November 29th, 2015

Jem Cohen

Life Drawing

The title of this multi-format photography and video installation by New York filmmaker Jem Cohen comes from the artist’s own...

November 30th, 2015

The Ontology of "Fukushima Future"

Satsuki Takahashi, Toyota Visiting Professor, U-M Center for Japanese Studies

This talk examines post-Fukushima Japan’s amplified preoccupation with future-making by placing it in historical context. A new offshore...

The “Calculated Frightfulness” of ISIS

Threats to Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage in Historical Perspective--A Panel Discussion

The so-called “Islamic State” (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) proclaimed itself a caliphate in June 2014. Like any new state whose...

Frank Waln & Samsoche Sampson

Native American Heritage Month Key Note Performance

Come join the Native American Student Association & the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs as we present our Key Note Performance of...

December 1st, 2015

December 2nd, 2015

CREES Noon Lecture. Feminism in Russia

Natalia L. Pushkareva, professor, leading research fellow, and head of the Women' and Gender Studies Department, Russian Academy of Sciences

Natalia Pushkareva will provide a broad overview of the history of the women’s movement and feminism in Russia from the epoch of the...

Drugs, addiction, and the brain.

Terry Robinson, Ph.D., Elliot S. Valenstein Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program

Talk will be given in multi-purpose room in the basement of the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library 343 S. 5th Avenue, Ann...

December 3rd, 2015

Writing for and Working in the Public Sphere

Joseph Cialdella (PhD in American Culture), Edie Disler (PhD in Linguistics), and John Ramsburgh (PhD in English)

We have arranged with three panelists who will present and give advice about working for non-academic entities—for the government, for...

Economic Development

Can E-Governance Reduce Capture of Public Programs? Experimental Evidence form a Financial Reform of India's Employment Guarantee Program presented by Rohini Pande, Harvard University

Abstract and paper not yet available.

December 4th, 2015

Museum Studies Program brown bag

The God behind the Marble: Transcending the Object in the German Museum of Art

The speaker will discuss the relationship between aesthetic philosophies and the theoretical displays of art objects displayed within the...

December 5th, 2015

Webster Reading Series

Josh Garfinkel and Menachem Kaiser

The Webster Reading Series showcases the work of poets and fiction writers who are in their second year of the Helen Zell Writers'...