Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Meet Author Joel Stone (February 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81463 81463-20895794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Through much of the nineteenth century, steam-powered ships provided one of the most reliable and comfortable transportation options on the Great Lakes. Join us for a free, virtual conversation with author Joel Stone, and revisit this elegant era of maritime history and the floating palaces that once navigated Great Lakes waters. We will discuss how he brings history to life in his writing and answer questions from attendees. The University of Michigan Press is the proud publisher of his book "Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas."

Joel Stone is Curator for the Dossin Great Lakes Museum and the Detroit Historical Society. Raised in the Detroit area, his research has focused on North American frontier and maritime cultures. He is also the coeditor of "Border Crossings: The Detroit River Region in the War of 1812" and author of “Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies.”

During the month of February, get your copy of "Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes: A History of Passenger Steamships on the Inland Seas" for only $14 and free shipping by using the discount code "UMGL14STONE" on our website: https://www.press.umich.edu/4641722/floating_palaces_of_the_great_lakes

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:12:20 -0500 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover image of "Floating Palaces"
Maps as Text, Subtext, and Hypertext: “Bending Lines,” a digital exhibition on persuasive maps (February 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81465 81465-20895793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson from the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library for a discussion about representation, reality, and the visualization of geographic information in the new exhibition "Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception." Dr. Nelson will discuss not only the content of the exhibition itself but also the challenges and opportunities associated with creating digital exhibitions of historic printed material. Participants are encouraged to view the online exhibit in advance.

Dr. Nelson will be joined by Clements Library Curator of Graphic Materials Clayton Lewis, and Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps Mary Pedley.

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library and The American Historical Print Collectors Society.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:05:07 -0500 2021-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual “Newsmap… Monday, December 27, 1943” from the Leventhal Map & Education Center
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (February 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80826 80826-20793356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Documentary. The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain's 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows the survivors as they organize the groundbreaking 'Argentine Lawsuit' and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, and explores a country still divided four decades into democracy.

SPECIAL a conversation with film's director, Almudena Carracedo, will follow; moderated by Sioban Harlow, School of Public Health. Other dates in the series: March 4 and March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpc-2vrjMiE9P1pJ3MetOUSDRJ036DXh3t

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:58:01 -0500 2021-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Silence of Others (Spain, 2018)
How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right! Islam Through Art (February 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80587 80587-20759741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Registration link: http://go.unc.edu/teachMENA

January 28: *Islam Through Art*
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
This webinar introduces participants to key issues and themes in Islamic art, including architectural interactions and the importance of ornament and Arabic-script calligraphy. This session also aims to dispel contemporary discourses about figural imagery, especially depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Finally, we will discuss readings, pedagogical strategies, and online resources which can help teach Islam in a manner that aims to circumvent simplistic presuppositions and “otherizing” binaries.

February 25: *Teaching Middle East History in World History*
Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
Relevant to high school curricula, we will explore ideas and strategies for using decisive moments in Middle East History to explore larger themes of World History including charisma, religious encounters, commerce, and geographical diversity.

March 18: *Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses*
Barbara Petzen, education consultant on the Middle East and Islam
This webinar will explore and demonstrate a wide variety of sensory approaches to learning about the Middle East. We’ll look at new ways to understand the diversity of the historical and contemporary Middle East through images and film, sound, taste and smell, and tactile experiences.

April 22: *Teaching about the Middle East through Underreported Stories*
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
This session with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will explore reporting on the MENA region and curricular resources that can be used to connect underreported news stories to the classroom. We will outline ways to engage students in global issues through journalism, develop media literacy, encourage critical thinking about the MENA region, and connect with a journalist for a conversation about their experience reporting from the Middle East.

May 20: *Hip Hop and Women's Voices in the Middle East and North Africa*
Angela Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Through the work of rap artists from the MENA region, we will learn about the varied lived experiences of girls and women in this region. Their music and online expressions depict the challenges and pressures they face, as well as spaces for hope and a better future for women and girls.


This series offers five interactive sessions between January and May 2021, featuring resources and strategies for teaching about the Middle East relevant to both in-person and virtual teaching for Grades 6-12 and community colleges. Educators may register for any or all of the sessions. SCECHs from the Michigan Department of Education are available.

The program is a collaboration with the National Resource Center dedicated to Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:01 -0500 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar event_image
MLK Reading Series (February 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80674 80674-20771623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Join MCSP, CSP, and LSWA for a series of conversations addressing the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at this crucial turning point in the history of racism in America. More than fifty years ago, King made a call for a poor people’s campaign to take up arms against the evils of racism, poverty, and militarism. Yet, King’s expanding and increasingly radical vision for his work is often forgotten, co-opted by voices that distort his emphasis on love, compassion, and nonviolence to serve the status quo. Anti-racist activists who’ve followed King have had to grapple with how to interpret and respond to his legacy. One of them, the Rev. William Barber relaunched the Poor People’s Campaign in 2018, adding to King’s list of evils “environmental degradation” and calling for a multiracial coalition of poor people to challenge America’s exploitation of its people and the land. This three-part reading group will trace King’s varied legacy from his last published book to the present day and consider how those of us working for social justice can understand and build on his legacy.

Any questions, or to receive the RSVP link for the reading materials and the Zoom link, email LSWA Director Carol Tell (tellc@umich.edu).

Jan. 13, 5 p.m. King, “The World House,” from Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
Feb. 25, 5 p.m. “MLK Now” by Brandon Terry and responses
NEW DATE Apr. 8, 5 p.m. William Barber, “Pastoral Letter to the Nation” and Marc Lamont Hill, “Language of the Unheard” and “Toward an Abolitionist Vision”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:06:54 -0400 2021-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Lecture / Discussion The MLK reading series flyer
Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82040 82040-21012672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Professor Emerita Shelley Perlove, History of Art (UM-Dearborn), will give a Zoom lecture on February 25, 2021, at 7 PM. Her talk, “Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,” is sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies (MCECS), the Department of Middle East Studies, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program of the University of Michigan.

The presentation focuses upon the diverse and ever-changing interpretations of Christ and his mother Mary from the 13th through the 17th c. in Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Selected works will be discussed in terms of their meaning and cultural context, including Catholic and Protestant controversies. Also of interest are the varied techniques in wood, marble, gold, and paint, as well as issues of museum display. In many cases an attempt will be made to “reconstruct” the original functions of these works created for ecclesiastical and domestic settings.

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/3L1yGa7JF2GCxdiA7
*We recommend registration at least two days before the event, although registration will remain open until the night of the event.*

Additional information is available on the MCECS website: https://mcecs.org/christian-art-at-the-dia/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:26:19 -0500 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
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

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, 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
Group Chat: We Contain Multitudes and Exist in Multiverses: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in UMMA's Collections (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81443 81443-20895772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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When Alisha B. Wormsley created the phrase, “There Are Black People in the Future,” she boldly articulated an “archive of information, histories, and myths that [continued] despite the apocalyptic narrative of Black American culture.”  Join Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, on this tour that looks at how Black artists within UMMA’s collection have used their craft to articulate identity, reflect on Black life globally, examine the stories we fail to tell, and reimagine a new future.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists.

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.  

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:15:58 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Group Chat: We Contain Multitudes and Exist in Multiverses: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in UMMA's Collections (February 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81444 81444-20895773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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When Alisha B. Wormsley created the phrase, “There Are Black People in the Future,” she boldly articulated an “archive of information, histories, and myths that [continued] despite the apocalyptic narrative of Black American culture.”  Join Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, on this tour that looks at how Black artists within UMMA’s collection have used their craft to articulate identity, reflect on Black life globally, examine the stories we fail to tell, and reimagine a new future.

This is one of five themed tours offered as part of UMMA + Chill during the month of February. Each theme will be accompanied by a customized beverage suggestion created by local mixologists.

Availability for this event is first-come first serve and may be full. Click here to check availability of this and other Group Chat events.  

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Presentation Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:15:53 -0500 2021-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82365 82365-21070618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

MESA is proud to present Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN. Join us for a thrilling event where Janaya Khan will discuss “The Future within the Black Lives Matter Movement and The Intersections of being a Black, Queer, and Gender-Nonconforming Activist" This event is sponsored by The Spectrum Center and Central Student Government, and will be co-moderated by students Adrian King (they/them), PhD candidate in American Culture, and Jolyna Chiangong, who will be joined by Vice President Of Student Life Dr. Martino Harmon.

With a timely message about the transformational power of protest, Janaya Khan is a leading activist who engages their community in a profound discussion about social justice and equality. Known as ‘Future’ within the Black Lives Matter movement, Janaya is a black, queer, gender-nonconforming activist (pronouns: they, them, theirs), staunch Afrofuturist and social-justice educator who presents an enlightening point of view on police brutality and systemic racism.

“Throughout the political tumult of 2020, one of the most prominent voices to become a source of healing and hope was Janaya Future Khan, whose rapidly-growing audience across social media now numbers in the hundreds of thousands. But while the activist’s weekly Sunday Sermons on Instagram provided a necessary forum for those looking to reflect and regroup during the pandemic and the instances of police brutality that sparked a renewal of energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement, Khan’s activism extends much further back—all the way to their childhood, spent between Toronto and Florida, and their subsequent years as a competitive boxer.

Galvanized by the 2014 killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Jermaine Carby in Toronto at the hands of police officers, Khan has had a longstanding involvement in Black Lives Matter—even launching its first international chapter in Canada—and became a necessary and informed voice for those seeking direction last summer. And like many around the world, Khan found themselves dismayed and angered by the scenes that unfolded on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building, where riots led by Trump supporters sieged the building to disrupt the final counting of the Electoral College ballots in favor of Joe Biden’s Presidential win, resulting in five deaths.” BY LIAM HESS January 10, 2021

MESA and the Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:08 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual JANAYA KHAN
Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Korean War through the Prism of the Interrogation Room (March 2, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78269 78269-20002852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at:
https://myumi.ch/pdWPE

Through the interrogation rooms of the Korean War, this talk demonstrates how the individual human subject became both the terrain and the jus ad bellum for this critical U.S. war of ‘intervention’ in postcolonial Korea. In 1952, with the US introduction of voluntary POW repatriation proposal at Panmunjom, the interrogation room and the POW became a flashpoint for an international controversy ultimately about postcolonial sovereignty and political recognition.

The ambitions of empire, revolution and non-alignment converged upon this intimate encounter of military warfare: the interrogator and the interrogated prisoner of war. Which state could supposedly reinvent the most intimate power relation between the colonizer and the colonized, to transform the relationship between the state and subject into one of liberation, democracy or freedom? Tracing two generations of people across the Pacific as they navigate multiple kinds of interrogation from the 1940s and 1950s, this talk lay outs a landscape of interrogation – a dense network of violence, bureaucracy, and migration – that breaks apart the usual temporal bounds of the Korean War as a discrete event.

Monica Kim is a historian of the United States and international and diplomatic history. In her research and teaching, she focuses on three issues that have centrally informed the position of the United States vis-à-vis the decolonizing world during the twentieth century and beyond: the relationships between liberalism and racial formations, global militarism and sovereignty, and transnational political movements and international law.

Her book, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History (2019) has received three book prizes:
2021 James B. Palais Book Prize (Korean Studies) from the Association for Asian Studies
2020 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2020 Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at edv@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 Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:27:07 -0500 2021-03-02T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-02T17:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Monica Kim, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin
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

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 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
Caravans, Cultures, and Chinggis -- Khan along the Silk Route (March 3, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79974 79974-20523444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Silk Route is a collection of pathways that, together, link China to Vienna, Istanbul, Baghdad, and India across the Inner Asian steppe and desert. During our meetings participants will discuss the Silk Route as a cultural conduit, on the one hand, as the source of empire and technologies, on the other, and look at specific examples of cultural dissemination. The Silk Route has provided some of the most engaging and best written volumes of travel literature.
There will be no required readings, but students may enjoy Owen Lattimore's The Desert Road to Turkestan, from 1928, or the Franciscan William of Rubruck's account of his journey to Karakorum in 1255.
This study group led by Rudi Lindner will meet for five Wednesdays beginning March 3.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 10:23:24 -0500 2021-03-03T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81923 81923-20990903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:34:49 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wleGk

The phrase “Arts of Devotion” typically brings to mind traditional ritual objects used as part of religious practices, or evokes items like costumes, masks, dances, songs, poetry, and literature. Arts of Devotion can tend to be conflated with only those items that are understood as “traditional,” rather than those that emerge from the contemporary moment, as if modern and contemporary art can only be associated with the purely secular world.

Yet there are numerous contemporary artists who have incorporated elements of the devotional into their works, and devotional arts have changed with the advent of modern technologies and changing socio-political contexts. We might also consider Arts of Devotion as potentially extending beyond the usual association with the religious to other “devotional” relationships, such as those for political or revolutionary leaders, or individuals’ loved ones.

This year’s conference explores both contemporary and traditional Arts of Devotion by bringing together scholars from across disciplines and temporal and regional contexts, to engage with one another and a broader audience of faculty, students, and the general public.

Free and open to the public.
This conference is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the U.S. Department of Education

Co-sponsors: African Studies Center, Center for Armenian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, History of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art

For schedule and panel information:
https://ii.umich.edu/ii/news-events/all-events/ii-conference.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (March 4, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81372 81372-20887847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

The event will begin with a short (6 min) background video made in 2015 by South Asians for Human Rights, followed by the documentary "White Van Stories" (2016, 1hr 10min). In the North, East and South Provinces of Sri Lanka, families search for their disappeared family members in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.

During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. Discussion will follow the movie featuring & White Van Stories
Discussants: Jim McDonald (Amnesty International) and Nirmala Rajasingam (Author, Activist). Other dates include March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED Https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V2i0qVhCR4qpH0YPrWXFuQ

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:02:00 -0500 2021-03-04T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening Sri Lanka forced disappearances
A Taste of Frontier Medicine: The Kumys Cure in Sergei Aksakov’s Eastern Frontier Trilogy (March 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81936 81936-20990916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

"A Taste of Frontier Medicine” considers Sergei Aksakov’s extensive, mid-nineteenth-century memoirs through the lens of a “frontier family narrative,” a genre perhaps more familiar in the American literary setting. While Aksakov’s work has received critical attention for its memoiristic content and attention to nature, the geohistorical specificity of the trilogy’s setting has been overlooked. This is surprising given the recent interest in understanding Russian colonial and imperial experience. A Family Chronicle (1856) and Childhood Years (1856) are not books in which the action could take place anywhere or in some generic pastoral or provincial space. Rather, they are about a specific place – Orenburgskii krai (Bashkiria) – that was a borderland, frontier, and contact zone from the time of its inclusion within Russian imperial space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into Aksakov’s lifetime. In “A Taste of Frontier Medicine,” I explore some of the ways in which the eastern Russian border with “Asia” broadly understood frames Aksakov’s work, as well as how these texts make claims about Russian identity as something defined by and in the “hybrid,” Eurasian sphere of the border zone. Discussion will center on two episodes that articulate a critical aspect of Aksakov’s frontier imaginary: the narrator’s mother’s taking of a “kumys cure.” The “kumys cure” serves as a revitalizing moment that establishes “nomadic,” “Asiatic” elements of the frontier as a crucial antidote to both a perceived excess of civilization and, counter-intuitively, to the potential dangers of the frontier zone itself.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:06 -0500 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar A Taste of Frontier Medicine
Bridging the Gap Series: UMich Alumnae in Public Service Panel (March 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82565 82565-21118087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

We are hosting the third event in our Bridging the Gap Series Thursday, March 4th from 7-8:30pm!

The third event will be a UMich Alumnae in Public Service Panel featuring Kari Rea, Government Affairs Manager at the Partnership for Public Service; Frankie Moore, Director of Development at Community Action Network of Ann Arbor; and Emily Slavkin, Grassroots Director of Government Programs at Teach Coalition.

Each panelist will introduce themselves and answer a few prepared questions, followed by an open Q&A.

Please follow the Zoom link to participate. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:18:33 -0500 2021-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - UMich Alumnae in Public Service PAnel
IISS Lecture Series. Revelations from the Cairo Geniza on the Ottoman Era in Egypt (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82006 82006-21004773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free and open to the public. Register at https://myumi.ch/zx790

The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar is pleased to announce our new public lecture ‘Revelations from the Cairo Geniza on the Ottoman Era in Egypt with Professor Jane Hathaway.

The Abstract:

"In this talk, I will present findings from my recent research in Ottoman-era documents of the Cairo Geniza. While the Geniza is well-known as a rich source for the economic and social history of Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean during the high Middle Ages (roughly 10th-early 13th centuries), the smaller volume of documents from the Ottoman period has remained understudied. For the past several months, I have worked with Arabic-script documents from this corpus. My talk will focus on a paleographically challenging document describing an inheritance dispute in the Mediterranean port of Damietta in 1538, only twenty-one years after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. The case sheds light on the status of Jewish converts to Islam, on Ottoman efforts to revive Damietta as a commercial entrepôt, and on continuities between late Mamluk Sultanate-era and Ottoman-era judicial and chancery practices".

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:49:09 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Revelations from the Cairo Geniza on the Ottoman Era in Egypt lecture poster
LACS Indigenous Languages Program Event. Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82092 82092-21034704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at https://myumi.ch/3q00K

Lecture presented by Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University

Discussant: Laura Pensa, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M

In the early 1970s, sociologist Orlando Fals Borda combined sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements in collaboration with the National Association of Peasant Users on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The presentation examines the development of participatory action research, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists and preparing accessible materials for a campesino readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. The fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.

Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Latin American cultural studies and anthropology at Georgetown University. An anthropologist pursuing dual lines of research in ethnographic history and collaborative ethnography, she previously looked at the role of literacy and historical memory in indigenous activism in Colombia and at the emergence of indigenous intellectuals in Latin America. Her recent work centers on collaborative ethnography that draws equally on academic and nonacademic agendas, theories, and methods. She is the author of *The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada*, *Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, and Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia*, and *Cowards Don′t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research* all also published by Duke University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:05:16 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia poster
The Building Blocks for Creating an Encyclopedia: Cartography Discover Series, Session 1 (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82184 82184-21050551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In April of 2020, after nearly twenty years of planning, writing, and editing, *The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment* (University of Chicago Press) appeared. A massive reference work of 1651 pages, it comprises 479 entries with 954 full color illustrations, written by 207 contributors from 26 countries. In this webinar series, Co-Editors Matthew Edney (University of Southern Maine) and Mary Pedley (Clements Library) enjoy three conversations about the design, contents, and illustrations of this volume.

In session 1, Pedley and Edney discuss the design and rationale for the encyclopedia format of the volume and the challenges and benefits of this structure.

Mary Sponberg Pedley is the Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps at the Clements Library. Her research has focused on French and English map makers and map production in the long eighteenth century.

Matthew H. Edney holds the Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and is the Director of the History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Register at http://myumi.ch/0W0j3

*This online event is a Zoom Webinar with three sessions (March 9, March 16, March 23). Your microphone will be muted and video turned off automatically. Machine closed captioning will be available during the event. Live attendees will be encouraged to use the chat function to submit questions and comments. After each session, all registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:36:25 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Cover of "The History of Cartography Volume 4"
Bioethics Discussion: Infection (March 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58838 58838-14563730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion spreading to others.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings to consider:
––Evidence and Effectiveness in Decision-Making for Quarantine
––The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century
––From SARS to Ebola: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Modern Quarantine
––Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: Ethical considerations for conducting controlled human infection studies

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/057-infection/.

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Feel free to stop by the website, not even the blog is viral: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:40:23 -0500 2021-03-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Infection
British Empire in India (March 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79973 79973-20523443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In the year 1600, some British merchants sailed to Asia in search of fortune in trade and built "factories" in India's coastal towns. In the course of time, it expanded into an empire of Britain. Second World War bankrupted Britain and they ceded power in 1947 to two political entities, India and Pakistan.
The lectures will include the history of the conquest, the functioning of the empire and the resulting political, social, economic, and cultural changes, as well as the birth of a modern democracy in India.
Study group leader Venkat Lakshminarayanan has led many OLLI study groups on Indian history, culture and religions.
This study group will meet for seven Wednesdays beginning March 10.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 10:09:19 -0500 2021-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Unintended Consequences (March 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79979 79979-20523449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Society often tries to fix things, but creates something worse. This is a very important, but not commonly discussed topic.
A leading historian advises that "The law of unintended consequence is the only real law of history."
The course will explore case studies starting with Adam and Eve, and proceed through modern times, dealing with war, economic actions, and law enforcement. The presentation and discussion will compare what was intended with what actually occurred. Participants will come away with a more enlightened way of looking at the events that are continuously occurring around us.

This study group led by Martin Stolzenberg, author of "The Advocacy Newsletter," will meet Wednesday March 10. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:53:47 -0500 2021-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
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
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (March 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81924 81924-20990904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

"Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation” is a Detroit community-based course that welcomes participation by the general public, including college students from both U-M and Wayne State University. The class is hosted and developed by a partnership among: the General Baker Institute (a non-profit community-based organization located in NW Detroit) faculty in the U-M Semester in Detroit Program, and faculty from the Wayne State University Department of African-American Studies and the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. This class is made possible with generous support provided by the Michigan-Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis, College of LSA & A. Alfred Taubman College of. Architecture and Urban Planning.
The minicourse will explore contemporary and historical intersections between public health and structural racism - both in Detroit and throughout U.S. society more broadly. Each week, we will be joined by Detroit activist-scholars who will help everyone more deeply understand what is happening today in Detroit and in our country more broadly.

In addition to the class content described above, U-M students who register for the 1-credit mini-course will also have the opportunity to meet and to learn from some of the veteran Detroit activists who are building the General Baker Institute (GBI). The organization recently opened its new community center in NW Detroit to honor the legacy of General Gordon Baker Jr., one of the most important labor and community activists in modern Detroit history.

For more information about this public series, please contact Craig Regester, Semester in Detroit Associate Director, at 313-505-5185 or email: regester@umich.edu. Session themes are outlined below, and the speakers will be announced (as well as suggested reading materials) on this website closer to the session dates.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:35:38 -0500 2021-03-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81374 81374-20887849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. Discussion will follow the movie.

The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida was supposed to be a place where troubled kids could go to straighten out their lives. What these boys found there would instead leave lasting scars and dozens of unexplained deaths.Deadly Secrets follows the work of forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle from the University of South Florida, who has made it her personal mission to uncover the truth behind these mysterious deaths and disappearances. With unprecedented access to family members, photography and old records, Dr. Kimmerle and reporter Ben Montgomery expose the truth behind Dozier's missing boys, providing closure to families that have been haunted by this nightmare for decades.

DISCUSSANTS
Susan Waltz (Ford School of Public Policy) & Sioban Harlow (School of public health); moderated by Leigh Pearce (School of Public Health).

REGISTRATION REQUIRED
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BiMutdkDRjG81-ZW85-5Og

READINGS & RESOURCES
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9iTfwRkpX00Y8BMNMd1Ib9wX-ruDB_3sgv9SXa2io/edit?usp=sharing

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Film Screening Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:31:54 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening March 11 Dozier School for Boys (FL, U.S.)
Detroit, Motown, and the Civil Rights Movement (March 11, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82790 82790-21179559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a lecture and discussion with distinguished acoustic bassist, Marion Hayden on Thursday, March 11th at 6 pm EST!

The city of Detroit's rich musical history has forever shaped popular music in the United States. The migration of jazz musicians to Detroit in the 1920s and 1930s caused the area to develop its own thriving music scene. By the 1960s, the area became known for the first black owned record label, Motown. Today, the name "Motown" is synonymous with funk and soul music.

Detroit was home to some of the most important events of the 1960s and 1970s Civil Rights Movement. Consequently, jazz musicians in Detroit have witnessed music's role in shaping race relations within the city and across the United States.

Join us for this lecture and discussion, where Marion Hayden will tell of her experiences as a bassist in Detroit. With her deep knowledge of the city's musical history, learn how Motown and jazz were musical vanguards in altering to the social landscape of Detroit, Michigan, and the United States.


>> About Marion

Born in Detroit, MI, a crucible of jazz, Marion Hayden is one of the nation’s finest proponents of the acoustic bass. Mentored by master trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, Hayden began performing jazz at the age of 15. She has performed with such diverse luminaries as Bobby McFerrin, Nancy Wilson, Geri Allen, Regina Carter, Steve Turre, Lester Bowie, David Allen Grier, James Carter, Dorothy Donegan, Joe Williams, Lionel Hampton, Frank Morgan, Jon Hendricks, Hank Jones, Bobby Hutcherson, Larry Willis, Vanessa Rubin, Sheila Jordan, Mulgrew Miller, Annie Ross and many others. She is a co-founder of the touring jazz ensemble Straight Ahead- the first all woman jazz ensemble signed to Atlantic Records. She is a member of the Detroit International Jazz Festival All-Star Ambassadors touring ensemble.

Widely recognized as a standard bearer of culture and artistic history, Hayden received a 2019 Art X Grant and a Creators of Culture Grant for original musical works. She was Artistic Director for a 2018 Knight Arts Foundation Grant encouraging young women in jazz. In 2016 Hayden was honored for her work as a performer and educator with the prestigious Kresge Artist Fellowship- a 1 year fellowship and grant award given an elite group of creative artists. She was the recipient of a 2016 Jazz Hero Award.- a national award given by the Jazz Journalists Association- recognizing people who have made a significant contribution through their artistry and community engagement.

As an arts advocate, Hayden has served as Grant Panelist for the Detroit Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Art-Ops and the Highland Park Cultural Commission. She also serves as panelist or consultant for South Arts, Detroit Sound Conservancy, Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the Kresge Foundation, Jazz Education Network and Society of the Culturally Concerned.

A passionate advocate for youth music education, Hayden teaches for Michigan State Univ. Community Music School Detroit and is an educator in residence for the Detroit Jazz Festival. As well, she conducts the Next Gen Ensemble- a performing group of some of the areas best young musicians. Hayden holds faculty positions in the Jazz Studies Departments at University of Michigan and Oakland University. Hayden is the Bass instructor for the Geri Allen Jazz Camp, Newark, NJ. , and in 2021 will join the faculty at Centrum Jazz, Port Townsend, WA.

“It has been a privilege and a gift to learn and experience music in Detroit. The informal music education here is both thorough and rigorous and includes arranging, composing and production. The mentoring I received from the men and women in this music community was critical to my development as a creative artist. It instilled in me a sense of deep reverence and respect for music traditions, but also a fearlessness and openness about bringing those traditions forward in an original and authentic way. I express this creative openness through the projects and collaborations I engage in.”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:08:09 -0500 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Flier with Hayden photo
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 12, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 1: Orientalism and the Erasure of Arab Women Poets (March 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81553 81553-20925407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Orientalism and the Erasure of Arab Women Poets: Reinscribing Gender in Medieval Adab Culture

Arabic manuscripts in world archives transmit the speeches and poetry of women from pre-Islamic times to the modern era, citing at least 400 named women. Gendered eloquence (Balāghāt al-Nisāʾ) was a widely recognized category of verbal art in adab-humanities, from the ninth century onward. Thousands of texts document a Shahrazadian (logo-centric) counter-culture resistant to ossified patriarchal authority in pre-Islamic and medieval Arabo-Islamic societies. Over the past five centuries, though, oriental studies has taken little notice of the phenomenon and modern print sources have hardly done justice to the legacy of women’s verbal art. Western scholarship has in effect muted Arab women poets for centuries, with the attendant risks of permanent extinction of an intangible world heritage. How and why did this erasure happen? This talk shifts frame between the contemporary and the premodern, between the ghosts of orientalist scholarship and the legacy of premodern Arab women demanding to be heard and remembered once again.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:00:39 -0500 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Bayad-oud-wine
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In the afternoon, the public is invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. The conversation will revolve around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal, and Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, which won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award and has recently been republished in the US. Apostol is also the author of Insurrecto, which has been included in the list of the ten best books for 2018 by the magazine Publishers Weekly.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L50hQhumR_GoQ45jVwQPtA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US (March 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76261 76261-19679593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Bald will draw upon his past and ongoing historical research to trace out the ways that, for more than a century, South Asians have been simultaneously celebrated and vilified in U.S. popular culture and accepted only within narrowly and purposefully drawn limits as immigrants and citizens. He will examine a series of moments in South Asian American history - the "India Craze" at the turn of the 20th century; the shifting immigration laws of 1917 and 1965; the 1923 Supreme Court case of Bhagat Singh Thind; the 2016 presidential election - assessing how the "model minority" idea functions not simply as a myth, but as part of structures and processes of state discipline.

Vivek Bald is a scholar, filmmaker, and digital media producer whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. He is the author of *Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America* (Harvard University Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery of* The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power *(NYU Press, 2013). Bald's articles and essays have appeared in *Souls, Dissent, South Asian Popular Culture*, and the collections *Black Routes to Islam, Asian Americans in Dixie, and With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire*. His documentary films include *Taxi-vala/Auto-biography* (1994) and *Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music* (2003). Bald is currently working on a second book, *The Rise and Fall of "Prince" Ranji Smile: Fantasies of India at the Dawn of the American Century*, as well as the transmedia "Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project" which includes a feature-length documentary film, "*In Search of Bengali Harlem*", slated for broadcast on PBS in 2012, and an accompanying web-based community history platform. He is Associate Professor in Comparative Media Studies and Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT's Open Documentary Lab.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrc-qorDkuE9VBv2d12jFx7naYiR9Vowtb

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at csas@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 09 Mar 2021 11:30:13 -0500 2021-03-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-12T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 13, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-13T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-13T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 14, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-14T00:00:00-05:00 2021-03-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 15, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
STS Speaker. The Specter of Irreversible Change (March 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80668 80668-20769662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

In 1950, the United States had 299 nuclear weapons in its stockpile. By 1960, it had 18,638. And by 1965, it had 31,139. As the United States and Russia massively increased both the power and the range of their nuclear weaponry, it became possible to conceive of a catastrophic, global-scale war, and the Atomic Energy Commission funded studies to investigate the economic and environmental consequences of such a war. Along with military planners, sociologists, and even science fiction writers, ecologists were tasked by the U.S. government with envisioning the immense destructive potential of nuclear weaponry. In so doing, ecologists did not picture the outcome of World War III as the total annihilation of life on earth; there would have been no point to such an exercise. Instead, ecologists anticipated a period of environmental and economic recovery after World War III and considered how the government could hasten that recovery – how they could pursue ecological restoration. Ecologists and military strategists revisited studies of past ecological disasters, including the American Dust Bowl, in their attempt to plan for apocalypse. Their Doomsday imaginings drew on ecological succession theory, expanding the category of “environmental disturbance” beyond windstorms, fires, and floods to include nuclear bombs – and, ultimately, any human action. Meanwhile, in order to simulate the effects of nuclear war, ecologists began to destroy ecological communities intentionally. They irradiated forests and fumigated islands, trying to measure how intentionally stressed communities responded. These ecosystem destruction studies reveal the key contributions that the Cold War arms race made to the theory and practice of ecological restoration.

Laura J. Martin is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Williams College. Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of environmental history, history of biology, and conservation biology. She is currently finishing a book on the history of ecological restoration as an idea, a practice, and a scientific discipline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:39:44 -0500 2021-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-15T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Laura Martin
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970 (March 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80188 80188-20594129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This presentation makes the case for a new concept of “global medicine" to highlight the multivalent and multidirectional flows of medical practices and ideas circulating around the world in the 20th century through the examination of two case studies on how the Chinese diaspora came to shape biomedicine in China and Taiwan from 1937 to 1970. First, the presentation examines how Chinese American women medical personnel came to establish the first Chinese blood bank in New York and Kunming, China. Second, this talk reveals how Singapore-born and Edinburgh-educated Dr. Robert Lim successfully relocated the National Defense Medical Center from China to Taiwan in 1948 despite the longstanding challenges posed by the Chinese Civil War. This presentation highlights the essential intersections of scientific expertise, political freedoms, and diasporic power in shaping global medicine in China and Taiwan through a critical examination of these two medical encounters between the diaspora and the local Chinese and Taiwanese.

Wayne Soon (PhD Princeton) is an Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. His book, "Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History" (Stanford University Press, 2020), tells the global medical histories of Chinese East Asia through the lens of diasporic Chinese medical personnel, who were central in introducing new practices of military medicine, blood banking, mobile medicine, and mass medical training to China and Taiwan. Universal care, practical medical education, and mobile medicine are all lasting legacies of this effort on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. Dr. Soon’s published and forthcoming articles can be found in "Twentieth Century China," "Bulletin of the History of Medicine," "American Journal of Chinese Studies," and "East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal."

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.

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zruicPE8SpOGti5PJxsvAA

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:32:00 -0500 2021-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Wayne Soon, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar
The Minutiae behind Mapmaking: Cartography Discover Series, Session 2 (March 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82185 82185-21050552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Mary Pedley & Matthew Edney are joined by *The History of Cartography Volume Four* contributor on Ottoman mapping, Gottfried Hagen (University of Michigan), to explore the particularly special and unusual aspects of mapmaking in the long eighteenth century.

Gottfried Hagen is Associate Professor of Turkish Studies and teaches a broad range of courses on Turkish, Ottoman, and Islamicate cultural history, as well as Ottoman language. In his research, he asks how Ottoman culture constructed the globe and the universe, space, self, and others.

Mary Sponberg Pedley is the Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps at the Clements Library and co-editor with Matthew Edney of *The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment.* Her research has focused on French and English map makers and map production in the long eighteenth century.

Matthew H. Edney holds the Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and is the Director of the History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Register at http://myumi.ch/0W0j3

*This online event is a Zoom Webinar with three sessions (March 9, March 16, March 23). Your microphone will be muted and video turned off automatically. Machine closed captioning will be available during the event. Live attendees will be encouraged to use the chat function to submit questions and comments. After each session, all registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:45:15 -0500 2021-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual A chart of the bay of Marmorice on the coast of Anatolia… from an actual survey taken in 1801. Clements Library Image Bank.
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 17, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Building the Border: The United States, the British Empire, and Native Nations of the Great Lakes, 1796-1812 (March 17, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79983 79983-20525407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Study group leader Jonathan Quint, University of Michigan Department of History PhD candidate and Clements Library Intern, will discuss his research on how the ordinary people of the Detroit River region experienced the imposition of the U.S.- Canadian border in 1796 and his work with the Clements and UM faculty to create instructional activities that connect students with the archives.
This study group will meet Wednesday March 17. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:16:30 -0500 2021-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
EIHS Lecture: Labor, Love, & Loss: Black Women's Networks of Care in the Transition from Slavery to Freedom (March 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79651 79651-20438369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk explores themes from a new book project that considers Black women’s reproductive care work in the face of miscarriage, infant and child loss, elder care, and sickness. Although this is a book about loss, it is also a book about survival. Professor Simmons argues that during the transition from slavery to freedom, Black mothers mobilized intergenerational and intersubjective connections with other women in their community to manage sickness, take care of themselves and one another, and mourn loss.

LaKisha Simmons is associate professor in History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gendered experiences of racial violence and Black women and girls’ strategies for survival in the face of racism. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans and currently at work on a collection called The Global History of Black Girlhood co-edited with Corinne Field.

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 07:22:38 -0500 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion LaKisha Simmons
Frieda Ekotto and Lewis Gordon in Conversation: Frantz Fanon in the Times of BLM (March 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82893 82893-21211376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature, and Francophone Studies of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particularly her political analysis of his prison writing, and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world. Her research and teaching focus on literature, film, race, and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb.

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:12:55 -0500 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right! Islam Through Art (March 18, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80587 80587-20759742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Registration link: http://go.unc.edu/teachMENA

January 28: *Islam Through Art*
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
This webinar introduces participants to key issues and themes in Islamic art, including architectural interactions and the importance of ornament and Arabic-script calligraphy. This session also aims to dispel contemporary discourses about figural imagery, especially depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Finally, we will discuss readings, pedagogical strategies, and online resources which can help teach Islam in a manner that aims to circumvent simplistic presuppositions and “otherizing” binaries.

February 25: *Teaching Middle East History in World History*
Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
Relevant to high school curricula, we will explore ideas and strategies for using decisive moments in Middle East History to explore larger themes of World History including charisma, religious encounters, commerce, and geographical diversity.

March 18: *Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses*
Barbara Petzen, education consultant on the Middle East and Islam
This webinar will explore and demonstrate a wide variety of sensory approaches to learning about the Middle East. We’ll look at new ways to understand the diversity of the historical and contemporary Middle East through images and film, sound, taste and smell, and tactile experiences.

April 22: *Teaching about the Middle East through Underreported Stories*
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
This session with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will explore reporting on the MENA region and curricular resources that can be used to connect underreported news stories to the classroom. We will outline ways to engage students in global issues through journalism, develop media literacy, encourage critical thinking about the MENA region, and connect with a journalist for a conversation about their experience reporting from the Middle East.

May 20: *Hip Hop and Women's Voices in the Middle East and North Africa*
Angela Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Through the work of rap artists from the MENA region, we will learn about the varied lived experiences of girls and women in this region. Their music and online expressions depict the challenges and pressures they face, as well as spaces for hope and a better future for women and girls.


This series offers five interactive sessions between January and May 2021, featuring resources and strategies for teaching about the Middle East relevant to both in-person and virtual teaching for Grades 6-12 and community colleges. Educators may register for any or all of the sessions. SCECHs from the Michigan Department of Education are available.

The program is a collaboration with the National Resource Center dedicated to Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:01 -0500 2021-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar event_image
Campus Chords: Devotional Harmonies and the Dissonance of Difference in the University of Michigan’s Songbook (March 18, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82900 82900-21211383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Learn the origin stories of Michigan's traditional songs, as well as the social functions of songs and singing on campus. Discover how racism and sexism are heard in American popular music and how it echoes in the University's own historical songbook today. In this Making Michigan presentation Mark Clague, Associate Dean of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, will discuss these and other aspects of the U-M songbook, illustrating points with music recorded for his class on this same topic and for this occasion itself. The session is sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library and will be moderated by Gary Krenz.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:14:05 -0500 2021-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Event poster with picture of Mark Clague
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Clements Bookworm: "What We're Reading Now" (March 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82187 82187-21050554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Panelists Dick Marsh, Sara Quashnie, and Paul Erickson revisit the theme of our first Bookworm in March 2020, discussing “what we’re reading now.”

Register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this webinar series. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session.*

*Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:11:52 -0500 2021-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Symposium: Where Is Social Reproduction Theory Now? (March 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79658 79658-20438377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

There has been an explosion in recent years of scholarship on social reproduction theory (SRT), which builds on a long tradition of critique within Marxist feminist scholarship that has focused on the labor required to produce workers and society as a whole. While it arose out of the need to explain the continued oppression of women under capitalism, the SRT framework has been extended to understanding racism and other sources of division between workers. SRT offers a perspective on the link between the oppressive logics of “race,” sexuality, ability, gender, and more, with the development and actualization of labor powers. In short, a renewed SRT provides a historical materialist theory of multiple oppressions within capitalist society. This body of scholarship, varied in its political and theoretical orientations, takes as its subject precisely the continuous and daily reproduction of capitalism as a system. Our round table discussion consists of a conversation with Tithi Bhattacharya, one of the foremost proponents of social reproduction theory, on some of the recent developments in SRT and their relevance in our current conjuncture.

Registrants will receive a link to a pre-circulated paper by Professor Bhattacharya.

For a brief video explaining social reproduction theory, please visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uur-pMk7XjY

Panelists:
Tithi Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, History, Purdue University
Sueann Caulfield, Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan
Emily A. Peterson, Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor; English Language and Literature, Women's and Gender Studies; University of Michigan
Rosario Ceballo (moderator), Professor; Women's and Gender Studies, Psychology; University of Michigan

Free and open to the public.

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. Presented in partnership with the Department of Women's and Gender Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:04:15 -0500 2021-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Freedman Lecture Panel (March 22, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82862 82862-21203326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Who was the historical John the Baptist? The New Testament authors portrayed him as the forerunner of Jesus of Nazareth and claimed that he played a significant part in shaping the early Jesus Movement and Christian Origins. The 2021 Freedman Lecture hosted specialists of the New Testament to reflect on the person and tradition of John the Baptist: Joel Marcus, Joan Taylor, Albert Baumgarten, Edmondo Lupieri, Rivka Nir, and Gabriele Boccaccini. Each panelist responded to the question, ‘Who is my John the Baptist?’

Join us on Zoom from 3-5pm on March 22 for a showing of the Freedman Lecture Panel followed by lively discussion with four additional New Testament specialists who will reflect on the presentations and the recent Enoch Nangeroni Meeting dedicated to John the Baptist (http://enochseminar.org/online-2021).

The live discussion is chaired by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

Discussants include James McGrath (Butler University), Clare K. Rothschild (Lewis University/Stellenbosch University), Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies), and Joshua Scott (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:14:54 -0400 2021-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Freedman Lecture Panel: Who was the Historical John the Baptist?
Cute Cute Kokeshi! A Conversation with artist Takatoshi Hayashi and UMMA curator Natsu Oyobe (March 22, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82794 82794-21179562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

register here.

Takatoshi Hayashi is a kokeshi maker who lives and works in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. After his home city was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, Hayashi started making kokeshi that are based on forms of traditional kokeshi--a wooden doll of a round face and slender body made by lathe--infusing them with imaginative designs drawn from pop culture. His kokeshi brand "Ishinomaki Kokeshi" is dubbed as "kawaii" ("cute") and attracts many Japanese and international fans. In this intimate conversation, Hayashi and UMMA's Curator of Asian Art, Natsu Oyobe, will talk about the history of kokeshi, its regional differences using UMMA's traditional kokeshi collection, and how his creation relates to the tradition and the memories of the earthquake.

Also look for the Tree Tree Ishinomaki Pop-up at the UMMA Shop!  The UMMA Shop will feature a selection of Takotoshi Hayashi’s signature kokeshi designs available for sale beginning late March 2021.  

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:15:40 -0400 2021-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Digitization and Cartography Research: Cartography Discover Series, Session 3 (March 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82186 82186-21050553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Mary Pedley & Matthew Edney are joined by Karl Longstreth (Clark Library, University of Michigan) on the many challenges of digitizing maps and the advantages to research that such images bring.

Karl Longstreth is the Map Librarian in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library where he selects materials and provides bibliographic assistance for the Clark Library map collection, and more generally for environmental studies, geography and urban history in the Graduate Library.

Mary Sponberg Pedley is the Adjunct Assistant Curator of Maps at the Clements Library and co-editor with Matthew Edney of *The History of Cartography Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment.* Her research has focused on French and English map makers and map production in the long eighteenth century.

Matthew H. Edney holds the Osher Chair in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and is the Director of the History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Register at http://myumi.ch/0W0j3

*This online event is a Zoom Webinar with three sessions (March 9, March 16, March 23). Your microphone will be muted and video turned off automatically. Machine closed captioning will be available during the event. Live attendees will be encouraged to use the chat function to submit questions and comments. After each session, all registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:04:59 -0500 2021-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Carte particulière des environs de Paris (1678), University of Michigan Clark Library
Bioethics Discussion: Accidents (March 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58839 58839-14563731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we were not meant to have.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings to consider:
––Defining Failure: The Language, Meaning and Ethics of Medical Error
––Taking the blame: appropriate responses to medical error
––Medical Error and Moral Luck
––When AIs Outperform Doctors: Confronting the Challenges of a Tort-Induced Over-Reliance on Machine Learning

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/058-accidents/.

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By accident, by choice, or not at all, the three ways of arriving somewhere, such as the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:39:36 -0500 2021-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Accidents
Meet Author Patricia Majher (March 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82636 82636-21147757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

What do you know about the rich history of female lighthouse keepers on the Great Lakes? Celebrate Women's History Month with us by learning about some of the women who kept those lighthouses running, defying the gender expectations of their time to serve the sailing communities on Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, as well as on the Detroit River!

Patricia Majher is author of "Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service," the former editor of Michigan History magazine, and a museum professional. She will share the stories of some of these lighthouse keepers and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live.

"Ladies of the Lights" will be on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of March. Just visit press.umich.edu and use the discount code "UMGL12MAJHER" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:35:28 -0500 2021-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Ladies of the Lights" in front of a lighthouse photo
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | Recovering an Art: David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem (March 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80218 80218-20601994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: http://myumi.ch/AxDMx

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light and beckon the eye. These colorful wares—known as Armenian ceramics—are iconic features of the Holy City. Silently, these works of ceramic art—an art that graces homes and museums around the world—also represent a riveting story of resilience and survival. In 1919, David Ohannessian founded the art of Armenian ceramics in Jerusalem, where his work and that of his followers is now celebrated as a local treasure. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, Ohannessian mastered a centuries-old art form in Kütahya, witnessed the rise of violent nationalism in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new tradition in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and spent his final years, uprooted once again, in Cairo and Beirut. Ms. Moughalian will detail the lineage of her grandfather David Ohannessian’s ceramic tradition and document the critical roles his deportation and his own agency played in its transfer—aspects of the story obscured in the art historical narrative. She will speak about the process of coming to terms with her family’s past, the ways in which that served as an impetus to excavate and reconstruct her grandfather’s history through archival research, and the importance of preserving the stories of peoples displaced through migration.

Sato Moughalian is the author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian” (Redwood Press/ Stanford University Press, 2019). She is also an award winning flutist in New York City and Artistic Director of Perspectives Ensemble, founded in 1993 at Columbia University to explore and contextualize works of composers and visual artists. She serves as principal flutist of the American Modern Ensemble and Gotham Chamber Opera; guest flutist with groups including Imani Winds, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestras, and the Orquestra Sinfonico do Estado São Paulo, Brazil. She can be heard on more than thirty chamber music recordings for Sony Classics, BIS, Naxos, as well as on YouTube, Spotify, and other major music platforms. Since 2007, Ms. Moughalian has traveled to Turkey, England, Israel, Palestine, and France to uncover her grandfather’s traces, has published articles, and gives talks on the genesis of Jerusalem’s Armenian ceramic art.

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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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:32:40 -0500 2021-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Sato Moughalian, award-winning flutist and author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian"
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Monuments of Resilience: A Virtual Tour of Sites of Enslavement (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82619 82619-21145771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In this live Zoom event for the U-M community, Joseph McGill, founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project, conducts a virtual tour of the slave cabins and burial ground at Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the tour, McGill will lead a group conversation about American slavery and its legacy today.

Learn more about Joseph and the Slave Dwelling Project at http://slavedwellingproject.org

Open to U-M students, staff, faculty, and those with U-M login credentials

Co-sponsored by the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Anthropology

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:53:40 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
Jeopardy Game (March 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83248 83248-21322439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join the Clements and the UM History Club for a fun-packed, virtual game of Jeopardy.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:54:54 -0400 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Social / Informal Gathering virtual jeopardy
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
IISS Lecture Series. The Qur'an in the Roman Empire: a New Approach to its Meaning (March 26, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82739 82739-21171571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

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The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar is pleased to announce a lecture "The Qur'an in the Roman Empire: a New Approach to its Meaning" by Professor Juan Cole on March 26, 1:00-2:30 pm.


This talk will review the author's findings about the meaning of Qur'anic vocabulary and the context of Qur'anic theology and law in the seventh-century Eastern Roman Empire. It will be argued that Greek was still an urban standard in the Near East in the early seventh century, that many Arabic technical terms are calques on Greek conceptions, and that late Roman law had an impact on Qur'anic law. At the same time, it is argued that the Qur'an is a much more tolerant and pluralist book than was typical of late Roman values.


Zoom registration: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlce2urTwvEtR1oQLFA6ioBJ_BQsfTlLzx

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:38:49 -0500 2021-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion The Qur'an in the Roman Empire: a New Approach to its Meaning image
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 28, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 28, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-28T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 29, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 29, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 2: Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81552 81552-20925406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy in Early Modern Isfahan

In seventeenth-century Isfahan, the authorship of anthologies was a male prerogative. This talk wonders about women who have been excluded from the act of writing their own anthology to consider gendered literacy and female friendship through an anthology collected in the library of the Urdubadi family of bureaucrats and poets. The decisive role of a female family member, the Urdubadi widow, whose pilgrimage to Mecca is recorded in this anthology, divulges her love for a female companion who was forced to leave Isfahan due to rumors circulating about their friendship. How are we to interpret this inclusion? Reading this family history as an archive, we will see how anthologies document social and affective bonds with kin and with friends, acts that make the city legible for us and for themselves.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:36:19 -0500 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Urdubadi Majmua, Tehran University Library
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 30, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 30, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-30T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 31, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (March 31, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-03-31T09:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 1, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (April 1, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
Immigrants in Michigan: The Untold Story (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82047 82047-21012684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Immigrants have made great contributions to this state--economically, politically, and socially. The fabric of American society has been woven by the contributions of diverse immigrants. And yet, as a nation, we continue to suppress and demonize these immigrants. This session explores the story of immigrants in Michigan, a story that we, as social workers, are obligated to know.

Special guests include Fayrouz Saad, executive director of the Office of Global Michigan; Wojciech Zolnowski, executive director of the International Institute; Fatou Seydi-Sarr, executive director and founder of the African Bureau for Immigrant and Social Affairs; and Laura Sanders, lecturer at the School of Social Work and founder of the Washtenaw Immigration Rights Coalition.

RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W209

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:41:29 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Immigrants in Michigan: The Untold Story
EIHS Lecture: In Defense of Damascus: A Tradition in Words (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79652 79652-20438370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This is a portrayal of Damascus that is based on a continuous tradition of local representations of the city that began in the twelfth century and continued uninterrupted into the modern period. While comparing this textual tradition to its European counterpart of painted landscapes and exploring its relentless, subjective, and defensive nature, Professor Sajdi will offer a historical cartography of Damascus that is both critical of and faithful to this local practice of “cityscapes” in words.

Dana Sajdi (PhD, Columbia University 2002) is associate professor of Middle Eastern History at Boston College. She is the author of The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (2013, Turkish and Arabic translations in 2018); editor of Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century (2008, in Turkish 2014). She is the recipient of several fellowships including MIT-Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

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 10:08:18 -0500 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Dana Sajdi
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 2, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (April 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
EIHS Workshop: Exploring Topographies: Real and Imaginary (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79659 79659-20438378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The word “topography” denotes both the configuration of natural and human-made features within a physical space, as well as the practice of graphically representing these features in order to show their relative positions. In a figurative sense, moreover, topography suggests the mapping of relations between ideas, emotions, genres, or other non-material entities. This interdisciplinary graduate student roundtable will explore the historical, artistic, and methodological valences of topography in both of these registers, manifest across a variety of media and geo-temporal settings: long nineteenth-century English novels, representations of Franco-Persian relations in the French Third Republic, interwar surrealist art, and middle-Republican Roman sanctuaries.

Panelists:
● Sarah Van Cleve, PhD Candidate, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
● Keanu Heydari, PhD Student, History, University of Michigan
● Tanya Silverman, PhD Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
● William Soergel, PhD Candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan
● Valerie Kivelson (chair), Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan

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

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.

Image: The Dutch islands of St. Eustatia, Saba, and St. Martins; the French island of St. Bartholomew; the English islands of St. Christophers, Nevis, and Anguilla; with the smaller islands and keys adjoining, 1871; crop; Clements Historical Library.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Mar 2021 09:25:55 -0400 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar 1781 Map (Clements Historical Library)
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

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, 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
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 3, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Virtual Family Week | Self-Care: Health & Wellness in the Ancient World (April 3, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82306 82306-21062683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This event is over, but all the activities can be found at the Kelsey@Home page, https://lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/education/kelsey-home.html.

During the pandemic we have heard a lot about “self-care,” but what exactly does that mean? At the most basic level, it is how we take care of ourselves. The food we eat, the exercise we do to stay healthy, and the medicine we take when we get sick. However, self-care is more than that. It includes all the things we do to stay happy and healthy. That could be taking a walk or a run outside, or doing some arts and crafts. Maybe it’s playing a favorite sport with friends, or trying a new recipe.

During this virtual Family Week, we’ll learn about how people in the ancient Mediterranean practiced self-care. We’ll even try out some of their techniques for ourselves.

We kick off the week with an introductory tour about ancient self-care. Be sure to join us on Sunday, March 28, at 2 PM. We will take a closer look at some objects in the Kelsey collection related to health and wellness. Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96083862910.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 11:21:26 -0400 2021-04-03T09:00:00-04:00 2021-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Kelsey Museum Family Week
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 4, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 4, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-04T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 5, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-05T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 6, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Sports and the City: A Century in Detroit (April 6, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80481 80481-20728300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

City of Champions: Detroit, Sports, and a History of Triumph and Defeat (The New Press, 2020), by Silke-Maria Weineck and Stefan Szymanski, explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city’s shifting fortunes. Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan, City of Champions takes readers through Detroit’s stadiums, gyms, fields, and streets, tracing its proud and troubling history alongside its athletic triumphs and defeats. Ketra Armstrong will moderate a conversation with the authors, who will read vignettes from the book.

Ketra Armstrong is a professor of sport management in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology, and a University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor. She is also the director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in Sport.

Stefan Symanski is Stephen J. Galetti Collegiate Professor of Sport Management in the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. He is an economist who studies sports, and was co-author of the bestseller Soccernomics. He is convinced that economics cannot be understood without also studying history.

Silke Weineck is a professor of German and comparative literature. She is interested in the long history of metaphors and narrative figures. After writing on mad poets, fatherhood, and war, she has discovered a love not so much for sport itself but for the stories it tells.

Free and open to the public.

This event is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:44:34 -0400 2021-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium City of Champions: Detroit, Sports, and a History of Triumph and Defeat
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Visions of Global Solidarity: Anti-Imperialism in Colonial Korea and the Diaspora (April 6, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77261 77261-19828140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered the joining information will be sent to your email.

Register at:
https://myumi.ch/O4bBQ

How did people analyze and criticize colonial oppression a century ago? How did they find connection and imagine solidarity with others in distant parts of the world experiencing social injustice? This talk reconsiders the “global” dimensions of Korean anti-imperialism during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45), discussing several primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, and the work of intellectuals. The Korean anti-imperial movement and its thought were inherently transnational in its scope. Such transnationality developed under shifting political conditions in which the movement leaders, participants, and supporters wrestled with Japanese colonial domination. As officials censored criticism of the colonial regime, activists and writers negotiated the interventions by the colonial power. While some were involved in clandestine organized activities, others offered critical analyses of colonialism in academic studies, socialist literature, and journalistic accounts.

This talk pays particular attention to the ways that Korean intellectuals developed an interest in colonialism and racism in other parts of the world like India, Taiwan, and the United States. During the 1920s and early 1930s, as people traveled outside of Korea in spite of the border control and surveillance by colonial authority, intellectuals shaped their transnational perspectives. Through publications and media coverage about empire and global social movements, interwar Korean intellectuals and readers situated their colonial experience in world transformations and explored the possibilities for decolonization. Socialists, in particular, envisioned decolonization in tandem with other forms of social justice, namely socioeconomic equity for workers. Female leaders on the left, importantly, also argued for women’s liberation. In the places where they relocated or visited, migrants, international students, and exiled intellectuals witnessed and participated in different forms of social movements, which contributed to their visions of global solidarity.

Hiroaki Matsusaka is an intellectual and cultural historian of migration, social movements, and race and ethnicity across modern East Asia and North America. He is working on a book manuscript that traces the paths of several anti-imperial migrant activists across Korea, Japan, and the United States from the early to mid-twentieth century. He received a BA and an MA in Political Science from Waseda University and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Korean Studies at Yonsei University, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies at UCLA, and an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. In April 2021, he is starting a tenured position as a lecturer of global studies at Osaka University of Economics.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Mar 2021 14:44:36 -0500 2021-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-06T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Livestream / Virtual Hiroaki Matsusaka, Incoming Lecturer, Department of Information Technology and Social Sciences, Osaka University of Economics
Bioethics Discussion: Virtual Reality (April 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58840 58840-14563732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion like any other?

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few reading to consider:
––Internet-Delivered Health Interventions That Work: Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses and Evaluation of Website Availability
––Ethics of Virtual Reality in Medical Education and Licensure
––Wearables and the medical revolution
––Creating Bioethics Distance Learning Through Virtual Reality

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/059-virtual-reality/.

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A decently maintained virtual reality may be found on the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:39:24 -0500 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Virtual Reality
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 7, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-07T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 8, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-08T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 8, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-08T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
MLK Reading Series (April 8, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80674 80674-20771624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Join MCSP, CSP, and LSWA for a series of conversations addressing the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. at this crucial turning point in the history of racism in America. More than fifty years ago, King made a call for a poor people’s campaign to take up arms against the evils of racism, poverty, and militarism. Yet, King’s expanding and increasingly radical vision for his work is often forgotten, co-opted by voices that distort his emphasis on love, compassion, and nonviolence to serve the status quo. Anti-racist activists who’ve followed King have had to grapple with how to interpret and respond to his legacy. One of them, the Rev. William Barber relaunched the Poor People’s Campaign in 2018, adding to King’s list of evils “environmental degradation” and calling for a multiracial coalition of poor people to challenge America’s exploitation of its people and the land. This three-part reading group will trace King’s varied legacy from his last published book to the present day and consider how those of us working for social justice can understand and build on his legacy.

Any questions, or to receive the RSVP link for the reading materials and the Zoom link, email LSWA Director Carol Tell (tellc@umich.edu).

Jan. 13, 5 p.m. King, “The World House,” from Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
Feb. 25, 5 p.m. “MLK Now” by Brandon Terry and responses
NEW DATE Apr. 8, 5 p.m. William Barber, “Pastoral Letter to the Nation” and Marc Lamont Hill, “Language of the Unheard” and “Toward an Abolitionist Vision”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:06:54 -0400 2021-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Lecture / Discussion The MLK reading series flyer
Indian Literature Series (April 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83559 83559-21426681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan

SPICMACAY at University of Michigan is proud to organise the Literature Series, where we will organise discussions of various works of literature in classical & modern Indic languages, led by a language expert.

Our first discussion is on Silappatikāram, one of the five great Epics of Tamil literature, facilitated by Prof. Vidya Mohan, faculty for Tamil language, University of Michigan.

Date: 8-Apr-2021 (Thursday)
Time: 6pm to 7pm EDT
Language: English
No. of participants: 25 participants
Please sign-up on this link: https://forms.gle/WEkKQ7gA9VSjKfyJ6

Note: This event is only for UMich students, alumni & staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 May 2021 13:16:47 -0400 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Discussion on Silappatikāram - The Tamil Epic
Pathways to Greatness: How the University of Michigan Became a World-Class University...and What it Cost (April 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83490 83490-21391456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join Gary Krenz as he sits down (virtually) with Terry McDonald, Director of the Bentley Historical Library, to discuss U-M's rise to becoming a top-ranked university, and what has been gained -- and lost -- in the process. In this online discussion, you'll learn the answers to three critical questions:
* Who rates Universities and how do they do it?
* How has the University of Michigan fared under various rating systems?
* Where does it stand in the ratings today and what has been the impact of ratings systems on its self-conception?
This talk is part of the Making Michigan series on U-M History. Registration is required. It will be recorded and a replay provided, as long as you register.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:34:44 -0400 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Event poster with image of Terry McDonald
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 9, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-09T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 9, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-09T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 10, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-10T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 10, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-10T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 11, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-11T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 11, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-11T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 12, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-12T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 12, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 13, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-13T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 13, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-13T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar (April 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82892 82892-21211375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to learn from Dr. Davidson in a smaller setting and ask questions about issues related to colonialism, museum collecting, and the Bible.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuCsqDgvGdAwbZXvzSl20icACdwirItc


Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that desperately rely upon material remains to bring the Bible to life. These archives have been central to Biblical Studies and the maintenance of the Bible as a product of imperial modernity. The Bible as a text and archive plays a critical role in the production and maintenance of the narratives of racial capitalism, a central aspect of Western modernity. By examining the language and ephemera of contemporary readers, who have been racialized by imperial logics that produce Bible translations and narrativize objects in archives, this presentation situates the geography of contemporary racialized readers as the site from which to develop an archive of the Bible. Local geographies, both the specific geography of the context of the Bible and the geography of a modern reader, are seen as productive challenges to the universalizing myths of modernity. Greater attention to contextual languages and experiences offer opportunities to unmask the cultural and geographical boundedness of stories, objects, and lives that form the core deposit of the Bible.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:59:36 -0500 2021-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar
Professor Gregory Dowd, the Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professorship in American Culture and History, Inaugural Lecture (April 13, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81664 81664-20941449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Two iconic documents mark the achievement of formal independence for the United States: The Declaration of Independence (1776), in which the thirteen colonies manifested their determination to be free of Great Britain, and the Treaty of Paris (1783), in which the British Crown finally recognized that freedom. This paper approaches the Declaration and the treaty negotiations from the standpoint of both rumor and Native American history. The Declaration defames Native Americans. The Treaty claims vast Native lands for the United States without indigenous consent. Among the forces that produced these outcomes were deliberate anti-indigenous—and anti-British—deceptions, or hoaxes, or what we might call today “fake news.” Benjamin Franklin, signer of The Declaration and a leading treaty negotiator, understood the workings of rumor and the power of misinformation; he lied actively in his war-time efforts for the United States. This paper examines two hoaxes, one the invention of settlers in the Smoky Mountains, the other the invention of Franklin, suggesting that "fake news" helped shape the two documents. What’s more, this fake news, and its circulation, though aimed largely at the Crown, profoundly reveals the deep colonial and imperial contempt for indigeneity.

Note: The lecture quotes anti-indigenous slurs. It references a Pennsylvania militia attack on an indigenous community, arguably the greatest atrocity of the Revolutionary War.


Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:30:07 -0400 2021-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 14, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-14T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 14, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

The U-M Dissonance Event Series invites you to watch a free, on-demand screening of the documentary film Coded Bias. Watch Coded Bias on-demand anytime between Thursday, April 8, through Wednesday, April 14.

Visit the Dissonance events page to learn more, watch the trailer and receive the passcode you will need to access Coded Bias and watch the film for free.

https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Please also join us over Zoom on Thursday, April 15 at 4 p.m. EST for an "At the Movies" style panel discussion of the film Coded Bias. A panel of U-M experts will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society.

Links to the panel discussion can be found on the same event link above and on Happenings at Michigan on Thursday, April 15.

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-14T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Asian American Activism & Documentary Films: A Conversation With Grace Lee (April 14, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83465 83465-21383600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

GRACE LEE is an independent producer & director and writer working in both narrative and non fiction film. She directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, which The Hollywood Reporter called ”an entertainingly revealing portrait of the power of a single individual to effect change.” The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won its first of six audience awards before its broadcast on the PBS documentary series POV. Her previous documentary THE GRACE LEE PROJECT won multiple awards, broadcast on the Sundance Channel and was called “ridiculously entertaining” by New York Magazine and “a funny but complex meditation on identity and cultural expectation,” by Variety. Other credits include the Emmy-nominated MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS and OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA, both for PBS; JANEANE FROM DES MOINES, set during the 2012 presidential campaign, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival as well as AMERICAN ZOMBIE, a personal horror film, which premiered at Slamdance and is distributed by Cinema Libre. She has been a Sundance Institute Fellow, a 2017 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner, an envoy of the American Film Showcase (through USC and the U.S. State Department), and is co-founder of the Asian American Documentary Network.

She is also an Executive Committee Member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her work has been supported by numerous awards and artist grants from the likes of Rockefeller, Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, UCLA, International Documentary Association and the USC World Building Institute. She is currently a producer/director on a five-part landmark PBS series THE ASIAN AMERICANS as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement. http://gracelee.net

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 15, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-15T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Central America From the Ice Age to the age of ICE. (April 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82915 82915-21219292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will be live streamed.

Our speaker explores the common experiences that unite contemporary Central America, as well as what distinguishes its component parts and how they got that way. What historical and natural forces shaped the region? Where did today’s political divisions come from? Why have many Central Americans left their homes for the United States? This talk addresses these questions and others from a bird’s-eye view of the incredibly diverse geography and cultures of the American Isthmus.

Dr. Antony W. Andersson teaches world history at DePauw University. His research, which examines political conflict and environmental change in Guatemala, and has been generously supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. He received his doctorate in Latin American history from New York University.

This is the first of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is Central America: Coffee to Caravans. The next lecture will occur April 22, 2021. The title is: Costa Rica: An Example for Sustainable Development in the Region. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:24:39 -0500 2021-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday lecture image
DISC Distinguished Lecture. Pulling the Past into the Present: Curating Islamic Art in a Changing World (April 15, 2021 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77889 77889-19939587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free and open to the public; register at https://myumi.ch/gjQWq

This year's DISC Distinguished Lecture is the keynote for the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) 2021 Symposium.
https://lsa.umich.edu/histart/hiaa-symposium.html

Demographic and social change presents museums with challenges at various levels. Islam has become a core reference in public discourse, which often also affects, in important ways, views of collective identity and personal political stances. The dominant place of Islam in global debate does not stop at the doors of our museums. The main argument of this presentation is that exhibitions of Islamic art are, whether we like it or not, sites of identity negotiation where relations to ‘me and my world’ are established. Consequentially we could do better to provide visitors with the tools to make the galleries useful to them.

This talk will take a closer look at the concept of culture underlying exhibition spaces and identity formation with regard to ‘Islam.’ In what ways do the social dynamics surrounding the subject of Islam function, and how do these impact museum spaces? What role do museums have in these emerging dynamics? And how do curators respond to the shifting needs of visitors? The classical layout and communication strategies of Islamic art collections were often insufficiently framed to address these layered concerns, despite curators’ knowledge of the rich diversity of Islamicate histories. Thus two main topics will be addressed here: why do we in museums present art, material culture and archaeology of premodern Islamicate societies as detached from transregional and multi-layered networks in closed culturalistic circles, while in research we, hopefully, go beyond these limitations. And why, in exhibitions do we still face enormous challenges in enabling visitors to explore the contents and contexts of our objects through various access points? In many cases we fail institutionally in our efforts to awaken the interest and imaginary power in museum visitors.

During the last few years, different curatorial teams nevertheless have strived to discover better techniques and narratives to convey this timely diversity. The Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin hosts one such team, and I will discuss some successful—and some less successful—examples of experimentation on the ground from the past few years.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:04:06 -0400 2021-04-15T12:15:00-04:00 2021-04-15T13:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
Coded Bias "At the Movies" Panel Discussion (April 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83580 83580-21430624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

Join a panel of U-M experts over Zoom for an "At the Movies" style discussion of the film Coded Bias. The panelists will exchange views on the challenges presented by technologies that reflect the systemic biases in American society. Panelists include:
- Nazanin Andalibi, assistant professor of information, School of Information; assistant professor of Digital Studies Institute, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
- Mingyan Liu, Peter and Evelyn Fuss Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Nicholson Price, professor of law, Law School
- Grace Trinidad (moderator), Ethics, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Health

AVAILABLE PRIOR TO THE DISCUSSION
To be better informed prior to the Coded Bias panel discussion, be sure to take time to watch a free screening of the film between April 8 and April 14. More information is available at https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-free-movie-viewing

Access to Coded Bias and the panel discussion are brought to you by the Dissonance Event Series, ITS Information Assurance, the U-M School of Information, and the Law School’s Privacy and Technology Law Association.

Add the panel discussion to your Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MWZjMnFtNmw0MzN2MDk0cmRyaHQ4b3VpMTggdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:13 -0400 2021-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event Series: Panel Discussion on the film Coded Bias
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
CSAS Lecture Series | The “Public” of Public Humanities: A Conversation about the University and Its Outside (April 15, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83629 83629-21444314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

In this conversation Prof. Anupama Rao will speak about the intersection of her scholarship with her role as Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East [CSSAAME]. The conversation will focus on “public humanities” as the place where these identities and agendas meet, often in a discordant and somewhat incommensurable manner.

Prof. Rao will offer a reflection on the question of intellectual labor, its relationship to the problem of mass intellectuality (from the vantage point as a scholar of Dalit pasts and presents), and the University, especially Columbia University where she is currently conducting archival research for a project called “Ambedkar in America,” which is linked with the Ambedkar Initiative: https://icls.columbia.edu/initiatives/ambedkar-initiative/

We then draw on ideas of historical comparison, translation, and (global) convergence as a useful rubric to guide an open discussion about CSSAAME journal as a particular artefact of collaborative scholarly labor.

Register here for the Zoom seminar: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcldO-trTsuG9YiSFiwUERIw-HuEXt-8Zkq

Cosponsored by the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

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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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 08 Apr 2021 09:30:29 -0400 2021-04-15T16:30:00-04:00 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Anupama Rao, TOW Associate Professor of History, Barnard and MESAAS (Columbia)
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 16, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-16T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Clements Bookworm: Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution (April 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83288 83288-21336292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Clements Library 2019 Peckham Fellow Sarah Swedberg joins us to discuss her new book "Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution," published in December 2020 by Rowman & Littlefield. Dr. Swedberg’s research focuses on the anxiety of the first generation of American citizens as they created a republican form of government. Her recent research focuses on “lunatics” (the term used at the time), and weaves together medical and political histories.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this webinar series. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:56:37 -0400 2021-04-16T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution" book cover
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 3: Monsters and Humans in Medieval Persian Epic (April 16, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81578 81578-20933516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How to Tame a Dragon: Monstrous Bodies and the Ontology of Evil in the Poems of Īrānshāh ibn Abi'l-khayr

Whether externally manifested by demons, or internalized as the human flaws of greed, hatred, and hubris, the nature of evil is a driving question in Iranian mythology and epic, particularly in Firdawsī's famous Shāh-nāma (w. 1010). In dialogue with that work, I will take up the far less well-known example of Īrānshāh b. Abi'l-khayr (fl. ca. 1100), who composed two epics set in the world of the Shāh-nāma that questions the ontology of evil through its treatment of human and monstrous bodies. The Bahman-nāma begins with a prince's desire to avenge the death of his father, an ostensibly admirable goal that soon devolves into an obsessive quest to eradicate every trace of Rustam's semi-demonic family from the earth. The (anti-)hero of the Kōsh-nāma, in contrast, is a hideous demon who commits unspeakable acts for thousands of lines, only to turn over a new leaf at the end of the poem. By following the transformation of these two protagonists, Īrānshāh offers two portraits of evil that complicate questions raised by Firdawsī: what is the line that separates hero and monster? Can evil deeds ever be redeemed, and is the fight against evil necessarily good?

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:28:24 -0400 2021-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual British Library OR 4615. f. 3v
CSEAS Lecture Series. Stemming the Nationalist Tide: Imperial Control and the Protection of Traditional Islam in British Malaya (April 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81006 81006-20832765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/38V5uGZ

While early nationalist movements led by modernist Muslims were brewing on the coasts of the Malay Peninsula in the early decades of the twentieth century, a competing project – sponsored by the British colonial administration – was underway inland in the Malay states. In the Malay states, the authority of traditional rulers was enhanced through the systematic protection and regulation of Islam and Muslim subjects. Uncovering administrative reports from the colonial archives, I show that there was unprecedented surveillance over two classes of religious activities: conversions into and out of Islam, and the publication and sale of religious materials, both of which served to strengthen and protect traditional authority. With these materials, I explore a hitherto under examined yet concerted imperial project of state-led traditional religious nationalism devised to stem the tide of modernist Muslim and anti-colonial movements in British Malaya.

Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani is a comparative-historical and political sociologist of empire and state-formation, modernization and development. She studies how law and religion organize elites and build states and specializes in the colonial and modern histories of Southeast Asia. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2019 and is currently a National University of Singapore overseas postdoctoral fellow. As visiting associate at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan, she is working on her book project, *Sacred States and Subjects: Law, Religion and Colonial State-Building in Malaya*.

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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. Contact: jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:56:55 -0400 2021-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Speaker Image
EIHS Workshop: (De)-Legitimizing Assembly: Language, Media, and the Law (April 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79660 79660-20438379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

On January 6, 2021, a group of Trump supporters besieged and breached the US Capitol. The media reaction was swift: different media companies variably called the besiegers insurrectionists, a mob, rioters, citizens, and patriots. The events of January 6 call us to consider how language, media, and law interact to (de)legitimize assemblies of people. It also raises urgent questions about how responses to assemblies are raced, classed, gendered, and always already political. This graduate student roundtable will consider how language, media, and the law interact to channel responses to human assemblies across three different contexts: the English Reformation, eighteenth-century London, and Washington, DC, in the 1990s.

Panelists:

Taylor Sims, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Katie Laplant, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Nicole Navarro, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
Katherine French (chair), J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, University of Michigan

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

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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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Apr 2021 12:34:59 -0400 2021-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 17, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 17, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-17T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 18, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 18, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-18T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 19, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-19T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-20T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Bioethics Discussion: Abdication (April 20, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58841 58841-14563735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our renunciation.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455

A few readings to consider:
––The Idea of Legitimate Authority in the Practice of Medicine
––Decentralization of health care systems and health outcomes: Evidence from a natural experiment
––Vox Populi or Abdication of Responsibility?: The Influence of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on the Public Discourse Regarding Abortion, 2016-2019
––Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor
For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/060-abdication/.

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Before you give up, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:38:57 -0500 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-20T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Abdication
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 21, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-21T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 22, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-22T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
CAS Webinar | The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (April 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83428 83428-21377658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: https://myumi.ch/qgOle

After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

Cover credit: Murad Subay, www.muradsubay.com.

Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, Dr. Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the “crime of crimes,” blinds us to other types of humanly caused civilian death, like bombing cities, and the “collateral damage” of missile and drone strikes. Talk of genocide, then, can function ideologically to detract from systematic violence against civilians perpetrated by governments of all types. “The Problems of Genocide” contends that this violence is the consequence of “permanent security” imperatives: the striving of states, and armed groups seeking to found states, to make themselves invulnerable to threats.

Bios:

A. DIRK MOSES is Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since July 2020. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. From 2000-2010 and 2016-2020, he taught at the University of Sydney. Between 2011 and 2015, he held the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence.

His first book, “German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past” (2007), was awarded the H-Sozu-Kult “Historical Book of the Year” prize for contemporary history. Dr. Moses has also written extensively about genocide and global history. Recent anthologies include “Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide: The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970” (2018), “The Holocaust in Greece” (2018), and “Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics” (2020). His latest book, “The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression,” appeared in February 2021.

Dr. Moses has held fellowships at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C; and at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow. He was a visiting fellow at the WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism in Berlin in September-October 2019, and senior fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen, in the winter of 2019-20. Dr. Moses has been senior editor of the “Journal of Genocide Research” since 2011, and co-edits the War and Genocide book series for Berghahn Books.

GEOFF ELEY is Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1979. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge (1975-79). Trained originally as a modern German historian, he also works in modern British history, as well as on a general European front. He is interested in both the history of the Left and the history of the Right; history and film; historiography; and history and theory. He recently began teaching a large new undergraduate course on the History of Terrorism.

His earliest works were “Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck” (1980, 1991) and (with David Blackbourn) “The Peculiarities of German History” (1980, 1984). More recent books include “Forging Democracy: A History of the Left in Europe. 1850-2000” (2002); “A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society” (2005); (with Keith Nield) “The Future of Class in History” (2007); and “Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930-1945” (2013). He coedited “German Colonialism in a Global Age” (2014), “German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures” (2016), and “Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right” (2020). He is writing a general history of Europe in the 20th century and a new study of the German Right, “Genealogies of Nazism: Conservatives, Radical Nationalists, Fascists in Germany, 1860-1930.”

Co-sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, and Society for Armenian Studies.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:50:35 -0400 2021-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual CAS Webinar | The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression
How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right! Islam Through Art (April 22, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80587 80587-20759743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Registration link: http://go.unc.edu/teachMENA

January 28: *Islam Through Art*
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
This webinar introduces participants to key issues and themes in Islamic art, including architectural interactions and the importance of ornament and Arabic-script calligraphy. This session also aims to dispel contemporary discourses about figural imagery, especially depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Finally, we will discuss readings, pedagogical strategies, and online resources which can help teach Islam in a manner that aims to circumvent simplistic presuppositions and “otherizing” binaries.

February 25: *Teaching Middle East History in World History*
Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
Relevant to high school curricula, we will explore ideas and strategies for using decisive moments in Middle East History to explore larger themes of World History including charisma, religious encounters, commerce, and geographical diversity.

March 18: *Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses*
Barbara Petzen, education consultant on the Middle East and Islam
This webinar will explore and demonstrate a wide variety of sensory approaches to learning about the Middle East. We’ll look at new ways to understand the diversity of the historical and contemporary Middle East through images and film, sound, taste and smell, and tactile experiences.

April 22: *Teaching about the Middle East through Underreported Stories*
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
This session with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will explore reporting on the MENA region and curricular resources that can be used to connect underreported news stories to the classroom. We will outline ways to engage students in global issues through journalism, develop media literacy, encourage critical thinking about the MENA region, and connect with a journalist for a conversation about their experience reporting from the Middle East.

May 20: *Hip Hop and Women's Voices in the Middle East and North Africa*
Angela Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Through the work of rap artists from the MENA region, we will learn about the varied lived experiences of girls and women in this region. Their music and online expressions depict the challenges and pressures they face, as well as spaces for hope and a better future for women and girls.


This series offers five interactive sessions between January and May 2021, featuring resources and strategies for teaching about the Middle East relevant to both in-person and virtual teaching for Grades 6-12 and community colleges. Educators may register for any or all of the sessions. SCECHs from the Michigan Department of Education are available.

The program is a collaboration with the National Resource Center dedicated to Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:01 -0500 2021-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar event_image
The Boston Massacre: A Family History (April 22, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83424 83424-21377655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 22, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The story of the Boston Massacre is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, most accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. She reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and children who accompanied the armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians for living space, finding common cause in the search for a lost child, trading barbs, and sharing baptisms. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street, it was these intensely human and now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution.

Serena Zabin’s book "The Boston Massacre: A Family History" was awarded the 2020 Book of the Year Prize from the Journal of the American Revolution. She is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Carleton College.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:17:29 -0400 2021-04-22T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Book Cover, "The Boston Massacre: A Family History"
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 23, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-23T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Premodern Colloquium. Why Did Public Infrastructure Appear in Song Court Landscape Painting? (April 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82183 82183-21050550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This essay examines the public infrastructure depicted in Northern Song (960-1127) court landscape paintings, which includes roads, waterways, bridges, and river ports. These paintings not only depict the public works but also portray people from all social strata utilizing these public resources. This new development in the landscape genre coincided with the political and social thought of the period, which held that the state should spend tax revenues collected from the population to improve the wellbeing of the people.

The reading investigates visual materials ranging from court landscape painting, administrative maps in local gazetteers, as well as steles. The legal basis for the emergence of such landscape paintings in the 11th century was the separation of the emperor’s private treasury from the public treasury of the state. That separation was a factor in numerous policy debates from the period and was systematically documented in an early thirteenth-century book.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:35:20 -0400 2021-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056), Summer Mountains, ca.1050, China, ink and color on silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-24T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-25T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Human Voice in Virtual Concert (April 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83620 83620-21438457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Enjoy fabulous performances by students from Dr. Jennifer Goltz-Taylor's Residential College Human Voice class from the comfort of your couch!

Listen to lovingly crafted, thoughtfully delivered songs from Western classical repertoire, the Duke Ellington songbook, and contemporary popular music.

Don't miss this one-time streaming concert. Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/zx93x

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Performance Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:14:35 -0400 2021-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Flier
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-26T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-27T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Meet Author Cory Brant: Great Lakes Sea Lamprey (April 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83224 83224-21601265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

The University of Michigan Press Great Lakes author event for April is in honor of spring and Earth Day! Celebrate with us by learning about one of the most destructive invasive species to ever enter the Great Lakes, the sea lamprey, the history of the invasion, and monumental efforts to control them! We will be discussing the award-winning book "Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader," by Cory Brant. There will be a Q&A with the author.

Cory Brant is a former post-doctoral researcher at the University of Michigan and Great Lakes Fishery Commission in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For over a decade, his work has focused on sea lampreys, particularly the species’ use of chemical communication and how to exploit that biology as a method of control.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live.

"Great Lakes Sea Lamprey" will be on sale for $13 and free shipping through the month of April. Just visit press.umich.edu and use the discount code "UMGL13BRANT" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 28 Apr 2021 08:58:15 -0400 2021-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-04-27T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Picture of the cover of the book "Great Lakes Sea Lamprey"
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-28T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 29, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-29T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy | Challenges and Opportunities for a Historian of Japan Teaching about Race and Imperialism (April 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83818 83818-21540181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Advance registration for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/jxED9

Part of the Japanese Studies and Antiracist Pedagogy webinar series: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jsap/webinars/

Historically, Cold War Area Studies and the nationalization of Ethnic Studies have contributed to an Orientalist arrangement in which “their” pasts and contemporary conditions have been separated from “ours.” For example, scholars of Asia are not supposed to teach about North American issues, let alone conduct research across national formations. However, this sequestering of “ourselves” from “them” has become increasingly untenable due to globalization and massive demographic changes in North America. This webinar discusses the challenges and possible methods for breaking through the separation of area studies (especially Japanese studies and East Asian studies) and ethnic studies by discussing two courses that I regularly teach -- “Colonialisms in Asia” and “The Asia-Pacific Wars” -- in which race, sex, gender and imperialism are key themes. These are modern phenomena that trouble the regions we Asia “experts” study and the places in which we live, teach and work. But an obscene screen sequesters these two knowledge formations, making it difficult for scholars of Asia to teach critically about racism in North America as well as about the U.S. and Canada as empires. While we Asia “experts” are normally assigned to study the people and nations “over there,” this webinar proposes that we need to refuse the disciplinary practices that the Cold War University has imposed upon us. The webinar will also propose that while important, linking Asian and Asian North American studies can only be one part of confronting the global problems of racism and empires.

Takashi Fujitani is a Professor in Asia-Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto. His research is focused on the intersections of nationalism, race, gender, war, and memory in East Asian history and Asian American history.

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 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:19:17 -0400 2021-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-29T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Takashi Fujitani
The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (April 30, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82983 82983-21233293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 30, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

This virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage, the first recorded journey around the world (1519-1522). https://myumi.ch/XerZy

Curated by Professor Marlon James Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology).

Virtual exhibits are available indefinitely, beyond the listed end date.

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Exhibition Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:34:03 -0500 2021-04-30T00:00:00-04:00 2021-04-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Philippine book titles in Spanish
Alamanya Transnational German Studies Workshop (May 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83960 83960-21619205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Event Schedule:
12:00-12:20 pm - Panel 1: Reading, Hearing, Watching Race
Opening Remarks
*Özlem Karuc (Graduate Student, German, University of Michigan)*

“Rassismus in der Mädchenliteratur der Nachkriegszeit”
*Onyx Henry (Graduate Student, German, University of Michigan)*

"Hearing Race in Modern Germany"?
*Kira Thurman (Assistant Professor, German, History, Music, University of Michigan)*

"Mo Asumang’s Die Arier (The Aryans, 2014): Afro-German film and multidirectional memory."
*Erica Carter (Professor, German, Film, King's College London) *

12:20-12:30 pm - Q&A

12:30-12:50 pm - Panel 2: Race: Past, Present, East, West

“Postcolonial Approaches to Atrocity: Museums and Monuments in Vienna and Berlin.”
*Erin Johnston-Weiss (Graduate Student, German, University of Michigan) *

Völkisch Identitarianism: Old Racisms of the German New Right.
*Johannes von Moltke (Professor, German, Film, University of Michigan)*

“'I just need some space-time'—Breaking Up Temporal Hierarchies in Post-Soviet German Literature’s East/West Romances."
*Lauren Beck (Graduate Student, German, University of Michigan) *

"West German State Agency and the Acceptance of Vietnamese Refugees"
*Paige Newhouse (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan) *

12:50-1:00 pm - Q&A

1:00-1:20 pm - Panel 3: Transnationalism, Multilingualism in Cultural Productions

“Transnational Text: Büchner, Borders, and ‘Crowds’ in Jack Thorne's Woyzeck (2017).”
*Joe Prestwich (Graduate Student, German, King's College London) *

“Visualizing Multilingualism in Dortmund and Detroit”
*Kristin Dickinson (Assistant Professor, German, Transcultural Studies, University of Michigan) *

“Editing, Ethics, Activism? Working on the Transnational Cultural Studies Book Series”
*Benedict Schofield (Professor, German, Modern Literature and Culture, King’s College London) *

Title Forthcoming
*Damani J. Partridge (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Afro-American, African, University of Michigan)*

1:20-1:30 pm - Q&A

*Alamanya Transnational German Studies Workshop is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop that emphasizes the diversity of artistic expressions in communities marked by migration and exile and calls for an interdisciplinary approach that encourages academic collaboration at the nexus of nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and religion.*

Please contact Özlem Karuc (okaruc@umich.edu) for the Zoom information and/or if you have any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 May 2021 16:26:28 -0400 2021-05-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Alamanya Transnational German Studies Workshop
Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the 19th Century (May 5, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83554 83554-21422778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The fight for racial equality in the 19th century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual culture created and disseminated throughout the United States by African Americans. Advances in visual technologies—daguerreotypes, lithographs, cartes de visite, and steam printing presses—enabled people to see and participate in social reform movements in new ways. African American activists seized these opportunities and produced images that advanced campaigns for black rights.

In this talk based on his book "Visualizing Identity," (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Aston Gonzalez charts the changing roles of African American visual artists as they helped build the world they envisioned. Understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, James Presley Ball, and Augustus Washington produced images to persuade viewers of the necessity for racial equality, black political leadership, and freedom from slavery. Moreover, these activist artists’ networks of transatlantic patronage and travels to Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa reveal their extensive involvement in the most pressing concerns for black people in the Atlantic world. Their work demonstrates how images became central to the ways that people developed ideas about race, citizenship, and politics during the 19th century.

Register at myumi.ch/0WEk3

Aston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long 19th century. He is an Associate Professor of History at Salisbury University. Gonzalez earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:51:18 -0400 2021-05-05T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Visualizing Equality Book Cover
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-06T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Nineteenth Century Forum Final Meeting (May 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83611 83611-21438451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

All are welcome to our final meeting of the 2020-21 academic year! Come to meet our incoming graduate student coordinators, Ellie Reese, Emma Soberano, and Dana Moss. We will celebrate the end of a challenging year and brainstorm exciting new ideas for next year. Email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) or Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Meeting Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:46:32 -0400 2021-05-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting Turn the page.
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
Unearthing Tulsa: 100 Years Later, a conversation with Brent Staples, Fred Conrad, and Scott Ellsworth (May 17, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83757 83757-21493279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 17, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Maybe you’ve heard of the Tulsa Race Massacre. It was one of the most horrific examples of white supremacist terrorism in the history of the United States and knowledge of the event was actively suppressed for over fifty years. From May 31 to June 1, 1921, the Massacre saw the murder of hundreds of Black residents of the Greenwood neighborhood—a bustling and vibrant community known then as Black Wall Street—and more than one-thousand homes and businesses burned to the ground.

As we approach the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, we invite you to revisit a moment in 1999 when the New York Times Magazine published Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Brent Staples' article "Unearthing a Riot," which was the most significant national media coverage of the event at the time. Portraits of survivors made by renowned photojournalist and U-M alumnus Fred Conrad accompanied this important essay. In this program, Staples and Conrad will be joined by U-M professor, best-selling author, and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of newly published book The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice, who will facilitate a conversation that will expand our understanding of what has been involved in making the history of Tulsa more visible and, by extension, illuminating the ever-present reality of racial terror and the resiliency of Black communities in our country.

Also featuring an introduction by Matthew Countryman, chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and a Q&A facilitated by Jennifer Friess, UMMA associate curator of photography.

This program will be livestreamed on YouTube at 4 p.m. on May 17. No registration required.   Brent Staples, an editorial writer for The New York Times, was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. He is the author of the memoir Parallel Time and holds a Phd in Psychology from The University of Chicago.

Fred Conrad is a photographer specializing in photojournalism and portraiture. He holds his BFA in Photography from the University of Michigan and has made photographs for prestigious and far reaching news organizations such as Sygma, Time Magazine, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ms. Magazine and The New York Times. 

Born and raised in Tulsa, Scott Ellsworth has been writing about the Tulsa race massacre for forty-five years. His forthcoming book, The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice, will be published on May 18, 2021. Ellsworth teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

The Ground Breaking: an American City and its Search for Justice​ will be available for sale through the UMMA Shop (please call 734-647-0521), Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, and Blackstone Bookstore in Ypsilanti. It will also be available through the Ann Arbor District Library. 

For more information, visit umma.umich.edu/unearthing-tulsa.

This program is presented by UMMA as part of our ongoing commitment to anti-racist action, and organized in collaboration with the Museum’s longtime partner professor Scott Ellsworth and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies with support from Wallace House, the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ann Arbor District Library, Blackstone Bookstore, and Literati Bookstore.

Visit Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism for a current exhibition that also takes up untold stories of the historical erasure of Black Americans and explores photography’s role in making visible people and histories that have been actively suppressed. 

 

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Other Mon, 17 May 2021 18:15:13 -0400 2021-05-17T16:00:00-04:00 2021-05-17T17:20:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
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
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right! Islam Through Art (May 20, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80587 80587-20759745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Registration link: http://go.unc.edu/teachMENA

January 28: *Islam Through Art*
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
This webinar introduces participants to key issues and themes in Islamic art, including architectural interactions and the importance of ornament and Arabic-script calligraphy. This session also aims to dispel contemporary discourses about figural imagery, especially depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Finally, we will discuss readings, pedagogical strategies, and online resources which can help teach Islam in a manner that aims to circumvent simplistic presuppositions and “otherizing” binaries.

February 25: *Teaching Middle East History in World History*
Allen Fromherz, Georgia State University
Relevant to high school curricula, we will explore ideas and strategies for using decisive moments in Middle East History to explore larger themes of World History including charisma, religious encounters, commerce, and geographical diversity.

March 18: *Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses*
Barbara Petzen, education consultant on the Middle East and Islam
This webinar will explore and demonstrate a wide variety of sensory approaches to learning about the Middle East. We’ll look at new ways to understand the diversity of the historical and contemporary Middle East through images and film, sound, taste and smell, and tactile experiences.

April 22: *Teaching about the Middle East through Underreported Stories*
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
This session with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting will explore reporting on the MENA region and curricular resources that can be used to connect underreported news stories to the classroom. We will outline ways to engage students in global issues through journalism, develop media literacy, encourage critical thinking about the MENA region, and connect with a journalist for a conversation about their experience reporting from the Middle East.

May 20: *Hip Hop and Women's Voices in the Middle East and North Africa*
Angela Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Through the work of rap artists from the MENA region, we will learn about the varied lived experiences of girls and women in this region. Their music and online expressions depict the challenges and pressures they face, as well as spaces for hope and a better future for women and girls.


This series offers five interactive sessions between January and May 2021, featuring resources and strategies for teaching about the Middle East relevant to both in-person and virtual teaching for Grades 6-12 and community colleges. Educators may register for any or all of the sessions. SCECHs from the Michigan Department of Education are available.

The program is a collaboration with the National Resource Center dedicated to Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:01 -0500 2021-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar event_image
MAS Lecture | How to Find a Lost French Fort (and What to Do with It Once You Do) (May 20, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84035 84035-21619628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

When archaeologists from Western Michigan University first discovered Fort St. Joseph in 1998, they had no idea that the site would consume their efforts for more than two decades. Archaeological investigations, interpretations, and public involvement demonstrate that the site contains important information of broad interest to students, professionals, and history enthusiasts alike. In this presentation, the principal investigator, Michael S. Nassaney, discusses how the team located and excavated Fort St. Joseph, what they learned, and the need for partnerships to sustain Michigan's archaeological heritage for future generations.

Join us for a live Zoom lecture followed by Q&A.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91923584822
Passcode: MASHVC

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit miarch.org.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 12 May 2021 11:52:42 -0400 2021-05-20T19:30:00-04:00 2021-05-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Livestream / Virtual Artist's rendition of how Fort St. Joseph may have appeared
The Clements Bookworm: Stories of Maritime Heritage in the Great Lakes Region (May 21, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83875 83875-21563679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 21, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, panelists Art Cohn (Seneca Lake Archaeological Survey – New York) and Stacy Daniels (The Comedy of Crystal Lake – Michigan) discuss their research.

Episode generously sponsored by Tom Wagner.

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:04:49 -0400 2021-05-21T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Curator’s Choice: Provenance Research and Repatriation to African Communities (May 24, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84092 84092-21619989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 24, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/provenance-research-and-repatriation-to-african-communities-tickets-152584595633.

Repatriation, provenance, and collaboration with community partners are among the pressing issues facing museums with collections of African objects. These conversations have entered public discourse through discussions of the objects looted from Benin City in 1897. Yet, questions of African collections extend beyond the Benin case. Each collection has its own specific histories and presents unique challenges for museum professionals. 

Join this program organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA that features curators from the Fowler, New Orleans Museum of Art, and University of Michigan Museum of Art for presentations and a panel discussion about current approaches and examples of work happening in museums today. The program will be moderated by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie.

This program is generously supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Laura De Becker is the Interim Chief Curator and the Helmut and Candis Stern Curator of African Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). A specialist in Central African art, she joined UMMA after a fellowship at Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. De Becker has been working for many years with a team to reinstall UMMA’s permanent African collection, which will double the footprint of the African gallery and has prompted a separate project grappling with issues of restitution entitled, Wish You Were Here. 

Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba is the Francois Billion Richardson curator of African art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He received his doctorate in Art History from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and specializes in the visual cultures of shrines, having contributed articles and book chapters on the topic to various publications. He also writes on the museum and the politics of acquisition. 

Carlee S. Forbes is the Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Fowler Museum, where she researches the African objects donated by the Wellcome Trust in 1965. Forbes received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked with the Ackland Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art. Her research focuses on art produced during the colonial period in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, museum and collecting histories, and issues of provenance. 

Erica P. Jones is Curator of African Arts at the Fowler Museum. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA. Since joining the Fowler Museum in 2015, Jones has organized several exhibitions. In 2018, she curated a solo exhibition of Botswana-born painter Meleko Mokgosi, Bread, Butter, and Power, and authored the accompanying publication. Her 2019 exhibition, On Display in the Walled City: Nigeria at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925, directly relates to the research conducted by the Fowler’s Mellon team. 

Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is Professor of African and African Diaspora Arts in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on modern and contemporary African art, cultural informatics, and the arts and cultural patrimony of Africa and the African diaspora in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of An African Modernist (2008), Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art (2011), and founder-editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. 

 

This program is organized and presented by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 May 2021 18:15:14 -0400 2021-05-24T14:00:00-04:00 2021-05-24T15:15:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
*The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan* (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84017 84017-21619594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to announce the virtual Book Launch and discussion of Kathryn Babayan’s new book, *The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan *(Stanford University Press, 2021). The book is available for purchase during the event for a publisher’s discount (20% off).

The book launch with discussion from Çiğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğaziçi Universitesi) and Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University) will be held on Tuesday, May 25, from 1:00-2:30 pm EDT. You may register for the event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zt5vPV6lTK2ht8By3P_7cQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:00 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Race - The Power of an Illusion (June 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for live screenings of award-winning documentary series Race - The Power of an Illusion. Each event will screen a one-hour-long episode, and then host a 30-minute live streamed panel discussion.

Thursday May 6, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 1: “The difference between us”

Thursday May 20, 12PM - 1:30PM ET
Part 2: “The story we tell”

Thursday June 3, 12PM-1:30PM ET
Part 3: “The house we live in”

For more information on the webinars, invited panelists, and registration link, please visit https://iaphs.org/race-the-power-of-an-illusion/ . Here are more resources to help with discussions: https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-06-03T12:00:00-04:00 2021-06-03T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
U-M 2021 Juneteenth Symposium: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in University of Michigan Museum of Arts’s Collections with Ozi Uduma (June 16, 2021 10:25am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84254 84254-21620818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 10:25am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://rackham.umich.edu/juneteenth-symposium/.

Join Ozi Uduma, assistant curator of global contemporary art at UMMA, for this special virtual tour on the occasion of U-M’s inaugural campus-wide Juneteenth Symposium. The Symposium will explore the theme of “Celebrating Black Joy, Hope, and Healing.” A partnership between U-M and the Ann Arbor Branch of the NAACP, this Juneteenth observance aims to celebrate and recognize the liberation of all Black people from slavery, made official by the emancipation on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. It is celebrated throughout the nation and as a state holiday in Michigan. It is also officially observed in Ann Arbor.

Ozi Uduma is the assistant curator of global contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). Uduma is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She was born and raised in Detroit and is of Nigerian descent. Uduma is the curator of the exhibition Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (opening fall 2021) and the co-curator of We Write to You About Africa (opening fall 2021). Uduma’s art interest mostly focuses on modern and contemporary Black artists.

The 2021 U-M Juneteenth Symposium will run June 14-18. For more information, click here. 

The U-M Juneteenth Symposium is organized by Rackham’s Strategic Action Lead Team, the NAACP Ann Arbor Branch, Association of Black Social Work Students, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Center for Social Solutions, in collaboration with Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the CEW+ Women of Color Task Force.

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Presentation Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:15:21 -0400 2021-06-16T10:25:00-04:00 2021-06-16T11:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Author Talk: Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero (June 16, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84083 84083-21619871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Superman is the most famous character in the world. He’s the first superhero, an American icon — and he’s Jewish!

Author Roy Schwartz discusses his new book, "Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero," exploring the underlying themes of a beloved modern mythology in a fascinating and entertaining journey through Jewish tradition, American history, and comic book lore, sure to give readers a newfound appreciation for the Mensch of Steel!

Register at https://umlib.us/superman

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 May 2021 16:35:23 -0400 2021-06-16T15:00:00-04:00 2021-06-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Detail from the book cover of "Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero," by Roy Schwartz.
The Clements Bookworm: African American Children in the Antebellum North (June 18, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84098 84098-21620232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 18, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In her new book “Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North,” Dr. Crystal Webster argues that young African Americans were frequently left outside the 19th century's emerging constructions of both race and childhood. They were marginalized in the development of schooling, ignored in debates over child labor, and presumed to lack the inherent innocence ascribed to white children. Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War, showing that Black children nevertheless carved out physical and social space for play, for learning, and for their own aspirations.

Dr. Webster joins us in conversation with Clements Library Director Paul Erickson. This episode coincides with the celebration of Juneteenth and a growing national recognition of understudied histories and experiences of African Americans in the past.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by an anonymous Clements Supporter.*

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:38:11 -0400 2021-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 2021-06-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Book Cover, "Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood" (2021)
20 Things Everyone Should Know about Slavery (June 18, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83859 83859-21555873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 18, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Panelists will seek to generate a discussion about how historical knowledge might contribute solutions to the problems of contemporary expressions of human slavery and offer new pathways to democracy and freedom.

Among American historians, it is generally agreed that the historical study of chattel slavery covered about 250 years: from 1619 to 1865 in the United States and to 1888 in Brazil and the Americas. Yet slavery has not disappeared. Globally, an estimated 27–40 million persons are victims of involuntary servitude. What if these contemporary forms of human labor exploitation constitute a “Third Slavery”?

Introductions will be given by Dr. Earl Lewis, director of the Center for Social Solutions and the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and Public Policy.

The roundtable discussion will be chaired by Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Panelists include:

David W. Blight, the Sterling Professor of History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University;

Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca, a Senior Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University;

Duncan Jepson is the managing director of Liberty Shared, a legal advocacy non-profit that aims to prevent human trafficking;

Genevieve LeBaron, Professor of Politics and Director of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Sheffield;

James Alexander Robinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies with emphasis in Black Studies at the Metropolitan State University, and curator of the Third Slavery archive for the Center for Social Solutions.

We send a special thank you to our co-sponsors of this event:
LSA Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Law School's Human Trafficking Clinic (HTC)
UM Poverty Solutions
UM Rackham Graduate School
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:14:57 -0400 2021-06-18T14:00:00-04:00 2021-06-18T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion 20 Things Everyone Should Know about Slavery
Juneteenth Celebration (June 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84286 84286-21621034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

Join MCSP and Prof. Ronald Woods for a time of learning about the history of Juneteenth and get to know MCSP students and staff!

Please email mcsprogram@umich.edu for Zoom link.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:49:59 -0400 2021-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 2021-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Social / Informal Gathering MCSP Juneteenth Celebration flier with a border of black fists outlined in yellow, green, and red raised in solidarity
Meet the Author: Justice and Faith - The Frank Murphy Story (June 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84172 84172-21620648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join us for an event celebrating the newest book from the University of Michigan Press Great Lakes, "Justice and Faith: The Frank Murphy Story." Author Greg Zipes will be with us to discuss Frank Murphy, a Michigan Man who was unafraid to speak truth to power. Born in 1890, Frank Murphy grew up in a small town on the shores of Lake Huron and rose to become Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, and finally a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. One of the most important politicians in Michigan’s history, Murphy was known for his passionate defense of the common man, earning him the pun “tempering justice with Murphy.” There will be a Q&A.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube for anyone who cannot attend live.

About the Author:
Greg Zipes is an attorney and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Studies at New York University.

"Justice and Faith" will be on sale for $20 and free shipping during the month of June. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/11782460/justice_and_faith and use the discount code "UMGL20ZIPES" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:48:29 -0400 2021-06-29T19:00:00-04:00 2021-06-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Justice and Faith"
The Clements Bookworm: Detroit’s Hidden Channels, French-Indigenous Families in the 18th Century (July 16, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83967 83967-21619247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 16, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Dr. Karen Marrero discusses her new book *Detroit’s Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century* (2020).

French-Indigenous families of the 18th century were a central force in shaping the history of Detroit. Situated where Anishinaabe, Wendat, Myaamia, and later French communities were established and where the system of waterways linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico narrowed, Detroit’s location was its primary attribute. While the French state viewed Detroit as a decaying site of illegal activities, the influence of the French-Indigenous networks grew as members diverted imperial resources to bolster an alternative configuration of power relations. Women furthered commerce by navigating a multitude of gender norms of their nations, allowing them to defy the state that sought to control them by holding them to European ideals of womanhood. By the mid-18th century, French-Indigenous families had become so powerful, incoming British traders and imperial officials courted their favor. These families would maintain that power as the British imperial presence splintered on the eve of the American Revolution.

Karen Marrero is a past Clements Library research fellow and a professor at Wayne State University.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Douglas Johnson.*

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 May 2021 11:22:43 -0400 2021-07-16T10:00:00-04:00 2021-07-16T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Detroit's Hidden Channels" Book Cover, featuring a manuscript map from the Clements Library
Mary Sibande (July 18, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84306 84306-21623059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 18, 2021 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Sophie/Elsie is part of a series in which South African artist Mary Sibande (b. 1982) explores her family’s history. Three generations of Sibande women were employed as domestic workers in Apartheid South Africa, which Sibande references through Sophie’s blue and white uniform—a dress synonymous with the profession there. Though not quite part of the born-free generation (the name given to children born after the start of Nelson Mandela’s presidency in 1994), Sibande was able to dream of life choices that were inaccessible to her ancestors. These dreams are acted out by her alter-ego Sophie, a life-size fiberglass figure cast in the artist’s own likeness. Sibande created Sophie/Elsie in 2009 in honor of her great-grandmother, who was given the Western name Elsie because her masters couldn’t be bothered to learn her African name. While closing her eyes, Sophie imagines herself as an orchestra conductor, as a superhero, as a businesswoman. Here, her maid’s uniform transforms into the dress of a Victorian queen, complete with billowing cape and dramatic train. 

At a time when indoor visits are limited, UMMA is proud to be able to share Sophie/Elsie with our community. Eventually, she will take center stage in a reinstallation of the permanent African galleries, opening in fall 2021. The reinstallation will feature UMMA’s historical collection of African art, as well as recent acquisitions of contemporary artworks from artists based in Africa and in the diaspora. 

This museum purchase was made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen. 

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Exhibition Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:15:25 -0400 2021-07-18T09:00:00-04:00 2021-07-18T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_201130_004.jpg
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 23, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 23, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 24, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 24, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 25, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 25, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 26, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 26, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 27, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 27, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-27T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 28, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-28T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 29, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 30, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 30, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (July 31, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 31, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2021-07-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 1, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 1, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 2, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 2, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 3, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 3, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-03T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-03T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 4, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 4, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-04T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-04T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 5, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 5, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-05T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 6, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 6, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-06T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 7, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 7, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-07T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.
That Greece Might Still Be Free (August 8, 2021 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84737 84737-21624724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 8, 2021 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Learn about the Greek War of Independence, 19th century European international politics, and the origins of nationalism and the modern nation-state. This exhibit commemorates the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, which began with General Alexandros Ypsilantis’ (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) uprising against the Ottoman rulers in the Danubian Principality of Moldavia during the spring of 1821. https://myumi.ch/wlYoq

The exhibit was curated by students in the Michigan Library Scholars program, William McClelland and Quinn Byington, with Zachary Quint as their librarian mentor.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:45:28 -0400 2021-08-08T08:00:00-04:00 2021-08-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Exhibition Detail from "The Prince of Moldavia, Michael Soutzos." Colored lithograph by Louis Dupré, 1825.