BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190512T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Nationals!! DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO ME SO WE CAN WIN A NATTY UID:63165-15800374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Princess Anne Athletic Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T060009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Dad Vail Regatta\, ECAC/NIRC DESCRIPTION:Racing UID:63485-15806454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Philadelphia, PA and Worcester, MA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179039@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179123@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179535@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179288@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179205@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302340@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302175@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190614T140151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:she was here\, once DESCRIPTION:The mobility and displacement of the Black body\, from port to holding cell\, to ward and out\, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially\, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain\, otherness\, power and triumph\, \"she was here\, once\" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.\n\nIn summer 2018\, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond\, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement\, sound\, and solidarity\, eight Black women and girls\, wearing large needle felted wool masks\, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond\, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).\n\nThe multi-layered piece has produced a short film\, mini documentary\, photography\, and performance masks\, on display in her solo exhibition\, \"she was here\, once\" in Lane Hall.\n\nLane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.\n\nAccessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.\n\nContact Heidi Bennett\, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.\n\nCosponsors: Department of Women's Studies\, Stamps School of Art & Design\, Department of English\, Art History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Center for the Education of Women+ UID:59501-14875198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Diversity,Exhibition,Film,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669555@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T103709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Reckless Ideas in Ecological Networks DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public.\n Registration will be required for lunch.\n \nCLICK LINK AT BOTTOM TO REGISTER \n \n SCHEDULE:\n\n 8:30A Light breakfast at Weiser Hall\n\n9:00 Intro: Fernanda Valdovinos\n\n9:05 Phillip Staniczenko\, City University of New York - Brooklyn College \"What is a reckless idea?\"\n\n9:30 Mark Novak\, Oregon State University \"Removing Species Interactions from Ecological Networks to Understand Community Dynamics\"\n\n10:00 Luis Zaman\, University of Michigan \"A Dynamics First Approach to the Evolution of Ecological Networks\"\n\n10:30 Lauren Ponisio\, University of California - Riverside \"How does network position relate to species' fitness?\"\n \n 11:00 BREAK (30)\n\n11:30 Paul CaraDonna\, Chicago Botanic Garden | Northwestern University \"Interaction rewiring & network flexibility\"\n\n12:00 David Hembry\, Cornell University \"How do networks evolve across space and time?\"\n \n 12:30 LUNCH (60)\n\n1:30 Benjamin Baiser\, University of Florida \"The Macroecology and Biogeography of Ecological Networks\"\n\n2:00 Allison Barner\, University of California Berkeley \"Why multilayer networks?\"\n\n2:30 Fernanda Valdovinos\, University of Michigan \"Addressing environmental problems with Ecological Networks\"\n\n 3:00 BREAK (15)\n\n3:20 Panel\n\n4:00 End of Program UID:63099-15570542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63099 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Complex Ecological Networks,conference,Ecology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Lsaresearch,Modeling,Natural Sciences,Networks,open to public,Santa Fe Institute,symposium LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190215T150835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T161500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2019 Positive Business Conference DESCRIPTION:What kind of workplace will you choose to create? Thriving employees are likely to be more committed and satisfied with their jobs\, perform at a higher level\, become sick less often\, give back more to their communities\, and get more fulfillment from personal relationships.\n\nDiscover how to improve well-being and performance by building a thriving workplace at the Michigan Ross Positive Business Conference\, May 9-10\, 2019. We’ll share research-based strategies\, tactics\, and tools and real world examples for how to build stronger\, more connected teams and companies. You’ll engage with Michigan Ross faculty experts as well as leaders from Consumers Energy\, O.C. Tanner\, Steelcase\, UnitedHealthcare\, Zingerman’s\, and more.\n\nJoin us at the Positive Business Conference to learn how to create a healthy\, happy\, and thriving workplace to change business for the better.\n\nVisit http://www.positivebusinessconference.com to learn more and register to attend. UID:61271-15063358@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Conference,Education,Fun,Inspiration,Interactive,Network,Passion,Positive,Positive Business,Professional Development,Social Change,Workshop,Workshops LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T100300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency DESCRIPTION:\"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency\,\" by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin\, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home\, privacy\, and safety.\n\nThe exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery\, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication\, luxury\, and modernism.\n\nIn a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet\, for Martin and Muñoz\, \"Blind House\" serves as \"a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy.\" Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk UID:58928-15710569@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Economics,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T105014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Ancient Color DESCRIPTION:The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues\, these statues — as well as Roman homes\, clothing\, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world\, how these colors were produced\, where they were found\, what the Romans thought about them\, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them\, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.\n\nCurators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts\n\nView the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/ UID:59301-14728369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190424T123922 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T100000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Ph.D. Defense: Susannah Engdahl DESCRIPTION:Despite the significant functional limitations imposed by upper limb loss\, little research has focused on quantifying the functional success and satisfaction of prosthesis users. Most existing evidence comes from surveys\, rather than experimental outcomes. Without a quantitative baseline\, it is difficult to know where to focus attention for improvement in future prosthesis designs or to demonstrate whether new designs offer advantages over existing technologies. Thus\, the goal of this dissertation was to quantify how functional outcomes and satisfaction relate to the type of prosthesis used.\n\nThe first aim was to determine if prosthesis type affects embodiment\, or the extent to which prosthesis users perceived their prosthesis to be part of their body. We quantified embodiment for body-powered (BP) and myoelectric (MYO) prosthesis users based on a survey and two objective measurements of body schema and peripersonal space. Although BP users reported a stronger sense of agency over their prostheses in comparison to MYO users\, other measures did not consistently differentiate experiences of embodiment based on prosthesis type. However\, measurements of body schema varied depending on the cause of limb loss.\n\nThe second aim was to determine if prosthesis type impacts movement quality during activities of daily living. As an initial step for this aim\, we quantified the reliability of movement quality metrics (three measures of smoothness and one measure of straightness) in healthy adults performing a variety of different tasks. Based on these findings\, we then compared movement quality in BP and MYO prosthesis users during a subset of tasks (moving a can from a low shelf to a high shelf\, placing a pill in a pillbox\, and placing a pushpin in a bulletin board) using the metrics that had the highest reliability. All movements were slower when performed with MYO prostheses\, except for the reaching phase of the pill task. Object manipulation movements were consistently less smooth when performed with MYO prostheses. However\, differences in curvature of the reaching movements between the prosthesis types varied across tasks.\n\nThe third aim was to determine if prosthesis type affects kinematic compensations during activities of daily living. We quantified lateral lean\, axial rotation\, and flexion of the trunk during the same three activities of daily living. The range of motion was greater in all directions for BP prostheses during each task—except axial rotation and flexion during the pin task\, which were greater for MYO prostheses.\n\nThe fourth aim was to explore the factors associated with interest in noninvasive (myoelectric) and invasive (targeted muscle reinnervation\, peripheral nerve interfaces\, cortical interfaces) interfaces for prosthesis control. An online survey collected opinions from 232 individuals with upper limb loss on the interfaces. Relationships between interest in the interfaces and demographics\, limb loss characteristics\, and prosthesis use history were defined using bivariate analysis and logistic regression. There was increased interest in the invasive interfaces among individuals who were younger\, had unilateral limb loss\, or had acquired limb loss.\n\nTaken together\, these aims suggest that BP prostheses may promote embodiment and smooth movement\, while MYO prostheses may minimize compensatory movement. Although emerging prosthesis technologies requiring surgical intervention may not be accepted by all individuals with upper limb loss\, functional outcomes with these technologies should be compared to outcomes with existing BP and MYO prostheses to demonstrate the relative merits of each design. UID:63349-15653091@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63349 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,bme,Dissertation,engineering,Graduate Students,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Research LOCATION:Central Campus Recreation Building (Bell Pool) - 3735 - Bickner Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T135655 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:um3detroit DESCRIPTION:um3detroit is an interdisciplinary gathering that brings together U-M's three campuses along with Detroit community partners to share and strengthen our connections to Detroit and each other. Through a focus on engaged research\, scholarship\, and learning\, participants will gain new knowledge and share innovations in a dynamic atmosphere brimming with creativity and collaborative spirit. This year's event will emphasize action-based research and community-academic partnerships\, as well as foster dialogue around some of the most complex issues facing Southeastern Michigan today.\n\nMay 9\, 2019\n\nGem Theatre\, 333 Madison St\, Detroit\, MI 48226\n\nThe symposium will feature keynote addresses from U-M President Mark Schlissel\, Wendy Jackson of the Kresge Foundation\, and other dynamic leaders\; lightning talks highlighting U-M's innovative and collaborative work in Detroit\; inspiring community spotlights\; and interactive Detroit engagement exhibits.\n\nBreakout sessions will enable deep dives and dialogue on issues important to Detroit: \n\nRe-envisioning Justice\nThis panel will explore how\, through collaborative and grassroots efforts\, U-M researchers and community partners are attempting to alter the landscape of the carceral system in Detroit.\n\nFuture of Mobility in Detroit\nProsperity and development depend critically on mobility across the 140 square mile expanse of Detroit\, and beyond. This session will discuss ongoing as well as new and developing ideas for mobility solutions in the greater Detroit area. \n\nLeaders Engineering Change: Building a Cradle-to-Career Education System in Detroit\nThis session will explore how the U-M School of Education\, Detroit Public Schools Community District\, the Kresge Foundation\, Starfish Family Services\, and Marygrove College are developing a radically different approach to education in northwest Detroit. \n\nPlacement/Displacement\nFinding affordable housing is proving increasingly difficult for low-income Detroiters. This session will explore how nonprofit leaders\, with support from UM researchers\, are working to keep residents in their homes and ensure new neighborhood-based options.\n\nSustainable Futures\nThis session will explore how community leaders and U-M researchers are responding to the social and material landscapes of Detroit to envision and design sustainable futures\n\nCommunity Benefits and Health Equity\nThis interactive session will examine how community-academic collaborative research partnerships equitably engage in knowledge generation and translation\, interventions and policy change strategies to achieve community benefits\, environmental justice\, and access to health care in the city of Detroit. \n\nJoin us! Click the like below to Register! UID:62341-15353057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62341 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Detroit LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T140328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ADVANCING GENDER EQUITY: THE IMPACT OF ACTING ON INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE EFFORTS DESCRIPTION:Abigail J. Stewart is the Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at UM. She directed the UM ADVANCE Program from 2001-2016. UM ADVANCE is a national science foundation funded program to get more women into the STEM fields. Her research focuses on academic and life experiences related to race\, class\, and gender. \nSara Armstrong\, Ph.D. has been the director of the CRLT Theatre Program since 2012. The CRLT players is a program to train students and other actors to portray situations in which there may be unconscious biases or other modes of discrimination including gender discrimination. She has over twenty-five years of experience in acting and education in many organizations. In her role at CRLT\, she develops scripts\, Players sessions\, and incorporates theatre into professional development programs at UM.\n\nWe will briefly describe the overall goals and programs involved in the UM ADVANCE Program’s efforts to improve gender equity and inclusion in the faculty\, but will focus particularly on ADVANCE’s collaboration with the CRLT Theater Program. We will describe and illustrate both how exposure to theater sketches can raise important issues\, and how facilitated discussion can help faculty gain increased understanding of issues and their potential role in addressing them.\n\nThis is the last in a six-lecture series. The subject is Changing Gender Roles. The next series will start June 13\, 2019. The topic is A Celebration of Local Authors. UID:61762-15179573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Changing Gender Roles,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T110734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Living a Digital Life: Objects\, Environments\, Power DESCRIPTION:Everyone thinks they know what digital means. So pervasive are digital technologies in the 21st century that it is difficult to find critical distance from this immersive new world of ubiquitous connectivity\, social media feeds\, smartphones\, mobile apps\, responsive design\, algorithmic recommendation systems\, and voice-controlled home shopping assistants. While the question “what is the digital?” is compelling\, the more pressing question might be instead: what does it mean to be alive in the digital age?\n\nAcross campus\, this question will emerge in courses\, colloquia\, lectures\, and informal conversations among students\, faculty\, staff\, and peers. Critically engaging with the big issues\, urgent consequences\, and radical possibilities for grappling with the meaning of life in this era of digital ubiquity. Whether defined as “animated corporeal existence\,” “vitality\,” or “to continue\, to remain\,” we see a profound opportunity to approach the digital world through a spectrum of the meaning of life-ness - alive\, liveness\, animated\, lifelike\, life-adjacent\, consciousness\, awareness\, attention\, awoke.\n\n“Living a Digital Life” is the 2019 Michigan Meeting. UID:63180-15585201@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63180 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Digital Studies Institute,Interdisciplinary LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T104044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53719-13452918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190306T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY\n \nIn celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project\, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative\, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge\, memory\, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture\, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2\, 2018 and UMMA through June 2\, 2019.\n \n#CosmogonicTattoos\n\nLead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.\n  UID:58558-14510935@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities\, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions\, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.\n \nThis special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister\, Shizuko Iwata\, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection\, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:58566-14511701@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS\, DISASTERS\, CONSUMPTION\, LOSS\, AND JUSTICE\n \nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene\, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues\, the exhibition presents photography\, video\, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials\, disasters\, consumption\, loss\, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists\, including Sammy Baloji\, Liu Bolin\, Dana Levy\, Mary Mattingly\, Pedro Neves Marques\, Gabriel Orozco\, Trevor Paglen\, and Thomas Struth\, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness\, wonder\, and curiosity about the world to come.\n \nRead the exhibition press release here.\n \n  \n\nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith\, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, UF Office of the Provost\, National Endowment for the Arts\, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation\, Ken and Laura Berns\, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman\, Ken and Linda  McGurn\, Susan Milbrath\, an anonymous foundation\, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere\, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn\, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters\, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment\, Harn Program Endowment\, and the Harn Annual Fund.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. \n  UID:59263-14721800@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,International,Museum,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190410T134309 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Circle Singing & Harmony Workshop with Shelley Graff DESCRIPTION:Have you heard others break off from a main melody with an enchanting descant and wished to try it yourself? This fun workshop will give you the tools to be that singer who helps to weave stronger connections through musical harmony. Workshop presenter and facilitator Shelley Graff is a singer\, songwriter\, guitarist\, healer and educator. She teaches short\, repetitive songs and chants from a wide variety of traditions. While singing in a circle\, participants often experience a sense of empowerment and peace as well as group connection. Regardless of singing experience\, participants are invited to share their voices in a noncompetitive\, relaxed and safe space as part of Grief Awareness Month. UID:62939-15520066@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62939 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Music,Well-being,Workshop LOCATION:University Hospitals - Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190411T103646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Contemporary Issues Discussion: New Motherhood DESCRIPTION:Maria Bradford gave birth to her first child in late 1831\, and she wrote to her mother shortly afterwards describing her childbirth\, recovery\, and longing for motherly advice. All are welcome to a discussion with historians\, medical practitioners\, and new mothers to explore how this stirring letter evokes transcending questions about the birthing experience\, infancy\, and the postpartum period. Join in the conversation by sharing your own history and personal reflections with other U-M and local community members over a complimentary lunch.\n\nRegistration is required\; please register by May 7 at myumi.ch/Lqoje (or call the Clements Library at 734-647-0864). Children are welcome. UID:63058-15543235@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63058 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,Library,Luncheon,Medicine,Nursing,Women's Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190422T081108 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LSI Seminar Series: Mitchell Weiss\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nAutophagy and ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis are fundamental pathways that eliminate unwanted or potentially damaging proteins during normal eukaryotic cell development and in various disease states. In this seminar\, Mitchell Weiss will describe two examples in which these protein quality control mechanisms facilitate red blood cell development:\n\n1. In beta thalassemia\, HBB gene mutations cause loss of the beta globin subunit of hemoglobin with resultant buildup of the alpha globin subunit. Free alpha globin forms toxic precipitates that destroy erythroid precursors and shorten the half-life of mature red blood cells. Weiss shows that erythroid precursors eliminate free alpha globin by autophagy through a pathway that requires the ULK1 kinase but is independent of the canonical autophagy protein ATG5. mTORC1 inhibits ULK1 and rapamycin inhibition of mTORC1 stimulates ULK1-mediated autophagy of free alpha globin in beta thalassemic erythroblasts\, illustrating a “druggable” pathway for potential therapies.\n\n2. Weiss's group identified the E3 ubiquitin ligase FBXO11 in a CRISPR screen for proteins that facilitate red blood cell development. He shows that FBXO11 degrades BAHD1\, a heterochromatin associated repressor protein bound to the promoters of erythroid genes. Elimination of BAHD1 at these genes “opens” local chromatin\, thereby enabling binding of GATA1\, a master regulator transcription factor that activates gene expression. These findings show how the developmentally timed activity of a single ubiquitin ligase controls cell fate by coordinately activating hundreds of lineage-specific genes.