Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-18T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-19T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-21T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-23T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-23T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-24T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop. Supporting Government Transparency in Ukraine: The Role of NGOs and EU Policymakers (January 25, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80582 80582-20759735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

NOTE (1/18/21): This event is now full. However, if you would like to be added to the workshop's waitlist, please fill out this Google form: https://myumi.ch/v2oV7

The second CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop will be led by Tinatin Tsertsvadze, policy analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute. Participants must be current U-M students and will be admitted, space pending, beginning January 11.

In October 2020, Ukraine’s Constitutional Court ruled that the country’s National Agency on Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) could no longer publish the electronic asset declarations of government officials. The court also struck down the imposing of criminal liability on government officials who provide false information on these asset declarations. The court’s decision represents a significant setback for government transparency advocates. The ruling may also negatively impact Ukraine - EU relations.

This workshop will have students analyze the role that international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can play in raising awareness of, and advocating for, increased government transparency in Ukraine. During the workshop, students will consider the practical steps NGOs can take to obtain buy-in from both Ukraine-based civic organizations and EU policymakers to advance anti-corruption efforts.

Tinatin Tsertsvadze, a policy analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute, will lead this workshop. She is an expert on human rights and rule of law policy in the European Union, Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Before joining the Open Society European Policy Institute, she worked at the Human Rights and Democracy Network and the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue.

Participating students must agree to complete select readings and a brief writing assignment prior to the workshop session. More details will be provided upon registration.

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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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:34:08 -0500 2021-01-25T11:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Workshop / Seminar Tinatin Tsertsvadze
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-28T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
CES Film. At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick) (January 29, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80118 80118-20564749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen, director. In German with English subtitles (92 min., 2012).

Through its engagement with blindness as both a trope and a physical reality, Sheri Hagen’s *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* raises provocative questions regarding color blindness, race and racism, and in/visibility in contemporary German society. By challenging the normative category of whiteness, as well as able-bodiedness and heterosexuality, the film also explores alternative modes of seeing through the visual medium of cinema.

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Those who register for the Q&A with Sheri Hagen on 1/29/21 will receive a link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)* between January 18-29, 2021. Register for the discussion at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:58:24 -0500 2021-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Film Screening At Second Glance film
EIHS Symposium: Thinking with The Country and the City: Revisiting the Raymond Williams Classic (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79657 79657-20438375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Originally published in 1973, Raymond Williams's The Country and the City has generated concepts that have influenced generations of cultural critics. His magisterial survey of the construction of archetypical images of the country and the city in English literature in the context of the shift from agrarian capitalism to the industrial metropolis has justly acquired canonical status. The book’s analysis of how these images obscured the actual historical and social relations that shaped them continues to remain relevant today. Join our panelists as they discuss how the book continues to inform their own work. They explore the city/country opposition and the political interests it serves in contexts quite different from Williams’s original English focus.



Panelists:
Kathryn Babayan
Professor, History, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

Stephen A. Berrey
Associate Professor, American Culture, History, University of Michigan

Christian de Pee
Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan

Mrinalini Sinha (chair)
Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom.

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

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:39:36 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium
Conversations on Europe. A Q&A with Sheri Hagen, director of At Second Glance (January 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80121 80121-20564750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Sheri Hagen is a Nigerian-German director, screenwriter, actress, and founder of the production company Equality Film GmbH. Born in Lagos, she grew up in Hamburg and has lived and worked in Berlin since the 1990s. After training as a stage actress, Hagen then appeared in numerous film productions and television series, before returning to theater in 2010. Across her career, Hagen has worked on film projects as author, director, and producer. *Auf den zweiten Blick (At Second Glance)* is her debut film as a director. It won awards at the Filmfest Emden-Norderney (2012) and the Kirchen Filmfestival Recklinghausen (2013).

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/jxo3w. Those who register will receive the link and password to view the film *At Second Glance (Auf den zweiten Blick)*.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:22:15 -0500 2021-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Sheri Hagen
CCPS Lecture. Gender Politics and the Populist Moment: Will the East Save the West? (February 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80784 80784-20793297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In Poland, leaders of the ruling party and bishops of the Catholic Church have repeatedly deemed ‘gender’ a threat to the state, an invasion, and form of colonization. These claims may seem extreme but are in fact symptomatic of a broader pattern. The demonization of ‘gender’ has played a play a key role in the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and beyond, ‘gender’ becoming the designated enemy of the people. This lecture offers a look at the anti-gender movement – a well-networked transnational phenomenon inspired by the Vatican, influenced by both Russian ultraconservatives and US evangelicals. It suggests a way to conceptualize the link between populism and religious fundamentalism at play. It also explores selected images and narratives disseminated in anti-gender campaigns, as a well as a few counterimages produced by the feminist and LGBT+ movements. Finally, I examine Central and Eastern Europe’s special place in the anti-gender imaginary and strategy: the movement’s claim that the East is morally superior to the West, and thus destined to save it from ‘gender’.

Agnieszka Graff graduated from Amherst College (1993) and Oxford University (1995). An associate professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, she teaches US literature and film, African American studies, feminism and gender studies. She is also an activist and public intellectual present in Polish liberal media. She has authored several books of feminist essays: *Świat bez kobiet* (*World without Women*, 2001, 2004); *Rykoszetem* (*Stray Bullets*, 2008), *Magma* (*The Quagmire Effect*, 2010), and *Matka Feministka* (*Mother and Feminist*, 2014). Her articles on gender in Polish and US culture have appeared in *Public Culture, Feminist Studies Signs*, and *East European Politics and Societies*. She co-edited the Spring 2019 theme issue of *Signs*, “Gender and the Rise of the Global Right.” *Gender Politics and the Populist Moment,* co-authored by Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk, will be published this year with Routledge – this lecture presents some of the book’s core ideas.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/mnrqy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:13:26 -0500 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Graff
CCPS Lecture. Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska (February 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80117 80117-20564736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Maciej Lewenstein will present a historical review of free improvisation and jazz avant-garde, starting from the 1960s, as well as the early attempts to play free jazz by Tomasz Stańko or Leszek Żᶕdło. He will comment on the fusion-dominated 1970s and 1980s, then focus on the yass movement of the 1990s. The important role of the late Andrzej “Major” Przybielski will be stressed. He will sketch the present free improvisation scene in Poland, and describe a few of the leading figures of this scene: Mikołaj Trzaska, Rafał Mazur, Jerzy Mazzoll, Wacław Zimpel, Piotr Mełech, Paulina Owczarek, and more. The lecture will be illustrated with numerous musical examples. Maciej Lewenstein will also spend some time discussing the general condition of the Polish avant-garde: jazz clubs, concerts and festivals, as well as record labels.

Maciej Lewenstein graduated at Warsaw University in 1978 and joined the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He finished his PhD in Essen in 1983 and habilitated in 1986 in Warsaw. He was postdoc at Universitaet Essen, at Harvard University, at Commisariat a l'Énergie Atomique in Saclay, and at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder. He was on faculty in Saclay (1995-98) and Leibniz University Hannover (1998-2005). In 2005, he moved to Catalonia as ICREA Professor to lead the quantum optics theory program at the Institut de Ciències Fotòniques in Castelldefels. His interests include quantum optics, quantum physics, quantum information, many body theory, and more. His other passion is jazz, and he is the author of *Polish Jazz Recordings and Beyond*.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at Register at http://myumi.ch/nboXz.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:56:23 -0500 2021-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Maciej Lewenstein
EIHS Lecture: Risk, Bodies, and Disease: Transatlantic Slavery and the History of Science and Medicine (February 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79650 79650-20438368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk will examine the history of the slave trade in the Iberian Atlantic and its relationship to the emergence of novel practices related to the study and quantification of bodies and nature. Specifically, it will discuss the development of ideas about the human body, population, and disease that appeared in Iberian-Atlantic slave markets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The practices undergirding the development of the slave trade as a technological, bureaucratic, economic, legal, and intellectual enterprise went hand in hand with the appearance of new notions about risk, disease, nosology, and population health that would become normative in subsequent decades. In analyzing the invisibility of both this history and the archives of the slave trade in traditional HSMT narratives, this lecture will also examine the role that ideas about knowledge (and what constitutes knowledge) have had in shaping fundamental and exclusionary tenets in the histories of science and Medicine in Euro America.

Pablo F. Gómez is associate professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works on histories of knowledge-making, race, and health and corporeality with a particular focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, and more largely the African Diaspora. His book The Experiential Caribbean Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, won the William H. Welch medal in medical history, the Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize in Africana religion, and Honorable Mention for the Bolton-Johnson Book Prize in Latin American history.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:07:50 -0500 2021-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Pablo F. Gómez
Global Connections: The life of an International Pianist: from Seoul to Berlin to Bloomington, Indiana, and back again (February 18, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81520 81520-20905712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Professor Hie-Yon Choi (Seoul National University) discusses her life and education as a musician with close ties to Asia, Europe, and the United States, in terms of education, opportunity, activity, and being part of shaping the world stage. Moderated by Christopher Harding, Professor and Chair of Piano, University of Michigan.

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
German Studies Departmental Colloquium (February 19, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81364 81364-20887839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Open to all members of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:20:33 -0500 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion
CCPS Concert. Avant Jazz from Poland: Free Improvisations by Mikołaj Trzaska and Macio Moretti (February 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80778 80778-20791330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Copernicus Center for Polish Studies presents a concert streamed from Warsaw featuring two of the finest innovative progressive musicians in Poland, which has become one of the most important centers of jazz in Europe. This concert was organized to illustrate the lecture by Maciej Lewenstein on “Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska,” that will be broadcast on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12 PM. Trzaska first performed in Ann Arbor in 2010 in a duet with the magnificent trombonist Steve Swell at the Kerrytown Concert House, and returned in 2013 as the leader of Shofar, a trio that reinvents traditional Jewish music though free improvisation.

Mikołaj Trzaska—saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and film score composer—grew out of yass, a socio-artistic movement that brazenly challenged the rigidity of the institutionalized mainstream Polish jazz environment during the 1980s and 1990s. Free from any specific doctrine and open to all forms of artistic expression, the musicians successfully impacted the jazz scene in the country. Trzaska was the co-founder of the most important yass group—the celebrated Miłość ensemble that lasted, off and on, from 1988 to 2002, and the of the equally creative Łoskot, founded in 1993. Although the impetus of yass faded away many years ago, Trzaska's status remained and he went on to become one of the main leaders of the Polish scene, working as well with the top tier of international improvisors. After the yass period, he recorded a few concentrated quieter albums with the renowned Oleś brothers bass/drum duo. Trzaska has accompanied poets such as Marcin Świetlicki and Jurii Andrukhovych, and created musical-literary projects with the renowned Polish writer/journalist/critic Andrzej Stasiuk. Today, he works with many groups, including his own international trio Volumen, Ken Vandermark’s Resonance Ensemble, Magic with Joe McPhee, and the unique trio Shofar with Raphael Rogiński and Macio Moretti, which explores unique new improvisational perspectives on traditional Jewish music. He has also established himself as a major award-winning film music composer, working with the director Wojciech Smarzowski. But his main focus of self-realization is grounded in radical free jazz: he travels the world cooperating with some of the world’s major improvisors such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, and Ken Vandermark.

Macio Moretti is a drummer and bassist (and occasionally a poor singer and even poorer guitar player) who works in many genres, from avant metal to jazz. He has founded or co-founded so many musical groups and organizations that it is practically impossible to count them, but bands such as Mitch & Mitch and LXMP, as well as the recording label Lado ABC, might be the most important of them. With these aforementioned bands he has had the pleasure of recording and releasing records with major artists such as Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Felix Kubin, Clayton Thomas, Kassin, and Zbigniew Wodecki. Besides all this, he is also an award-winning graphic designer, the father of two, a bread maniac, and has absolutely no interest in motorization.

This concert is presented in partnership with the Michigan Theater, and registration is available at https://www.michtheater.org/avant-jazz-poland/

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

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Performance Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:10:21 -0500 2021-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-20T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Avant Jazz from Poland
CCPS Concert. Avant Jazz from Poland: Free Improvisations by Mikołaj Trzaska and Macio Moretti (February 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80778 80778-20791331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Copernicus Center for Polish Studies presents a concert streamed from Warsaw featuring two of the finest innovative progressive musicians in Poland, which has become one of the most important centers of jazz in Europe. This concert was organized to illustrate the lecture by Maciej Lewenstein on “Free Improvisation and Jazz Avant-Garde in Poland: From Tomasz Stańko to Mikołaj Trzaska,” that will be broadcast on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12 PM. Trzaska first performed in Ann Arbor in 2010 in a duet with the magnificent trombonist Steve Swell at the Kerrytown Concert House, and returned in 2013 as the leader of Shofar, a trio that reinvents traditional Jewish music though free improvisation.

Mikołaj Trzaska—saxophonist, bass clarinetist, and film score composer—grew out of yass, a socio-artistic movement that brazenly challenged the rigidity of the institutionalized mainstream Polish jazz environment during the 1980s and 1990s. Free from any specific doctrine and open to all forms of artistic expression, the musicians successfully impacted the jazz scene in the country. Trzaska was the co-founder of the most important yass group—the celebrated Miłość ensemble that lasted, off and on, from 1988 to 2002, and the of the equally creative Łoskot, founded in 1993. Although the impetus of yass faded away many years ago, Trzaska's status remained and he went on to become one of the main leaders of the Polish scene, working as well with the top tier of international improvisors. After the yass period, he recorded a few concentrated quieter albums with the renowned Oleś brothers bass/drum duo. Trzaska has accompanied poets such as Marcin Świetlicki and Jurii Andrukhovych, and created musical-literary projects with the renowned Polish writer/journalist/critic Andrzej Stasiuk. Today, he works with many groups, including his own international trio Volumen, Ken Vandermark’s Resonance Ensemble, Magic with Joe McPhee, and the unique trio Shofar with Raphael Rogiński and Macio Moretti, which explores unique new improvisational perspectives on traditional Jewish music. He has also established himself as a major award-winning film music composer, working with the director Wojciech Smarzowski. But his main focus of self-realization is grounded in radical free jazz: he travels the world cooperating with some of the world’s major improvisors such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, and Ken Vandermark.

Macio Moretti is a drummer and bassist (and occasionally a poor singer and even poorer guitar player) who works in many genres, from avant metal to jazz. He has founded or co-founded so many musical groups and organizations that it is practically impossible to count them, but bands such as Mitch & Mitch and LXMP, as well as the recording label Lado ABC, might be the most important of them. With these aforementioned bands he has had the pleasure of recording and releasing records with major artists such as Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Felix Kubin, Clayton Thomas, Kassin, and Zbigniew Wodecki. Besides all this, he is also an award-winning graphic designer, the father of two, a bread maniac, and has absolutely no interest in motorization.

This concert is presented in partnership with the Michigan Theater, and registration is available at https://www.michtheater.org/avant-jazz-poland/

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

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Performance Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:10:21 -0500 2021-02-21T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Avant Jazz from Poland
Conversations on Europe. Mobilizing Black Germany (February 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80866 80866-20815017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

This lecture is being presented by the Center for European Studies and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures as the Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies.

Florvil's new book, *Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement*, with the University of Illinois Press, offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. As such, it examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. She and Kira Thurman will exchange ideas about *Mobilizing Black Germany* and other Black internationalist themes in German Studies.

Tiffany N. Florvil is an associate professor of 20th-century European women’s and gender history at the University of New Mexico. Florvil coedited the volume, *Rethinking Black German Studies*, and has published chapters in *Gendering Post-1945 German History* and *To Turn this Whole World Over*. Her recent manuscript, *Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement*, with the University of Illinois Press, offers the first full-length study of the history of the Black German movement of the 1980s to the 2000s. She is a board member of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH), an advisory board member for the Black German Heritage and Research Association, and an editorial board member for Central European History. She is also an editor of the Imagining Black Europe book series at Peter Lang Press.

Kira Thurman is an assistant professor of history and German studies at the University of Michigan. A winner of the Berlin Prize among other awards and fellowships, she is the author of several award-winning articles on music, the Black diaspora, and German-speaking Europe. Her book, *Singing like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms*, is forthcoming with Cornell University Press (Fall 2021).

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/1pBo3

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:19:47 -0500 2021-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T15:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Mobilizing Black Germany
CCPS Lecture. Poland’s Place in Europe: Mission Accomplished? (March 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80804 80804-20793315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

After regaining independence in 1989-90 by means of a peaceful revolution that toppled communism, Poland began to shed the legacy of Soviet Russian domination. Eventually, joined by other newly liberated neighbors, it opted for the dissolution of the Soviet bloc institutions such as the Warsaw Pact and COMECON. It was the dream of many Poles to become a fully integrated member of the mythic West, and this seemed to be realized once Poland joined NATO and the EU. But was this the end of Poland’s history? Was this the time to proclaim, “mission accomplished”? Poland soon realized that there is no end to history. What was Poland’s place in EU and NATO? Should she become a 38 million Austria or Norway, just sit and become richer and richer while the world outside Poland burns, or should Poland use its newfound place to influence and change Europe and NATO? If so, where is Poland heading now, and might the issue of Europe again define Poland’s politics? Or should Poland leave the EU and if so, where will Poland go?

Jacek Stawiski is the editor-in-chief of TVN24, a Polish 24-hour commercial news channel. He studied history at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, specializing in the history of Polish Jews and international diplomatic history. In 1994 he joined BBC World Service in London. At TV24, Stawiski is the host of *Horizon*, a program covering international affairs, for which he made two documentary films: *Colonel House* (on the U.S. role in restoring Poland’s independence in 1918) and *We, the People* (on Lech Wałęsa’s historic speech in the U.S. Congress in 1989). He frequently writes commentary for the tvn24.pl website as well as Polish newspapers and weeklies, and lectures on journalism at Jagiellonian University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:00:21 -0500 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Jacek Stawiski
CREES Noon Lecture. Writing about Young Stalin for 30 Years: Why Bother? (March 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80891 80891-20817013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Professor Ron Suny began writing a biography of Stalin from his birth until the October Revolution, 1917, more than thirty years ago. Among the questions he sought to answer were: what makes a revolutionary? Why did Soso Jughashvili turn from Georgian Orthodoxy and romantic nationalism to Marxism and the life of an underground outlaw? In what ways was this first half of Stalin's life formative, and are there explanations here for what he became in the 1930s, a despot and the gravedigger of the revolution?

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and emeritus professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago. He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. He is author of *The Baku Commune: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution*; *The Making of the Georgian Nation*; *Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History*; *The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union*; *The Soviet Experiment*; *"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide*; *Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution.* With Valerie Kivelson, Suny is co-author of *Russia’s Empires*, *Stalin: Passage to Revolution*, and *Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment*. He is currently working on a book on the recent upsurge of exclusivist nationalisms and authoritarian populisms: *Forging the Nation: The Making and Faking of Nationalisms*.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/kxyWb

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:34:19 -0500 2021-03-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Suny Stalin book
Global Connections: Finding Your Own Voice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance University of Limerick, Ireland (March 4, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82071 82071-21016990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Guest: Sandra Joyce, director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick
Faculty Lead: Marie McCarthy

In this session, a number of speakers will talk about their connections with the unique entity that is the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Dr. Marie McCarthy will discuss her relationship with the Academy over many years; Academy Director Dr Sandra Joyce will outline how the Academy was founded and developed; and graduates Dr RAS Mikey Courtney and Katie Geringer will talk about their experiences of being students at the Academy. Dr Joyce will discuss the diverse programs offered, highlighting the fact that they are grounded in local strengths but globally relevant. The vibrant environment will be showcased, focusing on the ethos of the Academy which equally honors all arts practices, as well as performance and academic study. Above all, the Academy focuses on helping all students to find their own voice, whatever the genre of music and dance they are interested in exploring.

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Performance Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-04T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82401 82401-21092284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Can inanimate objects store and communicate traumatic memory that cannot be directly expressed? This talk examines 'folk art' made by non-professional Polish artists – many of them village laborers – documenting the German Nazi occupation of Poland and the Holocaust. Made largely in the 1960s and 70s, these objects are uncanny: at times deeply moving, at others grotesque, they can also be disturbing for the ways they impose Catholic idioms on Jewish suffering, or upend accepted roles of victim, perpetrator, and bystander.

Zoom webinar - please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-Sy-1p-TFaoBD7VbWgcMA

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Presentation Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:03:59 -0500 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Slawomir Kosiniak, Untitled, ca. 1948, Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, photo by Wojciech Wilczyk
Global Connections: Community Ensembles and Music Learning in Europe (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81378 81378-20889802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Amateur community ensembles are a pillar of European culture. Profs. John Pasquale and Richard Frey talk to Christoph Breithack (conductor of the Musikverein Freiburg, St. Georgen in Freiburg, Germany), Dr. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant (Executive Director of the World Youth and Adult Wind Orchestras in Schladming, Austria), and Dr. Ulrich Nachbauer (President of the Berner Kammerchor in Bern, Switzerland) about the role, significance, and identity of community music making in Europe.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:05 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
German Studies Departmental Colloquium (March 12, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81366 81366-20887841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Discussion: Susan Neiman, Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019); Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford, 2009) and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (Stanford, 2019) - excerpts.

Open to all members of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:33:14 -0500 2021-03-12T14:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. "At Least We Don't Do That Here." How Europe (Mis)Understands Black America (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80396 80396-20713712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

European views on Black America are informed by a range of contradictory tendencies: amnesia about its own colonial past, ambivalence about its racial present, a tradition of anti-racism and international solidarity, and an often fraught geo-political relationship with the United States itself. From the vantage point of a continent that both resents and covets American power, and is in little position to do anything about it, African Americans represent to many in Europe a redemptive force—living proof that the U.S. is both not all that it claims to be and could be so much greater than it is. This sense of superiority is made possible, in no small part, by a woefully, willfully incomplete and toxic nostalgia of Europe's own colonial history which has left significant room for denial, distortion, ignorance, and sophistry. The result, in the post-war era, has been moments of solidarity often impaired by exocitization or infantilization in which Europe has found it easier to export anti-racism across the Atlantic than to practice it at home or export it across the Mediterranean and beyond.

Gary Younge is a journalist, author, broadcaster, and professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a U.S.-based columnist and editor-at-large for *The Guardian*, he is an editorial board member of *The Nation* magazine, an Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media, and a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences. His most recent book, *Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives*, won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize from Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation. His writing and research cover social movements, inequality, race, immigration, identity, and politics. Younge studied French and Russian at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and journalism at City University of London.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at http://myumi.ch/VPOvz.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:32:47 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Gary Younge
CREES Noon Lecture. Resettlement or Return? Shifting IDP Attitudes in Ukraine (March 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80892 80892-20817014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

In 2016 the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ukraine reached 1.6 million, the vast majority of whom fled the conflict in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, initiated in early 2014. In this paper, Cynthia Buckley focuses on how the duration of displacement, household composition, and region of resettlement among the displaced in Ukraine challenge and inform both policy and demographic approaches to internal forced migration and explore the implications of this sizable displacement for regional population trends and demands on state capacity in the long term. Employing Ukrainian government data, UNHCR reports, and a longitudinal set of surveys by the International Organization for Migration, Professor Buckley explores relationships between IDP characteristics and region of resettlement and their intentions to return to pre-displacement areas of residence. Findings extend our understanding of the challenges raised by displacement for the Ukrainian state, in addition to inviting a reconsideration of more general approaches to IDP processes and implications.

Cynthia Buckley is a CREES Visiting Scholar for the 2020-21 academic year. Professor Buckley received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1991 before joining the faculty of the University of Texas, Austin. Between 2010-12 she served as the Program Director for Eurasia at the Social Science Research Council, later moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A social demographer, her research focuses on the main drivers, and implications, of demographic change across Eurasia and appears in numerous academic journals, policy briefs, assessment reports, and edited volumes. Her current research focuses on a MINERVA-funded investigation of state capacity challenges in the areas of healthcare (including COVID-19), elections, and education in the multicultural countries of Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine (with Ralph Clem and Erik Herron), and a solo book project on population change and social stability in Central Asia.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:50:33 -0400 2021-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Buckley IDP map (produced by Samantha Lenoch, Central Eurasian State Capacity Initiative)
German Studies Departmental Colloquium (March 26, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81370 81370-20887845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Faculty Presentation: Kristin Dickinson (pre-circulated paper),
“Learning to Read Synesthetically: Multilingualism in Translation”. Please email Johannes (moltke@umich.edu) for the pre-circulated paper.

This is a public colloquium.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:49:45 -0500 2021-03-26T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion
CREES Noon Lecture. Literature in Albania from Communism to the Present (March 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80972 80972-20824905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Under the communist regime (1944-91), Albanian literature followed two separate and antithetical paths: on the one hand, writers turned to socialist realism for official literature that supported the state’s propaganda, while on the other authors writing in prisons or labor camps joined an underground literature of opposition to Enver Hoxha’s regime. Subject to harsh censorship and persecution, some oppositional writers managed to escape Albanian Communism, going into exile to publish books critical of the regime. Those who remained in Albania were silenced until the collapse of the regime.

Coming from three different generations, the authors on this panel share their experiences of the totalitarian regime and its aftermath, and reflect on the role of literature in Albanian society: how does literature represent and transfigure experiences of violence and oppression? What is the place of exile in national literature? What is the role of literature in the memory culture of a post-communist society? What, indeed, is the status of literature in contemporary Albania?

Lisandri Kola is an author, scholar, and translator. He taught Albanian Literature of Exile at the University of Michigan (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Albanian Modern Literature, History of Albanian Sonnet, Translation Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Tirana. Kola is the author of many books, among them *A Poem of Love* (Albanian-English-Serbian), *Flutrat vdesin në maj/Butterflies Die in May*, *Sonete/Sonnets*, and *Saga e nji dite/Saga of a Day,* among many others. He has translated into Albanian language, Longinus, Alda Merini, Fernando Pessoa, Luigi Pirandello, Saint Anthony of Padua, and has in progress Rime of Guido Cavalcanti. Selected poetry and prose of L. Kola are translated into Montenegrin, English, German, and French languages. He was awarded the Albanian National Prize Át Zef Pllumi in poetry (2014). Lisandri Kola obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tirana in 2014. See his poetry at http://www.kens.al/revista/kolonakens/a_poem_of_love.pdf

Luljeta Lleshanaku is an Albanian poet. She studied Albanian philology & literature at the University of Tirana, and later she graduated with a MFA from Warren Wilson College, USA. She attended The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1999 and was awarded a writer’s fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2008-09). She is the author of nine poetry collections in her language and fourteen other collections published in translation in other languages. Five of her books in translation are published in English. Her last poetry collection in English is *Negative Space*, published by New Directions in the USA and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK, was a winner of the English PEN award, a finalist for the GRIFFIN International Poetry Prize 2019 in Canada, and a finalist for PEN America 2019. She has worked as journalist, TV author, university lecturer, and a historical researcher. See her poetry at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/luljeta-lleshanaku

Primo Shllaku was born in Shkodra, a town in the north of Albania of great cultural primacy, which lasted until the time the communist regime was set up. His father was a theater director and uncle a prominent translator of ancient Greek and Latin. Shllaku studied Albanian language and literature at the State University of Tirana. For several years he taught in different schools and different levels of school in Tirana as well as in different villages. Beginning in the late 1980s he taught at the University of Shkodra. Later he taught Albanian and French in Greece as well as Albanian at the University of Belgrade. In 2010 he received a doctorate in literary sciences, after which he has been teaching a History of Esthetical Doctrines at the University of Fine Arts in Tirana. See his poetry at http://www.albanianliterature.net/authors/modern/shllaku/shllaku_poetry.html

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/wlGA7

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:36:40 -0400 2021-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion CREES Albanian Literature
CWPS 20th // Faculty *in Conversation* (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82694 82694-21161627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the public
Registration required: https://myumi.ch/4p3pN

In March 2001, the University of Michigan Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS) celebrated its grand opening, inviting the community to participate in an evening of lectures, performances and food at the International Institute. As part of the ongoing virtual celebration of this milestone, CWPS invites four esteemed U-M faculty members to reflect on the Center’s founding, its contributions to increasing the diversity of arts and research at University of Michigan, and to imagine the possibilities for the next twenty years.

Kwasi Ampene, Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, is a scholar and practitioner of ethnomusicology. He specializes in the rich musical traditions of the Akan people of West Africa. His research interests include the performing arts as individually and collectively created and experienced, the performance of historical and social memory, politics, ideologies, values, and religious philosophy in Akan court music. Professor Ampene’s latest book, *Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool*, was published on June 30th, 2020 by Routledge. Dr. Ampene was Director of the Center for World Performance Studies from 2011-2016.

Lester Monts is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (ethnomusicology). From 1993 until 2014, he served as senior vice provost for academic affairs and senior counselor to the president for the arts, diversity, and undergraduate affairs. He is currently director of the Michigan Musical Heritage Project that seeks to capture on film the state’s folk, ethnic, and immigrant music traditions. Monts received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Arkansas Polytechnic College, a master’s degree in trumpet performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Minnesota.

Mbala Nkanga is an Associate Professor of Theatre and head of the minor in Global Theatre & Ethnic Studies. A native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC) beginning in 1979. He has directed plays in various professional companies there, such as Bernard Dadié’s Béatrice du Congo, Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests, and Réné Kalisky’s Aïda Vaincue. Dr. Nkanga received his PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and has led the Center for World Performance Studies graduate seminar since 1999.

Robin Wilson is an Associate Professor of Dance at the University of Michigan, on the faculty since 1995, and is best known as a founding member of New York’s Urban Bush Women. In 1995, she was awarded a New York Performance Award for the collective work of the Urban Bush Women from 1984-1994. Her studio teaching is informed by years of study in various mid-twentieth century modern dance and Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance techniques. She performed in New York for more than a decade with such choreographers as Dianne McIntyre, Kevin Wynn, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Professor Wilson served on the Center for World Performance Studies faculty advisory committee for over a decade.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. 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, 03 Mar 2021 08:46:38 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion CWPS 20
Conversations on Europe. Learning from Memory: A Transatlantic Conversation with Susan Neiman and Michael Rothberg (April 2, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82824 82824-21179591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

This lecture is being presented by the Center for European Studies and Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures as the Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies.

What can we learn from comparing different memory cultures? In particular, how might we think about Holocaust memory and the Germans’ working through the past in relation to colonial and postcolonial memory, but also to the memory of racism and slavery in the United States? How can we foster memorial cultures that create transnational spaces for solidarity and the recognition of different and often difficult histories? Working from separate vantage points, Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum) and Michael Rothberg (UCLA) have both intervened forcefully in these debates in recent months and years. We look forward to bringing them together for a transatlantic conversation with CES Director Johannes von Moltke (U-M).

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Susan Neiman studied philosophy at Harvard and the Freie Universität Berlin, finishing her Ph.D. under the direction of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. She was assistant and associate professor at Yale, and associate professor at Tel Aviv University, before becoming director of the Einstein Forum in 2000. She is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft and the American Philosophical Society. Neiman is the author of over a hundred essays and eight books, translated into many languages, most recently *Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil*.

Michael Rothberg is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies and professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His latest book is *The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators* (2019), published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. Previous books include *Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization* (2009), *Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation* (2000), and, co-edited with Neil Levi, *The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings* (2003). With Yasemin Yildiz, he is currently completing *Inheritance Trouble: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance* for Fordham University Press.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/pdglQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:17:37 -0400 2021-04-02T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Learning from Memory
CCPS Lecture. The Themersons and the Art of Translation (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83207 83207-21312498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This talk is a simple introduction to a complicated subject: the Themersons, their life in images – still and moving, and words in a multitude of configurations. Both Stefan Themerson (1910-88) and Franciszka Themerson (1907-88) were born in Poland, where they made experimental films. In 1938 they moved to Paris, and between 1940 and 1942 the war deposited them in London, where they spent the rest of their lives. Franciszka was a painter, graphic designer, stage designer, film maker, and publisher. Stefan was a filmmaker, writer, poet, graphic designer, and publisher.

The topic of translation relates to nearly everything: word into sound; one language into another; face into a portrait, events into a chart. This is something that Stefan thought and talked about, and invented his own form of translation, which he called Semantic Poetry.

Jasia Reichardt is a writer on art and an exhibition organizer. She was born in Poland, educated in England, and has lived in London most of her life. She was assistant director of the ICA in London from 1963-71, and director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery from 1974-76. She has taught at the Architectural Association and other colleges, has written for most of the international art magazines, as well as some books, and has contributed to many international exhibitions and conferences throughout the world. She is the Themersons’ niece, and after the Themersons’ deaths in 1988, together with Nick Wadley, she organized their archive, which is now with the National Library in Warsaw.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/MEb4G

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:53:26 -0400 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion The Themersons
German Studies Departmental Colloquium (April 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81367 81367-20887843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Faculty Presentation: Julia Hell (pre-circulated paper), “Triumphs and Laments: Peter Weiss's Pergamon Altar and Kentridge's Tiber Mural”. Please email Johannes (moltke@umich.edu) for the pre-circulated
paper.

Open to all members of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:36:56 -0500 2021-04-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion
CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop. Participatory Development in the Kyrgyz Republic: A Simulation and Discussion (April 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83294 83294-21338270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Registration for this event has closed.

From 2014-2019, the US Agency for International Development implemented a project in the Kyrgyz Republic to strengthen agricultural productivity and address food insecurity, primarily among agricultural farming families. One of the first steps the project took in 2014 was to engage with local stakeholders to decide which agricultural value chains to target, and what type of farm-level assistance would be most effective.

During the workshop, students will each take on the role of a key stakeholder and participate in a community deliberation activity to help the project make these decisions. Students will participate in a variety of participation tools to spur brainstorming and information sharing, generate ideas, resolve conflict, and make group decisions. After the simulation, students will have a discussion about the exercise, reflecting on the experience of being a participant; how participation can unearth previously unidentified problems, solutions, and critical contextual factors; compare the tools and approaches applied to other types of participation tools and approaches; and the role of community power dynamics in participation activities.

Amy Harris, a post-doctoral fellow at the Ford School of Public Policy, will lead this workshop. Amy merges both experience as a former foreign aid implementation professional working on USAID and World Bank projects, and academic expertise in foreign aid contracting and participatory development. Amy holds a PhD in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington.

Participating students must agree to complete select readings prior to the workshop session and to play an active role in the simulation, as an assigned stakeholder. More details will be provided upon registration. Students are also required to attend the workshop session in its entirety. For those without a 1pm scheduling conflict, Dr. Harris will continue her post-simulation debrief until 1:15pm (EDT).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:52:20 -0400 2021-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Workshop / Seminar Amy Harris, post-doctoral fellow, Ford School of Public Policy, U-M
EIHS Lecture: Evil May Day, 1517: Xenophobia, Labour, and Politics in Early Tudor London (April 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79653 79653-20438371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

On the eve of May 1, 1517, later known as Evil May Day, an anti-immigrant riot broke out in London. From about nine o’clock in the evening on April 30, a crowd made up primarily of young male servants and apprentices of craftsmen ran through the streets of the city, targeting enclaves of strangers, the contemporary English term for immigrants. This riot tells us a good deal about the internal political economy of early sixteenth-century London. The riot had its genesis in an incendiary combination of labour grievance of young craft workers on the one hand and, on the other, implicit encouragement of violence from parts of the city’s merchant oligarchy. The riot was not only an expression of young London artisans’ resentment of “job-stealing immigrants” but an attempt to goad their masters and the governors of their city to be more protective of their interests.

Shannon McSheffrey is professor of history at Concordia University. Professor McSheffrey's research interests centre around law, mitigation, gender roles, civic culture, marriage, literacy, heresy, and popular religion in late medieval and early Tudor England. She has published five books exploring these issues, including Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995); Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); and Seeking Sanctuary: Law, Mitigation, and Politics in English Courts, 1400-1550 (Oxford University Press, 2017). She is currently writing a book about the Evil May Day riot in London in 1517.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:08:47 -0500 2021-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Shannon McSheffrey
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Polish Language Proficiency and Placement Exam (August 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67685 67685-21530360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 27, 2021 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://forms.gle/exSgvxcrDmXARsrXA

Please contact sll.ugrad@umich.edu with any questions about the Polish placement test.

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Other Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:16:40 -0400 2021-08-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other Modern Languages Building
Documenting the Prague Spring: A Film Screening & Discussion of Oratorio for Prague (September 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86542 86542-21634795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

One of the most powerful documentaries ever made, *Oratorio for Prague* contains the only footage from the Soviet-led invasion of Prague in 1968. Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Nemec began filming with the intention to document Prague Spring, a celebration of the new-found liberalization of Czechoslovakia, but the film's subject took a dramatic turn when Soviet tanks rolled through the streets.

Ania Aizman is assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures and postdoctoral scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. She researches political art and social movements in Russia and East and Central Europe.

Jindrich Toman has been professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Michigan since 1987. He specializes in the cultures and languages of Central Europe, including modern Czech literature and art. As a witness of events in Czechoslovakia in 1968, he will share with the audience his reactions to Nemec's documentary and reminisce about the events around the so-called Prague Spring.

This is an in-person event for U-M students, faculty, and staff only. You may participate remotely by registering at http://myumi.ch/0W354
Those attending remotely may access the film at https://myumi.ch/NxP33

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 Thu, 09 Sep 2021 13:42:57 -0400 2021-09-13T19:30:00-04:00 2021-09-13T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia (The Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
CCPS Lecture. Translating Pan Tadeusz: A Conversation with Bill Johnston (September 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86159 86159-21631749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interactive talk will offer a practitioner’s reflections on the making of a new translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 narrative poem *Pan Tadeusz*, widely referred to as “Poland’s national epic.” We’ll talk about the challenges presented, and the questions posed, by this particular act of translation, including those of imagined and actual readership; the role of aesthetic pleasure in the reading experience; and translation as trespass.

Bill Johnston’s rhyming verse translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s epic poem *Pan Tadeusz* (Archipelago Books, 2018) won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2019 AATSEEL Translation Prize. Johnston’s other awards include the Found in Translation Award for Tomasz Różycki’s mock epic poem *Twelve Stations* (Zephyr Press, 2015), as well as the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, both for Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel *Stone Upon Stone* (Archipelago Books, 2010). He has also translated the work of Julia Fiedorczuk, Tadeusz Różewicz, Magdalena Tulli, Andrzej Stasiuk, and Jerzy Pilch, among others. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (twice), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 he was awarded the Transatlantyk Prize for contributions to the promotion of Polish literature abroad. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/pdYVe

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:15:09 -0400 2021-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Livestream / Virtual Pan Tadeusz book cover
Latvia, Europe, and the Road Ahead: A Conversation with the President of Latvia, Egils Levits (September 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86110 86110-21631582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia welcomes the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, to the University of Michigan on September 23. President Levits will participate in a conversation with Professors Daniel Halberstam and Geneviève Zubrzycki.

Egils Levits has held the office of the Presidency of Latvia since July 2019 and has been involved in politics his entire life. His parents were expelled from Latvia in 1972 for dissident activities and moved the family to Germany, where Levits obtained degrees in law and political science from the University of Hamburg. He returned to Latvia in 1990 and co-authored the Declaration "On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia." Levits has held many other key offices, including Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Justice, and has served as Latvia’s ambassador to Hungary, Austria, and Switzerland. He was the first Latvian judge at the European Court of Human Rights, and was a Judge of the European Court of Justice from 2004-2019. He visited the University of Michigan Law School in 2017 as a member of the Court of Justice of the European Union delegation.

Daniel Halberstam is Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law and director of the European Legal Studies Program at the University of Michigan Law School. An expert on constitutional law and federalism, and one of the principal architects of the theory of constitutional pluralism, he writes more generally about comparative public law and legal theory.

Geneviève Zubrzycki is professor of sociology and director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. Zubrzycki is a comparative-historical and cultural sociologist who studies national identity and religion, collective memory and national mythology, and the contested place of religious symbols in the public sphere.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/NxE9B

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:03:05 -0400 2021-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion President Egils Levits
WCED Lecture. Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the End of East European Serfdom (September 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86163 86163-21631756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

The predominant analysis of representative institutions in the development literature casts them as the guardians of property against governmental predation. By enforcing property rights, the story goes, representative assemblies stimulate investment, specialization, innovation, and other forms of socially beneficial economic activity. What this analysis overlooks is that property relations themselves sometimes come in conflict with the demands of development. The political prerequisites of growth, then, include the existence of some agency that is authorized, when necessary, not to uphold but instead to transform the established property rights regime. Using the agrarian reforms in later eighteenth century Eastern Europe as a case study, McElroy shows that only certain kinds of representative institutions can perform this function effectively. Success depends on a representative body's configuration of internal decision-making institutions, particularly the acceptance of simple majority voting. He tests these propositions by reconstructing the process of agrarian reform in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia between 1795 and 1804, using documents from Latvian, Russian, and Estonian archives. His findings underscore the importance of specific procedural rules, especially majority voting, in generating the "good" economic outcomes commonly attributed to early representative institutions as such.

Brendan McElroy earned his PhD in government from Harvard in 2020, after receiving his BA in government and Russian studies (2011) and his MA in Russian and East European studies (2013) from Georgetown University. His work examines the complementary processes of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the genesis of representative institutions, their evolution, and their consequences for state building and economic growth. He is currently preparing a book manuscript under the provisional title "Peasants and Parliaments: Agrarian Reform in Later Eighteenth Century Europe," and will join the University of Toronto Department of Political Science as assistant professor in July, 2022.

This lecture is part of the WCED series on "Capitalism and Democracy." 2022 will mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of *Capitalist Development and Democracy* (by Dietrich Rueschmeyer et. al. in 1992) and the 80th anniversary of the publication of *Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy* (by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942). It is thus a perfect occasion to think anew about how capitalism and democracy interact. At WCED we will be hosting a series of events with “Capitalism and Democracy” as our annual theme.

This hybrid event will be presented in person at 1010 Weiser Hall and via Zoom. Register for the live-stream at https://myumi.ch/88l0K

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:33:18 -0400 2021-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-28T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Brendan McElroy
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
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-03T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Learn about International Subtitling and Dubbing (October 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87969 87969-21648224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Flying Subtitles Collective

Who is behind those words on the screen that make it possible for us to watch films from across the world, regardless of our native language? How do streaming platforms and film festivals get their subtitles? What is the world of professional subtitlers actually like?

Over a year ago, students at the University of Michigan co-founded the Flying Subtitles Collective because they loved making subtitles for new and classic films as a way to work on their language skills and gain experience in translation. Now, they are inviting Andrea Raianu of the lyuno-SDI Group, a leading studio for dubbing, subtitling and more, to talk about the behind-the-scenes work of professional subtitlers.

All are welcome to tune into this Zoom meeting! If you are interested in translation, films, and subtitles, join us, and bring your questions!

**REGISTER IN ADVANCE** https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_H80v1176RuygHuDppfoQsw

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:57:15 -0400 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Flying Subtitles Collective Careers / Jobs Flying Subtitles Collective
Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global Conference (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87638 87638-21644650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pelevin is the most significant and popular Russian author of the post-Soviet era as well as the most extensively translated one into the English language. Debates around his prolific output are often very heated in post-Soviet cultural circles. Participants will look at Pelevin's oeuvre from his groundbreaking writings of the 1990s to his recent output. They will articulate the continuities and transformations of his art and flesh out its importance. This is a hybrid event. The ONLY in-person events are 2 panels held in the Rackham East Conference room — one on Sat, Oct 16th from 4-6 pm and one on Sun, Oct 17th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments served. Please Register to receive the Zoom link for all sessions: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0x8U3zIThiib19fw5pVew

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:08 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Victor Pelevin Conference
Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global Conference (October 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87638 87638-21644651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pelevin is the most significant and popular Russian author of the post-Soviet era as well as the most extensively translated one into the English language. Debates around his prolific output are often very heated in post-Soviet cultural circles. Participants will look at Pelevin's oeuvre from his groundbreaking writings of the 1990s to his recent output. They will articulate the continuities and transformations of his art and flesh out its importance. This is a hybrid event. The ONLY in-person events are 2 panels held in the Rackham East Conference room — one on Sat, Oct 16th from 4-6 pm and one on Sun, Oct 17th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments served. Please Register to receive the Zoom link for all sessions: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0x8U3zIThiib19fw5pVew

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:08 -0400 2021-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-16T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Victor Pelevin Conference
Victor Pelevin: Post-Soviet, Postmodern, Global Conference (October 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87638 87638-21644652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Pelevin is the most significant and popular Russian author of the post-Soviet era as well as the most extensively translated one into the English language. Debates around his prolific output are often very heated in post-Soviet cultural circles. Participants will look at Pelevin's oeuvre from his groundbreaking writings of the 1990s to his recent output. They will articulate the continuities and transformations of his art and flesh out its importance. This is a hybrid event. The ONLY in-person events are 2 panels held in the Rackham East Conference room — one on Sat, Oct 16th from 4-6 pm and one on Sun, Oct 17th from 1-3 pm. Light refreshments served. Please Register to receive the Zoom link for all sessions: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_q0x8U3zIThiib19fw5pVew

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:03:08 -0400 2021-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-17T15:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Victor Pelevin Conference
The Premodern Colloquium. Love of Wisdom, Ancient Sources, and Innovation in Medieval Philosophy: Contemplative Desire according to Henry of Ghent (October 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85743 85743-21628585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

To what extent is medieval philosophy original and innovative? Is its theological context a stimulating or a dulling influence, or something else? To address these questions, I outline some the chief ancient approaches to philosophy, understood as the love of wisdom, to see the starting point from which the medieval version develops. Next, I consider the general influence of theological doctrine on medieval love of wisdom. I then analyze a specific issue—the purpose of contemplation—according to the theologian Henry of Ghent (d. 1293), to get a more concrete grasp of the possibilities of medieval philosophy as an attempt to synthesize reason and religious doctrine. This last analysis makes special reference to some of Henry of Ghent’s questions on human knowledge, which appear in the first part of his major work, the Summa.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:59:02 -0400 2021-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Henry of Ghent's Summa
Discussion of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (October 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87870 87870-21647277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

A roundtable discussion of Anahid Nersessian’s "Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse," written last year in the midst of the pandemic. We will look specifically at the book’s introduction and chapter on “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” both of which will be pre-circulated. Nersessian will also talk with us about how the project weaves together personal memoir and public-facing scholarship.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:12:38 -0400 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion The cover of Anahid Nersessian's Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Book Launch Talk (October 22, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88369 88369-21653531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Professor Dickinson will be giving a talk for the launch of her book DisOrientations: German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation on Friday, October 22 at 3:30pm with Penn State University Press. Please register for the talk: https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtfuupqjoiGtS7dJaJQzk-vvfvFLvmNpeY

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:54:49 -0400 2021-10-22T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-22T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion
CCPS Lecture. The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (October 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85889 85889-21629517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In *The Carpathians*, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the Carpathian mountain system were discovered for a broader regional public from about 1870 to 1980. This is a story of how the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains went from being terra incognita to becoming the popular tourist destinations they are today. It is a story of the encounter of Polish and Ukrainian lowlanders with the wild, sublime highlands and with the indigenous highlanders—Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos—and how these peoples were incorporated into a national narrative as the territories were transformed into a native/national landscape.

Although the Carpathians, essentially a continuation of the Alps, are Central and Eastern Europe's most prominent physical feature, politically they are peripheral. *The Carpathians* is the first book to deal with the northern slopes more broadly, showing how these discoveries had a direct impact on the various nation-building, state-building, and modernization projects. Dabrowski's history incorporates a unique blend of environmental history, borderlands studies, and the history of tourism and leisure.

Patrice M. Dabrowski has taught and worked at Harvard, Brown, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the University of Vienna. She is currently an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (PIASA), and editor of H-Poland. Dabrowski is the author of three books: *Poland: The First Thousand Years* (2014), *Commemorations and the Shaping of Modern Poland* (2004), and *The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine* (2021). In 2014 she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/qgozW

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:54:30 -0400 2021-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion The Carpathians book cover
Imperial Pasts in the Present: Affect, Indigeneity, and Memory (October 29, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87668 87668-21644962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Moderator: Aslı Iğsız, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, New York University. Presenters: Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History and assistant professor of anthropology, University of Michigan; Vladislav Beronja, assistant professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies, University of Texas at Austin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated pre-existing institutional, structural, and systemic discrimination and inequality in societies across the world. Furthermore, continued campaigns against gender and LGBTQ equity in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, racism in the United States, and the social protest movements that rose in response to such exclusionary projects have reinforced calls for intersectional approaches in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (SEEES). Class, ethnicity and race, dis/ability, gender and sexuality, and other identity markers interweave to produce inequality differently in Eastern Europe and Eurasia than in the Americas or Western Europe. Yet, it is these very differences that provide a rich ground for intellectual conversations in our field.

Aslı Iğsız is associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan. Professor Iğsız's book, *Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange* (Stanford University Press) uses the management of difference to explore racialized logics of population transfers, partitions, segregation, apartheid, and border walls. Her primary research interests are political violence, eugenics, humanism, spatial segregation, forced migration, and cultural policy. Prof. Iğsız is currently a fellow at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a project that focuses on the notion of fascist utopias in the contemporary world.

Hakem Al-Rustom is the Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History and assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. Professor Al-Rustom earned his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in social anthropology. His main research interests are the anthropology of history, examining the relationships between indigenous populations and settler colonialists, migration and displacement, historical ethnographies, and silences and absences in post-Ottoman societies. Professor Al-Rustom is currently working on a book on the unwritten histories of the Armenian citizens of Turkey to depict the history of indigenous populations that continue to face erasures in the wake of the establishment of nation-states.

Vladislav Beronja is assistant professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a Ph.D. in Slavic languages & literatures from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Professor Beronja's primary research interests range from contemporary comics and popular music to postmodern metafiction, psychoanalytical approaches to trauma, and Marxist aesthetics. He has published and edited many articles, book reviews, and translations. His current book project "Archival Fictions: Cultural Memory, Literary Imagination, and the Yugoslav Wars" examines how post-Yugoslav writers and artists critically deploy the archive as a governing metaphor for the loss and preservation of cultural memory in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Professor Beronja's courses highlight literature, cinema, music, and cultural identity in the Balkans; modern warfare and comics; and nostalgia and popular culture in Eastern Europe and the United States.

Register for the Zoom webinar at https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9FNhcTJeSS-yzSAFewFLMg

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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Conference / Symposium Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:42:30 -0400 2021-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference / Symposium Intersectionality in Focus
Concert. Edgefest: Steve Swell’s *If Trains Could Speak* (October 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88609 88609-21656108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Steve Swell is one of the finest composers/improvisers on the New York downtown scene and is internationally acclaimed for his trombone playing. He has performed regularly in Europe, often in Poland, where he has established important connections with local musicians. On one of his many trips to Kraków he decided to visit Auschwitz, and wrote, “The first time I tried to visit Auschwitz in 2007, there was no train. They had changed the track of the train that regularly departed for there. They announced the track change in Polish but not in English. There were about two very angry people yelling and screaming at the ticket sellers and railroad staff as to this oversight. Can you imagine, people yelling that they missed the train to Auschwitz and that it had ruined their day?”

Later he wrote, "*If Trains Could Speak* is inspired by that ninety-minute train ride from Kraków to Auschwitz concentration camp. The ride itself is through some very beautiful, peaceful countryside and farmland in southeast Poland. The incongruity of my ride and the ride of those whose trip seventy years before was one of uncertainty and hopelessness prompted a multitude of thoughts and feelings as the train progressed to its destination. The journey and visit to the camp itself sparked a deeper understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of and its juxtaposition to our ability to be brilliant, creative, and tolerant. Delving into the choice we have in either surrendering to our baser instincts or transcending them, feeds my own lifelong curiosity of what it means to be alive, and to know that life is fragile, dangerous, and magnificent all at the same time."

In addition to the composer on trombone, the performance will feature Deanna Relyea, mezzo-soprano; Jason Kao Hwang, violin and viola; Piotr Michalowski, bass clarinet and soprano saxophone; Steve Rush, piano; Ken Filiano, bass; and Michael TA Thompson, percussion.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.

Visit https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/edgefest/ for festival or single event tickets.

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Performance Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:47:28 -0400 2021-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Steve Swell, photo by Ziga Koritnik
Edgefest: Steve Swell’s If Trains Could Speak (October 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88741 88741-21657249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This is currently scheduled as the final set of the Grand Finale Evening of Edgefest at the Bethlehem United Church of Christ on 4th Ave. on Saturday evening (Oct. 30). The full program begins at 7 pm. All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. Steve Swell is one of the finest composers/improvisers on the New York downtown scene and is internationally acclaimed for his trombone playing. He has performed regularly in Europe, often in Poland, where he has established important connections with local musicians. On one of his many trips to Kraków he decided to visit Auschwitz:

“The first time I tried to visit Auschwitz in 2007, there was no train. They had changed the track of the train that regularly departed for there. They announced the track change in Polish but not in English. There were about two very angry people yelling and screaming at the ticket sellers and railroad staff as to this oversight. Can you imagine, people yelling that they missed the train to Auschwitz and that it had ruined their day?”

Later he wrote: If “Trains Could Speak” is inspired by that ninety-minute train ride from Krakow to Auschwitz concentration camp. The ride itself is through some very beautiful, peaceful countryside and farmland in southeast Poland. The incongruity of my ride and the ride of those whose trip seventy years before was one of uncertainty and hopelessness prompted a multitude of thoughts and feelings as the train progressed to its destination. The journey and visit to the camp itself sparked a deeper understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of and
its juxtaposition to our ability to be brilliant, creative, and tolerant. Delving into the choice we have in either surrendering to our baser instincts or to transcend them, feeds my own lifelong curiosity of what it means to be alive, and to know that life is fragile, dangerous, and magnificent all at the same time.

In addition to the composer on trombone, the performance will feature Deanna Relyea, mezzo soprano, Jason Kao Hwang, violin, viola, Piotr Michalowski, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, Steve Rush, piano, Ken Filiano, bass, and Michael TA Thompson, percussion.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.

Visit https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/edgefest/ for festival or single event tickets.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:17:31 -0400 2021-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Fair / Festival Steve Swell
Interested in Teaching a Foreign Language? Join us! (November 4, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88737 88737-21657247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Professor Maria Coolican gives an overview over the different teaching certificate programs for foreign languages at the School of Education

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:03:31 -0400 2021-11-04T16:30:00-04:00 2021-11-04T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Careers / Jobs North Quad
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Indomitable Violence: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe (November 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86192 86192-21632074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The analysis of indomitable violence in Europe that Professor Casanova proposes in his new book breaks with the widely accepted division of the twentieth century into two halves, contrasts, one very violent and the other peaceful. That chronological division reflects a “Western European” approach, elaborated above all in Great Britain and France, which plays down the importance or ignores altogether the different historical processes in a broad region of Central and Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries.

In breaking with those widespread approaches and ideas in the historiography of the West, which are laden with clichés and superficial representations of other countries, he argues for a different narration and interpretation, in both space and time, of manifestations of recurring and sometimes continuous violence, which from the anarchist terrorism to the wars of succession in Yugoslavia marked the history of twentieth-century Europe in blood and fire.

As there is no one single history of Europe, but multiple histories which overlap and intersect with one another, he has tried to situate the principal manifestations of violence in a transnational shared context. Nor is there any general theory about violence, and nor do the specific cases help in themselves to establish what has been his main argument: to discover and conceptualize the logic of violence through the similarities and differences among different historical periods. And in that logic to highlight as common threads the ideologies of race and nation, the moments of crisis generated by wars and the revolutions and projects of totalitarian utopias.

