Exhibition:Past, Present, Future: A Digital Projection Series
2018-04-19 17:00 - 2018-04-20 03:00, 2018-04-20 17:00 - 2018-04-21 03:00 (America/Detroit) | 202 S. Thayer
Three weeks of short digital projections showing on the outer window (202 S. Thayer) of the Institute for the Humanities Gallery, sunset to sunrise, to coincide with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Watch the video trailer at https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/digital-graffiti-exhibition.html

Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge
2018-04-20 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-25 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Jewish Family Services
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

Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network
2018-04-20 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-25 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Bryant Community Center
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

Ceremony / Service:The Quito Project School Supply Drive!
2018-04-20 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-25 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | University of Michigan
The Quito Project is an organization of University of Michigan faculty and students of all disciplines, including liberal arts, education, and engineering. We travel to Quito, Ecuador every summer to run a free summer camp for approximately 60 children ages 5-12. Our aim is to improve the education, and well-being in the underserved and politically underrepresented communities of Quito in addition to raising discussions and awareness of the Ecuadorian culture and society at the University of Michigan and beyond. Our students come from low resource backgrounds and due to their financially destitute situations, we provide our students with two meals a day, hygienic supplies, and school supplies to help give them the tools they need to succeed through education, encourage our students to continue onto higher education, and provide them with some of the basic necessities every human being should have access to. We are trying to collect school supplies In order to allow our tutors to continue creating fun and engaging lesson plans and to give our students the best experience possible. We are looking for any school supplies that you may have left over from the school year or if would be willing to donate any new supplies as well. Some suggested supplies to donate include: construction paper, pencils, markers, colored pencils, crayons, glue, lined paper, scissors, books (ages 4-14), rulers, folders, pencil sharpeners, erasers, coloring books, highlighters etc. But please keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list and all donations are welcome and appreciated! The dates of the drive are from April 2nd-April 26th. Donations can be dropped off at the following locations:Bert's Cafe Entrance of UGLiNorth Lobby, Hatcher1816 East Quad1500 North QuadSuite 500, Weiser Hall1122 Lane Hall4108 MLBGinsberg Center If you are unable to make a donation please still let all of your professors and fellow students know about this drive to help spread the word!

Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos
2018-04-20 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-25 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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.

Exhibition:"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education"
2018-04-20 08:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 18:00 | Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium
“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.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Beauty Meets My Mess: Mixed Media Collage
2018-04-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1
Re Kielar was born in Chicago’s little Italy neighborhood with her grandparents upstairs and aunt and uncle across the courtyard. Her world was very Italian, and when she walked outside, she felt like she was leaving one country and entering another. Ever since she was a child, she has loved paint and texture and seen beauty in the most unlikely places. Her artwork expresses human emotion through drawing in ink with rough papers, old book pages, metal embellishments and natural objects. Each abstract collage is coupled with her poetry, so each piece is a walk into her soul. She hopes that by sharing that which is broken, we can find healing spaces that knit our hearts together.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Being There: Acrylic on Canvas
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
John Dempsey’s large scale paintings bring together different environments – factories, religious spaces, government facilities, public areas and landscapes – into single compositions. He visually chronicles and explores the complex combinations of environments that we collage together from memory everyday as we form impressions of the places we go. These paintings from the Glare Series present a variety of environments together, all at once, in order to visually chronicle and explore this complex circumstance of place. Dempsey’s studio is in Flint, and he currently is an Instructor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Ducks to Dresses: Paper Possibilities
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Originally from New York, Aimee Lee works in Cleveland and is an artist, papermaker, Fulbright Scholar, author and the leading hanji (Korean paper) researcher and practitioner in the US. Fusing contemporary fashion ideas with traditional clothing, Lee connects past and present through everyday dress creations in paper. The hanji techniques she uses include natural dyeing and waxing, texturing for supple or stiff surfaces, slicing and spinning into thread, and tearing strips to cord. Her paper ducks are inspired by Korean wedding ducks – known for fertility and mating for life – and are built without an armature; the hollow bodies are woven like baskets.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Figures in Bronze
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Figures in Bronze showcases 30 years of Richard Light’s human and animal sculptures, from 1987 to 2017. Look for giraffes, birds, women of industry, and a portrait bust of a young Einstein, a commission made for the Albert Einstein Memorial at the Collège de France in Paris. Light, a fine art bronze sculptor and park designer, has garnered prizes in the US and Europe including the Prix de France from the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, the largest art show in France. His studio is located in the Park Trades Center in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Group Ceramics Show
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
This group show will feature the work of faculty, staff and students from the Washtenaw Community College (WCC) Ceramics Program. Artists range in ages from 17-87. Many different styles and approaches to ceramic art will be on display, including ceramic sculpture and functional ceramics. Curated by WCC Instructor I.B. Remsen, all of the pieces in this show are personal favorites of the participating artists.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Mokuhanga: Landscape Woodblock Prints
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
Mary Brodbeck studied Japanese woodblock printmaking (mokuhanga) in Tokyo with Yoshisuke Funasaka. Her landscape prints – made from impressions on paper from carved and inked woodblocks – have received critical acclaim in both Japan and the US; the Autumn, Sleeping Bear Dunes series is in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Brodbeck applies principles of Japanese aesthetics, including subtlety, austerity and naturalness, to her art practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Many people have felt a strong sense of place in her work. Still more connect with the sense of calm, contemplation and deep reflection that place can evoke.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents On Blue: Photographic Meditations
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Loosely based on the concept of the early 20th century group f64, the f8collective is composed of female contemporary Chicago photographers who all happen to have strong family ties to Michigan. The group of images on exhibit is from a project called On Blue: A Meditation. Blue is… tranquil pools of clear water; languid clouds drifting in azure skies; mood indigo; cobalt glass; cerulean blue eyes; sapphire cornflowers; poignant music, emotion and sentiment. Blue is a rare color in nature, yet found in the largest things such as sea, lake and sky, as well as some of the smallest: sapphires, forget-me-nots and delicate tropical butterflies.

Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Timeless Instants: Still Life Photographs
2018-04-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 20:00 | Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Originally from Kansas City, Tina West discovered photography while studying sculpture. She sees her photographs more as paintings, and her still lifes have powerful cast shadows and frequent light play. Influenced by Gerhardt Richter and surrealism, West’s images communicate a sense of being, connecting not only the objects in the photographs, but also the viewer and the photograph. She draws inspiration from the objects in her vast collection of unique treasures, and she speaks to their unreserved timelessness with maturity and wonder. All of the images in this exhibit were created using instant film in a 4x5 view camera.

Workshop / Seminar:Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Research Day
2018-04-20 08:00 - 17:30 | Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium
The Economics Department at the University of Michigan will be hosting the fourth H2D2 Research Day on Friday, April 20, 2018. We are pleased to have Amitabh Chandra (Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School) as our keynote speaker.

We intend for this mini-conference to draw both faculty and student attendees from the University of Michigan as well as from the greater mid-west and Canada. The conference will focus on the subfields of health, history, development, demography and family economics, broadly defined.

More information on H2D2 Research Day can be found at our website (https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/h2d2/h2d2conference).

Exhibition:Mr. Vignaud's Maps: Unraveling a Cartographic Mystery from the Golden Age of Dutch Cartography
2018-04-20 08:00 - 23:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 23:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 23:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 23:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 23:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 23:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 23:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor
In 1922 the University of Michigan acquired the library of Henry Vignaud, an American diplomat living in Paris, whose extensive personal library included thousands of books, atlases, maps, and other publications. Many of Vignaud's maps were 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.

This exhibit and the accompanying online exhibit (https://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/rediscoveringvignaud) feature the results of their remarkable findings, as well as a glimpse into the history of the Golden Age of mapmaking in 17th century Amsterdam.

Exhibition:Seven Fantasy Classics for Children
2018-04-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-21 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Students in Lisa Makman’s English 313 course, Children’s Literature and the Invention of Modern Childhood, curated this exhibit of classic stories for children. The exhibit focuses on seven classic stories: Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, the Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, and Peter Pan. Drawing on the rich collection of children’s literature in the Special Collections Research Center, the books range from late nineteenth century editions to contemporary pop-up books. By showcasing different takes on each story, the exhibit explores the variation in how these tales are told and illustrated.

Exhibition:Abstract Ancestry: Machine-Works on Paper
2018-04-20 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
Detroit-based artist Matthew Angelo Harrison takes a satirical look at historical narratives—exploring issues of race, design, mortality and industry—by making use of analog and digital technologies. For his solo show, "Abstract Ancestry," at University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Harrison will produce a suite of mechanical drawings with his homemade 3D printer. Using books and documents containing problematic historical portrayals as the substrate for his drawings, Harrison is able to explore issues of representation. The exhibition also examines abstraction, setting the printers to work at a low resolution ensures that imperfections and variability come through in these machine-produced drawings.

On April 5, join us as we celebrate the opening of our final exhibition of the academic year with our 2018 Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence Matthew Angelo Harrison. Harrison will be in conversation with curator Amanda Krugliak.

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

Careers / Jobs:EMU Teacher Job Fair, 2018 - EMU Teacher Job Fair, 2018
2018-04-20 09:00 - 15:00 | Ypsilanti, MI, USA
The Eastern
Michigan University Teacher Job Fair will be held at BowenField House located at on the main EMU Campus, Ypsilanti, MI on Friday, April 20, 2018. Event hours: 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. In order to attend, candidates must have completed at least one student
teaching assignment and be eligible to teach by August, 2018. This event is open
to the public. Doors open to candidates at 8 a.m. for check-in and
registration.
The Fairs App will be allow you to see the participating employers and their booth locations on your smart phone a few days prior to the event. You will need to download the app onto your phone via the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. When you review this list, you may select a star next to the employer's name which will add them your list of "favorites" so you will know which booths to visit at the event. Remember to check the list frequently as it may change as it gets closer to the date.

You will be able to view each registered school's information on Handshake or TheFairsApp, including their "anticipated" vacancies.
There is no cost to attend the fair. It is recommended that you register prior to April 20,2018, however candidates may also register at the door. ALL APPLICANTS MUST CHECK IN PRIOR TO ENTERING THE JOB FAIR.There are nopre-assigned
interviews. Candidates will meet with recruiters of their choice.
If you are a current EMU student, you can register for the fair through Handshake. EMU Alumni may set up a Handshake account by going to handshake.emich.edu and selecting the option foralumni / guests / other. If you are NOT an EMU alum or current, you may still attend the Teacher Job Fair by registering.**PARKING****
Parking should be
available in the parking structure or the surface lots near Bowen Field House.

Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017
2018-04-20 09:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-21 13:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-24 09:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-25 09:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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.

Curators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/

Exhibition:Interior Streets
2018-04-20 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 09:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 09:00 - 17:00 | 202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022
Join us March 9, 3pm, for a reception and Carl Wilson in conversation with our curator Amanda Krugliak.

The "Interior Streets" exhibition features the work of Detroit artist Carl Wilson, known for his stark black and white linocut prints. The self-taught artist sees himself as a documentarian of lives easily ignored in a world obsessed with materialism and celebrity. His work frequently highlights not only the strength found in conquering the everyday and mundane, but also the pain and defeat of those not able to rise to the occasion. His love of film noir and pulp fiction novels from the 1940s and '50s has led him to experiment with minimalist animation and comic book illustration. He embraces the whimsy hidden in the darkness.