\n\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nMitchell Weiss became chair of the Hematology Department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 2014. Before that\, he was the associate director for The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Facility at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Weiss sees pediatric patients with non-malignant blood disorders in the hospital and studies these diseases in the laboratory. His research interests are to better understand the mechanisms of normal red blood cell development and use this information to treat common blood disorders\, including sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. Weiss previously served as the director of the Pediatric Physician-Scientist Development Program at CHOP and associate director of the Combined Degree and Physician Scholar Program at Penn. His career has been dedicated to pediatric hematology research and training the next generation of physician-scientists in the field. UID:63300-15634617@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:autophagy,Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Life Science,Research,science LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T181623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 SUMMARY:Other:UMMA Book Club: Art\, Ideas\, & Politics DESCRIPTION:The Art\, Ideas\, & Politics Book Club is a partnership between UMMA and Literati Bookstore in connection with UMMA's exhibition Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s. Surrounded by the large-scale artworks by Sam Gilliam\, Helen Frankenthaler\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson\, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager\, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books will explore visions and critiques relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period\, and include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (Jan 10)\, Art on My Mind\, Visual Politics by bell hooks (March 14)\, Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel (May 9)\, Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (July 11)\, and How We Get Free\, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).\n \nGina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore\, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review\, Ploughshares\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and The Wandering Song\, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.\n \nThe Art\, Ideas\, & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month\, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA\, at a 15% book club discount.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58555-14510877@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58555 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Exhibition,Free,Graduate,Museum,Politics,Social,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190404T125257 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T145000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Engaging the World from Your Classroom DESCRIPTION:Join us for discussion on approaches to global videoconferencing in teaching and learning\, ranging from co-taught courses with international partner institutions to guest speaker scenarios. Invited U-M faculty will share their experiences teaching international courses. We will also cover planning and logistics and considerations in the realms of instruction\, technology\, and administration. We hope to generate more ideas for providing global experiences for students within the context of everyday courses. UID:62879-15485956@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Instructional Technology,International,Workshop LOCATION:North Quad - 1500 - Language Resource Center (LRC), Mac Classroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190419T122028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T145000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Lowering Barriers to Learning: Increase Access to Course Materials with UDOIT DESCRIPTION:This hands-on workshop introduces UDOIT\, a Canvas-based tool that can be used to check course materials in Canvas for common accessibility issues. UDOIT scans materials and reports the results to the instructor\, along with recommendations for how to fix issues. Many issues can be fixed from inside the report page itself! If you’re not sure how to increase the accessibility of your materials\, this is an excellent tool to start with. To get the most out of this session\, you will need access to a Canvas course with some content or files in it for the hands-on portion. UID:63284-15612036@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63284 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:conference,Instructional Technology,Professional Development,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 2001-B, ISS Media Center Mac Classroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190404T124951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Teaching in a Team-based Learning Classroom: An Overview DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about teaching in a Team-based Learning (TBL) classroom? Join us for an in-depth discussion about the potential of these spaces for increasing student engagement.\n\nTopics will include:\n\n- feedback from previous instructors about their experiences\n- examples of the types of changes instructors made to their course\, both prior to starting and during the term\n- the impact of those changes on the larger instructional team and other components of the course\, such as discussion or lab sections\n- the methods\, if any\, instructors used to prepare students to learn in the space.\n- instructors’ reflections on the student experience in general\n- methods for creating and managing groups\n- a Gallery Walk of sample activities.\n\nThe location for this session is dependent on Registrar scheduling\, and will be updated (including an email to registrants) as soon as we’ve determined exactly which room we will be meeting in — well in advance of the actual session. UID:62876-15485955@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62876 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Active Learning,Free,Instructional Technology,Team-based Learning,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181126T125036 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Campus of the Future — And Why Retirees Are Part of It DESCRIPTION:Dr. LaVaque-Manty is the Director of the Honors Program\, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor\, and Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Professor of Philosophy. A philosopher by training\, he is a political theorist whose research interests focus on how people develop and maintain a sense of autonomy\, and on what kinds of institutions foster and support autonomy. He is particularly interested in educational institutions\, although he has written on dueling\, doping\, and Johnny Cash\, among other\nwacky topics. UID:57877-14365966@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/57877 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T181510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Thesis Defense: “Microfluidic Technologies for\nBioanalytical Chemistry: Advancing\nEpigenetic Profiling via Chromatin\nImmunoprecipitation in Droplets” DESCRIPTION: \n \n \nSteven R. Doonan (Advisor: Prof. Ryan C. Bailey) UID:63207-15589332@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63207 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - Earl Lewis Room, Rackham CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T181510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Improving Efficiency Through Catalytic and Multicatalytic Reactions DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nMark Lautens (U Toronto) UID:58954-14623975@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58954 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 CHEM CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special CM Theory Seminar | Study of the Dirac material candidates in high magnetic fields DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will focus on two series of Dirac candidates\, (V\,Nb\,Ta)Al3 and CeSb(Se\,Te). VAl_3 families are predicted as the type II Dirac semimetals where the Dirac bands are strongly tilted\; therefore violate Lorentz-symmetry and have no analogue in high energy physics. CeSbTe were reported with multi Dirac/Weyl bands which can be tuned by magnetic fields. \n\nBy measuring de Hass-van Alphen effect using torque magnetomery in VAl_3 families. It revealed the existence of tilted Dirac cones with Dirac type-II nodes located at 100\, 230 and 250 meV away from the Fermi level of VAl_3\, NbAl_3\, and TaAl_3\, respectively. These results are consistent with earlier band structure calculations\, which also predict a non-trivial electronic topology. However\, for all three compounds we find that the cyclotron orbits on the Fermi surfaces\, including an orbit nearly enclosing the Dirac type-II node\, yield trivial Berry phases. We will show that in order to determine the Berry phases\, the overall understanding of the topology of the Fermi surfaces and the g-factors are required. \n\nCeSbSe shows magnetization plateaus between the antiferromagnetic states (M = 0) and the magnetization saturated states M_{sat}. The fractional plateau values of M/M_{sat} are equal to 1/6\, 1/3\, 5/12\, 1/2\, and 3/4. I will discuss a possible explanation between the magnetization plateaus and the magnetic structures of CeSbSe from the single crystal neutron diffraction data. \n\nReferences:\n\n[1] K.-W. Chen (1\,2)\, X. Lian (1\,2)\, Y. Lai (1\,2)\, N. Aryal (1\,2)\, Y.-C. Chiu (1\,2)\, W. Lan (1\,2)\, D. Graf (1)\, E. Manousakis (1\,2)\, R. E. Baumbach (1\,2)\, and L. Balicas (1\,2)\, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120\, 206401(2018).\n\n[2] K.-W. Chen (1\,2)\, Y. Lai (1\,2)\, Y.-C. Chiu (1\,2)\, S. Steven (3)\, T. Besara (1)\, D. Graf (1)\, T. Siegrist (1\,4)\, T. E. Albrecht-Schmitt (3)\, L. Balicas (1\,2)\, and R. E. Baumbach (1\,2)\, Phys. Rev. B 96\, 014421 (2017). \n\n\n1 National High Magnetic Field Laboratory\, Florida State University\, Florida\, USA\n2 Department of Physics\, Florida State University\, Florida\, USA\n3 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry\, Florida State University\, Tallahassee\, Florida 32306\, USA\n4 Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering\, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering\, Tallahassee\, Florida 32310\, USA\n\n\n UID:63456-15710550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 4404 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T181500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757340@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T191500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757348@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190524T123007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T203000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UCC at Transfer Open House DESCRIPTION:The University Career Center will be joining in on the Transfer Open House hosted by Undergraduate Admissions for prospective students. For more information on the event\, please see the official website: https://admissions.umich.edu/toh UID:63505-15761518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63505 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Staff Area, 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T123111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage DESCRIPTION:Huddled round a single vintage microphone\, singing intimate duets with just mountain dulcimer\, dobro and guitar\,\nHannah Sanders & Ben Savage are an acoustic duo that sound classically timeless\, yet their music is unique.\nSince emerging in 2016\, the duo have recorded two studio albums\, Before the Sun (2016) and Awake (2018)\,\nproduced by award winning producer David Travers-Smith in Toronto\, both of which gathered praise for the\ncrafting and skill of their musical writing and arranging.\nThe duo have toured the UK\, North America and mainland Europe\, enrapturing audiences at shows and on festival\nstages with the sparkling beauty of their acoustic style.\nThey have shared stages and opened shows for Americana and folk luminaries such as Sarah Jarosz\, Martin\nSimpson\, Seth Lakeman and Oh Susanna. Fleetingly\, they may evoke a memory of Gram & Emmylou\, Shirley\n& Davey\, or Gillian & David but their distilling of musical influences from both sides of the Atlantic produces a\nrefined sound that is decidedly their own.\nTheir unique unplugged presentation creates a widescreen\, cinematic soundscape with open spaces and\natmosphere\, giving their beautifully pure vocals room to share the songs’ emotion and narrative.\nThe material is as joyful and fun as it is intense\, but the common factor is the duo’s warmth and confidence in each\nother\; their natural ease and connection is clearly evident on the recorded music\, and a genuine pleasure to\nwitness on stage. UID:62390-15361880@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62390 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190528T105052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T204200 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T223000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Ramadan Community Iftars DESCRIPTION:U-M’s Muslim Students’ Association and Islamophobia Working Group invite Muslims and non-Muslim allies to join our Ramadan iftar meals at sunset throughout May and early June. Ramadan is the Islamic holy month\, when Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn to sunset. Come to break bread\, to show solidarity\, and to learn more about each other. To ensure that there is plenty of food\, please RSVP for each of the iftars here: myumi.ch/Jyyrn \n \nIFTAR SCHEDULE \n \nMost iftars will be at Trotter Multicultural Center (428 South State Street)\, unless otherwise listed. All addresses are in Ann Arbor. \n \n 8:39pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 6: Trotter \n 8:40pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 8: International House (921 Church Street) \n 8:42pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 9: Trotter \n 8:47pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 13: Trotter \n 8:49pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 15: Weiser Hall 10th Floor (500 Church Street) \n 8:50pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 16: Trotter \n 8:54pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 20: Trotter\, sponsored by the Program on Intergroup Relations \n 8:56pm\, TUESDAY\, MAY 21: Muslim Community Association (2301 Plymouth Road). A shuttle bus will depart from the Central Campus Transit Center at 8:30pm and return to central campus by 10:30pm. More details will be provided by email to those who RSVP. \n 8:57pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 23: Trotter \n 9:00pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 27: Trotter \n 9:02pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 29: Trotter \n \n \nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, we are eager to help. Please contact asbates@umich.edu. We are able to make most accommodations very easily\, but advance notice is appreciated as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. All facilities are wheelchair accessible. Vegetarian and halal food options will be provided at every meal\; please indicate additional dietary restrictions on the RSVP form. UID:63342-15651036@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63342 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,international,Muslim LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190509T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T060009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Dad Vail Regatta\, ECAC/NIRC DESCRIPTION:Racing UID:63485-15806455@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Philadelphia, PA and Worcester, MA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190512T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Nationals!! DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO ME SO WE CAN WIN A NATTY UID:63165-15800375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Princess Anne Athletic Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179040@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179124@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302259@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179536@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179289@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179206@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190116T121131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Global Reproductive and Sexual Health Summer Institute DESCRIPTION:May 10th - 11th\, 2019: 2-day conference\nTitle: Beyond #MeToo: A Look at Gender Based Violence and Reproductive Coercion Globally\n \nMay 13th – 17th\, 2019: 5-day workshop\nTitle: Designing and Evaluating Culturally Appropriate Interventions to Improve Reproductive & Sexual Health UID:59865-14797313@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59865 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Gender Equality,Health Disparities,Human Trafficking,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Medicine,Nursing,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Public Health,Public Policy,Reproductive Coercion,Research,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Women's Studies,Workshop LOCATION:School of Nursing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190417T112701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T153000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Opioids: Policy to Practice (Webcast) DESCRIPTION:How can policymakers\, insurers\, clinicians and community organizations work together to confront the nation’s opioid epidemic\, using the latest evidence from research and innovative approaches? A summit event organized by the University of Michigan and Harvard University will bring members of all of these fields together to share best practices and discuss policy and practice changes to address the ongoing crisis. The summit\, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.\, will feature a keynote address from Admiral Brett Giroir\, M.D.\, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Registration is free for the summit webcast. Learn more and register: http://opioidsummit.umich.edu/. UID:63211-15593436@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63211 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:health policy,Lecture,Medicine,public health,Public Policy,Webcast LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190415T162402 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Special Exhibit | Staging Theater: Chinese Operatic Practice and Performance DESCRIPTION:This exhibition will be open every day\, April 12-June 30\, during Hatcher Library open hours.\n\nFeaturing the vibrant paintings of Peking opera face patterns\, performance props\, and rare books\, this exhibition is a tribute to the University of Michigan's commitment to the presentation of Chinese operatic arts and culture. In the Winter Semester of 2019\, a Peking opera performer specializing in the jing 淨 role engaged in a Chinese New Year artist-residency\; the renown Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province\, China\, stages a production of The Lute (Pipa ji 琵琶記)\; and an international conference examines the critical role of media in the making and remaking of Ming-Qing literature and performance.\n\nAll of these endeavors offer the U-M faculty\, staff\, and students and Michiganers a chance to experience and embrace Chinese operatic arts and literary culture at the highest level and to introduce to the audience traditional Chinese aesthetic and moral values and their challenges and meanings in traditional and contemporary contexts.\n\nPlease visit https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/videos-of-past-events.html to access the online recording of Peking opera performer\, Li Yang\, in vocal recitation and in the practice of hand painting his own operatic face pattern. Introductions are provided by Professor David Rolston and LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow Anne Rebull with Professor Joseph Lam being painted at the end of the program as the character Cao Cao \n\nThis exhibition is co-organized by Carol Stepanchuk and Liangyu Fu\, and is sponsored by the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Special thanks to Professor Joseph Lam\, Professor David Rolston\, and the Confucius Institute.\n\nPhoto caption: \nSuzhou Kunqu Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province\, China UID:63084-15553759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Music,Theater LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Asia Library, Fourth Floor, U-M Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T100300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency DESCRIPTION:\"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency\,\" by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin\, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home\, privacy\, and safety.\n\nThe exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery\, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication\, luxury\, and modernism.\n\nIn a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet\, for Martin and Muñoz\, \"Blind House\" serves as \"a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy.\" Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk UID:58928-15710570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Economics,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T105014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Ancient Color DESCRIPTION:The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues\, these statues — as well as Roman homes\, clothing\, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world\, how these colors were produced\, where they were found\, what the Romans thought about them\, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them\, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.\n\nCurators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts\n\nView the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/ UID:59301-14728370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190410T104022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Philosophy Alumni Conference DESCRIPTION:The schedule for the conference is as follows:\n\nFRIDAY\, MAY 10\n9:30AM-10:00AM: Breakfast\n10:00AM-12:00PM: \"Vague Existence\, Metaphysical Vagueness\, and Ontological Deflationism\" - Rohan Sud (Ryerson)\, comments by Glenn Zhou\n12:00PM-1:30 PM: Lunch\n1:30PM-3:30 PM: \"Integrity\, Truth\, and Value\" - Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)\, comments by Mercy Corredor\n3:30PM-4:00PM: Break\n4:00PM-6:00PM: \"Aggregating Imprecise Probability Using Epistemic Utilities\" - Jason Konek (Bristol)\, comments by Elise Woodard and Calum McNamara\n6:00PM-8:00PM: Dinner\n\nSATURDAY\, MAY 11\n9:30AM-10:00AM: Breakfast\n10:00AM-12:00PM: \"Against Convergence: A Feminist Critique\" - Christie Hartley (Georgia State)\, comments by Eduardo Martinez\n12:00PM-1:30PM: Lunch\n1:30PM-3:30PM: \"Competing(?) Formulations of Newtonian Gravitation: Some Reflections on Equivalence and Interpretation\" - Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi)\, comments by Josh Hunt\n3:30PM-4:00PM: Break\n4:00PM-5:30PM: Panel - featuring all 5 speakers\n6:15PM-8:15PM: Dinner UID:59201-14717498@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59201 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Philosophy LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5671 Haven (Eldersveld) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190503T084309 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Post45 Graduate Symposium DESCRIPTION:Fourth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium\nCo-hosted with Michigan State University\n\nDiscussion of graduate student works-in-progress related to post45 literature and culture. Please see link to the symposium schedule. \n\nKeynotes by Professors Sara Blair and Justus Nieland\nAdditional Faculty Participation by Zarena Aslami\, Sarah Ensor\, Yomaira Figueroa\, and Aida Levy-Hussen\n\nPlease contact Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) or Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) to receive a link to the pre-circulated papers. UID:59506-14745958@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59506 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Environment,Film,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Media,Politics,Women's Studies LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T110734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Living a Digital Life: Objects\, Environments\, Power DESCRIPTION:Everyone thinks they know what digital means. So pervasive are digital technologies in the 21st century that it is difficult to find critical distance from this immersive new world of ubiquitous connectivity\, social media feeds\, smartphones\, mobile apps\, responsive design\, algorithmic recommendation systems\, and voice-controlled home shopping assistants. While the question “what is the digital?” is compelling\, the more pressing question might be instead: what does it mean to be alive in the digital age?\n\nAcross campus\, this question will emerge in courses\, colloquia\, lectures\, and informal conversations among students\, faculty\, staff\, and peers. Critically engaging with the big issues\, urgent consequences\, and radical possibilities for grappling with the meaning of life in this era of digital ubiquity. Whether defined as “animated corporeal existence\,” “vitality\,” or “to continue\, to remain\,” we see a profound opportunity to approach the digital world through a spectrum of the meaning of life-ness - alive\, liveness\, animated\, lifelike\, life-adjacent\, consciousness\, awareness\, attention\, awoke.\n\n“Living a Digital Life” is the 2019 Michigan Meeting. UID:63180-15585202@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63180 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Digital Studies Institute,Interdisciplinary LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T110000 SUMMARY:Other:Thesis Defense: \"Photo- and Electrochemical Methods for Biomass Valorization\" DESCRIPTION: \n \n \nGabriel Magallanes (Thesis Advisor: Prof. Corey Stephenson) UID:63367-15661293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63367 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190603T092105 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Things I Like Most About the Clements Library DESCRIPTION:The Clements Library is a treasure house of American history. During a 23-year career with the Clements\, Brian Dunnigan has served as curator of maps\, head of research and publications\, associate director\, and acting director. Daily contact with the collections has inspired reflections on some of the things that the Clements does very well\, driving his exhibit themes around active collecting\, conservation\, solving mysteries\, and more. \n\nDunnigan’s selections include poignant manuscripts\, striking visual imagery and cartography\, and some of his favorite materials from the collections\, drawing especially from his expertise in the mapping of the Great Lakes. This valedictory exhibit in the Clements’s soaring Avenir Foundation Reading Room dwells on seven areas of commitment and illustrates the concepts with some of the Library's most evocative and handsome holdings. UID:63371-15661298@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63371 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Detroit,Exhibition,Free,History,Library,Museum,Retirement,Scholarship LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190211T121701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MORE Mentoring Plan Workshop DESCRIPTION:This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. During the workshop\, students and faculty will have the opportunity to develop a Mentoring Plan\, a two-way agreement about goals\, needs\, and expectations\; it is co-written by the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. It is an excellent way to establish and support mentor-mentee relationships.\nBecause this program aims to enhance the mentoring relationship\, mentors and students are expected to attend the workshop together. If a faculty member has attended a MORE workshop for faculty in the past\, and is familiar with the MORE mentoring plan template\, they may choose to attend the last portion of the workshop only (plan to arrive at 11:50 a.m.). Lunch is provided. This workshop has an optional informal meeting time to finish working on the mentoring plan from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m.\nPre-registration is required of both the faculty and student at myumi.ch/a0MbZ. UID:61062-15027189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61062 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T104044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53719-13452971@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-14511154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190306T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY\n \nIn celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project\, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative\, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge\, memory\, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture\, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2\, 2018 and UMMA through June 2\, 2019.\n \n#CosmogonicTattoos\n\nLead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.\n  UID:58558-14510936@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities\, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions\, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.\n \nThis special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister\, Shizuko Iwata\, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection\, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:58566-14511702@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS\, DISASTERS\, CONSUMPTION\, LOSS\, AND JUSTICE\n \nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene\, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues\, the exhibition presents photography\, video\, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials\, disasters\, consumption\, loss\, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists\, including Sammy Baloji\, Liu Bolin\, Dana Levy\, Mary Mattingly\, Pedro Neves Marques\, Gabriel Orozco\, Trevor Paglen\, and Thomas Struth\, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness\, wonder\, and curiosity about the world to come.\n \nRead the exhibition press release here.\n \n  \n\nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith\, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, UF Office of the Provost\, National Endowment for the Arts\, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation\, Ken and Laura Berns\, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman\, Ken and Linda  McGurn\, Susan Milbrath\, an anonymous foundation\, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere\, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn\, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters\, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment\, Harn Program Endowment\, and the Harn Annual Fund.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. \n  UID:59263-14721801@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,International,Museum,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190327T142749 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Scientific Advances in Sport-Related Concussion: Pathway Toward Clinical Translation DESCRIPTION:Applied research over the past 20 years has produced major advances in the science of sport-related concussion (SRC). Modern approaches to the study of SRC have provided an innovative paradigm\, with numerous methodological advantages over traditional approaches. In a clinical setting\, both basic and applied science now drive consensus guidelines with respect to diagnosis\, treatment and protocols for return to activity after SRC. Technological advances in functional neuroimaging and blood biomarkers have created a powerful bridge between the clinical and basic science of concussion in humans. This lecture will present emerging evidence from the NCAA-DoD Concussion Assessment\, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium\, the largest and most comprehensive study of SRC to date\, and other large-scale studies of SRC. Translational impact of research on clinical practice will be highlighted.\n\nRSVP at http://myumi.ch/J2KGB. UID:62645-15416708@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Concussion,Lecture,Neurosurgery,Research LOCATION:Public Health I (Vaughan Building) - 1680 (Community Lounge) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T153019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca DESCRIPTION:Join us for any or all of this symposium! See the full schedule at https://umlib.us/savoca .\n\nOne of the leading voices of specialty cinema\, Nancy Savoca hit a home run with her first film\, True Love\, in 1989 when it won at the Sundance Fim Festival. Since then her character-driven films have earned critical acclaim and respect for bringing working women and ethnic diversity to the forefront of cinematic representation. Join the University of Michigan Library as we celebrate the opening of Savoca's archive as part of the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection.\n\nAll symposium sessions are free and open to the public\, but attendees must purchase tickets to view Cinetopia films. \n\n*******************\nSYMPOSIUM\n*******************\nFriday\, May 10\nGallery\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, 913 S. University Ave\n\n12:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks\n\n12:30 p.m. How She Got It Made: The Challenges of Financing Specialty Films & Indie Productions\n\n2:15 p.m. True Love and Household Miracles: A Conversation with Director Nancy Savoca\n\n3:30 p.m. A Semester with Savoca\n\n4:00 p.m. Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Exhibit Opening Reception\n\n*******************\nSCREENINGS\n*******************\nPart of Cinetopia Film Festival\; tickets required\n\nFriday\, May 10\, 6:00 p.m.\nAuditorium A\, Angell Hall\, 435 S. State St.\nFilm: Household Saints (Nancy Savoca\, 1993\, 124 mins.)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSaturday\, May 11\, 12:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dirt (Nancy Savoca\, 2004\, 91 mins)\nFollowed by a panel discussion\, Bringing a Multitude of Voiced to the Screen: Savoca's Diversity Explored\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSunday\, May 12\, 1:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dogfight (Nancy Savoca\, 1991\, 94 mins)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx UID:63405-15669608@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190614T140151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T140000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:she was here\, once DESCRIPTION:The mobility and displacement of the Black body\, from port to holding cell\, to ward and out\, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially\, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain\, otherness\, power and triumph\, \"she was here\, once\" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.\n\nIn summer 2018\, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond\, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement\, sound\, and solidarity\, eight Black women and girls\, wearing large needle felted wool masks\, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond\, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).\n\nThe multi-layered piece has produced a short film\, mini documentary\, photography\, and performance masks\, on display in her solo exhibition\, \"she was here\, once\" in Lane Hall.\n\nLane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.\n\nAccessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.\n\nContact Heidi Bennett\, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.\n\nCosponsors: Department of Women's Studies\, Stamps School of Art & Design\, Department of English\, Art History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Center for the Education of Women+ UID:59501-14875145@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Diversity,Exhibition,Film,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181226T104317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:University of Michigan Museum of Art Offsite DESCRIPTION:Take a virtual tour of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art (UMMA). Sometimes it is difficult to get to the museum and this class will allow you to visit it from the comfort of an OLLI classroom. A slide show presentation and discussion of the highlights within the different galleries will be presented by Helen Weingarten\, a docent of the museum and a lover of art.\nThis Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Fridays from 2:00 to 4:00 pm from May 10th through May 17th. UID:58948-14617756@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Retirement,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T063537 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T180000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Robotics PhD Defense: Ross Hartley DESCRIPTION:Ross is a PhD student working on biped robot control and is advised by Professor Jessy Grizzle. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests include control systems\, legged robots\, and computer vision. UID:63476-15718784@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63476 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Michigan Robotics,Robotics LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson Rooms, 3rd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T105102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Michigan Meetings Keynote: Adam Greenfield\, Urbanscale DESCRIPTION:Adam Greenfield\, founder and managing director of Urbanscale\, is a passionate advocate for the human-centered design of technological systems.\n\nBetween 2008 and 2010\, he was Nokia’s head of design direction for service and user interface design\; earlier in the decade\, he had worked as lead information architect for the Tokyo office of Internet consultancy Razorfish.\n\nHe is the author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing (2006)\, Urban computing and its discontents (2007\, with Mark Shepard) and the forthcoming The city is here for you to use.\n\nAdam has spoken before South by Southwest Interactive\, LIFT (and LIFT Asia)\, PICNIC\, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Berkman Center for Internet & Society\, Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation\, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada\, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology\, the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers\, the MIT Media Lab\, the Royal Society of London\, and a very wide variety of other citizen\, professional\, corporate\, academic and governmental audiences worldwide.\n\nKEYNOTE \nLIVING A DIGITAL LIFE: OBJECTS\, ENVIRONMENTS\, POWER\n2019 MICHIGAN MEETING\nU-M Rackham Graduate School\; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\; LS&A\; School of Information UID:63522-15773893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63522 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,architecture lecture,Architecture\, Urban Planning,cities,Rackham,Sociology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T153019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T203000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca DESCRIPTION:Join us for any or all of this symposium! See the full schedule at https://umlib.us/savoca .\n\nOne of the leading voices of specialty cinema\, Nancy Savoca hit a home run with her first film\, True Love\, in 1989 when it won at the Sundance Fim Festival. Since then her character-driven films have earned critical acclaim and respect for bringing working women and ethnic diversity to the forefront of cinematic representation. Join the University of Michigan Library as we celebrate the opening of Savoca's archive as part of the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection.\n\nAll symposium sessions are free and open to the public\, but attendees must purchase tickets to view Cinetopia films. \n\n*******************\nSYMPOSIUM\n*******************\nFriday\, May 10\nGallery\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, 913 S. University Ave\n\n12:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks\n\n12:30 p.m. How She Got It Made: The Challenges of Financing Specialty Films & Indie Productions\n\n2:15 p.m. True Love and Household Miracles: A Conversation with Director Nancy Savoca\n\n3:30 p.m. A Semester with Savoca\n\n4:00 p.m. Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Exhibit Opening Reception\n\n*******************\nSCREENINGS\n*******************\nPart of Cinetopia Film Festival\; tickets required\n\nFriday\, May 10\, 6:00 p.m.\nAuditorium A\, Angell Hall\, 435 S. State St.\nFilm: Household Saints (Nancy Savoca\, 1993\, 124 mins.)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSaturday\, May 11\, 12:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dirt (Nancy Savoca\, 2004\, 91 mins)\nFollowed by a panel discussion\, Bringing a Multitude of Voiced to the Screen: Savoca's Diversity Explored\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSunday\, May 12\, 1:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dogfight (Nancy Savoca\, 1991\, 94 mins)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx UID:63405-15669611@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Auditorium A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190501T121513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T183000 SUMMARY:Performance:Third Dissertation Recital: Eun Young Lee\, piano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Bach - Organ Chorale\, Herzlich tut mich verlangen\, BWV 727\; Beach - Out of the Depths (Psalm 130)\; Messiaen - Vingt Regards sur l’enfant-Jésus\; Beethoven - Piano Sonata no. 31 in A-flat Major\, op. 110\; Liszt - Harmonies poétiques\; Bach - Prelude to the Ratswahl Cantata\, Wir danken dir\, Gott\, wir danken dir\, BWV 29. UID:63454-15704478@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63454 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T115814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Nora Jane Struthers DESCRIPTION:Nora Jane Struthers has written \"some of the most quietly powerful narratives within the new wave of Americana artists\,\" says Ann Powers of NPR Music. There’s an honesty and energy to Nora Jane’s stage presence\; a vulnerability that is part and parcel of great artistry. In one moment\, she joyfully leads the audience in a dance party ... in the next\, she lays her soul bare for the world to hear. A performance by Nora Jane and her band is full to the brim with stellar musicianship\, unexpected arrangements that blur the lines between folk\, roots\, and rock\, and an audible sense that everyone in the room is having a damn good time. Nora Jane comes to Michigan with a new album on the way! UID:57599-14220063@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/57599 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190502T153359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190510T230000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Robotics PhD Defense: Katherine Skinner DESCRIPTION:Katherine Skinner is a PhD Candidate in Robotics working in the Deep Robot Optical Perception (DROP) Lab. Her research interests include perception for marine robotics\, light field imaging\, and unsupervised learning. She hold an M.S. in Robotics from University of Michigan and a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a Certificate in Applications of Computing from Princeton University. UID:63475-15718783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63475 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Robotics,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Robotics LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - 2000A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T060009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Dad Vail Regatta\, ECAC/NIRC DESCRIPTION:Racing UID:63485-15806456@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Philadelphia, PA and Worcester, MA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190512T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Nationals!! DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO ME SO WE CAN WIN A NATTY UID:63165-15800376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Princess Anne Athletic Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179125@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302260@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179537@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179207@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302342@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302177@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T160030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T130000 SUMMARY:Community Service:BioBlitz DESCRIPTION:Students and faculty from U-M will collaborate with the Detroit Black Food Security Network at D-Town Farm on this wonderful science outreach activity. BioBlitzes are rapid biodiversity inventories of local community green spaces. We use this framework to explore local biodiversity and engage K-12 students in scientific exploration. \n\nThe day consists of documenting the biodiversity of the urban farm and rotating through several science stations alongside community members.\n\nWe need volunteers to lead groups of kids\, run stations and help with logistics. If you are interested\, please sign up at the RSVP link before April 19. \n\nFeel free to share this announcement with anyone that might be interested UID:62919-15494571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Outdoors,science,Social Impact,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190410T104022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Philosophy Alumni Conference DESCRIPTION:The schedule for the conference is as follows:\n\nFRIDAY\, MAY 10\n9:30AM-10:00AM: Breakfast\n10:00AM-12:00PM: \"Vague Existence\, Metaphysical Vagueness\, and Ontological Deflationism\" - Rohan Sud (Ryerson)\, comments by Glenn Zhou\n12:00PM-1:30 PM: Lunch\n1:30PM-3:30 PM: \"Integrity\, Truth\, and Value\" - Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)\, comments by Mercy Corredor\n3:30PM-4:00PM: Break\n4:00PM-6:00PM: \"Aggregating Imprecise Probability Using Epistemic Utilities\" - Jason Konek (Bristol)\, comments by Elise Woodard and Calum McNamara\n6:00PM-8:00PM: Dinner\n\nSATURDAY\, MAY 11\n9:30AM-10:00AM: Breakfast\n10:00AM-12:00PM: \"Against Convergence: A Feminist Critique\" - Christie Hartley (Georgia State)\, comments by Eduardo Martinez\n12:00PM-1:30PM: Lunch\n1:30PM-3:30PM: \"Competing(?) Formulations of Newtonian Gravitation: Some Reflections on Equivalence and Interpretation\" - Kevin Coffey (NYU Abu Dhabi)\, comments by Josh Hunt\n3:30PM-4:00PM: Break\n4:00PM-5:30PM: Panel - featuring all 5 speakers\n6:15PM-8:15PM: Dinner UID:59201-14717499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59201 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Philosophy LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5671 Haven (Eldersveld) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190503T084309 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Post45 Graduate Symposium DESCRIPTION:Fourth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium\nCo-hosted with Michigan State University\n\nDiscussion of graduate student works-in-progress related to post45 literature and culture. Please see link to the symposium schedule. \n\nKeynotes by Professors Sara Blair and Justus Nieland\nAdditional Faculty Participation by Zarena Aslami\, Sarah Ensor\, Yomaira Figueroa\, and Aida Levy-Hussen\n\nPlease contact Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) or Kyle Frisina (kfrisina@umich.edu) to receive a link to the pre-circulated papers. UID:59506-14745959@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59506 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Environment,Film,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Media,Politics,Women's Studies LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190423T095344 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T113000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:4th Annual BME \"Spring\" Back into Fitness 5K DESCRIPTION:The BME Graduate Student Council invites students\, members of the College of Engineering and the community to participate in the 4th annual \"BME-GSC Spring into Fitness 5K\" race on Saturday\, May 11th at 10AM. This 5K course will wind through beautiful North Campus and ends with post race refreshments. Registration for the race is $15.00 plus a nominal processing fee which includes event participation\, post-race refreshments\, and an athletic race T-shirt. Please register by Thursday\, April 25th at 6 p.m.\n\nThe proceeds for this year’s running of the BME-GSC Spring into Fitness 5K will go towards Leslie Science & Nature Center whose mission is to \"Create moments of discovery that inspire curiosity\, exploration and respect for STEM and the natural world.\" Runners and walkers of all skill levels are encouraged to join\, so come on out for a healthy start to the Spring and Summer in Ann Arbor and to support a great cause!\n\nParticipants are asked to arrive to the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (overlooking Fuller Rd.) 20 minutes prior to the race start time (10:00 am) in order to complete a participation waiver. A copy of the waiver can be printed and signed prior to race day. Waivers will also be available on site the day of the race.