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Upcoming Events
 Gender and Sexuality: What’s Language Got to Do With It?Lecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Room 100 February 1, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM In this panel, four scholars of language consider how language has been used to construct and perform gender and sexuality. They will examine a history of approaches to language, gender and sexuality; the connection between language, sexuality and masculinities; the erasure of lesbians from queer linguistics; the encoding of gender and sexuality in the grammar and lexicon and efforts to change the language.
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 Robert Mankoff (Language and Humor) - Online Responses to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: An Insider's TakeLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 2, 2012 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Robert Mankoff, from The New Yorker, will discuss his article, “Online Responses to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: An Insiders Take.” As the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, he created the caption contest in 1998 and has been running and judging it since then, collecting and analyzing data from over 300 contests and 1.7 million entries with many interesting results about the statistical and textual characteristics of humorous user generated content.
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 U-M Celebrates LanguageReception Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 7, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join us for the opening reception of the new exhibit: U-M Library Celebrates Language.
The Library’s collections include materials in over 430 languages, covering thousands of years of civilization. This unique exhibit showcases examples of some of the materials and topics you can explore through the Library’s diverse and vast collections.
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 Deadly Medicine Exhibition Opening ReceptionReception Location:Taubman Health Sciences Library, 4th Floor February 9, 2012 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM The Taubman Health Sciences Library and the Center for the History of Medicine announce the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race |
 The Legacy of American Eugenics: Buck v. Bell in the Supreme CourtLecture Location:Taubman Biomedical Research Science Building, Kahn Auditorium (109 Zina Pitcher Place Ann Arbor, MI) February 9, 2012 6:45 PM - 8:00 PM This keynote address and book signing immediately follow the Opening Reception that is scheduled from 5:30-6:30pm at the Taubman Health Sciences Library. These events are free and open to the public. |
 Cafe ShapiroReading Location:Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Bert's Study Lounge February 9, 2012 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Cafe Shapiro, an annual opportunity for undergraduates to read their creative works in the library, will be on Thursday, February 9th and Wednesday, February 15th, from 7-8:30pm in Bert's Study Lounge. Stop by to hear some exemplary student writing and have a cup of coffee! |
 Yoga in the GalleryWorkshop Location:Gallery, 100 February 10, 2012 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Yoga is where the mind and body meet in the breath. Come learn to stretch, breathe, and release stress in this free, all-levels class. Please bring your own mat. All participants must fill out a health waiver--please arrive a few minutes early.
This event is part of the Undergraduate Library Spotlight series. |
 The History of Geomagnetism Research in Support of Continental DriftLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 14, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM This talk by Rob Van der Voo will appeal to both a science and non-science audience, because it focuses on history as well as science. This special presentation about the historical development of the use of the geomagnetic field in geological times provides strong support for the Wegenerian theory of continental drift. This talk comes at a particularly appropriate time as approach the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Wegeners convictions about the mobility of the continents. |
 5th Annual Science Covers CelebrationExhibit Opening Location:Shapiro Science Library, Third Floor, Shien-Ming Wu Current Periodical Reading Room, Rm. 3002 February 15, 2012 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Please join the Shapiro Science Library for a reception as we celebrate the continuation of our permanent display of book and journal covers, featuring research from the LSA Natural Sciences Departments and the School of Natural Resources and Environment, on Wednesday, February 15, 2012. |
 Author's Forum Presents: Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of EmancipationLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 15, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family’s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. |
 Cafe ShapiroReading Location:Shapiro Undergraduate Library, Bert's Study Lounge February 15, 2012 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Cafe Shapiro, an annual opportunity for undergraduates to read their creative works in the library, will be on Thursday, February 9th and Wednesday, February 15th, from 7-8:30pm in Bert's Study Lounge. Stop by to hear some exemplary student writing and have a cup of coffee! |
 Michael Silverstein (Language and Culture)- Culture’s Pantomime: The Code of Life-as-LivedLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 16, 2012 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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 Third Thursday in the Clark LibraryOpen House Location:Clark Library, Second floor, Hatcher Graduate Library February 16, 2012 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM Come check out the new Stephen S. Clark Library for Maps, Government Information and Data Services. Our theme for this month's open house is "Linguistic maps." We’ll have many maps and atlases on display which show the study and location of language groups and dialects, as well as many maps that use uncommon written languages including a rare Hawaiian atlas, ca. 1850. The event is in support of the Winter LSA Theme Semester on Language. Public welcome. For more information call 734 764-0410 |
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