Carl is the recipient of a 2013 Kresge Artist Fellowship and is an alumni of the historic Yaddo Artists’ Community. During his residency there he carved the prints for, and wrote the book, Her Purse Smelled like Juicyfruit, a recollection of his mother’s life. Carl was named 2014 guest curator of Detroit’s Carr Center. Also in 2014 Complex Online Magazine named him one of Twenty Detroit Artists You Should Know. He was featured in Essay'd, a monthly publication about Detroit artists. 2017 sees the release of a comic book, the first installment of his graphic novel, Dead and Lost in Detroit.

Other:Regionals
2018-04-20 09:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 21:00 | Purdue
Bike Races

Workshop / Seminar:Workshop on Poverty and Inequality
2018-04-20 09:00 - 10:30 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - 5240
This workshop series, sponsored by Poverty Solutions, is designed to engage PhD students in an ongoing dialogue on poverty in America and to explore poverty-related research.

Fall 2018 speakers and dates TBD.

Interested students are invited to contact Poverty Solutions Administrative Coordinator Damien Siwik at dsiwik@umich.edu.

Presentation:Dissertation defense: Can oceanic island endemic partulid tree snails survive the Anthropocene?
2018-04-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 1028
Cindy Bick defends her doctoral dissertation.

Exhibition:Quaker Oats Makes a Movie: A Scrumdiddlyumptious Wonka Adventure
2018-04-20 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-21 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-22 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 10:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor
​Quaker Oats forged a new path in the entertainment industry by jointly marketing consumer packaged goods and a major motion picture in 1971, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Having never made a motion picture before, their foray into the filmmaking industry was unexpected and unprecedented. The company saw this film as an opportunity to essentially make a feature-length commercial for their new line of Wonka candy products.

Students in Matthew Solomon's class, SAC 355: Authorship and the Archive, culled though hundreds of production documents related to the film to curate an exhibit that tells a little known behind-the-scenes story about one of the most beloved films.

Exhibition:RC Student Studio Arts Invitational
2018-04-20 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 10:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 10:00 - 17:00 | East Quadrangle - Art Gallery
Exhibition will be on display through April 27th
HOURS: Mon.–Fri., 10am–5pm; Closed Sat.–Sun.

The Residential College (RC) Art Gallery is located in the East Quad Residence Hall. The approximately 500-square-foot exhibit space hosts two professional and one RC student exhibit in both the fall and winter semesters.

Artist: Henry Schreibman
Title: Date night
Medium: Monoprint

Exhibition:The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers
2018-04-20 10:00 - 16:00 | William Clements Library - Avenir Foundation Room
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.

It 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.

Conference / Symposium:The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production
2018-04-20 10:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-21 10:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location
Please note--this conference will be held on the Michigan State University campus, in East Lansing. Complete conference information is available here: https://zainichistudies2018.wixsite.com/symposium

Two Days of Powerful Conversations

The symposium, “The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production,” seeks to illuminate “zainichi” as a locus for theorizing the notion of passing. Since Koreans and Japanese represent different ethnic groups that cannot be differentiated racially, rethinking received notions of passing through an in-depth study of zainichi literary and visual narratives can help us further theorize hegemonic discourses on passing, as well as the consequences, effects, means, and strategies of passing (or not passing).

This two-day symposium will consist of four panels with 12 presenters, 4 moderators, and 8 discussants (detailed program here) together with an open discussion forum each day.

Come join us!

Lecture / Discussion:2018 Political Economy Workshop End of Year Mini-Conference
2018-04-20 10:30 - 13:30 | Haven Hall - 5670-- Eldersveld
The first half of the conference will feature 5 short presentations describing research presented at PEW this year.

10:30-10:45: Jieun Lee
10:45-11:00: Anil Menon
11:00-11:15: Iain Osgood and Corina Simonelli
11:15-11:30: Joe Ornstein
11:30-11:45: Nicole Wu

The second half of the conference will feature the 2018 Coordinator's Address by Yuhua Wang, which is jointly sponsored with the Exploring Historical Legacies and Memory (EHLM). We hope that you can attend.

Exhibition:Exchanges: How We Got Here
2018-04-20 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-21 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-22 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 11:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Exchanges: How We Got Here, the 2018 Stamps Senior Show, features work in a range of media by graduating BA, BFA, and Interarts students at U-M’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. The exhibition unfolds during the month of April in sites throughout the city of Ann Arbor: the Michigan Theater, the Duderstadt Video Studio, Work Commons in the Art & Architecture Building, and Stamps Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor. Each space will be host to key exhibition events including film/video screenings, live performances, and opening receptions. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Exhibition Openings & Events
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Wednesday, April 11
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:00 pm.

Thursday, April 12
Screenings: Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty Street, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:30 pm.

Friday, April 13
Opening Reception: Stamps Gallery, 201 S. Division Street, 4:30 pm.
Opening Reception: Work Commons (Art & Architecture Building), 2000 Bonisteel Blvd, 6 pm.
Live Performances: Duderstadt Video Studio, 2281 Bonisteel Boulevard, 7:30 pm.

The 2018 Stamps Senior Show will be on display at Stamps Gallery and Work Commons from April 13 - 28, 2018.

Exhibition:Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection
2018-04-20 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-21 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-22 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 12–5 p.m. Sunday; galleries are closed on Mondays.

This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century, 'Exercising the Eye' speaks to the relationships Kasle fostered with local, national, and international artists and her appreciation for artistic expression and experimentation. Critical voices from the last fifty years include Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Exhibition:Humanize the Numbers Exhibit at Detroit Street Filling Station
2018-04-20 11:00 - 21:00, 2018-04-21 11:00 - 21:00, 2018-04-22 10:00 - 15:00, 2018-04-24 11:00 - 21:00, 2018-04-25 11:00 - 21:00, 2018-04-26 11:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
April 19-July 1, 2018
-Free and Open to public-
This exhibit showcases photographic works created by people incarcerated at Thumb Correctional Facility in collaboration with University of Michigan students. The opening reception on April 19 at 5pm features students and PCAP faculty Isaac Wingfield who worked with prisoners at Thumb on the exhibits and will be there to share their experiences.

Exhibition:New at UMMA: Illuminated Manuscript
2018-04-20 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-21 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-22 12:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - The Connector
Books of hours—custom-made for private devotion in the Christian faith—were a bestseller in medieval Europe. These manuscripts incorporated prayers, hymns, biblical stories, and monthly calendars featuring religious feast days, which were often supplemented by images painted in exquisite detail. Today, books of hours are a testament to the visually rich material culture of the Middle Ages. UMMA was recently gifted a bejeweled double-sided calendar leaf for January. Executed on parchment, the page highlights the material opulence and artistry involved in manuscript illumination. Accompanying the calendar are painted images or miniatures of the labor and characteristic activity of the month, and Aquarius, the zodiac sign for January, embodied by a man collecting water from a stream. The folio’s luminous, gilded surface, accentuated by the use of bright colors, was meant to transport the medieval viewer into a state of spiritual transcendence.

This work was recently gifted to UMMA by Mrs. Carrol Robertsen.

Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece
2018-04-20 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-21 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-22 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-23 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-24 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-25 11:00 - 17:00, 2018-04-26 11:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Art - Media Gallery
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.

"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.

Lead 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.

Other:CWPA Big Ten Championships @ Iowa University
2018-04-20 12:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:00 | Donald B. Canham Natatorium
CWPA Big Ten Championships at Iowa University

Class / Instruction:Examinations
2018-04-20 12:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-25 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Examinations

Lecture / Discussion:How to Have Reasons for Your Values
2018-04-20 12:00 - 14:00 | Angell Hall - Tanner Library (1171 Angell Hall)
In philosophy, we provide arguments for our positions. So it seems that moral philosophers ought to be in the business of providing arguments for moral and ethical convictions. But I have elsewhere argued that we should not expect to be able to provide arguments of the kind that philosophers paradigmatically make for our most central, important or fundamental normative convictions. To put that another way, we cannot reason to our fundamental moral or ethical commitments. However, as I have also argued, this should not lead us to conclude that we could not have reasons for such commitments. In this paper I attempt to make some progress towards a positive characterization of what it means to have reasons for an attitude that we cannot reason to by considering how we ideally come to adopt or acquire our normative convictions. I will argue that, while we cannot be argued into fundamental normative commitments, we can be educated into them. Moreover, what distinguishes such an education from mere conditioning is sensitivity to the reasons or rational grounds for the commitments.

Sporting Event:MCSA Women's Clinic
2018-04-20 12:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 21:00 | Columbia Yacht Club, Chicago, IL
Clinic hosted in the MCSA for women of all skill levels as well as for both skipper and crews.

Sporting Event:Team Race National Qualifier
2018-04-20 12:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-21 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:00 | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Qualifier for Team Race Nationals.

Other:Thesis Defense: Refining Lanthanide Luminescence in Metallacrown Complexes by Systematic Alterations to Aromatic Hyrdroximate Antenna Ligands
2018-04-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706 Chemistry
Jacob C. Lutter (Advisor: Prof. Vincent L. Pecoraro)

Meeting:Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
2018-04-20 13:30 - 15:00 | Angell Hall - 3184
We write to invite you to a reading group on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. This group will not require preparation prior to the meetings. The format of the reading group will be a slow but deep dive into the Investigations by reading aloud and then discussing the book, section by section. We hope to make it through 5 to 10 sections each meeting. After the discussion on a section dries up, we’ll move to the next section until the hour and a half of the meeting is over. This design is meant to accommodate busy schedules, and it also should be amenable to varying degrees of familiarity with the Investigations and Wittgenstein’s other work.

Our first meeting will be next Friday (February 2) from 1:30-3:00pm. Location: Angell Hall 3184. All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome to attend. RSVP to Bryan Kim-Butler (bkimbutl@umich.edu) and Ben Mangrum (bmangrum@umich.edu). If you can’t make it for the first meeting but are interested, please let us know and we’ll add you to the mailing list.

We'll bring photocopies of the sections likely to be read and discussed each meeting. However, you’re also welcome to bring your own copy of the Investigations.

Lecture / Discussion:AE Department Seminar: Apparent Wing Stiffness Using Load Control
2018-04-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1044 McDivitt Conference Room
Apparent Wing Stiffness Using Load Control

Rafael Palacios
Imperial College
London

We investigate computational methods for the design of aerostructures in which aerodynamic load control strategies allow for high compliance. This talk will introduce first modelling approaches for coupled aeroelasticity and flight dynamics of very flexible aircraft. A medium-fidelity approach for nonlinear simulation and analysis, based on geometrically-nonlinear beams and unsteady vortex-lattice aerodynamics, will be introduced and exemplified in the study of the dynamics of solar-powered aircraft. Aerodynamic load control will be then demonstrated in two prototypical examples: first, the response of a flexible vehicle in wake-vortex encounter will be investigated using a feedforward strategy for fast response; second, high improvements in the maneuverability of a very flexible flying wing will be demonstrated using predictive control with model updating. The latter is built on an original methodology for a nonlinear model reduction in structural dynamics, which will be finally discussed.

About the speaker...

Rafael Palacios is Reader in Aeronautics at Imperial College London. He is Aeronautical Engineer from Universidad Politécnica, Madrid (1998), and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan (2005), which he attended first with a Fulbright and later with an FXB Fellowship. His PhD received the AIAA Foundation Orville and Wilbur Wright Graduate Award. His research is on computational methods in aeroservoelasticity and fluid-structure interactions, with applications to nonlinear aeroelastic design and control of large offshore wind turbines and air vehicles. This work has been funded by the UK Research Council, European Commission, AFOSR, QinetiQ and Airbus. Rafael is associate editor of Progress in Aerospace Sciences, the Journal of Fluids and Structures, and the Journal of Aircraft, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a member of the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee.

Workshop / Seminar:Ninth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | Armenian Childhood(s): Histories and Theories of Childhood and Youth in Armenian Studies
2018-04-20 14:00 - 18:00, 2018-04-21 10:00 - 18:00 | Weiser Hall - Room 455
For complete workshop program, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/workshops/april-2018--armenian-childhood-s---histories-a.html

In recent years, the study of childhood and youth has gained increasing attention that has resulted in innovative interdisciplinary scholarship. The field of Childhood Studies of the last decade has concentrated on modern childhood(s) and youth, and has questioned the meanings that adults and governmental bodies attribute to children. For example, universal characteristics, such as “innocence,” “incompetence,” and “vulnerability,” defining children and youth have been examined and challenged by scholars from a variety of fields, who insist that “childhood”, like ethnicity, gender, and class, is a constructed social category. Pushing methodological boundaries to explore political, historical, cultural, economic, and social formations, structures and contexts across time and place, scholars have begun to consider children and youth as agents in their political and social environment rather than passive members of society.

This workshop will initiate an inter-disciplinary conversation about Armenian childhood, children, and youth. The goal is to consider new perspectives, methodologies, and cross-disciplinary frameworks that will put Armenian Studies in conversation with Childhood Studies. We aim to bring together theoretical and methodological approaches along with empirical studies across disciplines that use childhood as a category of analysis and/or concentrate on children’s agencies and experiences in Armenian history, politics, society, economy, and culture. We see both childhood and youth as fluid categories and concepts that are subject to flexible interpretations and definitions.

Photo caption: Miss Harnack with a group of (Armenian) orphans
Credit: Der Christliche Orient (Vol.15, 1914)

Class / Instruction:Picasso in Context
2018-04-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
Many of our most well-known artists, such as Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani in France, and Klee and Kirschner in Germany, drew inspiration from the art and artifacts of Africa.

Come join us for a 2-session exploration of the arts of Africa – the first a slideshow/lecture, the second, a trip to the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art (UMMA) to view and discuss their wonderful Africa collection. A reminder that no food or drink is allowed in UMMA’s galleries.

This study group for those 50 and over will be held on April 20 and April 27. (Note: different locations for each session). It will be led by instructor Helen Weingarten.

Lecture / Discussion:Five Minute Friday
2018-04-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - 5769 Prefunction room
Although most weeks we focus our attention on a single presenter, this week, IWAP will be hosting a lightning round of presentations that highlight research projects still in their infancy.

Each presentation will be limited to 2 minutes and will be followed by a 3 minute round of questions. It will be a fun opportunity to hear about the puzzles folks in our department are just beginning to tackle and to collectively prod their projects forward while enjoying snacks and coffee.

Lecture / Discussion:Five Minute Friday
2018-04-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769)

Workshop / Seminar:ONCE A FURY: RECORDING THE SEPARATIST REVOLUTION
2018-04-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Angell Hall - 3241
This presentation offers outtakes of interviews with the Furies, a lesbian separatist collective from the early 1970s who published an underground newspaper with a national run. The group formed quickly and ended dramatically, with multiple purges, suspicion of FBI involvement, and numerous interpersonal conflicts—most of which they wrote about in their newspaper. Now, 50 years later, they’re talking—and the IRB-exempt study has turned more problematic with legal and ethical complications of authorship and representation. In this presentation, I offer some insights about the politics of voicing, focusing in particular on the process of attempting to ethically and respectfully listen to and represent other’s stories.

Exhibition:Exhibit Opening: A Wonka Adventure
2018-04-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor
Join us for the exhibit opening of Quaker Oats Makes a Movie: A Scrumdiddlyumptious Wonka Adventure. Quaker Oats saw the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as an opportunity to make a feature-length commercial for their new line of Wonka candy products.

Presentation:Building Contemporaries: Art and Economies in Detroit
2018-04-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Dive into a conversation about what current initiatives and leaders are contributing to the artistic ecosystem in Detroit today. Art critic and curator Taylor Aldridge, along with Cezanne Charles, Director of Creative Industries at Creative Many, Everard Findlay, global brand strategist, currently serving as Chief Innovation Officer for The Platform, the real estate entity that owns the Fisher Building in Detroit, Laura Mott, Curator of Contemporary Art and Design, and Gina Reichert, co-founder of Power House Productions, an artist-run neighborhood-based nonprofit in Detroit, will discuss the landscape of current efforts to center artists and communities within the larger context of economic viability in Detroit.

Reception to follow.

Taylor Renee Aldridge is a Detroit based writer and curator. She received her M.L.A from Harvard University with a concentration in Museum Studies and a B.A from Howard University with a concentration in Art History. In 2015 she co-founded ARTS.BLACK, a journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Aldridge is currently the assistant curator of contemporary art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has worked for the N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, and The National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institutions) as a Goldman Sachs Junior Fellow. Aldridge is the 2016 recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing. She has written for Art21, ARTNews, ContemporaryAnd, Detroit MetroTimes, SFMoMA’s Open Space and Hyperallergic.

Cézanne Charles is a designer, curator and researcher working on design, technology, social justice and public policy for future-making. Charles is the Director of Creative Industries for Creative Many Michigan, leading its programs that provide the knowledge, funding, networks and advocacy needed to empower the practices of artists, designers and designer-makers within the state. Charles also co-founded with Stamps School of Art & Design professor John Marshall rootoftwo, a research and practice-driven hybrid design studio formed in 1998. rootoftwo work to create a condition where we can perceive ourselves, the here and now, and the future differently. rootoftwo makes social objects, experiences, and works for the public realm - typically at the scale of devices, furniture or small buildings. Their projects are designed to disrupt and reframe systems, networks and infrastructure. She serves on the Detroit Creative Corridor Center UNESCO Detroit City of Design Stewardship Board and the Board of Directors of Allied Media Projects. Charles has a Masters of Public Administration from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan.

Everard Findlay is widely recognized as a global thought-leader and influencer, providing targeted strategic consultancy and brand development for clients ranging from countries to cities, corporations, recording and visual artists, Ivy-league universities, and foundations. For the past two years, Everard has been working to create programming and strategy to increase equitability in Detroit. Among other projects, he created the Fisher Halfpipe event, casting “Skateboarding as a Cross-Cultural Platform”, and conceptualized the Maker City app and store, merging technology and development to connect Detroit entrepreneurs, makers, and designers with the global marketplace, as well as the Fisher Beacon Projects, which actively forge connection between the Fisher Building and all of Detroit’s neighborhoods. Findlay is the Mayoral Appointed Chair of Communications for GrowNYC, the Council for the Environment of New York City, as well as being a tenured board member for NeueHouse and Soho House. He serves on the board for the NCCP, the National Center for Children in Poverty, working on poverty alleviation across the United States, and serves on Dartmouth’s ICE Institute for cross-engagement between sciences and humanities. He also serves on the Friends of TimesTalks Committee for the New York Times.

Laura Mott joined Cranbrook Art Museum as the Curator of Contemporary Art and Design in November 2013 following an active career as a curator and lecturer in both the United States and Europe. She is currently a Warhol Curatorial Fellow in support of the upcoming exhibition Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality (2019). A selection of her recent curated exhibitions include Binion/Saarinen: A Project by McArthur Binion(2018); Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theater (2017); The Truth Is I Hear You: A Project by The Cause Collective (2016); Read Image, See Text (2016); Him: A Project by Liz Cohen (2015); Nick Cave: Here Hear (2015); Theater of the Mind (2014); Cranbrook Hall of Wonders: Artworks, Objects, and Natural Curiosities (2014); Andy Warhol: The Record Covers, 1949 – 1987+ (2014), among others. Previously, she has held various curatorial positions at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, Gothenburg Konsthall, IASPIS in Stockholm, Mission 17 in San Francisco, and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is a graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York (MA in Curatorial Studies), and the University of Texas (BFA in Art History and a BA in Studio Art).

Power House Productions is an artist-run neighborhood-based nonprofit organization founded by Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert in 2009. Through a network of project houses, art installations, and dynamic programs, PHP integrates arts and culture into the daily life of our diverse Detroit neighborhood, creating public spaces for the exchange of ideas, opinions, and experiences. PHP embeds contemporary art practices into the area, with the neighborhood itself as a site of cultural and artistic production. Projects are driven by artists who live and work in the neighborhood, while open to an exchange of work from the national and international art world. Reichert holds Master of Architecture degrees from both Cranbrook Academy of Art and Tulane University, and has worked for housing organizations and architecture firms in Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York, and Detroit.

Co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series.

Established through the generosity of Dr. Herbert Sloan, the annual Doris Sloan Memorial Program honors one of the Museum’s most ardent friends and supporters, Doris Sloan, a long-time UMMA docent and the Sloan's shared passion for art.

Lead support for Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Lecture / Discussion:Chef & Writer Tunde Wey in Conversation with Rebekah Modrak
2018-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Off Campus Location
Tunde Wey opened a restaurant in Detroit in 2013. A year later, realizing that the influx of capital to the city was not contributing to an inclusive revival but to the profit of those already “fluent in the language of privilege,” Tunde left the restaurant and moved to New Orleans. He now travels around the country holding dinners, using food as a medium to have conversations about race, equity, and cultural values. Recently, the Nigerian-born chef and writer has received national press for Saartj, his lunch counter in New Orleans where white patrons were asked to pay $30 per plate and people of color were charged $12 per plate as a way to call attention to racial wealth disparity. Participants of color could “opt-in” to receive the profit redistribution. In Ann Arbor, Tunde will host two private dinners for local residents and advocates concerned with equity and race, and will offer food truck conversations for four nights.

At the Ann Arbor District Library, artist and Stamps School Professor Rebekah Modrak (whose works, such as Rethink Shinola, critically intervene in consumption) will moderate a conversation with Tunde about his work as a chef, his decision to use food as provocation, the possibility of transforming consumptive acts through dinners and pop-up restaurants, discriminatory development, racial wealth disparity, and the importance of self-determination in affecting the outcomes of your life and community.

Tunde’s talk is co-sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library, The Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, and Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Performance:Piano Chamber Music at Bloomfield Township Public Library
2018-04-20 19:00 | Off Campus Location
SMTD student chamber groups perform a variety of works at the Bloomfield Township Public Library.

Sponsored by the Department of Chamber Music.

Performance:Mountain Heart
2018-04-20 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Mountain Heart offers bluegrass and more. This band as been fearlessly revolutionizing the way acoustic music can be presented and played. The band's name has been synonymous with cutting-edge excellence in bluegrass circles since the group's creation. Widely known throughout the music industry for continually redefining the boundaries of acoustic music, the band has gained legions of loyal fans as a result of both their superlative musicianship and their incendiary live performances. Mountain Heart's music always fell just barely under the bluegrass umbrella, and now, from large outdoor folk music, Americana, jam band, and bluegrass festivals, to sold-out shows opening for Southern rock icons like The Marshall Tucker Band, The Tedeschi Trucks Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mountain Heart has been making an undeniable connection with wider audiences. Whenever they come to The Ark, they tear the house down—and at the 2018 Ann Arbor Folk Festival, they just had a bigger house to tear down.

Performance:Third Dissertation Recital: John Daugherty, baritone
2018-04-20 20:00 | Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Fauré - L’horizon chimérique; Butterworth - Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad; Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel.

Reception / Open House:Statewide Astronomy Night at the Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor
2018-04-20 20:30 - 22:30 | Detroit Observatory
Explore this Victorian research facility with the docents, get your questions about the night sky answered at the UMMNH walk-up planetarium, and find out more about Michigan's 35,000 acres of night-sky-protected land! Weather permitting, visitors will be able to view the Moon through the original, 1857 Fitz refractor, which was the 3rd largest refractor in the world at the time of its installation. Please note that this is a 19th century building: to access the dome with the telescope you can look through visitors must be able to climb 2 flights of stairs.
Tickets for the dome are available on a first-come first-served basis at the door until 10 PM.
Statewide Astronomy Night is organized by the MSU Science Festival. Visit http://sciencefestival.msu.edu/ for more information.

Other:East Great Lakes Conferences
2018-04-21 07:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 16:30 | Field
Round two - ahh!

Other:Regionals!!!
2018-04-21 08:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 14:00 | Riverview Softball Complex
Michigan will be competing in the regional tournament in Elkhart, Indiana. The wolverines are on the road to Georgia!

Other:University of Vermont Tournament
2018-04-21 09:00 - 16:00 | University of Vermont
Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference Tournament at University of Vermont

Lecture / Discussion:Pleione Orchid Growing
2018-04-21 11:00 - 14:00 | Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Student judge Sandra Dixon discusses Pleiones, easy to grow, cold-tolerant orchids from China, Nepal, Tibet, and Taiwan. Followed by a GLJ orchid judging at 1 pm.
Presenter: Great Lakes Judging (Orchids)

Other:Series @ Bowling Green
2018-04-21 11:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-23 00:00 - 15:00 | Bowling Green State University
Games on April 21 & 22 away vs. Bowling Green State University

Class / Instruction:Study Day
2018-04-21 12:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-22 12:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Study Day

Film Screening:Korea Cinema NOW | The Battleship Island 군함도
2018-04-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
A blockbuster by director Seung-wan (Veteran 2015), “The Battleship Island” narrates the attempted prison break from the forced labor camp on Hashima island, where hundreds of Koreans and Chinese were forced to mine coal for the Japanese Empire.

The main character, Lee Kang-ok (Hwang Jung-min), is a bandmaster who went to Japan with his young daughter (Kim Su-an) in search for a better future that ends up being sent to the hellish island instead.

“Staged on a specially constructed a 2/3-scale set of the island, it’s an impressive display of visual technique and simulated combat as the Koreans rebel against their Japanese oppressors in an attempt to escape aboard a massive coal freighter.”

Please see the review on the Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/battleship-island-1026903

...and Roger Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-battleship-island-2017

Performance:Senior Recital: Thomas J. Wilcox, trombone
2018-04-21 13:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Ropartz - Piece in E-flat Minor; Hindemith - Sonata for Trombone and Piano; Schubert - Der Doppelgänger; Ewazen - Sonata for Trombone and Piano.

Other:Coach Carol "Hutch" Hutchins Receives 2018 Athena Award
2018-04-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Off Campus Location
U-M Alumnae Council invites all U-M softball fans and alumni to join us in acknowledging the contribution Coach Carol "Hutch" Hutchins has made to U-M women's softball and to women's sports overall.

We will present Coach Hutchins with the Alumnae Council's Athena Award prior to the start of the U-M vs. Maryland Terrapins softball game.

We invite you to purchase tickets to the game in order to be a part of this event. Go online to mgoblue.com/tickets, click on Spring Sports, then click on Softball, and finally click on Individual Games. Or, you may purchase tickets in person. It's the perfect day for a celebration!

Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Cosmogonic Tattoos
2018-04-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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. This tour will begin at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and go across the street to the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a rain or shine event and will take place outside!

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/jim-cogswell-cosmogonic-tattoos/

Saturday Sampler tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Lecture / Discussion:Guest Lecture: Glimmerglass Festival Opera
2018-04-21 15:00 | Burton Memorial Tower - Room 602
The Glimmerglass Festival presents BREAKING GLASS: Hyper-linking Opera and Issues. Within eight national forums and an initial 5-episode podcast series, The Glimmerglass Festival will talk with industry professionals, scholars, students and patrons to further explore how an arts organization tackles social responsibility. Funding for BREAKING GLASS is provided by the Mellon Foundation and the Opera America Innovation Grant.

In this panel, the U-M Gershwin Initiative hosts two creative teams from The Glimmerglass Festival opera company. Glimmerglass seeks to inspire conversations about race in opera. This means talking about issues that are bubbling beneath the surface of making art in the late 2000-teens. Pulling from contemporary writers and thinkers, such as Michael Eric Dyson and Ta-Nehisi Coates among others, we will explore whether white privilege or the traditionally white European institutional model dictate the means by which the African American, or further, the refugee cultural experience are theatrically absorbed. Additionally, we explore the idea that an artist’s life work is predicated on an ‘elite system’ where the arts & sciences had the opportunity to flourish as a result of a system of oppression. These conversations will occur in a safe space, but we want to expose the African American and refugee experiences and how the Euro-centric institution is changing to embrace a new social responsibility. Panelists will include Jeanine Tesori (composer of Blue), Tazewell Thompson (librettist and director of Blue), and Matthew Morrison (NYU), and U-M Professor Naomi André, along with SMTD student performers coached by Professor Kathy Kelly.

Paige Hernandez, Stomping Grounds director and librettist
Paige Hernandez is a multidisciplinary artist who is critically-acclaimed as a performer, director, choreographer and playwright. She is known for her effective fusion of theatre, hip-hop, dance and education. As a master teaching artist, Hernandez has taught throughout the country to all ages and disciplines, to date reaching approximately 10,000 students in over 100 residencies, workshops and performances. As a performer, choreographer and hip-hop advocate, her work has been seen at The Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap, Imagination Stage, Lincoln Center, Arena Stage, Folger Theatre and Forum Theatre, among other stages across the globe. Hernandez tours internationally with her company B-FLY ENTERTAINMENT, promoting original works such as Liner Notes, Havana Hop and Paige in Full: A B-girl’s Visual Mixtape. Awards include an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts council, the Thomas Fichandler Award for exceptional promise in theater education from the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning and two Helen Hayes nominations for choreography and performance. Hernandez was named a “classroom hero” by the Huffington Post for her outstanding arts integration and work with STEM initiatives.

Jeanine Tesori, Blue composer
Jeanine Tesori won the 2015 Tony Award for “Best Original Score” with Lisa Kron for Fun Home. She has also written Tony-nominated scores for Twelfth Night (Lincoln Center); Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan); Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner); and Shrek The Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). The production of Caroline, or Change at the National Theatre in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her 1997 Off-Broadway musical Violet (lyrics, Brian Crawley) opened on Broadway in 2014 and garnered four Tony nominations, including Best Musical Revival. Opera: A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck (libretto, Tony Kushner; Glimmerglass) and The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me (libretto, J. D. McClatchy, Washington National Opera). Music for plays: Mother Courage (with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline), John Guare’s A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center Theater), and Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Gala). Film scores: Nights in Rodanthe, Every Day, and You’re Not You. She is founding artistic director of Encores! Off-Center at City Center, and is a lecturer in music at Yale.

Tazewell Thompson, Blue librettist and director
Harlem native Tazewell Thompson, is an internationally-acclaimed director of opera: Europe, Asia, Africa, Canada and the U.S.; theatre: over 85 productions (many world and American premieres and over 24 productions at Arena Stage, where he served for many seasons as resident director); an award-winning playwright (Constant Star, Jam & Spice, A Christmas Carol, Mary T & Lizzy K) with commissions from Lincoln Center Theatre, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep and People's Light and Theatre Company. He recently directed Ruined for Everyman Theatre, Caucasian Chalk Circle for New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and the American premiere of Vivaldi's opera Cato in Utica for the Glimmerglass Festival and Opera Lafayette. His production of Porgy & Bess, broadcast on Live From Lincoln Center, received EMMY nominations for Best Classical Production and Best Director. He made his Washington National Opera directorial debut in November 2015, with the world premiere of Philip Glass’ Appomattox, and returned for the February 2016 production of Lost in the Stars, which he originated with Cape Town Opera/Glimmerglass Festival to widespread recognition in 2012. Most recently, he directed the 2017 Glimmerglass production of Handel’s Xerxes.

Naomi André
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Naomi André is associate professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s Studies, and the associate director for Faculty at the Residential College at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race. Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, women composers, and teaching opera in prisons. Her current book, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press in May 2018. 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. She has served on the Graduate Alumni Council for Harvard University’s Graduate School of Art and Sciences, the Executive Committee for the Criminal Justice Program at the American Friends Service Committee (Ann Arbor, MI), and as an evaluator for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program.

Matthew Morrison – moderator
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Matthew Morrison is an assistant professor faculty/fellow at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He holds a PhD in Musicology from Columbia University, a MM in Musicology from The Catholic University of America and was a Presidential music scholar at Morehouse College, where he studied violin and conducting. Morrison has served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed music journal Current Musicology, where he published a special issue on Race, Sound, and Performance (Spring 2012) featuring an interdisciplinary group of scholars writing about the sounds of music in society. His published work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Grove Dictionary of American Music and on Oxford University Press’s online music blog. Morrison is currently the dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs for the W. E. B. Du Bois Scholars Institute at Princeton University. He also curates and contracts a variety of performances featuring some of the most dynamic musicians (of color, in particular). His current book project, American Popular Sound: From Blackface to Blacksound, considers the implications of positing sound as a major component in both individual and societal identity constructions, specifically race formation.

Performance:String Preparatory Academy Recital
2018-04-21 16:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
String Preparatory Academy's students will take the stage to offer up traditional string repertoire alongside our gifted pianists.

Performance:Mr. B's Blues & Boogie Celebration
2018-04-21 19:30 | Off Campus Location
Blues and boogie-woogie pianist Mark “Mr. B” Braun has become one of the premiere purveyors of a vanishing art. Having learned his craft first-hand from the early masters, he is a rare living link to the first generation of blues and boogie pianists.

Performance:Emerging Dance Artists Concert
2018-04-21 20:00 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater
This concert showcases the creative work of our dance majors, who exhibit dance works they have been creating outside of other formal performances. These are often collaborations with musicians, elaborations of class studies into fuller works, and more.

Performance:Student Recital: BrassTaps Duo
2018-04-21 20:00 | Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall
PROGRAM: White - Incantation; Lund - Music for Tuba and Mallet Instruments; Wysocki - I’m not yet sure what this will become; Debussy - “Prelude” from Pour le Piano; Debussy - “La cathedrale engloutie” from Preludes, Book I; Hertz - Distacco; Gast - Obsidian.

*Please note Hankinson Rehearsal Hall has limited seating capacity, early arrival is recommended to ensure admission*

Social / Informal Gathering:Engaging with Art
2018-04-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Museum of Art
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.

For more information and events, visit umma.umich.edu/events.

Film Screening:CMENAS & AANM Film Screening. 3000 Nights
2018-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Join the Arab American National Museum and CMENAS as we screen 3000 Nights by Director, Mai Masri. Layal finds herself incarcerated in a top security Israeli prison for Palestinian and Israeli women. After discovering that she is pregnant, Layal defiantly gives birth to her child even after the prison director pressures her to abort the baby and spy on the Palestinian inmates.

When prison conditions deteriorate and the Palestinian prisoners decide to strike, the prison director warns her against joining the strike and threatens to take her son away. In a moment of truth, Layal is forced to make a choice that will forever change her life.

Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, 3000 Nights traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds. Immediately following the screening, director Mai Masri will join the audience via SKYPE for an intimate talkback!

Director: Mai Masri
Year: 2015
Country: Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
Run time: 103 minutes

Location: Aliya Hassan Auditorium @ AANM

Performance:Faculty Recital: Kathleen Kelly
2018-04-22 14:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Schumann- Selections from Frauenliebe und -Leben; Strauss- Vier lezte Lieder; Wagner- “Elsas Traum” from Lohengrin; Mahler- Bei dir ist es traunt; Korngold- Was Du mir bist…; Strauss- Ruhe, meine Seele!; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen!; Cäcilie

Social / Informal Gathering:Guided Tour - Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection
2018-04-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Museum of Art - Forum
This exhibition celebrates Gertrude Kasle (1917–2016), a key figure in the formation of Detroit’s contemporary art community in the 1960s and 70s. A pioneering female gallerist, Kasle provided midwest audiences with a venue in which to experience avant-garde art from centers like New York City, while also supporting and exhibiting regional artists. Featuring a collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement through the early twenty-first century including Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Michele Oka Doner, and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. Join docents as they explore a dynamic moment in Detroit’s cultural history and insight into Kasle’s love of looking and learning.

Lead support for 'Exercising the Eye: The Gertrude Kasle Collection' is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and the University of Michigan CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Social / Informal Gathering:Food for the Soul Sundays
2018-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
A monthly event which provides students, faculty, and staff of all identities the opportunity to break bread, engage in dialogue and build relationships over traditionally prepared culturally unique food expressions.

Performance:WaterColors Spring Concert
2018-04-22 18:00 - 19:15 | 3021 East Hall
Come see the spring concert for WaterColors Acapella. Free admission!

Performance:John Gorka w/sg Cliff Eberhardt
2018-04-22 19:30 | Off Campus Location
After 14 critically acclaimed albums, countless national and international tours, and collaborations with the likes of Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ani DiFranco, Lucy Kaplansky, Patty Larkin, and many more, John Gorka is now releasing "True in Time," a 12-song collection spanning a lyrical spectrum from the spirit lives of dogs, to the people of the Taos Pueblo, to the idea that all songs manifest in time. John says, “I wrote the title track ‘True In Time’ with Pete Kennedy. When Carrie Fisher and her mom, Debbie Reynolds, died within a day of each other I quoted lines from Paul Simon’s ‘Mother & Child Reunion’ song on Facebook—‘Oh I would not give you false hope on this strange and mournful day. But a mother and child reunion is only a motion away.’ Pete responded, ‘Maybe all songs come true in time.’ Later he wrote, ‘True in time sounds like a song’ and we proceeded to write the song long distance via the Internet.” Another special element is a pair of lost songs, “Blues with A Rising Sun” and “Red Eye & Roses” both recovered by fan recordings that John felt found a place with his more recent compositions. The album was recorded “old school” with the musicians all playing together in one place, and it's a lively, immediate listening experience certain to find a treasured spot in the collection of long time fans. Fast Folk Music Cooperative co-founder Cliff Eberhardt, who has shared many stages with John Gorka, is special guest.

Performance:Specialist Recital: Tobiah Murphy, violin
2018-04-22 20:00 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Elgar - Salut d’Amour; Beethoven - Sonata no. 5, op. 24 (”Spring”); Brahms - Sonata no. 3, op. 108; Ysaÿe - Sonata no. 6.

Performance:Specialist Recital: Wesley Hornpetrie, cello
2018-04-22 20:00 | Off Campus Location
PROGRAM: Villa-Lobos - O canto do cysno negro [Song of the Black Swan]; Prokofiev - Cello Sonata in C Major, op. 119; Grant Still - Mother and Child; Steinke - Suite for Two Cellos; Sollima - Arboreto Salvatico.

Lecture / Discussion:Teach Out Series: Privacy, Reputation, and Identity in a Digital Age
2018-04-23 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-24 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-25 00:00 - 23:59, 2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Reputation has long been prized. In its traditional form, people who know something about you use this knowledge to form opinions. Their collective sense of who you are—your reputation—affects how people treat you: it shapes all of your social interactions.

In today's world, additional knowledge about you resides in "big data" collected by individuals, organizations, companies, and governments. Increasingly, data about you are being processed by algorithms to draw conclusions: to form something like opinions.

This combination of data and algorithms creates a new digital reputation which increasingly shapes your life, from recommending purchases and suggesting friends to prompting actions based solely on your digital footprint.

Who gathers, owns, and controls this data? Where do they get it, and how? How do they use it? Is it shared with people, processed by algorithms, used to construct your choices? What should we think about all of this?

In this Teach-Out we will consider questions of privacy, surveillance, reputation, and identity using a case study approach. Learners will hear from experts and engage in conversation using real-world scenarios across multiple topic areas.

Teach-Out.org

Conference / Symposium:Inaugural Josef Miller Symposium
2018-04-23 08:30 - 16:30 | Palmer Commons
Please join us on Monday, April 23, 2018 for the inaugural Josef Miller Symposium, which will honor the memory of the former Kresge Hearing Research Institute director through a day of science and shared discovery.

Admission to the lecture and luncheon are free, but please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugural-josef-miller-symposium-tickets-41141044973

Donations to the Miller Memorial Fund are welcome, visit here to give: http://victors.us/millermemorial

Scheduled Talks
Blake S. Wilson, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Duke Hearing Center
Duke University
Duke University Medical Center
“The Modern Cochlear Implant and the First Substantial Restoration of a Human Sense Using a Medical Intervention”

Mats Ulfendahl, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
“An Animal CI Model for Exploring Novel Intervention Therapies”

Tianying Ren, M.D.
Professor, Oregon Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University
“A Micromechanical Mechanism for Cochlear Amplification”

Thomas Lenarz, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Medical University of Hannover
“Hearing Preservation Cochlear Implantation: Precision Medicine in Otology”

Brad May, Ph.D.
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Johns Hopkins University
“Improving the Reliability of Behavioral Screening Procedures for Animal Models of Tinnitus”

Colleen G. Le Prell, Ph.D.
Emily & Phil Schepps Professor of Hearing Science
Audiology Program Head
University of Texas at Dallas
“Prevention of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Translational From Animal Models to Clinical Trials”

Jose Manuel Juiz, Ph.D.
Professor, Castilla-La Mancha University
Director, Research Institute on Neurological Disabilities-IDINE
School of Medicine
“Noise Damage and the Central Auditory Pathway: Some Plastic/Adaptive Processes”

Tatsuya Yamasoba, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of Tokyo
“Cochlear Damage Due to Germanium Dioxide-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction and its Prevention by Antioxidants”

Peter Thorne, CNZM, Ph.D.
Section of Audiology Director, Eisdell Moore Center
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
“Manipulation of Purinergic Signaling in the Cochlea as an Otoprotective Strategy”

John C. Middlebrooks, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
University of California, Irvine
“The Cochlear Implant Plus One”

Lecture / Discussion:Decolonizing Aid for Health Justice: Water, Cholera, and Rice in Haiti
2018-04-23 10:00 - 11:30 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
Vicky Koski-Karell discusses three elements of Haiti's contemporary history—water, cholera, and rice—and traces the ways that their interrelated narratives impinge on one another. Humanitarian efforts to ameliorate water, health, and food insecurity in Haiti often rely on top-down strategies—themselves constrained by funding mechanisms, internal mission and bureaucracy, and implicit bias—that, while sometimes effecting improvements, may perpetuate colonial dynamics.

Many elements considered essential for life, such as water, health care, and food, become readily appropriated through neoliberal market logics as commodities available only to those who can afford them, leading to vast and ever expanding disparities across the globe—the consequences of which bear most heavily on historically marginalized communities. Despite a successful anti-slavery revolution that resulted in liberation from French colonial rule in 1804, Haiti has suffered tremendously at the hands of transnational structural racism, foreign military occupation, and mandated austerity measures.

With generous support from the U-M Library, and inspired by the radical potential of collective solidarity and mutual aid embodied in libraries and information services, Koski-Karell is embarking on a documentary film project about water access in a rural Haitian community still plagued by the cholera epidemic (Haiti's first) that started nearby in October 2010. In an attempt to decolonize the traditional aid model deployed in Haiti, the film also serves as a tool for extending Haitian voices and raising funds to support a community-directed water project where it has been locally identified as most needed.

Emergent 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.

Presentation:Dissertation defense: Plant quality mediates the response of disease to global environmental change
2018-04-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Dana Building - 1028
Leslie Decker defends her doctoral dissertation.

Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Nima Salehi Sadghiani
2018-04-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2869
CANDIDATE: Nima Salehi Sadghiani

TITLE OF DISSERTATION: Models for Flexible Supply Chain Network Design

CHAIR: Mark Daskin

Presentation:UM Psychology Community Talk with Dr. Ben Dantzer
2018-04-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2018-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Off Campus Location
Can Stress be Beneficial? Perspectives from Wild Animals

Stress is constant in our lives. From the breakup of a relationship, the death of a loved one, or the frustrations associated with your morning commute, many of us unfortunately experience daily stressors associated with these types of situations. These adverse experiences can be associated with the release of stress hormones such as cortisol. If the situation that is causing us stress is short term, we usually cope and recover. However, if we experience stress for a long period of time (“chronic stress”), this may have very negative effects on our physical and mental health and overall well-being. From an evolutionary perspective, this is somewhat puzzling. Why would such a system evolve where our physiological responses to challenging situations have negative consequences to our health and well-being? If stress is “bad”, then why do all animals (not just humans) experience it? Could there be situations in which stress is actually good, at least from an evolutionary perspective? This presentation will focus on understanding the benefits of stress in wild animals from an evolutionary perspective. It will present examples of our research examining how stress experienced during pregnancy may have beneficial effects on offspring, at least in squirrels, and how elevations in stress may cause highly social animals like meerkats to be more cooperative.

Other:Thesis Defense: Heme Protein Engineering and Mechanistic Investigations
2018-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - Chemistry 1706
Matthew Wolf (Advisor: Prof. Nicolai Lehnert)

Workshop / Seminar:Introductory Techniques Seminars presented by The Michigan Center for Materials Characterization
2018-04-23 14:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-24 14:00 - 16:00, 2018-04-25 14:00 - 16:00 | North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Room 122, but check http://mc2.engin.umich.edu/seminar for updates
This continuing series of seminars is designed to introduce potential users of our center to a range of the techniques that are employed with our instruments. For more detail on the instrumentation in the center and the topics covered by our seminars, visit http://mc2.engin.umich.edu. Questions may on the seminar series may be directed to John Mansfield (jfmjfm@umich.edu)

Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Orientation: NYC Immersion May 2018
2018-04-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Required for EXCEL's NYC Broadway Immersion May 19-21 2018.

Other:Finals Prep @ The Hub
2018-04-23 18:00 - 22:00 | LSA Building - Suite 2113
Join us for the ultimate study session. We're serving up snacks of all kinds (healthy and more indulgent) to keep you going, and reserving rooms where you can focus in peace. Whenever you need a break, pop into the yoga room, or lobby to relax.

6:00 to 10:00 P.M.- Study space, coffee, snacks, Legos and other study break activities
6:00 to 7:00 P.M.- Pizza!
7:30 to 8:30 P.M.- Yoga
8:30 to 9:00 P.M - Lifesize Jenga and other group games

Performance:Student Recital: Nico Laenen, saxophone
2018-04-23 19:30 | Off Campus Location
PROGRAM: Creston - Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra; Desenclos - Prelude Cadence et Finale; Noda - Mai; Marcello - Oboe Concerto in C Minor; Maslanka - Mountain Roads.

Performance:Nancy and Beth
2018-04-23 20:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
In 2011, Megan Mullally met Stephanie Hunt in a sport utility vehicle while filming a motion picture in Smithville, Texas. That blessed day saw the beginning of the self-described punk-showbiz band Nancy And Beth. Together with their gypsy band of mystics, jazz pastors, and Austin, Texas wild west tea-heads, these unusual ladies will gamely endeavor to meet and even exceed your entertainment quota via harmonies in song, hypnotic dancing, and spoken pleasantries. In 2017, Nancy And Beth toured the US and UK extensively in support of their self-titled debut LP, entertaining the children while coyly refusing to explain to journalists why the "And" is capitalized. Dates included Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, Newport Folk, a debut at the Grand Ole Opry, Philly Pride, NPR Mountain Stage, and opening for the Pixies. All songs are choreographed by Mullally (who studied at the School of American Ballet and has performed in several Broadway musicals). The band is touring again in the spring of 2018, with a second album on the way.

Exhibition:II Exhibition. The World at Home
2018-04-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Weiser Hall - 547
The International Institute (II) recognizes that we live in a global world and understands the need to provide students with a truly international education. The II advocates this mission, in part, through its Experiential Learning Fund-designed to support faculty who wish to incorporate a hands-on international experience into an ongoing course, group internship, or academic program. From Tokyo to Kraków to Mexico City, international experiences are paramount not only in preparing students to become active and informed global citizens but also in providing the training that enhances students' long-term career prospects.

This collaborative exhibition celebrates the impactful, international experiences of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, made possible through the Experiential Learning Fund. We believe international engagement not only serves the students and faculty who participate, but also the greater university community. When participants return to campus and share their experiences… they bring the world home.

Conference / Symposium:Changing the Global E-Waste Cycle
2018-04-24 08:30 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
Join us for an in-depth look at informal electronic waste recycling communities in Ghana, Thailand, and Chile.

During this all-day public event, experts in sustainability, population health, policy, and design processes will lead discussions on the complex issues surrounding global production and transportation of electronic waste and its impact on vulnerable communities around the world.

Other:BME Final Oral Exam: Brandan Walters
2018-04-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - GM Room, 4th Floor
Department of Biomedical Engineering Final Oral Examination

Brandan Walters

Morphometric Analysis to Characterize the Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
into Smooth Muscle Cells in Response to Biochemical and Mechanical Stimulation

The morphology and biochemical phenotype of cells are closely linked. This relationship is important in progenitor cell bioengineering, which generates functional, tissue-specific cells from uncommitted precursors. Advances in biofabrication have demonstrated that cell shape can regulate cell behavior and alter phenotype-specific functions. Establishing accessible and rigorous techniques for quantifying cell shape will therefore facilitate assessment of cellular responses to environmental stimuli, and will enable more comprehensive understanding of developmental, pathological, and regenerative processes. For progenitor cells being induced into specific lineages, this ability is valuable for validating the degree of differentiation and may lead to novel strategies for controlling cell phenotype.

In our approach, we used the differentiation of adult human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into smooth muscle cells (SMCs) as a model system to investigate the relationship between cell shape and phenotype. These cell types are responsive to mechanical and biochemical stimuli and the shape of SMCs is a recognized marker of a differentiated state, providing a system in which morphological and biochemical phenotype are both understood and inducible. By applying exogenous stimuli, we changed cell shape and examined the corresponding cellular phenotype. In the first Aim, we applied stretch to MSCs on 2D collagen sheets to promote differentiation. Using mathematical shape factors, we quantified the morphological changes in response to defined stretch parameters. In the second Aim, we investigated the use of input energy as a means of controlling cell shape and corresponding differentiation. We examined how combinations of stretch parameters that produce equal energy input impacted morphology, and postulated that cell shape is a function of energy input. In the third Aim, we translated our method of quantifying shape factors into 3D culture, and validated the method by investigating the differentiation of MSCs into SMCs by mechanical and growth factor stimulation. We used relevant shape factors to quantify morphological differences and compared these changes to biochemical markers.

Our results demonstrate that mechanical stretch influences multiple aspects of MSC phenotype, including cell morphology. Shape factors described these changes objectively and quantitatively, and enabled the identification of relationships between SMC shape and differentiated state. Similar morphological responses could be induced using different combinations of stretch parameters that resulted in equal energy input. Cell shape followed a linear relationship with energy input despite the variance introduced by using MSCs from different patients. Only one SMC gene marker directly exhibited this relationship; however, partial least squares regression analysis revealed that other genes were also associated with shape factors. Translation of the shape quantification method into 3D collagen systems revealed that while the additional dimensionality hindered comparison of morphology between 2D and 3D samples, shape factor analysis was valid for relative studies within 3D systems. Differences in cell morphology caused by growth factors and mechanical stretch in 3D constructs were elucidated by shape analysis, and these phenotypic changes were corroborated through biochemical assays. Taken together, these results validate the use of cell shape as means of characterizing cell phenotype and the process of progenitor cell differentiation. The automated method we developed generates a robust set of morphological parameters that characterize the differentiation of MSCs into SMCs. This work has implications in our understanding of the relationship between cell morphology and phenotype, and may lead to new ways to control and improve differentiation efficiency in a variety of cell and tissue systems.

​Chair: Dr. ​Jan Stegemann​

Workshop / Seminar:Health, History, Demography & Development (H2D2): Biased beliefs, effort, performance, and career aspirations: Evidence from a field experiment in Colombia
2018-04-24 11:30 - 13:00 | Lorch Hall - 201
Abstract

Some of life’s most important decisions require assessing our ability relative to others. Findings in lab experiments reveal that individuals hold biased beliefs about their relative ability. However, there is little evidence on the relevance of beliefs outside of the lab. To fill this gap, I conduct a field experiment with students who are preparing to take a college admission exam and take weekly practice tests in a test preparation center. Overall, I find that over 50% of students hold biased beliefs, either by overestimating or underestimating their relative performance in math and reading. I observe substantial biases in information processing after students receive a signal of whether they are in the top or bottom half of the distribution: Students update about 67% of what a Bayesian would and update more when receiving a "top" rather than a "bottom" signal. Moreover, the data show evidence of "confirmatory bias", which is the tendency to update more closely to the Bayesian benchmark when receiving a signal confirming one's prior and to ignore information when receiving a disconfirming signal. When receiving full feedback about their relative performance, treated students are 10 pp less likely to overestimate their math performance in the next practice test if they receive a “bottom” signal and are 10 pp less likely to underestimate if they receive a “top” signal. Furthermore, when receiving a “bottom” signal, individuals study less for the next practice test. Interestingly, these effects go in opposite directions by gender: women who get to know their low performance tend to study more while men tend to study less.

Other:BME Master's Thesis Defense - Suraj Jaipalli
2018-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | North Campus Recreation Building - Room 101
Discovering Synergistic and Antagonistic Drug Combinations for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

With the rise of antibiotic resistance, treatments involving common frontline TB drugs have been rendered insufficient, especially in treating multidrug resistant (MDR) and extremely drug resistant (XDR) strains of TB. As new anti-TB therapies are beginning to emerge, optimizing specific combinations of individual agents into effective and safe regimens remains a significant challenge. To address this problem, we have developed a in-silico computational tool—Inferring Drug Interactions using chemo-Genomics and Orthology for MTB (INDIGO-MTB). INDIGO-MTB leverages high resolution MTB transcriptomic profiles and TB drug interaction data to predict synergy/antagonism of TB drug regimens with high accuracy. INDIGO-MTB uses the random forests machine learning algorithm to train its predictive model, which can be used to make predictions for synergy of novel TB drug regimens. INDIGO-MTB predictions correlated well with corresponding in-vitro drug interaction validation scores. The in-vitro INDIGO-MTB interaction scores were also predictive of the percentage of patients with negative sputum cultures after 8 weeks in clinical trials for 58 TB drug regimens. We hope INDIGO-MTB can be used by clinicians and researchers to quickly assess the likelihood of success of new TB drug combinations using publicly available data.

Chair: Sriram Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.

Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
2018-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
Dr. Akif Tezcan, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, will present a seminar on Tuesday April 24th, 2018 at 12 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II. The title of the talk is "Chemical Design of Functional Protein Assemblies."

Presentation:Dissertation defense: Deep homology and evolutionary tinkering in the origins of nodulation
2018-04-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room
Alex Taylor defends his doctoral dissertation.

Lecture / Discussion:BME Master's Thesis Defense - Mingxiao Zhang
2018-04-24 14:00 - 15:00 | East Hall - 4464
Department of Biomedical Engineering Master’s Thesis Defense

Mingxiao Zhang

Hardware Design, Integration and Optimization of a Virtual Reality Environment for Rodent Cortical Neuronal Recordings

Understanding neural circuits often requires innovative and custom-designed behavioral setups. A head-fixed virtual reality (VR) system for rodents offers a number of advantages in terms of being able to investigate and manipulate neural circuits involved in both normal behaviors and in pathological brain states. A complete VR experimental system to investigate cortical neurons of rodents consists of three vital parts: 1) a hardware system with recording and reward functionality; 2) a software system to process, analyze and report the signals and also to control the logical flow of experiments; 3) a hardware-software interface to link these two systems. The current project focused on the design of the hardware interface, the optimization of the communication between the software system and multiple hardware systems, the locomotion-recording system, and the displacement/speed analysis from the locomotion-recording system. This functional VR system has enabled high resolution neural recordings in the study of precise behaviors.

Chair: Tim Bruns, PhD.

Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Bryan Toth
2018-04-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Cooley Building - 2906 (Baer Room)
Title: Prediction and Analysis of Stochastic Convergence in the Standard and Extrapolated Power Methods Applied to Monte Carlo Fission Source Iterations

Chair: Prof. William Martin

Abstract: In Monte Carlo (MC) eigenvalue calculations, numerous cycles of the fission source iterative procedure may need to be discarded to sufficiently converge an initial guess toward the steady-state fission distribution in a system. Reducing the number of discarded cycles is desirable to save computer time, and knowing when one may stop discarding is important to avoid introducing a bias in desired quantities from simulations. In this work, approximate prescriptions are derived for the evolution of eigenmode components of the fission source at each cycle using the standard and extrapolated power methods adapted to MC neutron transport. The approximate prescriptions may be used to diagnose and predict convergence of the standard and extrapolated fission source iterations. Despite the lack of success by previous researchers, the approximate prescriptions reveal that the extrapolated power method can reduce the number of discarded cycles compared with the standard power method for some cases. The probability density functions (PDFs) of eigenmode components are shown to be approximately normally distributed and thus may be wholly described by their means and variances. Two methods for approximating the mean of single-cycle variances of eigenmode components are constructed and validated. The mean of single-cycle variances of eigenmode components may be used to predict the variance of eigenmode components after multiple cycles. A novel convergence diagnostic that focuses on convergence of the probability density functions (PDFs) of eigenmode components of the fission source distribution is developed. The Bhattacharyya coefficient and relative entropy are examined as measures of similarity between eigenmode component PDFs, and relative entropy is shown to be preferable. A predictive convergence diagnostic is constructed using a threshold maximum value for the relative entropy between eigenmode PDFs at each cycle and their steady-state PDFs. Prescriptions for the optimal numbers of extrapolated and standard cycles to discard are derived using the new diagnostic such that the number of discarded cycles is minimized for a chosen relative entropy threshold. The new diagnostic is significant because it may be applied before or during a running simulation, and it provides the user with tangible confidence intervals for the eigenmode components when given appropriate input.

Class / Instruction:What’s Going on in Housing?
2018-04-24 14:30 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
This three-session course will help home and property owners, investors and intellectually active seniors understand the latest developments in the local housing market and how it affects them, their friends and families.

Topics include: current housing market trends, factors that influence future market prices, preparing your home to sell, how property taxes are calculated, normal vs. distressed sales, foreclosures, short sales, the rental market and other topics proposed by participants.

This study group for those 50 and over will be led by instructor Wayne Esch, a long-time Ann Arbor realtor. Sessions will be held on Tuesdays from April 24 to May 8.

Other:Tunde Wey: Food Truck Conversations on Race, Equity, and Segregation
2018-04-24 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 17:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-26 17:00 - 20:00 | Off Campus Location
In late April 2018, the Stamps School of Art & Design will host Witt Visiting Artist Tunde Wey. Recently, the Nigerian-born chef and writer has received national press for Saartj, his lunch counter in New Orleans where white patrons were requested to pay $30 per plate and people of color were charged $12 per plate. Participants of color could “opt-in” to receive the profit redistribution. The project was a way to explore and call attention to racial wealth disparity. Data collected during the project revealed the power of social pressure to re-frame conversations about equity and race.

Rebekah Modrak, Associate Professor at the Stamps School, is hosting Wey for his Ann Arbor visit.

As part of his campus visit, Wey will create a public dinnertime food truck dining experience Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday April 25 at the U-M Ginsberg Center at the corner of E. University and Hill Streets in Ann Arbor. The food truck will appear at Argus Farm Stop (325 W. Liberty Rd, Ann Arbor) on Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27. Hours of operation are from 5-8 pm. These dining spaces will aim to use food as a way to explore the ways in which racial disparities, equity, and privilege play out locally.

Food Truck Locations/Hours
Tuesday, April 24, Ginsberg Center (1024 Hill St.), 5 - 8 pm
Wednesday April 25, Ginsberg Center (corner of E. University and Hill Streets), 5 - 8 pm
Thursday, April 26, Argus Farm Stop (325 W. Liberty Rd, Ann Arbor), 5 - 8 pm
Friday, April 27, Argus Farm Stop (325 W. Liberty Rd, Ann Arbor), 5 - 8 pm

Sponsors:
Stamps School of Art & Design
The Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
The College of Literature, Science and the Arts
The Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs
Institute for the Humanities
The Ann Arbor District Library
The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Jefferson Market
Argus Farm Stop
The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, The Original

Lecture / Discussion:PhD Defense: Jiyang Chu
2018-04-25 09:00 - 11:00 | Cooley Building - 2906 (Baer Room)
Title: Advanced Imaging Algorithms with Position-Sensitive Gamma-Ray Detectors

Chair: Prof. Zhong He

Abstract: The 3D position-sensitive CdZnTe detector can provide position and energy information of gamma-ray interactions, enabling imaging capability. Previous imaging methods can reconstruct distinguishable source locations. However, there exists a major contradiction in imaging problem eternally: information rate and reconstruction speed. The information rate represents how much information can be extracted from a measurement, including resolution, variance, and noise level. The reconstruction speed relies on the computing hardware heavily but can be greatly accelerated by sophisticated reconstruction algorithms. To improve the combined performance of information rate and reconstruction speed, several imaging algorithms were investigated. Among them, the Simple Back-Projection (SBP) provides fastest reconstruction speed but least information due to its biased and blurred estimation. The Filtered Back-Projection (FBP) is almost as fast as SBP, but much more informative. However, better understanding of FBP is required to let it work for real data without too much manual intervention, thus the adjusted FBP and the adaptive FBP were developed to make FBP practical. On the contrary, the Energy-Imaging Integrated Deconvolution (EIID) is a very informative reconstruction algorithm, but too slow to be applicable in many time-sensitive scenarios. The convergence rate of EIID should be accelerated without too much degradation to the information, thus the Energy-Decremental Integrated Deconvolution algorithm was developed. Finally, 3D image reconstruction is proposed, which provides a new dimension to interpret source distribution compared to traditional 2D spherical image reconstruction and is more natural for people to understand.

Presentation:Thesis defense: Chytrid in the lowlands: widespread fungal infection across Amazonian frog clades suggests critical role for low elevation in pathogen spread and persistence
2018-04-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 2024
Imani Russell defends her master's thesis.

Conference / Symposium:Human Trafficking Symposium
2018-04-25 11:30 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location - Kahn Auditorium
Attendees will gain an overview of what human trafficking is and how they can help victims that they may encounter in their field of practice, with a particular emphasis on healthcare settings. We will explore the root causes of human trafficking and our role in perpetuating and combating the underlying causes. We will take a critical perspective on what it means to help a victim of trafficking and well-meaning interventions, which may unwittingly cause the individual’s arrest or deportation. Further, we will examine guiding principles for successful engagement with this population, including trauma-informed care, cultural awareness, and harm reduction. Finally, we will hear about local resources that providers can use if they suspect a client is a victim of human trafficking.

Speakers and panelist include:
- Elizabeth Campbell, JD; University of Michigan Law School, Human Trafficking Clinic
- Nicole McGee, PhD; Victim Assistance Program, FBI
- Wendi-Jo Wendt, MD; Michigan Medicine, Pediatrics-Emergency Medicine
- Carmen Uresti, LMSW; Michigan Medicine, Care Management, Social Work
- Kaitlin Deslatte, University of Michigan Police Department, Special Victims Unit

Please register in advance. We ask participants to arrive at 11:30 for sign-in.

Social Work and Nursing continuing education credits will be offered. Please contact emattila@umich.edu if you have any questions.

We hope to see you there!

Reception / Open House:CSP Graduation Reception
2018-04-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Michigan League - Michigan League Ballroom
The Comprehensive Studies Program is hosting a graduation reception on April 25, 2018 from 1pm-4pm in the Michigan League Ballroom. RSVP Only.

Ceremony / Service:Department of Near Eastern Studies Graduation and Awards Ceremony
2018-04-25 15:30 - 17:30 | Michigan League - Vandenberg Room
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold its annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 in the Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League. This ceremony honors graduating seniors who have a major in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, students who have received department awards, and graduating Masters and PhD students. Graduating students and awardees can invite up to four guests.

The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Michigan League Concourse.

Please RSVP using the Google Form by April 1 if you plan to attend the event: https://goo.gl/forms/yYcSCN2iQLZM2B0g1.

If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodation to attend this event, please email Andrea Nashar at naandrea@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Please contact the department office at Near.Eastern.Studies@umich.edu or 734-764-0314 if you have any questions.

Lecture / Discussion:Energy and Environmental Policy Research: a student symposium
2018-04-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom 1110
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
4:00pm – 6:00pm (refreshments served)

The symposium begins promptly at 4:00pm –not “Michigan Time”
Free and open to the public

About the symposium:
Student panels will discuss the implications of their independent research projects on state and local environmental policy on issues including water, energy, climate change, and land use.

This event showcases the work of Ford School BA students enrolled in a section of PubPol 495 that is part of the CLOSUP in the Classroom Initiative.

Panel 1: Human Considerations in Environmental Policy

American Media Framing of World Population Growth

Comparing Context of Local Government Response to Sea Level Rise in Norfolk and Miami

Was the Flint water crisis a focusing event? An analysis of the public reaction to the Flint crisis

The Effect of Public Opinion on International Environmental Agreements in the U.S. and China

The Prioritization of the Prisoner Community versus the Host-Community
in the Relocation of Utah’s Draper State Prison

Changing Winds of Community Attitudes Towards Wind Energy Development:
an Analysis of Huron County, Michigan

Panel 2: Economic Considerations in Environmental Policy

Comparing What Triggered Renewable Energy Development in Jordan and Morocco

The Politics of the Gas Tax: Exploring State Politics and the Oil Industry

Framing Local Parking Restrictions as Climate Change Mitigation Policies

Disparities in Green Infrastructure Implementation in Washtenaw County, Michigan

Examining policy attitudes towards land exchanges and urban infrastructure in
Alaskan National Wildlife Refuges

Panel 3: Political Considerations in Environmental Policy

Analyzing the Evolution of the Renewable Portfolio Standard in the United States

Exploring Current Republican Senators’ Portrayal of Climate Change and Mitigation Policies

Virginia’s Road to RGGI: A Case Study of State-Level Cap-and-Trade Adoption

An Inquiry into Renewable Energy Credit Trading Within and Among States

How the Future of Nuclear Energy is Framed by the Obama and Trump Administrations

The Role of National and State Actors in the Cape Town Water Crisis

Sponsored by:
University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091. Follow on Twitter @closup

Workshop / Seminar:Experiences in Science Policy
2018-04-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Seminar Rooms A/B/C (TBA)
“Jesús Alvelo is a Microbiologist with a background in biofuels and infectious diseases. Presently, he is serving as a 2017-2018 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in NSF’s Directorate of Engineering, Division of Engineering and Educational Centers. Prior to the AAAS Fellowship, Jesús was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying the fluid dynamics of disease transmission. While at MIT, Jesús also served as a volunteer scientific advisor for the Gubernatorial Candidate and former Secretary of State of Puerto Rico David Bernier. Jesús earned his Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst and his B.S. from Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. While at UMASS Amherst, he worked with Dr. Susan B. Leschine researching membrane energetics on a biofuel producing bacteria using a combination of microscopy, biochemistry and protein modelling.” – NSF webpage

Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM): Methods for Using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables
2018-04-25 16:00 - 17:30 | Haven Hall - 5670
Abstract

We develop new estimation methods for estimating causal effects based on the idea that the amount of selection on the observed explanatory variables in a model provides a guide to the amount of selection on the unobservables. We discuss two approaches, one of which involves the use of a factor model as a way to infer properties of unobserved covariates from the observed covariates. We construct an interval estimator that asymptotically covers the true value of the causal effect, and we propose related confidence regions that cover the true value with fixed probability.

Film Screening:Film screening: And Then They Came For Us
2018-04-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
About the Film:
Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange, And Then They Came for Us brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban. Knowing our history is the first step to ensuring we do not repeat it. And Then They Came for Us is a cautionary and inspiring tale for these dark times. Please partner with us to share this critical story.

"It was a failure of American democracy, and yet because most Americans are not aware of that dark chapter of American history, it's about to be repeated."
- George Takei, Actor and Activist

Co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Take on Hate, ACLU Michigan, JACL-Detroit (Japanese American Citizens League), Detroit CAIR, Zeitouna, ICPJ (Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice), Women's Action Network, WICIR (Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights), MRDI (Michigan Roundtable for Diversity & Inclusion, YABA (Yemeni American Benevolent Association)

Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Rita Wang, violin
2018-04-25 19:30 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Bach - Partita no. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002; Campagnoli - Fugue in E Minor, op. 10, no. 6; Bach - Partita no. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004; Biber - Passacaglia in G Minor (”The Guardian Angel”)

Performance:Kim Richey
2018-04-25 20:00 - 23:00 | Off Campus Location
Two-time Grammy-nominated Kim is a storyteller; a weaver of emotions and a tugger of heartstrings. Tender, poetic and aching with life’s truths, Kim’s songs transport you to her world, where words paint pictures and melodies touch the soul. And then there’s her voice. Pure, arresting and honest, it makes you take notice; Kim has the kind of voice where if emotions were ribbons, they’d be streaming in rainbow colours from your iPod.
Early on, the Zanesville, Ohio native thrived on the progressive side of mainstream country, her albums (1995’s Kim Richey, 1997’s Bittersweet and 1999’s Glimmer, all on Mercury) showcasing twang-pop sensibilities, a rich, rounded vocal tone and effortlessly sophisticated songwriting that other discerning performers - Radney Foster, Trisha Yearwood and Pam Tillis to name a few - coveted for their own recordings.

Other:Spring Commencement Activities
2018-04-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Commencement Activities at the conclusion of the winter semester.

Sporting Event:USAT Collegiate National Championship 2018
2018-04-26 05:00 - 23:59 | Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
USA Triathlon collegiate club olympic, DL, and MTR championships in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Presentation:IT4U82: Using the Human Resource Data Sets
2018-04-26 09:00 - 09:45 | Off Campus Location
Join Traci Buckner (UHR) for an introduction to the Human Resource data sets in the U-M Data Warehouse. Register in My LINC: https://goo.gl/VVG37z

Lecture / Discussion:OPIOIDS IN AMERICA: THE ROLE OF SURGERY
2018-04-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Off Campus Location
Dr. Jennifer Waljee is an Associate Professor in the Section of Plastic Surgery. She has a B.S. and master’s degrees in public health at the University of Michigan and M.D. from Emory University. She completed General Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on patient-centered outcomes following surgery, including the efficacy of patient-reported outcomes, and she currently serves as a Co-Director of the Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, or
Michigan-OPEN, an initiative that seeks to transform pain management and curb opioid abuse in the state of Michigan.

Opioid-related morbidity and mortality has reached epidemic
proportions in United States. Although much attention is focused on the role of opioid
prescribing for chronic pain, the role of opioid analgesics for acute pain and procedural care is less understood. In this discussion we will examine the role of procedural care in the opioid epidemic and statewide efforts in Michigan to develop best practices to curb over prescribing and enhance opioid disposal in our communities.

This is the second of a six-lecture series. The subject is Faces of Addiction. The next lecture will be May 3. The title is Managing Chronic Pain Without Opioids.

Presentation:Thesis defense: Does within-host ecological shift lead to within-burrow coexistence for two bivalves commensal with mantis shrimp?
2018-04-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Dana Natural Resources Building - 2024
Teal Harrison defends her master's thesis.

Diagram design: John Megahan

Ceremony / Service:Honors Graduation Ceremony
2018-04-26 11:00 - 12:30 | Crisler Arena
For more information, please use the the Honors Graduation Website link below.

Performance:Chamber Music
2018-04-26 12:00 - 13:00 | University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Comprised of players from the U-M Life Sciences Orchestra (LSO), this concert features ensemble performances of pieces by Bach and Aaron Copland, highlighting the talent found within the orchestra. The LSO, a program of Gifts of Art at Michigan Medicine, provides performance opportunities for the many faculty, staff, students, scientists, volunteers and alumni in medical, health science and life science disciplines at the university who have previous musical training but few opportunities to play. This season the orchestra is led by Chelsea Gallo, the Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D. Music Director. Look for live stream video on Gifts of Art Facebook.

Class / Instruction:Winter Term Ends
2018-04-26 12:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
End of Winter Term

Other:Thesis Defense:Functionality and Functionalization of Metal—Organic Frameworks
2018-04-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab
Jake Boissonnault (Advisor: Prof. Adam Matzger)

Workshop / Seminar:Thesis Defense: The role of histone acetylation in C. elegans dosage compensation
2018-04-26 14:30 - 16:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1632
Csankovszki Lab

Ceremony / Service:Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Graduation and Awards Ceremony
2018-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre
The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will hold its annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 26, 2018 in the Rackham Amphitheatre. This ceremony honors graduating seniors with an Asian Studies major, students who have received department awards, and graduating PhD students. Graduating students and awardees can invite up to four guests.

The ceremony will be followed by a reception in Rackham Assembly Hall.

Please RSVP using the Google Form by April 1 if you plan to attend the event: https://goo.gl/forms/fl55Xm5FDGsSfppi1.

If you are a person with a disability who requires accommodation to attend this event, please email Andrea Nashar at naandrea@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

Please contact the department office at um-alc@umich.edu or 734-764-8286 if you have any questions.

Other:Drug Substance Manufacturing Process Development
2018-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640
Dr. Seble Wagaw was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and moved to Ann Arbor with her family in 1974. She carried out her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, where she majored in chemistry, and conducted undergraduate research under the supervision of Prof. Will Pearson. Following the completion of her BS Chemistry degree in 1994, she moved to MIT as a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. She carried out her graduate research in the lab of Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald, where she did pioneering work on the development of palladium-catalyzed aryl carbon-nitrogen bond forming reactions. The transformations she invented are now widely used in both academic and industrial labs across the world, and the papers she published during her graduate studies have been collectively cited over 3100 times. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1999, and then began her independent career in Abbott Laboratories’ Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development Division. She has remained at Abbott (now Abbvie) since 1999, and is currently Director of Pharmaceutical Development.

Seble Wagaw (Abbvie)

Other:GINA Relays
2018-04-26 16:00 - 23:59 | Hillsdale College
Hosted by Hillsdale College

Workshop / Seminar:Personal Journeys In Science
2018-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Taubman Library - 2901

Ceremony / Service:23rd Annual Lavender Graduation
2018-04-26 16:30 - 19:30 | Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium
Lavender Graduation is a celebration for LGBTQIA+ graduates of the University of Michigan! Graduates from any academic school/college in the University at any academic level are welcome to participate. All participants will receive a free rainbow 2018 tassel, a lavender cord, and a Lavender Degree.

Lavender Graduation will be on Thursday, April 26th, in the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Doors open at 4:00PM. Please enter through the Frankel Family Wing entrance, located at the front of the building on State Street. The ceremony will be from 4:30PM- 6:30PM followed by a reception from 6:30PM-7:30PM. This event is free, and families, students, staff and faculty are all welcome.

You can sign up to participate in Lavender Graduation at this link: bit.ly/LavGrad2018. The deadline to sign up is April 1, 2018 at 11:59pm.

Performance:Masters Recital: Pedro Ricardo Sánchez Mijares, cello
2018-04-26 17:00 | Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Bach - Sonata no. 1 in G Major, BWV 1027; Piazzolla - Four, for Tango; de Falla - Suite Populaire Espagnole; Grieg - Cello Sonata in A Minor, op. 36.

Conference / Symposium:Sociology Honors Symposium
2018-04-26 17:30 - 20:00 | Michigan Union - Anderson Room
At the conclusion of the three course sequence, honors students have an opportunity to present their research projects, findings, and analyses to their family and friends at the annual Sociology Honors Symposium. The Robert Cooley Angell Award for the best thesis is announced at the conclusion of the symposium program.

Lecture / Discussion:Paul M. Fitts Lecture: The Affordances Model of Population Disparities in Physical and Mental Health
2018-04-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Michigan Union - Rogel Ballroom - 2nd Floor
I propose that the underlying etiology of population health disparities are causally linked through individual chronic stressor exposures, unhealthy coping behaviors, and the stress response network and related biological systems over the individual life-course. An extension of this framework questions the static categorization of race; instead arguing that race is a complex construct that in adulthood represents a broad set of life experiences that cannot be arrayed along a simple demographic/social dimension assigned at birth. I suggest instead that all individuals are racialized through their lived experiences over the life-course, within a particular culture, during unique periods of historical time.

Lecture / Discussion:“The Hardest Unpaid Job in the World”
2018-04-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Gerald Ford Library
“The Hardest Unpaid Job in the World”

That is how author Jill Abraham Hummer, in her new book, First Ladies and American Women, describes how Pat Nixon once summed up her role as First Lady on an official trip to Africa. One of Nixon’s grueling days included a nine-hour sleepless flight and 12 hours of events for her to attend.

Dr. Hummer’s book examines the demanding role of an American First Lady. The hours are endless, there are no guidelines, no salaries...yet somehow the women occupying the White House have risen to the task and all have left their individual fingerprints on history.

From Lou Hoover to Lady Bird Johnson to Nancy Reagan and Michelle Obama... and now Melania Trump, all live with the harsh scrutiny of their personal lives. And all are measured by their impact on history.

First Ladies are unelected...but have tremendous behind-the-scenes access and clout. After all, they have the President’s ear. They are all different, but these wives, mothers, intellectuals...feminists and fashionistas...dwell in the most elite circle of American political life. And in their own unique way, each First Lady partly defines what it means to be a woman in America.

Hummer will provide an intimate glimpse of these unique women in a discussion of her new book First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home. Dr. Hummer, an associate professor of political science at Wilson College, focuses her research on American first ladies and women and the presidency.

Please join us. Free admission. Free parking. Book sales/signing and reception following the program.

Performance:Masters Recital: Reuben Kebede, violin
2018-04-26 19:30 | Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre
PROGRAM: Kodály - Duo, op. 7; Chausson - Poème, op. 25; Tchaikovsky - Valse Sentimentale, op. 51; Kreisler - Caprice Viennois, op. 2; de Sarasate - Navarra, op. 33.

Performance:Specialist Recital: Hsuan Lee, viola
2018-04-26 19:30 | Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall
PROGRAM: Britten - Lachrymae; Hindemith - Viola Sonata, op. 25, no. 4; Rochberg - Sonata for Viola and Piano; Toch - Divertimento, op. 37, no. 2.

Performance:Sam Amidon
2018-04-26 20:00 | Off Campus Location
Sam Amidon is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from Brattleboro, Vermont. His most recent album, The Following Mountain, was released in May of 2017 by Nonesuch Records. His sixth album overall, it is his deeply personal synthesis of folk-based song form and experimental improvisation. It is his first album of entirely original songs and compositions, featuring appearances by Shahzad Ismaily, Leo Abrahams and legendary free-jazz drummer Milford Graves, known for his pioneering work in the 1960s with artists such as Albert Ayler and Sonny Sharrock.
