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This is a zoom training that covers the fundamentals of Business Objects and the steps to navigate in Business Objects to perform basic, intermediate and advanced tasks in BO. Please bring your own laptop and power adapter to in-person training.
Please Note: There is a minimum of 10 registrations for each class (you can find the number of seats available out of 40). If the minimum number of seats is not reached we will email you in advance.

Etgar Keret is a celebrated Israeli author and filmmaker known for his unique, surreal, and darkly comedic short stories. Keret spent time engaging with AI models to test the limits of what a machine could generate about stories and narratives. In his talk "Me, Myself and AI," Keret notably explores the intersection of human creativity and algorithms

KERET BIO
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review and Zoetrope, among others. Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. He has received the Book Publishers Association of Israel's Platinum Prize several times, and the Newman Prize for Literature (2012). In 2010, Keret was honored in France with the decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Caméra d'Or" award for their movie Jellyfish, and Best Director Award from the French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers. The two also co-wrote and directed The Middleman (2019), a French mini-series for ARTE, which won the best screenplay award at Festival de la Fiction in La Rochelle. Keret was awarded the 2016 Charles Bronfman Prize. His latest collection, Fly Already, won Israel’s most prestigious literary award, the Sapir Prize (2018) and a National Jewish Book Award (2019). Since 2021, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter "Alphabet Soup" on Substack. In 2022, Keret presented an exhibition about his mother at the Jewish Museum Berlin. His newest short-story collection is Autocorrect.

These sessions will provide an overview of the application process, expected time commitment, and compensation associated with serving as a 2027 King Talks speaker.Interested individuals only need to attend one session.

This track manages the '26-27 First-Gen Student Community Events.

SAVE THE DATE - October 6th!



Curious about studying or interning abroad as an undergraduate at U-M?

Come explore everything CGIS (the Center for Global and Intercultural Study) has to offer and find the best program for you! No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a global experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Get your questions answered! Come chat with:

CGIS Program AdvisorsRecent U-M study abroad studentsFinancial Aid and the LSA Scholarships OfficeNewnan Academic AdvisorsOther on-campus offices
With over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year, there are many options to choose from.

If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad, how to afford study abroad, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip, or want to know what to expect, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!

CGIS Go Abroad Fair:
Thursday October 9th, 12-4pm
Rogel Ballroom Michigan Union


CGIS is part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), but all UM-Ann Arbor undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs.

This track manages the '26-27 Caregiver Craft Nights.

Sarah Imhoff (she/her) is the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, disability, and American religion, as well as maintaining a research specialty in religion and law. She is author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017) and The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Duke University Press, 2022). She is the founding co-editor of the journal American Religion.