\n\nMore information regarding Leslie Science & Nature Center can be found here: https://www.lesliesnc.org/\n\nPlease feel free to contact Morgan Bolger (mwbolger@umich.edu)\, or Daniella Patton (pattondm@umich.edu) with any questions. UID:62828-15477380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62828 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,biomedical engineering,bme,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Outdoors,Social LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190423T151635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Mother's Day Weekend Plant Sale at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:A large selection of hanging basket and container plantings—perfect for Mom—grown and designed on-site by Matthaei-Nichols staff and volunteers. All proceeds benefit Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum. UID:63332-15644854@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mother's day,plant sale LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190423T152151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Spring Artist Market at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:Shop botanical themed art in all media from a wide variety of artists. The twice-a-year artist market brings great art from local artists to Matthaei Botanical Gardens for a one-day show. Choose from a curated assortment of fine artists\, featuring a broad array of nature-inspired and garden-centric pieces in many media such as paintings\, photography\, textiles\, jewelry\, and more. UID:63333-15644856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63333 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,sale LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190514T103959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T111500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Cosmic Recipe: Setting the Periodic Table DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63495-15757420@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T103906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53718-13452705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-14511155@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190306T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY\n \nIn celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project\, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative\, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge\, memory\, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture\, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2\, 2018 and UMMA through June 2\, 2019.\n \n#CosmogonicTattoos\n\nLead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.\n  UID:58558-14510937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities\, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions\, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.\n \nThis special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister\, Shizuko Iwata\, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection\, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:58566-14511703@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190430T124440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Forum Demo: Fantastic Fluids DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above. \n\nExplore the fascinating world of fluid dynamics! Together we will discuss what a “fluid” is\, and through experimentation\, we will learn how fluids move and interact. Learn how wind creates waves and test the surface tension of different liquids. How do fluids mix? Can you ever un-mix them? This demo is filled to the brim with experiments. Funded by the National Science Foundation. UID:63448-15702311@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63448 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Discussion,Family,Free,Museum,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Science Forum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS\, DISASTERS\, CONSUMPTION\, LOSS\, AND JUSTICE\n \nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene\, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues\, the exhibition presents photography\, video\, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials\, disasters\, consumption\, loss\, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists\, including Sammy Baloji\, Liu Bolin\, Dana Levy\, Mary Mattingly\, Pedro Neves Marques\, Gabriel Orozco\, Trevor Paglen\, and Thomas Struth\, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness\, wonder\, and curiosity about the world to come.\n \nRead the exhibition press release here.\n \n  \n\nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith\, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, UF Office of the Provost\, National Endowment for the Arts\, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation\, Ken and Laura Berns\, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman\, Ken and Linda  McGurn\, Susan Milbrath\, an anonymous foundation\, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere\, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn\, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters\, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment\, Harn Program Endowment\, and the Harn Annual Fund.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. \n  UID:59263-14721802@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,International,Museum,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190805T094318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Paleo Prep Lab Chat DESCRIPTION:Join us at the visible labs in the atriums for a discussion about the science happening inside. All ages welcome. Please check the Welcome Desk for times.\n\nStop by and chat with an educator in front of the Paleo Prep Lab near the mastodons and learn about the tools and skills needed to prepare and cast fossils for research and display. UID:62760-15460090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T153019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca DESCRIPTION:Join us for any or all of this symposium! See the full schedule at https://umlib.us/savoca .\n\nOne of the leading voices of specialty cinema\, Nancy Savoca hit a home run with her first film\, True Love\, in 1989 when it won at the Sundance Fim Festival. Since then her character-driven films have earned critical acclaim and respect for bringing working women and ethnic diversity to the forefront of cinematic representation. Join the University of Michigan Library as we celebrate the opening of Savoca's archive as part of the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection.\n\nAll symposium sessions are free and open to the public\, but attendees must purchase tickets to view Cinetopia films. \n\n*******************\nSYMPOSIUM\n*******************\nFriday\, May 10\nGallery\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, 913 S. University Ave\n\n12:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks\n\n12:30 p.m. How She Got It Made: The Challenges of Financing Specialty Films & Indie Productions\n\n2:15 p.m. True Love and Household Miracles: A Conversation with Director Nancy Savoca\n\n3:30 p.m. A Semester with Savoca\n\n4:00 p.m. Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Exhibit Opening Reception\n\n*******************\nSCREENINGS\n*******************\nPart of Cinetopia Film Festival\; tickets required\n\nFriday\, May 10\, 6:00 p.m.\nAuditorium A\, Angell Hall\, 435 S. State St.\nFilm: Household Saints (Nancy Savoca\, 1993\, 124 mins.)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSaturday\, May 11\, 12:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dirt (Nancy Savoca\, 2004\, 91 mins)\nFollowed by a panel discussion\, Bringing a Multitude of Voiced to the Screen: Savoca's Diversity Explored\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSunday\, May 12\, 1:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dogfight (Nancy Savoca\, 1991\, 94 mins)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx UID:63405-15669609@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Screening Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757364@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T105014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Ancient Color DESCRIPTION:The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues\, these statues — as well as Roman homes\, clothing\, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world\, how these colors were produced\, where they were found\, what the Romans thought about them\, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them\, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.\n\nCurators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts\n\nView the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/ UID:59301-14728371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190430T125119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T131500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Scientist in the Forum DESCRIPTION:Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes\, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up. UID:62757-15460101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Research,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190511T181526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T143000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:The Six Senses of Tea: Demonstration of Chanoyu DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of the UMMA exhibition The Six Sense of Buddhism\, please join us for a Japanese tea ceremony at UMMA. Tea was valued for its medicinal and stimulating qualities\, and was used daily by Buddhist monks to aid in a lifestyle that combined physical activity\, intellectual expansion\, and contemplation. In 16th-century Japan\, the use of tea was cultivated into a refined and spiritual practice in its own right. Chanoyu\, or commonly known as the Japanese tea ceremony\, requires paying meticulous attention to all aspects of a carefully orchestrated environment: the sight of flower arrangements and calligraphy\; the sound of water boiling\; the warmth of the tea bowl\; the smell and taste of the tea. Join the sensual afternoon of Chanoyu demonstrated by local practitioners of the Urasenke Konnichian\, one of the three main tea schools in the lineage of the famous master Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591).\n\nLead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. UID:61553-15128239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61553 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Environment,Exhibition,Family,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190227T161355 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T143000 SUMMARY:Other:Saturday Sampler Tour | Artifact Exploration: Toys and Games DESCRIPTION:Often\, ancient history is focused on big events and famous people. But archaeologists also find the objects of daily life\, including children’s toys and all kinds of games. On this short Artifact Exploration mini-tour\, we’ll take a look at the real toys and games played in the ancient world. Take home a paper version of our horse from Karanis to complete at home!\n\nSaturday 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. UID:61694-15170143@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190411T181558 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:In Conversation: The Six Senses of Buddhism DESCRIPTION:Buddhist practices engage the senses. Incense wafts through the air: smell. Sculptures and paintings dazzle your eyes: sight. The ringing of a bell calls to you: sound. The stimulating flavor of tea passes over your tongue: taste. Silk brocade slides against your skin: touch. And all of this is brought together in your mind: thought—the essential sixth sense in Buddhism. Join Susan Dine\, 2017-18 Mellon Curatorial Fellow and curator of the exhibition The Six Senses of Buddhism for a  conversation about the complex roles of the senses in the Buddhist journey towards enlightenment through objects on display.    \n\nLead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. UID:61554-15128240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61554 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190815T072646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Forum Demo: Cow’s Eye Dissection DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above. \n\nHave you ever wondered what makes our eyes work or how we see? We’ll dissect a cow’s eye to take a closer look at the organ that helps us see the world. How is it similar to and different from our eyes\, and those of other animals? Learn the parts of the eye and how they work together to illuminate our sight. UID:63449-15702329@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Discussion,Family,Free,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Science Forum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190805T094609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Biodiversity Lab Chat DESCRIPTION:Join us at the visible labs in the atriums for a discussion about the science happening inside. All ages welcome. Please check the website or Welcome Desk for times.\n\nJoin an educator in front of the Biodiversity Genomics Lab on the second floor\, near the giant pterosaur\, to learn about how and why scientists process DNA samples from plants and animals around the world. All ages welcome.\n\nWednesdays\, 11 a.m.\nSaturdays and Sundays\, 3:30 pm. UID:62767-15460126@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Expedition Reef DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63496-15757436@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190511T181527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T164500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:In Conversation: The Six Senses of Buddhism DESCRIPTION:Buddhist practices engage the senses. Incense wafts through the air: smell. Sculptures and paintings dazzle your eyes: sight. The ringing of a bell calls to you: sound. The stimulating flavor of tea passes over your tongue: taste. Silk brocade slides against your skin: touch. And all of this is brought together in your mind: thought—the essential sixth sense in Buddhism. Join Susan Dine\, 2017-18 Mellon Curatorial Fellow and curator of the exhibition The Six Senses of Buddhism for a  conversation about the complex roles of the senses in the Buddhist journey towards enlightenment through objects on display.    \n\nLead support for The Six Senses of Buddhism is provided by the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. UID:63074-15547446@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63074 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T120034 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Susan Werner DESCRIPTION:Chicago's Susan Werner is a triple threat at folk awards ceremonies with her luxuriously smooth and strong voice (she's a former opera singer)\, riveting lyrics\, and haunting melodies. “When it comes to crafting a song\, Ms. Werner’s only peers are Jimmy Webb and Paul Simon\,” raves No Depression. Susan can do it all! She's a virtuoso on both piano and guitar\, and her recordings have ranged from hardcore folk to Broadway music\, humorous songs\, a skeptical yet sympathetic take on gospel\, songs of farming\, and even classical arrangements of classic rock. Susan has a way of reinventing herself for each new project\, but there's a core of humor sophistication\, and musical craft that endures. She comes to Michigan with a new album\, \"NOLA: Susan Werner Goes to New Orleans\,\" and\, well\, New Orleans may never be the same. Ann Arbor trombonist\, Chris Smith\, joins Susan for the show! UID:59795-14788672@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59795 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190511T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T060009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Dad Vail Regatta\, ECAC/NIRC DESCRIPTION:Racing UID:63485-15806457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Philadelphia, PA and Worcester, MA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190512T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Nationals!! DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO ME SO WE CAN WIN A NATTY UID:63165-15800377@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Princess Anne Athletic Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179042@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179126@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302261@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179538@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179291@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179208@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302343@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302178@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669558@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190423T151635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Mother's Day Weekend Plant Sale at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:A large selection of hanging basket and container plantings—perfect for Mom—grown and designed on-site by Matthaei-Nichols staff and volunteers. All proceeds benefit Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum. UID:63332-15644855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:mother's day,plant sale LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190514T103959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T111500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Cosmic Recipe: Setting the Periodic Table DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63495-15757428@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190430T124440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Forum Demo: Fantastic Fluids DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above. \n\nExplore the fascinating world of fluid dynamics! Together we will discuss what a “fluid” is\, and through experimentation\, we will learn how fluids move and interact. Learn how wind creates waves and test the surface tension of different liquids. How do fluids mix? Can you ever un-mix them? This demo is filled to the brim with experiments. Funded by the National Science Foundation. UID:63448-15702320@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63448 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Discussion,Family,Free,Museum,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Science Forum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190805T094318 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Paleo Prep Lab Chat DESCRIPTION:Join us at the visible labs in the atriums for a discussion about the science happening inside. All ages welcome. Please check the Welcome Desk for times.\n\nStop by and chat with an educator in front of the Paleo Prep Lab near the mastodons and learn about the tools and skills needed to prepare and cast fossils for research and display. UID:62760-15460095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T121500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T103906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53718-13452759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-14511156@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190306T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY\n \nIn celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project\, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative\, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge\, memory\, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture\, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2\, 2018 and UMMA through June 2\, 2019.\n \n#CosmogonicTattoos\n\nLead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.\n  UID:58558-14510938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities\, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions\, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.\n \nThis special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister\, Shizuko Iwata\, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection\, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:58566-14511704@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS\, DISASTERS\, CONSUMPTION\, LOSS\, AND JUSTICE\n \nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene\, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues\, the exhibition presents photography\, video\, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials\, disasters\, consumption\, loss\, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists\, including Sammy Baloji\, Liu Bolin\, Dana Levy\, Mary Mattingly\, Pedro Neves Marques\, Gabriel Orozco\, Trevor Paglen\, and Thomas Struth\, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness\, wonder\, and curiosity about the world to come.\n \nRead the exhibition press release here.\n \n  \n\nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith\, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, UF Office of the Provost\, National Endowment for the Arts\, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation\, Ken and Laura Berns\, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman\, Ken and Linda  McGurn\, Susan Milbrath\, an anonymous foundation\, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere\, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn\, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters\, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment\, Harn Program Endowment\, and the Harn Annual Fund.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. \n  UID:59263-14721803@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,International,Museum,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T131500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T105014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Ancient Color DESCRIPTION:The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues\, these statues — as well as Roman homes\, clothing\, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world\, how these colors were produced\, where they were found\, what the Romans thought about them\, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them\, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.\n\nCurators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts\n\nView the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/ UID:59301-14728372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190430T125119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T131500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Scientist in the Forum DESCRIPTION:Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes\, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up. UID:62757-15702347@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Research,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Science Forum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T153019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T153000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca DESCRIPTION:Join us for any or all of this symposium! See the full schedule at https://umlib.us/savoca .\n\nOne of the leading voices of specialty cinema\, Nancy Savoca hit a home run with her first film\, True Love\, in 1989 when it won at the Sundance Fim Festival. Since then her character-driven films have earned critical acclaim and respect for bringing working women and ethnic diversity to the forefront of cinematic representation. Join the University of Michigan Library as we celebrate the opening of Savoca's archive as part of the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection.\n\nAll symposium sessions are free and open to the public\, but attendees must purchase tickets to view Cinetopia films. \n\n*******************\nSYMPOSIUM\n*******************\nFriday\, May 10\nGallery\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, 913 S. University Ave\n\n12:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductory Remarks\n\n12:30 p.m. How She Got It Made: The Challenges of Financing Specialty Films & Indie Productions\n\n2:15 p.m. True Love and Household Miracles: A Conversation with Director Nancy Savoca\n\n3:30 p.m. A Semester with Savoca\n\n4:00 p.m. Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Exhibit Opening Reception\n\n*******************\nSCREENINGS\n*******************\nPart of Cinetopia Film Festival\; tickets required\n\nFriday\, May 10\, 6:00 p.m.\nAuditorium A\, Angell Hall\, 435 S. State St.\nFilm: Household Saints (Nancy Savoca\, 1993\, 124 mins.)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSaturday\, May 11\, 12:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dirt (Nancy Savoca\, 2004\, 91 mins)\nFollowed by a panel discussion\, Bringing a Multitude of Voiced to the Screen: Savoca's Diversity Explored\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx\n\nSunday\, May 12\, 1:30 p.m.\nScreening Room\, Michigan Theater\, 603 E. Liberty St.