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University. He has authored and co-authored important books on the history of Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s Spain which were published, in English, by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and I.B. Tauris. His latest book, *Indomitable Violence: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe*, was published in 2020, with a remarkable impact and several editions, and will be translated by Princeton University Press. In addition to his scholarship, Casanova is a frequent contributor to the Spanish "El País," and serves as a historical consultant in the television and film industry, both in documentaries and TV series and films.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/AxWl5

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:10:55 -0400 2021-11-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Distinguished Lecture on Europe
28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87995 87995-21648236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:14:19 -0400 2021-11-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-11-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 6, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87995 87995-21648237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 6, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:14:19 -0400 2021-11-06T00:00:00-04:00 2021-11-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 7, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87995 87995-21648238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 7, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:14:19 -0400 2021-11-07T00:00:00-04:00 2021-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 28th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
CREES Noon Lecture. The Image is the Frame: Revolution, Aesthetics, and Gender in 21st Century Ukraine (November 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86588 86588-21635106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This lecture draws upon over a decade of research toward the book, *Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine* (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, historical context, and theoretical frameworks, the author tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but whose ideas and actions were forged in the tumultuous decade between the two revolutions of the 2000s. Gender and sexuality are at the forefront of these activists’ experimentations with the body and public space, circulated online, but locally rooted in 18th - 20th century Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Soviet aesthetics. Mapping out several key historical changes in independent Ukraine, Zychowicz identifies discursive links across eras in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving social relations, politics, and international human rights discourse today. This lecture will present in particular how key ideological shifts in the discourse on gender and class, including “the woman question” underpin both social divisions and points of cohesion in organizing around feminism. Case studies include the women's and pride marches in Kyiv beginning from 2010. The first marches had only a few dozen participants, were mostly local, and focused on equality and labor rights; the two marches now draw over 3,000 international participants annually.

Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is the director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine and head of the Kyiv office of the Institute of International Education. In 2017-18 she was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in area studies & gender studies to Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Dr. Zychowicz has held numerous research positions, including at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs (2015-16), at the University of Alberta (2018-21), and at Uppsala University in Sweden (2019). Dr. Zychowicz earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Slavic languages and literatures with a certificate from CREES. She also holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley. Over the past three years, Jessica has given over 35 talks and interviews in 10 countries, written over 15 articles, and published her monograph: *Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine* (U-Toronto Press 2020), which will soon also be published in 2022 in both Ukrainian at Krytyka Press, and in Polish at Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej. She is a member of several professional associations in global higher education, including an associate member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society of America, and an advisory board member of H-Net-Ukraine at H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. Dr. Zychowicz has also worked in U.S. government at Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C. as a training specialist for mid-career professionals in digital infrastructure, and she served a full term as a Peace Corps Volunteer to Ukraine from 2005-07. For more information: https://www.jes-zychowicz.com/

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/gj8Eq

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 Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:05:32 -0400 2021-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-10T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jessica Zychowicz
The Premodern Colloquium. A Matter of Jurisdiction: ‘Guelfs and Ghibellines’ in the French Wars of Religion (November 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85744 85744-21628586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The abstract for this session forthcoming.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:22:49 -0400 2021-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Amos Cassioli, "Battaglia di Legnano” (c. 1865) Florence, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti
WCEE Roundtable. Is a Polexit on the Horizon? Poland's Domestic Politics, Law, and the EU (November 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88664 88664-21656583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

On October 7th, Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled that key articles in the Treaty on European Union are incompatible with the Polish constitution. The ruling set off a confrontation between Poland and the EU, large protests in Poland, and general fears both in Poland and Brussels that Poland is moving toward a "Polexit." Is it? In this roundtable, political analysts and experts in EU and Polish law will discuss the current crisis' political origins, its institutional underpinnings, and its potential outcomes.

Panelists: Marcin Menkes, associate professor, Warsaw School of Economics, and visiting professor of law, U-M; Sławomir Sierakowski, political analyst and co-founder, Krytyka Polityczna; Jarosław Szczepański, assistant professor of political science and international relations, University of Warsaw, and Academy of Justice, Institute of Law (Warsaw). Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, professor of sociology and CCPS/WCEE director, U-M.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/r8W0E

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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, 03 Nov 2021 15:25:58 -0400 2021-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Photo by User: MOs810 on Wikimedia Commons
Timelines, Lifespans, Sonnet Space: Diagrammatic Culture & Poetic Form (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88908 88908-21658899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

We'll be discussing Julia Carlson's recent work on Wordsworth's River Duddon sonnets and time charts, and her experience making additions to her article 'Historical Poetics, Poetics of History: Priestley’s Time Charts and The Visualization of Meter', published earlier this year. The event will take the form of a mini-lecture and Q&A.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:57:55 -0500 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A black and white headshot of Julia Carlson
CREES Noon Lecture. Neo-nationalism and De-democratization in Hungary: Anti-Gender Policies and the Politics of Resentment (December 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88957 88957-21659309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Free and open to the public. Register at: https://myumi.ch/yKeER

For over a decade in Hungary, the FIDESZ government of Viktor Orban has pursued the making of an “illiberal” democracy. During this period, CREES has sponsored lectures on events in Hungary, including Hungary’s outsized influence on populist and far-right movements elsewhere in Europe and more recently in the United States. Today’s roundtable continues this conversation with the work of two Hungarian anthropologists, Violetta Zentai and Margit Feischmidt. Each will briefly discuss aspects of their current work investigating contemporary Hungary under the Orban regime and then open the discussion to questions from the audience. The roundtable will be moderated by professor of anthropology and CREES faculty associate Krisztina Fehervary.

Professor Zentai will provide an overview from her work on the “anti-gender” political discourses propagated by the current authoritarian-populist regime, and its linkages to de-democratization in the region. Anti-gender discourses not only embrace sexist, homophobic, and anti-gender-equality reasoning, but help enact a nativist and biopolitical right-wing social imagination. She will address the transnational sources of this discourse as well as how it is used by home-grown actors to normalize and make respectable forms of discrimination that were once considered populist, backwards, and exclusionary.

Professor Feischmidt’s presentation will draw on a larger project undertaken to understand the cultural logic and social support of new forms of nationalism in Hungary. Here, she will discuss political elites who have fostered the contemporary “Trianon Cult,” a new phenomenon of collective mourning for losses suffered a century ago in the Treaty of Trianon (1920). This “view from above” will be complemented with a “view from below,” by examining the meanings that audiences give to these newly-constructed collective memories. The argument of the paper is that while the Trianon-cult invokes a historical trauma, it in fact speaks to current feelings of loss and resentment.


Margit Feischmidt is a research professor at the Research Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence, where she leads the Department for Sociology and Anthropology in Minority Studies. She is also the editor-in-chief of *Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics *and professor of communication and media studies, University of Pécs. With a doctoral degree from Humboldt University, she works on issues of migration, nationalism, ethnicity and minorities in East-Central Europe. Her first important publication was *Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town* (2006, Princeton University Press) co-authored by Brubaker, Fox and Grancea. After years working mainly on Roma and immigrant minorities in the region, she currently investigates new forms of nationalism, racism and the far-right. Her most recent edited book (with Pries and Cantat) is on civic forms of solidarity (*Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe*, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Violetta Zentai is a social anthropologist, associate professor in the Department of Public Policy, recurring visiting faculty in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, and research fellow at the Democracy Institute of Central European University, Budapest-Vienna. Her research focuses on ethnic and gender in/equalities, post-socialist socio-economic transformations, European social inclusion policies, and pro-equality civil society formations. She also worked with the Open Society Foundations for two decades. She co-leads a multi-year project titled Roma Civil Monitor with the participation of 90+ NGOs. Her publications include: *A Reflexive History of the Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe*. (Kocze, Zentai, Jovanovic, Vincze, eds., Routledge, 2018), and *From the Shadow to the Limelight: the Value of Civil Society Policy Monitoring Knowledge in Roma Equality Struggles* (Hojsik, Munteanu, Zentai, eds., CEU, forthcoming).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:44:50 -0500 2021-12-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Neo-nationalism and De-democratization in Hungary: Anti-Gender Policies and the Politics of Resentment
WCEE Book Series. In The Midst Of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms Of 1918-1921 And The Onset Of The Holocaust (December 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86156 86156-21631747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms—ethnic riots—dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His books, which include *The Moscow State Yiddish Theater* and *In the Shadow of the Shtetl*, have won a National Jewish Book Award, the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theatre Scholarship, two Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and the J. I. Segal Award.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/zxQPx

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:26:07 -0400 2021-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion In the Midst of Civilized Europe book cover
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO