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DTSTAMP:20160816T170457
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75
DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm
UID:32121-4499589@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Library,Film,Exhibition
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
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DTSTAMP:20160914T142524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Documenting Detroit - A Monts Hall Photo Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Documenting Detroit is a collection of photographs taken by students from the College for Creative Studies during the 1970s and 1980s. Under the guidance of Detroit photographer and photography instructor Bill Rauhauser\, students turned the urban landscape into works of art.\n\nThis exhibition offers a select sample of a vast collection that includes nearly 1\,250 photographs of Detroit\, from churches to construction sites\, grocery stores to warehouses\, hospitals to schools\, and many others. The collection also provides a snapshot of visual symbols of Detroit during 20th century\, including the Michigan Central Train Station\, the J. L. Hudson’s Department Store on Woodward Avenue\, construction of the Renaissance Center and Joe Louis Arena\, and the abandonment of Poletown and the Warehouse District. Photographs also document everyday Detroit\, such as favorite restaurants (Jacoby’s\, Astoria Bakery\, Pegasus Taverna\, Circa 1890 Saloon\, and Sweetwater Tavern)\, families on Belle Isle\, and vendors at Eastern Market.\n\nYou can search the entire Documenting Detroit collection and develop your own primary source sets by visiting: http://detroiths.pastperfect-online.comand search for “Documenting Detroit.” The current exhibit is available during regular Detroit Center hours\, now through November 30\, 2016.
UID:33646-4767246@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33646
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Detroit,Detroit Center,Diversity,Exhibition,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall
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DTSTAMP:20160915T121551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition. Invisible Women: Portraits of Aging in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Photography by Ashley Bigham\, 2015-16 Walter B. Sanders Fellow\, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, U-M\; Watercolors by Grace Mahoney\, doctoral student in Slavic languages and literatures\, U-M.\n\nIn this exhibition\, artists Bigham and Mahoney investigate the visibility and social role of Ukraine’s older generation of women—embodied in a figure both iconic and ubiquitous\, the babusya. Seen in public transport\, in the market\, and on the street\, each babusya has a story to tell. Each has something to say\, something to gossip about\, and something to complain about. The current generation of Ukrainian grandmothers survived World War II\, the Holodomor\, and multiple repressions. They are also active in the present—although civic activism is often thought to be the province of the young\, many babusya joined in the actions of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv and throughout the country. Now they witness the war in Eastern Ukraine. Many of them have lost their homes and some of them have lost their children or grandchildren. The generation called\, “The Children of War” are now seniors of war. \n    \nIn addition to their historic significance as a generation\, these women are present in the spheres of daily life throughout the country. Possibly overlooked in society\, these women are vibrant and active in the public spaces of contemporary Ukraine. Working in the open-air bazaars\, resting on public park benches\, or strolling through cemeteries\, these women stake their claim on the urban space—blending\, coalescing\, disappearing. This exhibit endeavors to tell the stories of these grannies. It’s an invitation to look closer\, to see the stories which are written on their faces – they are old and tired\, but not invisible. \n    \nAshley Bigham is a lecturer and the 2015-2016 Walter B. Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Prior to her appointment at Taubman College\, Ashley was a Fulbright Fellow in Lviv\, Ukraine\, researching and teaching at the Center of Urban History of East Central Europe. Bigham holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee. \n    \nGrace Mahoney is a Ph.D. student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. In 2014-15 she lived in Ukraine on a U.S. Student Fulbright fellowship and interned with the Revolution of Dignity Museum in Kyiv in summer 2016. She has Bachelor's degrees in Visual Art and English Literature from Seattle University. Her work from this show was originally shown in the exhibition Portraits of the Unlost at America House in Kyiv in summer 2015. \n    \nAn artists’ talk will be held from 4-5:30 pm on Friday\, September 23 in 1636 SSWB.\n\nExhibition sponsors: Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\; A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning\; Women's Studies Department\; Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
UID:31592-4364113@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31592
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,International,European,Art
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - International Institute Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160915T082349
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Foreshadowing - Endangered and Threatened Plant Species
DESCRIPTION:A unique exhibit of botanical portraits that illuminates native and invasive plant species in a different light. Local artist and photographer Jane Kramer spent weeks exploring Michigan’s nature preserves and botanical gardens---including Matthaei---taking pictures of the shadows cast by native plant species. The shadow images were then transferred to handmade paper created from invasive plant species. For Kramer the shadows speak to the fragility of threatened plants and their struggle to survive in a changing environment that includes invasive species. The coupling of shadow and paper underscores the complex relationship between invasive and endangered plant species. Free admission. Open Wednesdays until 8 pm.
UID:33678-4774717@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33678
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Environment,Outdoors,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20160711T081443
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T113000
SUMMARY:Meeting:RC Executive Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Meeting of Residential College Executive Committee
UID:31287-4178847@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31287
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1807 EQ, Conference Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160909T140410
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T120000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Religious Traditions of India
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that India is home to the world's oldest religious traditions\, including Hinduism\, Buddhism\, Jainism and Sikhism? And that Islam\, Christianity. Judaism and Zorashtrianism also flourish in India? This lecture-style course will explore the development and religious evolution in India. We'll study religious philosophies and practices as well as the current socio-religious-political environment. Mr. Lakshminarayan was born and raised in India. He has led several OLLI study groups on Indian political\, cultural and religious topics. This class for adults over 50 meets Wednesdays through November 16. No class on October 12. \nhttps://olli-umich.org/olli/index.php/member/ctlg/viewEventDetails/883
UID:31980-4461526@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31980
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Retirement,Philosophy,Lifelong Learning,India
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20160908T142822
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Residential College Art Gallery Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Student Print Exchange - Ann Arbor/Havana Printmaking show - Opening Reception September 9\, 2016 4-6pm
UID:33299-4712582@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33299
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Visual Arts,Museum,Multicultural,Art,Free
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Art Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20161014T063040
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T153000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:2016 Fall Career Expo - 2016 Fall Career Expo Day 1
DESCRIPTION:What to Expect at ExpoExpo is an event that includes internship and/or full-time opportunities. \nDifferent organizations attend each day and they are coming to see you!Expo is&nbsp\;a campus-wide event\,\nwhich means it’s open to all students from all schools/colleges.  Typically 100+ organizations are open to all\nmajors.  Use the “All Majors” filter on\nthe app or search the Handshake list by “All \nMajors”Expo is a first step.  You won’t leave Expowith a job/internship\,\nhowever\, you will have a plan for next steps:Some\norganization are participating in Expo Interview Day on September 30.  Have your Friday schedule available and be&nbsp\;ready to schedule interviewsFor\nother organizations\, Expo is the first stepin screening candidates\nfor interviews at the University Career Center. &nbsp\;Check Handshake for their on-campus\ninterview dates and deadlines.Expo\nis the first and only visit to campus for most organizations.\nRecruiters collect resumes\, screen candidates and refer to their website to start the hiring process. Ask these Expo\nrecruiters about next steps and stay connected!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistrationRegistrationis on-site the day of the\nevent. &nbsp\;Bring your student ID\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNon UM-Ann Arbor students\nThis event targets UM-Ann Arbor students\, however\, non UM-Ann Arbor students\nmay attend. &nbsp\;There is a $20 registration fee per day. (cash only)\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat to WearExpo dress is business professional or\nbusiness casual.  This means:for men: &nbsp\;dress slacks and shirt/tie or a business suitfor\nwomen: &nbsp\;dress slacks/skirt and blouse or business suit\n\n\n\nNeed help building yourprofessional\ndress closet?  Plan to visit the\nUniversity Career Center Clothes Closet&nbsp\;What to BringCopies of your resume…plus a few extra for organizations you weren’tplanning to meet\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA folder for carrying your resumes and any informational materials from organizations.Your Friday calendar for scheduling any Expo Interview Day interviewsNo need for a cover letter\n\n\n\nPlease leave backpacks at home.  With so many employers we don’t have space\nfor a student lounge\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n\n\nTips from Recruiters\n\n\n\nCheckout these videos for recruiters’\ntips for students:\n\n\n\nWhy do employers attend Expo?  \n\nWhat should I say?\n\nAny tips from employers?&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipating\nOrganizationsThe Expo list is available\nexclusively online with&nbsp\;2 easy&nbsp\;ways to access the list of participating\norganizations!\n\n\n\nUM Career Fair App \nBring Expo to your\nsmart phone/tablet. &nbsp\;Use the filters to search\, star your favorites and\ntake notes on specific organizations.  Bring your phone/tablet to\nExpo and use the interactive map to locate all your favorites. This is also the\nExpo \"handout\" \n\n\n\nNote: \nIt is a new app for this year. \nDelete the previous app and download Career Fair+ Essentials\n\n\n\nHandshake\nLogin to\nyour Handshake account&nbsp\;and select\n\"Fairs\" to review the list of participating organizations.&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCan’t find what you’re looking for? Got\nmore questions?If you don’t find what you’re looking\nfor at the Expo\, come chat with us! The University Career Center offers a\nvariety of services/resources and we can help you map out a job search plan\nbased on yourspecific interests. Schedule an \n\nadvising\nappointment&nbsp\;or e-mailus at careercenter@umich.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n
UID:30840-3835082@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30840
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:530 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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DTSTAMP:20161013T063022
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T153000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Fall Career Expo Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Organizations attend this University Career Center event to showcase job and/or internship opportunities specifically to UM-Ann Arbor students. They’re coming to see you!
UID:32779-4624747@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32779
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Michigan Union, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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DTSTAMP:20160915T082730
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Prison Creative Arts Project Traveling Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:PCAP's traveling exhibition includes reproductions of artwork from 20 years of the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Locatoin: Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse Gallery\, 610 W. Elm Avenue\, Monroe MIchigan. Contact Danielle Conroyd at 734-240-9750 or dconroyd@ihmsisters.org
UID:33679-4774777@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33679
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,Free,Multicultural
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160422T140125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight
DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum.
UID:30497-3530672@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160329T124905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30043-3321481@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160706T154352
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mira Henry: The View Inside
DESCRIPTION:Before joining the faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles\, Mira Henry spent several years as a project architect\, immersed in the everyday\, banal details of how buildings get built: construction drawings\, material specs\, and building codes. She became an expert in seeing the world the way an architect sees it. But as a progressive architectural thinker\, Henry’s inspiration has been to deconstruct that vision\, to “unsee” the very forms and representations that constitute an architect’s basic language.\n\nThrough speculative experiments and conceptual drawings Henry discovers in static architectural details an unsettling range of figurative expression\, including\, for example\, the way the profiles of roof eaves resemble human heads. Wallpaper\, with its ability to mask\, transform\, or animate a space\, is also a prominent element in her work. Her projects explore how these features animate our subjective experience—what she calls our “shifting fantasies”—of architectural space.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
UID:31189-4136576@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31189
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,UMMA,Architecture
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160914T105039
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Role of Interest Groups in Shaping Michigan Politics
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 28\, 2016\n11:30am to 1:00pm (pizza provided 11:20am for first 100 guests)\nWeill Hall\, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)\n735 South State Street\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48109\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\nINSIDE MICHIGAN POLITICS analyzes political and policy trends for several thousand readers\, including corporations\, trade associations\, labor unions\, government agencies\, the White House and several foreign governments. \nFounded in 1987\, IMP has been cited in The New York Times\, Detroit Free Press\, Detroit News\, Christian Science Monitor\, The Washington Post\, Roll Call\, The Wall Street Journal\, USA Today\, HOTLINE and the Associated Press. IMP is published and edited by Susan J. Demas.\n \n\nSUSAN J. DEMAS is the Editor and Publisher of Inside Michigan Politics. She has been a journalist for 15 years\, covering politics for several national and regional publications. Susan is the only Michigan journalist to have been named to The Washington Post's list of \"Best Political Reporters\,\" The Huffington Post's list of “Best Political Tweeters\,” and The Washington Post's list of “Best Political Bloggers.” In 2006\, she became a Knight Foundation fellow in “The Fourth Estate and the Third Sector” program for nonprofit organizations\, finance and media through Marshall University in Huntington\, W.V.\n\nSusan built up a successful freelance writing business over the last decade\, while working as a full-time editor and reporter\, with clients including magazines\, nonprofits and universities. Her work has run in or on more than 80 national\, international and regional media outlets including NBC News\, CNN\, Newsweek\, Forbes\, The Economist\, National Public Radio\, the Australian Broadcast Corp.\, Al Jazeera\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Politico\, The Atlantic\, The Columbia Journalism Review\, Guardian U.K.\, Chicago Sun-Times\, Bloomberg News\, Reuters\, Boston Herald\, Seattle Times\, Toronto Sun\, Fort Worth Star-Telegram\, San Jose Mercury News\, (St. Paul) Pioneer Press\, Des Moines Register and Michigan Public Radio.\n\nIn 2010\, Susan helped launch the Michigan Truth Squad\, which investigates and fact-checks political ads and speeches. The award-winning project is run by the nonpartisan Center for Michigan.\n\nSusan is syndicated political columnist for The Huffington Post\, Salon\, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire\, Deadline Detroit and Dome Magazine. Susan's column has run in many publications\, including Real Clear Politics\, Detroit News\, Lansing State Journal\, Battle Creek Enquirer\, Impact and MLive.   \n\nSusan started her journalism career at the second-largest newspaper in Iowa\, The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette\, where she reported on the 2004 Iowa caucuses. In 2004\, Demas reported from the U.S. Army Base at Ft. Dix\, N.J.\, on National Guard units training for the Iraq war and wrote a continuing series for several publications until their homecoming in 2006.\n\nShe has reported women’s issues\, Middle East affairs\, politics\, health care\, human services\, nonprofit organizations and business issues for five newspapers across the Midwest\, including the Saginaw News\, Battle Creek Enquirer and Jackson Citizen Patriot. Most recently\, Susan served as Deputy Editor for Michigan Information and Research Service\, where she covered national and state politics.\n\nA native of Northbrook\, Illinois\, Susan attended the University of Iowa\, where she conducted research for a 10-year National Institute of Health agricultural health and cancer study through the College of Public Health\, Department of Epidemiology. She majored in the highly marketable majors of English and History\, concentrating on 19th and 20th century American literature and the French Revolution\, and she minored in Women’s Studies. Susan also completed graduate coursework in Sociology\, focusing on women’s and family issues.\n\nSponsored by: The Center for Local\, State\, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) \n\nCo-Sponsored by:  The University of Michigan’s Political Science Department and Environmental Law & Policy Program
UID:33606-4764782@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33606
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Politics,Public Policy
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
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DTSTAMP:20160912T091448
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160928T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Polish Towns? Jewish Towns? Urban Development in Interwar Eastern Poland
DESCRIPTION:With their central market squares\, churches and synagogues\, and mixed Polish-Jewish populations\, the small towns of interwar eastern Poland have come to be viewed\, somewhat simplistically\, as places of either prewar interethnic tolerance or simmering ethnic tensions on the eve of the Holocaust. The story was of course more complicated—and more interesting. This talk will explore how Polish modernizers in the borderlands framed their attempts to create explicitly “modern” urban spaces—with paved streets\, regulated borders\, and orderly town councils—through a national lens. In what ways did Poles on the supposedly more “tolerant” wing of the political spectrum seek to transform towns into anti-Jewish spaces? How did the local context intersect with broader ideas about nationalism\, civilization\, and modernity? Ultimately\, to whom did these towns belong—and who decided the answer to this question? By illuminating local stories from the archives\, this presentation invites us to explore how global ideas about civilizational hierarchies and the construction of a European-centric civilizing project were used to marginalize certain populations as “foreign” in the very places that they called home. \n    \nKathryn Ciancia is assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2011 and went on to work as a postdoctoral lecturer in two of Stanford’s liberal arts programs before moving to Madison in 2013. She is currently completing her first book manuscript\, Civilizers in Their Own Backyard: Interwar Poland and Its Eastern Borderlands\; an article based on part of the book\, entitled “Borderland Modernities: Poles\, Jews\, and Urban Spaces in Interwar Volhynia\,” is forthcoming in the Journal of Modern History. She is also beginning work on a second book project\, which will explore the everyday role of Polish consulates in Western Europe\, the Middle East\, and the Americas between the wars. \n    \nPart of the Minorities series which will focus on the fates and challenges various minorities face\, from ethnic and racial groups to people with disabilities and members of LGBT communities. How do different political regimes come to define groups as minorities\, and how do they engage with them as a result? What can the experience of minorities in the other parts of the world teach us?
UID:31423-4260684@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/31423
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:European,AEM Featured,History,International,Jewish Studies,Poland
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636
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