Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Annual Copernicus Lecture. Hint: My Books Aren't Really about Sex and Drugs (February 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71759 71759-17879411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Dorota Masłowska is a novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, "Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną" (Snow White and Russian Red) at 19. It won critical acclaim, was awarded the Paszport Polityki Prize, and was translated into over 20 languages. Her second novel, "Paw Królowej" (The Queen’s Peacock, 2005), won the most prestigious Polish literary prize, the Nike award. Masłowska’s first drama, "A Couple of Poor, Polish-speaking Romanians" (2006), was staged in Australia, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Poland, and her subsequent play, "No Matter How Hard We Try" (2008), garnered a Polish Ministry of Culture Prize. Masłowska’s most recent novel, "Inni ludzie" (Other People, 2018), will soon appear in German, French, and Russian. Her works in English have been translated by Benjamin Paloff, associate professor at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:14:00 -0500 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Dorota Masłowska
CANCELLED - CREES Noon Lecture. Epic Proportions: Translating Poland’s National Epic for the 21st Century (March 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71012 71012-17768619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk will offer a practitioner’s reflections on what it means to translate an epic poem in the twenty-first century. What can epic poems of the past mean to us today, and how specifically is that meaning transmuted in the crossing of linguistic, cultural, and temporal borders? Using the experience of translating Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 Polish-language epic narrative poem "Pan Tadeusz" as both starting point and finish line, Johnston will consider such underconceptualized aspects of translation as imagined and actual readership; the role of aesthetic pleasure in the reading experience; and translation as trespass.

Bill Johnston translates from Polish, working in a wide range of genres and historical periods. His awards include the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, both for Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel "Stone Upon Stone" (2012); the Found in Translation Prize for Tomasz Różycki’s mock-epic poem "Twelve Stations" (2016); the National Translation Award for Adam Mickiewicz’s epic in verse "Pan Tadeusz" (2019); fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and, for his overall contributions to promoting Polish literature and culture, the Transatlantyk Prize (2014) and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2012). He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:40:02 -0400 2020-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Pan Tadeusz cover
Polish Language Proficiency and Placement Exam (August 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67685 67685-16917833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

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

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

Sign up here for a seat in the exam: https://forms.gle/exSgvxcrDmXARsrXA

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

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Other Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:16:40 -0400 2020-08-28T14:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other Modern Languages Building
Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood (October 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76248 76248-19679547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health-promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. In Poland, the meanings and ideals of these programs have become caught up in the sociocultural and political-economic changes that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations—most visibly, the transition from socialism to capitalism. Yet practices of active aging resonate with older forms of activity in late life in ways that exceed these narratives of progress. Moreover, some older Poles come to live valued, meaningful lives in old age despite threats to respect and dignity posed by illness and debility. Drawing on almost two years of ethnographic research with older Poles in a range of contexts, this talk shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives. This talk shows how memories and understandings of the Polish nation intersect with ideals and experiences of late life to produce forms of life that are not reducible to binary categories of health or illness, independence or dependence, or socialism or capitalism.

Jessica Robbins is an assistant professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and her B.A. in anthropology and music from Williams College. Her research explores aging, memory, kinship, and personhood in historical political-economic perspective, in both Poland and Michigan. Her research has been published in journals such as *Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Ageing & Society, Journal of Aging Studies,* and *East European Politics, Societies & Cultures*. Her first book, *Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood*, is forthcoming later this year with Rutgers University Press. She has received funding from organizations such as the NSF, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, IREX, and the Wilson Center.

This lecture is the CREES contribution to the "Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia," of which CREES is a proud partner. See the full series lineup here: http://myumi.ch/BojQQ.

Register to attend at http://myumi.ch/dOD7V.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:14:12 -0400 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jessica Robbins
CCPS Roundtable. Assessing the State of Play in Polish Politics: The 2020 Presidential Elections (October 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77794 77794-19931619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Panelists: Anna Grzymała-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University; Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages & literatures and comparative literature, U-M; Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M.

In the first round of Poland’s 2020 presidential elections, the incumbent Andrzej Duda, from the ruling Law and Justice Party, received 43% of the vote. If this result suggested an early consolidation of conservative voters’ enthusiasm, the second round of voting revealed an evenly divided electorate, with Duda winning reelection with just 51% of the total against Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. What does this result tell us about the current state of national politics in Poland and the Law and Justice Party’s claims to a popular mandate to alter democratic institutions? Does it suggest an erosion of populist politics in Central Europe, or is it rather an affirmation of the ruling party’s Euroscepticism and judicial reforms? Professors Anna Grzymala-Busse (political science, Stanford) and Brian Porter-Szücs (history, U-M) will walk us through this dynamic landscape, discussing what it reveals about Poland’s present and what it might portend for its future.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/er4dR.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:57:50 -0400 2020-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion photo by Milana Jovanov
CREES Noon Lecture. Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76039 76039-19655370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk examines the composers who survived the Second World War in Poland and the music they wrote during the war’s aftermath. It analyzes longer-range continuities in composition in Poland across the war period. To do so, Mackenzie Pierce examines previously unconsidered archival materials to show how the wartime survival of the composers Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Zygmunt Mycielski, and Roman Palester informed their postwar aesthetics. He shows how these individual reactions to the war gained—or failed to gain—broader social support. Ultimately, he argues, these composers reactivated deep-seated beliefs about the power of the aesthetic to mediate individual and collective experience, bolstering an expressive, emotional musical style that would resonate through postwar Polish composition for years to come.

Mackenzie Pierce is assistant professor of musicology at the School of Music, Theater & Dance at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the cultural aftermath of WWII among Poland’s composers, musicologists, and performers, and he has overseen world and US premieres of the works of Roman Palester and Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, among others. His articles appear in *19th-Century Music*, *The Journal of Musicology*, and *The Cambridge Companion to Music and Fascism*. His research has been supported through fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Kościuszko Foundation.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at http://myumi.ch/dOX55.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:48:33 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Mackenzie Pierce