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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCEE Teach-In On Ukraine: Where Are We Today\, Four Years Into the War?
DESCRIPTION:Join U-M faculty and experts as they discuss the current situation in Ukraine\, with the latest developments and issues sharply in view\, four years into the full-scale war. Open to all\, including students and the wider community. Moderated by Douglas Northrop\, Professor of History & Middle East Studies\, and WCEE Acting Director\, U-M.\n   \n   2:30-2:55 PM | “Zelenskyy as Jewish War Hero: The role of ethnicity in Russia's war on Ukraine”\n   Jeffrey Veidlinger\, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies\, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute\, U-M\n   \n   2:55-3:20 PM | “Ordinary Lives Four Years Into War”\n   Danielle Leavitt\, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow\, U-M\n   \n   3:20-3:45 PM | “Geopolitics or Imperialism?: Why the Russo-Ukrainian War and How to End It”\n   Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.\n   \n   3:45-4:10 PM | “Ukraine’s Genocides: Are We Witnessing Another?”\n   Yuri Kaparulin\, Wallenberg Fellow and former WCEE Ukrainian Scholar at Risk Fellow (2022-2025)\, U-M\n   \n   4:10-4:35 PM | “Realism and U.S.-Ukraine Relations”\n   Markian Dobczansky\, Associate\, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\n   \n   Register here to join the virtual teach-in: https://myumi.ch/dgz87\n   \n   Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan. His latest book\, *In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921* and the *Onset of the Holocaust*\, won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a Vine Book Award\, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize\, the National Jewish Book Award\, and the Wingate Literary Prize. Professor Veidlinger is also the author of the award-winning books\, *In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine*\, *The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage*\, and *Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire*.\n\nDanielle Leavitt is a historian of modern Ukraine and the Soviet Union\, with a particular interest in Russian and Ukrainian relations\, human age\, generation\, and gender. Her work examines the function of generation and human age in Soviet history and works to insert the stories of underrepresented populations\, such as the elderly and women\, into consequential debates about stagnation\, cultural life\, Soviet collapse\, post-Soviet economic and political development\, and the Russo-Ukrainian war.\n   \nDr. Leavitt’s first book\, *By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine* (2025\, FSG)\, charted the lives of seven Ukrainians through the first year of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Based on a unique set of online diaries\, Leavitt contextualized her seven subjects\, Ukrainian society\, and its predicaments for a wide audience\, introducing readers to a rigorous but accessible history of Ukraine\, the Soviet Union\, its collapse\, and Russia’s historical relationship with its neighbors.\n   \nLeavitt received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2023. From 2023-2025\, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.\n   \nRonald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.\n   \nProfessor Suny’s intellectual interests have centered on the non-Russian nationalities of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union\, particularly those of the South Caucasus (Armenia\, Azerbaijan\, and Georgia). The “national question” was an area of study that was woefully neglected for many decades until peoples of the periphery mobilized themselves in the Gorbachev years. His aim has been to consider the history of imperial Russia and the USSR without leaving out the non-Russian half of the population\, to see how multi-nationality\, processes of imperialism and nation-making shaped the state and society of that vast country. This in turn has led to work on the nature of empires and nations\, studies in the historiography and methodology of studying social and cultural history\, and a commitment to bridging the often-unbridgeable gap between the traditional concerns of historians and the methods and models of other social scientists.\n   \nYurii Kaparulin is a historian and legal scholar who studies Eastern Europe's history and law\, with particular interests in Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, Human Rights\, and International Сrimes. He is an associate professor in the Department of National\, International Law\, and Law Enforcement\, and director of the Raphael Lemkin Center for Genocide Studies\, at Kherson State University. He was awarded a 2024-27 Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship at the University of Michigan.\n   \nKaparulin is the author of the book *Oleksandr Riabinin-Skliarevskyi (1878-1942): An Intellectual Biography of a Historian*\, which reveals the background of the late Russian Empire\, the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921\, and Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s through the life of a repressed military officer and historian. His second current book project is titled *Between Soviet Modernization and the Holocaust: Jewish Agrarian Settlements in Southern Ukraine (1924-1948)*.\n   \nMarkian Dobczansky was the Associate Director of the Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\, where he taught classes in Slavic and Eurasian Studies\, Soviet and Ukrainian history\, and EU Studies.\n   \nHe received a Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Stanford University with a dissertation on the politics of culture in twentieth-century Kharkiv\, and held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. His research interests include the history of the Soviet Union\, Ukraine\, and Russia\, the politics of culture\, urban history\, and the Cold War. He has also worked in an administrative capacity at the Central Eurasian Studies Society\, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S.\, and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.\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.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144936
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:russia,ukraine
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELED: DSI Lecture Series | Trans Ecologies of the Real and the Virtual in Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:For the survival of all our ecologies\, we must refuse human centricity and build networks of care across lines of species and liveliness. This talk stitches a line from trans people to an expanded conception of trans\, using a focus on trans ecological poetics to go beyond a focus on the human. I broaden the operation of “trans” in trans media studies to include non-human movements\, such as those made by animals\, viruses\, and movements across the boundaries between different environments. Trans media studies can extend the fields of media studies\, transgender studies\, and trans of color studies to connect more deeply to and through non-human entities. Still\, any injunction for queer and trans studies to go beyond the human must reconcile with the history of trans\, Palestinian\, Black\, and Indigenous people being deemed less than human. In this talk\, I use the method of algorithmic analysis proposed in my book *Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media* (Duke UP\, 2022) to explore the operations that make up the poetics of three contemporary artworks—*Sin Sol* (2020)\, an augmented reality installation I created with the Critical Realities Studio\, *Acoustic Ocean* (2018)\, a short film by Ursula Biemann and “Of Whales”\, a film created using virtual reality created by Wu Tsang.\n\nmicha cárdenas\, PhD\, MFA\, is an artist\, author and Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the director of the Critical Realities Studio. Her debut novel* Atoms Never Touch* (AK Press 2023) imagines trans latina love crossing multiple quantum realities. Her academic monograph P*oetic Operations : Trans of Color Art in Digital Media* (Duke UP 2022) was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association “for groundbreaking monographs in women’s studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship”. cárdenas was a winner of the 2022 Anonymous Was a Woman artist award. She is currently working on her next academic monograph* After Man: Trans Ecologies and Climate Justice*\, as well as *The Probability Engine*\, a multi-disciplinary artwork imagining futures of climate justice. She is a first generation Colombian American.\n\nWe strive to make our events accessible to all participants. This will be a virtual event held in an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://myumi.ch/G23ey. \n\nCART captioning will be provided. If you anticipate needing additional accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance\, and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.\n\nCo-Sponsors: American Culture\; Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\; DISCO Network\; English Language & Literature\; Film\, Television\, and Media\; History of Art\; Institute for Research on Women & Gender\; Penny W. Stamps School of Art\; Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy\; Spectrum Center\; and the Trans Studies Collective.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,Art,artists,digital,Digital Culture,Digital Cultures,digital humanities,Digital Media,Digital Scholarship,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,digitalization,digitization,Discussion,Free,Gender,gender studies,Humanities,LGBT,lgbtq,Media Studies,Science Technology And Society,Science\, Technology\, And Society Program,Trans Studies
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