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SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. The Art of Memory\, Paintings by Felix Lembersky
DESCRIPTION:Felix Lembersky (1913-1970) was a painter\, theater stage designer\, teacher\, and leader of artistic groups. He began his career within the Soviet Avant-Garde in Ukraine before studying realist painting in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). Throughout his life he worked across realist and modernist styles that fell outside of Soviet-mandated Socialist Realism. His Execution: Babyn Yar series (ca. 1944-52) is the earliest known artistic representation of Babyn Yar\, a Holocaust massacre site in Kyiv. For political reasons\, these paintings\, along with his later nonconformist work\, were barred from exhibition in the Soviet Union.\n\nHaving witnessed two world wars\, the 1917 revolution\, and political terror\, Lembersky reflected on these experiences with candor while imbuing his work with hope and optimism. He was drawn to vulnerable\, neglected\, and marginalized people: children\, the elderly\, ethnic minorities\, and industrial workers subjected to harsh labor and dangerous conditions. Regardless of their circumstances\, Lembersky  portrayed his subjects with empathy\, dignity\, and admiration.  \n\n“For my father\, honesty and integrity meant more than anything else. Art was an expression of freedom\, individuality\, and personalized creativity\, without which it ceased to be art.”\n— Galina Lembersky\, daughter\n\nExhibit curated by Yelena Lembersky\, granddaughter of Felix Lembersky\, and Geneviève Zubrzycki\, WCEE Director.\n\nWorks on loan from the private collection of Yelena Lembersky.\n\nContact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149975-21907510@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149975
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:russia,ukraine,Art
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20261005T140036
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T174500
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:Asia,Graduate Students,Architecture,Archaeology,Southeast Asia,Social Sciences,Library,International,Immigration,Humanities,History,Interdisciplinary,European,Graduate,Graduate School
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20261001T160941
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Black Birth Joy
DESCRIPTION:Black Birth Joy by Tiana Lashae documents birth as a deeply personal story of connection\, courage\, tenderness\, and joy. The photographs and stories in the exhibit challenge mainstream narratives that reduce Black birth to statistics and only amplify Black pregnant women's anxiety and hesitancy about navigating the maternal health care system. Instead\, the exhibit offers evidence of joy\, reminders of possibility\, and a visual legacy for generations to come. \n \nBlack Birth Joy was born from Lashae's belief that more positive birth stories of BIPOC families need to be seen and heard\, and her photographs invite viewers to witness the people behind them: the mothers\, babies\, partners\, families\, and birthworkers. They create space for BIPOC families to see themselves represented with dignity and to witness the full range of birth experiences. Lashae's photographs also create a tangible record that can support conversations around quality of medical care\, respectful treatment\, and patient rights. The exhibit empowers women to prioritize and advocate for their birth experiences while also encouraging perinatal health professionals and birthworkers to center the humanity\, dignity\, and individual experiences of patients and families. \n\nThe exhibit comprises over 30 photographs as well as stories of mothers whose births were documented by Lashae\, a doula and birth/newborn photographer whose work has been published in Everyday Birth Magazine\, an international publication. The physical exhibit is accompanied by a virtual component that encourages audiences to engage with each mother's birth story.\n\nThe Lane Hall Exhibit Space is sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of Michigan. \n\nBlack Birth Joy\nThursday\, October 1\, 2026 – Friday\, January 15\, 2027\nLane Hall Exhibit Space\, 204 S State St.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\nOpen M–F\, 9AM–5PM
UID:153178-21915294@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153178
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:photography,artists and curators,advocacy,Art,anthropology,american culture,african and african american studies
LOCATION:Lane Hall
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DTSTAMP:20260915T123553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breakfast\, Luncheon\, and Dinner: Dining Out in the 1910s\, 1920s\, and 1930s
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a buffet selection of early twentieth century menus from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive. Visit the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library\, Monday-Friday\, 9:00am-4:30pm.
UID:152203-21913266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152203
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20261009T091422
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261019T100000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Diana Velazquez Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Lake sediments act as archives of environmental change\, preserving geochemical signals that can be linked to local and global shifts in biogeochemical cycling throughout Earth’s history. Additionally\, with approximately half as much organic carbon buried in lakes globally as in the world’s oceans\, lake sediments are critical carbon reservoirs. However\, prolonged lake stratification due to increasingly warming climate conditions\, is resulting in extended periods of low-oxygen\, hypoxic\, conditions in lakes. Because hypoxic lake conditions favor oxygen-free microbial metabolisms\, they can alter the mechanisms controlling sedimentary carbon sequestration. While anthropogenic influences on freshwater environments are profound\, they represent only the most recent shifts in water column oxygenation. Earth’s history is marked by fluctuating oxygen conditions\, transitioning from an anoxic atmosphere to an oxygenated one since 2.45 billion years ago. To understand modern shifts in carbon cycling and to better understand environmental change recorded in ancient lake sediments\, it is imperative to trace lake organic matter sources\, sinks\, and burial mechanisms. Given that organic matter can be broken down and reworked during its transport and burial to sediments\, this dissertation investigates how we can reliably capture original source signals and reconstruct ancient lake conditions.\n\nBecause our ability to reliably reconstruct past aquatic environments is determined by whether or not sediments faithfully record original source signals\, Chapter 2 examines methodological approaches for the collection of organic matter in freshwaters. In this chapter\, I use laboratory experiments to test how effectively chemical treatments preserve the original geochemical signatures of organic matter from a freshwater pond. Recommendations for the use of chemical treatments depend on the desired measurements and the length of the storage period. Notably\, I find that freshwater organic matter retains its original geochemical signatures in the absence of chemical treatment over short periods which offers a low-toxicity and cost-effective alternative to methods commonly used to preserve marine material.\n\nIn Chapter 3\, I apply methods from the previous chapter to identify organic matter sources and preservation processes in a modern hypoxic environment\, Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron. I integrate bulk and compound-specific geochemical approaches to understand sedimentary organic matter large scale and molecular-level transformations. I find that bulk measurements are often complicated by seasonal variability and microbial decomposition. Compound-specific approaches\, however\, resolve original source signals that can be valuable when analyzing sedimentary records of ancient lake systems.  \n\nUltimately\, I expand my understanding of organic matter preservation from a single low-oxygen site to lakes\, globally in Chapter 4. By compiling lake sedimentary geochemical data from lakes worldwide and their water column oxygen conditions\, I establish geochemical patterns related to oxygen. I use modern lake sedimentary patterns to trace the evolution of nitrogen microbial metabolisms that evolved from Earth’s oxygenation throughout the past 3.2 billion years. Beyond tracking changes in oxygen\, lake sediments also provide insight into the chemistry of ancient lake waters.\n\nCollectively\, the work in this dissertation emphasizes lake sediments as natural recorders of local and global environmental transformations\, particularly related to shifts in Earth’s oxygenation. This dissertation adds to the refinement of methodological approaches needed to reliably trace organic matter source-to-sink dynamics under a changing climate.
UID:153496-21915927@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153496
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Earth And Environmental Sciences
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540
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