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DTSTAMP:20261005T140036
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T083000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Memory and Memorial Culture Across Central Eurasia Workshop
DESCRIPTION:How has and does memory – familial\, national\, or imperial – impact understandings of the Centra Eurasia’s past by defining\, changing\, and erasing topics of investigation? How does memory – through recollections\, reminisces\, and retellings – shift\, change\, and morph through different historical periods and conjunctures? How might we consider “the sites of memory” – be they shrines\, museums\, gallery spaces – as enacting a shaping function onto the minds and memories of their visitors? How does the memory of events – of the Qing conquest of the Dzungars\, of the Andijan uprising of 1898\, of Tajikistan’s Civil War – prove capable creating\, defining\, and delineating group identities? \n\nThis workshop\, presented by the U-M Department of History and the Central Eurasian Studies Society\, will be held on October 19-20\, 2026. Graduate students and early career scholars (PhD conferred in the last 5 years) will share their works-in-progress to receive critical feedback.\n\nThank you to our sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\, Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Global Islamic Studies Center\, Humanities Institute\, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, LSA Graduate Student Funding\, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
UID:153066-21915031@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153066
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Architecture,Asia,European,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Immigration,Interdisciplinary,International,Library,Social Sciences,Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20261005T140036
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261020T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261020T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Memory and Memorial Culture Across Central Eurasia Workshop
DESCRIPTION:How has and does memory – familial\, national\, or imperial – impact understandings of the Centra Eurasia’s past by defining\, changing\, and erasing topics of investigation? How does memory – through recollections\, reminisces\, and retellings – shift\, change\, and morph through different historical periods and conjunctures? How might we consider “the sites of memory” – be they shrines\, museums\, gallery spaces – as enacting a shaping function onto the minds and memories of their visitors? How does the memory of events – of the Qing conquest of the Dzungars\, of the Andijan uprising of 1898\, of Tajikistan’s Civil War – prove capable creating\, defining\, and delineating group identities? \n\nThis workshop\, presented by the U-M Department of History and the Central Eurasian Studies Society\, will be held on October 19-20\, 2026. Graduate students and early career scholars (PhD conferred in the last 5 years) will share their works-in-progress to receive critical feedback.\n\nThank you to our sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\, Department of History\, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies\, Global Islamic Studies Center\, Humanities Institute\, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, LSA Graduate Student Funding\, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia
UID:153066-21915032@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153066
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Architecture,Asia,European,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Immigration,Interdisciplinary,International,Library,Social Sciences,Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260915T081801
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T150000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
DESCRIPTION:Please join representatives of interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities to find which program is best for you. Each institution will give a brief introduction of their programs and specialties\, and attendees will be able to join breakout rooms and ask questions about the programs most of interest. Students planning to apply this cycle are urged to attend\, but those considering applying in future years are also welcome.\n\nTuesday\, September 22 10:00-11:00 AM Eastern (9:00-10:00 AM Central)--Register: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ujuo3QfITxW1K8h8-RepuQ\n\nWednesday\, October 21 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern (1:00 PM-2:00 PM Central)--Register: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/aPbuj82AQN2MxV59DnvDAA\n\nTuesday\, December 1 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Eastern (3:00 PM-4:00 PM Central)--Register: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/wPK_73VxTxy3xffylNtc8A\n\nParticipating programs:\n\nThe Ohio State University: Master of Arts in Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Studies\; Dual Degrees with Bioethics and Public Affairs\n\nUniversity of Kansas: Master of Arts in Slavic and Eurasian Studies\nMA concentrations: 1. Slavic languages and literatures 2. Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies \n\nUniversity of Michigan: Masters in International and Regional Studies\, Specialization in Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\n\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison: MA Degree Program in Russian\, East European\, and Central Asian Studies\n\nIf you have questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in these events\, please contact Emma Pratt at pratt.124@osu.edu. Typically\, two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access\, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
UID:152173-21913175@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152173
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Graduate School,Info Session,russia
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261013T120411
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261021T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ukraine: Revolution\, Resistance\, Democracy
DESCRIPTION:About the talk: Why did Russia invade Ukraine? What explains the power of Ukrainian resistance? Sophia Wilson’s talk will be based on her book about the Ukrainian Maidan Revolution of 2013-14\, showing why it is impossible to understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine without first understanding the Ukrainian pro-democratic grassroots movement and the rooting out of Russian puppet authoritarianism. Her study of the Ukrainian Revolution gives a carefully researched account of the underbelly of the revolutionary process\, investigating how participants self-organized to create the resistance\, why the peaceful movement eventually turned to violence\, and how the revolutionary process changed those who came to change the country. Wilson will discuss how the people resisted the state in multiple arenas – the protest square\, courtrooms\, hospitals\, churches\, and media – to successfully challenge the constitutionality of the state’s actions. She will also explain how the Kremlin propaganda about the Ukrainian democratic movement captures the essence of Russia’s motivation to suppress Ukraine’s sovereignty and democracy. \n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. Sophia Wilson is a Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville\, and the President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Wilson received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington and held fellowships at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\, Indiana University Law School\, and Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. She taught at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute in 2017\, 2019 and 2025. Wilson's publications on human rights practices in authoritarian regimes are based on extensive fieldwork she conducted in Tajikistan\, Azerbaijan and Ukraine\, including multiple interviews with judges\, journalists and activists. Her book\, Maidan: Ukraine's Democratic Revolution is an extensive analysis of the grassroots 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity\, which renegotiated the social contract and reaffirmed democracy in Ukraine. She is currently working on her new book\, Fascism vs. Communism: Ukraine under Three Occupations. Dr. Wilson has provided analysis for U.S. government agencies\, and commentary for broadcast and print media outlets on Ukraine and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was recognized by the Ukrainian government \"for leadership in the study and research of Ukrainian Studies in the United States of America\" in August 2024\, and awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the Global Coalition of Ukrainian Studies for her role in strengthening Ukraine's presence in the global academic community in 2025. \n\nThis lecture is part of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures' series \"Ukraine Unbound: Culture\, Memory\, Resistance\".\nThe talks will be held in a hybrid format\, and they're hosted by Alex Averbuch\, Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture.\nThis talk is co-sponsored by Razom for Ukraine / Ukraine on Campus.
UID:151921-21912423@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151921
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Creees,Crees,Democracy,Russia,Russian,Slavic,Slavic Featured,Slavic Studies,Talk,Ukraine,Ukrainian
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall
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DTSTAMP:20261002T124949
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T203000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Best of FAMU
DESCRIPTION:The program of short films offers a representative cross-section of works created at Prague’s film school throughout its eighty-year history. The eight selected films vividly illustrate the diversity of student filmmaking\, encompassing fiction\, documentary\, and animation\, as well as both lesser-known works and internationally acclaimed titles (including a Student Academy Award winner). Together\, they span a wide range of styles and genres\, from pantomime slapstick and historical drama to mockumentary and animated fantasy. The selection includes early works by filmmakers such as Jan Němec and Jan Svěrák\, who went on to become major figures in Czech cinema\, alongside outstanding talents from younger generations\, including Daria Kashcheeva\, Bára Anna Stejskalová\, and Marie-Magdalena Kochová. \n\nList of films: \n• Encounter \n• The Loaf of Bread \n• Oil Gobblers \n• Closed Due to the Family Mourning \n• Pripyat Piano \n• Daughter \n• Love Is Just a Death Away \n• 3 MWh \n\n\nFilm Synopsis: \n\n• Encounter (Vladimír Svitáček\, 1953\, 5 min.) \nVladimír Svitáček\, later renowned as a co-creator of the multimedia theatre Laterna Magika and the world’s first interactive movie Kinoautomat\, depicts a crowded Prague tram in this pantomime-inspired comic sketch\, featuring outstanding performances by the young Miloš Kopecký and Jiří Sovák. The film also includes rare archival footage of the area surrounding Prague’s Main Railway Station. \nDirector: Vladimír Svitáček  \nScreenwriter: Vladimír Svitáček  \nDirector of Photography: Jerzy Kotowski \nOriginal Score: Jaroslav Ježek  \nCast: Miloš Kopecký\, Jiří Sovák\, Jana Werichová-Kvapilová\, Káťa Kopecká etc. \n\n• The Loaf of Bread (Jan Němec\, 1960\, 11 min.) \nThis early student film by Jan Němec\, one of the leading figures of the Czech New Wave\, can be regarded as a thematic precursor to his masterpiece Diamonds of the Night. In the final days of the Second World War\, a train carrying concentration camp prisoners stands at a railway station. Three exhausted inmates contemplate how to reach a nearby freight car loaded with bread\, hoping to regain enough strength before attempting their escape. \nDirector: Jan Němec \nScreenwriter: Jan Němec\, Eva Límanová \nDirector of Photography: Jiří Šámal \nCast: Ivan Renč\, Jan Bartůšek\, Oldřich Bláha \n\n• Oil Gobblers (Jan Svěrák\, 1988\, 20 min.) \nJan Svěrák’s Oil Gobblers was made in 1988 as his graduation film at the Department of Documentary Film. This mockumentary follows a fictional scientific expedition in search of an unknown creature known as the “oil gobbler\,” whose very existence defies all the principles of life in a healthy natural environment. The film turns a serious ecological issue completely on its head\, presenting its story with such convincing realism that the hoax is almost flawless. In June 1989\, the film received the Student Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. \nDirector\, Screenwriter: Jan Svěrák \nDirector of Photography: Ladislav Štěpán \nOriginal Score: Vendula Kašpárková \nCast: Lubomír Beneš\, Jiří Němec\, Ivo Kašpar\, Jan Rokyta\, Emil Nedbal etc. \n\n• Closed Due to the Family Mourning (Saša Gedeon\, 1991\, 9 min.) \nThis short film by screenwriter and director Saša Gedeon is based on Alberto Moravia’s short story Fire. A bittersweet vignette\, it portrays a single day in a small Italian barbershop on the eve of the Second World War. Rather than relying on an intricate plot\, the film derives its power from its understated emotional tension and evocative atmosphere. Made during Gedeon’s second year at FAMU\, the film received an award at the FFICS – International Festival of Film School Students in Tokyo in 1992. The prize money enabled the director to make his feature-film debut Indian Summer. \nDirector\, Screenwriter: Saša Gedeon \nDirector of Photography: Miloš Kabyl \nCast: Barbora Hrzánová\, David Vávra\, Jakub Špalek\, Renata Beccerová \n\n• Pripyat Piano (Eliška Cílková\, 2019\, 18 min.) \nMany of the original inhabitants of Pripyat have never come to terms with the Chernobyl disaster. Some of them began composing their own songs and poems and returning to their apartments within the forbidden radioactive zone. This documentary concert\, reflecting on the presence of a unique space\, calls for the return of humankind as both creator and performer. In the poems and songs recited by the former residents of Pripyat themselves\, a powerful connection between people and home can still be heard to endure. The film has been screened at major documentary film festivals and has received numerous awards. \nDirector\, Editor\, Original Score\, Sound Design: Eliška Cílková \nDirector of Photography: Tomáš Frkal \n\n• Daughter (Daria Kashcheeva\, 2019\, 14 min.) This puppet animation by Daria Kashcheeva tells the story of a father and daughter who\, despite mutual misunderstanding\, eventually find their way back to each other. The film’s emotional intensity and unsettling atmosphere are enhanced by an unusually dynamic camera – rare in animation – and by close-up shots of the puppets’ faces\, whose expressions feel remarkably lifelike. The film won the prestigious Student Academy Award (in the category of international animation) and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. \nDirector\, Screenwriter\, Director of Photography: Daria Kashcheeva \nOriginal Score: Petr Vrba \nEditor: Alexander Kashcheev \n\n• Love Is Just a Death Away (Bára Anna Stejskalová\, 2020\, 10 min.) \nA dead dog\, a landfill\, and beautiful moths high in the sky – this is the world of Steve\, a parasite desperately searching for a kindred soul. Yet every attempt at connection ends in disappointment. A small bird he saves from another dog dies. A rat that touches him dies. Cockroaches\, under the guise of friendship\, strip him down to the bone. Completely defenseless inside the skeleton of his former host\, he nearly loses his life under the wheels of a machine that crushes waste. The film has screened at numerous festivals and received the award for Best Student Animated Short Film as well as the Audience Award for Best Animated Short Film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. \nDirector\, Editor\, Original Score\, Sound Design: Bára Anna Stejskalová \nDirector of Photography: Tomáš Frkal \n\n• 3 MWh (Marie-Magdalena Kochová\, 2024\, 13 min.) \nAn employee at a nuclear power plant\, obsessed with counting\, sets himself a limit on how much electricity he wants to consume for the rest of his life. In this dark yet masterful cinematic poem shot on 35mm film\, Marie-Magdalena Kochová presents the story of a man whose life is moving toward transformation. It is a tender acceptance of the idea that we are not only our bodies\, but also energy. The film has been screened at numerous international festivals and Czech Film Critics Award. \nDirector: Marie-Magdalena Kochová \nScreenwriter: Josef Kokta \nDirector of Photography: Kristina Kůlová \nOriginal Score: Haštal Hapka \nCast: Jaroslav Pížl
UID:153212-21915428@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153212
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Area Studies,art,artists,central europe,cinema,Contemporary,Creees,Crees,Culture,Czech,Czech Republic,eastern europe,europe,European,European Studies,film,Food,Free,Global And Transnational,Humanities,In Person,Presentation,Reception,Slavic,Slavic Featured,Slavic Studies,Slovakia,Storytelling,Weiser Center For Europe And Eurasia
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170
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DTSTAMP:20261014T121716
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Whose City? Street Art and the Performance of Belonging in Tbilisi\, Georgia
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Vandenberg Room (2nd floor) at the Michigan League for a presentation by Greta Uehling\, a 2025-26 Faculty Fellow with the Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS).\n\nStreet art is often understood as a form of cultural resistance in politically constrained societies like Georgia. Professor Greta Uehling will draw on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi\, including interviews with artists\, activists\, and viewers supported to explore the forces that complicate its communicative potential. Uehling extends a Barthian approach that foregrounds the reception of street art and the contested meanings that emerge around it. In this talk\, she will explore the state’s appropriation of street-art aesthetics through government-sponsored projects\, as well as private citizens’ power to veto murals on their buildings. She will then turn to gender as a contested terrain where Georgia’s European aspirations meet enduring social norms. This research was supported by a Faculty Fellowship from the Center for World Performance Studies.\n\nPresented by the Center for World Performance Studies with support from the Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies.\n\nFACULTY BIO\n\nGreta Uehling’s scholarship is broadly concerned with international migration and forced displacement. Major projects have examined the experiences of refugees\, asylum seekers\, and the internally displaced. Her current project explores the subjective experience of military conflict and forced displacement in Ukraine. Based on ethnographic fieldwork\, she documents how the military conflict reconfigured social worlds and how these social worlds became the site of a different\, everyday kind of war.\n\nPrior to teaching in the Program on International and Comparatives Studies\, Uehling consulted with a number of international organizations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe\, and the Watson Institute at Brown University.\n\nUehling holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. In 2004\, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book is *Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Repatriation of the Crimean Tatars*. Her forthcoming book is *Everyday War: The Conflict over Donbas\, Ukraine*. She is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters.\n\nExpert Advisory: Dr. Uehling is an expert on Ukraine and can discuss the war in Ukraine and its implications.\n\n*If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies at cwps.information@umich.edu at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.*
UID:152235-21913411@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152235
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Free,Lecture,Research,Scholarship,Talk
LOCATION:Michigan League
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DTSTAMP:20260901T092147
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Reading through the Double Archival Grain: Yugoslav Socialist Humanitarianism and its Whiteness
DESCRIPTION:For the 2026 Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture\, Professor Čarna Brković will consider different forms of affective engagement with humanitarian activities in socialist Yugoslavia\, including irony and nostalgia. Ironic engagement assumes that Yugoslav solidarity with formerly colonized populations during the Cold War was empty rhetoric\, driven by a pragmatic desire to establish the country as a significant player on the geopolitical stage. Nostalgic engagement\, by contrast\, is shaped by the belief that Yugoslavs were motivated by an honest ideological commitment to solidarity and anti-racism that ultimately placed them on the “right side” of history. Both ironic and nostalgic engagements with socialist humanitarianism evaluate the past through contemporary ideas about solidarity\, socialism\, capitalism\, and their interrelations.\n\nTo understand socialist humanitarianism on its own terms\, Brković proposes reading it through the double grain of state socialism and the end of history. Such an analytical approach illuminates the role of racial socialism—socialist ideologies of “race” and local racial projects—and its interactions with global racial hierarchies\, showing how these ideologies were shaped by particular value constellations.\n\nBy discussing a 1961 humanitarian initiative of the Yugoslav Red Cross that brought sixty children and young people from the Congo to Tivat\, Montenegro\, this talk sheds light on the workings of socialist whiteness. This was not a colourist project but rather a normative regime of political value with two key characteristics: it ascribed superiority to Yugoslavs on the basis of their greater socialist experience\, and it overlooked present problems in favour of a future in which “race” would no longer matter.\n\nČarna Brković is professor of cultural studies and European ethnology at the University of Mainz. Dr. Brković has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester and a BA in Ethnology and Anthropology from the University of Belgrade. In her European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant “Racial Socialism” (2026-2031) as well as in her book Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans: From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics (Indiana University Press\, 2026)\, she studies historical projects of integrating the world differently\, such as socialist humanitarianism and Europeanization.\n\nIf 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.
UID:151290-21911323@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151290
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eastern europe,yugoslavia
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room (2nd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260910T110827
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics\, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict\, genocide\, and ethnic cleansing. Drawing on the new co-authored volume\, *Heritage Forensics: Cultural on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict*\, the presentation examines how cultural sites became entangled in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the interwar period (1994-2020). The talk considers how satellite-based heritage forensics is being deployed prospectively\, to monitor hundreds of Armenian sites in Karabakh following Azerbaijan's 2023 takeover of the region and the displacement of its Armenian population. In doing so\, it asks: how can satellite-based monitoring function as a form of \"counter-forensics\,\" turning surveillance technologies developed for military purposes back on the state? Can heritage forensics move us beyond retrospective documentation to actively deter erasure and support truth\, reconciliation\, and accountability wherever cultural heritage is at stake?\n\nLori Khatchadourian is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University\, and co-founder and co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch. She currently serves as Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Khatchadourian’s research spans the fields of archaeology\, social anthropology\, and heritage studies\, with a particular focus on Armenia\, the wider South Caucasus\, and neighboring regions. Current projects explore the archaeology of modernity\, including problems of genocide\, deindustrialization\, and the entanglements of cultural heritage and war. She is the co-author of *Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict* (Cornell\, 2026) and author of Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (UC Press\, 2016). She is also co-editor of *Rethinking Empire: Materiality\, Metaphysics\, and Imperial Politics* (SAR\, 2026) and *Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia *(2017).\n\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/99311308952\n\nCosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, Department of Middle East Studies\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Classical Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\, and NAASR.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:150145-21908256@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150145
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Area Studies,armenia,Armenian Studies,Discussion,History,Lecture
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20260819T151451
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T220000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:33rd Ann Arbor Polish Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema\, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993\, the festival has brought audiences a vibrant selection of contemporary Polish documentaries\, short films\, and feature-length movies—each offering unique perspectives on Polish culture and global issues alike.\n\nA highlight of the festival is its juried competition\, which recognizes outstanding achievements in three categories: documentary film\, short narrative film\, and film debut.\n\nMichigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty St.\, Ann Arbor\n\nFestival Schedule:\n\nFriday\, November 13\, 2026\n6:00 PM – 10:00 PM\n\nSaturday\, November 14\, 2026\n10:00 AM – 10:00 PM\n\nSunday\, November 15\, 2026\n11:00 AM – 5:00 PM\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150560-21909597@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150560
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:film,poland
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DTSTAMP:20260819T151451
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T220000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:33rd Ann Arbor Polish Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema\, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993\, the festival has brought audiences a vibrant selection of contemporary Polish documentaries\, short films\, and feature-length movies—each offering unique perspectives on Polish culture and global issues alike.\n\nA highlight of the festival is its juried competition\, which recognizes outstanding achievements in three categories: documentary film\, short narrative film\, and film debut.\n\nMichigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty St.\, Ann Arbor\n\nFestival Schedule:\n\nFriday\, November 13\, 2026\n6:00 PM – 10:00 PM\n\nSaturday\, November 14\, 2026\n10:00 AM – 10:00 PM\n\nSunday\, November 15\, 2026\n11:00 AM – 5:00 PM\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150560-21909598@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150560
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:film,poland
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DTSTAMP:20260819T151451
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261115T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261115T170000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:33rd Ann Arbor Polish Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema\, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993\, the festival has brought audiences a vibrant selection of contemporary Polish documentaries\, short films\, and feature-length movies—each offering unique perspectives on Polish culture and global issues alike.\n\nA highlight of the festival is its juried competition\, which recognizes outstanding achievements in three categories: documentary film\, short narrative film\, and film debut.\n\nMichigan Theater\, 603 East Liberty St.\, Ann Arbor\n\nFestival Schedule:\n\nFriday\, November 13\, 2026\n6:00 PM – 10:00 PM\n\nSaturday\, November 14\, 2026\n10:00 AM – 10:00 PM\n\nSunday\, November 15\, 2026\n11:00 AM – 5:00 PM\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150560-21909600@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150560
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:film,poland
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DTSTAMP:20260915T093057
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261118T132000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Rehabilitative Postsocialism\, Racialised Capital\, and Yearning for Crip Horizon
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on her new book\, *Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability\, Sex\, and Race in Eastern Europe*\, Kateřina Kolářová will argue that postsocialism is essential to understanding neoliberal cultural politics\, economic structures\, and state policies worldwide. She will show how disability\, sexuality\, and race—though often rendered invisible—have shaped the postsocialist consensus in the Czech Republic and more broadly.\n\nThe talk will focus on how discourses of “inadaptability” have contributed to racialized abandonment. Kolářová will examine how particular understandings of disability helped establish an ideal of rehabilitated\, white postsocialist citizenship. She will also consider the “neoliberalization of race” and the “racialization of neoliberalism” (Mahtani and Roberts) within the specific historical and political context of the Czech Republic and post socialist Eastern Europe. Specifically\, Kolářová will explore how portrayals of Roma people as “inadaptable (non)citizens” have been used to determine who belongs in shared public spaces and whose exposure to violence is treated as morally defensible. The talk will conclude by examining forms of resistance that open up alternative possibilities\, or “crip horizons.”\n\nKateřina Kolářová is associate professor of sociology at Charles University in Prague. Kolářová’s other recent work takes the feminist queer crip perspective to explore the bio-social dimensions of metabolism\, “crip guts\,” the relationship between human and non-human lives\, and how we coexist with microorganisms\, toxic chemicals\, and other \"unclean\" elements/entities. She is currently working on a monograph exploring HIV and human-viral coexistence (forthcoming in 2027). She is a passionate forager\, fermentation enthusiast\, and an avid chaos gardener.\n\nHer book *Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability\, Sex\, and Race in Eastern Europe* (University of Michigan Press\, 2025) is available on \"Open Access.\" It was the winner of the 2019 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities.\n\nOpen Access link to book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/xd07gw749\n\nIf 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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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eastern europe
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20260915T081801
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261201T170000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Masters in the Midwest: Opportunities for Graduate Programs in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities
DESCRIPTION:Please join representatives of interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian\, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities to find which program is best for you. Each institution will give a brief introduction of their programs and specialties\, and attendees will be able to join breakout rooms and ask questions about the programs most of interest. Students planning to apply this cycle are urged to attend\, but those considering applying in future years are also welcome.\n\nTuesday\, September 22 10:00-11:00 AM Eastern (9:00-10:00 AM Central)--Register: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/Ujuo3QfITxW1K8h8-RepuQ\n\nWednesday\, October 21 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Eastern (1:00 PM-2:00 PM Central)--Register: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/aPbuj82AQN2MxV59DnvDAA\n\nTuesday\, December 1 4:00 PM-5:00 PM Eastern (3:00 PM-4:00 PM Central)--Register: https://osu.zoom.us/meeting/register/wPK_73VxTxy3xffylNtc8A\n\nParticipating programs:\n\nThe Ohio State University: Master of Arts in Slavic\, East European and Eurasian Studies\; Dual Degrees with Bioethics and Public Affairs\n\nUniversity of Kansas: Master of Arts in Slavic and Eurasian Studies\nMA concentrations: 1. Slavic languages and literatures 2. Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies \n\nUniversity of Michigan: Masters in International and Regional Studies\, Specialization in Russian\, East European\, & Eurasian Studies\n\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison: MA Degree Program in Russian\, East European\, and Central Asian Studies\n\nIf you have questions about accessibility or wish to request accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in these events\, please contact Emma Pratt at pratt.124@osu.edu. Typically\, two weeks' notice will allow us to provide access\, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
UID:152173-21913176@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152173
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eastern europe,Graduate School,Info Session,russia
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260911T121757
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261209T132000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Who Defines Central Asia? Decolonial Disruptions from Below
DESCRIPTION:A consequential shift is taking place in Central Asian studies today. What started as a slow rejection of the idea that the region benefited from Soviet control has turned into a decentralized\, collective effort to revise the region’s relationship to its colonial identity and to search for indigenous interpretations of the self. A recent Cambridge Element publication co-authored by Erica Marat and Aizada Arystanbek explores the current decolonial disruptions in Central Asia – how the region is being redefined by its inhabitants\, both in discourse and in practice. It captures the main areas of activism in memory studies\, language activism\, art installations\, and transnational solidarity networks. Decolonial discussions are gaining traction\, challenging political elites’ hegemony over national identity formation. Such changes harbor the potential to profoundly alter Russia’s influence in the areas it once controlled. Decolonial disruptions are reshaping how Central Asians think about their past and imagine their future.\n\nDr. Erica Marat is an adjunct professor at the Center for Security Studies\, Georgetown University. Her research focuses on violence\, mobilization and security institutions in Europe\, Central Asia\, India\, and Mexico. She is an author of several books\, including \"Decolonial Disruptions in Central Asia: Discussion\, Practices\, and Networks\" (Cambridge Elements 2026) and \"Transformative Violence: When Routine Cruelty Sparks Historic Mobilization\" (Oxford University Press 2024). Her articles have appeared in \"Foreign Affairs\,\" \"Foreign Policy\,\" \"Just Security\,\" and \"Open Democracy.\"\n\nIf 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.\n\n*Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Sovereignty*\nhttps://myumi.ch/ii-theme
UID:151822-21912231@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151822
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:central asia,Theme Year
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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