Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3097/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CREES Book Talk Featuring Elena Kostyuchenko, Russian independent journalist and writer (April 3, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120004 120004-21843924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Elena Kostyuchenko will present her new book, *I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country.* Her book is a collection of reportage and personal essays from the past 15 years. To be a journalist is to tell the truth. *I Love Russia* is Kostyuchenko's unrelenting attempt to document her country as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doctors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself.

Kostyuchenko is a Russian independent journalist. She was a special correspondent for *Novaya Gazeta *for 17 years until the newspaper shut down in March 2002 due to pressure from the Russian government. She reports on armed conflicts, crime, human rights, and social issues and was among the first journalists to document the presence of Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine, covering the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine since its second day. Currently, she collaborates with the exiled independent Russian media network Meduza. Kostyuchenko has received multiple journalism awards, including the European Press Prize, the Gerd Bucerius Prize Free Press of Eastern Europe, and the Paul Klebnikov Prize.


Kostyuchenko will be joined in conversation by Professor Elizabeth King, CREES Director.

A book signing will follow the lecture, with Kostyuchenko's book available for purchase from Literati.

Co-sponsors: Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Institute for Research on Women and Gender

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:25:49 -0400 2024-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion CREES Book Talk Featuring Elena Kostyuchenko, Russian independent journalist and writer
CREES Noon Lecture. #NotWarsaw: Jews and Culture in the Cities of Polish Lands (April 10, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120591 120591-21845004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk presents the book *Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the Periphery,* coedited by Halina Goldberg and Nancy Sinkoff, focusing on its historiographic framework. Polish Jewry has been often conceptualized through studies of the metropole, Warsaw, and its assimilating circles, its Jewish press, Jewish politics, and more. Likewise, the history of Jews in Poland in the modern period has also frequently been framed solely as a political narrative. Goldberg and Sinkoff’s approach emphasizes the capaciousness of the concept of Polish lands to accommodate the rootedness of Jews in Polish soil—and its link to the notion of *doikayt* (Yid. lit. hereness or at-homeness)—while at the same time underscoring their regional diversity. It highlights the vitality of Polish Jewish urban culture beyond Warsaw by addressing the production and consumption of culture—including literature, film, cabaret, theater, architecture, the fine arts, and music. It is Polish Jews’ engagement with music, in particular, that serves as a central narrative thread in this presentation.

Halina Goldberg is a professor of musicology and director of the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of *Music in Chopin’s Warsaw,* editor of a special issue of the *Musical Quarterly* titled *Jewish Spirituality, Modernity, and Historicism in the Long Nineteenth Century: New Musical Perspectives,* and director of the digital project *Jewish Life in Interwar Łódź* https://jewish-lodz.iu.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:25:48 -0400 2024-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-10T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Halina Goldberg, professor of musicology and director, Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University–Bloomington
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception (May 3, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118776 118776-21841589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 3, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with: International and Regional Studies, African Studies Center, Center for European Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

2:30 PM: Check-In
3:00 PM: Ceremony
4:00 PM: Reception with light refreshments

To all 2023-2024 MIRS & Center Graduates: Please confirm your attendance and RSVP at http://myumi.ch/n77rk

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at ii.graduation@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:05:28 -0500 2024-05-03T15:00:00-04:00 2024-05-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Ceremony / Service International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception