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DTSTAMP:20260714T142604
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260909T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States
DESCRIPTION:America's Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger\, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from independence to the challenges of the present. Can the United States’ admirable record be sustained when the public is pulling the military into the political divisions of our time?\n   \nWebinar Link: https://myumi.ch/d8kN8\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at emergingdemocracies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149369-21906290@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149369
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Military,history
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
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DTSTAMP:20260714T145704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Democracy Against Workers?
DESCRIPTION:Webinar Link: https://myumi.ch/ww7q9\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at emergingdemocracies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149378-21906293@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149378
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:democracy
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Kuenzel Room
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DTSTAMP:20260728T155316
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Donia Human Rights Center Workshop | AI & Human Rights Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Location: Registration required. Please message ailabadmin@umich.edu with your name\, e-mail\, faculty or student status\, and a brief indication of how your work relates to AI & Human Rights.\n   \n   Presenters/facilitators:\n   \n   Rada Mihalcea (Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering\, Professor and Director\, Artificial Intelligence Lab)\n   \n   Zhijing Jin (Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto\, and a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute)\n   \n   Human rights are under pressure worldwide\, and AI is increasingly part of both the problem and the solution. AI systems can help uncover abuses\, expand access to services\, support crisis response\, and detect harmful patterns at scale. But they can also amplify surveillance\, bias\, disinformation\, and exclusion. To develop solutions that are genuinely helpful and safe\, we need collaboration among AI researchers\, human rights practitioners\, domain experts\, and impacted communities.\n   \n   In this workshop\, we’ll explore the points of interaction between AI and human rights challenges\, and discuss how existing obstacles in human right solutions can inform new research directions in artificial intelligence. U(M) researchers will briefly present on current topics in AI and in human rights\, followed by table discussions with domain experts in both human right related issues and AI. You are encouraged to bring your own topics\, problems\, and innovations to share with the group.\n   \n   Discussion topics brought up in this workshop will be used as the basis for a whitepaper on the intersection of AI & Human Rights.\n   \n   Program\n   1:00-1:30 pm\n   Introduction (goals and directions) and Keynote Talk\n   \n   1:30-1:50 pm\n   Human Rights Talk\n   \n   1:50-1:55 pm\n   Q & A\n   \n   1:55-2:15 pm\n   AI Talk\n   \n   2:15-2:20 pm\n   Q & A\n   \n   2:20-2:25 pm\n   TBA\n   \n   2:25-2:40 pm\n   Break\n   \n   2:40-2:55 pm\n   Introduction to the Roundtable discussion format\n   \n   2:55-4:50 pm\n   Roundtables with 1 lead and 1 note-taker (7 tables)\n   \n   2:55-3:10 pm: (15 min) Brief introductions (“I am X\, from Dept Y\, I’m interested in the aspects of Z on Climate and/or AI”)\n   3:10-3:15 pm: (5 min) Individual thinking and notes on stickies for (i) Challenges that (could) intersect with AI\n   3:15-3:40 pm: (25 min) Group discussions\n   3:40-4:00 pm: (20 min) Report back\n   4:00-4:05 pm: (5 min) (ii) Potential Solutions\, e.g.\, conversation and user interviews to set up the -solution\, new task formulation for research\, dataset building\, and study design\n   4:05-4:30 pm: (25 min) Group discussions\n   4:30-4:50 pm: (20 min) Report back\n   With this roundtable conversations\, we aim to:\n   \n   (1) identify list of challenges and potential paths to solutions\n   \n   (2) facilitate new collaborations\n   \n   (3) work together on a white paper identifying a roadmap for this space (pending interest)\n   \n   4:50-5:00 pm\n   Wrap-up\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149629-21906822@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Technology,human rights
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260728T121059
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T181500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guerline Jozef | 2026 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Guerline Jozef\, the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance\, will receive the 2026 Wallenberg Medal on Tuesday\, September 29th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium. In keeping with the tradition of the Wallenberg Lecture\, Jozef will draw on her personal experience to share with the audience her understanding of how one person can make a difference.\n\nGuerline M. Jozef\, a servant leader rooted in faith\, is a globally recognized human rights advocate\, thought leader\, and strategist who has worked to transform the conversation on migration\, race\, and justice. Jozef is the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA)\, a Haitian-American-women-led organization serving immigrants\, with a particular focus on Black immigrants at the US-Mexico border and beyond. With the HBA\, she has built a movement that centers people of African descent in migration while amplifying the voices of the most marginalized. She is the creator of “Tales from the Borderlands and Beyond\,” and co-founder of both the Black Immigrants Bail Fund (BIBF) and the Cameroon Advocacy Network.\n\nHer influence has been recognized nationally and internationally. She was named one of the Washingtonian’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025\, one of Politico’s 40 Most Influential People on Race\, Politics\, and Policy of 2021\, and one of the BBC’s Top 100 Women of 2024. She was honored with the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora IMPACT Award from the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance (CariPhil)\, the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award\, the AFL-CIO’s 2024 GMLK Human Rights Award\, the 2024 Haitian Impact Awards\, and the 2023 Midwin Charles Legacy Award from the 1804 Haitian Roundtable. She has been recognized by the Women’s Refugee Commission (Voices of Courage Award\, 2024)\, The Haitian Times (Newsmaker of the Year\, 2022)\, the National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network\, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award among others.\n\nMs. Jozef has been featured in Forbes\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Time Magazine\, The Miami Herald\, The Haitian Times\, Politico\, and DemocracyNow. She has testified before the United Nations\, the United States Congress\, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)\, and recently brought her advocacy to the international stage during the IV International Forum of Parlamentarians in Barranquilla\, Colombia. Guerline went to the border for Haitians—but she stayed for everyone seeking safety and protection. \n\n“Guerline Jozef is a powerful advocate for the dignity and rights of migrants who has linked the experience of migration at the US-Mexico border to global human rights movements. She works tirelessly to give voice to the marginalized and to shape a more just future for all\,” said Sioban Harlow\, chair of the Wallenberg Medal Executive Committee and Professor Emerita of Epidemiology\, Obstetrics and Gynecology\, and Global Public Health.\n\nFree and open to the public. Wheelchair and ADA accessible. ASL and CART provided.
UID:145865-21897966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145865
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Wallenberg Lecture,human rights
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260728T143415
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261005T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Europe's Coalition of the Willing\, Ukraine\, and the Future of NATO
DESCRIPTION:What is Europe’s strategic future as transatlantic ties unravel? What are its options as US priorities and capabilities change over in a world in which the distribution of power is changing rapidly? Europe has to chart its new course beyond the immediate impact of the second Trump presidency.\n\nFrançois Heisbourg is a senior advisor on Europe of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and special adviser of the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS). He has served in government (French mission to the UN in New York\, policy planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, international security adviser to the Minister of Defense)\, industry (Thomson-CSF\, today’s Thales\; Matra\, now in Airbus)\, academia (professor of the world politics course at Sciences-Po Paris)\, and the think-tank world (as director of the IISS and subsequently the FRS). He has sat on blue-ribbon bodies\, notably the French government’s White Paper on terrorism (2006) and the Defense and National Security White Papers (under President Sarkozy in 2007-2018 and President Hollande in 2012-2013)\; the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament\; and the International Commission on the Balkans. He chaired the council of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 1998 to 2018\, and of the IISS (2001-2018)\, and was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin (2015-2017). He dealt with defense and national security issues as part of Emmanuel Macron’s first presidential campaign (2016-17).Since the beginning of 2022\, he has been focusing on French and European military assistance to Ukraine.\n   \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at gosiak@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149133-21905804@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149133
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:europe,ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260724T124912
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:M. Teresa Poggi Lecture on Italy and the Mediterranean World. “Signor Presidente:\" Giorgia Meloni and the Italian Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:In 2022\, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni became the first far-right leader of Italy since Fascism and the first woman to ever lead the country. Four years later\, Meloni has proven resilient\, despite challenging economic indicators and after losing a referendum to limit the independence of the judiciary. A skillful politician\, Meloni has deftly navigated between Italy’s commitments to the European Union and the country’s longtime strategic alliance with the United States\, even as the Trump Administration has pushed to scale back NATO in Europe\, causing confusion and distress in Europe’s halls of power.\n\n   From Fascism to the personality-driven phenomenon of Silvio Berlusconi to the anti-system Five Star Movement\, Italy has always been a political laboratory\, a harbinger of political trends to come. With this lens\, what larger lessons can we draw from Meloni’s leadership about the direction of Italy and Europe? Has Meloni normalized the far right or transformed it into a mainstream conservative movement? What are her most concrete accomplishments? As a study in power\, what do we make of this small\, blonde\, fierce woman who insists on using the masculine form of address\, “Signor Presidente”?\n  \nThe annual M. Teresa Poggi Lecture on Italy and the Mediterranean World focuses on contemporary and historical issues related to the region. It is made possible by a generous gift from Stephanie and Sue Augustyniak in honor of their mother.\n   \nRachel Donadio is a Paris-based writer\, a contributing writer for *The Atlantic*\, and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture Correspondent for *The New York Times*. She regularly publishes textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics\, as well as literary criticism\, and is a frequent contributor to *The New York Review of Books*. Donadio has reported from more than two dozen countries and interviewed heads of state and major cultural figures\, including four Nobel Laureates in literature.\n   \nIn her many years covering Italy\, she has written on Giorgia Meloni’s culture wars\, Curzio Malaparte\, Nicola Gratteri when he was a leading Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor\, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi\, Gina Lollobrigida\, Paolo Sorrentino\, a rare book theft in Naples\, why Italians gesticulate\, Amalfi lemons\, a family of centenarians in Sardinia\, a Bangladeshi Cricket league in Rome\, and the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi. She has also covered the Vatican and led *The New York Times* coverage of the conclave in which Pope Francis was elected.\n   \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact gosiak@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149056-21905367@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149056
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Europe,italian,Italian Studies,Politics
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20260619T084541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261203T170000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Annual Copernicus Lecture. The Beauty and Significance of Interwar Polish Popular Music
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Jan Emil Młynarski will offer an immersive exploration of Polish popular music of the interwar period (1918–1939)\, examining Polish tango\, the development of the recording industry\, and the vibrant world of theatres and cabarets that shaped popular musical culture between the wars. Młynarski will perform selected works and present archival recordings\, guiding the audience through the rich landscape of Polish song\, its composers\, lyricists and performers\, situating their work within the broader cultural context of the era and assessing its artistic value\, cultural significance and contemporary reception.\n\nJan Emil Młynarski is a drummer\, street singer and passionate advocate for Polish popular music of the first half of the twentieth century. He holds degrees from the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and from the Drummers Collective in New York.\n\nHe hosts *Salon\, Ulica\, Dancing (Salon\, Street\, Dance Hall)* — a weekly radio show on Polskie Radio 3 dedicated to Interwar Polish music\, is the founder and leader of the Warszawskie Combo Taneczne *(Warsaw Dance Combo)*\, and is a member of the Jazz Band Młynarski-Masecki. He has released several dozen albums and was awarded multiple Fryderyk \, the Polish music industry's most prestigious recording award.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact gosiak@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149007-21905310@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149007
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Poland,Performance,Music,European,europe
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre
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