Showing events starting from November 1, 2013 up to November 30, 2013
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Lost in Translation: Stories of Global Experiences
November 7, 2013 - 6:30 PM ET
Join UM students, faculty, and staff in this annual global storytelling event.
Coffee hour begins at 6:30pm with storytelling at 7pm sharp
Audience members will get to listen to storytellers share about their international experiences. This event is similar to "The Moth" in which true stories are told in a live setting. Refreshments will be served.
Calling Storytellers:
Were your career aspirations inspired by your research project in the Amazon? Did you have a miscommunication with your internship supervisor in India? Did you fall in love in Brazil while doing volunteer work? Were you mugged in Portugal while backpacking?
If so, we want to hear about it! And, we want you to share it with the University of Michigan community as part of the Lost in Translation: Stories of Global Experiences event.
To be a featured Storyteller at Lost in Translation: Stories of Global Experiences, submit your story by Monday, October 21, 2013.
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Conversations on Community, Identity, and Israel: Making Sense of the Pew Portrait of Jewish Americans
November 7, 2013 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET
Join a distinguished panel of University of Michigan scholars and community leaders along with Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, for a discussion about the issues raised by the recent Pew Research Center Survey of American Jews and its resulting report, A Portrait of Jewish Americans.
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Things you want to know (and perhaps are afraid to ask) about Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis
November 8, 2013 - 11:45 AM to 1:30 PM ET
Second Fridays in the Curtis Center: Pizza & Pontification Series
Pizza & salad lunch available to attendees at 11:45 am.
Registration required for this free workshop on:
What is SEM analysis?
What are the advantages for SEM analysis over other statistical techniques?
Description and examples of types of models that are suitable for SEM,analysis
What kind of data sets and data preparation is needed for SEM analysis in terms of sample size and variables?
Comments on the choice of software for SEM analysis
Helping resources on campus for SEM analyses
Led by Dr. Amiram Vinokur, Research Professor University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
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Prospective Student Meeting - Malibu, CA
November 8, 2013 - 12:00 PM ET
This lunch session will provide the opportunity to learn more about the University of Michigan School of Social Work's MSW & PhD Programs. Topics covered will include: MSW/PhD Curriculum, Dual Degree Programs, Application Process, Degree Requirements, and Financial Aid. To register email [email protected].
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MSW Prospective Student Webinar
November 8, 2013 - 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
This online session will provide the opportunity to learn more about the University of Michigan School of Social Work's MSW program. Topics covered will include: MSW Curriculum, Dual Degree Programs, Application Process, Social Work Faculty & Staff, Degree Requirements, and Financial Aid. To register go to: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/612928642
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Victors for Michigan Community Festival
November 8, 2013 - 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET
Please join us as we kick off one of the most ambitious fundraising campaigns in the history of higher education, the Victors for Michigan campaign. No tickets needed for this free event. All are welcome!
Join students, faculty, staff, fans, and friends of the university at a family-friendly outdoor launch celebration among campus landmarks. Enjoy music, free food, and more!
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"One Day as a Foreigner" Reflective Photo Exhibition
November 11, 2013 (all day) 9:00 PM
Come see students' and faculty's photos and stories from their experiences abroad. The photo exhibition will be on display November 11-November 25, 2013.
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The Grocery Gap: Unequal Access to Healthy Food in Southeast Michigan
November 11, 2013 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
Dorceta Taylor of the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment examines access to food in this part of the state and explores new approaches to understanding and assessing food insecurity, which is very high in parts of Southeastern Michigan. Some areas in the region are described as "food deserts," but is this term appropriate? Join us for this installment of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's yearlong Poverty & Inequality Series.
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Winona LaDuke "Building a Green Economy: Indigenous Strategies for a Sustainable Future"
November 11, 2013 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
Winona LaDuke, Internationally acclaimed American Indian author, orator, and activist
The United States is the largest source of greenhouse gases in the world and influences international policy. It turns out that Native American communities have the potential to generate up to one half of present US electrical consumption through producing power from the wind. This is the alternative to both military intervention into oil rich countries, and represents the potential for ecological sustainability. In recent years, LaDuke has been involved in moving tribal communities towards wind and alternative energy systems, and working with tribal and state governments to voluntarily meet the conditions of the Kyoto accord. A leader on the issues of culturally-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, and food systems, Winona LaDuke offers alternatives and a vision for the future.
This event is being co-sponsored by the National Center for Institutional Diversity, the Native American Student Association, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, Center for Campus Involvement, Women's Studies Department, the Department of American Culture, the School of Social Work, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Center for the Education of Women, and the Ford School of Public Policy.
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CSS Noon Lecture Series - Quack Corporate Governance as Traditional Chinese Medicine - Firm Organization and the consequences of China's Unreconstructed Political Economy
November 12, 2013 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Nicholas Howson, Professor of Law, Michigan Law School
From the start of the PRC's "corporatization" project in the late 1980s, a Chinese corporate governance regime subject to increasingly "enabling" legal norms has been determined by "mandatory" regulations imposed by the PRC securities regulator, the CSRC. Indeed, the Chinese corporate law system has been cannibalized by all-encompassing securities regulation directed at corporate governance, at least for companies with listed stock. This presentation traces the path of that sustained intervention, and makes a case - wholly contrary to the "quack corporate governance" critique much aired in the U.S. - that for the PRC this phenomenon is necessary and appropriate, and benign. That analysis in turn reveals a great deal about: the development of Chinese law and legal institutions after 1979; China's contemporary political economy; the true identity of the firm under the PRC "corporatization without privatization" program; the normative character and function of corporate law across the globe; and the ways in which state intervention may protect against state abuse of power and enable greater private autonomy.
Nicholas Calcina Howson is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School who has also taught at the Berkeley (Boalt), Columbia, Cornell, and Harvard Law Schools. Howson earned his B.A. from Williams College (1983) and his J.D. from Columbia Law School (1988). Professor Howson has spent many years living in the People's Republic of China (PRC), both as a scholar - working at Shanghai's Fudan University (1983-85), Beijing University and the Chinese University of Politics and Law (1988) and Shanghai's East China University of Politics and Law (2008) - and as a practicing lawyer based in Beijing (1990-92 and 1996-2003). A former partner of the New York-based international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, he worked out of that firm's New York, Paris, London and Beijing Offices, finally as a managing partner of the firm's China Practice based in the Chinese capital.