Showing events on November 5, 2013
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UMHS Second Session of the Fall 2013 Social Justice Grand Rounds Series
November 5, 2013 - 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM ET
Social Justice Grand Rounds is the only structured event at University of Michigan that formally unites graduate students in social work, field instructors, other social workers, and social work faculty in a collaborative effort to address social injustice through the use of an actual case illustrative of injustice in health care, as presented by a student in Field at UMHS. This fall the student presenters are Nancy Brennan (who presented on 10/1/13) and Briana Kraus who will be the student presenter for the upcoming session on 11/5/13.
In its intent and in its content, this event is highly relevant to Social Work ethics, practice, theory, education, standards, policy, & professional development. I hope you are able to join us for this event.
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CSS Noon Lecture Series - Seals and the Sources of Chinese Buddhism
November 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Paul Copp, Associate Professor of Chinese Religion and Thought, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Stamp seals, both as physical objects and especially as metaphors, are nearly everywhere in Buddhism. This is easy to understand: seals had long been central to the practices of the civilizations, Indian and Chinese most prominently, in which Buddhism took on its most powerfully influential cultural forms. In this talk I will explore the broad history of religious seal practice in which ninth and tenth century Chinese Buddhist ritualists compiled versions of a manual for the making and use of Buddhist talismanic seals found among the Dunhuang manuscripts.
Paul Copp received his Ph.D. from the Religion Department at Princeton University in 2005. He has taught at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, and been a postdoctoral researcher at the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Heidelberg, Germany, working on fifth and sixth century Buddhist stone inscriptions in Shandong, China. He is currently associate professor in Chinese religion and thought at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, is due out this spring from Columbia University Press. His presentation today is part of a new book project, a paleographical and material-historical study of the worlds of anonymous ninth and tenth century Chinese Buddhists whose practices, ritual and scribal, are evidenced by manuscript handbooks and liturgies discovered among the cache of materials from Dunhuang. It is tentatively titled "Seal, Talisman, and Scroll: Vernacular Buddhism and Manuscript Culture in Late Medieval Dunhuang."
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Lunch 'n Learn Series: What You Need to Know About Statistical Packages for Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
November 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET
Excel. SPSS. Stata. SAS. R. NVivo. Atlas TI. Simply Map. ArcGIS.
Have you ever used these statistical packages? More and more jobs, from evaluation and research to direct service positions, are requiring familiarity with different analysis software. There are so many different statistical packages out there; so where should you star?
For each of these analysis software, we will answer the following questions:
Who uses it?
What is it used for?
What are the benefits and limitations?
Where can I find resources for training or more information?
This training will provide an introduction to the different types of quantitative, qualitative, and mapping software available: what they are and when and why to use them.
Feel free to bring your own lunch.
This event is sponsored by the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group.
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Promotion and Tenure Committee Meeting
November 5, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Fall 2013 Promotion and Tenure Committee meeting.