\nFilm: Dogfight (Nancy Savoca\, 1991\, 94 mins)\nFollowed by Q&A\nPurchase tickets: https://secure.michtheater.org/websales/pages/info.aspx UID:63405-15669610@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Screening Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T141500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757404@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121615 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T150000 SUMMARY:Presentation:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Mother’s Day with a short\, docent introduction to an exceptional hand-dyed and hand-woven kimono. Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. From pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving\, it may take up to one year to complete a roll (bolt) of cloth. This special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:61518-15119375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190417T120605 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T143000 SUMMARY:Other:Sunday Drop-In Tour | Women in the Ancient World DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Mother's Day with a tour of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology! In this docent-led tour\, explore the status of women in various ancient societies highlighted by representations of women\, goddesses\, and mythological females. \n\nDrop-in 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. UID:63213-15595488@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63213 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:archaeology,Classical Studies,museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T151500 SUMMARY:Presentation:The Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63494-15757412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190815T072646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Science Forum Demo: Cow’s Eye Dissection DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above. \n\nHave you ever wondered what makes our eyes work or how we see? We’ll dissect a cow’s eye to take a closer look at the organ that helps us see the world. How is it similar to and different from our eyes\, and those of other animals? Learn the parts of the eye and how they work together to illuminate our sight. UID:63449-15702338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63449 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Discussion,Family,Free,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Science Forum CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190805T094609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Biodiversity Lab Chat DESCRIPTION:Join us at the visible labs in the atriums for a discussion about the science happening inside. All ages welcome. Please check the website or Welcome Desk for times.\n\nJoin an educator in front of the Biodiversity Genomics Lab on the second floor\, near the giant pterosaur\, to learn about how and why scientists process DNA samples from plants and animals around the world. All ages welcome.\n\nWednesdays\, 11 a.m.\nSaturdays and Sundays\, 3:30 pm. UID:62767-15460130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T091751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T161500 SUMMARY:Presentation:Expedition Reef DESCRIPTION:New planetarium shows and live Star Talks will take visitors beyond space to explore the oceans' reefs\, Earth’s geology\, weather\, and more\, all with surround sound and in new\, comfortable seats! The Dome has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour before show in the Museum Store. UID:63496-15757444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T120904 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Sam Baker DESCRIPTION:Sam Baker makes people happy. The characters in his songs face many challenges—alcoholism\, car wrecks\, racism\, drug addiction\, a mother’s abandonment—but they persevere. Much like Sam himself. In 1986 Sam got in the middle of someone else’s war. When a terrorist bomb exploded in the his train compartment\, he went from being a young\, healthy\, tourist enjoying Peru with friends to a broken man surrounded by death and dying. Given his injuries\, he too should have died. But through a series of miracles and coincidences he survived. With the top of his left hand gone\, it seemed that his formerly skillful hands had been transformed into blocks of wood\, but eventually those hands learned how to play an upside-down guitar. He needed to tell his story. Songs started to come from that upside-down guitar. Before he knew it\, there were CDs\, tours around the world\, an interview with Terry Gross\, and awards in Rolling Stone. A Sam Baker show is a celebration. Some songs tell of everyday people who survive life’s daily challenges\; others are stories of growing up in a small Texas prairie town. All his shows are an acknowledgment and appreciation of the pure joy that comes with people gathering to listen to live music. Sam’s fans travel to see him\, often driving hours to experience the powerful performance. After the show\, they tell Sam their stories. At the end of the day\, all go in peace. UID:62393-15361883@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62393 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190512T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T060009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T070000 SUMMARY:Other:Dad Vail Regatta\, ECAC/NIRC DESCRIPTION:Racing UID:63485-15806458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Philadelphia, PA and Worcester, MA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190512T120015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Nationals!! DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO ME SO WE CAN WIN A NATTY UID:63165-15800378@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63165 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Princess Anne Athletic Complex CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179127@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302262@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179539@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179292@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179209@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302344@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302179@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190614T140151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:she was here\, once DESCRIPTION:The mobility and displacement of the Black body\, from port to holding cell\, to ward and out\, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially\, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain\, otherness\, power and triumph\, \"she was here\, once\" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.\n\nIn summer 2018\, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond\, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement\, sound\, and solidarity\, eight Black women and girls\, wearing large needle felted wool masks\, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond\, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).\n\nThe multi-layered piece has produced a short film\, mini documentary\, photography\, and performance masks\, on display in her solo exhibition\, \"she was here\, once\" in Lane Hall.\n\nLane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.\n\nAccessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.\n\nContact Heidi Bennett\, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.\n\nCosponsors: Department of Women's Studies\, Stamps School of Art & Design\, Department of English\, Art History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Center for the Education of Women+ UID:59501-14875216@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Diversity,Exhibition,Film,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T100300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency DESCRIPTION:\"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency\,\" by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin\, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home\, privacy\, and safety.\n\nThe exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery\, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication\, luxury\, and modernism.\n\nIn a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet\, for Martin and Muñoz\, \"Blind House\" serves as \"a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy.\" Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk UID:58928-15710573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Economics,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190501T124440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T110000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Ph.D. Defense: Jared Houghtaling DESCRIPTION:Molecular diagnosis has proven to be a powerful tool for early detection of neurodegenerative disease\, but research in this field is still relatively nascent. In Alzheimer’s Disease specifically\, levels of microtubule associated protein tau and amyloid-beta1-42 in cerebrospinal fluid are becoming reliable pathological indicators. The current gold standard for detecting these biomarkers is an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay\, and while this method has a limit of detection on the order of pg mL-1\, it lacks the ability to provide information about aggregation extent and structure on a per-protein basis. From a disease standpoint\, neurological pathologies are often extremely complex in their biological manifestation\, and precise mechanisms for many of these diseases are still being discovered and revised. A thorough understanding of in situ structure and properties of neurological disease-related proteins would likely help clarify some of these complicated mechanisms. Resistive-pulse methods may be useful in this effort\, as they can determine specific biomarker concentrations and can also unveil multiple physical qualities of single proteins or protein aggregates in an aqueous sample. The latter capability is critical and could allow for both earlier diagnoses and a stronger mechanistic understanding of neurological disease progression.\n\nThe work presented in this dissertation\, therefore\, represents broad efforts toward developing a nanopore-based system able to characterize amyloids and protein complexes related to neurodegenerative disease. These efforts range from upstream fabrication and characterization of nanopores in synthetic substrates to downstream techniques for optimizing the accuracy and efficiency of analyses on resistive pulses. Single proteins rotating and translating while tethered to the surface of a nanopore provide rich information during transit through the pore that makes it possible to determine their ellipsoidal shape\, volume\, dipole moment\, charge\, and rotational diffusion coefficient in a time frame of just a few hundred microseconds. This five-dimensional protein fingerprint\, however\, requires chemical modification of each protein and is thus not ideal for studying protein dynamics or transient protein complexes\, both of which are relevant when characterizing amyloids. Transitioning to low-noise nanopore substrates and high-bandwidth recordings enables label-free identification and quantification of unperturbed\, natively-folded proteins and protein complexes in solution – no chemical tags\, tethers\, or fluorescent labels are needed. Such a transition is nontrivial\; proteins passing uninhibited through the strong electric field inside of a nanopore rotate and translocate rapidly\, posing a challenge to time-resolve their various orientations adequately while circumventing adhesion to nanopore walls. Furthermore\, during their translocation through the nanopore\, untethered\, native proteins diffuse laterally\, generating asymmetric disturbances of the electric field and larger-than-expected resistive pulse magnitudes. Known as off-axis effects\, these latter phenomena add a noise-like element to the electrical recordings. We evaluate\, both computationally and experimentally\, the influence of such label-free complications on resulting parameter estimates\, and place these results in the context of developing future iterations of nanopore-based protein sensors.\n\nIn light of the spectacular recent success of nanopore-based nucleic acid sequencing\, it is likely that the next frontier for nanopore-based analysis is the characterization of single proteins and\, in particular\, the characterization of protein aggregates such as amyloids. The experiments and results presented here enable future particle-by-particle analysis of amyloids with nanopores to rapidly reconstruct their heterogeneity in size and shape\, both of which are correlated with the neurotoxicity of amyloid samples and are being investigated as biomarkers for neurodegenerative disease.\n\nCo-Chairs: Michael Mayer and David Sept UID:63458-15710552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63458 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,bme,Dissertation,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering - 2203 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190528T063006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Recent Grads! Your 2-Hour Job Search DESCRIPTION:*parts of this event will be based on The 2-Hour Job Search book by Steve Dalton. You can find more info here: https://2hourjobsearch.com/\n\nRECENT GRADS\, still SEARCHING for a JOB?! THIS IS FOR YOU! Feeling like you're down-to-the-wire in your job search? Have you applied to tons of jobs only to hear nothing back?\n\nIt's all about your strategy!\n\nJoin us for a virtual group coaching session with a UCC career coach and strategist. RSVP here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/308290/share_preview\n\nDuring this 2-HOUR working session\, you'll walk away with...\n1. At least 10 new organizations to target\n2. At least 3 informational interview requests to alumni\n3. A list of positions to apply to\n4. Customizedadvice specific to your search\n\nWe'll dive in right away\, so you'll need to:\n1. RSVP here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/308290/share_preview\n2. Be able to access Google Meets/Hangouts -- mostly compatible with Google Chrome web browser.\n3. Have your resume ready-to-go (see our online resources or make an appointment if you need help here) \n4. Have your LinkedIn and UCAN profile set up (umich.peoplegrove.com) \n UID:63518-15769831@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181229T143459 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T113000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Rosie the Riveter and the Willow Run Bomber Plant DESCRIPTION:This class will be a lecture with audience participation/ questions/comments surrounding the history of Rosie the Riveter and women in the defense plants during the WWII years. It will highlight the story of Willow Run Bomber Plant and bring to light the “Save the Bomber Plant Campaign” and the Veteran’s Oral History Project\, with which she is very involved.\nClaire Dahl’s\, your instructor\, background is in teaching. She taught Advanced Placement U.S. History at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School for 20 years. She has now retired and is part of the Public Relations Committee for the Yankee Air Museum. In that capacity\, Claire is a Tribute Rosie and does presentations in many venues. She has a Master’s Degree in American Studies\, with an emphasis on Women’s Studies and lives in Ann Arbor.\n This Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Monday\, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.\, May 13. UID:59006-14644746@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,History,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181229T153030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Virgil’s Aeneid DESCRIPTION:We will read and discuss this great Roman epic poem (Robert Fagles’ translation\, Penguin Classics)\, which has been a key component of the Western canon for centuries. The schedule is as follows: session one – Introduction\, session two – Books 1 through 4\, session three – Books 5 through 8\, session four Books 9 through 12. Marilyn Scott\, your instructor\, has led many OLLI study groups and has taught the Aeneid in Latin. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Mondays\, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.\, May 13 – June 24. UID:59010-14644751@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59010 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Lifelong Learning,Literature,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T102530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T124500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch DESCRIPTION:The Deutschtisch for Spring 2019 is associated with German 100. All are welcome! The group will meet MW 12:00-12:45. You can find the group with your ears (i.e. listen for a group of people speaking German). Look for the group:\nMost days: At Maizie's Kitchen in the Michigan League.\nOccasionally in good weather: in the \"Courtyard Garden\" of the League\, across from UHS (one way to get to it would be to go directly through the League from the front doors (facing the Bell Tower) to the back doors).\nTo be sure of the location\, come to the end of class at 11:50 in 2108 MLB to walk to lunch with the group\, or email the instructors to confirm the location: Vera Irwin in the first half of the semester\, Maria Measel in the second half of the semester. UID:63583-15806528@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63583 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Kitchen CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190716T142415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions: Experiment\, Inference and Online Learning DESCRIPTION:The use and development of mobile interventions are experiencing rapid growth. Ideally\, mobile devices can be used to provide treatment/support whenever needed and to adapt treatment to the context of the user. Just-in-time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs) are composed of decision rules that map a user’s context (e.g.\, user's behaviors\, location\, current time\, social activity\, stress and urges to smoke) to a treatment that is delivered to the user via the mobile device in near real-time. Advancements in mobile health engineering and technology (e.g.\, passive stress sensing) continue to bring us closer to being able to provide interventions in this way. However\, a number of important gaps in data science must be addressed before mobile devices can be used to deliver on the promise of JITAIs. First\, there is a need for experimental designs to collect data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of the sequence of treatments delivered by a mobile device on health outcomes in order to support the development of JITAIs. Second\, there is a need for data-driven methods to inform the construction of efficacious JITAIs. In the vast majority of currently deployed JITAIs\, the decision rules underpinning JITAIs are formulated using domain expertise and clinical experience\, with very limited use of data evidence.\n\nIn this dissertation\, we make several contributions by tackling the above mentioned data science barriers to effective JITAI development in mobile health. First\, we propose a micro-randomized trial (MRT) design and develop the primary analysis for assessing the proximal causal effect of treatments. In addition\, we develop stratified micro-randomized trials for the setting where there is a time-varying\, discrete variable and the primary analysis focuses on how the effectiveness of interventions changes with this variable. We also develop a novel algorithm to design randomization scheme for this setting when there is an average constraint on the number of times interventions that should be sent in a certain time interval. Second\, we develop a semi-parametric model to estimate the long-term average of health outcomes that would accrue should a given JITAI be followed. We derive asymptotic theory for the consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator. Third\, we develop an online learning algorithm that continuously learns and improves the JITAI as the data is collected from the user. The proposed algorithm introduces a proxy of future outcomes based on a dosage variable to capture the delayed effect of sending the interventions due to the treatment burden. UID:63520-15773891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - Room 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190503T150658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special HEP-Astro Seminar | Searching for Dark Matter from the Lowest to the Highest Energies DESCRIPTION:Dark Matter (DM) is a long standing puzzle in fundamental physics and goal of a diverse research program. In underground experiments such as LZ we search for DM directly using lowest possible energy thresholds\, at the LHC we seek to produce dark matter at the very highest energies\, and using telescopes we look for telltale signatures in the cosmos. All these detection methods probe different parts of the possible parameters space with complementary strengths. I will present current DM searches\, their connection and how an interdisciplinary program bridging different experimental frontiers can achieve optimal sensitivity. Finally\, I will highlight recent theoretical and experimental developments and the near term discovery prospects in upcoming experiments. UID:63481-15726893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63481 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Physics LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T160154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special HET Seminar | UV Cancellations in Gravity Loop Integrands DESCRIPTION:TBD UID:63571-15784206@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Natural Sciences,Physics,Science,Seminar,Talk LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T123425 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Two Troubadours: An Intimate Evening with Laith Al-Saadi & Jimmy Vivino DESCRIPTION:These 2 kindred souls first met in 2009 in Southern California and immediately realized there was something special when they collaborated. We are so pleased to bring this special show to the Ann Arbor Ark for a personal\, up-close experience with two virtuoso guitarists and singer/songwriters with encyclopedic knowledge of American Roots music and Classic Rock & Roll. \n \nVivino is best known as bandleader for Conan O’Brien\, member of the Fab Faux\, Levon Helm Band & many other musical endeavors including collaborations with legends such as Dion\, John Sebastian & Al Kooper... \n \nAl-Saadi is an Ann Arbor native who as been known regionally for years as a bandleader and garnered national/international fame as a finalist on NBC’s ‘The Voice’ in 2016. His album “Real.” hit #1 on the iTunes Blues chart and stayed for over 5 weeks. UID:63040-15536934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63040 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190528T105052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T204700 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T223000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Ramadan Community Iftars DESCRIPTION:U-M’s Muslim Students’ Association and Islamophobia Working Group invite Muslims and non-Muslim allies to join our Ramadan iftar meals at sunset throughout May and early June. Ramadan is the Islamic holy month\, when Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn to sunset. Come to break bread\, to show solidarity\, and to learn more about each other. To ensure that there is plenty of food\, please RSVP for each of the iftars here: myumi.ch/Jyyrn \n \nIFTAR SCHEDULE \n \nMost iftars will be at Trotter Multicultural Center (428 South State Street)\, unless otherwise listed. All addresses are in Ann Arbor. \n \n 8:39pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 6: Trotter \n 8:40pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 8: International House (921 Church Street) \n 8:42pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 9: Trotter \n 8:47pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 13: Trotter \n 8:49pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 15: Weiser Hall 10th Floor (500 Church Street) \n 8:50pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 16: Trotter \n 8:54pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 20: Trotter\, sponsored by the Program on Intergroup Relations \n 8:56pm\, TUESDAY\, MAY 21: Muslim Community Association (2301 Plymouth Road). A shuttle bus will depart from the Central Campus Transit Center at 8:30pm and return to central campus by 10:30pm. More details will be provided by email to those who RSVP. \n 8:57pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 23: Trotter \n 9:00pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 27: Trotter \n 9:02pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 29: Trotter \n \n \nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, we are eager to help. Please contact asbates@umich.edu. We are able to make most accommodations very easily\, but advance notice is appreciated as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. All facilities are wheelchair accessible. Vegetarian and halal food options will be provided at every meal\; please indicate additional dietary restrictions on the RSVP form. UID:63342-15651037@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63342 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,international,Muslim LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190513T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181227T150546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T053000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T193000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Climate is Changing: What’s a Planet to Do? OLLI Study Group DESCRIPTION:Climate change is real\, it’s serious\, and it’s solvable! Through lecture and discussion\, we’ll gain an understanding of where we are\, how we got here\, and what we can do about it. Various experts will take us on a journey exploring this multi-faceted issue. We’ll touch on science\, alternative energies\, human health\, local impacts\, national security\, psychology\, and justice issues. We’ll look at strategies for reducing emissions such as land use\, transportation\, and carbon pricing. Speakers will include volunteers with the non-partisan Citizens’ Climate Education and the Climate Reality Project.\n\nInstructor Barbara Lucas is a journalist with a masters in Environmental Policy and will lead these sessions for those 50 and above. The Study Group will meet on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. from May 14 through May 21. UID:58971-14628136@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58971 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Environment LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179044@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179128@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179540@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302180@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190614T140151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:she was here\, once DESCRIPTION:The mobility and displacement of the Black body\, from port to holding cell\, to ward and out\, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially\, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain\, otherness\, power and triumph\, \"she was here\, once\" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.\n\nIn summer 2018\, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond\, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement\, sound\, and solidarity\, eight Black women and girls\, wearing large needle felted wool masks\, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond\, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).\n\nThe multi-layered piece has produced a short film\, mini documentary\, photography\, and performance masks\, on display in her solo exhibition\, \"she was here\, once\" in Lane Hall.\n\nLane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.\n\nAccessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.\n\nContact Heidi Bennett\, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.\n\nCosponsors: Department of Women's Studies\, Stamps School of Art & Design\, Department of English\, Art History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Center for the Education of Women+ UID:59501-14875163@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Diversity,Exhibition,Film,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T100300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency DESCRIPTION:\"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency\,\" by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin\, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home\, privacy\, and safety.\n\nThe exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery\, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication\, luxury\, and modernism.\n\nIn a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet\, for Martin and Muñoz\, \"Blind House\" serves as \"a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy.\" Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk UID:58928-15710574@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Economics,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T105014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Ancient Color DESCRIPTION:The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues\, these statues — as well as Roman homes\, clothing\, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world\, how these colors were produced\, where they were found\, what the Romans thought about them\, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them\, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.\n\nCurators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts\n\nView the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/ UID:59301-14728374@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181230T140705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T113000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Basics of Retirement Investing DESCRIPTION:The class will focus on the basics of investments including stocks\, bonds\, mutual funds and more. You will learn your personal risk tolerance and apply it to an asset allocation model. We will demystify the markets and learn how to create and re-balance a portfolio. Your facilitator is John Sepp\, a veteran of the securities industry.\nThis Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Tuesdays\, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.\, May 14 - May 28. UID:59019-14653042@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59019 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Economics,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181223T132634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Fall and Rise of Income Inequality in the United States DESCRIPTION:Charles L. Ballard is an author and award-winning Professor of Economics at Michigan State University. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\, the U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and numerous other government agencies and research institutions\, both in the United States and abroad. He has received a number of National Science Foundation grants and outstanding teaching awards.\n\nIncome inequality in the United States decreased dramatically between 1928 and 1944. This “Great Convergence” was driven primarily by changes in public policies. Many of these relatively egalitarian policies were reduced or reversed in the 1970s and 1980s. Largely as a result of these policy reversals\, income inequality has increased dramatically during the “Great Divergence” of the last 40 years. Professor Ballard will discuss the economics and politics behind these changes.\n\nThis is the ninth in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2018-19. A total of ten lectures will be presented covering a variety of topics. The next lecture will be June 11\, 2019. The topic will be: The Constitution at the Border: When Immigration Policy and Constitutional Norms Clash. UID:58942-14594966@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58942 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Income Inequality,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181220T094515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CIES Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program DESCRIPTION:The Council for International Exchange of Scholars\, on behalf of the U.S. State Department\, administers the “Core Fulbright Scholar Program\,” which annually makes available fellowships in about 125 countries to over 500 U.S. scholars and professionals from a wide variety of academic and professional fields. These prestigious grants are a major source of funding for lecturing or conducting research abroad.\n\nAlthough the U-M International Institute does not administer any aspect of this competition or these awards\, we have been trained by CIES and are able to provide comprehensive information\, instructions\, editorial assistance\, review criteria tailored to each application\, and professional advice on how best to structure an application for this particular competition. Information sessions are offered monthly and no registration is required. UID:58843-14567879@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58843 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Fulbright,Funding,International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 306 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190211T121701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MORE Mentoring Plan Workshop DESCRIPTION:This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. During the workshop\, students and faculty will have the opportunity to develop a Mentoring Plan\, a two-way agreement about goals\, needs\, and expectations\; it is co-written by the student and research faculty mentor/advisor. It is an excellent way to establish and support mentor-mentee relationships.\nBecause this program aims to enhance the mentoring relationship\, mentors and students are expected to attend the workshop together. If a faculty member has attended a MORE workshop for faculty in the past\, and is familiar with the MORE mentoring plan template\, they may choose to attend the last portion of the workshop only (plan to arrive at 11:50 a.m.). Lunch is provided. This workshop has an optional informal meeting time to finish working on the mentoring plan from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m.\nPre-registration is required of both the faculty and student at myumi.ch/LB5xQ. UID:61063-15027190@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61063 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T103906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53718-13452813@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53718 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-14511157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190306T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY\n \nIn celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project\, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative\, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge\, memory\, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture\, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2\, 2018 and UMMA through June 2\, 2019.\n \n#CosmogonicTattoos\n\nLead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.\n  UID:58558-14510939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities\, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions\, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.\n \nThis special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister\, Shizuko Iwata\, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection\, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:58566-14511705@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS\, DISASTERS\, CONSUMPTION\, LOSS\, AND JUSTICE\n \nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene\, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues\, the exhibition presents photography\, video\, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials\, disasters\, consumption\, loss\, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists\, including Sammy Baloji\, Liu Bolin\, Dana Levy\, Mary Mattingly\, Pedro Neves Marques\, Gabriel Orozco\, Trevor Paglen\, and Thomas Struth\, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness\, wonder\, and curiosity about the world to come.\n \nRead the exhibition press release here.\n \n  \n\nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith\, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, UF Office of the Provost\, National Endowment for the Arts\, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation\, Ken and Laura Berns\, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman\, Ken and Linda  McGurn\, Susan Milbrath\, an anonymous foundation\, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere\, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn\, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters\, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment\, Harn Program Endowment\, and the Harn Annual Fund.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. \n  UID:59263-14721804@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,International,Museum,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190514T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing DESCRIPTION:AN EXHIBITION ABOUT THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN TWO CITIES\n \nIn The Bloodstained Shirt (2018)\, Chinese artist Wang Qingsong restages in Highland Park\, Michigan\, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China\, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit\, Highland Park\, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph\, set in an abandoned factory building in Highland Park and featuring more than seventy volunteers\, collapses two moments in history to present a vivid reminder of the human consequences of the ruthless pursuit of profit and the power of collective action. The exhibition includes works created in collaboration with area residents that give voice to their concerns and their hopes for transformation and renewal.\n \nThis project\, which bridges between Detroit\, Michigan\, and Beijing\, China\, resonates with UMMA's mission to engage in conversation about local and global issues. UMMA is pleased to present this art project in which the participation of UM faculty members\, students\, and Detroit's community members has been critical.\n \n Watch the Chinese Contemporary Art: Curation\, Collection\, and Connection Symposium here.\n\nLead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan\, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:58564-14511501@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58564 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Detroit,Exhibition,Faculty,History,Museum,symposium,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190507T133126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Modern Physics Workshop DESCRIPTION:11:30 AM: AJ Kuhr\, \"On the explanatory (in?)adequacy of lattice QCD\"\n12:20 PM: Lunch (catered)\n01:10 PM: Dave Baker\, \"On symmetries\"\n02:15 PM: Anthony Della Pella\, \"Partition functions in Stat Mech and Comp Sci\"\n03:05 PM: Coffee break\n03:25 PM: Gabriele Carcassi\, \"On the role of math in scientific theories\"\n04:15 PM: Josh Hunt\, \"Modern methods for scattering amplitudes\" UID:63498-15757453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63498 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy,Physics LOCATION:Mason Hall - 1448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T155453 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T150000 SUMMARY:Presentation:PhD Defense: Alexander Englesbe DESCRIPTION:Title: Charge Dynamics in Femtosecond Laser Filaments\n\nCo-Chair: Prof. Karl Krushelnick\nCo-Chair: Dr. Andreas Schmitt-Sody\n\nAbstract: When a high intensity\, ultrashort laser pulse propagates in the atmosphere\, it drives competing intensity-dependent effects that simultaneously try to collapse and defocus the beam. The balance of these effects leads to a transversely confined\, high intensity structure called a filament that can persist for long distances. The self-focusing effect is counterbalanced by ionization of the air\, and the resulting plasma channel has many interesting and poorly understood properties. One of these is the ability of the plasma to generate and radiate short pulses of microwaves.\nMicrowave frequencies lie in the range of 1-300 GHz. Radiation of this type from plasmas generated by laser filamentation has not been studied closely before. The nanosecond timescale of the current density variation which causes the observed emission is much slower than that of known charged particle motions in the plasma. The experiments described in the dissertation make substantial progress toward explaining the microwave generation mechanism. They show that large scale longitudinal changes in the current density on the order of the plasma size are reflected in the frequency spectrum of the radiation.\nThe frequency range of the short-duration microwave pulses is large enough that it was necessary to develop a new measurement technique in order to characterize their frequency spectrum. It relies on absolute calibration of a microwave receiver over many adjacent frequency bands\, so that measurements made in each band can be presented as a continuous spectrum. It is then applied to several laser produced plasmas in atmosphere over a frequency range of 2-70 GHz.\nThe dependence of the microwave radiation on the electron-neutral collision rate is investigated by changing the air pressure. Its dependence on the average electron energy is examined by comparing the radiation resulting from air plasmas generated at different laser wavelengths in the mid-infrared versus the near-infrared. The plasma due to a laser pulse composed the fundamental wavelength and its second harmonic is shown to enhance or suppress the microwave radiation depending on the relative phase of the laser harmonics. Finally\, the microwave field strength can be optimized by iteratively changing the transverse laser intensity profile in the focal region using a deformable mirror whose shape is controlled with a genetic algorithm.\nThe sensitivity of the microwave radiation to the conditions of the laser-plasma interaction indicates that it might be employed as new non- perturbing diagnostic for filament plasmas. This has been a longstanding challenge in the field\, because plasmas resulting from filamentation are relatively diffuse\, cold\, and typically have submillimeter diameters. Determination of the low electron densities and temperatures by conventional means is typically intractable. The microwave measurements may contribute a solution that would enable a deeper understanding of the evolution of the filament plasma. UID:63605-15808604@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63605 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Energy,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Cooley Building - 2906 Baer Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190514T123951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:CoE Graduate Student Canoe/Kayak Social Outing DESCRIPTION:***FREE for CoE Graduate Students***\n\nRegistration is required by 7/12\, at https://forms.gle/zBCtWXW7NHyb3ZHg8. \nAs this is a social event\, and we want to accommodate as many students as possible\, you must register in pairs!\n\nGraduate students and their families are invited to enjoy a pleasant 1-1/2 hour (3.7 miles) float through the city of Ann Arbor\, beginning in Argo Park and ending in Gallup Park. Throughout this trip paddlers will encounter an abundance of wildlife in a natural setting as you paddle through the UM Arboretum and other beautiful river parks. The maximum capacity per canoe is 2 adults and up to 2 children (their combined weight needs to be under 100 pounds\, and they have to be older than 1 year). Two person kayaks are also available. \n\nFree busing will be provided\, leaving from Pierpont Commons:\nLeave at 2:30\, return at 5:15\nLeave at 3:30\, return at 6:15\n\nFor those who drive themselves\, you must arrive at Argo Park \nbetween 2:00-3:45\, and your boat needs to be returned by 7:00. A shuttle will return you to Argo Park at the end.\n\nSponsored by the CoE Office of Student Affairs. UID:63617-15816689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate and Professional Students,Michigan Engineering,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T155754 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special Data Visualization Workshop DESCRIPTION:Scientific research can be a slow and laborious process. The absolute final step in the process is to then communicate your exciting scientific findings to other scientists both in and outside of your field. Yet it is sometimes at this final step where the least amount of time is spent. In this interactive 90-min workshop\, I will give a basic introduction to making scientific figures using Adobe Illustrator and Blender3D. I will go over the basics of these software\, how they treat objects\, and the useful hotkeys for speeding up workflow. In the first hour\, I will introduce Illustrator and cover topics like workflow\; importing external plots/figures\; creating patterns (i.e. schematic atomic lattices)\; and creating 3D structures. In the last half-hour I will give a brief introduction to Blender\, a powerful (and free) open-source software for rendering 3D objects. I will go over the basics of how Blender treats objects/structures\, lighting\, and rendering a scene.\n\n**All are welcome\, but it is strongly recommended that participants bring laptops with Adobe Illustrator CC (or at least CS6) and Blender3D pre-installed so that you can follow along with the demos.** UID:63524-15775923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63524 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Natural Sciences,Physics,Workshop LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T095804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Brendan Harley\, Sc.D. - BME Guest Speaker DESCRIPTION:Advances in the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine require biomaterials that instruct\, rather than simply permit\, a desired cellular response. A major challenge to progress in our field is the striking cellular and structural heterogeneity of the tissues in our bodies\, which can be hierarchical\, graded\, and heterogeneous over multiple length and time scales. Prof. Harley’s research program is developing approaches to pattern biomaterials at the structural and biomolecular levels to replicate these heterogeneities in order to instruct desired cell behaviors. These efforts seek to provide new insight regarding the degree of biomaterial complexity required to investigate processes related to development\, disease\, and regeneration. I will describe a collagen biomaterial under development to address barriers preventing regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues such as orthopedic insertions and craniomaxillofacial bones. Here we are using bioinspired design motifs to create composite biomaterials able to improve cell bioactivity and mechanical competence in order to address mechanistic and translational challenges. I will subsequently describe development of a gelatin hydrogel system as well as microfluidic forming techniques to create libraries of optically-translucent hydrogels containing overlapping patterns of cell\, matrix\, and biomolecule cues. We are using this platform to explore the coordinated impact of structural\, biomolecular\, and metabolic cues on niche-mediated regulation of hematopoietic stem cell fate as well as invasion and therapeutic resistance in glioblastoma\, the most common and lethal form of brain cancer. I will highlight work that employs these platforms to regulate processes such as self-renewal vs. quiescence\; signaling and remodeling of artificial perivascular environments\; as well as invasion and therapeutic resistance.\n\nBrendan Harley\, Sc.D. \nDept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering\nCarl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\nbharley@illinois.edu | www.harleylab.org UID:63582-15806527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63582 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical engineering,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 2203 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190416T105139 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Why Trade Matters\" - Speaker event DESCRIPTION:Join us as Ambassador Carla A. Hills discusses today’s trade issues. \nOver the last two centuries trade has grown remarkably\, completely transforming the global economy. Today trade is a fundamental part of economic activity everywhere\, yet there is an elevation in trade tensions. \n\nTrade partnership are changing. Ambassador Hills will describe the mounting uncertainty regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement\, as well as the nation’s plans to negotiate trade deals with the European Union\, the United Kingdom\, Japan\, and China. She will also reflect on imposed tariffs and the threat of additional ones. \n\nCarla Hills\, former U.S. Trade Representative serving under George H.W. Bush\, also served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford Administration. Currently she is Chair and Chief Executive of Hills & Company\, advising on investment\, trade\, and risks abroad. \n\nFree Admission. Free Parking. Reception follows program. UID:63177-15585197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63177 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economy,Politics,Tariffs,Trade LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190502T112030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T211500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190514T224500 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale DESCRIPTION:In another time and place\, where people barely communicate and an impending apocalypse is in the air\, lone drifter Mono makes an odyssey to experience mysterious rock star Blitz’s final cosmic performance out in the Big White Nothing\, a desert surrounding the city. Here\, people escape from reality\, and each other\, through music. A constant companion in their headphones is Radio\, nihilistic DJ of radio station FONOTUNE\, playing his own joyous soundtrack to destruction! On his journey\, Mono shares fleeting connections with a gang of strangers: Teen-hooker Stereo\, lo-fi cowboy Analog\, and the sassy Bubblegum. Their paths finally collide in an audiovisual showdown with the mythical musician many thought dead or long-gone.\n\nMore details about the film on the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2570500/ UID:63470-15716752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63470 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190418T114000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T150000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:16th Annual Student Life Research Symposium DESCRIPTION:The 16th Annual Student Life Research Symposium will include the Dr. Jerry Gurin Memorial Panel Discussion\, break-out sessions\, lunch\, and the Eric Dey Memorial Keynote Address by Dr. Ashley Finley. Please see the registration form in Sessions @ Michigan or contact (sl.research-symposium@umich.edu) for more information and to register. Registration will be open through 5pm on May 6\, 2019. UID:63250-15601678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63250 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:research symposium,Student Affairs,Student Life LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T131914 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Bending the Lines: Acrylic on Canvas by Bala Thiagarajan DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in India\, Bala Thiagarajan has a passion for colors and patterns that are inspired by Indian culture. Her henna-inspired designs as Mandala paintings are an attempt to capture the ephemeral nature of these everyday art forms onto more enduring surfaces. Mandalas are used for facilitating personal growth\, healing\, grounding and transformation. Thiagarajan’s paintings greet viewers with the familiarity of repetitive patterns\, while creating an exciting opportunity to explore texture and geometry. Based in Wood Dale\, Illinois\, Thiagarajan exhibits her work throughout the Midwest and will be participating in the 2019 Ann Arbor South University Art Fair. UID:61743-15179045@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61743 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Manna Pottery by Rezgar Mamandi DESCRIPTION:After finding Mannea pottery artifacts at archaeological sites in his hometown of Rabat in the northwest of Kurdistan in Iran\, Rezgar Mamandi discovered his passion for ceramic art. His formal studies in ceramic art technique were in Turkey. Now Mamandi creates Manna Pottery\, decorative and functional ceramics reproduced from 7th century Mannea Art originals. With hand-painted figures\, patterns\, shapes and colors\, each piece is one-of-a-kind with an ancient\, yet contemporary look achieved by using lead-free\, high-fire oxidation glazes. To describe his relationship to art\, Mamandi quotes Thomas Merton: “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” UID:61746-15179129@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61746 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T132405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Shape-Shifting: Surface & Form in Clay by Darcy R. Bowden DESCRIPTION:Darcy R. Bowden has been working in clay for ten years following a forty-year hiatus. In the ensuing years she taught art in the Ann Arbor Public Schools and worked as a printmaker. This recent body of work combines hand-built forms with playful graphic compositions akin to those in her prints. Disparate shapes and elements find unity in her work. Influences include modernist design\, Japanese textiles and abstract artists Ellsworth Kelly and Franz Kline. A Flint\, Michigan native\, she has lived in the Ann Arbor area for over forty years having earned a BFA\, MA and teacher certification from Eastern Michigan University. UID:62142-15302264@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62142 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190516T140334 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Still Lifes in Indigo: Wabi-Sabi Spirit in Textile by Barbara J. Schneider DESCRIPTION:Barbara J. Schneider’s studio is in the Starline Factory in Harvard\, Illinois. She has an extensive background in surface design\, and she works with cloth\, paint\, dye and thread. The Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi (aesthetic of transience and imperfection) is a strong influence in her work. This collection is a series of stitched textiles that are a reinterpretation of traditional still life paintings. These small\, intimate artworks use vintage Japanese boro fabrics as backgrounds for personal objects that contain a Wabi-Sabi spirit. Schneider teaches and exhibits her work nationally and internationally\, and her work is in both private and public collections. UID:61755-15179541@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,gallery,Health & Wellness,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T133201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Prairie: Oil on Canvas by Nina Weiss DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Nina Weiss has been painting and drawing the landscape for over thirty years\, and the lush feel of her painted surfaces are alive with gesture and emotion. Weiss frequently bikes through rural Michigan for inspiration as well as traveling abroad to document the landscape. She completes her large-scale layered compositions of deep\, saturated color in her studio in Evanston\, Illinois. Weiss’ work is represented in private and corporate collections and can be found in 100 Artists of the Midwest\, Artists Homes & Studios and The Chicago Art Scene. In addition\, Weiss has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Columbia College Chicago. UID:61751-15179294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61751 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190228T132831 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under the Bodhi Tree: Mixed Media by Roshan Houshmand DESCRIPTION:Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian/American artist who exhibits both nationally and internationally and lives in the Catskills of New York. She teaches drawing\, painting and art history at State University of New York and Southern New Hampshire University. This body of work fuses eastern and western art traditions and techniques\, reflecting her multicultural background. Each art piece has a leaf from the Bodhi Tree in Bodhgaya\, India\, where Buddha sat and achieved enlightenment. Houshmand began this series as an aid to her meditation practices after visiting India and studying traditional Buddhist thangka painting and drawing at a monastic art school in Nepal. UID:61749-15179211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,visual arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T133017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Wild Light: Photography by Rick Lieder DESCRIPTION:Rick Lieder is a painter and photographer whose work has appeared in novels ranging from mysteries to science fiction\, including a Newbery Award winning book for children\, Step Gently Out\, with novelist and poet Helen Frost. Lieder’s filmmaking work was featured in the PBS NOVA program \"Creatures of Light\"\, produced by National Geographic Television\, in 2016. This exhibition of photography is a celebration of the poetry of Michigan wildlife and their surroundings: the leaves\, the water and the light. One of Lieder’s goals is to engender in viewers an awareness that we share the world with millions of other lives whose welfare depends on our behavior. UID:62143-15302346@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center - Gifts of Art Gallery, South Lobby - Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190314T131932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of presents Art\, Music & Autism: Jazz Musicians in Mixed Media by Juliette Hemingway DESCRIPTION:In Juliette Hemingway’s work\, viewers can imagine the grumbling tones of a saxophone or the sharp lines of a trombone. The sound is inside the musicians. You may not know the details of their experience or understand it\, but it's visceral. That is what jazz is in Hemingway's work. It is the instinctual part of her life that she gives to viewers as a visual excerpt: a life that revolves around healing\, autism\, creativity and awareness. Jazz and the blue-hued musicians give you a sense of the deep-rooted experiences of her son and what it is to live with autism\, and for her\, straining to look into his secret world. Hemingway is based in Aurora\, Colorado. UID:62140-15302181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery, Main Corridor - Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190614T140151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:she was here\, once DESCRIPTION:The mobility and displacement of the Black body\, from port to holding cell\, to ward and out\, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially\, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain\, otherness\, power and triumph\, \"she was here\, once\" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.\n\nIn summer 2018\, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond\, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement\, sound\, and solidarity\, eight Black women and girls\, wearing large needle felted wool masks\, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond\, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).\n\nThe multi-layered piece has produced a short film\, mini documentary\, photography\, and performance masks\, on display in her solo exhibition\, \"she was here\, once\" in Lane Hall.\n\nLane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.\n\nAccessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall\, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.\n\nContact Heidi Bennett\, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.\n\nCosponsors: Department of Women's Studies\, Stamps School of Art & Design\, Department of English\, Art History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Center for the Education of Women+ UID:59501-14875181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Diversity,Exhibition,Film,Humanities,Multicultural,Visual Arts,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - Gallery (1st floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190426T150827 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:True to Life: Film Director Nancy Savoca’s Quest for Authenticity DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Nancy Savoca aims to be as authentic as possible. Her films are brilliant\, intimate portraits that explore the weight of social institutions and social injustice placed upon the shoulders of her characters. Her lead characters\, typically women\, must balance their needs with those of others in order to find their true voice. This U-M student-curated exhibit is the result of a semester-long course devoted to her films and career.\n\nSavoca contributed her papers — spanning her career as a director\, producer\, and screenwriter — to the Screens Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library. Her archive represents nearly three decades of indie filmmaking\, and includes notes\, notebooks\, photos\, and script drafts.\n\nSee the symposium schedule for Character Driven: Exploring the Career and Archives of Nancy Savoca: https://www.lib.umich.edu/announcements/symposium-celebrates-filmmaker-nancy-savoca UID:63404-15669561@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63404 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190308T100300 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency DESCRIPTION:\"Blind House: Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Radical Transparency\,\" by collaborative artists Paloma Muñoz and Walter Martin\, is a razor-sharp work that brings into question our ideals of house and home\, privacy\, and safety.\n\nThe exhibition combines photographs the artists have envisioned of houses without windows as well an actual glass house planned for the center of the gallery\, revisiting the whole notion of a glass house as an example of sophistication\, luxury\, and modernism.\n\nIn a darkening an era of surveillance and the internet\, for Martin and Muñoz\, \"Blind House\" serves as \"a metaphorical solution to the full on campaign against personal privacy.\" Read the artists' statement at http://myumi.ch/6wxbk UID:58928-15710575@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Economics,Exhibition,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190508T105014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Ancient Color DESCRIPTION:The Roman world was a colorful place. Although we often associate the Romans with white marble statues\, these statues — as well as Roman homes\, clothing\, and art — were vibrant with color. This exhibition examines colors in the ancient Roman world\, how these colors were produced\, where they were found\, what the Romans thought about them\, and how we study them today. We hope that visitors will think about what different colors mean to them\, and how these meanings compare to the roles of colors in the ancient Roman world.\n\nCurators: Catherine Person and Caroline Roberts\n\nView the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/ UID:59301-14728375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59301 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190305T144343 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T103000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Deep Imaging to Probe Genome Architecture DESCRIPTION:2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series\n\nHosted by: \nCarole Parent\, Ph.D. \nYukiko Yamashita\, Ph.D. UID:61865-15223789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61865 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - BSRB Seminar Rooms A, B, C CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190716T142352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Dissertation Defense: Statistical Tools for Samples of Weighted Networks with Applications to Neuroimaging DESCRIPTION:Neuroimaging data on functional connections in the brain are frequently represented by weighted networks. These networks share the same set of labeled nodes corresponding to a fixed atlas of the brain\, while each subject’s network has their own edge weights. This thesis focuses on developing statistical tools for analyzing samples of weighted networks with applications to neuroimaging. \n\nWe first propose a method for modeling such brain networks via linear mixed effects models\, which takes advantage of the community structure\, or functional regions\, known to be present in the brain. The model allows for comparing two populations\, such as patients and healthy controls\, globally\, at functional systems level\, and at individual edge level\, with systems-level inference in particular allowing for a biologically meaningful interpretation. We incorporate correlation between edge weights into the model by allowing for a general variance structure\, and show this leads to much more accurate inference. A thorough study comparing schizophrenics to healthy controls illustrates the full potential of our methods\, and obtains results consistent with the medical literature on schizophrenia. \n\nWhile we focus on networks as the main object of analysis\, auxillary information about subjects is frequently available. The subject’s age is a particularly important covariance\, since studying how the brain changes over time can lead to insights about brain development in children and adolescents and the effects of aging for older subjects. A typical neuroimaging study\, however\, is cross-sectional rather than longitudinal\, meaning we measure subjects of many different ages\, but only once. We developed two methods for analyzing such samples of multiple\, time-stamped networks. One is a parametric approach utilizing a linear mixed effects model with age included as a covariate\; the other one is a nonparametric method which can be viewed as a network version of principal component analysis\, where we look for components that explain age-related trends and vary smoothly with age. Both approaches take network community structure into account and allow for concise and interpretable representation of the data by obtaining developmental curves for functional regions of the brain that vary smoothly with age. We apply the methods to fMRI data of subjects who are 8 to 22 years old\, and extract developmental curves consistent with the current understanding of brain maturation in neuroscience.\n\nClustering is of special interest in neuroimaging studies of mental illness\, because psychiatrists believe that many psychiatric conditions present in multiple distinct and not yet identified subtypes. Clustering brain connectivity networks of patients with a certain disorder can lead to discovering these subtypes\, and ideally identifying the differences in connectivity patterns that distinguish between subtypes. Clustering with a large number of features is challenging in itself\, and the network nature of the observations presents additional difficulties. Our goal is to develop a clustering method that respects the network nature of the data\, allows for feature selection\, and scales well to high dimensions. One general method for clustering and feature selection in high dimensions is sparse K-means\, which performs feature selection by minimizing the K-means objective function plus a lasso penalty. Here we develop network-aware sparse K-means\, using a network-induced penalty for simultaneously clustering weighted networks and performing feature selection. We also develop a Gaussian mixture model version of the algorithm\, particularly useful when features are highly correlated\, which is the case in neuroimaging. We illustrate the method on simulated networks and an fMRI dataset of youth. UID:63584-15806547@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:West Hall - Room 438 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180815T104044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nLead support for \"Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s\" is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Additional generous support is provided by the Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. UID:53719-13452866@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53719 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-14511158@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190805T094609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T113000 SUMMARY:Other:Biodiversity Lab Chat DESCRIPTION:Join us at the visible labs in the atriums for a discussion about the science happening inside. All ages welcome. Please check the website or Welcome Desk for times.\n\nJoin an educator in front of the Biodiversity Genomics Lab on the second floor\, near the giant pterosaur\, to learn about how and why scientists process DNA samples from plants and animals around the world. All ages welcome.\n\nWednesdays\, 11 a.m.\nSaturdays and Sundays\, 3:30 pm. UID:62767-15460122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Children,Family,Free,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190306T181635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF A MUSEUM AS A CULTURAL REPOSITORY\n \nIn celebration of the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and distinguished U­–M art professor Jim Cogswell was invited to create a series of public window installations in response to the holdings of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. For this visionary project\, the artist adhered a procession of vivid images to the glass walls of the museums in a rhythmically evocative narrative\, based on reassembled fragments from a diverse range of artworks in both museums' permanent collections.  The juxtaposed images address our shared histories and experiences while connecting the viewer to the origins and meaning of objects and their power to shape knowledge\, memory\, and identity. By leveraging the buildings’ unique architecture\, the artist expands our understanding of a museum as a cultural repository and highlights the significant role of these institutions in the life of the campus community.  Cosmogonic Tattoos is on view at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through May 2\, 2018 and UMMA through June 2\, 2019.\n \n#CosmogonicTattoos\n\nLead support for Cosmogonic Tattoos is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost. Additional support for the artist's project is provided by the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design.\n  UID:58558-14510940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58558 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Architecture,Art,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190405T121617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Oshima Tsumugi Kimono DESCRIPTION:Fashioned in the Amami islands of Japan\, Oshima Tsumugi silk has long been admired for its understated beauty\, incredible softness\, and comfortable year-round lightness. The rich fabric is created through a remarkable and  laborious process: from pattern design and cotton-thread binding\, to over 100 rounds of plant and mud dyeing and weaving. This series of steps may take up to one year. Despite the high production values and complexities\, Oshima Tsumugi kimono can be worn only for non-ceremonial occasions\, since woven fabric is considered to be a less elevated technique than paint-dyed fabric.\n \nThis special installation introduces UMMA audiences to one of the ten exceptional Oshima Tsumugi kimono recently donated to the Museum by Kazuko Miyake. Thanks to Mrs. Miyake and her older sister\, Shizuko Iwata\, who previously gifted her kimono and other formal garment collection\, UMMA holds more than 300 traditional Japanese ensembles.\n\nThis kimono was recently gifted to UMMA by Ms. Kazuko Miyake. UID:58566-14511706@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58566 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190429T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE SUBJECTS AND THEMES RELATED TO RAW MATERIALS\, DISASTERS\, CONSUMPTION\, LOSS\, AND JUSTICE\n \nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene awakens us to the physical and social effects of the Anthropocene\, a much-debated term used to define a new geological epoch shaped by human activity. Structured around ecological issues\, the exhibition presents photography\, video\, and sculpture that address subjects and themes related to raw materials\, disasters\, consumption\, loss\, and justice. More than thirty-five international artists\, including Sammy Baloji\, Liu Bolin\, Dana Levy\, Mary Mattingly\, Pedro Neves Marques\, Gabriel Orozco\, Trevor Paglen\, and Thomas Struth\, respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination—sustaining an openness\, wonder\, and curiosity about the world to come.\n \nRead the exhibition press release here.\n \n  \n\nThe World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith\, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, UF Office of the Provost\, National Endowment for the Arts\, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation\, Ken and Laura Berns\, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman\, Ken and Linda  McGurn\, Susan Milbrath\, an anonymous foundation\, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere\, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn\, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters\, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment\, Harn Program Endowment\, and the Harn Annual Fund.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network\, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. \n  UID:59263-14721805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,International,Museum,Social,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190514T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing DESCRIPTION:AN EXHIBITION ABOUT THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE ACTION IN TWO CITIES\n \nIn The Bloodstained Shirt (2018)\, Chinese artist Wang Qingsong restages in Highland Park\, Michigan\, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China\, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit\, Highland Park\, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph\, set in an abandoned factory building in Highland Park and featuring more than seventy volunteers\, collapses two moments in history to present a vivid reminder of the human consequences of the ruthless pursuit of profit and the power of collective action. The exhibition includes works created in collaboration with area residents that give voice to their concerns and their hopes for transformation and renewal.\n \nThis project\, which bridges between Detroit\, Michigan\, and Beijing\, China\, resonates with UMMA's mission to engage in conversation about local and global issues. UMMA is pleased to present this art project in which the participation of UM faculty members\, students\, and Detroit's community members has been critical.\n \n Watch the Chinese Contemporary Art: Curation\, Collection\, and Connection Symposium here.\n\nLead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan\, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment. UID:58564-14511502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58564 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Detroit,Exhibition,Faculty,History,Museum,symposium,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190430T105301 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Bio-Hackathon on Aging DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in biomedical research or using your engineering skills to improve the lives of others? Do you have an idea you would like to push to the commercial market?\n\nJoin the Biointerfaces Institute Committees (BIONIC) Bio-Hackathon for two free meals and an opportunity to learn from world experts in the the field of aging - Dr. Raymond Yung and Dr. James Ashton-Miller!\n\nDr. Yung\, the Director of the Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology\, is an excellent physician who specializes in elderly patients and their unique challenges\, from mobility and eyesight to memory and self-care. Dr. Ashton-Miller is a Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering who has done outstanding engineering research in elderly mobility. \n\nOur experts will kickoff the event by highlighting the most pressing areas of elderly need to which Michigan Engineers can make immediate contributions. After an expert-guided brainstorming session\, clinical needs will be defined before forming teams\, designing solutions and sharing ideas.\n\nTo conclude the event\, the ideas and preliminary solution models will be compiled into a pre-print research manuscript that will be submitted to bioRxiv with everyone as co-authors! If an idea would like to be pursued further\, participants are able to opt out of publishing in the pre-print and can be connected with resources to help take it towards commercialization. UID:63446-15700290@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63446 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biointerfaces,Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - ACR1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190502T165056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Active Zones as Substrates for the Homeostatic Control of Local and Global Synaptic Function DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Catherine Collins\, MCDB and Bing Ye\, LSI UID:63477-15718797@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Natural Sciences,Neuroscience,Research,seminar LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190513T102530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T124500 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch DESCRIPTION:The Deutschtisch for Spring 2019 is associated with German 100. All are welcome! The group will meet MW 12:00-12:45. You can find the group with your ears (i.e. listen for a group of people speaking German). Look for the group:\nMost days: At Maizie's Kitchen in the Michigan League.\nOccasionally in good weather: in the \"Courtyard Garden\" of the League\, across from UHS (one way to get to it would be to go directly through the League from the front doors (facing the Bell Tower) to the back doors).\nTo be sure of the location\, come to the end of class at 11:50 in 2108 MLB to walk to lunch with the group\, or email the instructors to confirm the location: Vera Irwin in the first half of the semester\, Maria Measel in the second half of the semester. UID:63583-15806541@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63583 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Kitchen & Market CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190515T153805 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T124500 SUMMARY:Well-being:Midweek Mindfulness Guided Sits DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays at 12:15pm\n\nAs part of the CEW+Inspire initiative\, CEW+ holds regular mindful meditation sits on Wednesdays throughout the academic year.\n\nBeing present in the moment is a skill that can be learned when practiced on a regular basis. Evidence-based meditation has been shown to reduce implicit age and race bias\, reduce the symptoms of anxiety\, depression\, and pain\, improve cognitive functioning\, and assist in ending ruminating thought patterns. Come join a drop in\, guided mindful meditation sit and practice being aware and fully present in the moment.\n\nFree and open to all levels of practice. Registration is helpful for planning or for notification of a canceled session but is not required. UID:62246-15551640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62246 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for the education of women,cew,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,first-generation,Free,Health & Wellness,Inclusion,LGBT,Mindfulness,Nontraditional Students,Self-care,Well-being,Wellness,women,women of color,women's health LOCATION:Center for the Education of Women CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190530T123005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Kraft Heinz Speaker Series- My Appetite for More- How I Came to Lead at Kraft Heinz DESCRIPTION:The Kraft Heinz Company is revolutionizing the food industry– we will be the most profitable food company powered by the most talented people with unwavering commitment to our communities\, leading brands and highest product quality in every category in which we compete. As a global powerhouse\, Kraft Heinz represents over $26.1 billion in revenue andis the 5th largest food and beverage company in the world. At Kraft Heinz\, to be the BEST food company\, growing a BETTER world is more than a dream – it is our GLOBAL VISION. To be the best\, we want the best – best brands\, best practices and\, most importantly\, the best people.\nWe would like to invite you to the Kraft Heinz Speaker Series\, an in depth look at the people\, brands\, & best practices behind Kraft Heinz! Learn directly from the innovators who shape Kraft Heinz every day! \nEvery two weeks\, we will bring you new topics and speakers to engage with. To sign up for this topic\, click the link below: \nhttps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R3Q8D2R\n\nYou can also check out our upcoming Speaker Series sessions below. If you are interested in signing up for a future date\, you can use the above link\, or find the individual event on Handshake. \n• February 20th 12:00-1:00 CST – Krafting Your Elevator Pitch & Networking 101 \n\n•March 6th 12:00-1:00 CST – Oh I Wish I Were an Oscar Mayer Wiener! – A conversation with the Head of Oscar Mayer Marketing\n\n• March 20th 12:00-1:00 CST – Beloved Brands & the People Behind Them\n\n• April 3rd 12:00-1:00 CST- Mayochup! From a Tweet to a Product\n\n• April 17th 1:00-2:00 CST - Surviving and Thriving in High Stakes Presentations\n\n• May1st 12:00-1:00 CST – The Push to End Global Hunger and how Kraft Heinz tackles its responsibilities as a good Corporate Citizen\n\n• May 15th 1:00-2:00 CST- My Appetite for More – How I came to lead at Kraft Heinz\n\n• May 29th 12:00-1:00 CST- What I Wish I Knew in Heinz-sight – learning from recent grads\n UID:60976-15000003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181230T091830 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T150000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Remember Their Names: Family History Narratives DESCRIPTION:The course will focus on use of interviews\, archival materials\, and memories to develop narrative portraits of family members. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet Wednesdays\, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.\, May 15 - May 22. UID:59014-14650967@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59014 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Lifelong Learning,Retirement,Storytelling LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181227T161606 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T143000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:A Rare Find: The Discovery of the Rough Sketch of the King’s Domain at Detroit\, 1790 - OLLI Study Group DESCRIPTION:Curator of Maps Brian Leigh Dunnigan will share the serendipitous acquisition of a depicted plan of Detroit in 1790 by Captain David William Smith. This unknown\, rare map of Detroit provides early history\, six years before the British troops made way for the United States troops. This map hand-drawn and hand-colored by Smith is a wonderful addition to the existing stellar map collection at the Clements.\n\nThis session for those 50 and above will meet on Wednesday\, May 15\, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. UID:58984-14628149@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58984 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Library,Museum LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190515T145337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Friday Night AI DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of AI to engage with Michigan AI experts as they discuss the ethical implications of self-driving cars:\n* Should autonomous vehicles have the ability to make ethical judgments? \n* Can we settle on a universal moral code for cars? \n* When something goes wrong\, who or what should be held responsible?\n\nBenjamin Kuipers\, Professor in the AI lab at the University of Michigan\, and Edwin Olson\, Associate Professor in the AI lab at the University of Michigan and CEO of May Mobility\, will address these and other open questions in this public AI event.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration is open now: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/friday-night-AI UID:63511-15824905@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63511 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Michigan Engineering,Research LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190515T145337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Friday Night AI DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of AI to engage with Michigan AI experts as they discuss the ethical implications of self-driving cars:\n* Should autonomous vehicles have the ability to make ethical judgments? \n* Can we settle on a universal moral code for cars? \n* When something goes wrong\, who or what should be held responsible?\n\nBenjamin Kuipers\, Professor in the AI lab at the University of Michigan\, and Edwin Olson\, Associate Professor in the AI lab at the University of Michigan and CEO of May Mobility\, will address these and other open questions in this public AI event.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration is open now: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/friday-night-AI UID:63511-15824911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63511 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Michigan Engineering,Research LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190502T123226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:ELI Conversation Circles DESCRIPTION:For over 30 years\, the English Language Institute’s Conversation Circles have been bringing members of the U-M community together for English language practice and intercultural exchange. Conversation Circles are weekly hour-long meetings of international students and scholars led by volunteer facilitators who are current U-M students\, faculty and staff. \n\nPlease join us for this Informational Open House to learn about the program\, meet current and past facilitators and participants\, and enjoy some ‘multicultural’ refreshments. Drop by anytime\, stay as long as you like.\n\nLeading a Conversation Circle is a great way to support international students and help build a more inclusive campus climate. It’s also a great way to hone your facilitating skills\, learn about other countries and cultures\, make friends\, and have fun!\n\nRegistration Link: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/conversation-circle/ UID:63468-15716667@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63468 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Diversity,Language LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 955 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190430T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T193000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Rackham Graduate Student Active-Attacker Training DESCRIPTION:A representative from the Division of Public Safety and Security will be on hand to conduct training in the event of an active attacker and to field questions.\nPre-registration is required at https://myumi.ch/abwr5. UID:62730-15436325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62730 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180716T085741 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T203000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Girls Group DESCRIPTION:Presenter Sue Schooner is the Executive Director of Girls Group. Learn about her personal story and experiences with the wonderful nonprofit she founded 15 years ago after giving up a successful career in the automotive industry. \n\nGirls Group now serves 400 young women in Washtenaw County\, and continues to change the \ndestiny of young women\, as well as the many others whom these participants mentor and inspire.\n\nThis After 5 presentation does not require Osher Lifelong Learning Institute membership and is open to the public. UID:53018-13200561@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Retirement LOCATION:Kellogg Eye Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190419T092903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T213000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan in Tokyo 2019 | Financial Governance in the Reiwa Era: A Conversation with Eisuke Sakakibara\, Professor\, Aoyama Gakuin University and former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs\, & Michael S. Barr\, Dean\, Ford School of Public Policy DESCRIPTION:（英語の後に日本語有り） \n \n(Registration is required. For the English-language registration site\, go to: https://bit.ly/2UmnDCZ)\n\n● Map to event venue: https://goo.gl/maps/tG3hD94fgBp\n● Language: English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation)\n\nAs the Reiwa Era begins\, new opportunities and challenges abound in the global economy. The Heisei Era opened at the height of Japan's bubble economy and the US-Japan trade war\, followed by the IT bubble in the US and the lost decades in Japan\, and then the global financial crisis and Abenomics. What awaits the Japanese\, US\, and global economies in the Reiwa Era? What types of financial governance mechanisms are needed to foster economic stability and growth? In this Michigan in Tokyo event\, two leading experts on financial governance\, Dr. Eisuke Sakakibara - a UM alum and former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs\, also known as \"Mr. Yen\" - and Dean Michael S. Barr - Dean of the UM Ford School and a prime architect of the Dodd-Frank Act in the Obama administration - will discuss current trends and prospects in US-Japan economic relations and world financial markets. Moderated by Mr. Akinori Horii - a former Assistant Governor of the Bank of Japan -\, they will review areas of promise and vulnerability and discuss policy paths forward in Tokyo\, Washington\, and elsewhere. \n \n6:30pm \nDoors Open \n \n7pm \nWelcome & Introduction \nKiyoteru Tsutsui\, Director\, Center for Japanese Studies\, University of Michigan \n \nFinancial Governance in the Reiwa Era \nMichael Barr\, Dean\, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, University of Michigan \nEisuke Sakakibara\, Professor\, Aoyama Gakuin University and former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs \nModerator: Akinari Horii\, Special Advisor and Member of the Board\, Canon Institute for Global Studies \n \n8pm \nReception \n \n● Registration: \nGeneral $35 \nUniversity of Michigan Alumni & Friends $15 \n__________________________ \n \n（こちらのサイトで事前登録をお願いします → https://bit.ly/2Gn2uUd） \n \n● 日英同時通訳付 \n \n令和元年となる本年、国際経済は新たな挑戦と可能性に向き合うことになる。平成元年は日本のバブル経済の頂点であり、日米貿易摩擦のピークでもあった。平成の経済はその後、アメリカでのITバブルと日本での失われた20年、さらにリーマンショックとアベノミクスを経験する。令和の時代の日本、アメリカ、そして国際経済はどのように展開するのであろうか。新時代に経済的安定と成長を担保するためには、どのようなファイナンシャル・ガバナンスの仕組みが必要なのか。今年のMichigan in Tokyo シンポジウムでは、ミシガン大学卒業生で大蔵省財務官を務め、「ミスター円」と呼ばれた榊原英資教授と、ミシガン大学フォード公共政策大学院長で、オバマ政権内でドッド・フランク法の起草者でもあったマイケル・S・バー教授、という日米を代表する二人のファイナンシャル・ガバナンスの専門家に、日米の経済関係及び国際経済の最新のトレンドと将来の予測についてお話しいただきます。日本銀行理事を務められた堀井昭成氏をモデレーターにお迎えし、成長の期待される分野及び注意が必要な問題について、また東京、ワシントン、及びその他の世界の金融拠点で、どのような政策展開が必要になってくるかについてじっくり語り合っていただきます。 \n \n6:30pm \n開場 \n \n7pm \n開会の挨拶 \n筒井清輝 （ミシガン大学日本研究センター所長） \n \n特別対談：令和時代のファイナンシャル・ガバナンス \nマイケル・S・バー（ミシガン大学フォード公共政策大学院長） \n榊原英資（青山学院大学特別招聘教授、元財務官） \nモデレーター：堀井昭成 (キャノングローバル戦略研究所理事・特別顧問) \n \n8pm \nレセプション（食事・ドリンク付き） \n \n● 参加費 \n一般：$35 \nミシガン大学卒業生・関係者： $15 UID:63277-15609926@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63277 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Japanese Studies,Public Policy LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Kazan Kaikan 霞山会館, Kasumigaseki Common Gate West Bldg. 37th Floor, 3-2-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (https://goo.gl/maps/tG3hD94fgBp) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T181507 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Pre-Candidate Recital: Xiting Yang\, piano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Schumann - Fantasiestücke\, op. 12\; Schumann - Fantasy\, op. 17. UID:63577-15786239@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63577 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190509T121242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Rose Cousins DESCRIPTION:Rose Cousins just might be Nova Scotia's answer to Iris DeMent\, or even to Kate Wolf. Says Lifestyle Nova Scotia: \"Cousins writes songs strong on story\, melody\, and honest observations ... that demand an unaffected but beautiful voice.\" Her album \"We Have Made a Spark\" took home a Canadian Juno Award along with many other awards\, including a spot on NPR’s Top 10 Americana & Folk Albums list. That album was recorded in Boston\, where Rose spends part of her time\, and where she's found strong support from the city's vibrant songwriting community. Rooted in authenticity and conviction of voice\, the songs of Rose Cousins make you feel as though she sings for you\, about your life. \"We develop patterns that keep us from moving forward\,\" Rose says. \"It takes a deep breath and a bucket of courage to face the uncomfortable\, painful things we work so hard to avoid. Reward comes from recognizing the obstacle exists and pushing through fear.\" UID:60283-14857781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60283 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190502T095635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T204500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T224500 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Complicity (Kazenokiwa Kotono Youni) DESCRIPTION:Part of the Cinetopia Film Festival.\n\nChen Liang\, a young Chinese man is an illegal immigrant in Japan. One day he receives a call about a job offer meant for someone else. In his desperation\, he pretends to be the intended recipient in order to get the job\, which turns out to be work at a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master with the fear that his identity could be exposed at any moment.\n\nMore details at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7239688/ UID:63466-15716663@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63466 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Film,Immigration,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190528T105052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T204900 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T223000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Ramadan Community Iftars DESCRIPTION:U-M’s Muslim Students’ Association and Islamophobia Working Group invite Muslims and non-Muslim allies to join our Ramadan iftar meals at sunset throughout May and early June. Ramadan is the Islamic holy month\, when Muslims abstain from food and drink from dawn to sunset. Come to break bread\, to show solidarity\, and to learn more about each other. To ensure that there is plenty of food\, please RSVP for each of the iftars here: myumi.ch/Jyyrn \n \nIFTAR SCHEDULE \n \nMost iftars will be at Trotter Multicultural Center (428 South State Street)\, unless otherwise listed. All addresses are in Ann Arbor. \n \n 8:39pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 6: Trotter \n 8:40pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 8: International House (921 Church Street) \n 8:42pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 9: Trotter \n 8:47pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 13: Trotter \n 8:49pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 15: Weiser Hall 10th Floor (500 Church Street) \n 8:50pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 16: Trotter \n 8:54pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 20: Trotter\, sponsored by the Program on Intergroup Relations \n 8:56pm\, TUESDAY\, MAY 21: Muslim Community Association (2301 Plymouth Road). A shuttle bus will depart from the Central Campus Transit Center at 8:30pm and return to central campus by 10:30pm. More details will be provided by email to those who RSVP. \n 8:57pm\, THURSDAY\, MAY 23: Trotter \n 9:00pm\, MONDAY\, MAY 27: Trotter \n 9:02pm\, WEDNESDAY\, MAY 29: Trotter \n \n \nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, we are eager to help. Please contact asbates@umich.edu. We are able to make most accommodations very easily\, but advance notice is appreciated as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. All facilities are wheelchair accessible. Vegetarian and halal food options will be provided at every meal\; please indicate additional dietary restrictions on the RSVP form. UID:63342-15651038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63342 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,international,Muslim LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190313T181530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20190515T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library DESCRIPTION:A multi-venue exhibition of site-specific installations\, performances\, interventions\, and events by University of Michigan faculty\, staff\, and students\, Bookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is curated by Guna Nadarajan\, dean of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan\, in partnership with the University of Michigan Library. The exhibition will be located in several locations within Shapiro Undergraduate Library\, Hatcher Graduate Library\, and the Art\, Architecture & Engineering Library. \n\nThe continued proliferation of digital formats and systems for the embodiment\, distribution\, and delivery of knowledge increasingly displace the book as form. As a result\, the spacial limitations of libraries are challenged. The value of the book and the function of the library demand cultural attention. In this moment\, we ask ourselves: what is the future of the library? What is the future of the book? This exhibition seeks to instigate and showcase creative responses to the challenges to the book and the library in the forms we have inherited as well as to project ways of reimagining futures for/of books and libraries.\n\nBookmarks: Speculating the Futures of the Book and Library is supported by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, the University of Michigan Library\, the University of Michigan Office for Research (UMOR)\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n\n  UID:60521-14903651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR