Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CREES Noon Lecture. The Insecurity State: Views from Belarus (September 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86545 86545-21634796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

2017 marked the 23rd year of power of Aleksandr Lukashenko over Belarus. In those years, his opponents have been silenced, murdered, exiled, or imprisoned. Every few years he has staged elections that the international community has characterized as “unfree and unfair,” followed by police suppression of protester, quick trials, and lengthy prison sentences. Among the only voices reminding the world about the plight of those living under Europe's “Last Dictator” is the Belarus Free Theater, a critically acclaimed troupe consisting of actors still living in the country and their exiled founders. Award-winning photographer Misha Friedman started following the theater as they traveled the world on sold-out tours and performed underground plays at home. In 2020 Friedman returned to Minsk to photograph what everyone expected to be yet another déjà vu election cycle. That August everything turned out differently. Join us for a special viewing and discussion of Friedman’s work in Belarus from August 2020.

Misha Friedman was born in Moldova, and graduated with degrees from Binghamton University (1997) and London School of Economics (2000), where he studied economics and Russian politics. He worked in finance in New York, and after 9/11 switched careers to volunteer as a project manager at Medecins Sans Frontiers while teaching himself photography. Since 2009, photography has become his profession. He was associated with Cosmos Photo Agency 2011 - 2018, and is now represented by Getty Images. Misha regularly collaborates with leading international media and non-profit organizations. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, his widely-exhibited work has received numerous industry awards, including several Pictures of the Year (POYi). He has five monographs; his most recent book, Two Women in Their Time, was published by The New Press in 2020. Misha lives in New York City.

This hybrid event will be presented in person at 1010 Weiser Hall and via Zoom. Register for the live-stream at https://myumi.ch/dOmxj

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Sep 2021 16:47:30 -0400 2021-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Minsk, by Misha Friedman
The Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities (September 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86627 86627-21635237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Luigi Settembrini (1813-1876) was a classicist and revolutionary condemned to death in 1849 for his role in the 1848 revolution in Naples. His wife managed to have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment in the infamous Panopticon on the island of Santo Stefano, where inmates often killed each other and torture was common. There he managed to translate the complete works of Lucian, testing his language by reading out his work to his illiterate cellmates, who often knew no standard Italian – and reflecting on Lucian’s own attempts at creating a common language, humor, and popular philosophy. He wrote on women’s rights, celebrated gay love (in a fake ancient fiction he ironically entitled The Neoplatonists, while in fact rejecting Catholic, Neoplatonic humiliations of the body), and worked relentlessly towards an egalitarian and ethnically diverse future for the Italian nation. Together with Garibaldi he planned a daring evasion from the Panopticon, which failed at the last minute; later he was forcibly sent into exile to the United States but, during the voyage there, two black sailors helped him and other Italian political prisoners to mutiny and disembark in Ireland. He returned to Italy in 1860, in the wake of unification. Back in Naples he oversaw the publication of the Herculaneum papyri; became Rector of the University; and was later elected Senator. He never completed his autobiography and, refusing to present himself as a hero, was soon forgotten.

This lecture revisits the legacies of Luigi Settembrini and puts them in dialogue with current debates about classics, attempting to move beyond a hermeneutics of suspicion and towards an expansive classical tradition that sustains the regenerative possibilities of literature, love, and revolution.

Livestream available at: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa092921.html

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:18:25 -0400 2021-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
Voice Department Student Recital (September 29, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88088 88088-21650279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Voice students present their latest repertoire.

attend in person or watch online at https://myumi.ch/BrittonWatch

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Performance Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:15:13 -0400 2021-09-29T16:30:00-04:00 2021-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Earl V. Moore Building
SHPEtinas Platicando con Paletas (September 29, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87570 87570-21644189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us and our great speaker, Diana Iracheta, as we bring light to the student, professional, and industry experiences of Latinas at Michigan Engineering. We aim to find a sense of community in a male-dominated industry and highlight the resources that Michigan has to offer. As a social event, we want to share ice cream (paletas) and experiences with our community. Register here: https://myumi.ch/E3Oxv

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:58:13 -0400 2021-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion SHPEtinas logo above the event name and description, two paletas, as well as SHPE and MESA's logos.
What Are You Laughing At? Understanding and “Getting’ American Humor (September 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86246 86246-21632222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: English Language Institute

Do you find yourself feeling lost when people around you are laughing and you seem to have missed the joke? Humor is an important part of interacting but can be a challenge to understand. Ideas about what is funny can vary greatly from culture to culture. Jokes can include tricky wordplay and idiomatic expressions. Yet ‘getting’ humor can support success in academic, social and professional life. This small interactive workshop includes a presentation of several common types of humor and current examples of popular U.S. humor, followed by analysis and discussion of what makes the content funny. Please come prepared to participate actively in small group discussions.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:54:51 -0400 2021-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
CANCELLED - Choir! Choir! Choir! (September 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84655 84655-21624392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

Choir! Choir! Choir! is a Toronto-based singing group led by creative directors Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman. The duo takes a non-traditional approach; there are no auditions, and the audience is the choir. Just show up and they'll teach you an original arrangement to a song you love. Founded in 2011, Choir! Choir! Choir! has amassed a dedicated and passionate community of singers and a thriving international fan base on YouTube. The group has performed with renowned artists such as Patti Smith, Tegan and Sara, David Byrne, Rick Astley, and Rufus Wainwright, and onstage at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall with the likes of Debbie Harry and The Flaming Lips. Choir! Choir! Choir! exists to celebrate music and push the boundaries between practice and performance, artist and audience, offering therapeutic benefits with the ultimate side effect: a powerful community.

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Performance Fri, 03 Sep 2021 12:00:54 -0400 2021-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-29T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Choir! Choir! Choir! at The Ark, photo by Vanessa Heins
Concert Band (September 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85577 85577-21626945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Snyder, conductor
Kimberly Fleming and JoAnn Wieszczyk, graduate conductors
Carrie Koffman, saxophone soloist

PROGRAM
Fanfare Ritmico - Jennifer Higdon
Here We Rest - Anthony Barfield
Second Suite in F - Gustav Holst
Suite Française - Guy Woolfenden
Negative Split (world premiere) - Roshanne Etezady
Huapango - José Pablo Moncayo

watch online at https://myumi.ch/HillWatch

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Performance Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:09 -0400 2021-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
SLSA 2021 Conference (September 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87261 87261-21640687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is the proud host of the annual conference for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), September 30 - October 3, 2021.
Due to the ongoing uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 SLSA conference and member exhibition will be virtual, bringing together an interdisciplinary and evolving community of scholars and creative makers around the 2021 theme “Energy.”
Conference registrationProgram ScheduleVirtual Poster Exhibition

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:26 -0400 2021-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Conference / Symposium Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
SLSA 2021 Virtual Poster Exhibition (September 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87260 87260-21640683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is the proud host of the annual conference for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) September 30 - October 3, 2021. Learn more about the Conference here.
Due to the ongoing uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 SLSA conference and member exhibition will be virtual, bringing together an interdisciplinary and evolving community of scholars and creative makers around the 2021 theme “Energy.”

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Exhibition Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:15:25 -0400 2021-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
EIHS Lecture: Beyond the Asylum: Mapping Circuits of Recovery and Relapse in Colonial Vietnam (September 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85451 85451-21626470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This is a hybrid event. Link here for in-person registration (limited): https://myumi.ch/QAkxr
Link here to stream via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/nbW03

Description: In colonial Vietnam, patients would spend years circulating in and out of mental asylums, defying our sense of these spaces as total institutions. This talk follows the movements of patients out of the asylum to ask what the dynamics of patient release can tell us about the varied meanings and lived experiences of recovery in a colonial society. What possibilities are opened when we shift our focus from confinement to release, from the asylum to its social world, from cure to healing?

Biography: Claire E. Edington is an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, where she specializes in the history of public health, the history of modern Southeast Asia, and the colonial and postcolonial studies of science and medicine. Her first book, Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam, was published by Cornell University in 2019. She received her PhD from the Departments of Sociomedical Sciences and History from Columbia University in 2013.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:41:13 -0400 2021-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Claire Edington
Reading and Q&A with Paisley Rekdal (September 30, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84021 84021-21619598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, *The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee*; the hybrid photo-text memoir, *Intimate*; and five books of poetry: *A Crash of Rhinos*; *Six Girls Without Pants*; *The Invention of the Kaleidoscope*; *Animal Eye*, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and *Imaginary Vessels*, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, *The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam*. A new collection of poems, *Nightingale*, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's *The Metamorphoses*, was published spring 2019. *Appropriate: A Provocation*, which examines cultural appropriation, was published by W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.

Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in *The New York Times Magazine*, *American Poetry Review*, *The Kenyon Review*, *Poetry*, *The New Republic*, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others.

Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event, whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:58:27 -0400 2021-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paisley Rekdal
Hybrid FAST Lecture | The Archaeology of Western Anatolia, ca. 1200–133 BCE (September 30, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87555 87555-21643886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

FAST, or the Field Archaeology Series on Thursdays, is usually hosted in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. However, due to space restrictions, this lecture will take place in the Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall), and will also be streamed live via Zoom (see link below). Please feel free to choose the attendance method that suits you best.

Our speaker is IPCAA core faculty member Dr. Chris Ratté, whose lecture is entitled “The Archaeology of Western Anatolia, ca. 1200-133 BCE.” His research focuses on the role played by the built environment, from individual monuments to regional settlement patterns, in the articulation of social and cultural identity, especially in regions on the peripheries of the Greek and Roman worlds.

While typically FAST lectures are known for the plentiful provision of food and drink, for the time being, there will be no food or drink provided. Our deepest apologies to those disappointed by the decision—it seems the most prudent choice, given the circumstances.

Physical Attendance Location:
Classics Library (2175 Angell Hall)

Virtual Attendance Location:
Zoom Meeting ID: 977 7669 0432
Passcode: 747615

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 26 Sep 2021 20:39:08 -0400 2021-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion West coast of Anatolia.
Handmade in Cuba: The Artists' Books of Rolando Estévez (September 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85709 85709-21628305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

U-M Anthropology Professor Ruth Behar presents on the extraordinary work of Rolando Estévez, a renowned creator of artists' books. Estévez was born in Matanzas, Cuba, where he still resides, and has created over 500 original books that are appreciated in Cuba and collected by the British National Library, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the Library of Congress, as well as numerous universities in the U.S., Canada, and other countries in the Americas. At the University of Michigan, the Special Collections Library holds a major collection of these extraordinary books.

Behar will discuss the range of books that Estévez has created over the years; will explore her own intellectual, literary, and artistic collaboration with him over the past thirty years as a Cuban-American scholar and writer who returns frequently to the island; and will address the meaning of handmade books in our society today as we increasingly move toward digital books and the idea of the book as virtual rather than tactile. For further information, see the anthology Behar recently co-edited, Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía.

Join us in Zoom!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:52:33 -0400 2021-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Emily Dickinson, Sesgo de Luz (Vigia 1998), house with veil - estuche con vela
Nora: A Doll’s House (September 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86176 86176-21631857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Theatre & Drama

Written by Stef Smith
After the classic play by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Malcolm Tulip

Nora Helmer has been a feminist icon since her first appearance in 1879 as the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s then-controversial A Doll’s House. 140 years later, Olivier Award-winning playwright Stef Smith has reshaped Nora’s singular struggle for financial and emotional independence into three characters, setting three Noras on parallel paths in different time periods. As their stories unfold, shifting cultural expectations exert their pressure on each Nora as what it means to be a feminist changes.

Nora: A Doll’s House received its premiere at Citizen’s Theatre in Glasgow in 2019 before moving to the Young Vic in early 2020.

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Performance Thu, 23 Sep 2021 00:15:11 -0400 2021-09-30T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Nora: A Doll’s House
CANCELLED - Iris DeMent - Rescheduled from 3/18/21 (September 30, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68372 68372-18493764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)

*By purchasing a ticket you agree that you and your guests will comply with all laws, orders, ordinances, regulations and health and safety guidance adopted by the State of Michigan, the County of Washtenaw and The Ark, including any guidelines in place at the time of the show. Attendees who do not comply will be asked to leave. Policies will be updated as circumstances and requirements change in our community. Please review The Ark’s current COVID-related information before attending a show.*

The youngest of 14 children, Iris DeMent was born in Paragould, Arkansas, and moved to California with her devoutly religious family when she was three. As a teenager she absorbed the country music of Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash, as well as the folk classics of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Her 1992 debut album, "Infamous Angel," distilled these influences into a poetic yet down-to-earth songwriting style. With a heartfelt, homespun voice that listeners recognize instantly, Iris released some of the most powerful roots albums of the 1990s with the beautifully sparse "My Life" and the harder-edged "The Way I Should." She has continued to make powerful and distinctive albums on her own schedule, and her latest is "The Trackless Woods," featuring settings of texts by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

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Performance Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:09:35 -0400 2021-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO) Performance Iris DeMent