and television writer LaToya Morgan will inaugurate the “Critical Conversations” series. They will explore the ways in which race and gender might influence access to Hollywood and how new media platforms have formed new spaces for narrating/screening multiple stories\, people\, and experiences. UID:48198-11188590@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48198 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Film,Graduate,Media,Scholarship LOCATION:North Quad - Ehrlicher Room, 3100 NQ CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T100925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar: Plant variability and the ecology of plant-insect interactions DESCRIPTION:Organism grow and reproduce best under a specific set of biotic and abiotic conditions\, yet a quick look outside reveals a world that is astoundingly variable. Organisms face massive biotic and abiotic variability and only rarely experience their optimal conditions. How all this variability influences population and community ecology is poorly understood. In this talk\, I explore how plant trait diversity affects the performance and population dynamics of insect herbivores. First\, I use a meta-analysis to show that variance in plant nutrient levels reduces insect herbivore performance\, suggesting that plant diversity suppresses insects\, while monocultures benefit insects. Second\, I use a natural plant-herbivore system to show that average plant quality can be less important than variance in plant quality for insect population dynamics. Finally\, I present preliminary results from a new experimental approach to studying the consequences of trait variability along specific trait axes. UID:49125-11375514@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171208T114032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: \"Combee\": Harriet Tubman\, the Combahee River Raid\, and Transformation in Gullah Geechee Identity DESCRIPTION:\"Combee\" interprets on a unique compilation of primary historical sources\, which show how localized groups who stole their freedom from Combahee rice plantations viewed themselves and viewed other groups from Sea Island cotton plantations and urban centers like Savannah and Beaufort when they were all resettled in Beaufort during the critical Civil War period. This talk chronicles this important microcosm of creolization using the experiences of Blacks enslaved on Combahee River rice plantations and freed in the 1863 raid to create a model of cultural change among New World African cultures and their complicated and nuanced relationships to pre-colonial Western Africa\, their environments\, and the plantation economies in which they were enslaved. \n\nEdda L. Fields-Black is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Department of History). Fields-Black is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (2008\, 2014). With Francesca Bray\, Peter Coclanis\, and Dagmar Schaeffer\, Fields-Black co-edited Rice: Global Networks and New Histories (2015\, 2017)\, which won Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015. She is currently writing Combee: Harriet Tubman\, the Combahee River Raid\, and the Construction of Gullah Geechee Identity\, which chronicles an important microcosm of creolization using the experiences of Blacks enslaved on Combahee River rice plantations and freed in the 1863 raid to create a model of cultural change among New World African cultures and their complicated and nuanced relationships to pre-colonial Western Africa\, their environments\, and the plantation economies in which they were enslaved. For her research on the Gullah Geechee\, Fields-Black was awarded a Smithsonian Senior Fellowship at the in the Spring semester of 2013\, an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year\, and a Senior Ford Foundation Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. \n\nIn addition\, Fields-Black is currently collaborating with filmmaker Julie Dash and composer Dr. Trevor Weston to produce Casop: A Requiem for Rice\, a lamentation for the repose of the souls of the dead who were enslaved\, exploited\, and brutalized on Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia’s rice plantations and who remain unburied\, unmourned\, and unmarked. Fields-Black is writing the libretto on which Casop is based. Opening in 2018\, this musical production for symphony orchestra\, choir\, and West African drummers and dancers will memorialize the sufferings and sacrifices of Africans enslaved on Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia Rice plantations and celebrate the critical role their ingenuity\, technology\, and industry played in the economy of the US South. \n\nFree and open to the public. \n\nThis event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:40917-8828529@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/40917 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,History,Lecture LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T181554 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Elucidation of catalytic strategies of small nucleolytic ribozymes from combined experimental and theoretical approaches DESCRIPTION: The catalytic strategies that RNA uses to catalyze reactions have been examined for 40 years. I will present our labs latest efforts to elucidate how small nucleoyotic ribozymes catalyze chemical reactions. I will describe both experimental and theoretical approaches that we have taken on\, with an emphasis of the last few years. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nPhil Bevilacqua (Penn State University) UID:48444-11235883@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48444 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T143321 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T190000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Exhibit Celebration for Mr. Vignaud's Maps: Unraveling a Cartographic Mystery from the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Third Thursday in the Clark Library\, where we’ll celebrate the maps of Henry Vignaud and get a glimpse into the history of the Golden Age of mapmaking in 17th century Amsterdam. \n\nThe University of Michigan acquired the extensive personal library of Vignaud\, an American diplomat living in Paris\, in 1922. It included thousands of books\, atlases\, maps\, and other publications\, with many of the maps extracted from broken atlases originally published by the illustrious Hondius and Janssonius publishing houses. Staff in the Clark Library sought to organize these fascinating maps based on their physical characteristics and similarities\, with the ultimate goal of reassembling the original atlases. UID:49862-11555021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49862 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180302T123013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab: Transfer Student Edition DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/114928\n\nAreyou a transfer student on the search for an internship? Do you have some ideas about your dream internship experience? Do you have no idea what you're doing? That's OK! \n\nCome check out the Internship Lab. It's designedas a drop-in hour. So\, come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to dream of\, search for\, and find a great summer experience!\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\, the University Career Alumni Network and to learn about other tools you canuse to build a great job/internship search strategy.\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 liketo 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.\n UID:48279-11194137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T080720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:RC Art Gallery Reception DESCRIPTION:Concatenation by Ray Wetzel UID:49362-11450937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49362 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T121657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Undergraduate Conversation Group DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:48839-11308944@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48839 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,International,Language,Literature,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T163527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Value of an LSA Degree in the Entrepreneurial Space DESCRIPTION:Think there’s no place for liberal arts students in the startup space/ entrepreneurial scene? Think again! At this workshop\, we’ll talk about concrete steps you can take to link your academic majors and interests to a career. We’ll also practice “pitches” and discuss networking tips. If you’re an LSA student looking for advice on how to get started researching potential careers\, this workshop is for you. UID:49304-11409082@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Entrepreneurship,first-generation,Free,Networking,Professional Development,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180210T170012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:FAST Lecture | Analysing a Classical Greek Urban Community: The Olynthos Project DESCRIPTION:Presented by Field Archaeology Series on Thursday\; sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, the Department of Classical Studies\, and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. \n\nLecture at Angell Hall Auditorium B 4:10 PM\, reception at Kelsey Museum 5:00 PM. \n\nFAST lectures are free and open to the public. UID:49827-11543789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49827 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classical Studies,Lecture LOCATION:Angell Hall - Auditorium B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386657@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Kyra Gaunt\, Uni. of Albany DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Kyra Gaunt will share her reflections from collaborative study and participant-observation of YouTube\, music\, and user-generated content. Since international Women’s Day in 2013\, she has been examining music discovery and marginalization in user-generated content through a case study of YouTube twerking. Dr. Gaunt offers her insights into the unintended consequences of race\, gender\, and technology for the field of ethnomusicology and music studies more broadly. Music is a pivotal driver in mobile technologies and the harmful consequences of YouTube content creation\, search algorithms\, and archiving for the most vulnerable and marginalized people online demand our critical\, creative\, and collaborative attention.\n\nProf. Gaunt's lecture launches a series of scholarly and musical events on campus that coincide with the first performance at Hill Auditorium of Porgy and Bess based on the U-M Gershwin Initiative’s scholarly performing edition.\n\nCo-sponsored by the U-M Gershwin Initiative UID:48412-11233220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 2026 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T120021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 SUMMARY:Other:Squash Club Initial Meeting DESCRIPTION:Come meet the Squash Club! We will go over the logistics of the club and our plan for the rest of the semester. If you cannot attend but are interested\, please request to join the club on Maize Pages here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/squash_club. UID:49870-11563272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Room R0420 - Stephen M. Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171222T181525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Jaime Hayon: Design Follows Function\, and then What? DESCRIPTION:Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayon was born in Madrid in 1974. From his very first collections\, Hayon has been at the forefront of a new wave that blurs the lines between art\, decoration\, and design\, leading a renaissance in finely crafted\, intricate objects within the context of contemporary design culture. After founding Hayon Studio in 2001\, his wide client base has spanned diverse functions and mediums\, including domestic furniture for b.d. barcelona\, Cassina\, Fritz Hansen\, &Tradition\, and Magis\; lighting fixtures for Parachilna\, Metalarte\, and Swarovski\; and sophisticated objects for Bisazza\, Lladró\, and Baccarat. He has also executed complete interiors for leading hotels\, restaurants\, museums\, and retail establishments worldwide. Hayon has won numerous awards\, including multiple Elle Decoration International Design Awards. Times magazine lauded Hayon as a creative icon “visionary”\; Wallpaper magazine recognized Hayon as a “Top 100 Designer” and one of the most influential creators of the last decade.\n\nThis Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is supported by the Detroit Creative Corridor Center\, stewards of the UNESCO City of Design designation. UID:47904-11048819@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180118T142148 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Cover Letter Writing (Online) DESCRIPTION:Everybody needs one. Creating yours is as simple as 1-2-3! This workshop is hosted online via Google Hangouts\, RSVP required. UID:48931-11331177@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,first-generation,Free,Professional Development,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T153211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T183000 SUMMARY:Other:Hieu Minh Nguyen & Nicholson Baker DESCRIPTION:Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Press\, 2014) which was a finalist for both a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. A queer Vietnamese American poet\, Hieu is a Kundiman fellow and a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Southern Indiana Review\, Guernica\, Ninth Letter\, Devil's Lake\, Bat City Review\, the Paris-American\, and elsewhere. Hieu is a nationally touring poet\, performer\, and teaching artist. He lives in Minneapolis.\n\nNicholson Baker is the author of nine novels\, including Mezzanine and Vox\, and four works of nonfiction\, including Double Fold\, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award\, and House of Holes\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Maine with his family. UID:47696-10973771@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47696 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Literature,Museum,Poetry,Storytelling,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T133051 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T190000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:House Sitting DESCRIPTION:Thought you didn’t have enough money for travel? House sitting makes it possible\, as it takes the cost of lodging out of the equation. We have tended homes in Australia\, Spain\, Denmark\, France\, and the U.K.\, allowing us to live as locals for weeks at a time. \n\nIn this study group for those 50 and over we show you the match-up websites where you meet homeowners\, how to post your profile\, and how to stand out in order to win the best house sits. Handouts include a 100-page house sitting e-book written by instructor Josie Schneider. She and instructor Conrad Knutsen will lead this 90 minute session. UID:47677-10973753@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47677 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T155349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T183000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Hieu Minh Nguyen and Nicholson Baker DESCRIPTION:Hieu Minh Nguyen is the author of This Way to the Sugar (Write Bloody Press\, 2014) which was a finalist for both a Minnesota Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. A queer Vietnamese American poet\, Hieu is a Kundiman fellow and a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. His work has also appeared in the Southern Indiana Review\, Guernica\, Ninth Letter\, Devil's Lake\, Bat City Review\, the Paris-American\, and elsewhere. Hieu is a nationally touring poet\, performer\, and teaching artist. He lives in Minneapolis.\n \nNicholson Baker is the author of nine novels\, including Mezzanine and Vox\, and four works of nonfiction\, including Double Fold\, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award\, and House of Holes\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Maine with his family.\n\nUMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series\, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64\, LLDHon ’13). For more information\, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage. UID:48826-11308917@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48826 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Literature,Museum,Poetry,Storytelling,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T113005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T191500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociology of Health and Medicine - Managing Medical Authority DESCRIPTION:Dinner (included with RSVP) and lecture- to RSVP please go here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/6866\n\nManaging Medical Authority: Doctors' Competitions over Status and Professional Knowledge\n\nDaniel Menchik is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Michigan State University. His research focuses on medicine\, science\, work and occupations\, with a particular emphasis on how academic physicians establish standards and how doctors make decisions about the knowledge they will use in everyday practice. His current project is a book manuscript on the relationship between medical knowledge and medical practices\, and its link to the development\, maintenance\, and decay of authority. UID:49312-11417452@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49312 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Pre Med,Pre-Health,Sociology LOCATION:LSA Building - 3254 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T100311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:BLI Fellows Networking Event DESCRIPTION:The BLI is hosting a networking event for students on February 15 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm on the 10th floor of Weiser Hall. This networking will consist of an introduction where professional staff will teach the basic norms\, tools\, and tricks to network. Then there will be a reception with hors d'oeuvre where we can practice our networking skills\, meet new friends\, and make connections.\n\nWe are inviting students from all corners of this campus to attend. From hip-hop teams to honors societies\, engineering to art\, we want you to know the diverse community\, opportunity\, and engagement that is possible at the University of Michigan.\n\nDon't miss this opportunity! UID:48920-11498702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48920 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Free,Networking,Workshop LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T180032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Explore CCI! Group Dynamics Workshop DESCRIPTION:This interactive workshops will utilize current research and multiple engaging activities to assist your group in improving collaboration and (re)defining your common purpose to enhance effectiveness and stimulate creativity. \n\nLocation: Pierpont Commons\, East Room\nTime: 6pm - 8pm*For accommodations\, please email uminvolvement@umich.edu. UID:49225-11397786@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Pierpont Commons, East Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T095855 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Group Dynamics Workshop DESCRIPTION:This interactive workshop uses current research and creative activities to help your group improve collaboration and (re)define its common purpose.\nLocation: Pierpont Commons\, East Room\nTime: 6pm - 8pm\n\nRegister here: https://maizepages.umich.edu/event/1790987 UID:49375-11450948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49375 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Student Org,Workshop LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - East Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T180021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:North Campus Bible Study DESCRIPTION:Weekly Bible study on Exodus UID:49049-11369806@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49049 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Corner Room - Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170907T154454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Paint No Pour DESCRIPTION:“Art is not what you see\, but what you make others see.” -Edgar Degas\n\nTrotter's Third Thursdays also known as Paint No Pour are inspired by national heritage months\, student interests\, and social concerns. Each month allows for participants to widen their cultural lens\, expand their worldview\, tap into their creative selves and participate in multicultural celebration\, education\, and recognition. We encourage all members of the U of M Campus Community to come and share in these amazing experiences. Paint No Pour is free of charge\, and Trotter provides all paint supplies. UID:43819-9843886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Family,first-generation,Free,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,Multicultural,Undergraduate Students,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T180021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T230000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Zouk Thursdays DESCRIPTION:7:00pm Intermediate Lesson\n8:00pm Practica practice\n9:00pm 2-hour Zouk Social\n\nLocation: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)\nCost:Free for first timeMembership required for continued lessonsPractica and Social always free (don't need membership to attend those)Membership details in a photo in the photo album (or can email janibogo@umich.edu to get info sent directly to you)\nEveryone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :) UID:48092-11180542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48092 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T121529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Arthur Greene\, piano DESCRIPTION:A first half performance of Alexander Scriabin accompanied by Symbolist art works\, second half Beethoven’s last sonata.\n\nPROGRAM: Scriabin- Nine Preludes\; Scriabin- Eight Etudes op. 42\; Scriabin- Sonata No. 9\, op. 68 “Black Mass\;” Beethoven- Sonata #32 in C Minor\, op. 111 UID:50068-11633547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50068 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180210T170500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MAS Lecture DESCRIPTION:Michigan Archaeological Society lectures are free and open to the public.\n\nLearn more about the Michigan Archaeological Society:\nhttp://www.miarch.org/ \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture\, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:49941-11588701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Lecture,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Last Days of Judas Iscariot DESCRIPTION:Department of Musical Theatre Studio Production. \nDirected by Vincent J Cardinal. \n\nBoasting a large\, brazen cast of characters who speak in foul-mouthed street language\, the play asks one of the most plaguing questions in the Christian ideology. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis\, author of “Our Lady of 121st Street\,” the drama features musical theatre students in a straight play.\n\nThis play contains strong language and vulgarities that may prove offensive to some. Recommended for mature audiences. UID:42735-9653746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42735 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,North campus,Research,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T113534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:You For Me For You DESCRIPTION:Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters\, separated during their escape from North Korea\, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015. UID:42734-9653742@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Multicultural,Southeast Asia,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T131359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Crystal Bowersox DESCRIPTION:Crystal Bowersox's emotive folk-rock-country style was catapulted from the cramped coffeehouses and cavernous subway tunnels of Chicago to millions of homes across America when she placed second in Season 9 of American Idol. Along with her old soul of a voice\, her carefree style and \"don't mess with me\" attitude set her apart from the other contestants and eventually landed the self-taught songstress performances with the like of the legendary Joe Cocker\, Harry Connick\, Jr.\, and Alanis Morrissette. Crystal started out in Toledo's folk clubs and coffeehouses\, notably the Village Idiot in Maumee. Now she's moved to Nashville\, and she comes back to the area with a new Americana album\, \"Alive.\" UID:46278-10421281@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46278 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180215T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:You For Me For You: Opening Night Reception DESCRIPTION:This reception follows the opening night performance of the Department of Theatre & Drama’s You For Me For You. This event is sponsored by the Department of Theatre & Drama and the LSA Nam Center for Korean Studies. UID:48753-11300572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Free,Theater LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816441@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T072853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 SUMMARY:Other:Community Engagement Grant Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:The Ginsberg Center\, in partnership with multiple units on campus\, offers a collaborative funding model encouraging -- and practicing -- collective action to increase our impact in service to the public good. \n\nWe seek to engage faculty interested in advancing their scholarship while enhancing the capacity of social sector community partners and communities through substantial\, reciprocal engagement. We invite teaching\, research\, and other educational proposals focused on advancing equity and decreasing economic and racial disparities in Washtenaw County\, Detroit\, and other Southeast Michigan communities\, especially in the areas of education\, employment\, and housing.\n\nGinsberg Center Community Engagement Grants are offered in partnership with the the Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs\, the Office of Research\, and Poverty Solutions to support the community-engaged work of tenure and tenure track\, research\, and clinical faculty on the Ann Arbor Campus. The Ginsberg Center expects to award up to $200\,000 this year through these Community Engagement Grants. UID:48050-11170227@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48050 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Faculty LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T183019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 SUMMARY:Other:Community Engagement Grant for Interprofessional Education Application Deadline DESCRIPTION:The Ginsberg Center\, in partnership with multiple units on campus\, offers a collaborative funding model encouraging -- and practicing -- collective action to increase our impact in service to the public good. \n\nWe seek to engage faculty interested in advancing their scholarship while enhancing the capacity of social sector community partners and communities through substantial\, reciprocal engagement. We invite teaching\, research\, and other educational proposals focused on advancing equity and decreasing economic and racial disparities in Washtenaw County\, Detroit\, and other Southeast Michigan communities\, especially in the areas of education\, employment\, and housing\, as key social determinants of health.\n\nGinsberg Center Community Engagement Grants for Interprofessional Education are offered in partnership with the Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) to support interprofessional\, community-engaged initiatives. Grants up to $5\,000 will be awarded to support interprofessional teams\, representing at least two different schools\, that include at least one past or current IPE Fellow. UID:48051-11170232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48051 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Faculty LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180219T000032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Golden State Invitational DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a weekend of sun\, celebs\, surfer boys\, and SLAYYYYING with Michigan LAX!I know it's sad\, we won't be in the great city of Ann Arbor for Winterfest.... butWHO CARES? WE'RE HEADING TO CALIFORNIAGet ready to show the world of CLAX what a championship team looks like!! UID:49753-11684532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of California, LA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869340@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932357@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932362@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932367@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932377@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T144420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Chocolate Week DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Valentine's Day\, all dining halls will be having chocolate week! Chocolate week is February 2nd through February 16th. All dining halls will be feature a variety of different chocolate related food selections throughout the week. Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:47493-10932392@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667193@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667298@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633576@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180218T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Florida Warm Up DESCRIPTION:Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Tampa\, Florida UID:49147-11678936@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49147 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:USF Campus CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802046@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802299@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802467@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802215@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802635@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T124641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Psychology Recruitment Weekend DESCRIPTION:Opportunity for invited applicants to the PhD program to meet with the faculty\, staff\, and current students of the Department of Psychology. Activities may include individual sessions with area faculty and students\, presentations on current graduate student research and graduate curriculum and funding\, lab tours and a social event with current students. UID:48884-11320054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students LOCATION:East Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T174028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Re-Imagining the Historic House Museum DESCRIPTION:Historic house museums are the most numerous and often\, most conventional\, U.S. museum type. This event brings together leaders who are transforming house museums to tell new stories and create new experiences. Morning presentations are open to the public\; participants for the afternoon visit to Fair Lane Estate must pre-register. UID:49426-11453769@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49426 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180206T155929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Border Crossers DESCRIPTION:Students across campus—from LSA\, Engineering\, Art and Design\, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie during winter semester 2018 planning\, building\, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project\, led by the Institute for the Humanities\, symbolizes the humanities in action\, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together\, overcoming obstacles and divides\, and discovering creative solutions.\n\nMacmurtrie is an award winning artist\, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture\, whose work combines materiality and robotics\, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project \"Border Crossers\" encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities\, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national\, architectural\, environmental\, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.\n\nIn February\, MacMurtrie and the students will launch the robotic sculpture during two \"performances\" and MacMurtrie will give a special Penny W. Stamps Lecture. The gallery exhibition will include large-scale drawings which serve as plans and maps for MacMurtrie's visionary Border Crossers. Life-size robotic models will also be presented in the exhibition in conversation with the drawings. The models\, built by the all-student team with MacMurtrie's guidance\, are prototypes for the project\, offering preliminary steps in the workshop and the process towards realizing the large scale robotic sculpture.\n\nChico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works\, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn\, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks\, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant\, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship\, VIDA Life 11.0\, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.\n\nVisiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art\, Michigan Robotics\, Michigan Engineering\, School of Information\, Penny Stamps Speaker Series\, Stamps School of Art and Design\, and ArtsEngin. UID:49825-11543753@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T143349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CSEAS Conference. Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference: Deconstructing Borders & Barriers DESCRIPTION:9:00am-9:45am Registration\n\n9:45am-10:00am Opening Remarks by Dr. Christi-Anne Castro\, CSEAS Director \n\n10:00am-11:00am Panel 1 ‘Text\, Media\, Landscape\,’ Facilitator: Rebecca Selin\, with Moniek van Rheenan Cheryl Yin\, Justin Phan \n\n11:00am-12:15pm Panel 2 ‘Sensing History\,’ Facilitator: Natalie Tantisirirat\, with Pengxuan Mi\, Piyawit Moonkham\, Otto Stuparitz\, Zoë McLaughlin \n\n1:15pm-2:30pm Panel 3 ‘Practices of Religion and the Nation\,’ Facilitator: Ellen Myers\, with Sophia Warshall\, Jonathan Baldoza\, Benjamin Moseley\, John Smith \n\n2:30pm-3:45pm Panel 4 ‘Diasporic Realities\,’ Facilitator: Narith Ta\, with Diana Chandara\, Siew Han Yeo\, Sirinya Siriyanun \n\n4:00pm-5:00pm Keynote UID:49692-11498708@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49692 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,History,symposium LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T161608 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era DESCRIPTION:Pre-Fab/Post-Fab: Art in a Readymade Era showcases the works of Heidi Barlow\, Shaina Kasztelan\, and Bailey Scieszka\, three young women artists based in Detroit\, MI. Their work\, although varying in style and form\, speaks to a generation growing up with the influence of mass consumption\, internet shopping\, the glut of plastic toys\, fake jewels\, and tchotchkes. Whereas artists of the ‘60s and ‘70s reached first for paint tubes and canvas\, these artists use inexpensive and lowbrow materials to twist the signifiers of pop culture\, as they relate to gender politics and American ideals. It’s a balancing act between the icing and the cake\, surface and substance. \n\nBarlow’s confection-like constructs are unsettling\, much like an empty float or matted-hair Barbie in a backyard pool. Although enticing\, they allude to something lost in the translation\, some sweetness\, or idealism gone missing\, along with what once mattered. Yet\, the work isn’t cynical\, but embraces transition instead. We’ve hardened a little in the process\, much like the stiff and sugary piping Barlow often incorporates in her works. And maybe that’s a good thing. \n\nIf Barlow’s aesthetic leans towards Stepford Wives gone awry and the guilty pleasure of eBay\, Shaina Kasztelan offers us psychedelic Middle America. Her assemblages are disorienting\, vertigo-inducing. Technicolor sculptures conjure up hallucinations of the mall\, or spinning carnival rides that last too long. Kasztelan’s work is sinister\, even a little menacing. As viewers we are leery.\n\nFinally\, Bailey Scieszka takes this subversive garish ethos full tilt and invents her own world\, literally morphing into her own creation. Scieszka’s alter-ego Old Put\, a demonic shape-shifting clown\, becomes the artist/protagonist and creates work in performance\, video and drawing. Old Put collects pop culture references like artifacts of a lost civilization\, and seems as likely to commit a murder as bake a cake. \n\nFor Barlow\, Kasztelan and Scieszka\, outdated paradigms about class\, good taste\, and femininity are just temporal flashes in the pan. And it’s their party. UID:47322-10866228@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T121516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium DESCRIPTION:“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium” is a multi-day event that specifically engages with issues of race\, representation\, activism\, and appropriation in this opera. Friday presents a full day of performances and panel discussions on the context of the work\, its characters\, its reception\, and its impact on the careers of singers of color\, with a keynote lecture by Dr. Kyra Gaunt. Our performances and discussions continue on Saturday with a recital of songs from the opera’s period\, a panel discussion on black performance and performativity in the early 20th century\, and a panel of related student papers. This symposium prepares audiences for the Saturday evening performance of the opera produced by the UMS and the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance in Hill Auditorium. Registration is required. Please visit http://myumi.ch/L1mjn for more information and to register.\n\nThe Symposium will be live-streamed:\n\nFriday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014706\n\nSaturday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014718 UID:47167-10805424@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47167 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T144328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law\, \"A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America\" is a symposium happening on February 16 and 17 at the University of Michigan Law School.\n\nOver two days\, we will examine five archetypal spaces in America: homes and neighborhoods\, schools\, courthouses\, prisons\, and borders. The symposium endeavors to consider the ways in which these spaces have become increasingly racialized\, diagnose how that racialization impedes their basic functioning\, and reimagine these spaces at their best\, and our world as a more human dwelling place. James Baldwin gave us this name\, embedded in his imperative “to illuminate that darkness\, blaze roads through vast forests\, so that we will not\, in all our doing\, lose sight of its purpose\, which is\, after all\, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”\n\nThe symposium will bring together individuals working to better these spaces\, hailing from many disciplines\, including law\, history\, sociology\, journalism\, literature\, architecture\, urban planning\, and visual art. Together\, we hope to conceptualize forgotten or not yet dreamed of alternatives. Through discussions of projects already realized and ideas not yet concrete\, we will collectively inch toward the world we wish to inhabit. \n\nThe symposium is free and open to the public. All are welcome. \n\nPlease register to attend at https://madeleine-jennings.squarespace.com/register/. UID:48424-11233230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48424 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,African American,conference,Detroit,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Economics,Education,Environment,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,History,immigration,Interdisciplinary,Law,Lecture,Multicultural,Philosophy,Politics,Pre-Law,Psychology,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Sociology,Sustainability,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - Room 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T135333 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISP Workshop. Belief and Action: The Subjects of Islamic Studies DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Zaid Adhami\, assistant professor of religion\, Williams College\; Kathryn Babayan\, associate professor of history\, U-M\; Sarah Eltantawi\, assistant professor of religion\, Evergreen State College\; Hussein Fancy\, associate professor of history\, U-M\; Juliane Hammer\, associate professor of religion\, University of North Carolina\; Rudolph Ware\, associate professor of history\, U-M\n\nOver the past generation\, Islamic studies in North America has undergone a dramatic shift. In nineteenth-century Europe\, Orientalism embraced the study of the histories\, cultures\, and religions of lands from the southern and eastern Mediterranean through Central Asia and into the Indian subcontinent. Orientalist scholars typically were not themselves natives of any of these regions\; nor were they themselves Muslims. In the course of the last two centuries\, Orientalism has been atomized: divided into distinct fields of regional and disciplinary studies. At the same time\, the study of Islam—the religion\, the culture\, and the civilization—has gone global\; scholars today study the history\, current state\, and future of Islam and Muslims worldwide. And today\, students and teachers of Islamic studies are much more likely to come from within the tradition: born to Muslim families or in Muslim-majority regions\, or converts to the faith. Yet in the field of Islamic studies—as in other religious studies disciplines—scholars struggle to account for the subject of their inquiry. They debate the focus of Islamic atudies: societies\, cultures\, or religion itself. They seek a scholarly vocabulary to talk about belief\, and to think together about the relationship between belief\, scholarship\, and pedagogy. And they debate the role that action and activism plays for scholars in the field. \n\nAt this workshop\, we will convene a group of scholars from U-M and other North American universities to discuss the genealogy\, current state\, and future of Islamic studies in North American universities. How has Islamic studies evolved over the last two centuries? How has the rising number of Muslim scholars in the field changed the nature of our scholarship? What changes must still happen\, in order to provide leadership within American universities and in American society at large? How does scholarship intersect with action\, activism\, and advocacy? How can Islamic studies serve as a model for programs of religious studies in general? This workshop will consist of a series of roundtable discussions\, structured in order to facilitate discussion. Each roundtable will pair two scholars working in disparate regions\, disciplines\, and historical periods. Each participant will speak for about ten minutes\, followed by a conversation among scholars and attendees. The workshop is designed to facilitate free-ranging\, creative discussion\, and to integrate the audience in all discussions\, in order to take stock of the field and generate a productive discussion of our future. UID:48666-11265195@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48666 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Education,Higher Education,International,Middle East Studies,Muslim LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171013T100606 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors\, Dealers\, and Bibliographers DESCRIPTION:The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors\, Dealers\, and Bibliographers is a captivating look at the lives and careers of eight generations of outstanding Americanists prior to 1900.\n\nIt features books\, manuscripts and pictorial material about White Kennett\, Isaiah Thomas\, James Lenox\, Joseph Sabin\, John Carter Brown\, Lyman Copeland Draper\, George Brinley Jr.\, and the other noteworthy specialists who created and nurtured the Americana field from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Rarities from the remarkable collections of the Clements Library help provide a panoramic window on the early story of Americana appreciation\, collecting and description. Anyone with a professional or avocational interest in antiquarian Americana will find The Pioneer Americanists a fascinating treasury of information\, enlightenment and inspiration. UID:45741-10273895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45741 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Books,Education,History,Library,Literature,Museum,Philosophy,Research LOCATION:William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T153246 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Use What You Have: Art Practice and Survival DESCRIPTION:LECTURE POSTPONED TO FRIDAY 10-12PM REPLACING THE WORKSHOP!\n\n\"I would rather talk more generally about art/writing practice and how it fits in with my \"civilian\" life: why I tell stories and the tools I use in telling them - from autobiographical material\, to drawing\, to other people's work. I would discuss the difficulties of having an authentic multi-disciplinary art practice and the necessary flexibility in a literary culture that is increasingly about branding and increasingly without pay.\"\n\nThe Thursday lecture will be moderated by prof. Mikhail Krutikov (Slavic/Judaic) and prof. Maya Barzilai (Judaic/German). \n\nThe Friday workshop will offer the opportunity to interact with the artist in a less structured and more conversational discussion. Students and general public are welcome to RSVP to vinsalv@umich.edu.\n\nAnya Ulinich is the author of the novel Petropolis (2007) and the graphic novel Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel (2014)\, both published by Penguin Books. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, n+1\, and PEN America Journal. Ulinich attended the Art Institute of Chicago\, holds an MFA from the University of California\, Davis\, and has taught at NYU and at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop. UID:48844-11543703@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,History,immigration,Lecture,Literature,Rackham,Visual Arts,Women's Studies,Writing LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T155152 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Spherulitic Growth of Coral Skeletons and Synthetic Aragonite: Nature’s 3D-Printing DESCRIPTION:Seminar series sponsored by Materials Science & Engineering Department. \n\nAbstract: Crystallization done by living organisms\, termed biomineralization\, involves biological control over crystal nucleation\, growth\, and crystal orientation patterns in the final biomineral. Marine biomineralization mechanisms are only beginning to be understood\, are often surprising\, and important to understand the evolution of biomineralizers and their interactions with their environments.\n In this seminar I will describe one mechanism of crystallization by attachment of amorphous particles to fresh\, forming coral skeletons\, and their subsequent crystallization into aragonite crystals. Unprecedented crystal orientation patterns as the one displayed here\, analyzed and displayed using Polarization-dependent Imaging Contrast (PIC) mapping\, reveal that the crystals are spherulitic\, that is\, elongated\, and radiating from centers or lines. Spherulites fill 3D space at greater speed than any other crystal growth mode\, thus this is Nature’s 3D-printing. UID:49994-11611137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49994 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Lecture,Materials Science,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:BBB - 1670 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T185917 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Coffee & Cookies with Semester in Detroit! DESCRIPTION:Join us for another round of Coffee & Cookies! We'll be hosting our drop-in sessions in the Greene Lounge this semester\, right next to our NEW office at 1800 East Quad (just down the hall to the left when you use Class Access door to get into EQ)! Come on by to reconnect with other SID alums\, ask questions about the program\, and\, of course\, eat some cookies. \n\nCoffee & Cookies dates this Winter:\nJanuary 19\nFebruary 2\nFebruary 16 UID:48340-11222713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48340 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Detroit,Food,Free,Internship,Office Hours,Social Justice,Study Abroad LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Greene Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171127T112545 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 SUMMARY:Recreational / Games:Dark Sky Park Cross Country Ski Trip DESCRIPTION:What a beautiful time of year to be in Michigan! Whether you’re from here\, or from out of state\, you aren’t a true Michigander until you’ve spend a weekend cross country skiing in Northern Michigan’s pristine native forests. Not to mention our International Dark Sky Park\, which offers a spectacular views of the northern sky. Join us for this trip featuring a cozy cabin at UM’s Biostation\, star gazing with the Ann Arbor Library Telescopes\, hot cocoa\, and the peace and quiet only the forest can offer. UID:47044-10776998@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47044 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rec Sports LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171215T161128 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Eileen Pollack Retirement Event DESCRIPTION:Eileen Pollack Retirement Event UID:47700-10973776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Writing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T150219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Middle East Languages Fair DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about the Middle East languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Near Eastern Studies invites you to the Middle East Languages Fair. Come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Arabic\, Armenian\, Hebrew\, Persian\, Turkish\, Yiddish\, and multiple ancient Near Eastern languages (including Akkadian\, Aramaic\, Classical Hebrew\, Coptic\, Demotic\, Hittite\, Middle Egyptian\, Sumerian\, and Ugaritic). There will also be opportunities to win raffle prizes.\n\nStudents interested in studying abroad in the Middle East will be able to speak with a representative from the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies (CGIS). A representative from the Language Resource Center will be at the fair\, as well\, to share information about language-learning resources on campus.\n\nThe Middle East Languages Fair will be held in the Pond Room on the first floor of the Michigan Union from 11am-2pm on Friday\, February 16. We hope to see you there! UID:48958-11339486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48958 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Language,Middle East Studies,Near Eastern Studies,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547139@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547260@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180303T063013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T151500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Clean Water Action Michigan Immersion DESCRIPTION:\nOn Friday\, February 16th\, the University Career Center will be taking 20 students to spend half a day at Clean Water Action Michiganin Ann Arbor. During this experience\, students will tour the organization work space and learn about their community organizing work\, campaign planning and development. Students will engage with members of the Clean Water Action team and gain a deeper understanding of their different areas ofwork through participating in campaign strategy training & learning how to write letters to lawmakers on current campaigns. Participants will leavewith a complete understanding of the organization in meeting with their staff director\, a member of their field management staff\, and a member oftheir policy team. \n\nThis is a great opportunity for undergraduate students interested in learning about working at a local non for profit organization. To learn more about Clean Water Action Michigan\, visit here: https://www.cleanwateraction.org/states/michigan\n\nClean Water Action Michigan Immersion schedule: \n\n11:30am - Meet at the first floor of the StudentActivities Building (SAB)\n11:45am - Walk with the group from the SAB to Clean Water Action Michigan (10 minute walk)\n12:00pm - Immersion visit starts\n- Tour Clean Water Action office\n- Meet with Clean Water Action Michigan team & learn about the day-to-day of different roles\n- Experience what some of their work is like through an interactive campaign writing/strategy activity with Clean Water Action team members\n3:00pm - Immersion ends\n\nAny questions? Email Kathleen at kathlmcd@umich.edu \n\n***This application will open on Monday\, January 29th and close on Friday\, February 9th - please click 'JOIN EVENT' to fill out your application if you are certain you would be available to attend. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and if there is a large interest in the event and we receive a large number of applications early on\, this application may closeearly. Students must be able to attend the full program to participate. University Career Center staff will be along with you on the Immersion to guide you through the day\, and more details will be provided to the selected participants. Students are advised to bring a copy of their updated resume to the event and dress is business casual. \n\nIf you are no longer able to attend this Immersion\, you must notify Kathleen of the cancellationvia email at kathlmcd@umich.edu by 2/9/18. If you do not formally cancel by 2/9/18\, you will receive a cancellation penalty. For more information on Immersion policies\, please visit: https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/handshake-policy-statement UID:48110-11180651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48110 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:552 S Main St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T102418 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Mert Pilanci\, Assistant Professor\, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:With the advent of massive data sets\, machine learning\, artificial intelligence and information processing techniques are expected to bring unprecedented and transformative capabilities in engineering and sciences across a variety of fields. However\, existing algorithms for mathematical optimization\, which is one of the critical core component in these techniques\, often prove ineffective for scaling to the extent of all available data. This talk introduces our recent work on random projection methods in the context of distributed optimization of convex and non-convex objectives to address this challenge. First\, we establish the theoretical relation between complexity and optimality in convex optimization. We provide a general information-theoretic lower bound on any method that is based on random projection\, which surprisingly shows that the most widely used form of random projection is\, in fact\, statistically sub-optimal. We then present a novel method\, which iteratively refines the solutions to achieve statistical optimality and generalize our method to optimizing arbitrary convex functions of a large data matrix. We also discuss distributed variants of the random projection methods which can be considered as a novel improvement of the Alternating Directions Method of Multipliers (ADMM) for distributed optimization. Moreover\, due to the special structure of random projection\, it is possible to speed up computation even further using dedicated hardware implementations such as graphical processing units (GPUs). Secondly\, we consider a general class of non-convex optimization problems that arise in neural networks and phaseless imaging problems. We prove that the randomized second order optimization method with a suitable initialization recovers the global optimum under mild assumptions. We demonstrate that the proposed methods enable solving large scale convex and non-convex machine learning\, statistical inference and inverse problems orders of magnitude faster than existing methods. UID:49957-11608302@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49957 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T140454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" celebrates the remarkable life\, vision\, and heroic tenacity of a 20th-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the world’s youngest Ph.D.\, Ruth Gruber died in November of 2016 at the age of 105. The photographs in this exhibition span more than 50 years\, from her groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947\, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Gruber’s vintage prints\, never before exhibited\, will be presented alongside contemporary prints made from her original negatives. \n\nThe Opening Reception will take place on Wednesday\, February 7\, 2018\, at 6:00pm.\n\n\"Ruth Gruber\, Photojournalist\" is organized by the International Center of Photography and was made possible by Friends of Ruth Gruber. The exhibition is also co-sponsored by the U-M Office of the Provost.\n\nPhoto: Unidentified Photographer\; Ruth Gruber\, Alaska\, 1941-43 UID:47419-10898824@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47419 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Exhibition,Graduate School,Museum,Photography,Rackham,Reception,Visual Arts LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Center Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T132101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Facing the Deep African Past: Reflections on Rupture\, Modernity\, and Conversion in the African Atlantic DESCRIPTION:This panel engages with themes from Edda L. Fields-Black’s Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora (2008). Moving from early 18th century Kongo to the colonization of Liberia and ending in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance\, presenters will discuss questions of inheritance\, innovation\, borrowing\, and the process of cultural transmission in the formation of new historical subjectivities in the African Atlantic. Professor Ware will provide a brief discussion of Deep Roots and the contributions of Professor Fields-Black’s work prior to the presentations. Professor Fields-Black will respond and offer comments after the presentations. Featuring:\n\nJuan Rodriguez Barrera (Graduate Student\, American Culture\, University of Michigan)\nSargeant Donovan-Smith (Graduate Student\, Anthropology and History\, University of Michigan) \nRichard Hoffman Reinhardt (Graduate Student\, Anthropology and History\, University of Michigan)\nEdda L. Fields-Black (commentator\; Associate Professor\, History\, Carnegie Mellon University)\nRudolph \"Butch\" Ware (chair\; Associate Professor\, History\, University of Michigan)\n\nFree and open to the public. Lunch provided. \n\nThis event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.\n\nPhoto: \"Break Point\" (yellowcloud\, CC-BY-2.0). UID:47888-11043646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47888 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T121549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Tiffany Ng gives the world premieres of Southern vs. Northern Lion by visiting composer Carolyn Chen and Sunset * Flute * Drum by Lu Pei\, professor of music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory. Chinese\, Korean\, and Tibetan pieces will complete the festive program. The audience is encouraged to visit the 53-bell Charles Baird Carillon as it is being played. UID:46932-10703002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46932 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T121049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:FUTUROPOLIS: CINEMA\, COMICS AND THE TRANSMEDIATIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE FUTURE. DESCRIPTION:Based on his eponymous PhD dissertation\, architect and architectural scholar Luis Miguel Lus Arana will present 'Futuropolis\,' a historical recount of the evolution of the image and concepts of the city of the future in mass media. The lecture will deal with the transmediatic construction of the imagery of the future\, a process that takes place in a continuous\, back and forth exchange between architecture and other disciplines. UID:49962-11608304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49962 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lecture,Media LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - A. Alfred Wing Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T125404 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IDENTITY WORKSHOP: PRIVILEGE LINKS DESCRIPTION:The “Identity Workshops” are designed for participants to interrogate their different identities and assumptions of themselves and others. Participants will leave with a better understanding of who they are and how their identities interact with the world.\n\nScheduled Workshops:\nFebruary 2: Social identities\nFebruary 16: Privilege Links\nMarch 16: Conflict Management Styles\nApril 13: Core Values\n\nRSVP here \nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMzBQXBuyc77UHtP20oybB05FrQz9o8szPR6kAq8OLwm8ovQ/viewform\nFood will be provided. Help us plan for the event by RSVPing (we want to make sure we have enough food for everyone! You are still welcome to come if you don’t get a chance to RSVP). Also let us know if you need any accommodations or anything else you would like us to know. RSVP\n\nIdentity Workshops are a partnership of the Taubman College Office of DEI and CAPS.\n\nFor more information contact: \nJoana Dos Santos\, TC DEI Specialist\, joanads@umich.edu or 734-647-9129\nNidaa Kazi\, CAPS Post-Doctoral Fellow\, nfkazi@umich.edu UID:49564-11476276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49564 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Workshop LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - 2210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T181652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Life After Graduate School Seminar | Physics in Finance DESCRIPTION:Modern finance offers numerous opportunities for those with advanced training in the natural sciences and mathematics: I found one such opportunity myself in 2010 and left academia for finance. Unfortunately it can be difficult to obtain reliable information about how to make the transition and what to expect on the other side. In my talk\, I will draw from my own experiences and those of my colleagues to give you a sense of life in the quantitative financial world. I will survey the different sectors of the financial industry\, the firms that inhabit them\, the structure of financial markets\, and asset categories. I will describe how to prepare for interviews and what to expect during the interview process\, the skills that are generally required on the job\, and a typical workday. Career transitions are deeply personal decisions\, so I will talk about ethical issues and some points to ponder if you find yourself considering a move to finance.\n UID:48983-11342268@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48983 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180218T120023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan State Tournament DESCRIPTION:Water Polo Tournament at Michigan State University in East Lansing\, MI  UID:49199-11679077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49199 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IM Sports West Building MSU CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180303T063020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Sales Track: Consultations with former Google and Yelp Sales Professional DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/130894\n\nNote: Selecting “Join Event” does not schedule a consultation appointment. Please follow directions below:\n\nTo schedule a consultation appointment go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/appointments/new\n- Select One-on-One Consultations\n- In Appointment Type select Consultations\n- Find February 16th\, Andrew Sugar\n\nNote: PLEASE SIGN UP ONLY IF YOU ARE 100%COMMITTED TO HONOR YOUR APPOINTMENT. Your name will be shared with the representative prior to their visit. Students canceling less than one business day prior to appointment and students who fail to show up for the appointment will be blocked from further use of Handshake and other University Career Center services according to our policies.\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 liketo 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:50153-11647732@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, University Career Center office, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T084102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Tet 2018 Lunar Near Year DESCRIPTION:Join the Vietnamese Language Table to celebrate the lunar new year with food\, games\, and the music of TẾT!\n\nRoom 1022\, South Thayer Building.\n12:00-1:00 p.m. February 16\, 2018 UID:50049-11630733@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50049 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Language,Southeast Asia,Vietnam LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180130T131224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T131500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Evolution and Development of Butterfly Wing Patterns DESCRIPTION:Host: Ken Cadigan UID:47198-10813715@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47198 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T143826 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Entrepreneurship Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:This weekly seminar series invites in uential and disruptive entrepreneurially- minded leaders to share their personal experiences founding\, nancing and managing an emerging business venture.\n\n---\n\nJoe is the CEO of Nutshell and a three-time graduate from the University of Michigan—holding a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy and a Finance and Strategy MBA. Previously\, Joe helped to define strategy and corporate development at DTE Energy\, a $13B publicly traded utility company. In more recent years\, Joe has run an investment capital firm specializing in early-stage software startups. Joe serves as president of the Board of Directors at 826Michigan\, a non-profit supporting student literacy. He has strong ties throughout our home state of Michigan and across the technology industry. UID:50134-11644915@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50134 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurship LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - STAMPS Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T094658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Alumni Connections: “Choosing a New Path” with Alex Sirota DESCRIPTION:What is a career path? Can you make your own? Alex Sirota (B.S. 1993) has been a computer developer at Apple\, a manager at 2 Internet start-ups\, and after working at the Ontario government\, he is now a small business owner. As the founder of NewPath Consulting\, he helps small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) with business-relevant technology advice\, implementation services\, and education to optimize activities using the cloud.\n\nJoin the computer science grad on Friday\, February 16 at 1 p.m. for a virtual Alumni Connections session about his ever-evolving career\, the digital transformation occurring with small business since the 1970s\, and the current state of productivity in the workplace. UID:49806-11540900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49806 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Business,Career,Digital,Discussion,Entrepreneurship,First-generation Students,Free,Information and Technology,Transfer Students,Undergraduate LOCATION:LSA Building - 2130 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T081212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELLED - A Conversation on North Korea as Artistic Inspiration DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL ISSUES. \nWe apologize for the inconvenience. \n\nThis conversation between playwright Mia Chung and U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and Nam Center faculty\, David Chung will discuss how North Korea\, real and imagined\, informs their artistic work. \n \nThis event is in conjunction with the U-M School of Music Theatre & Dance Department of Theatre & Drama's 2017-2018 season production of \"You for Me for You\" by Mia Chung: https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 UID:49949-11608289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49949 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Theater LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 | 10th Floor Event Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180303T123015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Consulting Track: Intro to the Case Workshop DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/123815\n\nInterested in working in consulting? You better be ready for the Case Interview!\n\nJoin us for a workshop designed to give you a great introduction tothe Case Interview\, as well as some great prep resources! \n\nNote: Thisevent’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'dlike 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.\n UID:49535-11467918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49535 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180105T103911 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:48204-11188801@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48204 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Career,Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 (Askwith Auditorium) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T124840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhonDi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:details to come UID:50112-11644891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50112 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Graduate,Graduate Students,Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T121528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Theatre Conversation: Mia Chung\, playwright DESCRIPTION:A conversation between playwright Mia Chung and U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and Nam Center faculty\, David Chung about how North Korea\, real and imagined\, informs their artistic work.

This event is in conjunction with the U-M School of Music Theatre & Dance Department of Theatre & Drama's 2017-18 season production of \"You for Me for You\" by Mia Chung. UID:50025-11622338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Free,Southeast Asia,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Weiser Hall, Room 1010, 500 Church St. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T121517 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T133000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:Tiffany Ng performs \"Southern vs. Northern Lion\" by visiting composer Carolyn Chen and \"Sunset * Flute * Drum\" by Lu Pei\, professor of music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory. Chinese\, Korean\, and Nepali pieces will complete the festive program. The audience is encouraged to visit the 60-bell Lurie Carillon as it is being played. UID:49168-11386596@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49168 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T153436 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Alumni Connections: \"Peacekeeping and the Proliferation of Small Arms\" with Eric Berman DESCRIPTION:The number of peacekeeping forces deployed in recent years is at historic highs. The security of the men and women serving in these missions—and of the weapons\, ammunition\, and equipment in their possession—is frequently at risk. Peacekeepers have lost thousands of weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. Moreover\, much of this loss was likely preventable. \n\nEric Berman (B.A. 1986) is the director of Small Arms Survey\, a global centre of excellence whose mandate is to generate evidence-based\, impartial\, and policy-relevant knowledge on all aspects of small arms and armed violence. Previously\, he has worked at the United Nations\, The UN Transitional Authority of Cambodia\, the UN Office at Geneva\, and the UN International Commission of Inquiry (Rwanda).\n\nJoin the political science grad on Friday\, February 16 at 2 p.m. for an Alumni Connections session where he will talk about the Making Peace Operations More Effective (MPOME) project and how it will deepen the understanding of lost materials from peace operations and develop mechanisms to improve security and administrative oversight. UID:49805-11540899@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49805 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Discussion,First-generation Students,Free,International,International Relations,Politics,Social Impact,Transfer Students,Undergraduate LOCATION:LSA Building - 2130 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T154539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DocDi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Details to follow UID:50113-11644892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50113 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Graduate,Graduate Students,Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T083318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:DQSN Workshop: Josh Morrison (SAC) DESCRIPTION:Please join Doing Queer Studies Now for a dissertation chapter workshop with Josh Morrison (Screen Arts & Cultures). UID:48703-11294861@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48703 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Graduate,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T095705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Duderstadt Center Media & Studio Arts Symposium DESCRIPTION:A diverse community of presenters representing students\, faculty\, industry professionals\, software developers and hardware manufacturers will be sharing their expertise\, experience and collaborations. Join our community as we embark on this week long exploration of the creative process\, exploring the tools and techniques that can make your vision a reality!\n\nThe first annual Media & Studio Arts Symposium is hosted by the Duderstadt Center\, the nexus of interdisciplinary innovation\, research and discovery for media creation and performance technologies at the University of Michigan. The Symposium will take place in the Duderstadt Center’s state-of-the-art Media & Studio Arts Suite\, showcasing the latest in Video\, Audio\, Interactive and Projection Technology. UID:49609-11484689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49609 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Concert,Dance,Film,Music,symposium,Theater,Visual Arts,Workshop LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T154604 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Details to come UID:50114-11644893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Graduate Students,Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180710@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T181555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T153000 SUMMARY:Other:Recent Advances in Fluorine (Radio) chemistry DESCRIPTION: The success of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and renewed interest in [18F]radiochemistry led to creative methods to incorporate 18F into molecules of increasing complexity. Despite these advances\, clinically useful radiotracers lie within a narrow accessible space with [18F]fluoroalkanes and [18F]fluoroarenes at the forefront. Many potentially high value PET 18F-labeled tracers and drugs lie outside this radiochemical space\, and the ability to test tracers not amenable to traditional or newly developed 18F-labeling intervention would be a major boost for PET imaging. A more diverse range of 18F-tags could immediately serve medicinal chemists by informing the selection of lead compounds much earlier in the drug discovery pipeline. This lecture will present our general approach to late stage 18F-fluorination and the recent contribution we have made to this field of research with the labeling of a range of 18F-tags for PET. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nVeronique Gouverneur (University of Oxford) UID:48624-11264839@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48624 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 Chem CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T100050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Organization Resource Fair DESCRIPTION:Join CCI for our Resource Fair. Discover information about a variety of resources available to support you or your organization. Whether your a new org\, new to Michigan\, or familiar with campus\, there's something for everyone at the Resource Fair! Light refreshments provided.\nLocation: Michigan Union\, Pendleton Room (Second Floor)\nTime: 2pm - 4pm UID:49376-11450949@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49376 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Professional Development,Student Org LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180303T123018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UCC at EXPLORE CCI Resource Fair DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/129422\n\nCome check out what career related information and resources are available for student organizations at the resource fair! \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.\n UID:50017-11613960@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50017 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union, Pendleton Room, 530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T154834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Alumni Connections: Daniel Rosenberg\, General Counsel for Chanel DESCRIPTION:Daniel Rosenberg (B.A. 1990) has worked at Chanel\, Inc. for over 20 years in a variety of legal roles. Among other practice areas\, he has experience counseling all Chanel business units on a wide range of legal and business matters\; negotiating and drafting commercial agreements\; managing litigation\; handling employment-related legal issues\; data security and privacy\; and assorted compliance matters. Daniel received his J.D.\, cum laude\, from Boston University School of Law in 1993\, where he was an editor of the Boston University Law Review. \n\nJoin the political science grad on Friday\, February 16 at 3 p.m. for an Alumni Connections session where he will talk about the variety of law settings and functional areas\, including the differences between working for a firm\, for a company\, and in house. He will also give advice on how to utilize the Michigan network of law alumni to learn more about the legal professions. UID:49864-11555024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Discussion,first-generation,Law,Politics,Pre-Law,Transfer Students,Undergraduate LOCATION:LSA Building - 2130 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180213T132758 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Comparative Literature Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Marjorie Levinson and Karl Gaudyn will be presenting. UID:50028-11622342@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50028 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Comparative Literature LOCATION:Tisch Hall - Comp Lit Library, 2021C CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T181525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Lecture: Alejandro T. Acierto DESCRIPTION:Alejandro T. Acierto is an artist and musician whose work is largely informed by the breath\, the voice\, and the processes that enable them. Noted for his “insatiable” performance by The New York Times\, Acierto has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is currently artist-in-residence for Creative Practice in Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University. UID:47279-10857851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Chip Davis Technology Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T082136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Seminars | Universality and Thermalization of Fast Quenches DESCRIPTION:Quantum quench - a sadden change of system Hamiltonian - provides a rich and tractable framework to access dynamics of thermalization of a quantum isolated system. When the chnge of Hamiltonian is fast but not instantaneous (so called fast quenches) the dynamics often can be described in terms of the UV fixed point\, thus leading to universal predictions. We employ conformal perturbation theory to calculate the behavior of various quantities (one and two point functions) during and after the quench. Furthermore\, by calculating the energy fluctuations after the quench we argue that at late times the system will thermalize\, provided it satisfies the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. UID:49948-11608280@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T144603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming UID:49984-11611133@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49984 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T154628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Details to come UID:50115-11644894@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50115 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Graduate Students,Language,Prospective Graduate Students LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180303T123015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:The Essentials: Intro to UCC\, Handshake\, and UCAN DESCRIPTION:If you are in Handshake\, Click \"Join event\" to RSVP* Not in Handshake? Click here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/127069\n\nIn coordination with Beyond the Diag. \n\nHave you heard of Handshake? Did you think it was spam? You know networking is important\, but stuck on how to connect with alumni? In this workshop we will let you know the 5 ways toutilize our office. Then we will focus demoing our to most popular platforms\; Handshake & UCAN (University Career Alumni Network). \n\nYou should come if you…\n- Aren’t sure how to use the UCC beyond resumes\n- Want to learn how to connect to alumni\n- Are looking for an internship or job\n- Want to attend on-campus recruiting events\n\nWhat you’ll do...\n- Unearth 5 ways to utilize our office\n- Learn why you should use Handshake\,and setup a search filter\n- Explore how to use UCAN and schedule an informational interview\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 thisevent 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:49793-11535284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49793 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Conference Room 4, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180303T123018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T163000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:AMAZON Virtual Customer Service Internship: Information Session! DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a virtual information session to learn about Amazon's Customer Service Internship opportunities! This webinar will befacilitated and led by Amazon University recruiters as well as a CustomerService business partner. If you are interested\, you can register below!\n\nhttps://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2654108208485227011 UID:50178-11656161@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50178 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171211T130324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Liquefaction Hazard in the Built Environment: Numerical and Experimental Investigations into the Effectiveness of Liquefaction Mitigation Techniques DESCRIPTION:Soil liquefaction continues to cause devastating damage to the built environment during earthquakes. In recent years\, earthquakes in Christchurch-New Zealand (2010-2011)\, Tohoku-Japan (2011)\, Muisne-Ecuador (2016)\, have caused widespread liquefaction resulting in unacceptable settlement\, tilt and deformation of buildings\, especially those on shallow foundations. Field observations from such events provide valuable information about the behavior of soil and the response of structures\, but a scarcity of instrumentation means that detailed recordings of the soil and structure responses from the time of the earthquake are lacking. Data is especially sparse regarding the performance and effectiveness of liquefaction mitigation strategies. Numerical and experimental studies have been performed at the University of Colorado Boulder to generate new case histories under controlled conditions. This presentation will summarize trends from both physical and numerical models\, focusing on how structural performance is affected by some common liquefaction mitigation approaches UID:46207-10418370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46207 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170803T095534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Reactive Viewing: Screens and Publics in 21st Century India DESCRIPTION:Film and television in India have engendered excessive responses from sections of the audience for well over half a century now. There are well-documented studies of such excesses in the domains of film star fandom and popular devotion alike. In the more recent past\, screen images have been accused of causing violence and even death (of viewers either due to shock or suicide). Recent scholarship on print media expands the field of audience excesses by suggesting that newspapers and magazines are not far behind as triggers of violence. And none of this research is even referring to the minefield of social media outrage. Although it should not come as a surprise to researchers that contemporary publics do not easily fit into the Habsermasian conception of the public sphere\, literature on old and new media continue to be framed by it. Furthermore\, the spectatorial response that constitutes screen publics in our time is not satisfactorily explained by concepts such as darsan\, corpothetics and the active audience. I examine the evolving texts and contexts of film star fandom to argue that forms of engagement characteristic of fan activity offer insights into present day media publics—even those that have nothing do with either stars or the cinema. \n \nS.V. Srinivas is a professor at the School of Liberal Studies\, Azim Premji University\, Bengaluru. He has been associated with the Bengaluru-based Centre for the Study of the Culture and Society in various capacities since 1998 and is now one of its trustees. He held visiting positions at the Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore (2004-05)\, Centre for Contemporary Studies\, Indian Institute of Science (2013-15) and the Department of Communication\, University of Hyderabad (2014). He was the ICCR Chair Professor of Indian Culture and Society at Georgetown University (2012-13). His research focuses on the intersections between popular culture and mass politics. He is currently working on Telugu and Tamil language blockbusters. He is the author of Megastar (Oxford University Press\, 2009) and Politics as Performance (Permanent Black\, 2013). UID:41937-9495458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41937 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,India,Media LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180131T135324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Lecture. Crossroads\, Crossings\, and Transgressions: Deconstructing Borders and Barriers in Southeast Asian/American Studies DESCRIPTION:While Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of influences and transnational movements\, the rise of Asia-Pacific as an economic and political power center has brought increased attention to regional dynamics\, transnational connections\, processes and practices. Transnational flows of people\, goods\, capital\, and ideas have engendered optimism about exchange\, interdependence\, and understanding\, while persisting conflicts over resources\, territorial claims\, and national belonging have animated the discourse about borders\, boundaries\, lines of differentiation and stratification\, crossings and transgressions in the examination of both the causes and consequences of conflict. These new im/mobilities and spatialities\, in turn\, compel a re-thinking of prevailing approaches and epistemologies that have been delimited by disciplinary boundaries.\n\nThis talk maps and interrogates the ways in which global and regional forces and dynamics inform new im/mobilities\, spatialities\, and belongings\, and the negotiations that Southeast Asian individuals and communities have to engage at multiple levels and in multiple arenas. It is particularly attentive to the linkages between macro forces and the micro politics of the everyday struggle to survive and resist. It critiques and problematizes the binary between area and Ethnic/American Studies\, and argues for a more expansive analytical approach that focuses on continuum\, intersectionality\, and relationality between peoples\, communities\, histories\, and fields of study without abandonment of historical\, contextual\, and experiential specificities. \n \nProfessor Khatharya Um is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies\, and affiliated faculty of Global Studies\, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for Race and Gender. She is also Faculty Adviser for the Berkeley Human Rights Center\, member of the UC system-wide Faculty Advisory Board on Southeast Asia\, and Faculty Academic Director of Berkeley Study Abroad.\n\nProfessor Um received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley where she was also the Chancellor’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research and teaching interests focus simultaneously on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian American communities and include migration\, diaspora and transnational studies\, colonial and post colonial studies\, and genocide studies. She is the author of From the Land of Shadows: War\, Revolution and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora (NYU Press\, 2015) and lead co-editor of Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in Search of Work\, Refuge and Belonging (Sussex Academic Press\, 2015)\, and has published numerous scholarly articles on Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian American communities. \n\nIn addition to her academic work\, Professor Um is also actively involved in community advocacy\, principally on issues of refugee integration and of educational access for linguistically and culturally diverse students. She has served on numerous national and community Boards of Directors\, including as Board Chair of the Washington DC- based Southeast Asian Resource Action Center\, and as President of the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian\, Laotian and Vietnamese Americans. She was also Founder and Chair of the National Cambodian American Organization\, Commissioner of the National Cambodian Health Crisis Initiative\, and member of the Panel of Experts of the NEA Quality Schools Project. \n\nProfessor Um has received numerous awards for her community leadership and service\, including congressional recognitions from Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo. She was a Chancellor Public Scholar and the first Cambodian American woman to receive a Ph.D. UID:49569-11476280@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49569 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Discussion,Southeast Asia LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T112630 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NERS Colloquium: Katy Huff\, PhD\, University of Illinois DESCRIPTION:Katy Huff\, PhD\, University of Illinois \n\nTitle: \"Modeling & Simulation of Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles\" UID:48405-11230617@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T135657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Winter 2018 Colloquium DESCRIPTION:details forthcoming UID:49776-11532465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49776 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Free,Graduate,Language,Lecture,Recruiting LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 250 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T131912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Live Robotic Border Crossers Performances DESCRIPTION:Join us as students from the Border Crossers project launch the robotic border crossers--transported via a student-made autonomous vehicle--at three campus locations.\n\nDuring winter semester 2018\, students across campus—from LSA\, Engineering\, Art and Design\, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie planning\, building\, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. \n\nMacMurtrie’s artist residency and interdisciplinary project\, \"Border Crossers\,\" led by the Institute for the Humanities\, encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities\, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national\, architectural\, environmental\, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.\n\nThe project symbolizes the humanities in action\, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together\, overcoming obstacles and divides\, and discovering creative solutions.\n\nChico MacMurtrie is an award winning artist\, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture\, whose work combines materiality and robotics\, the visceral and conceptual. MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works\, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\nVisiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project are sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art\, Michigan Robotics\, Michigan Engineering\, School of Information\, Penny Stamps Speaker Series\, Stamps School of Art and Design\, and ArtsEngin.\n\n\nBorder Crossers Events\nBorder Crossers installation\nFeb 16-March 23 2018\nInstitute for the Humanities Gallery\, 202 S. Thayer\nGallery Hours: M-F 9am-5pm\nLive Robotic Border Crossers performances\nFeb 14\, North Campus\, Engineering Grounds\, time TBA\nFeb 16\, In front of UMMA\, 525 S. State\, 4:30pm\nFeb 16\, Ingalls Mall\, 6:30pm\nSpecial Penny W. Stamps Lecture by Chico MacMurtrie & Artist Reception\nFeb 16\, U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Aud (lecture)\, 5:30pm\, followed by reception at Institute for the Humanities at 6:30pm UID:48986-11342277@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ArtsEngine,Engineering,immigration,Science,Art LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lawn in front of building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T103125 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:CenterSpace DESCRIPTION:CenterSpace provides a weekly drop-in space for different communities within queer life at the University of Michigan. CenterSpace creates space for people of similar identities to gain support from one another while building a community of collective resources. UID:48396-11230598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48396 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Inclusion,LGBT,Social,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center- 3200 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180111T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Connecting Experiences\, Strengthening Community Partnerships: The Afro Presence in Argentina DESCRIPTION:Join us for this collaborative two-day session of translation\, subtitling and editing of a video that young members of Xangô recorded during October of 2017 and of selected fragments from a pedagogic guide that Xangô group created with the Argentine Confederation of Public Education Workers during 2016. The video and the guide are currently available only in Spanish. Free and Open to the Public. For more info about the rest of the activities contact Marisol Fila mafila@umich.edu\n\nRSVP required. See RSVP link below. UID:48556-11251653@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Discussion,Film,International,Language,Learning Center,Library,Spanish Studies LOCATION:North Quad - 1500 North Quad (LRC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T143657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Fridays After 5 DESCRIPTION:Stop in to UMMA on select Friday evenings to enjoy special exhibitions and engaging activities at Fridays After 5! With all of UMMA's galleries remaining open until 8:00 p.m.\, this exciting series provides an interactive atmosphere for all audiences.\n\nPark in the Maynard Structure (between Liberty and William) and receive free\, validated parking. The Museum is always free.\n\nUMMA Fridays After 5 are generously supported by Comerica Bank and State Street District. The media sponsor for Fridays After 5 is Michigan Radio. UID:48819-11308909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Family,Multicultural,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11264978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265115@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265145@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265152@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265160@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265168@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T153813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IISS Symposium Keynote Address. Black Islam in the Americas DESCRIPTION:This keynote address by leading scholar of Islam and Muslims in the U.S. and Europe\, Dr. Aminah Al-Deen\, will inaugurate the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar symposium\, \"Black Islam in the Americas.\" The symposium will follow on February 17-18\, 2018. Please see ii.umich.edu/isp for details.\n\nThe conference is organized by the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) with support from the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. UID:49784-11532476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49784 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Muslim LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180122T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Chico MacMurtrie: Border Crossers: Part 2 DESCRIPTION:Special Event: Friday\, February 16 at 5:30 pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium\, UMMA\, 525 S State St\, Ann Arbor 48109\n\nChico MacMurtrie is an award-winning artist\, renowned internationally for his large-scale sculptures\, whose work combines materiality and robotics. MacMurtrie is currently focusing on the development of new work for Border Crossers\, a collection of robots that will eventually be transported and deployed at the border between the United States and Mexico. As part of the Border Crossers project\, cross-disciplinary U-M student teams will make and design a robot and an autonomous vehicle\, representing all that can be achieved through working together\, overcoming roadblocks\, and creating solutions for the future. A performance of the student-made robot and vehicle will take place in front of UMMA at 4:30 pm\, before the presentation. Border Crossers installation will be on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery from February 16 - March 23 with an opening reception and additional performance there immediately following the speaker series talk.\n\nThis Penny Stamps Speaker Series event is presented in partnership with the Institute for the Humanities\, with support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). UID:47871-11035896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47871 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Engineering LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T144108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T183000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Institute for the Humanities and the Penny Stamps Speaker Series present: Chico MacMurtrie: Border Crossers DESCRIPTION:This program is free and open to the public. Seating is first come\, first served.\n\nChico Macmurtrie is an award winning artist\, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture\, whose work combines materiality and robotics\, the visceral and conceptual. His artist residency and interdisciplinary project \"Border Crossers\,\" led by the Institute for the Humanities\, encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities\, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national\, architectural\, environmental\, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.\n\nStudents across campus—from LSA\, Engineering\, Art and Design\, and Information—will work with the artist planning\, building\, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. The project symbolizes the humanities in action\, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together\, overcoming obstacles and divides\, and discovering creative solutions.\n\nChico MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works\, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn\, NY. MacMurtrie/ARW have received numerous awards for their experimental new media artworks\, including five grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Andy Warhol Foundation Grant\, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship\, VIDA Life 11.0\, and Prix Ars Electronica. Chico MacMurtrie was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2016.\n\nJoin us for a reception at the exhibition opening directly following the lecture\, at the U-M Institute for the Humanities at 202 S. Thayer in Ann Arbor.\n\nThis program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project is sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with Michigan Robotics\, Michigan Engineering\, School of Information\, Penny Stamps Speaker Series\, Stamps School of Art and Design\, and ArtsEngin. UID:48821-11308911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48821 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Theater,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180207T181522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Kaleidoscope: A Student Arts Festival DESCRIPTION:Join us for a cultural sharing like nothing else on campus! From Southeast Asian Dance to Korean Pop from Gospel to Spoken Word. How do we share and borrow from one another and where is the line between representation\, glorification\, appreciation and appropriation? \n\nPart of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium\, please visit http://myumi.ch/L1mjn for more information and to register. Hosted by UMS. UID:47168-10805426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47168 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180112T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainable Seafood Fridays DESCRIPTION:All Fridays from 2/16 - 3/30\, all dining halls will be serving sustainable seafood! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:48644-11265130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food LOCATION:Lawyer's Club & Munger Residences CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T131912 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T183000 SUMMARY:Other:Live Robotic Border Crossers Performances DESCRIPTION:Join us as students from the Border Crossers project launch the robotic border crossers--transported via a student-made autonomous vehicle--at three campus locations.\n\nDuring winter semester 2018\, students across campus—from LSA\, Engineering\, Art and Design\, and Information—will work with visiting artist Chico MacMurtrie planning\, building\, and launching a 40-foot robotic sculpture that poetically explores the notion of borders and boundary conditions. \n\nMacMurtrie’s artist residency and interdisciplinary project\, \"Border Crossers\,\" led by the Institute for the Humanities\, encourages investigation of borders as constructed entities\, both embodying a simple curiosity to see what lies on the other side of a border (national\, architectural\, environmental\, etc.) and expression of a utopian desire to live in a world without borders.\n\nThe project symbolizes the humanities in action\, and the empowerment that can be achieved through working together\, overcoming obstacles and divides\, and discovering creative solutions.\n\nChico MacMurtrie is an award winning artist\, renowned internationally for his large-scale robotic sculpture\, whose work combines materiality and robotics\, the visceral and conceptual. MacMurtrie is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works\, an interdisciplinary creative collective located in Brooklyn\, NY. \n\nVisiting artist Chico MacMurtrie's residency and project are sponsored by the U-M Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with U-M Museum of Art\, Michigan Robotics\, Michigan Engineering\, School of Information\, Penny Stamps Speaker Series\, Stamps School of Art and Design\, and ArtsEngin.\n\n\nBorder Crossers Events\nBorder Crossers installation\nFeb 16-March 23 2018\nInstitute for the Humanities Gallery\, 202 S. Thayer\nGallery Hours: M-F 9am-5pm\nLive Robotic Border Crossers performances\nFeb 14\, North Campus\, Engineering Grounds\, time TBA\nFeb 16\, In front of UMMA\, 525 S. State\, 4:30pm\nFeb 16\, Ingalls Mall\, 6:30pm\nSpecial Penny W. Stamps Lecture by Chico MacMurtrie & Artist Reception\nFeb 16\, U-M Museum of Art\, Helmut Stern Aud (lecture)\, 5:30pm\, followed by reception at Institute for the Humanities at 6:30pm UID:48986-11342278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:ArtsEngine,Engineering,immigration,Science,Art LOCATION:Ingalls Mall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T181525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Alejandro T. Acierto DESCRIPTION:Alejandro T. Acierto is an artist and musician whose work is largely informed by the breath\, the voice\, and the processes that enable them. Noted for his “insatiable” performance by The New York Times\, Acierto has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is currently artist-in-residence for Creative Practice in Critical Race Studies at Michigan State University. UID:47280-10857852@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47280 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Chip Davis Technology Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170928T160907 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Laura Preston & Leah Xue DESCRIPTION:One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry\, each introduced by a peer\, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.\n\nThis week's reading features Laura Preston and Leah Xue.\n\nLaura Preston is a writer and painter from New Jersey. She is the recipient of the Hopwood Award for Nonfiction\, the John Wagner Prize\, and the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing. In addition to pursuing her MFA at the University of Michigan\, she is the Associate Editor of A Public Space.\n\nLeah Xue lives in Ypsilanti with her dog\, Poopy. Poopy is a Taurus/Aries sun sign\, and Leah would love to manifest her inner utopia in the outer world\, but believes contradictions may have already presented themselves.\n\nVisit umma.umich.edu/events to learn more! UID:45192-10107455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45192 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Literature,Museum,Poetry,Storytelling,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T144538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Mark Webster Reading Series DESCRIPTION:One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry\, each introduced by a peer\, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.\n\nThis week's reading features Laura Preston and Leah Xue.\n\nLaura Preston is a writer and painter from New Jersey. She is the recipient of the Hopwood Award for Nonfiction\, the John Wagner Prize\, and the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing. In addition to pursuing her MFA at the University of Michigan\, she is the Associate Editor of A Public Space.\n\nLeah lives in Ypsilanti with her dog\, Poopy. Poopy is a Taurus/Aries sun sign\, and Leah would love to manifest her inner utopia in the outer world\, but believes contradictions may have already presented themselves. UID:48822-11308912@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48822 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Literature,Museum,Poetry,Storytelling,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180119T181815 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T191100 SUMMARY:Performance:A Night at the Set DESCRIPTION:This event is presented by Kappa Alpha Psi UID:49006-11345062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Student Org LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T113617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T220000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Black Panther Community Screening DESCRIPTION:The office of Multi-Ethic Student Affairs (MESA) will be passing out free tickets to the screening on a first come-first serve basis on Tuesday 2/6\, Wednesday 2/7\, and Thursday 2/8 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. \nMESA will give out 25 tickets per day until they are gone. You must show your U of M ID card to receive a ticket. There is a limit of 1 ticket per person. You cannot receive a ticket from MESA if you are receiving a ticket from BSU or SIBS. MESA is located on the 2nd floor of the Michigan Union in room 2204. Transportation will be provided to and from the Rave Theater. UID:49383-11450958@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49383 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,MESA LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180108T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Scott St. John\, violin DESCRIPTION:Canadian violinist Scott St. John\, former violinist with the St. Laurence String Quartet will play a recital with faculty members Katherine Collier (piano)\, Yizhak Schotten (viola)\, Anthony Elliott (cello)\, Stephen Shipps (violin)\, and Andrew Jennings (violin).\n\nPROGRAM: Dvořák- Piano Quintet (Andrew Jennings\, violin\, Yizhak Schotten\, viola\, Anthony Elliott\, cello\, and Katherine Collier\, piano)\; Brahms- String Quintet in G op 111 (Stephen Shipps\, violin\, Yizhak Schotten\, viola\, Joachim Angster\, viola\, and Anthony Elliott\, cello) UID:47166-10805423@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47166 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180314T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Student Composers’ Concert DESCRIPTION:A concert of original works by student composers at SMTD. UID:47245-10827542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Last Days of Judas Iscariot DESCRIPTION:Department of Musical Theatre Studio Production. \nDirected by Vincent J Cardinal. \n\nBoasting a large\, brazen cast of characters who speak in foul-mouthed street language\, the play asks one of the most plaguing questions in the Christian ideology. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis\, author of “Our Lady of 121st Street\,” the drama features musical theatre students in a straight play.\n\nThis play contains strong language and vulgarities that may prove offensive to some. Recommended for mature audiences. UID:42735-9653747@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42735 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,North campus,Research,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T113534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:You For Me For You DESCRIPTION:Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters\, separated during their escape from North Korea\, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015. UID:42734-9653743@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Multicultural,Southeast Asia,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180215T181531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Carolyn Chen\, guqin w/ electronics *RE-SCHEDULED from 2/15* DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Chen will perform a concert on the Chinese guqin combining traditional music\, improvisation with digital field recordings\, and video. Her works reconfigure the everyday to retune habits of our ears through sound\, text\, light\, image\, and movement. For over a decade\, her study of the guqin\, the 7-string zither traditionally played for private meditation in nature\, has informed her thinking on listening in social spaces. Her work has been presented in 23 countries and described by The New York Times as “the evening’s most consistently alluring … a quiet but lush meditation.” \n\nCo-sponsored by the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan. UID:46929-10702999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Chip Davis Technology Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T121250 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Treat Yo Self UMix DESCRIPTION:Do you need a night to Treat Yo Self? Why not stop by the Union on Friday\, February 16\, from 10pm-2am to do just that? We'll have a midnight buffet (treat yo self!)\, prize cube (treat yo self!)\, meditation room (treat yo self!)\, basketball hoops (treat yo self!) and much more! And it's all free!\n\nA valid Michigan student ID is required for entry. Michigan students may bring up to two guests as long as they are registered upon entry. UID:49633-11487517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49633 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Umix LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T000036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Treat Yo Self UMix DESCRIPTION:Do you need a night to Treat Yo Self? Why not stop by the Union on Friday\, February 16\, from 10pm-2am to do just that? We'll have a midnight buffet (treat yo self!)\, prize cube (treat yo self!)\, meditation room (treat yo self!)\, basketball hoops (treat yo self!) and much more! And it's all free! A valid Michigan student ID is required for entry. Michigan students may bring up to two guests as long as they are registered upon entry. UID:49680-11490324@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49680 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T000036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180216T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T020000 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Late Night DESCRIPTION:Spend your Friday Night with UMix.UMix Late Night\, is the University of Michigan's premier late night tradition filled with a series of fun activities and events for all U-M students. You'll find a variety of programs like arts and crafts\, live entertainment\, games\, movies\, and more! And always a free Midnight Buffet!UMix is Fridays 10pm - 2am in the Michigan Union.  UID:44264-9903240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816442@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180218T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Florida Warm Up DESCRIPTION:Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Tampa\, Florida UID:49147-11678937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49147 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:USF Campus CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180219T000032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Golden State Invitational DESCRIPTION:Get ready for a weekend of sun\, celebs\, surfer boys\, and SLAYYYYING with Michigan LAX!I know it's sad\, we won't be in the great city of Ann Arbor for Winterfest.... butWHO CARES? WE'RE HEADING TO CALIFORNIAGet ready to show the world of CLAX what a championship team looks like!! UID:49753-11684533@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of California, LA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180225T180015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards Nominations DESCRIPTION:Are you a student leader? Have you been inspired by a student leader? Help recognize student contributions to campus and the world by nominating and attending the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards. Nominations can be submitted by students\, faculty\, and staff members\, now through Sunday\, February 25\, 2018. NOMINATE TODAY! For questions about the event please email bluecarpet@umich.edu.  UID:49718-11762520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:https://studentlife.umich.edu/article/nominate-student-leader CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180218T120023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan State Tournament DESCRIPTION:Water Polo Tournament at Michigan State University in East Lansing\, MI  UID:49199-11679078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49199 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IM Sports West Building MSU CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180408T060016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Practice on Rowing Machines DESCRIPTION:Practices on rowing machines with the team.Time:Wednesdays:  7AM (~80 min)Fridays:         7AM (~80 min)Sundays:       9AM (~120 min) UID:50346-12237305@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IMSB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180129T160950 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235900 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Democratic to Authoritarian Rule DESCRIPTION:This event is part of Michigan’s Teach-Out Series which provides just-in-time community learning opportunities for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community\, including faculty experts.\n\nHow does history help us understand today’s political climate?\n\nPolitical systems in many countries around the world have shifted from more democratic to more authoritarian tendencies. A deeper understanding and knowledge of this past can inform how we understand contemporary political changes.\n\nThis Teach-Out will bring together expert knowledge about democracies and the processes that erode democratic decision-making and structures. By examining historical and comparative patterns\, learners will gain a better understanding of contemporary politics.​\n\nGuest contributors include:\n\nSheri Berman (Barnard College\, Columbia University)\n\nJuan Cole (University of Michigan)\n\nFatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan)\n\nPauline Jones (University of Michigan)\n\nRobert Kaufman (Rutgers University)\n\nMaria Carmen Lemos (University of Michigan)\n\nMaria Victoria Murillo (Columbia University)\n\nBrian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan)\n\nWhat you'll learn:\nMake better sense of political changes by thinking systematically about different kinds of impediments to democratic politics and decision making\nBecome familiar with steps through which political systems move toward greater authoritarian rule\nLearn frameworks to assess how contemporary changes relate to democratic vs. authoritarian tendencies\nInteract with others for greater critical appreciation of changing political structures and processes UID:49279-11406230@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49279 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,History,Lecture,Politics LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180413T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Other:UMix Winter 2018 DESCRIPTION:UMix Late Night attendance for winter 2018 UID:51525-12291331@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/51525 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180218T120023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Buckeye Blast Gymnastics Meet DESCRIPTION:2018 Buckeye Blast Gymnastics Meet at the Ohio State University. UID:49434-11679081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49434 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Integrity Gymnastics and Cheerleading CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180218T120016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T235959 SUMMARY:Other:MCRHL Regular Season Event DESCRIPTION:Final Regular Season Event for the MCRHL UID:49769-11678940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49769 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Central Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667194@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T144328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T140000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Michigan Journal of Race & Law\, \"A More Human Dwelling Place: Reimagining the Racialized Architecture of America\" is a symposium happening on February 16 and 17 at the University of Michigan Law School.\n\nOver two days\, we will examine five archetypal spaces in America: homes and neighborhoods\, schools\, courthouses\, prisons\, and borders. The symposium endeavors to consider the ways in which these spaces have become increasingly racialized\, diagnose how that racialization impedes their basic functioning\, and reimagine these spaces at their best\, and our world as a more human dwelling place. James Baldwin gave us this name\, embedded in his imperative “to illuminate that darkness\, blaze roads through vast forests\, so that we will not\, in all our doing\, lose sight of its purpose\, which is\, after all\, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”\n\nThe symposium will bring together individuals working to better these spaces\, hailing from many disciplines\, including law\, history\, sociology\, journalism\, literature\, architecture\, urban planning\, and visual art. Together\, we hope to conceptualize forgotten or not yet dreamed of alternatives. Through discussions of projects already realized and ideas not yet concrete\, we will collectively inch toward the world we wish to inhabit. \n\nThe symposium is free and open to the public. All are welcome. \n\nPlease register to attend at https://madeleine-jennings.squarespace.com/register/. UID:48424-11233231@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48424 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,African American,conference,Detroit,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Economics,Education,Environment,Faculty,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,History,immigration,Interdisciplinary,Law,Lecture,Multicultural,Philosophy,Politics,Pre-Law,Psychology,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Sociology,Sustainability,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - Room 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T133905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Contemplate the Calm: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:A Japanese native\, now living in Royal Oak\, Michigan\, Hiroko Lancour has become a full-time artist after retiring from her career in information technology. She is a mixed media artist with cross cultural aesthetics between East and West. Lancour often uses repetitive patterns and processes with natural materials such as paper and fiber. Her contemplative works transcend cultural differences to address common feelings among many people. UID:47148-10802047@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Detroit Music Legends DESCRIPTION:As a community activist and artist in Detroit who focuses on neighborhood empowerment\, Nicole Macdonald makes large scale public paintings featuring city luminaries past and present on reclaimed materials. The Detroit Music Legend portraits are 6 x 8 foot\, the size of the windows where they will be installed in late 2018 on the Detroit Savings Bank Building\, designed by Albert Kahn at 6438 Woodward Avenue. A muralist\, collagist\, painter and tagger\, Macdonald co-founded City Sculpture\, a nonprofit Detroit art park\, is a board member of Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit\, and has exhibited at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Casco Gallery\, Netherlands. UID:47154-10802384@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47154 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,Children,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Social Impact LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Distinctive American Art Tile DESCRIPTION:Motawi Tileworks was started in Ann Arbor\, Michigan 25 years ago by Nawal Motawi in a small garage. Today\, Motawi tiles are sold in over 300 locations nationwide\, including galleries and the shops in Detroit Institute of Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington\, DC. Tiles are made from a porcelain hybrid clay\, a recipe unique to Motawi tiles. The raised lines on each tile require a hand glaze technique to pool the glaze between the lines. Motawi Tileworks has many themed collections\, some based on the work of fine artists such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Charley Harper. You can also see 17 permanent Motawi art tile murals throughout Michigan Medicine. UID:47151-10802132@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47151 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T135516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents From Mud to Beauty: Ceramics DESCRIPTION:Jean-Marc Fontaine\, a French scientist and artist who earned his Ph.D. from University of Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris\, presents a unique set of ceramic works inspired from 10th-8th century BC to the present day. The style varies from simple\, traditional forms to elaborate\, one-of-a-kind creations. Featuring rustic antique surfaces\, warm colors and highly individualized textures\, his work also occasionally takes whimsical forms. He also plays the accordion. Fontaine is a research scientist at the U-M Medical School in biochemistry. UID:47153-10802300@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Classical Studies,Culture,European,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,International LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171218T153927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ink Portraits DESCRIPTION:Based out of Chelsea\, Michigan\, John Pappas believes that if you can imagine a fun idea making sense\, you should make it. He applies this to both his graphic design and fine art. With so much to see and ruminate on in life\, Pappas keeps his hands busy by putting pen to paper. This body of work consists of portraits drawn with ink on a variety of surfaces including paper\, basswood and aspen panels in an offbeat pen and ink style that leans heavily on pointillism and crosshatching. The subjects range from athletes to musicians to personal friends. UID:47155-10802468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47155 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Athletics,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T140926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents My Playground: Assemblage Sculpture DESCRIPTION:Starting with watercolor\, Joan Painter-Jones’ work kept building out farther and farther until it became sculpture. Brought up in a household where money was tight\, she doesn’t like to waste anything and is captivated by old scraps of things with peeling paint and rusty metal – especially broken things that have a story to tell. She usually starts out with an interesting piece of wood and builds on it\, often painting on it and adding collage\, all while developing an emotional connection to it. Working in her quiet Milan\, Michigan backyard art loft “playground\,” she has no message to preach with her work\, just her own personal wish for peace and justice. UID:47156-10802552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T134925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Prairie Mantras: Paint & Vinyl on Aluminum DESCRIPTION:Desiree Warren’s current body of work is a journey using one shape (the orzo) to create a multitude of layers that evoke landscapes and organic assimilations. Growing up in the country in Kansas\, she had wide open spaces to explore\, as well as many of her family’s dilapidated farm buildings and overgrown pasture lands. At the University of Kansas\, she began working with street sign material and has continued to incorporate aluminum and vinyl in her work. Part of this series is included in the 2017 Women to Watch: Metals exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City\, Missouri\, where she lives and works. UID:47152-10802216@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T141252 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Desert Southwest: Photography DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Flint\, Michigan\, Daniel Sidoli has always had the creative itch. It led him to the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas and a BA degree in Fine Arts. With this body of work\, his intent is to capture images that illustrate the unique landscape that erosion sculpts over time. His goal with photography is to be artistic yet convey truth. He wants the subject to inspire the audience and leave a lasting impression: to elicit an emotional response. Each image represents moments in time and of journeys traveled\, both figuratively and literally\, since he is involved in every step of the process as he sees each piece to completion. UID:47157-10802636@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T180014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Hillsdale Tune-Up DESCRIPTION:Indoor Track Meet UID:49799-11537939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49799 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Hillsdale College CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T180014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Marquette Ranking Tournament DESCRIPTION:Ranking tournament at Marquette University! UID:49789-11535129@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49789 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Milwaukee, WI CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310456@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180205T153832 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T163000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:IISS Symposium. Black Islam in the Americas DESCRIPTION:The Black Islam in the Americas Symposium endeavors to foster contemplation of the geographies and politics of Black Islam configured in diasporic historical connections between Africa and the Americas. The seminar will begin with a keynote lecture by Aminah McCloud\, professor of religious studies at DePaul University on Friday\, February 16 at 5:15pm. Please see ii.umich.edu/isp for details.\n\nSATURDAY\, FEBRUARY 17 \n9:00-10:30 Panel 1: Black Muslims and US Geopolitics \n10:45-12:15 Panel 2: Narratives of Black Muslim Trajectories \n1:15-2:45 Panel 3: Black Atlantic Muslim Dialogues and Exchanges \n3:00-4:30 Panel 4: New World Muslims and the African Past \n\nSUNDAY\, FEBRUARY 18 \n9:00-10:30 Panel 5: Community Activism and Black Muslim Lives \n10:45-12:15 Closing Remarks\, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer \n\nThe conference is organized by the Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) with support from the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. UID:49785-11532477@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49785 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Muslim LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering - Johnson Rooms CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180319T235840 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:TBP Grad Student Speaker Series: Training (for) Better Presentations DESCRIPTION:**Note change of location**\nWe are excited to announce the launch of TBP Graduate Student Speaker Series: Training (for) Better Presentations organized by Tau Beta Pi for the College of Engineering\, a pilot professional development event funded by the College of Engineering and the Office of Student Affairs. \n\nTraining (for) Better Presentations is aimed at providing Michigan Engineering graduate students the opportunity to enhance their scientific communication skills\, so they can learn to effectively convey the \"big picture\" value of their research to a diverse audience. It also aims to engage a dialog of science and engineering research among graduate students across the entire College of Engineering.\n\nIntended as \"teaching through practice\" event\, each session is structured to have student speakers (2-3 per session) make a timed (15-20 min) presentation on their graduate research to a broad engineering audience and a communications expert panel (3-4 panelists). Our expert panelists will provide constructive feedback to the speakers (and the audience)\, highlighting the positive aspects of each presentation and also indicating opportunities for improvement. This structure will allow for the speakers to receive specific feedback on their communication skills\, while also providing the audience with generalized guidelines for good scientific communication.\n\nStarting mid-February and leading up to June\, we will be organizing multiple sessions for this event\, and we invite you to participate. The sessions will be held on Saturday mornings (9am - 11am)\, and will be scheduled to occur once every 2-3 weeks. Breakfast and coffee will be provided!\n\nIf you are interested in participating as a speaker\, please indicate your availability on the \"Speaker sign up\" form and the planning committee will follow up with you for scheduling. If you are interested in participating as an audience member\, please sign up through our TBP website on the \"Audience sign up\" link. Note: you be prompted to create a guest profile in order to sign-up as an audience member.\n\nWe look forward to your participation! UID:49925-11577486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Professional Development,Research,Undergraduate LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 Teleconference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180124T132449 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Art Outta Town: From Motown to Hip-Hip DESCRIPTION:This Art Outta Town trip includes your transportation to and from Detroit to explore the city's music\, then and now\, for just $12! First\, you'll take a tour of the Motown Museum in Detroit featuring historic photos\, stage uniforms\, and instruments. The tour will include a visit to the original Studio A\, where hit after hit was recorded from 1959 to 1972! The second stop of the trip will take you to the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) where you'll see the exhibition D-Cyphered: Portraits by Jenny Risher. This exhibition features a photographic timeline of the Detroit hip-hop scene from 2015-2017. You'll also have time to visit the rest of the DIA too! This trip is open to the whole U-M community\, but seating is limited\, so register today! UID:49234-11397807@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49234 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Multicultural,Museum,Music,Photography,Tour,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180111T102201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Connecting Experiences\, Strengthening Community Partnerships: The Afro Presence in Argentina DESCRIPTION:Join us for this collaborative two-day session of translation\, subtitling and editing of a video that young members of Xangô recorded during October of 2017 and of selected fragments from a pedagogic guide that Xangô group created with the Argentine Confederation of Public Education Workers during 2016. The video and the guide are currently available only in Spanish. Free and Open to the Public. For more info about the rest of the activities contact Marisol Fila mafila@umich.edu\n\nRSVP required. See RSVP link below. UID:48556-11251654@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,African American,Discussion,Film,International,Language,Learning Center,Library,Spanish Studies LOCATION:North Quad - 1500 North Quad (LRC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T140043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Black Histories of Radical Reproductive Justice Activism DESCRIPTION:This exhibit explores the history of African American women and reproductive health\, as well as African American women's attempts to control their own reproductive destiny and to create a healthy environment for themselves\, their children\, and their communities.\n\nOn display in the lobby of the Hatcher Graduate Library during Black History Month (February) and Women's History Month (March). \n\nThe exhibit was developed by Professor LaKisha Simmons (History\, Women's Studies) and undergraduate students Brianna Wells\, Mahal Stevens\, Jewel Drigo\, Kelly Kacan\, and Alyssa Erebor.\n\nFunding and support from the Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, University Library\, Hatcher Gallery Team\, and the Kalt Fund for African American and African History. UID:50081-11633577@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50081 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,History,Medicine,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T120658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Physics Palooza at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Society of Physics Students and the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum are partnering to host the Physics Palooza which is a 2-day physics demonstration stage show for children of all ages. \nLocation: Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum\, 220 E. Ann St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 41804\nPh: (734) 995.5439\nhttps://www.aahom.org/ UID:50165-11656136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180125T124550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T133000 SUMMARY:Other:Psychology Recruitment Weekend DESCRIPTION:Opportunity for invited applicants to the PhD program to meet with the faculty\, staff\, and current students of the Department of Psychology. Activities may include individual sessions with area faculty and students\, presentations on current graduate student research and graduate curriculum and funding\, lab tours and a social event with current students. UID:48885-11320056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students LOCATION:East Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180216T114151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Saturday Morning Physics | Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation DESCRIPTION:Since the discovery of fission\, nuclear chain reactions\, and nuclear weapons\, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons has become a top priority for our nation and the world. Several international treaties have been put into place to curb the expansion of nuclear capabilities. Nevertheless\, there are states that may be pursuing elements of an overt or covert nuclear weapons program. New science and technology developments are needed to verify the existing or proposed treaties in this area and to ensure that nuclear weapons are never used again. UID:48127-11180722@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48127 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546906@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T180022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T231500 SUMMARY:Other:Miami of Ohio Invitational DESCRIPTION:Athletes from the University of Michigan Club Boxing Team travel to the University of Miami of Ohio to compete in their boxing show. UID:50095-11639232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50095 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University of Miami of Ohio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T132347 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Paul Rand DESCRIPTION:Throughout the second half of the twentieth century\, pioneering art director and graphic designer Paul Rand (1914–1996) was celebrated for crafting the brand identities of such American corporate icons as ABC\, IBM\, UPS\, and Westinghouse. Rand considered the designer’s task to be the symbolic communication of a company’s character. This recent acquisition presentation features the poster Rand created as part of IBM’s THINK promotional campaign. The design is a rebus\, or visual puzzle\, wherein Rand cleverly transforms the letters of IBM’s logo into pictures. The whimsical use of symbols encourages viewers to interpret—or think—in order to comprehend the company’s intended message that it values “insight\,” “industriousness\,” and “motivation.” The poster is part of a larger recent gift of archival Paul Rand objects donated to UMMA by Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo—professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art and Design and published scholar on Paul Rand—and Maria Phillips.\n\nThis work was recently gifted to UMMA by Maria Phillips and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. UID:46548-10547140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T142603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter DESCRIPTION:Australian artist Patricia Piccinini’s strange\, hyperreal yet sentimental sculptures are often rooted in her speculative visualizations of future species—beings transformed by\, or even created by\, developments in genetic engineering and technology. On view at UMMA\, \"The Comforter\" presents the likeness of a young girl whose appearance suggests a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair across her face and body. In her lap she tenderly cradles an udder-shaped\, eyeless creature—a possible reference to current experiments in genetically altered milk-producing animals. The encounter staged by the sculpture\, though curious and unexplained\, appears to be one of innocence and intimacy\, and suggests the potential for emotional connection between a diversity of beings. This theme is a common one for Piccinini\, whose work incorporates (often obliquely) ideas and questions about the ethical implications of scientific progress and the conflicts in our culture between the natural and the man-made.\n\nLead support for \"Patricia Piccinini: The Comforter\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:46549-10547261@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180201T000104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Suzy Lake DESCRIPTION:Suzy Lake was born and raised in Detroit. Following the social and political unrest of the 1960’s Lake emigrated to Montreal in 1968\, where she was among the first female artists in the nation to adopt performance\, video\, and photography to explore the politics of gender\, the body\, and identity. In this exhibition\, Lake returns to her childhood neighborhood and various locations central to her family history to explore the cycles of urban development and decay in working class Detroit\, as well as her experience with ageism.\n\nExhibition Dates: January 19 - February 25\nHours: Open during exhibitions Tuesday through Sunday\, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm\; Thursday and Friday\, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm. Closed Mondays and holidays.\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, January 19\, 2018\, 6 - 8 pm\nArtist Talk & Conversation: Saturday\, January 20\, 2018\, 3 - 5 pm\n\nStamps Gallery\n201 S. Division Street\, Ann Arbor MI 48104 UID:47736-11004714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47736 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546985@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889151@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T144011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Between Past and Future: Wang Qingsong 1999-2006 DESCRIPTION:Curated by ZHANG Fang\, this art exhibition will include six of WANG Qingsong’s representative photo works that depict the traumatic transformations that have taken place inside China. These photographs are inspired by China’s drive for globalization over the last few decades. \n\nPlease join us for the reception and Meet the Artist at 4 pm\, January 24 at the Willis Ward Art Lounge. \n\nAbout WANG Qingsong\n\nAn artist\, educator\, and curator\, WANG Qingsong represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who have exerted a profound influence on contemporary Chinese art practices. Wang’s large format photographic film works have been exhibited around the world at major museums\, art centers\, and galleries\, playing a pivotal role in expanding the international art market for Chinese visual arts.\n\nFormally trained as a painter\, WANG Qingsong now works more like a film director who gathers dozens – sometimes even hundreds – of participants to produce improvisatory works that comment on consumerism\, urbanization and social change. In 2014\, Wang worked with University of Michigan faculty and students to create a large scale installation-photography work\, one that has students perched along a thin stairway spanning the diagonal of a massive chalkboard\, on which names of the top 500 institutions of higher education were written.\n\nIn winter 2018\, Wang Qingsong will stage a new work that would stimulate comparative study of urban renewal efforts in China and the U.S. The work will feature photographic/film images of Detroit’s historical Chinatown and industrial-warehouses areas which have undergone urban renewal since the 1960s.\n\n*Image: The Glory of Hope\, 240x180cm\, 2007\, courtesy of the artist Wang Qingsong UID:48737-11297792@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Chinese Studies,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180104T141330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-February 23\, 2018 DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington application deadline for Fall 2018 and early admission Winter 2019 cohorts. All colleges and majors welcome. Scholarship funding available. UID:48123-11180711@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Deadlines,Internship,Majors,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180116T121516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T163000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium DESCRIPTION:“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium” is a multi-day event that specifically engages with issues of race\, representation\, activism\, and appropriation in this opera. Friday presents a full day of performances and panel discussions on the context of the work\, its characters\, its reception\, and its impact on the careers of singers of color\, with a keynote lecture by Dr. Kyra Gaunt. Our performances and discussions continue on Saturday with a recital of songs from the opera’s period\, a panel discussion on black performance and performativity in the early 20th century\, and a panel of related student papers. This symposium prepares audiences for the Saturday evening performance of the opera produced by the UMS and the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance in Hill Auditorium. Registration is required. Please visit http://myumi.ch/L1mjn for more information and to register.\n\nThe Symposium will be live-streamed:\n\nFriday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014706\n\nSaturday events: https://livestream.com/accounts/13187677/events/8014718 UID:47167-10805425@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47167 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180123T172006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T180000 SUMMARY:Other:ITiMS application due\, March 1! DESCRIPTION:* Funding for dissertation research\, trainings and travel.\n* Support equivalent to a GSRA (tuition\, stipend\, & insurance) for up to 2 years.\n\nITiMS mission is to train outstanding interdisciplinary researchers who will discover the principles underlying the structure and functions of microbial communities and apply these principles to understand and alleviate important problems affecting human health and the environment.\n\nRequirements:\n1) Two mentors (one with laboratory and the other with population-based or mathematical modeling expertise)\n2) Completion of individualized interdisciplinary training program including didactic and practical training in population studies\; laboratory techniques\; statistics/bioinformatics\; and mathematical modeling\n3) Dissertation research incorporates laboratory and population approaches\n4) Completion of full PhD requirements in home department \n\nStudents can self-nominate or faculty can nominate incoming or current graduate students for ITiMS support.\nProposed mentors - one with expertise in the laboratory sciences\, the other with expertise in population studies or mathematical modeling - must write a letter of support agreeing to mentor the applicant should funding be awarded.\n\nDirectors: Betsy Foxman (bfoxman@umich.edu)\; Thomas Schmidt (schmidti@umich.edu)\nVisit our website for more on How to Apply! UID:49197-11386659@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49197 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Deadlines,Dissertation,Ecology,Environment,Graduate,Graduate School,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Mathematics,Medicine,Multidisciplinary Design,Pre Med,Public Health,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Science LOCATION:Public Health II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T121526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T170000 SUMMARY:Performance:Wind Chamber Music Recital *CANCELED* DESCRIPTION:This performance has been canceled.\n\nWind students perform a recital of chamber repertoire. UID:49975-11611106@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49975 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180208T121526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T173000 SUMMARY:Performance:String Preparatory Academy Recital *CANCELED* DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. UID:49883-11566239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/49883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Pre-Show Talk: Porgy and Bess DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the opera by Naomi André\, associate professor of Women’s Studies & Afroamerican and African Studies\, and Jessica Getman\, managing editor of the U-M George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition. \n\nPart of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess: A Symposium\, please visit http://myumi.ch/L1mjn for more information and to register. UID:47169-10805427@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47169 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Mezzanine Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T152301 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Arab Xpressions: Jam'etna DESCRIPTION:The purpose of Arab Xpressions is to spread awareness of Arab culture on the entire University of Michigan Campus. We will both educate and entertain the student body by showcasing traditional folk dances\, spoken word/poetry\, clothing\, music\, food\, and much more. There will be also performed skits to highlight many aspects of Arab culture in a comedic way. Arab Xpressions is a great medium for students to both learn about and enjoy the different aspects of Arab culture in light of recent events. UID:48508-11243798@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48508 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Dance,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,MESA,Multicultural,Music,Student Org LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T180014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Game 2 vs. Adrian DESCRIPTION:Game vs. Adrian at Adrian UID:44077-9883220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44077 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Arrington Ice arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180110T181519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess DESCRIPTION:University Symphony Orchestra\, Kenneth Kiesler\, conductor.\nChamber Choir\, Jerry Blackstone\, musical director.\nThe Our Own Thing Chorale\, former SMTD Professor Willis Patterson\, music director. \n\nFeaturing current SMTD student Rehanna Thelwell\, SMTD alumna Janai Brugger\, Morris Robinson\, Talise Trevigne\, Norman Garrett\, Chauncey Packer\, Reginald Smith Jr.\, and Karen Slack. \n\nPorgy and Bess is without rival as the most famous 20th-century American opera. Since its 1935 debut\, this story of a disabled beggar transformed by the unexpected love of Bess has been performed worldwide and features such well-known songs as “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’\,” “My Man’s Gone Now\,” “Summertime\,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” UID:47282-10857854@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47282 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T181526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Evan Veasey\, guitar DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Veasey - Sweet One\; Metheny - Son of Thirteen\; Veasey - Where Roads End\; Veasey - Firewood\; Wilson - You Still Believe in Me\; Wilson - Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)\; Veasey - II\; V\; The Body. UID:50000-11613943@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/50000 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T181524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Last Days of Judas Iscariot DESCRIPTION:Department of Musical Theatre Studio Production. \nDirected by Vincent J Cardinal. \n\nBoasting a large\, brazen cast of characters who speak in foul-mouthed street language\, the play asks one of the most plaguing questions in the Christian ideology. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis\, author of “Our Lady of 121st Street\,” the drama features musical theatre students in a straight play.\n\nThis play contains strong language and vulgarities that may prove offensive to some. Recommended for mature audiences. UID:42735-9653748@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42735 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,North campus,Research,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180212T113534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:You For Me For You DESCRIPTION:Department of Theatre & Drama. Directed by Priscilla Lindsay. Two sisters\, separated during their escape from North Korea\, cross space and time to be together again. Premiered in Washington D.C. in 2015. UID:42734-9653744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42734 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Multicultural,Southeast Asia,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180217T180014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20180217T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20180218T000000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Casual Gaming Club: Gaming Night Event! DESCRIPTION:Finish off the week right and come and hang out with us this weekend for a gaming night!What's going on? We'll be playing all kinds of games\, from video games on consoles that will be screened on projectors and PC games for those who bring their laptops. Card games\, board games\, and other activities on tables will also be a BIG highlight of the event!WHERE is this happening? Since we like to play at several different venues\, we have an event schedule and location list (go to the end of this description). Alternatively\, you may also check our Facebook group for updates (https://www.facebook.com/groups/CasualGamingClub/).But what if I come unprepared? Simple. We will provide many party video games and card/board games to play. If you prefer\, feel free to bring your own consoles\, games\, controllers\, and laptop PC if you want to play specific games with others. If you want to share a card or board game that you really enjoyed playing\, bring that too! Most importantly\, bring your friends!I WANT TO GROUP UP AND PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE. If you enjoy teaming up in a five-stack or six-stack to play team-based games like Overwatch\, League of Legends\, Dota 2\, or other group-party games\, bring your laptop and games and then reach out to your other fellow gamers by commenting on the Facebook event page or mentioning them in the Discord group's respective channel (i.e. @OverwatchGamers)!Reminder: If you're a CGC member and haven't connected your games/interests yet\, please remember to use the link below so that you can easily group you up with other similar gamers to play with at the event and online: http://45.76.18.247/ Hope to see you there! 🎮 Casual Gaming Club\, Full Event Schedule*1/6/2018 Sat 7:00 PM 10:00 PM League- Koessler (3rd Floor)\n*1/13/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*1/20/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*1/27/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*2/2/2018 Fri 8:00 PM 10:00 PM League- Henderson (3rd Floor)\n*2/10/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*2/17/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/10/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/17/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*3/24/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Anderson ABCD (1st Floor)\n*3/31/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor)\n*4/7/2018 Sat 9:00 PM 12:00 AM Union- Kuenzel (1st Floor) UID:47926-11131264@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47926 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Refer to Full Event Schedule in description for location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR