Showing events starting from November 1, 2013 up to November 30, 2013
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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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Kuyper College Social Work Graduate School Fair
November 6, 2013 - 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET
An admissions representative will be coming to Kuyper College's Social Work Graduate School Fair to share information on U-M's MSW and PhD programs. For more information, contact [email protected].
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Faculty Meeting
November 6, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Governing Faculty meeting.
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Instructional Technology and Continuing Education Task Group Meeting
November 6, 2013 - 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET
Fall 2013 Instructional Technology and Continuing Education Task Group meeting.
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William Davidson Institute Global Impact Summer Internships Info Session
November 6, 2013 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
Interested in doing high impact work in an emerging market country this coming summer?
WDI offers UM graduate students* opportunities for high-level, impactful, paid summer internships with organizations and businesses in emerging markets around the world.
INFORMATION SESSION
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
5 - 6 pm
E 1530
Ross School of Business
Enter via East University Ave (“Electronic Education/EE” Entrance)
Learn more about WDI international internships: the application process, time frame for 2014, and experiences & tips from several of our 2013 Interns
*Students in full-time Master's level degree programs only and returning in Fall 2014 for the full academic year. Students graduating in May 2014 are not eligible.
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Idealist.org San Fransisco Graduate School Fair
November 6, 2013 - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
Stop by the Idealist.org Graduate School Fair to speak with an admissions representative about U-M's MSW and PhD programs.
The fair is free and open to anyone considering graduate school.
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Marygrove Class Visit
November 6, 2013 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
An admissions representative will be coming to Marygrove College's BSW program to share information on U-M's MSW program. For more information, contact [email protected].
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Student Services Administrative Group Meeting
November 7, 2013 - 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Fall 2013 Student Services Administrative Group meeting.
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Panel Event: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Community Psychology
November 7, 2013 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
Panel event sponsored by the Michigan Community Research and Action Workgroup (M-CRAW). Relevant for anyone interested in community-based, social justice minded practice and research. Dr. Edison Trickett from the University of Illinois-Chicago will be the guest speaker.
Open to all students and faculty; light refreshments provided.
RSVP to Lauren Reed ([email protected]) by Monday, November 4.
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Idealist.org Los Angeles Graduate School Fair
November 7, 2013 - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
Stop by the Idealist.org Graduate School Fair to speak with an admissions representative about U-M's MSW and PhD programs.
The fair is free and open to anyone considering graduate school.