Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Polish Wet Monday / Czech Pomlázka Monday (April 22, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62884 62884-15486004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Experience Slavic Easter Monday traditions like Polish Śmigus-dyngus/Wet Monday and Czech Pomlázka Monday! Delicious food will be provided! There will be a pomlázka braiding demonstration as well.
Open to everyone!

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:52:10 -0400 2019-04-22T16:15:00-04:00 2019-04-22T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering 2019 polish wet monday czech pomlazka monday
Cookie and Coffee Study Break (April 29, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63422 63422-15692040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 29, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Join us at MLB Media Center for a Cookie and Coffee study break this evening! Enjoy complimentary snacks and take a break from studying!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:16:47 -0400 2019-04-29T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Reception / Open House Modern Languages Building
How We Used Virtual Reality to Encourage Critical Thinking, and Experiential Learning (May 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62864 62864-15485941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Join us for a recap of a pilot experience, AMCULT 358: Virtual Reality and Empathy. This mini-course provided approximately 20 students with an opportunity to experience a new technology – virtual reality – from several perspectives, including critical thinking, experiential learning, and as a “maker” of creative content in the form of a final project. After introducing the highlights of how the course was structured, we will discuss lessons learned from the instructor’s point of view as well as from a technical support perspective.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:10:31 -0400 2019-05-07T10:00:00-04:00 2019-05-07T11:50:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Lowering Barriers to Learning: Increase Access to Course Materials with UDOIT (May 9, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63284 63284-15612036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 9, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

This hands-on workshop introduces UDOIT, a Canvas-based tool that can be used to check course materials in Canvas for common accessibility issues. UDOIT scans materials and reports the results to the instructor, along with recommendations for how to fix issues. Many issues can be fixed from inside the report page itself! If you’re not sure how to increase the accessibility of your materials, this is an excellent tool to start with. To get the most out of this session, you will need access to a Canvas course with some content or files in it for the hands-on portion.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:20:28 -0400 2019-05-09T13:00:00-04:00 2019-05-09T14:50:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Polish Placement and Proficiency Exam (August 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61809 61809-15188673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Students of any level of Polish language are invited to take the proficiency/placement exam. This is a written exam and any additional oral exams will be scheduled after completion if the written exam.

This can be used to place out of the LSA language requirement and or place students into the appropriate level of Polish language courses.

Sign up here for a seat in the exam: https://goo.gl/forms/NayLj8eTRiQBoTkI3

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Other Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:02:07 -0500 2019-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other Modern Languages Building
Mass Meeting (September 10, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66634 66634-16768006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Club will hold a mass meeting to plan events for Fall 2019. If you have any questions and would like to be included in the email list please contact Paul (pauljc@umich.edu) or Drue (druefro@umich.edu).

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Meeting Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:44:32 -0400 2019-09-10T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Meeting 2019.09.10 German Club Mass Mtg
Academic Year in Freiburg 2020/2021 (September 25, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67524 67524-16890091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This event is about our study-abroad program in beautiful Freiburg that helps you expedite the process of completing requirements for German (and other majors).

You will learn about the structure, accommodation, classes, and the history/fascination of Freiburg.

Eligibility:
* Minimum 3.0 GPA
* Good academic standing
* Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing by Fall 2020
* Completion of German 232 or equivalent prior to September 2020
* Open to University of Michigan-Ann Arbor students only

Application Website:
https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10247

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:54:31 -0400 2019-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Presentation Freiburg Info Session
Russian Speaking Group (September 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-09-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Academic Year in Freiburg 2020/2021 (September 27, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67524 67524-16890092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This event is about our study-abroad program in beautiful Freiburg that helps you expedite the process of completing requirements for German (and other majors).

You will learn about the structure, accommodation, classes, and the history/fascination of Freiburg.

Eligibility:
* Minimum 3.0 GPA
* Good academic standing
* Sophomore, Junior, or Senior standing by Fall 2020
* Completion of German 232 or equivalent prior to September 2020
* Open to University of Michigan-Ann Arbor students only

Application Website:
https://mcompass.umich.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=10247

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Presentation Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:54:31 -0400 2019-09-27T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Presentation Freiburg Info Session
Critical Language Scholarship (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67727 67727-16924416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Join us to learn more about best application practices and methods to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship. All students studying relevant languages are welcome to participate.

Languages Offered:
Arabic
Azerbaijani
Bangla
Chinese
Hindi
Indonesian
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Swahili
Turkish
Urdu

When: Thursday, October 3th, 2018 4pm
Where: 3308 Modern Languages Building

https://clscholarship.org/

Webinar CLS Information Session for Students:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pyXe7Y2vM

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Presentation Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:28:59 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation CLS logo
Russian Speaking Group (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Ambient Thickness: Atmospheres of the Climate Emergency (October 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66296 66296-16725813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In this presentation, Prof. Gordillo argues that the concept of “ambient thickness” can help us analyze the atmospheric intensities that in the form of heatwaves, droughts, dust storms, forest fires, or toxic smells are defining contemporary experiences of global warming and environmental ruination. Engaging with literatures on materiality, the nonhuman, affect, weather/climate, and atmospheres, Gordillo's argument builds from campesino experiences of deforestation, wind, fumigation, and heatwaves in northern Argentina and from a comparative phenomenology of atmospheric disruptions elsewhere in the world. Gordillo shows that the atmosphere can “thicken” in very different ways and that this density is experienced unevenly depending on class, racial, gender, and cultural backgrounds.Gordillo also highlight that the unsettling thickening of the air created by events such as heatwaves or forest fires brings to light the nonhuman materiality of the planet’s terrain and the urgency of radical change to confront the climate emergency.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:16:20 -0400 2019-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Ambient Thickness: Atmospheres of the Climate Emergency
"Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler's Many Worlds" (October 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67555 67555-16892240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Friday, October 11th, 3308 MLB, 2-4pm

H.G. Adler (1910 - 1988) lived at the center of his times and on their margin. A survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps, he chronicled his experience and the loss of others in two dozen books of seminal history, modernist fiction, formally intricate poems, and insightful essays. Yet, despite close friendship with Leo Baeck, Elias Canetti, and Heinrich Böll, he remained a writer's writer, largely unknown and neglected. Thus, unlike with better known figures, the story of his life must be told through the times in which he lived, as well as how the same lived through him. On the publication of H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, biographer and translator Peter Filkins discusses the intersection of biography and history in shaping the story of Adler's life and work.

Peter Filkins is an award-winning poet and translator. His authorized biography H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds appears in 2019 from Oxford University Press, and he has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and also teaches translation at Bard College.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:56:34 -0400 2019-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Peter Filkins
Russian Speaking Group (October 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Graduate Summer School of Russian Culture in Moscow and St. Petersburg (October 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68353 68353-17069163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

We will be holding a brief information session about a new graduate enrichment initiative, the Graduate Summer School of Russian Culture in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in the Slavic Department conference room (3308 Modern Languages Building) on Friday, October 18, at 10am. This program will offer graduate degree candidates formal, on-location training in contemporary Russian intellectual culture, public engagement, and public-facing humanities research. Please make every effort to attend if you think you may be interested in participating this summer.

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Presentation Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:10:01 -0400 2019-10-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T11:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Modern Languages Building
DELAYED - The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women (October 21, 2019 4:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66604 66604-16767944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:45pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This talk explores the world of names, naming, and namelessness in troubadour songs and in the manuscripts that transmit them. I show how the manuscript lyric anthologies known as *chansonniers *participate in the name games that are an integral part of troubadour lyric poetics. While names in manuscripts can be important evidence, they do not correspond neatly to modern notions of the author as an individual with a fixed historical identity. By shifting the focus of inquiry to manuscript attributions, and particularly to female author attributions, I demonstrate the complexity of medieval understandings of lyric authorship. I challenge especially certain modern (and often gendered) assumptions about the authorship of troubadour songs, and critique those book historical methods that can reinforce such assumptions. My conclusions are grounded in a new approach to troubadour manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries, but the central issues of textual stability and authorial identity that I address are significant more broadly to both medievalists and modernists. My approach, elaborated in my larger book project, makes possible new ways of understanding the authorship of troubadour song.

Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Forum on Research in Medieval Studies, Department of Musicology, and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:45:52 -0400 2019-10-21T16:45:00-04:00 2019-10-21T18:15:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women
Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors (October 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65326 65326-16571519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This presentation will address the surge of urban social actors who have changed the traditional criollo city of La Paz into a newly-born cholo/mestizo city shaped after the influence of new socio-economic sectors of mainly Aymara ethnic origins.

It is during the second half of the past century that the long underprivileged and belittled Quechua/Aymara merchants of the city of La Paz opened the doors to smuggling and to the informal economy that has neither been taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Quechua/Aymara merchants, often stigmatized as troublesome and unmanageable, expanded rapidly to challenge the formal economy ran by merchants of diverse European as well as Middle-Eastern origins (mainly Croatian, Lebanese, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and German).

Gastón Gallardo’s presentation will explore the spatial consequences that rose from the “physical” creation of a Quechua/Aymara black market that commercialized with clothing and other imported goods. This black market created a vast ambulant commerce of informal nature that dramatically changed La Paz, the site of Bolivia’s government. What did this mean symbolically? How should we conceptualize the enormous changes the city is encountering today between the rationalized European spatial models of the past and the new mestizo baroque architectural forms of the present? What are the connections between commerce and the vibrant mestizo festivities that have conquered artistically the traditional criollo city of the past?

Gastón Gallardo is a well-known Bolivian architect and urban planner. Professor Emeritus of the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, the most important public university in Bolivia, Gallardo has also been its Dean of the School of Architecture, Arts, Design and Urbanism, from 2015 until 2018. He is also a founder member of the School of Architecture at Universidad Católica Boliviana, and has taught at the postgraduate level at several other universities. He holds degrees from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Collegio d’Ingenierie della Toscana, Firenze, Italy, and has done postgraduate work in territorial and urban planning, in Italy and Argentina. Gallardo in widely published in Bolivia and Latin America, and is currently Vice President of the Bolivian Association of History.

Gallardo’s presentation will be in Spanish.

This event is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:36:20 -0400 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors
Russian Speaking Group (October 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Student Presentations About Summer Internships in Germany (October 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68956 68956-17197060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Students currently enrolled in German 351 completed an internship in a German-speaking country this past summer. Each student will give a 10-minute presentation on her or his experience abroad.

These presentations should be of particular appeal to students who are considering pursuing a summer internship in Germany in the future. Feel free to ask questions after each presentation.

Here are the companies/organizations in Germany where students interned and the presenting students' respective majors/minors:
* Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg - German; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
* Deutsche Telekom Bonn - German
* Institut für Innovationsforschung und -management Bochum - German; Political Science
* Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit, Pflege, und Gleichstellung - Abteilung Frauen und Gleichstellung - German, Gender & Health (minor)
* Universität Düsseldorf (Soziologie) - German; International Studies; Political Science

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Presentation Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:00:29 -0400 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T21:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Presentation Modern Languages Building
Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. (October 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68125 68125-17011965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us in a dialogue with the mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo. She will talk about indigeneity, feminism and mapuche poetry in the social and political context of Chile and Argentina. Her work combines mapuche traditions, politics and knowledge with contemporary discourses of radical feminism and poetic and artistic experimentation practices. The talk will be in Spanish and English. Translations will be provided.

Daniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018), El territorio del viaje (2017), and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work, La Guerra Florida, were recently translated into English.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:21:39 -0400 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo.
Russian Speaking Group (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. (November 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68126 68126-17011966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo will lead a workshop about mapuche poetry, with the reading of selected poems and the display of performances that exhibit the political tensions in the context of violence and displacement of mapuche people living in urban areas of what we call today Chile. The conversation will be in Spanish with translations into English.

Daniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018), El territorio del viaje (2017), and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work, La Guerra Florida, were recently translated into English.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:20:40 -0400 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Slavic FLAS Information Session (November 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67113 67113-16803013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

There are three different types of FLAS Fellowships: Graduate Academic Year FLAS, Undergraduate Academic Year FLAS, and Summer FLAS. Each type of award has slightly different sets of rules and application procedures. Join us to learn about best application practices and understandings.

Eligible Slavic languages include:

Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian

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Other Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:02:49 -0400 2019-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other flas
Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68795 68795-17153398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The Philippines is an underrepresented area in the study of Global Hispanism. Despite the awareness about the links between this Southeast Asian archipelago and regions readily identified as Hispanic, attempts to ‘world’ Filipino Hispanism are sparse, if not invisible. What happens instead is a reiteration of a historical narrative that presents Spain as a backward imperial power in opposition to the liberating colonial project of the US, which ruled the archipelago from 1898. This plays out in Hispanofilipino literature. This presentation will reflect on the question of worlding in Hispanofilipino literature and will examine translation as an alternative tool for engaging with the allures and discontents of a literature produced under the colonial condition and circulated in an intensely multilingual space.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:21:13 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature
Russian Speaking Group (November 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
German as a Major/Minor and Classes for Winter 2020 (November 13, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69323 69323-17308000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This information session on Wednesday, 11/13, focuses on requirements for German as a major/minor and on German classes that are offered in Winter 2020.

If you have any questions please contact Mary or Kalli (German.Advising@umich.edu) or the German Peer Mentors (germanmentors@umich.edu).

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Meeting Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:42:17 -0500 2019-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Meeting Modern Languages Building
Spring/Summer Opportunities for German Students (Classes, Study-Abroad, Middlebury, Internships) (November 14, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69324 69324-17308002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This information session focuses on opportunities that you can pursue during Spring/Summer 2020 and that enable you to receive German (transfer) credits. These opportunities include taking upper-level German classes here or interning in Germany or studying in Middlebury (Vermont) or at a Goethe Institut in Germany during spring/summer.

If you have any questions please contact Mary or Kalli (German.Advising@umich.edu).

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Meeting Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:44:32 -0500 2019-11-14T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Meeting Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (November 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Polish Open Advising (November 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69507 69507-17333397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 11:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Stop in to see Polish advisor Piotr Westwalewicz for advice on winter 2020 term registration! He'll have Polish treats, donuts, and pearls of wisdom about school and life in general :-)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:58:19 -0500 2019-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Polish Open Advising (November 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69507 69507-17333398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Stop in to see Polish advisor Piotr Westwalewicz for advice on winter 2020 term registration! He'll have Polish treats, donuts, and pearls of wisdom about school and life in general :-)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:58:19 -0500 2019-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Polish Open Advising (November 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69507 69507-17333399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Stop in to see Polish advisor Piotr Westwalewicz for advice on winter 2020 term registration! He'll have Polish treats, donuts, and pearls of wisdom about school and life in general :-)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:58:19 -0500 2019-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Polish Open Advising (November 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69507 69507-17333400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Stop in to see Polish advisor Piotr Westwalewicz for advice on winter 2020 term registration! He'll have Polish treats, donuts, and pearls of wisdom about school and life in general :-)

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:58:19 -0500 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T14:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808 (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67229 67229-16828980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In 1770, Charles III of Spain issued a royal decree to overhaul the university system throughout his kingdom. As part of this overhaul, a range of reforms were instituted to modernize anatomical and medical studies thereby placing Spanish science on a more secure footing with the rest of Europe. During this period of transformation, the study of life and death and the emergence of new developments in the practice of resuscitation opened promising avenues of research for exploring the wonders of the human body. Yet, as Fernández-Medina will argue through the work of some of Spain’s foremost physicians and thinkers, it also sparked one of the fiercest debates in the Spanish Enlightenment on the expansion of scientific knowledge and its role in modern society.

Professor Fernández-Medina specializes in late eighteenth- to early twentieth-century Spanish literature, philosophy, and intellectual history, including Enlightenment thought, philosophy of science and the body, social history of ideas in medicine, modernist aesthetics, and the avant-garde.

He is the author of Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2018), Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy (co-edited with Maria Truglio, New York: Routledge, 2016), and The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y cantares’ (U of Wales P, 2011). His current book, Raising the Dead: The Science and Literature of Resuscitation in Spain explores Spanish modernity’s unending fascination with the life/death divide and analyzes the numerous social narratives of existence and mortality that have shaped Spain’s cultural imaginary.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:00:22 -0500 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Between Life and Death: The Cultural Politics of Modern Spanish Medicine, 1770-1808
Public Humanities in Russia: What Do Graduate Students Do after They Graduate? (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67585 67585-16898654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In Russia, like everywhere, graduate students are not free from anxiety about their future career. Did I make the right choice by investing years into studying an obscure subject that few people are interested in? Am I really good at it? Will I get an academic job? And what else can you do with a Ph. D. in the humanities today? And if I get an academic job, will it pay enough for me to survive – and if not, how can I complement my income using my skills and knowledge?

Two distinguished scholars from top Russian graduate schools will tell us about exciting careers and opportunities that their graduate students have created for themselves. They include creating archive collections, developing web-based education projects, starting theater and ballet companies, advising city administration and many other endeavors. This event is specifically addressed to graduate students in the humanities who are thinking about expanding their professional horizon beyond academia

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:08:49 -0400 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Slavic Symposium: Publics, Humanities, & Public Humanities
Russian Speaking Group (November 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-11-22T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Speaking Group (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 67694-16918021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:59:37 -0400 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (December 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69913 69913-17483045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 13:36:13 -0500 2019-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (December 16, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69964 69964-17489272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).



LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:45:54 -0500 2019-12-16T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 2, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69970 69970-17489277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 2, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).



LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:01:18 -0500 2020-01-02T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-02T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69971 69971-17491316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:04:47 -0500 2020-01-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-02T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69974 69974-17491317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:10:28 -0500 2020-01-02T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-02T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 6, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69988 69988-17491332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 6, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).


LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:19:07 -0500 2020-01-06T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-06T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69989 69989-17491333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:23:03 -0500 2020-01-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
iClicker Cloud Training for LSA Faculty and Staff (January 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69990 69990-17491334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

iClicker Cloud is the latest version of the iClicker software that is currently offered to all LSA faculty and students at no cost. It maintains the same functionality iClicker Classic provides in addition to other features, such as new question formats that can enhance the learning experience—including targets/hot spots and short answer responses. iClicker Cloud allows students to participate using their own devices (phone, tablet, or laptop).

LSA faculty and staff can attend this one hour training session and start using iClicker Cloud Winter semester. Plan to bring your laptop to the training.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:25:24 -0500 2020-01-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-07T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar cell phone displaying iClicker app
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 11:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought (January 17, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71005 71005-17766505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 17, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Sara E. Jackson's current book project, "The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought," focuses on the actress as a key figure in a complex of intersecting discourses concerned with gender and subjectivity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Her research is interdisciplinary, incorporating a diverse range of published and archival materials including literature, philosophical texts, sexological and criminological works, and theoretical treatises on the actress, as well as letter exchanges, autobiography, turn-of-the-century journal articles, and stage performances. Her dissertation, "Staging the Deadlier Sex: Dangerous Women in German Text and Performance at the Fin de Siècle," was awarded a 2013 Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award at the University of Michigan as well as the Women in German Dissertation Prize for 2014. She is also co-founder of GTPR: German Theater and Performance Research.

2-5pm, 3308 MLB

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:11:28 -0500 2020-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Jackson
MLK Film Screening - A Strolling Screening of SchwarzRotGold (January 20, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71343 71343-17819201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

January 20th 2020 in the Hatcher Gallery 12:00pm-3:00pm, and MLB 3308 3:00pm - 5:00pm.

As we celebrate the extraordinary life and message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. it is important to note that his vision of hope and racial equality had ripple effects beyond our nation’ s borders. It is with the intention of adding an international perspective to the discussion of race and race relations that the German department is proud to present a curated screening of SchwarzRotGold, which presents interviews of Black-Germans discussing the challenges and successes they have experienced and their prognostications on racism and identity in Germany.

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:37:51 -0500 2020-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Modern Languages Building
Study-Abroad and Spring/Summer Opportunities for German Students (January 22, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71779 71779-17879431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

This information session focuses on study-abroad options for German and opportunities that you can pursue during Spring/Summer 2020. These latter opportunities include taking upper-level German classes here or interning in Germany or studying in Middlebury (Vermont) or at a Goethe Institut in Germany during spring/summer.

If you have any questions please contact Mary Rodena-Krasan mkrasan@umich.edu or Kalli Federhofer kallimz@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:15:19 -0500 2020-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
From Africa to Patagonia: Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71197 71197-17785627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Humanities Collaboratory

We offer an overview of our collaborative project entitled “From Africa to Patagonia: Voices of displacement” (http://umich.edu/~aacollab/). Since 2017, we have been funded through the Humanities Collaboratory, a cutting-edge research initiative established at the University of Michigan. Our interdisciplinary team includes eight faculty, eight graduate students, and 32 undergraduate students. Our mission is to analyze how language is entangled with cultural identity through the Patagonian Boers, a community that traces its roots to the South-African Boers who settled in Argentina after the Anglo-Boer War of 1902. We have disseminated our findings through six research articles, five public essays, and a digital archive. Our public essays, published in outlets such as Babel, The Conversation, Clarín (Argentina), Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed epitomize our goal of engagement beyond the academic sphere. In this talk, we will explain how our collaboration emerged, how we refined our collaborative process, and how we fostered undergraduate involvement in our research. Altogether, we demonstrate that altering the traditional educational structure while encouraging agency and creativity yields new forms of learning for all involved.

Please join us for this talk by Ana Silva Campo, with Nick Henriksen, Lorenzo García-Amaya, Ryan Szpiech, and Matthew Neubacher.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:21:15 -0500 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Humanities Collaboratory Lecture / Discussion From Africa to Patagonia: Qualitative Outcomes from a Humanities Collaboration
German Major/German Minor - Information Session (January 29, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72143 72143-17946458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

German Major/German Minor - Information Session: Wednesday, January 29, 4:30 p.m., MLB 3308 (Conference Room, German Department)
In this information session, you can learn about the requirements for a German major or minor, about classes, study-abroad opportunities, and about the careers that students have taken with a German major or minor.
Kalli Federhofer kallimz@umich.edu
Mary Rodena-Krasan mkrasan@umich.edu

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Meeting Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:39:09 -0500 2020-01-29T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Meeting Modern Languages Building
Getting Started with ArcGIS Online Workshop (February 12, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72656 72656-18035604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 9:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

ArcGIS Online can be used to visualize data, analyze spatial patterns, and present materials in a professional-looking web application. We'll cover the basics of creating beautiful web maps, and how to share content to facilitate collaboration.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:30:06 -0500 2020-02-12T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T11:20:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Example ArcGIS Online Map Showing US Population by County
"Melancholy in Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities and Palermo Shooting" (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71972 71972-17905479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Bill Baker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University where he completed bachelor’s degrees in German and Russian in 2013 followed by a master’s degree in German in 2015. His research interests include the history of German film, relationship of German film to Japanese and Russian film, and the use of aesthetic blandness in art. He is currently writing his dissertation, Melancholy and Aesthetic Apprehension in the Films of Wim Wenders, which explores the role of mediation and melancholy over the course of Wenders’ oeuvre.
2-5pm, 3308 MLB

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:16:57 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Baker
Public-Facing Scholarship on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Multimedia and Digital Approaches (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72125 72125-18009360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This lecture and Q&A session will offer an overview LSA Alum Rachel Willis' public-facing humanities project, a multi-media DAAS Gallery exhibit entitled *Il faut se souvenir*, we must not forget: memorializing slavery in Detroit and Martinique. Combining archival research with digital technology, this project allows us to generate new ways of thinking about story-telling and visualizing historical movement to reach audiences outside of the academy.

This presentation is part of the RLL DEI Committee Beyond the Academy Initiative, in conjunction with the Rackham Faculty Diversity Allies program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:52:53 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (February 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T21:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Frágil equilibrio (Delicate Balance) (February 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72040 72040-17918508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Frágil equilibrio (Delicate Balance)Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan / 2016 / 81 min
Spanish, English, French, and Japanese with English subtitles
With José Alberto MujicaCentered around an extensive interview with Jose “Pepe” Mujica, the former President of Uruguay who gained notoriety on the world stage as a rare politician: one that lives according to the ideas and principles he preaches, Delicate Balance is a contemplative essay on the everyday reality of globalization.Mujica’s ideas about modern society, where economic interests prevail over human values, are used to connect three stories: A Japanese salaryman in Tokyo, a sub-Saharan community trying to cross the borders into Europe, a family evicted from their own home in Spain. Three stories intertwined on three different continents.The words of the President Mujica — a humble, soft-spoken figure who looks like a retired farm laborer rather than a retired politico — structure this clear-sighted documentary about the socio-economic mess we’re making of our world, but it also comes with suggestions from Mujica about how to change it for the better.Ultimately, Delicate Balance is a proposal for change, from the particular to the general, that offers a powerful message of optimism for the future. This film is a reflection on the path that the human race is taking, on its habits and its relationship with the world. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public. Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:00:29 -0500 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T21:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Film Screening Modern Languages Building
Getting Started with StoryMaps (February 28, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72687 72687-18053079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 9:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Come learn about Esri's newly updated StoryMap experience! ArcGIS StoryMaps provide a powerful, engaging, and inspiring alternative for educational activities, dissemination of research, public outreach, and more.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:28:02 -0500 2020-02-28T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T10:50:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Kaltura Capture for Canvas - LSA Faculty (March 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73617 73617-18269845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services’ team of Learning and Teaching Technology Consultants is offering training for faculty members on how to easily create videos for your class using just your computer. Topics will include:

● How to get started with Kaltura Capture
● How to create a Kaltura Capture video using your webcam or screen recording
● How to upload videos to Canvas and publish to your students
● How to change settings and trim and edit your video in Canvas

Kaltura Capture for Canvas is an easy-to-use software application for Windows and Mac that provides a variety of recording and annotation tools. It is available in My Media through Canvas, and is fully integrated for fast and simple uploads. Record lectures, video announcements, and even discussions, using any combination of two sources plus audio:

● screens, including interactive recording of PowerPoint presentations
● webcams

To explore more about using Kaltura, please attend one of our Kaltura Capture workshops listed below, or contact an LTC consultant at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:40:11 -0500 2020-03-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Getting Started with ArcGIS Insights (March 11, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72688 72688-18053080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

Have you ever wished for a quick and easy way to analyze your geographic data? ArcGIS Insights allows you to perform powerful analysis simply, combine data from multiple sources, visualize results easily and intuitively, reuse analysis workflows, and share your data stories both internally and externally.

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:30:20 -0500 2020-03-11T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T10:50:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 12, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-12T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
Canvas Assignments for LSA Faculty (March 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73613 73613-18269837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services is offering training for faculty members on how to create Assignments in Canvas. Topics will include:

● How to create an assignment and define its basic elements -- the prompt, related resources, point value, type of submission, and due date
● How students work with assignments, viewing them and submitting a response
● How to work with the Gradebook and SpeedGrader, which allows instructors to type responses more efficiently, providing substantive feedback when appropriate

To explore more about working with assignments in Canvas, please join us or contact a consultant from LSA Technology Services’ Learning and Teaching Consultants group at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:21:53 -0500 2020-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T11:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 13, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
Canvas Quizzes for LSA Faculty (March 13, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73616 73616-18269841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 11:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services is offering training for faculty members on how to create Quizzes in Canvas. Topics will include:

● How to create different question types (fill in the blank, matching, multiple choice)
● How to create quiz banks
● How to create clickable rubrics
● How to randomize questions
● How to edit test option (number of attempts, timer, forced completion, display dates, due dates, and results)

There are other benefits to using online exams in Canvas. The Speedgrader features allows instructors to type responses more efficiently, providing substantive feedback when appropriate. Multiple choice and true/false type Questions are graded automatically and sent directly to the gradebook. Exams and grades are preserved for future reference—for example, the next time a student asks for a letter of recommendation.

LSA has also added a security feature to lock down the testing environment and preserve academic integrity.

To explore more about using exams in Canvas, please attend one of our Canvas Quiz workshops listed below, or contact an ISS consultant at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:36:01 -0500 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED: 2020 Ann ArBerlinale - "Women in the Metropolis" (March 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73566 73566-18261076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Friday, March 13
7:00pm *Victoria* (Sebastian Schipper, German, 2015) 138 minutes,
MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)

Saturday, March 14
10:00am *Destinies of Women* (Slatan Dudow, East Germany, 1952) 102 minutes, MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)
1:00pm *Never Sleep Again* (Pia Frankenberg, Germany, 1992) 92 minutes, MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)
3:00pm *A Fine Day* (Thomas Aslan, Germany, 2001) 74 minutes,
MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:18:36 -0400 2020-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ann ArBerlinale
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 14, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED: 2020 Ann ArBerlinale - "Women in the Metropolis" (March 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73566 73566-18261077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Friday, March 13
7:00pm *Victoria* (Sebastian Schipper, German, 2015) 138 minutes,
MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)

Saturday, March 14
10:00am *Destinies of Women* (Slatan Dudow, East Germany, 1952) 102 minutes, MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)
1:00pm *Never Sleep Again* (Pia Frankenberg, Germany, 1992) 92 minutes, MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)
3:00pm *A Fine Day* (Thomas Aslan, Germany, 2001) 74 minutes,
MLB 1420 (Lec Rm 2)

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Film Screening Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:18:36 -0400 2020-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ann ArBerlinale
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 15, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 16, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 17, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
Canvas Quizzes for LSA Faculty (March 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73616 73616-18269842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services is offering training for faculty members on how to create Quizzes in Canvas. Topics will include:

● How to create different question types (fill in the blank, matching, multiple choice)
● How to create quiz banks
● How to create clickable rubrics
● How to randomize questions
● How to edit test option (number of attempts, timer, forced completion, display dates, due dates, and results)

There are other benefits to using online exams in Canvas. The Speedgrader features allows instructors to type responses more efficiently, providing substantive feedback when appropriate. Multiple choice and true/false type Questions are graded automatically and sent directly to the gradebook. Exams and grades are preserved for future reference—for example, the next time a student asks for a letter of recommendation.

LSA has also added a security feature to lock down the testing environment and preserve academic integrity.

To explore more about using exams in Canvas, please attend one of our Canvas Quiz workshops listed below, or contact an ISS consultant at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:36:01 -0500 2020-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T11:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 18, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
(CANCELLED) - Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano) (March 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72045 72045-18322258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ixcanúl, Volcán (Ixcanúl, Volcano)In Maya and Spanish with English subtitlesWith María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón, Manuel Antún, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin CoroyGUATEMALA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY TO THE ACADEMY AWARDS®The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel speaking Mayans on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. Immersing us in its characters’ customs and beliefs, Ixcanul chronicles with unblinking realism, a disappearing tradition and a disappearing people.Maria, a 17-year-old Mayan girl, lives and works with her parents on a coffee plantation in the foothills of an active volcano in Guatemala.An arranged marriage awaits her: her parents have promised her to Ignacio, the plantation overseer. But Maria doesn’t sit back and accept her destiny.Pepe, a young coffee cutter who plans to migrate to the USA becomes her possible way out. Maria seduces Pepe in order to run away with him, but after promises and clandestine meetings, Pepe takes off, leaving her pregnant, alone and in disgrace. There’s no time to lose for Maria’s mother, who thinks abortion is the only solution. Yet despite her mother’s ancestral knowledge, the baby remains, “destined to live.”But destiny has more in store for Maria: a snakebite forces them to leave immediately in search of a hospital. The modern world Maria has so dreamt about will save her life, but at what price… Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 19, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 20, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 21, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 21, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-21T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 22, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 23, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 24, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 25, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 25, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T22:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents La Soledad (La Soledad) (March 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72042 72042-18322228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

La Soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy / 2016 / 89 min
Spanish with English subtitlesWith José Dolores López, Marley Alvillares, Adrializ López, Jorge Roque Thielen, María del Carmen AgámezHandyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?Jorge Thielen Armand’s feature debut carves fiction from reality: La Soledad was once his family’s home; this story is true, acted out by the people who lived it. La Soledad looks beyond the headlines and gives a voice to those affected by contemporary Venezuela’s inner turmoil. It is a magnificent feat of real-life storytelling—and a profound fusion of creativity and compassion. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Fair / Festival Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:00:15 -0400 2020-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 26, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
Canvas Assignments for LSA Faculty (March 26, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73613 73613-18269838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services is offering training for faculty members on how to create Assignments in Canvas. Topics will include:

● How to create an assignment and define its basic elements -- the prompt, related resources, point value, type of submission, and due date
● How students work with assignments, viewing them and submitting a response
● How to work with the Gradebook and SpeedGrader, which allows instructors to type responses more efficiently, providing substantive feedback when appropriate

To explore more about working with assignments in Canvas, please join us or contact a consultant from LSA Technology Services’ Learning and Teaching Consultants group at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:21:53 -0500 2020-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
Canvas Quizzes for LSA Faculty (March 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73616 73616-18269843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services is offering training for faculty members on how to create Quizzes in Canvas. Topics will include:

● How to create different question types (fill in the blank, matching, multiple choice)
● How to create quiz banks
● How to create clickable rubrics
● How to randomize questions
● How to edit test option (number of attempts, timer, forced completion, display dates, due dates, and results)

There are other benefits to using online exams in Canvas. The Speedgrader features allows instructors to type responses more efficiently, providing substantive feedback when appropriate. Multiple choice and true/false type Questions are graded automatically and sent directly to the gradebook. Exams and grades are preserved for future reference—for example, the next time a student asks for a letter of recommendation.

LSA has also added a security feature to lock down the testing environment and preserve academic integrity.

To explore more about using exams in Canvas, please attend one of our Canvas Quiz workshops listed below, or contact an ISS consultant at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:36:01 -0500 2020-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 27, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED: A Poetics of Form: Towards a Critique of the Concepts of Criticism (March 27, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72195 72195-17955068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Josh Robinson teaches in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, and is an Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa. Ze works primarily on the manifold relationships between poetics and the critique of political economy. Hir monograph, Adorno's Poetics of Form, was published by SUNY Press in 2018. In May 2020 ze will be a visiting fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin.

Building on and further developing the arguments of my 2018 monograph, Adorno’s Poetics of Form (SUNY Press, 2018), my talk identifies and evaluates the critical potential within some of the apparently common-sense concepts of literary criticism. The book explores and probes the limits of the resources offered Adorno’s intriguing, dense and and often oblique and elusive writings on form in relation to literature, and specifically in relation to poetry, and sets out what they can bring to the currently proliferating discussions and theorizations of literary, cultural, social and political form.

2-5pm, 3308 MLB

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:09:17 -0400 2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Robinson
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 28, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 29, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 30, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
Canvas Quizzes for LSA Faculty (March 30, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73616 73616-18269844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: LSA Technology Services

LSA Technology Services is offering training for faculty members on how to create Quizzes in Canvas. Topics will include:

● How to create different question types (fill in the blank, matching, multiple choice)
● How to create quiz banks
● How to create clickable rubrics
● How to randomize questions
● How to edit test option (number of attempts, timer, forced completion, display dates, due dates, and results)

There are other benefits to using online exams in Canvas. The Speedgrader features allows instructors to type responses more efficiently, providing substantive feedback when appropriate. Multiple choice and true/false type Questions are graded automatically and sent directly to the gradebook. Exams and grades are preserved for future reference—for example, the next time a student asks for a letter of recommendation.

LSA has also added a security feature to lock down the testing environment and preserve academic integrity.

To explore more about using exams in Canvas, please attend one of our Canvas Quiz workshops listed below, or contact an ISS consultant at 734.615.0099 or lsa-iss-ltc@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:36:01 -0500 2020-03-30T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building LSA Technology Services Workshop / Seminar Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (March 31, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (March 31, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Calderón y el deporte sacramental: *la Loa del juego de la pelota* (March 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73590 73590-18267637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Spanish playwright Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) used the *juego de la pelota (Jeu de paume)* as a very effective strategy to explain the doctrinal essence of his auto sacramental *La cura y la enfermedad.* His aim was to capture the audience's attention and to persuade the less pious spectators with a brief introductory piece on a very appealing pastime. The lecture examines the social, doctrinal and courtly values of this little-known *Loa.*

Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:16:01 -0400 2020-03-31T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Calderón y el deporte sacramental
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18179652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (April 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (April 1, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Tempestad (Tempest) (April 1, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72041 72041-17918509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Tempest (Tempestad)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico / 2016 / 105 minA poignant doc by celebrated filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, Tempest narrates the parallel journey of two women. Mirror-like, it reflects the impact of the violence and impunity that afflict Mexico. Through their voices, we are drawn into the heart of their feelings, steeped in loss and pain, but also love, dignity, and resistance.On a normal day on her way to work, Miriam is arrested on suspicion of human trafficking. While the government reports that a criminal gang has been rounded up, in reality a group of innocent Mexicans has fallen victim to the vagaries of a corrupt system. After her detention, she is handed over to a private prison controlled by the Organized Crime, where she is forced to pay a monthly fee to remain alive.Adela works as a clown in a traveling circus. Ten years ago, her life was irreversibly transformed; every night during the show, she evokes her missing daughter, Monica.Tempest has screened at more than 60 film festivals worldwide, collecting awards in Berlin, Lima, Havana, Madrid, Cork, and many others. Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain. 

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Fair / Festival Wed, 01 Apr 2020 18:00:09 -0400 2020-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED - Latin American Film Series (April 1, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73228 73228-18181840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

All film screenings will take place in the Modern Languages Building, Room 1220 (Lec. Room 1) at 7:00pm.

These film screenings are free and open to the public, and each will be followed by a discussion. All films will have English subtitles.

February 26
Delicate Balance (Frágil equilibrio)
Guillermo García López / Chile, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Japan (2016)
*Spanish, English, French, and Japanese*

March 11
Ixcanul, Volcán
Jayro Bustamante / France, Guatemala (2015)

March 18
La soledad
Jorge Thielen-Armand / Venezuela, Canada, Italy (2016)

March 24
El abrazo de la serpiente
Ciro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela (2015)

March 25
Pájaros de verano
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego / Colombia, Mexico, Denmark (2018)

March 31
El lugar más pequeño
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico, El Salvador (2012)

April 1
Tempestad (w/ Q&A)
Tatiana Huezo / Mexico (2016)

Co-sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Institute for the Humanities, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Rackham Graduate School. The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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Film Screening Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:14:58 -0400 2020-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening Latin American Film Series Schedule
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents El abrazo de la serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent) (April 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72043 72043-18322238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra / Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela / 2015 / 125 minA breathtaking ethnographic odyssey through the heart of the Colombian Amazon, Embrace of the Serpent  is the epic story of the first contact, approach, betrayal and, eventually, friendship, between Karamakate, an amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, become the first men to travel the Northwest Amazon in search of a sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. With nine different languages spoken during the course of the film, this hypnotic meditation on the beauty of nature and effects of colonialism is presented with an uncommon sense of curiosity rarely seen. The crisp black and white photography captures the extraordinary landscapes with a haunting, almost mythical sense of wonder, while the balance between documentary-style realism and dreamlike mysticism makes for a truly poetic cinematic experience. ACADEMY AWARD® BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM NOMINEE Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:00:24 -0400 2020-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T21:30:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (April 2, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (April 3, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T23:59:59-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
(CANCELLED) Palomitas Cineclub: Festival de cine presents Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (April 4, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72044 72044-18322249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)Wayuu, English, and Spanish with English subtitlesWith Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente Cote, Juan Bautista MartínezACADEMY AWARD® COLOMBIA’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMCristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the creative team behind Oscar®-nominated Embrace of the Serpent (also available for your SFC festival), return with this inspired mob epic for the ages — a completely fresh take on the origins of the Colombian drug trade, far from Narcos and Escobar, as told through the story of an indigenous Wayúu family.In the 1970s, as an American-fueled marijuana boom hits Colombia, farmers quickly turn into seasoned businessmen starting a narco-trafficking era known as “la Bonanza Marimbera.”In the Guajira desert, one indigenous Wayúu clan takes a leading role. Guided by matriarch Ursula Pushaina, the “Birds of Passage”—drug runners—face the constant risk of violence and incarceration from the outsiders in Northern Colombia. The cultural differences between the native population and the newcomers begin a brutal war that threatens to destroy the Wayúu way of life. As greed, passion, and honor blend together over the decades, the family’s unity, their lives, and their ancestral traditions are all put at stake.A true story, the visually striking Birds of Passage is as much a thriller as it is an anthropological study on the consequences of outside influences to indigenous traditions.Palomitas Cineclub Winter 2020 Film Festival The Palomitas Cineclub, organized by graduate students of the Romance Languages & Literatures Department, has been awarded a Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* to sponsor public screenings of contemporary Iberoamerican film at the University of Michigan. All films will be screened in their original languages with English subtitles. The series will be free and open to the public.Combining the funds from the Spanish Film Club Festival Grant* with additional financial support from within the university, we will screen six contemporary Latin American feature films and documentaries between February 26 and April 3 on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm in the Modern languages Building, 1220 (Lecture Room 1):Frágil equilibrio (Guillermo García Lopez, 2016), Tempestad (Tatiana Huezo, 2016), Ixcanul, Volcán (Jayro Bustamante, 2015), La soledad (Jorge Thielen-Armand, 2016), El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015) and Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego, 2018). Each screening will be followed by an informal discussion session during which the audience is invited to discuss the film.We welcome everyone to participate in a space of cultural engagement where undergraduate and graduate students can come together to practice their language skills and partake in critical discussions of cinema. *The Spanish Film Club Festival Grant was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.  

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Fair / Festival Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:28 -0400 2020-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2020-04-04T22:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Maize Pages Student Organizations Fair / Festival Modern Languages Building
CANCELLED: "Egon Schiele in the Clinic: Medicine, Motherhood, and the Biopolitics of Viennese Modernism" (April 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73713 73713-18302650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

“Pathological” was a damning term frequently applied to the visual art of Viennese modernism. Yet while the nudes of Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, and others diverged sharply from the classical pictorial tradition, they emerged alongside a contemporaneous trend: the increasing presence of medical imagery in the city’s visual vernacular. In the decades after 1900, the bodies of working-class Viennese—women and children, in particular—came to occupy a central place in films, lectures, exhibitions, and literature. A medicalized gaze, this lecture argues, was fostered by a complex Viennese social network of physicians, artists, writers, and politicians—all of whom staked their claims on women's bodies to vastly different ends.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:10:28 -0400 2020-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Schiele Schwangere