Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Slavic Languages Chocolate Welcome Party (September 6, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52632 52632-12910441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 6, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Chocolate is the international language, especially in the Slavic world! Come learn about the Slavic language and regional studies programs offered at U-M and enjoy chocolate and music from Central and Eastern Europe!

All students--from every school, college, and unit--are welcome to meet instructors and other students interested in the Slavic world.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:25:57 -0400 2018-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-06T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Reception / Open House chocolate welcome slavic languages
Slavic Department at Festifall (September 7, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52620 52620-12908310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Find us in the Diag where you can learn more about the Slavic Department programs, languages, scholarships, and other opportunities while you earn your undergraduate degree at Michigan! There may be treats, raffles, and prizes.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:42:57 -0400 2018-09-07T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T18:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Slavic Languages & Literatures Fair / Festival
Slavic Graduate Research Colloquium (September 7, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52622 52622-12908313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 7, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Slavic graduate students will share their summer research and other study-related activities.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:50:14 -0400 2018-09-07T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Modern Languages Building
JIT Exchange: JIT Dance Workshop (September 10, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53503 53503-13392466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 10, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

This workshop will introduce participants to basic footwork of both Detroit JIT and Zimbabwean jiti dance forms. Wear comfortable clothing.

The Jit Exchange is a ZCCD project made possible through John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, presented in collaboration with U-M Center for World Performance Studies and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Co-sponsored by the African Studies Center, Institute for Humanities, Residential College, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the King•Chavéz•Parks Visiting Professors Program and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:50:09 -0400 2018-09-10T19:30:00-04:00 2018-09-10T21:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Stringz Workshop
Schokoladenstunde (September 11, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
JIT Exchange: Panel Discussion | Zimbabwe - Detroit Cultural Collaborations (September 11, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53505 53505-13392467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

This panel, moderated by Stamps School of Art & Design MFA student Masimba Hwati, explores the ongoing work of the Zimbabwean Cultural Centre of Detroit, building bridges between Harare and Detroit through cross-cultural projects and artist residencies.

The Jit Exchange is a ZCCD project made possible through John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, presented in collaboration with U-M Center for World Performance Studies and Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Co-sponsored by the African Studies Center, Institute for Humanities, Residential College, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the King•Chavéz•Parks Visiting Professors Program and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:49:20 -0400 2018-09-11T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Jit Dancers
Schokoladenstunde (September 12, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-09-12T13:30:00-04:00 2018-09-12T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Fall Kick-Off Meeting (September 12, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54428 54428-13583303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum as we check in as a group after the summer & welcome new members, discuss our visiting professors for the year, and set dates/formats for paper workshops, panels, and other events for the semester. All are welcome and snacks will be provided! Please contact Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) or Evan Radeen (eradeen@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Meeting Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:40:17 -0400 2018-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Author Talk & Book Signing (September 12, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52745 52745-12993420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

SOLD OUT
Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan—in the name of austerity—shifted the source of its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Soon after, citizens began complaining about the water that flowed from their taps—but officials rebuffed them, insisting that the water was fine. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician at the city’s public hospital, took state officials at their word and encouraged the parents and children in her care to continue drinking the water—after all, it was American tap water, blessed with the state’s seal of approval.

But a conversation at a cookout with an old friend, leaked documents from a rogue environmental inspector, and the activism of a concerned mother raised red flags about lead—a neurotoxin whose irreversible effects fall most heavily on children. Even as circumstantial evidence mounted and protests grew, Dr. Mona knew that the only thing that could stop the lead poisoning was undeniable proof—and that to get it, she’d have to enter the fight of her life.

What the Eyes Don’t See is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona—accompanied by an idiosyncratic team of researchers, parents, friends, and community leaders—proved that Flint’s kids were exposed to lead and then fought her own government and a brutal backlash to expose that truth to the world. Paced like a scientific thriller, this book shows how misguided austerity policies, the withdrawal of democratic government, and callous bureaucratic indifference placed an entire city at risk. And at the center of the story is Dr. Mona herself—an immigrant, doctor, scientist, and mother whose family’s activist roots inspired her pursuit of justice.

Join Dr. Mona Hanna-Attish for a talk, Q&A, and book signing of What the Eyes Don't See.

Literati Bookstore will be on-hand to sell copies of the book.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:38:17 -0400 2018-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 2018-09-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School for Environment and Sustainability Social / Informal Gathering Dr. Mona
The Draft (September 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-13T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Critical Conversations Graduate Panel: Sexual Modernities (September 13, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52289 52289-12590266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

This panel, part of the graduate student Critical Conversations series, will feature graduate student papers on the topic of "Sexual Modernities," anticipating the conference of the same name to be held at the University of Michigan on March 14-16, 2019. This panel will be held over lunch and is open to all members of the University of Michigan community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:53:16 -0400 2018-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Lecture / Discussion sexual modernities
"The Draft" Opening Reception & Artist Conversation (September 13, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53900 53900-13476596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 13, 2018 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud will discuss her work and current exhibition "The Draft" with U-M Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak, followed by a reception.

Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:21:01 -0400 2018-09-13T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion One of the Boys
The Draft (September 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-14T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
The Draft (September 17, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 17, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-17T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
The Draft (September 18, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-18T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Concepts for the Environmental Humanities" (September 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54076 54076-13521842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Concepts in Environmental Humanities," with:

Miranda Brown (Asian languages & cultures): “Food”
Gregg Crane (English): “Immersion”
Sarah Ensor (English, PITE): “Queer”
Ingrid Diran (Afroamerican and African studies, PITE): “Species”
Sam White (history, Ohio State University): “Climate”
Paolo Squatriti (history, Italian, PITE): “Weeds”

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:10:28 -0400 2018-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion a notorious weed from a sixth century medical manuscript
Schokoladenstunde (September 18, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Center for World Performance Studies | PERFORMANCE TALKS (September 18, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53896 53896-13476565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Prisoner's Song, a critically acclaimed multimedia performance about the experience of the incarcerated in America, will be presented at four different Detroit venues this September, free of charge and open to the general public. University of Michigan's Center for World Performance Studies presents a Performance Talk with Gelsey Bell and Erik Ruin, on Tuesday, Sept. 18th at 6pm. Prisoner's Song is the recipient of a Knight Arts Challenge Grant.

Prisoner’s Song is an hour-long performance comprised of ten chapters based on various primary sources, approached in an array of performance styles. The performance, by New York-based composer Gelsey Bell and Philadelphia-based (and Detroit-raised) visual artist Erik Ruin, uses shadow puppets, projections, and a variety of musical idioms to portray the prison experience. For instance, the 19th-century British folk ballad “Adieu To All Judges and Juries” tells the tale of a woman yearning for her lover who has been forcibly exiled, set to an original arrangement by Bell and illustrated by an intricate paper-cut scroll 10.5 feet in length. In contrast, an inventory of prisoners’ personal possessions from the Eastern State Penitentiary in the 1930s is performed as an abrupt sequence of voices and percussion, with the silhouettes of found objects starkly flickering across the screen.

By drawing on historic ballads, poetry, audio interviews with people who have spent time in prison, and other primary sources, Prisoner's Song allows audiences to encounter the states of mind and heart that prison engenders. The New York Times calls Prisoner’s Song“uncomfortably powerful … evoking the restrictive and impoverished reality of incarceration even as it pays tribute to the resilience, ingenuity and poetry that can transcend it.”

Prisoner's Song is presented free through the contributions of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Carrie Morris Arts Production, the U-M Center for World Performance Studies, the U-M Prison Creative Arts Project, Power House Productions, and through the generosity of many individual donors.

Detroit Performances of Prisoner's Song:
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 7pm | Light Box
Thursday, Sept. 20, 7pm | Cass Corridor Neighborhood Development Corporation Community Center
Friday, Sept. 21, 8pm | Play House
Saturday, Sept. 22, 8pm | Trumbullplex

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:32:43 -0400 2018-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 2018-09-18T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Gelsey Bell
Ross Leaders Academy (September 19, 2018 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54560 54560-13598659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sanger Leadership Center

Make leadership development a primary focus during your final years at U-M!

You are invited to apply for the Ross Leaders Academy (RLA), powered by the Sanger Leadership Center, an exclusive group of students who want to develop the mindset and skills needed to be influential at U-M and beyond. As a participant, you will learn from a diverse set of peers, receive team executive coaching, and engage with 30+ years of powerful research and ideas advanced by Michigan Ross.

RLA graduates emerge more confident, more insightful, and with a vision to fuel their emerging careers.

Applications are now open for the 2018-19 academic year, which will kick off on October 26. Apply on our website.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Enhance your self-awareness
- Advance your self-development
- Work with diverse individuals
- Build strong networks

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS
- Juniors, seniors, and graduate students at any U­-M school
- Ability to attend all sessions (view schedule »)
- Deep interest in leadership development, personal growth, and lifelong learning

QUESTIONS?
Contact us at rossleaders@umich.edu or attend our Information Session on September 12 from 4-5 PM in the Blau Colloquium at Michigan Ross.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:22:41 -0400 2018-09-19T00:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sanger Leadership Center Careers / Jobs Ross Leaders Academy
The Draft (September 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Schokoladenstunde (September 19, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 2018-09-19T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
The Draft (September 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-20T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Public Lecture: Billy Whiskers Bashes His Way into History (September 20, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55487 55487-13747855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 20, 2018 2:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

JFK’s Favorite Childhood Series Defined America For Millions!

Billy introduced ideas about America and freedom to children at a transitional period in the nation’s history. Frances Trego Montgomery’s series (1902-1930, reissues in 1960s) was an enormously influential illustrated series contemporary with the Oz books, as well as with America’s rise to world leadership, and social unrest over race and immigration. Montgomery’s relentlessly destructive male goat, the favorite childhood reading of Joe, Jack, and Bobby Kennedy, raises questions about the nation’s defining role, as well as the influence of childhood reading on children who become presidents.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:45:53 -0400 2018-09-20T14:30:00-04:00 2018-09-20T15:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Billy Whiskers' Adventures
The Draft (September 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-21T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Decolonizing Our Disciplines: A Roundtable Discussion (September 21, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53183 53183-13274238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Global Postcolonialisms Collective for an interdisciplinary lunch conversation on grappling with colonial legacies and enacting decolonial methodologies and practices in academic institutions. Please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/akOrsbew0Vn1Yk7D3.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:04:42 -0400 2018-09-21T12:30:00-04:00 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Russian Conversation Group (September 21, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 21, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-09-21T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
The Draft (September 24, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion at the University of Michigan Medical School (September 24, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53743 53743-13455135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Jeffrey Bishop is a social and moral philosopher, teaching medical ethics and philosophy at Saint Louis University. He is also a physician. His first book, "The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying" is a philosophical history of the care of the dying, from ICU to palliative care. He will be giving a noon time talk on September 24th in West Lecture Hall Med Sci II as part of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Renee Hafner, rhafner@med.umich.edu if you plan on attending.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:23:41 -0400 2018-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Lecture / Discussion
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (September 24, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53901 53901-13478718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Note: Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Lunch will be served. Register at: http://myumi.ch/LqeD0

Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series of discussions offers a fresh take on the basics of looking and evaluating art in the gallery and how it’s organized, making the connection from the traditional “white cube gallery” to iGen visual worlds like Facebook and Instagram. Today: How to look at the art of Esmaa Mohamoud with Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak.

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:32:16 -0400 2018-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion One of the Boys
Revisiting Violence (September 24, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55592 55592-13759178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 24, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This initiative seeks to bring together a community of thinkers, readers, and practitioners of theoretical, literary, and visual works to advance conversations between Critical and Postcolonial/de-colonial theories (broadly defined) at Michigan.

This meeting will discuss the work of Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon in the context of Walter Benjamin.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:51:36 -0400 2018-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
The Draft (September 25, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Schokoladenstunde (September 25, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 2018-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
The Draft (September 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Schokoladenstunde (September 26, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 2018-09-26T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
GISC Conference. Destination: Detroit (September 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52609 52609-12899829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

A conference exploring old and new stories about migration, immigration,
and the city migrants built.

Attendance is free; registration required. For more information and to register: bit.ly/dest-detroit

Sponsors:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Global Islamic Studies Center; Armenian Studies Program; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Institute for the Humanities; Latina/o Studies; Romance Languages and Literatures; Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Detroit School of Urban Studies

University of Michigan-Dearborn: Chancellor Daniel Little; College of Arts, Sciences and Letters; Center for Arab-American Studies

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:05:27 -0400 2018-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium DestinationDetroit_image
The Draft (September 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
The Ross Effect (September 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55018 55018-13665226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Ross One Year Graduate Programs

Employers look for the skills you’re developing in your undergraduate degree, like the ability to understand complex concepts and deliver creative solutions. But, connecting with companies and highlighting these skills is not always easy. Join us at "The Ross Effect" to learn how three outstanding Ross graduate programs, the Master of Accounting, the Master of Management and the Master of Supply Chain Management, will leverage your undergraduate training for a smooth and successful transition into the workforce.

This event is being held exclusively for non-Ross University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) students. The event is being held on the 5th floor of the Blau/Kresge side of the Ross Building, in the Blau Colloquium.

Questions? Email TheRossEffect@umich.edu

Register at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ross-effect-how-a-ross-graduate-degree-amplifies-your-toolkit-registration-48421327494

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Presentation Fri, 07 Sep 2018 18:53:32 -0400 2018-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2018-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Ross One Year Graduate Programs Presentation Michigan Ross Logo
GISC Conference. Destination: Detroit (September 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52609 52609-12899830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

A conference exploring old and new stories about migration, immigration,
and the city migrants built.

Attendance is free; registration required. For more information and to register: bit.ly/dest-detroit

Sponsors:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Global Islamic Studies Center; Armenian Studies Program; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Institute for the Humanities; Latina/o Studies; Romance Languages and Literatures; Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Detroit School of Urban Studies

University of Michigan-Dearborn: Chancellor Daniel Little; College of Arts, Sciences and Letters; Center for Arab-American Studies

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:05:27 -0400 2018-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium DestinationDetroit_image
The Draft (September 28, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Physiologies of the Flesh: Medical and Moral Matter in Late Colonial Indonesia (September 28, 2018 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53487 53487-13390332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In the early 20th century, the Netherlands East Indies was awash with revivalist and reformist movements. These included Christian missionaries seeking to overcome the failures and frustrations of the previous century and Muslim reformists seeking to reform their faith to meet the political, epistemological, and moral challenges of colonial modernity. Both looked to a common resource in pursuit of reform and revival: modern medicine and the medical body. Although often recognizing this convergence of religious and medical modernity among Muslims and Christians in late colonial Indonesia, historians have done very little to examine critically the role that health, medicine, and the medical body played in these projects or the many differences that existed in their appropriations and uses of modern medical discourse and practice. This talk attempts to address these historiographical gaps. It specifically examines how Protestant missionaries and Muslim reformers in Central Java used medical discourse and practice—especially questions of physiology and etiology—to pursue wider ethical, epistemological, and devotional projects of modernity. In doing so, it considers how Protestant and Muslim reformers theologized modernity from conditions of the flesh.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us 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. Contact: alibyrne@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Sep 2018 15:20:53 -0400 2018-09-28T11:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Russian Conversation Group (September 28, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-09-28T14:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams (September 28, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53563 53563-13407925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Fran Antmann’s photographs, taken in Guatemala over a period from 2006 to 2017, evoke the life and culture of the indigenous communities that live along the shores of Lake Atitlán. The photographs speak to the close relationship of these communities with the natural and spiritual worlds. They record the daily lives of the Maya but also evoke their underlying world of mystical and religious experience -- the rituals that give continuity and permanence in a world of disposable culture. The work focuses on indigenous healers, many of whom are women believed to have connections with the supernatural. They use ancient Maya practices and derive theirpower and knowledge from dreams. These rituals survive despite the genocide of the Maya people perpetrated over several decades until 1996. The resurgence of Maya identity in the renewal of formerly suppressed Maya practices celebrates the endurance of indigenous cultures.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Fran Antmann is a photographer, writer and educator. She teaches photography at Baruch College, CUNY. Her photographic work has focused on the lives and culture of theindigenous people of Guatemala and Peru as well as the Dene people of the Western Canadian Arctic and the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. She has received grants from the Ford and J. Paul Getty Foundations, the Puffin Foundation, the Social Science Research Council and five NY State Foundation for the Arts fellowships in Photography and Non-Fiction Literature. For over a decade she worked on Maya Healers: A Thousand Dreams withyearly trips to Guatemala. The book is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, a finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize and received Honorable Mention from PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris Juried Awards 2018.

Maya Healers will be on display in Lane Hall from September to December 2018, with an exhibit opening taking place on September 28 from 3 to 5 pm in the Lane Hall Gathering Space.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 04 Sep 2018 10:11:41 -0400 2018-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2018-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Reception / Open House Fran Antmann, Maya Healers
Mbende/Jerusarema Tehkno: Sculpture & Movement Study (September 28, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53948 53948-13504380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 28, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Mbende/Jerusarema Tehkno
Sculpture and Movement study exploring Mbende/Jerusarema, Zimbabwe Jit, Detroit Jit and Techno

Presented by Masimba Hwati and Friends:

Haleem "Stringz" Rasul
Liliane Karunanayake
Mike Manson
DJ George Rahme
Spencer Haney
Dylan Hancook
Kumbulani Zamuchiya
Chido Johnson

Supported by
Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design
Smucker Wagstaff Grant
Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS)
Arts Engine Grant
Rackham Research Grant
Zimbabwean Cultural Centre of Detroit (ZCCD)
PowerHouse Productions (PHP)

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Performance Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:53:47 -0400 2018-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 2018-09-28T21:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Center for World Performance Studies Performance Poster
GISC Conference. Destination: Detroit (September 29, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52609 52609-12899831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 9:00am
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

A conference exploring old and new stories about migration, immigration,
and the city migrants built.

Attendance is free; registration required. For more information and to register: bit.ly/dest-detroit

Sponsors:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Global Islamic Studies Center; Armenian Studies Program; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Copernicus Program in Polish Studies; Institute for the Humanities; Latina/o Studies; Romance Languages and Literatures; Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Detroit School of Urban Studies

University of Michigan-Dearborn: Chancellor Daniel Little; College of Arts, Sciences and Letters; Center for Arab-American Studies

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:05:27 -0400 2018-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium DestinationDetroit_image
Reclaiming Diasporicity: Emergent Subjectivities in Sikh, Punjabi and South Asian Contexts (September 29, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55963 55963-13811938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 29, 2018 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

This workshop brings scholars of Sikh and South Asian studies from across the disciplines to explore new ways of reimagining single 'diasporicity' and further expand the conceptual toolbox with which to refine and redeploy the notion of diaspora beyond its function as a sociological descriptor.

The purpose of the conference is to reconsider our understanding of the "diasporic"as emergent subjectivity, or as articulating a form of life with the impulse and capacity to create alternative modes of becoming and being through lived experiences, rather than merely being subject to the kind of binaries that mark conventional notions of diaspora.

Food and refreshments will be provided.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:27:05 -0400 2018-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium North Quad
Reclaiming Diasporicity: Emergent Subjectivities in Sikh, Punjabi and South Asian Contexts (September 30, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55963 55963-13811940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 30, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

This workshop brings scholars of Sikh and South Asian studies from across the disciplines to explore new ways of reimagining single 'diasporicity' and further expand the conceptual toolbox with which to refine and redeploy the notion of diaspora beyond its function as a sociological descriptor.

The purpose of the conference is to reconsider our understanding of the "diasporic"as emergent subjectivity, or as articulating a form of life with the impulse and capacity to create alternative modes of becoming and being through lived experiences, rather than merely being subject to the kind of binaries that mark conventional notions of diaspora.

Food and refreshments will be provided.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:27:05 -0400 2018-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2018-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium 202 S. Thayer
What's in Your Attic? (September 30, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55907 55907-13805069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 30, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Please join us for an informal day of sharing and bring in your paper Americana such as maps, letters, journals, books, photographs and ephemera. Clements staff as well as collector volunteers will be available to share tips about care and storage and to answer questions. No appraisals will be available at this event.

Of course, it's not required that you bring in a treasure to share! This is also a rare opportunity to visit the Clements Library on a Sunday to enjoy our exhibits: "The D. N. Diedrich Collection of Manuscript Americana, 17th-20th Century" and "Collecting the Clements Library, 1903-2016." You can also learn more about the history, collections and architecture of the Clements in a behind the scenes tour at 11:00 AM, 12:30 PM, or 2:00 PM.

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Fair / Festival Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:13:12 -0400 2018-09-30T10:00:00-04:00 2018-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Fair / Festival Photo of trunks with title "What's in Your Attic?"
The Draft (October 1, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Sacred Spaces; Ritual Environments" (October 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54077 54077-13521844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Sacred Spaces; Ritual Environments" with:

Nachiket Chanchani (history of art, Asian languages & cultures)
Jason Young (history)
Catherine Sanok (English)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:30:25 -0400 2018-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-01T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Carrie Mae Weems, At the Precipice, 2003. gelatin silver print.
The Draft (October 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Schokoladenstunde (October 2, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
The Draft (October 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-03T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Schokoladenstunde (October 3, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-03T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Heberle lecture (October 3, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51055 51055-11950561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Professor Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and author, most recently of the book The Beneficiary (Duke University Press, 2017) will deliver the Heberle lecture for 2018-2019 on October 3rd, 2018.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:16:42 -0400 2018-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Lost in Translation: The Architecture and/of Chinese Edition (October 3, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55224 55224-13700533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Have you ever wondered how architecture sounds in Chinese? Or questioned if the language of architecture would sound any more esoteric if it were in Chinese? Does linguistic difference matter? What is lost and what is gained when designspeak traverses the Chinese-English divide? How does the medium of design discourse affect its content? Is graphic communication the great equalizer? Is architecture sinicizable? Do you doubt that these are answerable questions? Find out on October 3rd, 5–7pm, at the Taubman College Commons.

In 1922, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein declared that “the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." With the globally-connected community at the University of Michigan in mind, we invite you to an exploration of the cross-cultural academic expressive production that accompanies thinking and writing from a non-English background. Taking the University of Michigan as a case study, we hope to engage questions of scholarship and public expression incubated in the globalized environment that is the contemporary American university. Rather than focusing on the mechanics of English as a Second Language or as a lingua franca, we seek a discussion around scholarly expression in a multicultural, globalized academia.

Panelists:
FU Liangyu, Communications & Media Studies
WANG Jieqiong, Architecture & Urban Studies
William THOMSON, Anthropology & Architecture
ZHANG Fang, Fine Arts, Design, & Economics

Hors d'oeuvres to be served.
All are welcome!
No registration is required but please RSVP so we can provide enough food for everyone.

This event is organized by GRIN with generous support from Rackham and in partnership with Taubman College DEI.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 13:00:55 -0400 2018-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion Flyer
The State of Latinx Education Panel (October 3, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56329 56329-13878540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Alumni Center
Organized By: Alumni Association

To bring awareness to the state of U.S. Hispanic Education, The University of Michigan Latino/a Alumni (UMLA) and the Michigan Hispanic Collaborative (MIHC) are co-sponsoring a panel discussion. We will explore the current national high school and post-secondary educational landscape data and unpack barriers to success that Hispanic students face. We will also explore employer perspectives on Latinx career readiness and the gaps that exist in business and industry. RSVP: UOFMLATINOALUMNI.EVENTBRITE.COM

Meet Our Panelists:
1. Dr. Juan José Martínez, Ed.D, Principal and District Leader at Detroit Cesar Chavez Academy High School
2. Dr. Sandra Gonzales, Ed.D, Associate Professor, Bilingual Education, Coordinator, NDN Learning Community and Primary Investigator, COE Upward Bound at Wayne State University
3. Dr. Rubén Martínez, Ph.D, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
4. Dr. Vasti Torres, Ph.D, Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Post-secondary Education (CSHPE) and an associate faculty member of Latina/o Studies at University of Michigan.
5. JoAnn Chávez, Vice President, Legal and Chief Tax Officer, DTE Energy

Space is limited. Light hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:17:49 -0400 2018-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-03T19:00:00-04:00 Alumni Center Alumni Association Lecture / Discussion Alumni Center
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 3, 2018 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-03T19:30:00-04:00 2018-10-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
The Draft (October 4, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 4, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
Critical and Decolonial Theories: A Missed Dialog? (October 4, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56201 56201-13867050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 4, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This initiative seeks to bring together a community of thinkers, readers, and practitioners of theoretical, literary, and visual works to advance conversations between critical and postcolonial and de-colonial theories. The initiative is a cooperation between the University of Michigan, and the American University in Cairo. We will read and discuss the Introduction and Chapter 5 from Enzo Traverso’s 2016 book Left-Wing Melancholia.

In both sessions we will be joined by visiting scholars Surti Singh (American University in Cairo) and Sami Khatib (Leuphana University of Lüneburg).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Oct 2018 07:08:02 -0400 2018-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
The Draft (October 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Critical and Decolonial Theories: A Missed Dialog? (October 5, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56202 56202-13867051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This initiative seeks to bring together a community of thinkers, readers, and practitioners of theoretical, literary, and visual works to advance conversations between critical and postcolonial and de-colonial theories. The initiative is a cooperation between the University of Michigan, and the American University in Cairo. We will discuss some short pieces by Benjamin, Fanon, Adorno, James and DuBois, used by Traverso in his book. These are recommended readings, and anyone who is interested in a conversation on these thinkers is welcome to attend.

In both sessions we will be joined by visiting scholars Surti Singh (American University in Cairo) and Sami Khatib (Leuphana University of Lüneburg).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Oct 2018 07:06:57 -0400 2018-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Duderstadt Center Fall Open House (October 5, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55192 55192-13698256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

Join us Friday, October 5th (12-6pm)

The Duderstadt Center provides a nexus for creative and technological innovation across all disciplines.

Come see what new resources we are unveiling for the Fall semester, available to the entire University of Michigan community!

This is your first opportunity to experience the all new Visualization Studio, a powerful digital maker-space equipped with high end virtual reality development workstations, play areas and 3D modeling tools. Staffed by industry experts with a proven track record of successful augmented and virtual reality development in grants all across campus. Come experience the MIDEN, a 10'x10' immersive virtual reality room, and see how instructors and students are using VR as a platform to revolutionize teaching and learning.

Our recently unveiled Fabrication Studio is also available, equipped with an assortment of high end and self service 3D printers, laser cutters, electronic workbenches and a variety of hand tools. We will also soon be re-opening a freshly remodeled Design Studio come Winter - come see what will soon be a creative hub to suit all your artistic needs. Light tables, down shooters and a Hollywood mocap system for animation, large format scanners and photography tables, smart displays for iterative design and ideation, and various drafting/drawing tools.

Learn more at: http://www.dc.umich.edu/openhouse

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Community Service Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:52:59 -0400 2018-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Community Service Duderstadt Center Open House
Russian Conversation Group (October 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-10-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
The Nicaragua Solidarity Caravan (October 5, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56156 56156-13839521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Nicaragua is currently facing the worst political crisis it has seen in decades. In April 2018, state repression of citizens protesting social security reforms unleashed a decade of accumulated grievances against the Ortega-Murillo government. Citizens from across all sectors of Nicaraguan society took to the streets to protest state violence and authoritarianism. In response, the state has killed as many as five hundred people. Thousands of citizens have been injured, hundreds have been illegally detained, and tens of thousands have fled the country for Costa Rica or the United States. A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice.

A new generation of Nicaraguan activists are leading this popular movement for justice. Join us for a conversation with three of these activists, representing the Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations, on the historical origins of the crisis, movement actors and demands, and the current state of human rights in Nicaragua.

The University of Michigan and Michigan State University have collaborated to bring the caravan to Southeast Michigan. The caravan will participate in three public roundtable discussions.

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 // 7:30-9:00 pm
The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, 3257 Lohr Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Thursday, October 4, 2018 // 1:00-3:00 pm
University of Michigan, 1014 Tisch Hall, 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Friday, October 5, 2018 // 3:00-5:00 pm
Michigan State University, James Madison College Library, Room 332 Case Hall, 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825

Cosponsors:

University of Michigan: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Residential College, International Institute, Peace and Conflict Initiative, Rackham Migration and Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Department of History

Michigan State University: James Madison College, Lyman Briggs College, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Gender in Global Context

Latin American Task Force - Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:18:45 -0400 2018-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion crisis_image
Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass (October 5, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54935 54935-13654179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 5, 2018 7:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass examines the impact of incarceration on families. Ashley Lucas, the child of an incarcerated father, conducted interviews in California, Texas, and New York with prisoners’ family members, former prisoners, and people who do work connected to prisons. She also corresponded with over 400 prisoners from across the U.S. Weaving together these interviews and letters with her personal experience as a prisoner’s child and creative writing, Lucas wrote a one-person play which she performs herself. Doin’ Time uses monologues to take the audience through a variety of perspectives on the families of the incarcerated. Since 2004, Lucas has performed Doin’ Time both inside and outside prisons throughout the U.S. and in Ireland, Canada, and Brazil. The play runs one hour and fifteen minutes and is always followed by an audience discussion.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED. THE EVENT IS SOLD OUT, but if you did not get a reservation, you may come to the event and get on the waiting list in case a spot opens up.

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Performance Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:41:49 -0400 2018-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 2018-10-05T21:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Performance Ashley Lucas- Doin' Time
The Draft (October 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
The Draft (October 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
FellowSpeak: "Eating Cheese in the Carolingian Empire" (October 9, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54052 54052-13521818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A 30 min. talk by Noah Blan, Institute for the Humanities 2018-19 postdoctoral research fellow, followed by Q & A.

On January 13, 829 CE, the Carolingian emperor, Louis the Pious, along with his eldest son and co-ruler Lothar I, issued a charter that confirmed provisions claimed by the monks of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a large and prosperous Parisian abbey. Among the supplies demanded of the villages and common households that owed them goods and services, the monks ordered more than 8,000 pounds of cheese, an astonishing request given the constraints of energy and labor in a preindustrial, organic economy. Following the production of this cheese—from small dairy farms to its consumption at elite tables—reveals how early medieval people organized land and limited resources to produce large quantities of food. This talk demarginalizes the peasants and animals whose exploitation sustained aristocratic appetites and puts them at the center of an intricate and precarious food network. In short, it examines how something as simple as eating cheese was an act that nourished a vast and complex empire.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:30:30 -0400 2018-10-09T12:30:00-04:00 2018-10-09T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Utrecht Psalter
Asian Pacific Islander American Studies Fall Welcome Reception (October 9, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56272 56272-13869410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program and the Critical Ethnic and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop warmly invite you to join us for delicious refreshments and good company as we open the 2018-19 academic year in A/PIA Studies at the University of Michigan! Fall is in the air, and there is no better time to reunite with old colleagues and meet new ones. This event is open to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in APIA Studies. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:29:31 -0400 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Reception / Open House Poster
Schokoladenstunde (October 9, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
PitE Info Session (October 9, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56402 56402-13896799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS Intercultural Program Advisor Cristina Zamarron for an information session on study abroad programs that focus on environmental studies such as:

AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST
• Wildlife Management Studies in Tanzania

THE AMERICAS
• Environment and Sustainable Development in San Jose, Costa Rica
• GIEU Peru- Healthy Kitchens and Agriculture
• Marine Resource Studies in the Turks and Caicos Islands

ASIA-PACIFIC
•Biodiversity & Development of the Amazon
•Conservation & Development Studies in Cambodia
•EcoQuest Field Studies in Whakatiwai, New Zealand
•Development and Globalization in Khon Kaen, Thailand
•Frontiers Abroad in New Zealand •Sustainable Food Systems in Thailand

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Meeting Thu, 04 Oct 2018 14:39:59 -0400 2018-10-09T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-09T18:30:00-04:00 Dana Building Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting Photo
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (October 9, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56058 56058-13823424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

"Creating a Narcissism of Small Differences: Cultural Politics in a Multiethnic Village in Shan State, Myanmar"

Tuesday, 10/9, 6pm
East Quad Room 1405

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our U-M Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Oct 2018 13:09:35 -0400 2018-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-09T19:15:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion ShinPhyu
The Draft (October 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Schokoladenstunde (October 10, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-10T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
From Domination to Regeneration: Cultivating a New World View in Perilous Times (October 10, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53902 53902-13478719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Note: ASL interpretation will be provided.

The world seems to be in crisis. The planet is in peril. Oceans are poisoned with human waste. Racism is on the rise. Virulent nationalism has resurfaced across the globe. Religion is shaky and ungrounded. Technology is reaching into our lives instead of enriching it. We seem to have reached an impasse on borders and the role of government. Humans usually develop shared stories to understand moments like these. The current narrative that is shared by religion, science, and politics is about the end of it all—the end of the world. But is that what is happening?

Abdul-Matin will address how to confront this time of extraordinary upheaval, a time in which the failures of our economic and political systems have become clear and the harm is deeply and widely felt. In this moment of upheaval, of dissolution and awakening, what is unravelling? What is possible that wasn’t possible before? What is the worldview that we can awaken and cultivate now? What seeds did (y)our ancestors plant for Deep Democracy, rooted in Beloved Community, that you could water and cultivate now?

He will share amazing examples of work happening right now that seeks to nurture whole people and whole communities as we transition away from a world of domination and extraction to one of regeneration, resilience, and interdependence.

Ibrahim Abdul-Matin is the author of "Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet." He has advised two NYC mayors on sustainability policy, among other issues, and has also worked with Fortune 500 companies on sustainability and innovation. He has spoken and written for a variety of outlets on diverse topics including Islam and sustainability, organizing and activism, and land use process. A former on-air sports contributor to WNYC’s The Takeaway, Abdul-Matin has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and Al Jazeera, among others. And in 2015 he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Rising Stars in New York City Politics by City & State Magazine.

About the Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture: The Jill S. Harris Memorial Endowment was established in 1985 by Roger and Meredith Harris, Jill’s parents, her grandparents Allan and Norma Harris, and friends. The fund was established in memory of Jill, a resident of Chicago and undergraduate student at U-M who passed away due to injuries from an auto accident.

The fund brings a distinguished visitor to campus each year who will appeal to undergraduates interested in the humanities and the arts. The visitor may either be a fellow of the institute for an extended period of time or invited for a few days to present the annual lecture.The visiting fellow will usually interact with undergraduates, informally and through visits to classes or by other means by which exchanges with undergraduates may be promoted.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Sep 2018 15:36:46 -0400 2018-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
The Draft (October 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53898 53898-13476595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

African-Canadian artist Esmaa Mohamoud investigates the intangibility of Blackness through issues surrounding Black representation and Black body politics in contemporary spaces. The Draft explores material and popular Black culture through the realm of athletics. With the use textiles and concrete, The Draft address the ways in which Black bodies navigate spaces as both visible, and at times invisible.

Esmaa Mohamoud (Canadian, b. 1992), is a Toronto-based African-Canadian artist. She holds a BFA from Western University (2014) and an MFA from OCAD University (2016). Recently, Mohamoud has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Montreal. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.

Join us September 13, 6-8pm, for a conversation with the artist and opening reception.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:20:26 -0400 2018-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition One of the Boys
Russian Conversation Group (October 12, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 12, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-10-12T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
"I Wasn't Trained for This: God, Miracles and Medicine in Complex Decision Making" (October 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55319 55319-13716055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Buhl Res Cen for Human Genetics
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Ray Barfield is Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy at Duke University. He is in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and Palliative Care. He also serves as the Director of the Medical Humanities Program at Duke University's Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine.
RSVP to rhafner@med.umich.edu by Thursday October 11th for lunch.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:58:08 -0400 2018-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Buhl Res Cen for Human Genetics The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Lecture / Discussion
Painting His Way Home (October 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13905999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-17T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Schokoladenstunde (October 17, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-17T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Screening of Toni Erdmann (October 17, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56352 56352-13887616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A retired music teacher (Peter Simonischek) with a penchant for playing practical jokes and wearing fake teeth tries to reconnect with his hardworking daughter (Sandra Hüller) in this festival favorite from Berlin School director Maren Ade. Featuring no end of awkward father-daughter encounters and a memorable rendition of Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All,” Toni Erdmann is a bittersweet dramedy that has redefined the landscape of contemporary German cinema. Screened in German with English subtitles.

This event is part of the monthly German Film Series and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Max Kade House. See https://lsa.umich.edu/german for additional dates and films.

Each month, a German faculty, lecturer, or graduate student introduces and screens a different German-language film. Dinner will be provided at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7 pm.

Free and open to the public.

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Film Screening Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:00:30 -0400 2018-10-17T18:30:00-04:00 2018-10-17T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Toni Erdmann
Painting His Way Home (October 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-18T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (October 18, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
CWPS Performance Talks | Edgefest Panel Discussion (October 18, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56344 56344-13885345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

CWPS Performance Talks

Edgefest Panel Discussion
Celebrating the Art Ensemble of Chicago & AACM

Thursday, October 18, 1:00pm-2:30pm
East Quad Keene Theater (701 E. University Ave)
Free & open to the public

Presented in partnership with Edgefest @ Kerrytown Concert House, Oct. 17-20, 2018. Concert info & tickets available at: www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:30:00 -0400 2018-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Reid-Moye-Rush
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (October 18, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
Paper Workshop with Professor Zachary Samalin, Assistant Professor of English (U Chicago) (October 18, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55906 55906-13805068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Professor Samalin will be sharing a book chapter called “The Age of Obscenity,” which connects the debates surrounding the passage of the 1857 Obscene Publications Act to contemporary questions about secularization, affect, and free speech. The book is a historical study of the role that the emotion of disgust played in various domains of 19th-century social transformation; this chapter is specifically about the law, disgust, and pollution. He will be making the case for understanding more recent developments in the discourse of free speech and censorship in light of these Victorian antecedents.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:02:06 -0400 2018-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar
Critical Language Scholarship Information Session (October 18, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56269 56269-13869408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 18, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

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Other Mon, 01 Oct 2018 16:05:04 -0400 2018-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other cls
Michigan Medieval Seminar (October 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/52007 52007-12349051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Featured Speakers:
Samer Ali, Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, U-M Department of Near Eastern Studies

Matthew Champion, Lecturer in Medieval History, Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London

Patricia Dailey, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Christian Schneider, Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Washington University in St. Louis

Helen Solterer, Professor, Department of Romance Studies, Duke University

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:13:52 -0400 2018-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Painting His Way Home (October 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-19T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Publication Workshop with Professor Zachary Samalin, Assistant Professor of English (U Chicago) (October 19, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55908 55908-13805071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Please join us for a workshop for graduate students on the publication process. Professor Samalin will talk more specifically and in depth about the evolution of his book project, paying particular attention to what it’s been like turning a dissertation into something bigger, more refined, and polished. He will also talk about what it’s been like publishing from this project: how he decided what to convert into an article, and how the conversion process actually worked after he made that decision.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:05:51 -0400 2018-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar
Russian Conversation Group (October 19, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-10-19T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
MESWN Coffee and Book Club (October 19, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55704 55704-13772812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 19, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Earth Science Women's Network

MESWN (Michigan Earth Science Women's Network) is very happy to start a book club aimed at professional development of women from all disciplines. Book for Fall 2018 - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. We will be meeting twice this semester to discuss sections of the book. Let us share our insights on this awesome book over snacks and coffee! The first meeting (Oct 19th) will cover chapters 1-4 and the second meeting (Nov 16th) will cover chapters 4-8.

RSVP is required - https://goo.gl/forms/p1804cxvb9D1k9222
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/1830299247065578/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 01:01:08 -0400 2018-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Earth Science Women's Network Lecture / Discussion MESWN logo
Painting His Way Home (October 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (October 21, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 21, 2018 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (October 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
FellowSpeak: "Spatial Narratives in Architecture and Fiction" (October 23, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54055 54055-13521819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A 30 min. talk by Keith Mitnick, Institute for the Humanities 2018-19 Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow and associate professor of architecture, followed by Q & A.

In this talk, Mitnick reflects upon the ways that buildings and fiction writing embody different forms of spatial narratives that shape how we experience the physical environment.

Similar to the way that architecture is used in literature to define the social and psychological outlooks of characters, and the settings in which their lives occur, buildings present fictions about the world. By framing “views,” ordering “centers, margins and in-betweens,” and choreographing movement and sensorial experience, they tell stories about who are, what we value, and where we are—a process that becomes particularly interesting when the fictions they present fail to align with what we hold to be true. The images we create of our buildings and cities tell stories as well, shaping our conceptions about the places in which we live, and broadcasting them to others.

Using examples of his own work as an architect and a writer, he will creatively explore the intersection of different spatial narratives in words, images and physical forms, and conjecture upon new approaches for considering their similarities and differences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Sep 2018 11:31:16 -0400 2018-10-23T12:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion spatial narratives
Luzinterruptus: "Literature vs. Traffic" (October 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54081 54081-13521847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This October, the Institute for the Humanities is shutting down Liberty Street near U-M campus. We’re going to reuse thousands of discarded books, turning them into an illuminated pathway for “Literature vs. Traffic,” a large-scale art installation by Spanish undercover art collective Luzinterruptus.

Ann Arbor joins Toronto, New York, and Melbourne, as we feature--for one night only--the brilliance of 10,000 books and thousands of LED lights. What was just a street will become a beautiful installation, as we bring the power of art, education, the written word, and free thought to the entire Ann Arbor community by essentially “paving” Liberty St. with thousands of glowing books.

This is a grass-roots project and your participation is essential!

Want to play a part in this amazing campus and community-wide project? We need:

Volunteers: Community and campus groups and individuals to volunteer to work with the artists to prep & attach lights to books (Oct 15-23). Sign up to volunteer here: http://myumi.ch/6jW5V

Visitors: Come view the extraordinary installation, and help us extend the life of a book by taking some books home (Oct. 23 5-11pm, books can be taken home after 8pm).

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Exhibition Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:59:53 -0400 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Luzinterruptus
Schokoladenstunde (October 23, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
English Internship Showcase (October 23, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56738 56738-13976810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Presentations and Q&A with local Ann Arbor companies looking for English majors as interns.

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Presentation Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:43:04 -0400 2018-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation English Internship Showcase
Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice: the Case of the Jim Crow Museum (October 23, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55610 55610-13761444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Dr. David Pilgrim, the founder and current director of The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, will discuss the origins of this museum, its segregation era artifacts, and its mission to use these objects of intolerance to teach tolerance.

Presented by the University of Michigan Museum Studies Program.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Student Life, the School of Information, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Details here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/using-racist-memorabilia-to-teach-tolerance-and-promote-social-justice/

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Presentation Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:09:54 -0400 2018-10-23T18:30:00-04:00 2018-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Dr. David Pilgrim
Painting His Way Home (October 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-24T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Schokoladenstunde (October 24, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Luzinterruptus: "Literature vs. Traffic" Post-Event Discussion (October 24, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54082 54082-13521848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Members of the undercover Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus join us for a discussion about the Oct. 23 "Literature vs. Traffic" installation.

About the installation:

This October, the Institute for the Humanities is shutting down Liberty Street near U-M campus. We’re going to reuse thousands of discarded books, turning them into an illuminated pathway for “Literature vs. Traffic,” a large-scale art installation by Spanish undercover art collective Luzinterruptus.

Ann Arbor joins Toronto, New York, and Melbourne, as we feature--for one night only--the brilliance of 10,000 books and thousands of LED lights. What was just a street will become a beautiful installation, as we bring the power of art, education, the written word, and free thought to the entire Ann Arbor community by essentially “paving” Liberty St. with thousands of glowing books.

This is a grass-roots project and your participation is essential!

Want to play a part in this amazing campus and community-wide project? We need:

Volunteers: Community and campus groups and individuals to volunteer to work with the artists to prep & attach lights to books (Oct 15-23), and the day of the event (Oct 23);

Donations: Books that would otherwise be recycled or thrown away;

Visitors: Come view the extraordinary installation, and help us extend the life of a book by taking one (or more) home (Oct. 23 5-11pm).

Small quantities of books can be dropped off at the Institute for the Humanities office at 202 S. Thayer. We can also pick up larger quantities of books. Read more on our website at www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities, or email luzinterruptus@umich.edu to volunteer, schedule a book pick-up, or with questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:07:38 -0400 2018-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Luzinterruptus
High Stakes Culture (October 24, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56082 56082-13830279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 5:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The digital is cultural and it has gotten ugly. The tone of online discourse is increasingly one of complaining, mistrust, and disapproval. The seemingly innocent "like" can unleash a torrent of attention-grabbing incivility. Platforms give trolls undue influence with the effect of normalizing emotional responses and off-topic discussions. What do we do?

Please join us for a conversation about what humanists can contribute to a reimagining of digital platforms. What do we know about how today's polarizing discourse has evolved? What can we learn from previous times in history where discourse was thought to be degenerating? How can the humanities help us form thoughtful communities of diverse opinions?

Come talk to Kamilah Taylor and Daniel Burke, co-founders of Swaay, a start-up dedicated to rebuilding digital platforms to encourage thoughtful exchange; Knight-Wallace Fellow Rachel Rohr; and Megan Ankerson, communication studies, about their work and the challenges they are encountering. Angela Dillard, Afroamerican and African studies and Residential College, will moderate.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:01:10 -0400 2018-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 North Quad Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion High Stakes Culture
Coco with Hot Cocoa: Movie Night with Students Helping Honduras (October 24, 2018 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56414 56414-13896812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Take a study break and join Students Helping Honduras while we watch Coco on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 8pm in EQ B834! SHH hosts various fundraising and outreach events in order to promote education and youth empowerment among rural Honduran communities; every dollar we raise goes directly towards the construction of elementary schools in Honduras. There will be hot cocoa and donuts for sale! Enjoy a fun movie while supporting a great cause! #paralosniños

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Film Screening Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:31:16 -0400 2018-10-24T20:00:00-04:00 2018-10-24T22:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Students Helping Honduras Film Screening Flyer
Painting His Way Home (October 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean (October 26, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53454 53454-13383548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region and links it to the continents that circle it. This conference studies boundaries and transit zones in order to think about the connections between Mediterranean and continental networks of trade and transit.

Friday, October 26
10:20 AM - 1:30 PM: Workshops
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Workshops
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Keynote: Persis Berlekamp

Saturday, October 27
10:30 AM - 1:15 PM: Roundtables
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Mediterranity From The Edge Workshop

Full schedule and registration at http://myumi.ch/Lrdd2.

Sponsors: Global Islamic Studies Center; Armenian Studies Program; Center for European Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Department of Anthropology; Department of Classical Studies; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of History; Department of History of Art; Department of Middle East Studies; Department of Romance Languages & Literatures; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Institute for the Humanities; U-M Office of Research

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to islamicstudies@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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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:26:30 -0400 2018-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Margins of the Mediterranean
Painting His Way Home (October 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Decolonizing European History at the Museum (October 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55539 55539-13756892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As the colonial past is increasingly being incorporated into national and transnational histories, some museums have positioned themselves as public facilitators of the labor of mourning, of empathetic listening, and of rehearsing postcolonial conviviality. The presentation looks at recent exhibitions in German and European museums, to examine how curators set struggles over racial inclusion and equality within longer histories of violence. How do these exhibitions approach the challenge of decolonizing national and European histories?

Katrin Sieg is Graf Goltz Professor and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, where she is jointly affiliated with the German department. The author of three scholarly monographs, she has published across the fields of German, European, and Theater/Performance studies. Her research intersects with feminist, postcolonial, and critical race studies. She has received several awards and grants, among them two awards for her second book, Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany (2002). A fourth book, Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum, is under contract with the University of Michigan Press.

The German Speakers Series is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. These events are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate, please contact 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu at least one week in advance.

This event is Co-Sponsored with Alamanya: Transnational German Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop and the Center for European Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:12:18 -0400 2018-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion © B.Sauer-Diete/bsd-photo-archiv.
Russian Conversation Group (October 26, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 26, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-10-26T14:00:00-04:00 2018-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean (October 27, 2018 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53454 53454-13383549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region and links it to the continents that circle it. This conference studies boundaries and transit zones in order to think about the connections between Mediterranean and continental networks of trade and transit.

Friday, October 26
10:20 AM - 1:30 PM: Workshops
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM: Workshops
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM: Keynote: Persis Berlekamp

Saturday, October 27
10:30 AM - 1:15 PM: Roundtables
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Mediterranity From The Edge Workshop

Full schedule and registration at http://myumi.ch/Lrdd2.

Sponsors: Global Islamic Studies Center; Armenian Studies Program; Center for European Studies; Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Department of Anthropology; Department of Classical Studies; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of History; Department of History of Art; Department of Middle East Studies; Department of Romance Languages & Literatures; Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; Institute for the Humanities; U-M Office of Research

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to islamicstudies@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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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:26:30 -0400 2018-10-27T10:30:00-04:00 2018-10-27T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Margins of the Mediterranean
Painting His Way Home (October 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-27T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (October 28, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-28T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-28T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (October 30, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Chapter Workshop with Amanda Greene (October 30, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57028 57028-14068335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modernist Studies Workshop

Please join the Modernist Studies Workshop for a dissertation chapter workshop with Amanda Greene (English Language and Literature) on "Sousveillant Storytelling: The Situated Sense-Making of Mass Observation’s 'Subjective Cameras.'"

Chapter abstract: Through readings of the British Mass-Observation Movement's publications, practices, and films between 1937-9, this chapter redefines sousveillance as a habit of socially situated storytelling that is rooted in visual media imaginaries as opposed to a particular apparatus. Originally coined by Steve Mann to describe his pioneering experiments with wearable computing in the 1990s, sousveillance refers to a “gaze from below” that can balance hierarchies between the population and the surveilling state. While sousveillance is usually considered dependent on particular networked digital technologies (like cell phone cameras that can capture instances of police brutality and share them on social media), Mass-Observation’s strange hybrid artistic/anthropologic media experiment decades earlier exemplifies how this practice functions in a broader range of contexts and, above all, in less technologically dependent ways. The movement's work affirms everyday visual practices as vehicles of empowered storytelling by which individuals can enter into larger political communities of dissensus, and draws on contemporary interwar visual media forms as resources to enhance this vision. However, the movement's initiatives aimed to teach the population to actively, interpretively participate in their environment not by distributing devices, but by embracing the affective and socially situated distortions of their own “subjective cameras.” While this idealization of distorted narratives may seem dangerous in our current political landscape of "fake news," sousveillance brings individuals’ distortions into view not to create alternate realities but to recognize what Donna Haraway calls “situated knowledge” as the ethical center of individuals’ political agency within larger collectives.

Please email Aaron Stone (stoneaa@umich.edu) to RSVP and receive a copy of Amanda's chapter draft.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:37:41 -0400 2018-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modernist Studies Workshop Workshop / Seminar MacBook Pro near white open book
Schokoladenstunde (October 30, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 2018-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
The Author's Forum Presents: Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays (October 30, 2018 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54124 54124-13530644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Alaina Lemon (professor of anthropology) and Karla Mallette (professor of Italian and Middle East studies) discuss Lemon's new book "Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays," followed by Q & A.

About the book:
Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for Intuition theorizes phaticity—the processes by which people make, check, discern, or describe channels and contacts, judging them weak or strong, blocked or open. This historical ethnography of intuition juxtaposes telepathy experiments and theatrical empathy drills, passing through settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes, where locals open channels with foreigners, and where skeptics of contact debate naifs. Tacking across geopolitical borders, the book demonstrates how contact and channel shift in significance over time, through events and political relations, in social conflict, and in conversation. The author suggests that Cold War preoccupations and strategies have marked theoretical models of communication and mediation, even while infusing everyday, practical technologies for intuition.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:06:14 -0400 2018-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 2018-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Technologies for Intuition
Painting His Way Home (October 31, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2018-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Schokoladenstunde (October 31, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 2018-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Painting His Way Home (November 1, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 2, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-02T10:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Painting His Way Home (November 2, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-02T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (November 2, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57045 57045-14075027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them.

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations and of disciplines in order to develop two vital qualities: a deep knowledge and a broad global perspective.

The department offers instruction in the cultures of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and in many of the languages of Asia (including Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html

We hope to see you there!

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Other Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:36:15 -0400 2018-11-02T12:30:00-04:00 2018-11-02T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Information Session Flyer
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Conversation Group (November 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57205 57205-14128671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

All levels welcome!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:33:14 -0400 2018-11-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Modern Languages Building
Russian Conversation Group (November 2, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 2, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-11-02T14:00:00-04:00 2018-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
Painting His Way Home (November 3, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 3, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2018-11-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (November 4, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 4, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-04T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-04T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (November 5, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54083 54083-13521849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 5, 2018 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series of discussions offers a fresh take on the basics of looking and evaluating art in the gallery and how it’s organized, making the connection from the traditional “white cube gallery” to iGen visual worlds like Facebook and Instagram. Today: How to look at the art of Luzinterruptus with Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak.

About Luzinterruptus:

This October, the Institute for the Humanities is shutting down Liberty Street near U-M campus. We’re going to reuse thousands of discarded books, turning them into an illuminated pathway for “Literature vs. Traffic,” a large-scale art installation by Spanish undercover art collective Luzinterruptus.

Ann Arbor joins Toronto, New York, and Melbourne, as we feature--for one night only--the brilliance of 10,000 books and thousands of LED lights. What was just a street will become a beautiful installation, as we bring the power of art, education, the written word, and free thought to the entire Ann Arbor community by essentially “paving” Liberty St. with thousands of glowing books.

This is a grass-roots project and your participation is essential!

Want to play a part in this amazing campus and community-wide project? We need:

Volunteers: Community and campus groups and individuals to volunteer to work with the artists to prep & attach lights to books (Oct 15-23), and the day of the event (Oct 23);

Donations: Books that would otherwise be recycled or thrown away;

Visitors: Come view the extraordinary installation, and help us extend the life of a book by taking one (or more) home (Oct. 23 5-11pm).

Small quantities of books can be dropped off at the Institute for the Humanities office at 202 S. Thayer. We can also pick up larger quantities of books. Read more on our website at www.lsa.umich.edu/humanities, or email luzinterruptus@umich.edu to volunteer, schedule a book pick-up, or with questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:26:24 -0400 2018-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2018-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Luzinterruptus
Painting His Way Home (November 6, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
FellowSpeak: "‘Tempest-tost’?: Climate, Disaster, and Migration to America in the Age of Sail" (November 6, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54056 54056-13521820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A 30 min. talk by Sam White (Institute for the Humanities visiting professor and professor of History, Ohio State University) followed by Q & A.

Accelerating global warming has raised dire warnings of tens or hundreds of millions of "climate refugees" in the coming decades. But what could we learn from climatic variations, disasters, and human migrations of past centuries? This talk will examine the current state of research on historical climate and migration and offer examples from the presenter's previous and current research on European migration to colonial North America. The presentation will make the case that climate played a significant role in population movements of the past, and may again in the near future. However, the history of climate and migration to America suggests the link was never simple or straightforward. Each migration event had its specific reasons and circumstances, which we need to consider in order make sense of climatic vulnerabilities and human decisions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:33:50 -0400 2018-11-06T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-06T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Wreck of the Ayrshire
Schokoladenstunde (November 6, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series | Mbala Nkanga, Associate Professor of Theatre (November 6, 2018 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57197 57197-14128659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

This presentation presents the preliminary findings on the use of memory of the violent past in popular artistic expressions, performances and plays in Central Africa. It explores the use of myths such as the Mvett of the Fang people of Gabon and historical figures like Lumumba and Mulele, along with the violent events surrounding their existence.

Mbala Nkanga is a native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and comes to U-M with extensive experience as a teacher, director, and scholar. Since 1979, he has taught directing, scenography and dramaturgical analysis at the Institut National des Arts in Kinshasa (DRC).He specializes in theatre history, performance theories, and world drama. His research interests include: interculturalism and the performance of memory in world theatre and performance; the study of Jean Genet’s aesthetics of profanation and its relation with black theatre (object of a manuscript in progress); and the Mvett epic and its performance (book in preparation: Mvett: Performance, Cultural Memory, Identity Among the Fang). He is preparing the upcoming publication of his Performance, Rumor, and Audience: The Theatre of Resistance in Central Africa, 1990-2000, and an anthology of francophone African plays in translation.

He is a former Fulbright scholar and winner of Northwestern University’s Gwendolyn Carter Award for Academic Excellence.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:42:36 -0400 2018-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Mbala Nkanga
Comics and the Art of Visual Communication with Scott McCloud (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57047 57047-14075030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

Author and comics artist Scott McCloud demonstrates why every visual choice we make matters—in a fast-moving cascade of images and ideas.

Visit bit.ly/comicswithscott for more information and free registration. Seating is limited! Please register to guarantee your admission.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:26:15 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T21:30:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Lecture / Discussion McCloud's signature self portrait: a slightly shaggy haired man with large round glasses and a friendly smile.
The Almost Lost Art of Hula Ki`i Hawaiian Puppetry (November 6, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57198 57198-14128657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

A Dinner meet-and-greet with Kumu Auli‘i will be held on Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, at 7:00pm, in 3512 Haven Hall. All native students on campus invited.

The Lecture will take place on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018
7:00 - 8:30 PM
ANGELL AUD C
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Kumu Hula Auli‘i Mitchell is Cultural practitioner and kumu hula of Halau o Kahiwahiwa in the District of Puna, Hawai i and Hālau o Moana-nui-a-Kiwa in Aotearoa (New Zealand). He holds a Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge and works as a cultural anthropologist and cultural specialist in the disciplines of archaeology and cultural impact studies focusing on the Hawaiian archipelago. Kumu Auli‘i is dedicated to the carving, the dance and the perpetuation of what is considered to be one of the dances of old, the hula ki‘i or Hawaiian puppetry.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:44:06 -0400 2018-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
Painting His Way Home (November 7, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-07T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Schokoladenstunde (November 7, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
FLAS (Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships) Information Session (November 7, 2018 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56493 56493-13930958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 2:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

Eligible Slavic languages include:

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

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Other Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:34:56 -0400 2018-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2018-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other flas
Susan L. Siegfried, Denise Riley Collegiate Professorship in the History of Art and Women's Studies, Inaugural Lecture (November 7, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53700 53700-13450525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

This lecture looks at the early nineteenth century, a sort of “pre-theoretical” moment in which a new modern visual culture of fashion was emerging whose parameters and defining characteristics were not yet graspable. It is an intriguing moment for us, as we too are caught up in a world of rapidly changing media imagery and commercial practices that elude clear definition. We see exposed in early nineteenth century fashion culture more clearly than in later cultural theories the different, not necessarily compatible, levels at which such a culture operates; the sometimes conflicting values it brings into play; and the different temporalities both sustaining and disrupting it.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:47:01 -0400 2018-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion siegfried
The Almost Lost Art of Hula Ki`i Hawaiian Puppetry (November 7, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57198 57198-14128658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

A Dinner meet-and-greet with Kumu Auli‘i will be held on Tuesday Nov. 6, 2018, at 7:00pm, in 3512 Haven Hall. All native students on campus invited.

The Lecture will take place on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018
7:00 - 8:30 PM
ANGELL AUD C
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Kumu Hula Auli‘i Mitchell is Cultural practitioner and kumu hula of Halau o Kahiwahiwa in the District of Puna, Hawai i and Hālau o Moana-nui-a-Kiwa in Aotearoa (New Zealand). He holds a Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge and works as a cultural anthropologist and cultural specialist in the disciplines of archaeology and cultural impact studies focusing on the Hawaiian archipelago. Kumu Auli‘i is dedicated to the carving, the dance and the perpetuation of what is considered to be one of the dances of old, the hula ki‘i or Hawaiian puppetry.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Oct 2018 09:44:06 -0400 2018-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-07T20:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
Painting His Way Home (November 8, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 8, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-08T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Deluge (November 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 9, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-09T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Painting His Way Home (November 9, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-09T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Russian Conversation Group (November 9, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
"Deluge" Opening Reception & Artist Conversation (November 9, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54112 54112-13528452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 9, 2018 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

South African photographer Gideon Mendel will discuss his work and current installation, "Deluge," with U-M Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak, followed by a reception.

About the installation:

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Nov 2018 11:27:55 -0400 2018-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 10, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 10, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-10T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (November 11, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 11, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-11T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
The Glory of Life (2018) by Wang Qingsong (November 11, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57525 57525-14209025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 11, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

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Synopsis

This documentary uncovers the production process of Wang Qingsong’s seminal art pieces from 2003 to 2018, including the most celebrated pieces such as “China Mansion” (2003), “Competition” (2004), “Come!Come!Come!” (2005), and “Follow You” (2013). Attempting to narrate the complex and chaotic composition of the world through his large-scale photos, Wang’s works display the surreal realities of incessant transformations in the world.

About Director Wang Qingsong

Wang Qingsong is an artist, photographer, educator and curator who represents a generation of Chinese cultural producers and creative intellectuals who continue to have a profound influence on contemporary art practices in the 21st century. Over the past 20 years, Wang Qingsong’s artistic works have played a pivotal role in the expansion of Chinese artists within the international art market, and more specifically in developing new roles for visual culture to flourish through his highly stylized photographic works.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/Gs-Zs-jtTvI

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Film Screening Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:33:56 -0500 2018-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Film Screening Wang Qingsong Image
Deluge (November 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Deluge (November 13, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 13, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Water" (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54079 54079-13521845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Water" with:

EJ Westlake (English, theater & drama)
Leela Fernandes (women’s studies, political science)
Brendan Haug (classical studies)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:49:18 -0400 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Against the New Nativism (November 13, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57518 57518-14209018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

The U.S. government is currently checking off items on the wish list of a new nativist movement--from an entry ban on people from majority-Muslim countries to mass arrests and deportations, from major reductions in refugee admissions to new rules designed to restrict working people's access to legal status. These rapid changes to immigration policy reflect a long history of efforts, in the United States and around the world, to constrain the movement of people across borders. As elected officials and news outlets cite nativist "think-tanks" and proclaim an immigration "crisis," this teach-in is an opportunity to participate in a conversation about what is happening locally and globally and how people are organizing in response.

Sponsored by the Migration & Displacement Interdisciplinary Workshop, Global Solidarity After Colonialism RIW, and TriContinental Solidarity Network

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Nov 2018 08:11:36 -0500 2018-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Schokoladenstunde (November 13, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Deluge (November 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 14, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Michigan English Faculty Panel (November 14, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54699 54699-13636295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join The Nineteenth Century Forum to hear updates from Michigan English faculty members Marjorie Levinson, Adela Pinch, and Antoine Traisnel about their current research projects. Lunch will be provided so please email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) to RSVP. All are welcome!

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 12:18:38 -0400 2018-11-14T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion
Schokoladenstunde (November 14, 2018 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 1:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 2018-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Screening of The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (November 14, 2018 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56353 56353-13887617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

A follow-up to the silent thriller Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), this proto-noir sound film from Fritz Lang follows criminal mastermind-turned-madman Doctor Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) as he seeks to establish a criminal empire from an insane asylum. Banned by the Nazis soon after its release, Mabuse is a thought-provoking police procedural about madness, violence, and power. Screened in German with English subtitles.

This event is part of the monthly German Film Series and is sponsored by the University of Michigan Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Max Kade House. See https://lsa.umich.edu/german for additional dates and films.

Each month, a German faculty, lecturer, or graduate student introduces and screens a different German-language film. Dinner will be provided at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7 pm.

Free and open to the public.

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Film Screening Thu, 11 Oct 2018 13:04:38 -0400 2018-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 2018-11-14T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Development Summer Internship Program (D-SIP) Info Session (November 14, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56719 56719-13969935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Development Summer Internship Program (D-SIP)

Next Summer: Earn Money, Get Credits. Kick-start your Career.

Thinking about what you will do with your summer? Want to be PAID, get course credit and learn how to be an impressive young professional? The award-winning Development Summer Internship Program (D-SIP) provides you with a 12-week engaging summer experience comprised of a meaningful work project in philanthropy, academic coursework, and valuable professional development experiences. Through these 3 components, you will build a professional network of colleagues and establish lasting friendships with a cohort of interns hailing from a variety of schools and colleges on the U-M campuses. The application deadline is Sunday, January 13, 2019

Learn more about the program at our information session:

Wednesday, November 14th at 7:00 PM in Room D of the Michigan League

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:47:41 -0400 2018-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Development Summer Internship Program (D-SIP) Careers / Jobs D-SIP photo
Deluge (November 15, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Vladimir Mayakovski: 125th Anniversary Celebration (November 15, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56597 56597-13951429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Join Russian students of all levels in celebrating the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovski.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355) 4 days before the 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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Presentation Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:23:55 -0500 2018-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation 2018.11.15 Mayakovsky
Painting His Way Home (November 15, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Vladimir Mayakovski: 125th Anniversary Celebration (November 15, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56597 56597-13951430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Join Russian students of all levels in celebrating the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovski.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355) 4 days before the 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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Presentation Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:23:55 -0500 2018-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation 2018.11.15 Mayakovsky
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (November 15, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2018-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
"Sacramental Thinking and Jewish Erasure in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament and the Destruction of Jerusalem" (November 15, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55228 55228-13704911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 15, 2018 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Drama Interest Group presents a lecture by Professor Kara McShane of Ursinus College.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:09:18 -0400 2018-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Deluge (November 16, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
"Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (November 16, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56908 56908-14023793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This exhibit, featuring collections preserved at the Clements, highlights the first-hand accounts of American soldiers serving in the Great War in 1917-18. Through their handwritten letters, death reports, postcards, photographs, and objects, glimpse the day-to-day lives, longings, and horrific realities of war they experienced while fighting “Over There” on the Western Front. This project aligns with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that brought their fighting to an end on November 11, 1918.

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Exhibition Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:11:29 -0400 2018-11-16T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Singing at Base Hospital #29, London, England, 1918. World War I Surgeon's Album. Graphics Division.
Painting His Way Home (November 16, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Russian Conversation Group (November 16, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-11-16T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
Books Talk: "Dance Me a Song" and "Black Opera" (November 16, 2018 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55536 55536-13756879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 3:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

In Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (published May 4, 2018), Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate.

In Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly, and the American Film Musical (published June 27, 2018), Beth Genné traces Astaire's, Balanchine's, and Kelly's collaborations with composers and film-makers, crossing stylistic and class boundaries to develop a truly modern dance style and genres for the film musical. She contextualizes their work within the history of dance, music, and film and its roots in the diverse dance and music cultures of jazz age America's nation of immigrants. She demonstrates how concepts and visual-musical devices derived from dance-making would give entire films, both musical and non-musical, the rhythmic flow and feeling of dance.

Naomi André is Associate Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Associate Director for Faculty at the Residential College at the University of Michigan. Her earlier books, Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012, co-edited collection) focus on opera from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries and explore constructions of gender, race and identity.

Beth Genné is Professor of Dance History and Art History in the Dance Department and the Arts and Ideas concentration of the Residential College. She has written numerous book chapters on British ballet and dance in film (including Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli) and articles in such journals as Dance Research, Dance Chronicle, and Art Journal. Her first book, The Making of a Choreographer, was on the early training and choreographic development of Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Nov 2018 09:25:46 -0500 2018-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Beth Genne and Naomi Andre book covers
MESWN Coffee and Book Club (November 16, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55704 55704-13772813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Earth Science Women's Network

MESWN (Michigan Earth Science Women's Network) is very happy to start a book club aimed at professional development of women from all disciplines. Book for Fall 2018 - Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg. We will be meeting twice this semester to discuss sections of the book. Let us share our insights on this awesome book over snacks and coffee! The first meeting (Oct 19th) will cover chapters 1-4 and the second meeting (Nov 16th) will cover chapters 4-8.

RSVP is required - https://goo.gl/forms/p1804cxvb9D1k9222
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/1830299247065578/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 01:01:08 -0400 2018-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Earth Science Women's Network Lecture / Discussion MESWN logo
OUR GLOBAL AFRICA: A NIGHT OF FOOD, MUSIC & PERFORMANCE (November 16, 2018 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57329 57329-14155509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 16, 2018 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: African Students Association ASA

Join African Students Association, Caribbean Student Association, Creatives of Color, and Black Student Union in the UMMA Apse for an exciting evening of food and performance in conjunction with the exhibit, Beyond Borders: Global Africa. Performances include spoken word, Amala Dancers, Ambiance, and more! The event is semi-formal with a gallery viewing included. We look forward to sharing our perspective on how African culture, artistic expressions, and traditions are beyond borders, in an event you do not want to miss!

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Exhibition Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:34:25 -0400 2018-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 2018-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art African Students Association ASA Exhibition Museum of Art
Painting His Way Home (November 17, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 17, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Painting His Way Home (November 18, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 18, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-18T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Deluge (November 19, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 19, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 19, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Deluge (November 20, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 20, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
FellowSpeak: "How a Podcast Started a Revolution in South Korea" (November 20, 2018 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54057 54057-13521821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A 30 min. talk by Youngju Ryu, 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Hunting Family Fellow and associate professor of modern Korean literature) followed by Q & A.

"South Korea just showed the world how to do democracy," reported The Washington Post on May 10, 2017, a day after Koreans voted a new president into office following the impeachment of Park Geun-hye. Officially dubbed the "Candlelight Revolution," the peaceful transfer of power was a result of massive street demonstrations, which in turn highlighted the role of new media such as the podcast. Ideally suited to the era of smartphones, podcast fell through the cracks in the regulatory framework of South Korean media environment, and allowed the public to access information and news stories that had been quashed in mainstream terrestrial, cable, and paper news media. The podcast also became the venue for innovating political idiom in irreverent and parodic ways, and for bringing politics into the realm of pop culture in a widespread phenomenon that came to be known as “poli-tainment” (politics + entertainment). As part of ongoing work on cultural politics of resistance and democratization, the talk will address how the podcast boom sparked the carnivalesque rebirth of protest culture at the heart of South Korea's latest struggle for democracy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:45:30 -0400 2018-11-20T12:30:00-05:00 2018-11-20T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Protest Sculptures In Front Of Admiral Yi , Wikimedia Commons contributors
Schokoladenstunde (November 20, 2018 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55200 55200-13698279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Schokoladenstunde will take place in the comfy seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. There will be some German chocolate there :) All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.).

Schokoladenstunde will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Mary Gell, and on Wednesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak.

German students: If you ask Silvia/Mary to email your instructor that you were there, you can use this to make up 2 "A&P points" in 101-232.

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Recreational / Games Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:15:17 -0500 2018-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 2018-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Recreational / Games North Quad
Deluge (November 21, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 21, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-21T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-21T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Deluge (November 22, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 22, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 22, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 22, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-22T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-22T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Deluge (November 23, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 23, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-23T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-23T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Russian Conversation Group (November 23, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55290 55290-13713770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 23, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome. This group will be focused on students in 2nd year Russian and above, and thus will be almost exclusively in Russian. First year students are still welcome to attend, but please be aware of the language focus.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:40:12 -0400 2018-11-23T14:00:00-05:00 2018-11-23T15:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering fa 18 russian conversation group
Painting His Way Home (November 24, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 24, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-24T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 25, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 25, 2018 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-25T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Museum of Art
Painting His Way Home (November 25, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 25, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-25T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-25T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 26, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-26T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Deluge (November 26, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Painting His Way Home (November 26, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 26, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-26T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-26T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures (November 27, 2018 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57107 57107-14095169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film in Africa. One thread in this body of work looks for ways of centering African photographers and filmmakers as creators of new styles, looks, and subjectivities. Another thread looks at the artistic environments that Africans created, at the ways in which images (both still and filmic) shaped religious sentiments and formed communities. A third thread looks at what is termed vernacular photography in distinct African locations, focusing on the materiality and mobility of images. A fourth thread looks at processes of archival preservation, collection and digitization as well as creative acts of recuperation, that is, newly curated exhibits of old things—both photographs and films. A final thread explores how Africans engaged, appropriated, synthesized, interpreted filmic and photographic practices from beyond Africa.

This workshop will bring together a range of scholars working on these and other contemporary issues in the field of African visual cultures. We are interested in blurring the photographic with the filmic in order to explore the qualities of one as inherent to the other.

Panel sessions are free and open to the public. Visit ii.umich.edu/asc/ahi and click the U-M/WiSER Mellon Workshop section for conference details.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:16:33 -0500 2018-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Deluge (November 27, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54105 54105-13528427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Five Channel Video Installation
13 Minutes, 27 Seconds.

Deluge is a culmination of Mendel’s ten years of work on the Drowning World project, shooting video and stills in thirteen different countries. It depicts a variety of individual stories, positioned with a synchronous global narrative in a way that is both personally intimate and deeply political. In all his years of responding to floods and making many journeys he has shot a vast archive of video footage, which is fully activated in this presentation for the first time.

About Gideon Mendel and his Drowning World project:
Gideon Mendel came of age as a photographer in South Africa in the 1980’s and identified strongly as a ‘struggle photographer’. This marked him and his subsequent career has been notable for his engagement with three of the crucial political and social issues that have faced his generation. These are the struggle against apartheid, HIV/AIDS in Africa and Climate Change.

A leading contemporary photographer, Gideon Mendel's intimate style of image making and long-term commitment to projects has earned him international recognition and many awards. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize 2015 and recently has won both the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award 2016.

His on-going project ‘Drowning World, explores the human dimension of climate change by focusing on floods across geographical and cultural boundaries. By highlighting the personal impact of flooding he evokes our vulnerability to global warming questioning our sense of stability in the world.

The work began in 2007, when Mendel photographed floods in the UK and in India within weeks of each other. He was deeply struck by the contrasting impact of these events, and the shared experiences of those affected.

Since then he has endeavoured to travel to flood zones around the world visiting Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia (2011), Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany (2013), The Philippines (2013), The UK (2014), India (2014), Brazil (2015), Bangladesh (2015), the USA (2015 and 2017) and France (2016 and 2018).

As the work progressed photographing floods became both a literal and allegorical means of documenting the tension between the personal and the global effects of climate change. Each location added has intensified the narrative impact of the endeavour.

Drowning World now consists of four parallel and connected narrative elements: Submerged Portraits, Flood Lines, Watermarks, and Deluge.

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Exhibition Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:41:33 -0400 2018-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Lucas Williams, Lawshe Plantation, South Carolina, USA. October 2015 by Gideon Mendel.
Thrift Shop with Students Helping Honduras! (November 27, 2018 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57408 57408-14186927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Students Helping Honduras

Stop by Thrift SHHop in the Michigan League to support Students Helping Honduras! We will resell used clothing, shoes, accessories, and succulents at super low prices. All proceeds will go directly towards the construction of elementary schools in rural Honduran communities!

Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is a UM student organization which promotes education and youth empowerment in order to alleviate the burden of gang violence and extreme poverty among Honduran youth.

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Fair / Festival Tue, 27 Nov 2018 12:40:33 -0500 2018-11-27T10:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Students Helping Honduras Fair / Festival Flyer
Painting His Way Home (November 27, 2018 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56440 56440-13906040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

*Free and Open to Public*

A self-taught artist who spent 45 years in prison for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, Martin Vargas has participated in the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners since its inception in 1996. He has created hundreds of pieces of art, one of which was gifted to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor during her visit to University of Michigan in 2017.

Earlier this year, Martin came home after more 45 years of incarceration. Join us and celebrate Martin at Detroit Street Filling Station (300 Detroit St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104) as he opens his solo exhibition in Ann Arbor on Oct 17, 2018 (reception at 5:30 p.m.). The exhibition opens through December, 2018 (11 am - 9 pm, Tuesday - Saturday; 10 am - 3 pm on Sunday; Closed on Monday)

This Exhibition is co-sponsored by Detroit Street Filling Station

Image: Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic, 2017

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Exhibition Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:18:40 -0500 2018-11-27T11:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Painting His Way Home, Martin Vargas, Acrylic
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Development" (November 27, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54080 54080-13521846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Development" with:

Susan Najita (English, American culture)
William Glover (history)
Perrin Selcer (history, PITE)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:32:33 -0500 2018-11-27T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-27T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer