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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Imagining Palestine-Israel
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to a moderated conversation around a forthcoming special issue of the journal Palestine/Israel Review\, titled “Imagining Palestine-Israel” guest-edited by Ebileeni and Pinsker.\n\nThe call for papers from spring 2024 stated that in thinking about Palestine-Israel\, to imagine is both problematic and crucial insofar as imagination might offer different and new horizons and futures or further preserve the political impasse as well as diverge from the atrocities of the present into even more dangerous territories. The editors also raised some of the following questions:\n\n– Is it possible to envision a way forward in this present moment?\n– Is it possible to imagine together an equitable future that will account for the atrocities and injustices of the past and still make room for a Palestine and an Israel on the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea?\n– Is a dialogue based on honesty and accountability possible at all anymore?\n– Are dialogues about Palestine and Israel in academia at all beneficial?\n\nScholars across various disciplines (literary and cultural studies\, anthropology\, history)\, from around the globe\, responded to the call and these questions. They tried to make sense of the ever-escalating destruction of Gaza\, and to engage in the difficult task of imagining what the future could look like.\n\nNow\, two years after the “Imagining Palestine-Israel” scholarly initiative started\, amidst a US and Israeli-led war on Iran and its subsidiary front with Lebanon\, the questions we raised back in 2024 are even more relevant.
UID:150445-21909459@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150445
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dialogue,Middle East,Discussion,Conversation,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room (Fourth Floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260916T133800
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening:Va' Pensiero: Storie ambulanti (Walking Stories) by Dagmawi Yimer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Va' Pensiero: Storie ambulanti (Walking Stories) (2013)\, followed by a conversation and Q&A with Ethiopian-Italian filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer.\n\nA leading voice in migrant cinema in Italy\, Yimer is also a co-founder of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti\, a collective project dedicated to documenting migration from the perspectives of migrants and preserving their stories as part of Italy's contemporary cultural memory.\n\nVa' Pensiero follows the lives of Senegalese street vendors in Italy while examining anti-Black racism\, migration\, labor\, and everyday forms of exclusion. Beginning with the aftermath of the 2011 racist attack in Florence that killed two Senegalese men\, the film explores how migrant communities negotiate belonging within contemporary Italian society. Through multilingual testimony—including Italian\, Wolof\, and French—and observational documentary practice\, Va' Pensiero challenges conventional narratives of migration by foregrounding the voices and lived experiences of migrants themselves.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a conversation with Yimer about the making of Va' Pensiero\, documentary filmmaking as a form of witnessing and political storytelling\, and the representation of migration and Black life in contemporary Italy.\n\nThe event is part of “Migration\, Memory\, and the Politics of Witnessing: A Residency with Filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer\,” October 7–9\, 2026. For more information please write to gricco@umich.edu and amberbal@umich.edu.
UID:150240-21908440@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150240
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Cinema,Romance Language,Q And A,Immigration
LOCATION:North Quad - North Quad Space 2435
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DTSTAMP:20260826T132643
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T130000
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SUMMARY:Meeting:Transcultural Studies AMDP Drop-In Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a drop-in remote information session with the TCS Director to learn about the Accelerated Master’s Degree Program in Transcultural Studies. \n\nCan't make it? Prospective applicants and current students are invited to email our Director\, Dr. Rebecca Wollenberg\, at tcs-director@umich.edu to schedule an individual appointment.
UID:150827-21910252@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150827
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transcultural Studies,Prospective Graduate Students,Information Session,Interdisciplinary,intercultural,Graduate School,Admissions
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260930T083206
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:In the Shadow of Empire: Calcutta’s Victoria Memorial and its Cast of Moving Statuary
DESCRIPTION:With a focus on Calcutta’s landmark monument – the most grandiose of the memorials to the Queen of all the ones built across the British imperial territories – this lecture addresses the theme of the end of empire through the persistence and proliferation of the genre of civic public statuary\, its shifting cast of characters\, and its movements across time and space. It is on the grounds of the Victoria Memorial – in the lingering shadows of a bygone empire – that a brood of imperial statues have found a safe haven\, quietly living out their post-imperial lives of oblivion in a time and place where the empire is long gone but its hauntings remain.  In the recent past\, we have seen how such hauntings of the past can suddenly return to a body of long-standing statues of American Confederate leaders\, slave owners and imperialists\, bringing on them the wrath of anti-white supremacist protests that began to rage across Western cities and universities during 2020. What the Black Lives Matter movement did was to return attention in India to the long-forgotten specimens of colonial statuary\, mostly hidden away in remote locations of our cities - raising the issue again\, after over 75 years of Independence\, of their rights to remain in the spaces where they still stand. The afterlives of these relics of empire is a central theme of this lecture\, as it explores various moments in the travels\, dislocations and relocations of Calcutta’s imperial statues\, while charting a small parallel history of Indian statue-making over these transitional decades of the last years of British rule and the coming of Independence.\n\nTapati Guha-Thakurta was educated at Presidency College\, Calcutta University\, and the University of Oxford. She is currently an Honorary Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences\, Calcutta (CSSSC) and was its former Director from 2012 to 2017. She has written widely on the art and cultural history of modern India\, held fellowships at Brown University\, CASVA-National Gallery of Art\, The Getty Research Institute\, University of Cambridge\, and Yale University and been a visiting professor at Columbia University and at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her three main books are 'The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists\, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal' (Cambridge University Press\, 1992) and 'Monuments\, Objects\, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Postcolonial India' (Columbia University Press\, and Permanent Black\, 2004)\, and 'In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata' (Delhi: Primus Books\, 2015). She has also had a parallel career as exhibition curator and archivist\, and has helped build a large digital image archive on the visual cultures of modern and contemporary Bengal at the CSSSC. She has co-edited three anthologies of essays – 'Theorising the Present: Essays for Partha Chatterjee' (Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 2011)\; 'New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices' (Delhi: Oxford University Press\, 2013)\; and 'How Secular is Art? On the Politics of Art\, History and Religion in South Asia' (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). \nAmong her other professional work is the preparation of a dossier on the Durga Pujas of Kolkata for the Ministry of Culture\, Government of India\, which has brought to the festival the coveted UNESCO inscription under its List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2021. \n\nTapati Guha-Thakurta's visit to Ann Arbor is sponsored by the Museum Studies Program with generous support from the History of Art\, English Language & Literature\, Comparative Literature\, and Asian Languages & Cultures Departments.
UID:152023-21912628@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152023
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,history of art,Free
LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room, 5670
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DTSTAMP:20260902T101836
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening:CINEFORUM
DESCRIPTION:All screenings will be held in Space2435 North Quad. Movies will be shown in Italian with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. \n\nTuesday September 29th @ 7:00 PM \n*Il Sorpasso *\nOn a deserted Ferragosto in Rome\, a shy young law student is drawn into a spontaneous road trip by a brash\, fast-talking stranger with a sports car. As the two men speed along the coast\, their comic misadventures reveal the pleasures and anxieties of Italy’s economic boom. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Dino Risi\,1962.\n\nTuesday October 27th @ 7:00 PM \n*La Signora senza camelie*\nIt’s the story of a shopclerk named Clara who finds a chance casting in a small movie role develop into a full-blown career as screen-siren. Tension erupts when her husband can no longer tolerate watching her frivolous cinema escapades\, and pushes her into a “serious\, artistic” production of the life of Joan of Arc… whereupon she is castigated by the critical establishment. Featuring Lucia Bose\, Gino Cervi\, Alain Cuny. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni\, 1953.\n\nTuesday November 17th @ 7:00 PM\n*Catene *\nIn the first of a series of meladramas directed by Matarazzo\, a husband kills his wife's ex-boyfriend\, who was blackmailing her. He flees to America\, but is sent back to Italy to stand trial. The only way he can be set free is if his wife confesses to adultery—so the murder can be considered a crime of passion—but this estranges her from her family. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo\, 1949.
UID:151374-21911427@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151374
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Italian Studies,Romance Language,Film
LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261117T190000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening:CINEFORUM
DESCRIPTION:All screenings will be held in Space2435 North Quad. Movies will be shown in Italian with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. \n\nTuesday September 29th @ 7:00 PM \n*Il Sorpasso *\nOn a deserted Ferragosto in Rome\, a shy young law student is drawn into a spontaneous road trip by a brash\, fast-talking stranger with a sports car. As the two men speed along the coast\, their comic misadventures reveal the pleasures and anxieties of Italy’s economic boom. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Dino Risi\,1962.\n\nTuesday October 27th @ 7:00 PM \n*La Signora senza camelie*\nIt’s the story of a shopclerk named Clara who finds a chance casting in a small movie role develop into a full-blown career as screen-siren. Tension erupts when her husband can no longer tolerate watching her frivolous cinema escapades\, and pushes her into a “serious\, artistic” production of the life of Joan of Arc… whereupon she is castigated by the critical establishment. Featuring Lucia Bose\, Gino Cervi\, Alain Cuny. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni\, 1953.\n\nTuesday November 17th @ 7:00 PM\n*Catene *\nIn the first of a series of meladramas directed by Matarazzo\, a husband kills his wife's ex-boyfriend\, who was blackmailing her. He flees to America\, but is sent back to Italy to stand trial. The only way he can be set free is if his wife confesses to adultery—so the murder can be considered a crime of passion—but this estranges her from her family. In Italian with English subtitles. Directed by Raffaello Matarazzo\, 1949.
UID:151374-21911428@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151374
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Italian Studies,Romance Language,Film
LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435
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