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One glance at the dragon brings infinite good luck to all onlookers and the racers!\n \n Join in the vibrancy of Ann Arbor's summer streetside events, another opportunity to get your heart rate up and experience local arts!\n\n* The event is organized by the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair - https:\/\/www.dartforart.org\/*\n\nPresented by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. This project was made possible by grants from the University of Michigan Arts Initiative and the Office of the Provost, Global Engagement.\n \n Additional funding was provided by ArtsEngine, Center for World Performance Studies, Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, and U.S. Department of Education.\n \n With support from Asian Languages and Cultures, International Institute, James and Anne Duderstadt Center, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Residential College, School of Kinesiology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Taubman College, University of Michigan Library, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Department.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"149202-21905965@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/149202", "building_id":"null", "building_name":"Off Campus Location", "campus_maps_id":"1", "room":"", "location_name":"Downtown Ann Arbor, corner of State St and Liberty St", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Community Engagement","Community","Chinese Studies","chinese","China","Asia","Arts Initiative","arts","Art"], "website":"https:\/\/www.dartforart.org\/", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"International Institute", "group_id":"1968", "website":"http:\/\/www.ii.umich.edu" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/07\/event_149202_original-1.jpg" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21905965 } , "145865-21897966": { "datetime_modified":"20260706T151248", "datetime_start":"20260929T163000", "datetime_end":"20260929T181500", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-09-29", "date_end":"2026-09-29", "time_start":"16:30:00", "time_end":"18:15:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Guerline Jozef | 2026 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Guerline Jozef | 2026 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "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 \u201cTales from the Borderlands and Beyond,\u201d 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\u2019s 500 Most Influential People of 2025, one of Politico\u2019s 40 Most Influential People on Race, Politics, and Policy of 2021, and one of the BBC\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award among others.\n\nMs. Jozef has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, 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\u2014but she stayed for everyone seeking safety and protection. \n\n\u201cGuerline 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,\u201d 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. 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Europe's Coalition of the Willing, Ukraine, and the Future of NATO", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Europe's Coalition of the Willing, Ukraine, and the Future of NATO: Fran\u00e7ois Heisbourg, Senior Advisor for Europe, International Institute for Strategic Studies", "event_subtitle":"Fran\u00e7ois Heisbourg, Senior Advisor for Europe, International Institute for Strategic Studies", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"What is Europe\u2019s 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 Fran\u00e7ois Heisbourg is a senior advisor on Europe of the London-based\n International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and special adviser of the Paris-based Fondation pour la Recherche Strat\u00e9gique (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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 Weizs\u00e4cker Fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin (2015-2017). He dealt with defense and national security issues as part of Emmanuel Macron\u2019s 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. 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A skillful politician, Meloni has deftly navigated between Italy\u2019s commitments to the European Union and the country\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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, \u201cSignor Presidente\u201d?\n \n The M. Teresa Poggi Italy and the Mediterranean Distinguished Lecture focuses on contemporary and historical issues related to the region. It is made possible by a generous gift from sisters 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\u2019s 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. 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M\u0142ynarski 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 M\u0142ynarski 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 Lipi\u0144ski Academy of Music in Wroc\u0142aw and from the Drummers Collective in New York.\n\nHe hosts *Salon, Ulica, Dancing (Salon, Street, Dance Hall)* \u2014 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 M\u0142ynarski-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. 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