Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Use of Medieval Mythology in Current Political Culture and Propaganda (October 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75572 75572-19534978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Our speaker, Professor Martin B. Shichtman studies the ways by which medieval symbols have been embraced by political movements to represent uncorrupted purity. What’s different about recent evocations of knightly signage is their visibility on the Internet where they have become weaponized to attract members and demean enemies.

The goal of the lecture is first to discuss symbols in the medieval period and then discuss how such symbols have resurfaced in the Nazi era and in the contemporary environment to serve the political and propaganda goals of various movements.

This lecture is part of the OLLI Dialog series which promotes conversation and questions throughout presentations.

Dr. Martin B. Shichtman is Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Institute for Israel Studies. Dr. Shichtman has co-authored two books, co-edited two collections, and published more than 40 scholarly articles. He has presented more than 100 papers at international, national, and regional conferences. He is the recipient of EMU’s Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching and the Eastern Michigan University Alumni Association Award for Teaching Excellence.

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

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Class / Instruction Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:16:31 -0400 2020-10-27T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T23:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Dialog
Democracy Conversations (featuring the UMMA Dialogue Deck) (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78250 78250-19998916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister for October 13th.

In advance of the Presidential election, UMMA and U-M's Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning created the “Dialogue Deck for Personal and Political Reflection." The Dialogue Deck pairs twelve images from UMMA’s permanent collection with provocative discussion prompts designed to encourage conversation and reflection about US culture and politics. The Dialogue Deck activity is meant to encourage meaningful dialogue and connection with your family, friends, colleagues, and maybe even yourself.

During the month of October, UMMA will host three "Democracy Conversations" via Zoom that feature the Dialogue Deck activity. Participants will be sorted into small breakout groups of 4-5 people and paired with a host who will gently guide the activity and conversation.  Conversations will last one hour, and offer the opportunity for individuals to learn more about the Dialogue Deck activity and engage in conversation with others outside their immediate social circles. 

The Dialogue Deck can be used by anyone as a self-guided discussion tool, and the print version of the deck is available for free at the UMMA Shop.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, MUSIC Matters, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Other Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:49 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Civic Engagement & Voting (October 28, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78749 78749-20117229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues from the lens of race and ethnicity that will assist with the further understanding of intersectional identities within contexts of history, culture, and society. Each session is peer-led and aims to provide an informal and supportive environment for mutual learning through active listening, inquiring and deep reflection.

This session we will specifically discuss civic engagement and voting. Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:57:51 -0400 2020-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
Fall 2020 Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience (October 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78837 78837-20131202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience is back for the Fall 2020 semester - this time in a virtual format!

This second session in the 6-part series is a workshop by Adela ‘Nobel Snow’ Nieves Martinez - Culture Reclaim/Reclamar Cultura

Register to receive Zoom links to each of the sessions: https://forms.gle/o4MwA1ju5FBw8exd7

As usual, these events are free & open to the public!

All sessions take place from 7pm-8:30pm.

These workshops are coordinated by Semester in Detroit faculty member Diana WasaAnung'gokwe Seales. If you have any questions, please email semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

What is Healing Justice?
According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.

What is Cultural Organizing?

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:19:29 -0400 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Poster including titles for each of the Healing Justice sessions this fall
A Grand Night For Singing (October 29, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77365 77365-19846039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented online, this year’s Grand Night for Singing will focus on the themes of community and connection, with repertoire including traditional songs that speak to our need for communal singing such as “I Was Glad” by Sir Charles Hubert Parry and “How Can I Keep from Singing” arranged by Karen Thomas. It will also feature new social justice songs such as Alysia Lee’s “Say Her Name” and Melanie Demore’s “Lead with Love.” This music seeks to raise awareness about police brutality and anti-racism in the United States, and all four pieces will be presented as new virtual choir pieces.

This year’s Grand Night for Singing program will be the largest in the concert’s history. Nine of U-M’s choral ensembles will participate including singers in SMTD’s Michigan Youth Chamber Ensemble and the University Musical Society Choral Union. The event will be held virtually via livestream on SMTD’s Facebook and YouTube and will include live commentary with Grand Night performers.

Digital version of the printed program available at http://myumi.ch/9o9Ve

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Performance Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:15:03 -0400 2020-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Jeopardy with American Culture (November 1, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78183 78183-19989047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Jeopardy w/ American Culture: In honor of Election Day coming this Tuesday, we will host a game based on the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy with questions about American culture. Join us as we learn more about the history and culture of the United States. https://www.jeopardy.com/
REGISTER HERE: https://myumi.ch/yKD2n

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Recreational / Games Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:08:28 -0400 2020-11-01T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-01T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Recreational / Games Flag
Symphony Band Chamber Winds (November 1, 2020 8:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79078 79078-20186315@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 1, 2020 8:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Synder, conductor
Kimberly Fleming and Nicholas Balla, graduate student conductors
PROGRAM: Septet Paul Hindemith
More than words... Kevin Day
Sun Flower Slow Drag Scott Joplin
The Entertainer Scott Joplin

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:15:05 -0400 2020-11-01T20:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTALEtuLRdiO6kd8TjtaCA

In Manufacturing Celebrity, Vanessa Díaz pulls the curtain back on Hollywood, tracing the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Díaz examines the racialized and gendered labor involved in manufacturing and selling relatable celebrity personas. The predominantly male Latino paparazzi can face life-threatening situations and endure vilification that echoes anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, celebrity reporters, most of whom are white women, are expected to leverage their sexuality to generate coverage, which makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and assault. In pointing out the precarity of those who hustle to make a living by generating the bulk of celebrity media, Díaz highlights the profound inequities of the systems that provide consumers with 24/7 coverage of their favorite stars. Highlighting the highly visual nature of Manufacturing Celebrity, this talk explores the main themes and theoretical frameworks of the book while engaging with several of the images that fill its pages.

Vanessa Díaz is a multimedia ethnographer and journalist whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor in popular culture across the Americas. Grounded in her experience as a red carpet reporter for People magazine, Díaz’s first book Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood focuses on hierarchies of labor as well as racial and gender politics in the production of celebrity-focused media. Díaz is a co-author of UCLA’s 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report, director of the film Cuban HipHop: Desde el Principio, and the media editor for Transforming Anthropology. Her research has been profiled in such outlets as the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC News. Díaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Symphony Band Chamber Winds (November 2, 2020 8:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79079 79079-20186316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 8:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Snyder, conductor
Christine Lundahl, graduate student conductor
PROGRAM:
The Battell Suite - William Byrd
Drama - Guo Wenjing
Serenade in C Minor, KV 388 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:15:05 -0400 2020-11-02T20:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
November Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings (November 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78682 78682-20101509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black/Indigenous/Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event's host will be Krishna Han (he/him/his). Krishna's professional student affairs journey in the US took him from Oberlin College to Bowling Green State University (BGSU) prior to joining University of Michigan. Originally, from Cambodia, Krishna graduated from the Royal University of Phnom Penh with a dual degree in Biology and Education. After completing a master degree in Community Forestry at Shinshu University, Japan he pursued and earned a Ph.D. in Regional Environmental Resources Management at Hokkaido University, Japan.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:14:28 -0400 2020-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering November's Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings event will be held Thursday the 5th from 5:30 to 7:00 PM and will be hosted by Krishna Han, who is pictured in the advertisement. Krishna is a brown-skinned Asian man with side-parted short black hair smiling widely and looking at something off-camera. He is wearing a white collared shirt with pink flower designs.
Fall 2020 Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience (November 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78838 78838-20131203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience is back for the Fall 2020 semester - this time in a virtual format!

This third session in the 6-part series is a workshop by Christy Giizigad. It will include traditional & modern interpretations of Great Lakes indigenous dance.

Register to receive Zoom links to each of the sessions: https://forms.gle/o4MwA1ju5FBw8exd7

As usual, these events are free & open to the public!

All sessions take place from 7pm-8:30pm.

These workshops are coordinated by Semester in Detroit faculty member Diana WasaAnung'gokwe Seales. If you have any questions, please email semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

What is Healing Justice?
According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.

What is Cultural Organizing?

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:24:10 -0400 2020-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Poster including titles for each of the Healing Justice sessions this fall
Oboe Studio Recital (November 5, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78244 78244-19998910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Oboe students of Professor Nancy Ambrose King perform in recital

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Performance Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-11-05T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Annual Copernicus Lecture. An Interview with Agnieszka Holland (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78760 78760-20121149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

As part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF), acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland returns to the University of Michigan to deliver her second Annual Copernicus Lecture, an interview with Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, and acting director of the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, U-M.

Agnieszka Holland is justly famous for the way in which her films tackle “the perversely captivating 20th century,” as she put it, in all of its complexity. She has devoted her talents as a filmmaker to thoughtful explorations of fascism and communism, their aftermaths, and their lasting effects on those who were caught up in the political, moral, and ethical decisions that these regimes demanded of everyone in their orbit. In this hour-long interview, Agnieszka Holland discusses the role of history and politics in her filmmaking, her interest in characters who face difficult moral dilemmas, her work in Europe and Hollywood, her most recent film *Charlatan* (2019), and her desire to help shape a “cinema of the middle” by making thoughtful, artistic films with broad popular appeal.

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw and graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Upon her return to Poland she joined the group of promising young Polish directors, “the filmmakers of moral unrest,” associated with Andrzej Wajda. Her early Polish films earned her a great deal of critical acclaim, but Holland is best-known for her Academy Award-nominated films *Angry Harvest* (Best Foreign Language Film 1985), *Europa Europa* (Best Screenplay 1990), and *In Darkness* (Best Foreign Language Film 2011). Recent films include *Spoor (Pokot)*, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk; *Mr. Jones*; and *Charlatan*. As a screenwriter, Holland collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski (*Three Colours*, 1993), and wrote several scripts for her mentor, Andrzej Wajda. She has worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Wire* and *Treme*, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009. Recently she directed and produced the pilots for *The First* (Hulu), and *1983* (Netflix).

The Annual Copernicus Lecture is presented as part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. While the festival requires tickets, the lecture will be broadcast at no charge. More information at https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:48:34 -0400 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Holland
Annual Copernicus Lecture. An Interview with Agnieszka Holland (November 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78760 78760-20121150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

As part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF), acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland returns to the University of Michigan to deliver her second Annual Copernicus Lecture, an interview with Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, and acting director of the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, U-M.

Agnieszka Holland is justly famous for the way in which her films tackle “the perversely captivating 20th century,” as she put it, in all of its complexity. She has devoted her talents as a filmmaker to thoughtful explorations of fascism and communism, their aftermaths, and their lasting effects on those who were caught up in the political, moral, and ethical decisions that these regimes demanded of everyone in their orbit. In this hour-long interview, Agnieszka Holland discusses the role of history and politics in her filmmaking, her interest in characters who face difficult moral dilemmas, her work in Europe and Hollywood, her most recent film *Charlatan* (2019), and her desire to help shape a “cinema of the middle” by making thoughtful, artistic films with broad popular appeal.

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw and graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Upon her return to Poland she joined the group of promising young Polish directors, “the filmmakers of moral unrest,” associated with Andrzej Wajda. Her early Polish films earned her a great deal of critical acclaim, but Holland is best-known for her Academy Award-nominated films *Angry Harvest* (Best Foreign Language Film 1985), *Europa Europa* (Best Screenplay 1990), and *In Darkness* (Best Foreign Language Film 2011). Recent films include *Spoor (Pokot)*, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk; *Mr. Jones*; and *Charlatan*. As a screenwriter, Holland collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski (*Three Colours*, 1993), and wrote several scripts for her mentor, Andrzej Wajda. She has worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Wire* and *Treme*, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009. Recently she directed and produced the pilots for *The First* (Hulu), and *1983* (Netflix).

The Annual Copernicus Lecture is presented as part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. While the festival requires tickets, the lecture will be broadcast at no charge. More information at https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:48:34 -0400 2020-11-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Holland
Masterclass: Stefan Jackiw, violin (November 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79130 79130-20211824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PASSWORD: strings

Students in Professor Danielle Belen’s violin studio will participate in a masterclass with American violinist Stefan Jackiw.

Stefan Jackiw is one of America’s foremost violinists, captivating audiences with playing that combines poetry and purity with an impeccable technique. Hailed for playing of "uncommon musical substance" that is “striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (Boston Globe), Jackiw has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, among others.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Senior Recital: Justin Stobart, trombone (November 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79249 79249-20241263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Harnly - Chorale Fantasie; Yoshioka - Extase; Sulek - Sonata (Vox Gabrieli); Lynn - Doolallynastics; Still - Romance; McKee - Vuelta del Fuego.

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Performance Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Senior Recital: Jonathan Thomas, horn (November 7, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79250 79250-20241264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Anderson - Fog on Lake Superior; Strauss - Horn Concerto no. 2; Brouwer - Sonata for Horn and Piano; Porter - Small Town Folklore; Janácek - Mládí.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-07T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Annual Copernicus Lecture. An Interview with Agnieszka Holland (November 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78760 78760-20121151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

As part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF), acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland returns to the University of Michigan to deliver her second Annual Copernicus Lecture, an interview with Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, and acting director of the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, U-M.

Agnieszka Holland is justly famous for the way in which her films tackle “the perversely captivating 20th century,” as she put it, in all of its complexity. She has devoted her talents as a filmmaker to thoughtful explorations of fascism and communism, their aftermaths, and their lasting effects on those who were caught up in the political, moral, and ethical decisions that these regimes demanded of everyone in their orbit. In this hour-long interview, Agnieszka Holland discusses the role of history and politics in her filmmaking, her interest in characters who face difficult moral dilemmas, her work in Europe and Hollywood, her most recent film *Charlatan* (2019), and her desire to help shape a “cinema of the middle” by making thoughtful, artistic films with broad popular appeal.

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw and graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Upon her return to Poland she joined the group of promising young Polish directors, “the filmmakers of moral unrest,” associated with Andrzej Wajda. Her early Polish films earned her a great deal of critical acclaim, but Holland is best-known for her Academy Award-nominated films *Angry Harvest* (Best Foreign Language Film 1985), *Europa Europa* (Best Screenplay 1990), and *In Darkness* (Best Foreign Language Film 2011). Recent films include *Spoor (Pokot)*, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk; *Mr. Jones*; and *Charlatan*. As a screenwriter, Holland collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski (*Three Colours*, 1993), and wrote several scripts for her mentor, Andrzej Wajda. She has worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Wire* and *Treme*, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009. Recently she directed and produced the pilots for *The First* (Hulu), and *1983* (Netflix).

The Annual Copernicus Lecture is presented as part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. While the festival requires tickets, the lecture will be broadcast at no charge. More information at https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:48:34 -0400 2020-11-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Holland
SMTD Paul Boylan Alumni Award Recital: Nermis Mieses, oboe (November 8, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78245 78245-19998911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Nermis Mieses  is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Principal Oboe of the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, and Chair of the Gillet-Fox International Competition for Oboe. Her distinctions include being the first American to place as finalist in the prestigious Barbirolli International Oboe Competition held in 2014; first place at the 2011 First International Oboe Competition in Santa Catarina, Brazil; finalist at the 2018 Matthew Ruggiero International Woodwind Competition; and second place at the 2012 Society for Musical Arts Young Artist Competition in Ann Arbor, MI. She has appeared in solo performances with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, and toured Denmark as soloist and chamber music performer with the Thy Chamber Music Festival (2011, 2013). She has presented multiple masterclasses and recitals in Florida, Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Michigan, Nebraska, Washington DC, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Georgia, Wisconsin, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic; some as part of the IDRS annual conferences. Formerly principal of the Michigan Philharmonic, she has also performed with the Ann Arbor, Sphinx, ProMusica Chamber, Rochester, Lexington, and Puerto Rico Symphony as well as the National Repertory Orchestra, Sewanee Music Festival, Idyllwild Arts and FOSJA. She holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from the University of Michigan under Dr. Nancy Ambrose King.    

The Paul Boylan Award recognizes outstanding accomplishments and significant contributions in the field of music, theatre or dance by alumni within the past 10 years of graduation. The Alumni Society Board of Governors established the Paul Boylan Award in 1999 to honor Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Music Theory, Paul C. Boylan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual SMTD Paul Boylan Alumni Award Recital: Nermis Mieses, oboe
Oboe Masterclass: Nermis Mieses (November 9, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78535 78535-20060193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Nermis Mieses  is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, Principal Oboe of the Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, and Chair of the Gillet-Fox International Competition for Oboe.

Nermis Miesis is the 2020 SMTD Paul Boylan Award Winner.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:15:04 -0400 2020-11-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Oboe Masterclass: Nermis Mieses
Antonio Disla - A Performing Afro-Dominican-American in New York City (November 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79251 79251-20241265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

registration required http://myumi.ch/BoVkl

"The fire raced along the fuse line and incensed;
We rose to burn it all down."

"Across the nation and the globe, we all-knowing and all-conquering human beings find ourselves - for lack of a better way to phrase it - in a corner. In the corner, on a universally ordered timeout like misbehaving children. We were sent from schools, workplaces, nightclubs, bars, and places to eat to our homes to wait, like Didi and Gogo in Becketts' Waiting for Godot— awaiting the arrival of Godot, who never arrives. We were sent home to wait for a safer moment in time for our collective existence, which has yet to come. Sent home to sit in timeout to reflect, reevaluate, and heal as a people and a nation. Dumbfoundedly, we watched the drafted news reports of lives lost to COVID-19 awe-struck by our leaders' indifference to the severity of the moment. Yet, with all those pots boiling over, we heard of a woman who lost her life when startled from slumber in Louisville, we watched one human-being gunned down while jogging in Georgia, and yet another human-being deliberately robbed of breath for 8m46sec in Minnesota. As if the death of all those individual lives lost to COVID-19 thus far were not enough, we return to extinguishing Black lives.

As an Afro-Dominican American, it is interesting to exist in a world designed to erase your existence. As a brown-skinned actor, it is devastating to come to terms with my role in that process of self-erasure. I have navigated between theatrical parts that reinforce negative stereotypes and those that made me question if my performance training would be enough to overcome the cultural discrepancy between myself and the character. It is a question that most often comes up when assuming non-white character roles, which underscores my complicity in my self-erasure. When the color of one's skin and the racially discriminatory experiences lived is drowned by the loud narratives that support– despite evidence— that racism does not exist. What does one do? When one's cultural background is not enough to garner a role or bring authenticity and truth to a character of perhaps African American descent, what does the actor do? When does Black equate to one's culture, and when does it not? Why am I at first glance considered black and then by some not black enough? This presentation aims to address performing one's culture within the context of racial consciousness. Performing an Afro-Dominican-American in New York City."

Antonio Disla, aka Antonio Garcia, is an Afro-Caribbean Dominican-American theatre practitioner, born and raised in New York City. He holds an M.F.A. in Performance from The Ohio State University. Since 2012, Antonio has taught at State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, in both the Department of Theatre Arts and the Department of Communication. As a Solo Artist, he has written and devised both site-specific and staged works dealing with identity and race. Of his works, the notables to date are Nobody, a solo piece about race, and Travel, which deals with identity and destiny. As a performing company member of The Shakespeare Forum, he has led workshops in the New York City Public Schools and co-taught Shakespeare for their Youth Forum program. Antonio has proudly worked with The Black Lady Theater, an African American community theatre company based in Brooklyn, in such productions as From the Brought of Brooklyn and Bone Soup.

In the new virtual series, PERFORMING THE MOVEMENT, PERFORMING THE MOMENT, Center for World Performance Studies invites performers and scholars from diverse disciplines to reflect on how performance is being used to respond to the political, social, health and environmental crises that we face at this moment. Each guest will give a 30 minute presentation, and then engage in 30 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will take place over Zoom and require advance registration. You can read about the panelists, register for these events, find recommended reading and resources and/or request recordings of past events at https://lsa.umich.edu/world-performance.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

presented by the Center for World Performance Studies

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:15:05 -0500 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
LGBTQ+ Election Processing (November 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79048 79048-20178465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

The Spectrum Center Programming Board invites you to join them for their Election Processing event on Tuesday, November 10th at 7 PM EST. They hope that this will serve as a safe place for LGBTQ+ folx to come together to share how they’re feeling post-Election Day and discuss where we go from here. This event is open to all LGBTQ+ folx, including students, faculty, alumni, and community members! Registration is required, so please register at https://bit.ly/SCPB-Election2020 if you are interested in attending. Upon registering, an email containing the Zoom link for the event will be sent out. Thank you, we hope to see you there!

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

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Well-being Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:27:00 -0400 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Well-being The Spectrum Center Programming Board presents this LGBTQ+ community space to share election reactions & take care of ourselves. This event will be hosted Tuesday, November 10th starting at 7 PM. The design of the flyer is based on the American flag, but in a purple color scheme. There is a purple rainbow at the top of the text which is centered on the page.
Chamber Music Recital (November 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78608 78608-20075954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Chamber Music Department at SMTD presents its fourth of six programs for fall 2020, showcasing ensembles who are studying in person (though socially distant!) for the semester. This program will include works by Beethoven, Flick, and Nielsen for string quartet, fiddle duo, woodwind quintet, sax quartet, and tuba quartet.

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Performance Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:15:04 -0400 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Jazz Ensemble Chamber Groups (November 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79240 79240-20235388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ellen Rowe and Dennis Wilson, directors

a re-broadcast of the October 1, 2020 Jazz Ensembles concert.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Post Election Conversations (November 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78750 78750-20117230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites the campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues through the lens of race and ethnicity that will assist with the further understanding of intersectional identities within contexts of history, culture, and society. Each session is peer-led and aims to provide an informal and supportive environment for mutual learning through active listening, inquiring and deep reflection.

Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:06:08 -0400 2020-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
Chamber Music Recital (November 11, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78242 78242-19998908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Chamber Music Department at SMTD presents its fifth of six programs for fall 2020, showcasing ensembles who are studying in person (though socially distant!) for the semester. This program will include works by Bartok, Beethoven, Faure, and Schumann for string quartet, piano trio, and piano quartet, woodwind quintet, and saxophone sextet.

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Performance Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:03 -0400 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Webinar: Drawing a Portrait of Arts and Culture in the U.S. with the latest data from NADAC (November 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78592 78592-20068101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Register: http://myumi.ch/erdzq

Please join us for the upcoming tour around the latest data on arts and culture, freely available to researchers and the general public at the National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture. Your guides will introduce you to NADAC’s recently released studies covering a wealth of topics including public participation in the arts in the United States; the impact of arts and cultural production on the United States economy; data on employment and income for those employed in the arts; information on the amount of time that people spend doing various arts activities; unique and amazing dance history data, and more!

The webinar takes place on November 12 at 11 am EST and is hosted by ICPSR, with presenters including NADAC Project Manager Anya Ovchinnikova; Data Project Manager, David Thomas; and featuring special guest Sunil Iyengar, the Director of the Office of Research & Analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thanks to the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, this webinar is free and open to the public.

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Presentation Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:47:05 -0500 2020-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Presentation Announcement of webinar arts and culture data November 4 2020 from ICPSR
Tools for Thriving Student Workshop Series (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79246 79246-20272793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Thursday, November 12, 2020
6:00-7:30 p.m. ET
Via Zoom (login information will be sent upon registration)
Limited to 150 undergrad/graduate students, U-M students only

The Tools for Thriving Workshop Series, created from the research excellence of Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, will help students build thriving lives, teams, and organizations. Students will engage with Ross thought leaders and with world-renowned tools, created by Ross faculty, to deepen their self-awareness and ability to resource others.

The Landscape of Connection Workshop is an invitation to be inspired by the power of human connections. While we are living in trying times that put stress on our ability to be with one another, these times also highlight that human connections are essential for our well being and effectiveness.

This 90-minute workshop will give you a foundation for new ways of seeing, understanding, and acting to build connections with others, even in remote work and online gatherings. You’ll leave with a new appreciation of how to design remote work and online gatherings to tap into wellsprings of capability, strength, and resilience. You’ll take away a customized plan that is designed to support high quality connections in your next remote session, as well as a design guide that will help you navigate the landscape of connections more effectively in these times.

INSTRUCTORS
Your guides on this journey through the landscape of connection are two passionate teachers who are deeply connected to this topic.

Jane Dutton:
Jane is a pioneer of research on high quality connections, teaching and writing about this field for the last 20 years. She is a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Monica Worline:
Monica is a pioneer in the work of bridging academic innovation in Positive Organizational Scholarship with the world of workplace practice, and in addition to teaching at the University of Michigan, she is the CEO of EnlivenWork, an incubator that works to foster new tools grounded in scholarship and designed with beauty to help people and organizations thrive.

Register: https://bit.ly/3k0E5WB

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:00:09 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Workshop / Seminar A Landscape of Connection
Fall 2020 Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78839 78839-20131204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience is back for the Fall 2020 semester - this time in a virtual format!

This fourth session in the 6-part series is a workshop by Chantel Henry of American Indian Health & Family Services.

Register to receive Zoom links to each of the sessions: https://forms.gle/o4MwA1ju5FBw8exd7

As usual, these events are free & open to the public!

All sessions take place from 7pm-8:30pm.

These workshops are coordinated by Semester in Detroit faculty member Diana WasaAnung'gokwe Seales. If you have any questions, please email semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

What is Healing Justice?
According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.

What is Cultural Organizing?

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:27:53 -0400 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Healing justice poster with dates and workshop titles
Pass the Mic (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78533 78533-20060194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

University of Michigan undergraduates at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses share original poetry, prose, and spoken word with other students.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 12:28:06 -0400 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Pass the Mic flyer featuring a hand holding mic emerging from laptop screen.
Chamber Music Recital (November 12, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78243 78243-19998909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Chamber Music Department at SMTD presents its final of six programs for fall 2020, showcasing ensembles who are studying in person (though socially distant!) for the semester. This program will include works by Bartok, Beethoven, Ewald, Haydn, Franck, Montgomery, and Price for string quartet, piano trio, piano quintet, string trio, and brass quintet.

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Performance Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:15:06 -0400 2020-11-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Museum Studies Program, Museums at Noon (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79009 79009-20170604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

How do curatorial works and memorial sites simultaneously serve as tools for constructing national identities and as materials in a state’s claim for transnational reputation? How can we frame these questions in the context of post-dictatorial nations and their contested heritage? Looking at the two different cases of Ukraine and Spain, this presentation will unravel the multiplicity of ways in which cultural artifacts and narratives become the very sites for these discussions and crystalize the impact of these often violent legacies.
Co-presentation by Grace Mahoney (PhD candidate, Slavic Languages & Literatures) and Felix Zamora-Gomez (PhD candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures)

Complete details here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/museum-narratives-and-transnational-reputations-history-state-legitimacy-and-contested-heritage-in-ukraine-and-spain/

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Presentation Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:09:02 -0400 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Presentation Museums at Noon
The Old Globalization and the New Globalization (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79042 79042-20178457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Globalization isn’t dead, but it increasingly has to do more with trading ideas and services than with moving metal containers stuffed with manufactured goods. This talk will discuss how globalization is changing and why.
Marc Levinson is an independent historian, economist, and journalist whose career has centered on making complex economic issues understandable to the general public. Marc spent many years as an economic journalist, including a turn as finance and economics editor of The Economist in London. Returning to New York, he worked as an economist for J.P. Morgan Chase, developing a unique industry economics function and then initiating the bank’s environmental research for stock and bond investors. He later served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include the business classic The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger; The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, which won wide praise from across the political spectrum for exploring the tension between capitalism and competition in the U.S. economy; and An Extraordinary Time, showing how the sudden end of the postwar boom in the early 1970s led voters in many countries to turn away from activist government in favor of free-market ideas. He will be speaking about his latest book, Outside the Box, a lively history of globalization and its consequences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:25:29 -0400 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Marc Levinson talk
PSA Charity Dance Class for the Child Foundation (November 13, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79264 79264-20256950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Persian Student Association

On November 13, the undergraduate Persian Student Association will be having a fundraiser Persian dance class for our charity of the year, Bonyad Koodak (The Child Foundation), in order to support them in their mission to provide virtual education to children living in rural regions throughout Iran.

Our choreography chair, Nikki Farahanchi, will be teaching a fun, virtual, gender-inclusive, dance class showcasing choreography from different ethnicities in Iran! Please share this flyer and sign up form with as many people as possible, so we can fundraise as much as we can for this wonderful organization!

When: November 13, from 8-9 pm
Where: Zoom!
Donations: minimum $5, please venmo @Michigan_PSA
Sign up here! https://cutt.ly/psafundraiser
Learn more about Bonyad Kodak at their website: https://www.childfoundation.org/

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Class / Instruction Sun, 08 Nov 2020 13:35:52 -0500 2020-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Persian Student Association Class / Instruction Charity Dance Class Flyer
Horn Studio Recital (November 14, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79408 79408-20298396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 14, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Adam Unsworth and Bryan Kennedy perform solo and ensemble repertoire for horn.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:05 -0500 2020-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Reason and Moral Values Made the West Great -- Now What? (November 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75864 75864-19615930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will read and discuss The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro. In his view, many of the great accomplishments of the Western world are the result of Judeo-Christian values and the Greek-born power of reason. He traces the development of these attributes through history and shows how they created our modern society.
But now there are signs things are changing. The author argues that Western civilization is in a crisis of purpose and ideas. We have let grievances replace our sense of community, allowed political expediency to limit individual rights and are ignoring the needy.
He talks about practical ways we can use our differences to regain our footing as a society. Gerry Lapidus has conducted OLLI book discussion classes since 2005. The Study Group meets on Mondays Nov. 16 to Dec. 14 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access this Study Group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:12:25 -0400 2020-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Vincent Dubois, organ (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris) (November 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79193 79193-20227526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Vincent Dubois is the Titular Organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris and the General Director of the Strasbourg Conservatory

Masterclass Repertoire:
Duruflé, Prélude from Suite, Op. 5, performed by Zoe Lei
Franck, Prélude, fugue et variation, performed by Skyelar Raiti
Guilmant, Choral et fugue from Sonata V, performed by Kaelan Hansson

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-16T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Vincent Dubois, organ (Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris)
Contemporary Directions Ensemble - Open Dress Rehearsal (November 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79445 79445-20327781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slytowsky, conductor

Music of Anna Clyne, Thomas Albert, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and Tania León.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/GkgxP

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: Making and Modeling Electronic and Virtual Instruments, John Granzow (November 17, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79345 79345-20280627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

JOHN GRANZOW  Assistant Professor of Music (Performing Arts Technology)
Virtual Reality (VR) and digital fabrication technologies today are ushering in a new wave of opportunities in instrument design to bring otherwise implausible instruments to life or support virtual counterparts to irreplaceable and fragile instruments housed in museums and  collections. In the latter case, we aim to resynthesize both the sound of a rare instrument as well as the audio visual experience of playing it in a virtual space. The Stearns Instrument Collection at the University of Michigan has served as an invaluable resource for this research. In this seminar I will discuss electrophones of interest in the collection that give rise to persisting issues of interaction design as well as research conducted with Dr. Anıl Çamcı (Performing Arts Technology, SMTD) where instruments in the collection are scanned and modeled for virtual interaction.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/dOPbx

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
MESA Social Connectivity & Community Series Presents: Decolonizing Thanksgiving (November 18, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78779 78779-20154720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The MESA Social Connectivity and Community Series invites the campus community from different backgrounds and social identities to come together to discuss various topics and current issues through the lens of race and ethnicity that will assist with the further understanding of intersectional identities within contexts of history, culture, and society. Each session is peer-led and aims to provide an informal and supportive environment for mutual learning through active listening, inquiring and deep reflection.

This session will specifically focus on conversations pertaining to decolonizing thanksgiving. Register by visiting: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/4653

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:03:56 -0400 2020-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Social Connectivity & Community Series
Contemporary Directions Ensemble - CANCELLED (November 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79396 79396-20296430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slytowsky, conductor

Music of Anna Clyne, Thomas Albert, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, and Tania León.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:15:03 -0500 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Fall 2020 Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience (November 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78841 78841-20131205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Healing Justice as Building Cultural Resilience is back for the Fall 2020 semester - this time in a virtual format!

This fifth session in the 6-part series is a panel with Chaos Alchemy: Raven, Kayla and Zoe

Register to receive Zoom links to each of the sessions: https://forms.gle/o4MwA1ju5FBw8exd7

As usual, these events are free & open to the public!

All sessions take place from 7pm-8:30pm.

These workshops are coordinated by Semester in Detroit faculty member Diana WasaAnung'gokwe Seales. If you have any questions, please email semesterindetroit@umich.edu.

What is Healing Justice?
According to Cara Page, Healing Justice is a framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.

What is Cultural Organizing?

Cultural organizing places culture at the center of an organizing strategy. It can be done to unite people through the humanity of culture and the democracy of participation. This series explores the ways in which healing justice, creativity and arts enhance cultural organizing through a series of unique workshops led by Detroiters that are at the forefront of this movement. This type of creative organizing empowers communities to come together in celebration of culture while developing valuable skills that challenge power and oppression.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:33:04 -0400 2020-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Healing justice poster with dates and workshop titles
IMPRINT SERIES Vol. 1 — Let The Record Show (November 19, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79455 79455-20329744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Department of Composition

Newly-recorded works by four SMTD composers:

AKARI KOMURA (MM Composition)
Elapsed (2020) — for Solo Cello and Electronics
Jacob Mackay, cello

ALFREDO CABRERA (MM Composition)
Paper Homes & Dreams Away (2019) — for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano
Dina Kostic, violin — Susan Bergeron, violoncello — Lisa Leonard, piano

RYAN LINDVEIT (DMA Composition)
Snapped (2020) — for Solo Tenor Saxophone
Drew Hosler, tenor saxophone

STEPHEN MITTON (DMA Composition)
Albatross (2018, rev. 2020)
Valerie Larson, mezzo-soprano — Justine Sedky, flute — Marco Chen, clarinet — Michael Kropf, violin — Joshua DeVries, cello — Karalyn Schubring, piano

Watch online at http://myumi.ch/jxVXd
Join the composers for a simultaneous watch party on zoom at http://myumi.ch/QAogj

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T20:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Jazz Showcase (November 19, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79409 79409-20298397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students in the Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation created videos for this virtual concert.

watch at http://myumi.ch/gjbOY

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:15:05 -0500 2020-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
A Beautiful Country (December 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79529 79529-20353344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

WATCH ONLINE at http://myumi.ch/PlOEY

Department of Theatre & Drama

By Chay Yew
with additional monologues written by
Alexandra Lee and Amanda Kuo

Using dance, drag, drama, and documentary elements, A Beautiful Country chronicles 150 years of Asian-American immigration history. Miss Visa Denied, a transgender drag queen and performer, is the narrator who guides the audience through the turbulent history of Chinese, Filipino, and Japanese people coming to America. Heartfelt testimonials and the dramatization of some highly vibrant and egregious pieces of propaganda showcase the provocative events that have shaped this history. Addressing issues of race, gender, and appropriation, this play examines the fundamental questions surrounding the immigrant experience, including what it
means to be an American.

This production was filmed over two weeks in the Arthur Miller Theatre and various remote locations according to the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s approved safety plan. All safety protocols for the performing arts to prevent the spread of Covid 19 were observed. The production will receive its premiere on Facebook and be available for one week on YouTube beginning on Wednesday, December 2nd.

more information at: http://myumi.ch/AxRBd

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-02T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
The Arab and Muslim Vote In Focus: How Arab and Muslim Americans Voted and What the Results Mean (December 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79535 79535-20373072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

A conversation on the recent elections with Ali Harb (Middle East Eye), Adbulkader Sinno (Indiana University), Dawud Walid (CAIR) & Fatema Haque (Rising Voices) Moderated by Prof. Khaled Mattawa

December, 4 2020 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Please register in advance for the event.

This event is free and open to the public.
A Q&A will take place after the conversation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:49:28 -0500 2020-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS
MT Ghostlight (December 4, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
How Do We Heal the Widening Divide? (December 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75651 75651-19552871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This panel discussion will explore how the US has become so polarized, and discuss our present racial, class, and urban/rural divides and their impact on the election, and our lives generally. With the election behind us when this discussion takes place, the panel will focus on how we return to American ideals, heal, and move forward.

Our panelists:
Kevin Deegan-Krause is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Georgetown University in 1990 and his doctorate in Government from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. He has spent more than two decades studying how political parties compete against one another, and how that competition shapes what happens in a democracy. His latest book is The New Party Challenge: Changing Cycles of Party Birth and Death in Central Europe and Beyond, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

Vincent Hutchings is the Hanes Walton Jr. Collegiate Professor of Political Science at UM and a Research Professor at the UM Institute for Social Research. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research examines the ways in which political campaigns and the media frame information about racial issues in order to activate and make politically relevant the voters’ sympathies and/or antipathies for particular racial groups.

Jennifer Silva joined the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in 2019. Previously, Silva taught sociology at Bucknell University. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she studied the impact of economic insecurity on social connectedness and civic engagement. Silva’s latest book is We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America (Oxford University Press, 2019). Silva earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the University of Virginia. She also studied sociology at the undergraduate level at Wellesley College.

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

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Class / Instruction Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:52:06 -0400 2020-12-09T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Urgent and Critical Lectures
Opera One-Acts (December 9, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79530 79530-20353345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PERFORMANCE LINK WILL BE POSTED BY DECEMBER 8, 2020

University Opera Theatre

ALL WOUNDS BLEED
Christopher Cerrone, Composer
Tony Asaro, Librettist
The first opera, ALL WOUNDS BLEED, is a re-telling of the myth of Echo & Narcissus in three scenes and an epilogue, composed by Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone with libretto by Tony Asaro. It features three vocalists–a soprano, a mezzo, and a tenor–as nymph Echo, goddess Hera, and self-adoring Narcissus respectively.

and
DAUGHTERS OF THE BLOODY DUKE
Jake Runestad, Composer
David Johnston, librettist
DAUGHTERS OF THE BLOODY DUKE, is a dark comedic one-act opera written by Jake Runestad, in which Margot, the young daughter of the Bloody Duke of Ravenswood, must choose between love and the demands of her revenge-crazed family.

more information at http://myumi.ch/WwKqZ

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 20 Nov 2020 18:15:04 -0500 2020-12-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
MT Ghostlight (December 11, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 11, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Proving Up (December 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79531 79531-20353346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch at http://myumi.ch/AxD4m

Missy Mazzoli, Composer
Royce Vavrek, librettist

University Opera Theatre & University Symphony Orchestra

Based on the short story by Karen Russell, Proving Up is an intimate and haunting look at the perils of the American Dream. Set in Nebraska in the 1870s at the height of the push west, a family of homesteaders struggles to meet the daunting requirements of the Homestead Act as they try “proving up” on their land claim. This atmospheric new chamber opera from composer Missy Mazzoli features a sparse cast and orchestra, and was selected as one of The New York Times’ Best Classical Music of 2018 selections.

more information at http://myumi.ch/DEojr

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:15:03 -0500 2020-12-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: String and Wind Instruments of China, Xiao Dong Wei (December 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79346 79346-20280628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Xiao Dong Wei is a multi-instrumentalist and lecturer at the University of Michigan Residential College.



Watch at http://myumi.ch/BoRVq

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:15:04 -0500 2020-12-16T20:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
MT Ghostlight (December 18, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79532 79532-20353349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch Session THREE at http://myumi.ch/kxPgR

Department of Musical Theatre

3 unique performances on three nights.

In theatre tradition, a ghostlight—usually a single bulb—remains on an empty stage when a theatre goes dark, to appease the spirits. Faced with the near impossibility of putting on a fully-staged production during a pandemic, the Department of Musical Theatre has chosen to provide a new kind of ghostlight: an online-only revue of the best that the department has to offer.

This faculty-led, student-driven production will feature songs, skits, and dances directed, choreographed, performed, and in some cases written by students from across the Department Musical Theatre. From classics of musical theatre to pop, folk, and jazz, this revue has it all.

more information at http://myumi.ch/XeoQB

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:15:03 -0500 2020-12-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Staff/Faculty/Community Member Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79814 79814-20501756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Ambassador

Designed for staff, faculty, and community members, this event (the first of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards staff, faculty, and community members. It will be hosted by the Planet Blue Ambassador program. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:57:17 -0500 2021-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Ambassador Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Student Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 14, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79816 79816-20501758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

Designed for students, this event (the first of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards students. It will be hosted by the Student Sustainability Coalition. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:48:41 -0500 2021-01-14T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Public Monuments and Our Histories: Reframing the Memories of Our Nation (January 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80466 80466-20724373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Public monuments, public spaces, and museums shape the shared understanding of our nation’s history. From the removal of Jim Crow-era statues of Confederate leaders in cities across the country to the opening of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, a dramatic shift in our perceptions and ideas about the complex heritage of our monuments and museums has occurred over the last five years. More recently, the country has considered the role of monuments and the narratives they perpetuate with much greater focus and intensity in light of the protest movements for social justice and against systemic racism that swept the nation in the summer of 2020. In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, join us for an important discussion with four national experts on the power that monuments and public spaces assert in creating our nation’s stories. Mitch Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans; Earl Lewis, founding director of University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions; and Kristin Hass, Associate Professor of American Culture, will discuss the crucial role practice and policy play today in shaping our nation’s legacies, in a conversation moderated by Christina Olsen, director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art.

From the speakers' bios:

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices and the legacies of the Vietnam War. She is at work on her next book, Blunt Instruments: A short field guide to a long history of everyday racist infrastructure in the United States. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Mitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). When he took office, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and in the midst of the BP Oil Spill.  Under Landrieu's leadership, New Orleans is widely recognized as one of the nation’s great comeback stories.

In 2015, Landrieu was named “Public Official of the Year” by Governing, and in 2016 was voted “America’s top turnaround mayor” in a Politico survey of mayors. He gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his New York Times best-selling book, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting racism, and tackles the broader history of slavery, race relations, and institutional inequalities that still plague America.

He recently launched the E Pluribus Unum Fund, which will work to bring people together across the South around the issues of race, equity, economic opportunity and violence. Prior to serving as Mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Noted social historian, award-winning author, and educational leader, Earl Lewis, is the founding director of the University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions. Also the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and public policy, Lewis is president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2013-18), one of the premier philanthropies supporting the arts, humanities, and higher education. At Michigan, Lewis and colleagues in the center are addressing four core areas of social concern: diversity and race, slavery and its aftermath, water and security, and the dignity of labor in an automated world. Prior to returning to Michigan and before leading the Mellon Foundation, he served as the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Emory University as well as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies (2004-2012). Lewis was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan (1989-2004) and the University of California at Berkeley (1984-1989). In addition to professorial roles and titles (Robin D.G. Kelley and Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor), he served Michigan as Vice Provost and Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies (1998-2004).

As a scholar and leader in higher education and philanthropy, he has examined and addressed critical questions for our society including the role of race in American history, diversity, equity and inclusion, graduate education, humanities scholarship, and universities and their larger communities. A frequent lecturer, he has authored or edited nine books, scores of essays, articles and comments, and along with Robin D.G. Kelley served as general editor of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans. He currently partners with Nancy Cantor in editing the Our Compelling Interests book series. That effort, published in partnership with Princeton University Press, investigates how diversity pairs with democracy to enhance the likelihood of shared prosperity. A member of numerous boards of directors or trustees, he was an Obama administration appointee to the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and is outgoing chair of the board of regents at Concordia College-Moorhead, vice chair of the board of the Educational Testing Service, and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.

Christina Olsen is the director of the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art and co-director of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. Before coming to Michigan she served as the Class of 1956 Director at the Williams College Museum of Art. Olsen has more than 25 years of leadership experience in museums and foundations, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Foundation, and the Portland Art Museum. She is a national leader in debates about the changing role of campus art museums and their relationships with the public and campus, and has lectured frequently on the topic. Olsen has curated and produced many exhibitions and programs, including most recently Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s, at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Art. Olsen is on the board of the Association of Art Museum Directors and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. She received a BA in history of art, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and an MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.  

This event is a collaboration of UMMA, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Democracy & Debate Theme Semester.

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Other Mon, 18 Jan 2021 18:15:44 -0500 2021-01-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T14:20:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Art History III: Early Christian and Byzantine Art (January 19, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79818 79818-20501760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Each meeting of Art History III will focus on 5 or 6 works of architecture and fine arts, so that we can explore each one in depth. Learners will bring their travel, curiosity, and questions to this study group, thereby enriching it.

History of Art III emphasizes syncretism between older and newer artistic traditions, for example, the transition from pagan worship to Christianity in the second through fourth centuries CE in Italy. If time permits, we will look at early Islamic art and the syncretism that occurred when Islam spread to the Christian territories in the West.

This study group led by Molly Lindner will meet Tuesdays for six weeks beginning on January 19.

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

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Class / Instruction Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:07:19 -0500 2021-01-19T14:30:00-05:00 2021-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Staff/Faculty/Community Member Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79817 79817-20501759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Planet Blue Ambassador

Designed for staff, faculty, and community members, this event (the second of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards staff, faculty, and community members. It will be hosted by the Planet Blue Ambassador program. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:00:03 -0500 2021-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Planet Blue Ambassador Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Stearns Collection Lecture - River City Drumbeat - Film Screening and Q&A (January 19, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80506 80506-20732240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A free screening (zoom webinar) of the critically acclaimed documentary film,
RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT, followed by Q&A with director Marlon Johnson.


Wednesday, January 19, 2021 via Zoom Webinar (EDT, US and Canada):
     7:00pm - Introduction with Stearns Collection director Joseph Gascho and Marlon Johnson
     7:10pm - Screening begins
     8:45pm - Live Q&A with film director Marlon Johnson

RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT is a powerful story of music, love, and legacies set in the American South. Edward "Nardie" White devoted his life to leading the African-American drum corps he co-founded with Zambia Nkrumah in Louisville, Kentucky three decades ago. Together they inspired youth from their West Louisville neighborhood to thrive by connecting them with the art and cultural traditions of their African ancestors. Now Albert Shumake, whose destiny was shaped by the drumline, must take up the mantle for the next generation. Meanwhile, student drummers Imani, Jailen, and Emily navigate adolescence and life changes. RIVER CITY DRUMBEAT follows this creative community of mentors, parents, and youth making their way in a world where systemic forces raise obstacles to fulfilling their dreams.
Register at https://myumi.ch/4pj47

This is the inaugural event for the Stearns Collection Winter 2021 Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series.  The film screening will be held through Zoom Webinar Video Conferencing. All Zoom webinar registrants will receive a video streaming link for independent viewing of the film from January 18 through January 30, 2021.  We recommended viewing the filming during the webinar, but one may view the film before or after the webinar and still join in the Q&A at 8:45pm on Jan. 19. The streaming link is for the personal use of the webinar attendees and may not be shared with others. This film is protected by copyright law.
Inquiries may be directed to stearnsoutreach@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Student Conversation on Carbon Neutrality and the PCCN (January 20, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79819 79819-20501764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

Designed for students, this event (the second of two identical sessions) will be a chance for participants from Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint to have an honest and open discussion about the draft PCCN (President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality) recommendations. Feedback will be collected by volunteer facilitators and passed onto the Commission. We aim to hear from as many campus community members as possible, so please register to attend only one of the scheduled sessions.

Again, this discussion is geared towards students. It will be hosted by the Student Sustainability Coalition. No experience is necessary to attend and provide your perspective!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:49:09 -0500 2021-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Lecture / Discussion Community Conversations on Carbon Neutrality event graphic
Myanmar: Land of Golden Temples and Floating Villages (January 22, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79794 79794-20499784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Photographer, Ann O’Hagan, invites you on a visual journey through the highlights of Myanmar, locally still known as Burma. Once the richest country in Southeast Asia, Myanmar still remains one of the most fascinating places on earth. Despite the disheartening news that has recently brought it to our attention, visiting offers an opportunity to learn about its unique culture, glimpse its tragic history and enjoy its breathtaking scenery.

Through the camera lens, you’ll go on a journey that includes modern cityscapes, rural landscapes, exotic temples and watery villages. Highlights include Rangoon (now Yangon), Mandalay, Bagan and Inle Lake. Don’t miss this opportunity for a visual adventure from the comfort of your living room!

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:31:14 -0500 2021-01-22T15:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Chinese 1 (January 25, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79986 79986-20525410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course places emphasis on basic and fundamental Chinese. By using analytical and systematic ways to introduce Chinese characters, sentences, structures, patterns and templates, etc.

At the end students should be able to replace subject, verb and object to make sentences they would like to say or carry on conversation.

This study group led by Angela Yang will meet Mondays beginning on January 25 through May 10.

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

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Class / Instruction Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:12:27 -0500 2021-01-25T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
A Discussion on Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized (January 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81183 81183-20872041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Sikh Student Association

The Sikh Students Association at the University of Michigan is hosting an open conversation and discussion led by Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, author of Fauja Singh Keeps Going and American educator, writer, and activist for Religion News Service. He is also an accomplished professor with graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he speaks regularly on issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

We will be discussing the topic of Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized. Although we will be focusing on representation as it pertains to Sikhi, we definitely want to invite anyone that is interested in the topics of Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, etc.! This event is free and open to attendees of all religions, faiths, and backgrounds.

Any questions/comments can be directed to our co-chairs! We hope to see you there!

Jasnoor Singh: 248-912-5259 (jasnoors@umich.edu)
Ramneet Chauhan: 989-627-1288 (ramneetc@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:07:49 -0500 2021-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Sikh Student Association Lecture / Discussion Flyer for discussion with Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Is Acceptance the Future of Art? (January 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80550 80550-20738205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join Ayana Evans, described as “one part Wonder Woman, one part agent provocateur” (Roberta Fallon, co-founder of Artblog) for a live, virtual discussion with Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan and scholar of critical race theory’s relationship to gender.

In conjunction with her presentation as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series premiering January 22, Ayana Evans will talk with Reginald Jackson about her work, a body of performances that comments on the effort she must put in to be taken seriously as a Black woman – often with humor and impromptu community-creation. They will also discuss issues facing art-makers today: her mid-career shift to performance, and the potential for art to promote self acceptance and wider acceptance of all selves.

Monday, January 25, 5:30-6:30 pm EST

Register here to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/jan25_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:36:32 -0500 2021-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Ayana Evans and Reginald Jackson
Global Connections: You Have To Give Something To Get Something! (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81217 81217-20873991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Session Blurb: Collaborators for nearly 20 years--Professor Michael Gould discusses the art of collaboration with Nadja Raszewski (Choreographer-Berlin, Germany) and Anders Åstrand (Musician/Composer-Stockholm, Sweden). How they built their working relationships and the resulting projects that have led them to creating art around the world.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
SMTD Concerto Competition - Undergraduate Finals (January 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81250 81250-20879870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Piano Concerto no. 2 in C Minor, op. 18 (1901) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Moderato (1873–1943)
Adagio sostenuto
Allegro scherzando
Jacob Wang, piano
Yi-Hsuan Lee, piano

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24 (1947) Samuel Barber
(1910–1981)
Catherine Moss, voice
Joshua Marzan, piano

Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33 (1876) Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Theme (1840–1893)
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3
Variation 4
Variation 5
Variation 6
Variation 7
Olivia Yelim Cho, cello
Bogdan Dulu, piano

Les Illuminations, op. 18 (1939) Benjamin Britten
Fanfare (1913–1976)
Villes
Phrase
Antique
Royauté
Marine
Interlude
Being Beauteous
Parade
Départ
William Fishwick, voice
John Etsell, piano

Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp Minor, op. 1 (1891, rev. 1917) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vivace (1873–1943)
Andante
Allegro vivace
Sua Lee, piano
Jingjing Wan, piano

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra (1949, revised 1953) Ingolf Dahl
Recitative (1912–1970)
Passacaglia
Rondo alla marcia
Brian Kachur, saxophone
Liz Ames, piano

Flute Concerto, CNW 42 (1926) Carl Nielsen
Allegro moderato (1865–1931)
Allegretto un poco—Adagio ma non troppo—Allegretto—Poco adagio—Tempo di marcia
Danielle Kim, flute
Liz Ames, piano

Cello Concerto in A Minor, op. 129 (1850) Robert Schumann Nicht zu schnell (1810–1856)
Langsam
Sehr Lebhaft
Dana Rath, cello
Narae Joo, piano

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Masters Recital: Hohner Porter, percussion (January 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81375 81375-20889799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Lang - Anvil Chorus; Hurel - Loops IV; Wharton - Deus Ex Metronome; O’Halloran - how sweet the thought of you as infinite; Lamb - Post-Lightened; Funkhouser - To Bathe in Light; Recreational Bewaa of the Dagarti - Yaa Yaa Kole.

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Performance Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
SMTD Concerto Competition - Graduate Finals (January 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81249 81249-20879869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Piano Concerto no. 3 in D Minor, op. 30 (1909) Sergei Rachmaninoff
Allegro ma non tanto (1873–1943)
Intermezzo: Adagio
Finale: Alla breve Ji-Hyang Gwak, piano
Mi-Eun Kim, piano

Violin Concerto no. 3, op. 61 (1879–1880) Camille Saint-Saëns
Allegro non troppo (1835–1921)
Andantino quasi allegretto
Molto moderato e maestoso
Hee Yeon Kim, violin
Polina Khatsko,piano

Legacy (2015) Oscar Navarro (b. 1981)
Jillian Kouzel oboe
Liz Ames, piano

Songs and Dances of Death (1875) Modest Mussorgsky
Lullaby (1839–1881)
Serenade
Trepak
The Field Marshal (1877)
Alan Williams, voice
Taylor Flowers, piano

Piano Concerto no. 4 in G Major, op. 58 (1805–1806) Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro moderato (1770–1827)
Andante con moto
Rondo: Vivace
Yi-Hsuan Lee, piano
Hsin-Yi Huang, piano

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1938–1939) William Walton Andante tranquillo (1902–1983)
Presto capriccioso alla napolitana
Vivace
Danqi Zeng, violin
Benjamin Gittens, piano

Alto Saxophone Concerto in E-flat Major, op. 109 (1934) Alexander Glazounov (1865–1936)
Valentin Kovalev, saxophone
Liz Ames, piano

An Sylvia, D. 891 Franz Schubert
Du bist die Ruh, D. 776 (1797–1828)
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118
Erlkönig, D. 328
Christine Amon, voice
Natalie Sherer, piano

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Representative Roundtable Day 2 (February 2, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81237 81237-20877909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Join Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, State Senator Jeff Irwin, Representative Donna Lasinski, and Council Members Lisa Disch and Erica Briggs for our second Representative Roundtable of the Series. During this virtual event, U-M students will have a chance to discuss the relationship between the University and local policymakers and ask questions to the panelists about issues most relevant to University students.

Link to Register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6yVZBtlTceP_R22sjp6Bg

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:17:04 -0500 2021-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Conference / Symposium Panelists
Ezra Korman, Poet of My City (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81504 81504-20901747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The author and anthologist Ezra Korman was born in Kiev and later adopted Detroit as his home, becoming the city's dean of Yiddish letters. Mikhl Yashinsky, born in Detroit a few decades later, has claimed an inheritance of thought and poetry in the author's life and work. At this event, Yashinsky shares that inheritance and performs Korman's Yiddish poetry in his own translation, inviting us to visit libraries and dusty synagogue vaults, guiding us through the author's possessions, his voice, his writing, his grave.

Mikhl Yashinsky has taught Yiddish at the University of Michigan, YIVO, and The Workers Circle, and is known to Yiddish theatrical audiences for his performances in Joel Grey's production of Fiddler on the Roof and the title role of The Sorceress.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:06:01 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poet of my City
No More Promises: Policing Feminist Rage in Puerto Rico (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80304 80304-20703779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk will trace the ways that activists and ordinary citizens mobilize rage in order to navigate the constraints of colonial capitalism in contemporary Puerto Rico. I argue that the state is preoccupied with the growing rage being articulated by Puerto Ricans, particularly Puerto Rican feminists, because rage has the potential to create networks of solidarity grounded in a refusal of the current order. Both the local and federal government have increasingly criminalized articulations of political rage and have utilized the Puerto Rico Police Department to repress displays of rage in the streets. Looking at recent examples, I show that in their collective rage, Puerto Ricans who had felt silenced by colonial capitalism, misogyny, queer antagonism, and racism have found a way to push back and articulate a different way of living in Puerto Rico.

Join us on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92939571938

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:21:57 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Livestream / Virtual Marisol LeBrón, Assistant Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (The University of Texas at Austin)
Musicology Lecture: National Anthems: Signifiers of Dominance and Oppression (February 5, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81218 81218-20873992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

On Jan 6, 2021, insurrectionists sang the Star Spangled Banner and waved the confederate flag while violently invading The Capitol. Contrast this with moments in 2016, when African American NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick  knelt quietly and peacefully during the Star-Spangled Banner. These gestures, both related to the National anthem, varied widely in action, perception, and meaning. These differences, rooted in the racial and racist history of the United States, draw attention to the very notion of a national anthem. Long before Kaepernick, Black folks in the United States have been questioning this song that was written by a slave-holding anti-abolitionist. These same questions should apply in African countries as well. How have national anthems been used to reinforce or dilute national pride in African countries.  Often these songs are sonic reflections of the colonized past, a great irony given the troubled relationships between these countries and their colonial “masters.” This presentation explores the complex relationship between official national anthems and black folks, and considers alternative songs that Africans and African Americans have embraced as a way of authoring their own sense of national identity and challenging enduring systems of oppression.
 
Speaker Bio:
Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and Professor of Music at the University of Missouri. In 2003, she earned a PhD in Ethnomusicology and Folklore with a minor in African American Studies from Indiana University. From 2003-2011, she taught at Columbia College Chicago, and from 2011-2018, she was a faculty member at the University of Missouri in the Black Studies Department and the School of Music. From 2015-2018, she was chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of Missouri.  From 2018-2020, she was professor and chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shonekan's dual heritage combining West Africa with the West Indies allows her to straddle the black world comfortably.  She has published articles on afrobeat, Fela Kuti, as well as American and Nigerian hip-hop, and American country music.  Her publications explore the nexus where identity, history, culture and music meet. Her books include  The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Opera Diva (2011), Soul, Country, and the USA: Race and Identity in American Music Culture (2015), Black Lives Matter & Music (2018), and Black Resistance in the Americas (2018).

Register at https://myumi.ch/pd5PQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:15:04 -0500 2021-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
The Future of Art "Art and Activism: Designing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia" (February 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81591 81591-20929543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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The University of Virginia—designed by Thomas Jefferson and now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—was built and maintained by 4,000 or more enslaved men, women, and children. UVA’s powerful new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers honors the lives, labors, and resistance of the enslaved people who lived and worked at UVA at some point between 1817 and 1865.

This interview with members of the memorial’s design team will explore the history, form, and process behind the creation of the memorial. Panelists: Mabel Wilson, Meejin Yoon, Eric Höweler, and Eto Otitigbe, with U-M's Kristin Hass as interviewer. 

~   Eric Höweler, AIA, LEED AP,  is an associate professor in architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he teaches lecture courses and design studios with a focus on building technologies/integration. He is a co-founding principal of  Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, a research-driven, multidisciplinary design studio working between architecture, art, and media. HYA has a reputation for work that is technologically and formally innovative, and deeply informed by human experience, and a sensitivity to tectonics. 

Eto Otitigbe is a polymedia artist whose interdisciplinary practice investigates the intersections of race, power, and technology. With history as the foundation for exploration, Otitigbe sets alternative narratives into motion; creating spaces for people to experience a unique mixture of concepts. Otitigbe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where is an Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture in the Art Department of Brooklyn College.

Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a professor in African American and African diasporic studies, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, and co-director of the Global Africa Lab at Columbia University. She is trained in architecture and American studies, two fields that inform her work. Through her transdisciplinary practice Studio &, Wilson makes visible and legible the ways that anti-black racism shapes the built environment along with the ways that blackness creates spaces of imagination, refusal, and desire. 

J. Meejin Yoon, AIA FAAR, is an architect, designer, and educator, whose projects and research investigate the intersections between architecture, technology, and the public realm. Prior to joining the faculty at AAP, Yoon was at MIT for 17 years and served as the head of the Department of Architecture from 2014–18. Yoon is cofounding principal of Höweler and Yoon Architecture. 

Kristin Hass is associate professor of American culture and faculty coordinator for the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1998) and Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall (2013). Her fields of study include visual culture, material culture, museum studies, memory, and 20th-century cultural history.

This is the first in a series of annual Art and Activism lectures as part of High Stakes Art, a project designed to enhance exhibitions and programming at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. High Stakes Art and this lecture are made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the U-M Arts Initiative.

The Future of Art Series is hosted by the U-M Arts Initiative as part of a two-year startup phase. 

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:16:07 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Concert Band - Livestream (February 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81767 81767-20953359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Courtney Snyder, conductor
Kim Fleming and Joan Wiesczcyk, graduate conductors
Ruby Pérez, narrator

Hahn - La Bal de Beatrice d’Este
Broughton - Little Acorns
Henning - Out in the Sun
Revueltas - Tres Sonetos
David - Zephyrus

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
The Intersections of Black LGBTQ+ Identity and Mentorship (February 10, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81686 81686-20943435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

MESA and Spectrum Center Mentorship programs invite you to join them for a panel discussion about the Intersections of Black LGBTQ+ Identity and Mentorship. Panelists will speak about the impact that mentorship has had on their identity development as Black and LGBTQ+ students and how it has supported them as they navigate campus and academic life at the University of Michigan and the community they belong to. This event will be open to students, staff and faculty to engage in community building, networking, and connection. It will also be an opportunity for students to gain additional insight about the lived experiences of Black and LGBTQ+ people in addition to learning more about MESA and Spectrum Center’s mentorship support programs.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:12:56 -0500 2021-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The LGBTQ Health & Wellness Season and Spectrum Center M-Block logos against a dotted pink background.
How to Go Beyond Diversity and Achieve Equity and Inclusion in Academia (February 11, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80487 80487-20728306@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

RSVP here to receive Zoom link: cew.umich.edu/events/cewinspire-workshop-how-to-go-beyond-diversity-and-achieve-equity-and-inclusion-in-academia

The main objective of this workshop is for participants (faculty, students, administration, and staff) to develop a personal connection with the plight of racial-ethnic and sexual minorities in institutions of higher education. This work is needed for the advancement of individual and institutional empathy so that we can move from tolerating to accepting to celebrating underrepresented minorities in academia. This will be achieved by encouraging workshop participants to identify instances: in their own lives in which structural prejudice and bigotry and individual-level macroaggressions hampered their career development; in which they intentionally and/or unintentionally contributed to advancing structural prejudice and bigotry and/or perpetrated individual-level macroaggressions that may have hampered the career of underrepresented faculty, students, administration, and staff; and in which they were bystanders who did not intervene to dismantle structural prejudice and bigotry and/or address individual-level macroaggressions that they witnessed.

Format: This hands-on workshop will include:
A. A short lecture whose content will include Pinto’s personal experiences and personal examples of the dynamics listed above. This will be reinforced with statistics (e.g., disparities in tenure and promotion), and anecdotes from other minority individuals.

B. Following the lecture, Pinto, in collaboration with other actors, will use Theater of the Oppressed (Port: Teatro dos Oprimidos) techniques to model skits reflecting each of the instances listed above. Skits will be scripted such that the ending of each story will be decided by participants in small groups with an eye toward actions they can take to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the academic space. (Boal A. (1979). Theatre of the Oppressed. New York, NY: Theater Communications Group).

C. Following small group discussions, all participants will reconvene to discuss strategies for welcoming underrepresented minorities into their social networks. This portion of the workshop will help participants to understand how they can help underrepresented minorities develop social capital by lending their social support: emotional, concrete, and informational.

Rogério Pinto accepting on behalf of the Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee: Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Rogério M. Pinto is a professor and associate dean for research at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. He is the co-chair of the Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee. In his work, Pinto focuses on finding academic, sociopolitical, and cultural venues for broadcasting voices of oppressed individuals and groups. Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, his community-engaged research focuses on the impact of interprofessional collaboration on the delivery of evidence-based services to marginalized racial/ethnic and sexual minority individuals. Funded by the University of Michigan Office of Research, as a new scholarly pursuit, he is building an art installation, The Realm of the Dead, to investigate his own personal marginalization as a gender non-confirming, mixed-race, and Latinx immigrant. This installation will serve as the stage set for Pinto’s award-winning theatrical performance, Marília, a one-person play, in which Pinto further explores the tragic death of his 3-year old sister, Marília, and how such loss haunts and inspires the lives of the family members she left behind. Marília won the 2015 United Solo Festival Best Documentary Script and it will be performed again at the University of Michigan as part of the centennial celebration of the School of Social Work.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:18:18 -0500 2021-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Workshop / Seminar
Imprint Series: Let the Record Show Vol II (February 11, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81945 81945-20994859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan Composition Department (2020-2021)

Newly-recorded works by SMTD composers:

MATTHEW OSTERHOLZER (BM Composition)
Should The Stars Align (2020) — for Solo Piano
Matthew Osterholzer, piano

ZAN HUANG (BM Composition)
The April Song Cycle (selections from) (2020) — for Bass and Piano
Jack Morin, bass — Karalyn Schubring, piano

INDIGO KNECHT (MM Composition)
an ode to the developing tubist (2020) — for Tuba and Live Electronics
Indigo Knecht, tuba

DAVIS REINHART (BM Composition)
What It Means to Be A Kid (2020)
Craig Swink, clarinet — Clayon Farmer, piano

GABRIEL FYNSK (BM Composition)
Maiden Stone (2020)
Justine Sedky, flute — Juliet Schlefer, soprano — Emmei Ji, clarinet — Michelle Ho, bass clarinet — Megan Rohrer, violin 1 — Malhar Kute, violin 2 — Ryan McDonald, viola — Hanna Rumora, cello

Video editing and production by Alfredo Cabrera — audio editing by Kevin Bourassa — interstitial music by Grey Grant

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:15:06 -0500 2021-02-11T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
How We Do, a discussion & workshop with artist Chitra Ganesh (February 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80789 80789-20793300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Chitra Ganesh, a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist of South Asian origin, creates installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper. Her process often engages historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to create new representations of culture, femininity, sexuality, and power, and to bring queer femme perspectives typically absent from canons of literature and art. 

How does Ganesh employ research to approach these large ideas, identities, and histories in her research and creative process? Join this discussion + workshop to learn directly from Ganesh about her artistic practice, and to apply a little of her approach to your own creative projects (whether they be artistic, conceptual, entrepreneurial, or otherwise). Browse her website and Instagram.

During the workshop

Participants are invited to think of something that inspires them and/or they have questions about:

- a film - a book, poem, comic or graphic novel, or other form of writing - a common historical narrative - a person (past or present) - something from Tik Tok - a meme - a video

Through discussion, writing, doodling, drawing, and other exercises, this workshop will offer the space to explore and expand the ways in which creative projects can offer critiques of society, ideas about history and identity, and new imaginings of what is possible.

Sultana’s Dream and recent work

Recently acquired by UMMA and featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh honey...A queer reading of the collection, Ganesh’s series of prints Sultana’s Dream takes its inspiration from a 1905 text by the same name written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a trailblazer for women's rights in South Asia. In Ganesh's words, Sultana’s Dream is a moving blueprint for an urban utopia that centers concepts such as collective knowledge production, fair governance, radical farming, scientific inquiry, safe space for refugees, and a work-life balance that includes down time and dreaming, all with women--as thinkers, leaders, rebels, and visionaries--at the helm. A video installation titled How We Do accompanied two exhibitions of Sultana’s Dream in New York and Bangladesh. In the installation, Ganesh mixed how-to videos and media reports found online with clips she solicited from friends and members of her broader queer and trans communities, seeking to build a body of collective knowledge and skill-sharing techniques, which she proposes are an essential aspect of an equitable future.

In her most recent work, A city will tell you her secrets if you ask, this year’s QUEERPOWER public art installation at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, Ganesh celebrates queer, trans, and BIPOC histories of downtown Manhattan while commemorating the deaths of trans people murdered in 2020 and LGBTQ activists lost to COVID. 

Related events

Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent. Friday, March 12, 8 p.m.  presented by UMMA and the Penny Stamps Speaker Series

Chitra Ganesh programs are organized in partnership with the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and the Spectrum Center in conjunction with the upcoming UMMA exhibition Oh honey...a queer reading of the collection. 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:16:06 -0500 2021-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
James Ehnes - violin master class (February 12, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81785 81785-20959273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is a favourite guest of many of the world’s most respected conductors including Ashkenazy, Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Denève, Elder, Ivan Fischer, Gardner, Paavo Järvi, Mena, Noseda, Robertson and Runnicles. Ehnes’s long list of orchestras includes, amongst others, the Boston, Chicago, London, NHK and Vienna Symphony Orchestras, the Los Angeles, New York, Munich and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Philharmonia and DSO Berlin orchestras.

Recent orchestral highlights include the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Noseda, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig with Shelley, San Francisco Symphony with Janowski, Frankfurt Radio Symphony with Orozco-Estrada, London Symphony with Harding, and Munich Philharmonic with van Zweden, as well as his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lincoln Center in spring 2019. In 2019/20, Ehnes is Artist in Residence with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which includes performances of the Elgar Concerto with Luisi, a play/direct programme leg by Ehnes, and a chamber music programme. In 2017, Ehnes premiered the Aaron-Jay Kernis Violin Concerto with the Toronto, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, and gave further performances of the piece with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Alongside his concerto work, James Ehnes maintains a busy recital schedule. He performs regularly at the Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center Chicago, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux, Chaise-Dieu, the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, Verbier Festival, Festival de Pâques in Aix, and in 2018 he undertook a recital tour to the Far East, including performances in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. As part of the Beethoven celebrations, Ehnes has been invited to perform the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas at the Wigmore Hall throughout 2019/20. Elsewhere Ehnes performs the Beethoven Sonatas at Dresden Music Festival, Prague Spring Festival, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, at Aspen Music Festival (as part of a multi-year residency) and at Bravo Vail Festival during his residency week also including the Violin Concerto and Triple Concerto with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Runnicles. In 2016, Ehnes undertook a cross-Canada recital tour, performing in each of the country’s provinces and territories, to celebrate his 40th birthday.

As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with leading artists such as Andsnes, Capucon, Lortie, Lugansky, Yo-Yo Ma, Tamestit, Vogler and Yuja Wang. In 2010, he formally established the Ehnes Quartet, with whom he has performed in Europe at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris and Théâtre du Jeu de Paume in Aix, amongst others. Ehnes is the Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society.
Ehnes has an extensive discography and has won many awards for his recordings, including a Grammy Award (2019) for his live recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot, and a Gramophone Award for his live recording of the Elgar Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis. His recording of the Korngold, Barber and Walton violin concertos won a Grammy Award for ‘Best Instrumental Soloist Performance’ and a JUNO award for ‘Best Classical Album of the Year’. His recording of the Paganini Caprices earned him universal praise, with Diapason writing of the disc, “Ehnes confirms the predictions of Erick Friedman, eminent student of Heifetz: ‘there is only one like him born every hundred years’.” Recent releases include sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy, Elgar and Respighi, and concertos by Walton, Britten, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Strauss, as well as the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Manze, which was released in October 2017 (Onyx Classics).

Ehnes began violin studies at the age of five, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin aged nine, and made his orchestra debut with L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal aged 13. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2010 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada. Ehnes was awarded the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Instrumentalist category.

James Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715.

presented in partnership with UMS

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band - Livestream (February 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81783 81783-20959271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

PROGRAM
Rossini - Overture to the Barber of Seville
Orff - “Three Dances and Final Scene” from Der Mond
Read Thomas - Selen-Moon Chariot Rituals
Daugherty - Timbuktuba
Cuong - Bull’s-Eye
Haufrecht - Symphony for Brass and Timpani

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:04 -0500 2021-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Organ Improvisation Master Class: Bruce Neswick (February 15, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81786 81786-20959274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bruce Neswick
Canon for Music, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: “Devils, Secret Societies, and Musical Instruments in Liberia” - Lester Monts (February 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79347 79347-20280629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Lester Monts is Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Michigan

The ethnomusicological literature on music in West Africa contains several landmark studies on the performance practice, history, and function of musical instruments. The 21-string kora (Senegambia), the conical-shaped drum djembe (Senegal ), the talking drums atumpan (Ghana), and the hour-glass shaped dundun (Nigeria) and others garner particular appeal and interest among organologists.  The Stearns Collection contains specimens of each of these instruments.  

This lecture focuses on the musical instruments commonly used by ethnic groups in northern Liberia and Southern Sierra Leone, namely, the Mende, Gola, Dei, and Vai.  The data used in this presentation draws on more than 40 years of research among the Vai people of Liberia, highlighting the role of musical instruments in numerous cultural contexts, including their vital importance in masquerade performance, recreational dance, and the enactment of rituals and ceremonies of two pan-ethnic secret societies: Poro (Ɓɛli) for men and Sande (Bundu) for women.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/yK51W

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:03 -0500 2021-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 2021-02-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Powering through Uncertainty (February 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80885 80885-20816994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Platform Architect, Intel & Founder, Timouns

Dr. Simon is a biomedical engineer, author and inventor who graduated from the University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering PhD program and was a School of Dentistry T32-TEAM Training Grant trainee. Her keynote seminar titled "Powering through Uncertainty" will encourage and inspire our students, faculty and staff as we strive to meet our mission of advancing health through education, service, research and discovery.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:05:48 -0500 2021-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Livestream / Virtual Keynote Speaker, Arlyne Simon
Ethnic Studies Sub-Major Open House (February 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81960 81960-20996860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Are you interested in the intersections of race and ethnicity in American Culture? Come to our info session NEXT THURSDAY from 3pm-4pm to hear more about AC's new Ethnic Studies Sub-Major!

Register here: tinyurl.com/10zx91fk

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Reception / Open House Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:32:42 -0500 2021-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Reception / Open House Ethnic Studies Sub-Major Open House
Global Connections: The life of an International Pianist: from Seoul to Berlin to Bloomington, Indiana, and back again (February 18, 2021 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81520 81520-20905712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Colonial Archives and Decolonial Museology (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81912 81912-20988918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

The panel engages with UM’s Philippine Collections, which include everything from papers of US colonial officers in the Philippines to thousands of photographs, from funerary objects in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology to type specimens in the Museum of Zoology and plants in the Herbarium.

Additional details and registration information here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/colonial-archives-and-decolonial-museology-panel-2/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:44:23 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Lecture / Discussion Museum Studies panel discussions
Critical Conversations presents: Archives with Hadji Bakara, Jennifer Friess, Patricia Garcia, June Howard, and John Whittier-Ferguson (February 19, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81075 81075-20842635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Come join UMMA Associate Curator of Photography Jennifer Friess along with U-M faculty and graduate students for this lunchtime discussion.

Critical Conversations is an interdepartmental lunchtime discussion series that invites University of Michigan faculty and occasionally visitors to present flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme.

Organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s office, Critical Conversations aims to build community among faculty and graduate students by creating an informal space to think through questions that matter.

Additional support for Critical Conversations has generously been provided by Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops, including the Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop and the Exploring Historical Legacies and Memory Workshop, and departmental units including American Culture, Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature, History of Art, Film Television and Media, Judaic Studies, and Women’s Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:16:25 -0500 2021-02-19T12:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Global Citizenship in Practice (February 19, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81567 81567-20927553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

Global Scholars Program's Annual Conference

Global citizenship is a popular idea among many of us, yet we do not always conceptualize or actualize it in the same ways. This conference is an opportunity to share interdisciplinary approaches to global citizenship, with emphasis on how we put this idea into practice.

Global Scholars Alumnx Panelists:
Cachet Colvard, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Munmun Khan, Centers for Disease Control, U.S.
Ariana Paredes-Vincent, Centers for Disease Control, South Africa

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:20:47 -0500 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Scholars Program Livestream / Virtual GSP GCIP
Musicology Distinguished Lecture: Revolution, Trauma, and a Transition to Nowhere: Thoughts on Russian Music and Culture post-1991 - Prof. Marina Frolova-Walker (February 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82028 82028-21008731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In the studies of post-Soviet space the term “transition to democracy”, so prevalent in the 1990s, has met an early demise. The optimistic narrative of transition first became impatient with the slowness and hesitancy of the process, then suffered from the uncertainty of the moving or even vanishing target, and was finally abandoned by scholars as it became clear that the post-Soviet nation-states were taking shape in some yet unprecedented forms that required unbiased analysis. 
 
The place of optimistic teleologies has been taken by hindsight-driven narratives portraying the collapse of the Soviet Union as a traumatogenic event and the culture of the succeeding period as trapped in the state of the ‘post-’. In this paper I will take post-socialist theories of cultural trauma as my starting point and test them against a number of case studies, both musical and more broadly cultural. I will then consider the double-edged nature of the “post-traumatic” narrative which can be utilised by both the supporters and opponents of the current political order in Russia, and the difficulties this creates for Western observers. 


Marina Frolova-Walker FBA is Professor of Music History at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and currently Professor of Music at Gresham College, London. She is the author of Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin (Yale, 2007), Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics (Yale, 2016), and co-author (with Jonathan Walker) of Music and Soviet Power, 1917–32 (Boydell, 2012).  In 2015 she was awarded the Edward J. Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association for ‘outstanding contribution to musicology’.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
CCPS Concert. Avant Jazz from Poland: Free Improvisations by Mikołaj Trzaska and Macio Moretti (February 20, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80778 80778-20791330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 20, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Performance Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:10:21 -0500 2021-02-21T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Performance Avant Jazz from Poland
Sexual Violence and Abuse: An Examination of Modern Arabic Fiction (February 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81696 81696-20943444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Part of SAPAC's Survivor Empowerment & Ally Support (SEAS) Program Intersectional Speaker Series.

An open discussion on sexual violence in the Middle East with Dr. Wijdan Alsayegh of the University of Michigan Middle Eastern Studies Department. Dr. Alsayegh will explore social and political taboos, such as societal reactions to sexual violence, in modern Arabic texts.

Learn more about the SEAS Intersectional Speaker Series and register to attend: https://tinyurl.com/SEAS21

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Well-being Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:57:51 -0500 2021-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being Sexual Violence and Abuse: An Examination of Modern Arabic Fiction
A Discussion on Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized (February 21, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81183 81183-20870040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sikh Student Association

The Sikh Students Association at the University of Michigan is hosting an open conversation and discussion led by Dr. Simran Jeet Singh, author of Fauja Singh Keeps Going and American educator, writer, and activist for Religion News Service. He is also an accomplished professor with graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia, and he speaks regularly on issues of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

We will be discussing the topic of Representation: What Being Seen Means to the Marginalized. Although we will be focusing on representation as it pertains to Sikhi, we definitely want to invite anyone that is interested in the topics of Diversity, Inclusion, Representation, etc.! This event is free and open to attendees of all religions, faiths, and backgrounds.

Any questions/comments can be directed to our co-chairs! We hope to see you there!

Jasnoor Singh: 248-912-5259 (jasnoors@umich.edu)
Ramneet Chauhan: 989-627-1288 (ramneetc@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:07:49 -0500 2021-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 2021-02-21T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sikh Student Association Lecture / Discussion Flyer for discussion with Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Future of Art Institutions: Repair or Rebuild? (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81575 81575-20927563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Arts institutions, such as museums, were founded on colonialist ideas – white Europeans collected the rest of the world during their conquests and travels, establishing places to promote one set of cultural ideals at the expense of others. Though many have reexamined their history and practices, shifting their missions toward education and visitor experience, museums and other arts institutions carry the baggage of these historic origins. For our arts institutions to matter and fulfill their mission to BiPOC and future publics can we rethink and repair them? Or, should we knock them all down and rebuild new institutions? Or something in between? Our panel considers these questions in a wide-ranging discussion on the future of art institutions.

Moderated by Christina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art; with Maurita Poole, Director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University; Terence Washington, Program Director at NXTHVN, a model to advance the careers of artists and curators of color through mentorship and professional development; and Anya Sirota, Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Monday, February 22, 4:00-5:10.

Register to receive Zoom information:
https://umich.formstack.com/forms/feb22_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:52:23 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Maurita Poole, Terence Washington, Anya Sirota
Say Her Name...Too! (February 22, 2021 5:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82381 82381-21088317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 5:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Say Her Name…Too

This will be a discussion moderated by Dr. Antonio C. Cuyler and Professor Lawrence M. Jackson about the spaces that lie between Dance and Social Activism. This event will feature a screen dance viewing of Dance artist Lawrence M. Jackson’s work, “Say Her Name…Too." A short screen dance, this work will combine cinematic elements with choreography and explores the lives of 5 Black women who died at the hands of law enforcement. The goal of this work is to bring awareness to the often-invisible names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victimized by racist police violence. Black women have been killed by the police at alarming rates, though we rarely hear their names. Knowing their names is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for lifting up their stories which in turn provides a much clearer view of the wide-ranging circumstances that make Black women’s bodies disproportionately subject to police violence. To lift up their stories, and illuminate police violence against Black women, we need to know who they are, how they lived, and why they suffered at the hands of police…this film aims to do just that…

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:46:01 -0500 2021-02-22T17:15:00-05:00 2021-02-22T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual Say Her Name…Too
February Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering (February 22, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82126 82126-21036719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Those who are close to UM's campus can choose to pick up a free meal the day of the event!

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event’s host will be Marcus Calderon (he/him/his). Marcus is currently a Hospitalist at University of Michigan. Prior to his career in medicine, he studied Vocal Performance at Indiana University, which lead to a career in musical theater in NYC from 2004-2011; credits include National tours of Miss Saigon, The King and I, and Mamma Mia, as well as Mamma Mia on Broadway. In 2011, he transitioned back into academia, applying to the NYU post baccalaureate program which linked to the NYU School Of Medicine. He followed a relationship to Michigan, completing his final year of residency with MSU Ascension Hospitals, which ultimately led him to his dream job in Ann Arbor.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:42:34 -0500 2021-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering February's Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings event will be held Monday the 22nd from 6:00 to 7:30 PM and will be hosted by Marcus Calderon, who is pictured in the advertisement. In the photo, Marcus appears to be a light-skinned Latinx man with stubble on the lower half of his face. He is wearing a set of sleeveless doctor's scrubs and a stethoscope.
MEMS Graduate Student Showcase 1 (February 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81904 81904-20988907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Blood and Nationalism in the Writings of Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:03:59 -0500 2021-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Feliciana Enriquez de Guzman
Comparing Transitions to Democracy in 18th Century France and 20th Century South Africa (February 23, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79975 79975-20523445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In comparing transitions to democracy in late 18th century France and late 20th century South Africa, this study group will explore some of the fundamental factors that may determine the viability of democracy in a given society.

Why were black and white South Africans able to cobble together the relatively peaceful resolution of their political conflicts that consistently eluded supposedly enlightened 18th century Frenchmen? Why was a process of negotiation successful in South Africa but largely absent from the French Revolution? What role did political leadership, in particular that of Nelson Mandela, play in shaping these distinct outcomes?

This study group led by Barry Shapiro, emeritus professor of history, will meet for eight Tuesdays beginning February 23.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:15:36 -0500 2021-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
U-M Community: Free Digital Screening of SOME OLD BLACK MAN (February 24, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82016 82016-21006749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

You are invited to a special screening for the U-M community of SOME OLD BLACK MAN, a live theater piece produced by the University Musical Society (UMS) and filmed under strict public health and safety protocols as part of acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce’s (The Wire, Jack Ryan) Digital Artist Residency at the University of Michigan.

The screening is free with registration and available on-demand from Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, February 28. Duration is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes. Closed captioning is available.

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with an honesty rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

More info at https://myumi.ch/dO7Xl
Register for this free event at https://myumi.ch/NxZQN

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:01:54 -0500 2021-02-24T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-24T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Performance Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
U-M Community: Free Digital Screening of SOME OLD BLACK MAN (February 25, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82016 82016-21006750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

You are invited to a special screening for the U-M community of SOME OLD BLACK MAN, a live theater piece produced by the University Musical Society (UMS) and filmed under strict public health and safety protocols as part of acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce’s (The Wire, Jack Ryan) Digital Artist Residency at the University of Michigan.

The screening is free with registration and available on-demand from Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, February 28. Duration is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes. Closed captioning is available.

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with an honesty rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

More info at https://myumi.ch/dO7Xl
Register for this free event at https://myumi.ch/NxZQN

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:01:54 -0500 2021-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Performance Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
RUMBA con ZUMBA: Dance/Movement as Activism and Radical Self-care (February 25, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81585 81585-20927573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports)

Learn the AfroCuban Rumba and explore how descendants of the enslaved folks resisted by preserving their rhythms, music, and dance as a medium for social change, self-care, community care, and spiritual care. Experience joy and practice self-care by moving your body for health and wellness with instructor-led movements to Afro-Latin and Afro-Caribbean rhythms in a dance-fitness format.

This is an embodied experience and not just a sit-down lecture! Please wear clothing you can easily move in and athletic shoes/sneakers for the dance fitness segment. Come prepared to dance and have a fabulous time!

This event is free and open to the public via Zoom. Pre-registration is highly encouraged.

For non-UM students or non-Rec Sports members, please create an account with us first at https://webstore.recsports.umich.edu/Account/Register

For information on how to register, visit https://docs.google.com/document/d/19I4qVjshiiZvmgUw8C3ou4D5r0-6RVaiwNqAgs0iU9Y/edit?usp=sharing

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Exercise / Fitness Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:12:30 -0500 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Recreational Sports (Rec Sports) Exercise / Fitness Rumba con Zumba Dance/Movement as Activism + Radical Self-care
Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82040 82040-21012672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:26:19 -0500 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Treasures of Religious Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts
U-M Community: Free Digital Screening of SOME OLD BLACK MAN (February 26, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82016 82016-21006751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

You are invited to a special screening for the U-M community of SOME OLD BLACK MAN, a live theater piece produced by the University Musical Society (UMS) and filmed under strict public health and safety protocols as part of acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce’s (The Wire, Jack Ryan) Digital Artist Residency at the University of Michigan.

The screening is free with registration and available on-demand from Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, February 28. Duration is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes. Closed captioning is available.

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with an honesty rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

More info at https://myumi.ch/dO7Xl
Register for this free event at https://myumi.ch/NxZQN

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:01:54 -0500 2021-02-26T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Performance Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
The Many Dimensions of Chicago (February 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79795 79795-20499785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This presentation by Susan D. Turner, a Canadian architect and resident of downtown Chicago for the last 12 years, will cover several storylines of Chicago. Its history will be outlined, touching on its founding, the great fire, the Chicago River, the Columbia Exhibition and Burnam’s plan. With a virtual walking tour down Dearborn Street, you will experience the development of skyscraper construction. The Dearborn Street walk will, also, show you great works of art: Picasso, Miro, Calder, Chagall, and Tiffany.

Of course, you will want to see some of the tourist attractions: the Theatre District, Marshall Fields and the Mag(nificent) Mile, Jeweler’s Row, the Art Institute, Millennium Park/Grant Park, the Museum Campus, and glimpses of many public art pieces. Between attractions, Susan will tell you about Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, how the Windy City got its nickname, and factoids about the many inventions that came out of Chicago.

Presenter Susan Turner is not a certified tour guide, but her research and love of Chicago more than make up for it! She wonders how to show us a bit of Chicago virtually in 60 minutes when it usually takes ten days to accomplish it in person.

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

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Class / Instruction Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:31:45 -0500 2021-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Out of Town
Alt-Ac Track: Job Searching & Opportunities Outside of and Adjacent to Academe (February 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81961 81961-20996861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of American Culture

This webinar is designed to provide information for humanities graduate students seeking knowledge about different career paths and possibilities for Ph.D. holders.

Friday, February 26th, 2020, 4:00-5:30 PM
RSVP here: tinyurl.com/AdjacenttoAcademe

Hosted by Professor Umayyah Cable and featuring four panelists:

Anne Cong-Huyen is Senior Associate Librarian and Digital Scholarship Strategist at the University of Michigan Library, and faculty in the Digital Studies Institute. She was previously the Digital Scholar and Coordinator of the Digital Liberal Arts Program at Whittier College, and a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a co-founder of #transformDH, serves on the steering committee of HASTAC, the American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus, and is a member of the Situated Critical Race and Media (SCRAM) collective.

Devin O'Hara is Associate Director, Data Engineering for ITHAKA, the parent organization of JSTOR.org. He, his husband, their cat, and a too-large collection of books are recent transplants to Ypsilanti, MI from New York City.

Laura Portwood-Stacer, the founder of ManuscriptWorks.com, is a self-employed developmental editor and publishing consultant for academic authors. She is the author of THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK: A GUIDE FOR SCHOLARLY AUTHORS, forthcoming this year from Princeton University Press.

Emily Raymundo earned her Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California in 2017. She has held research fellowships at Dartmouth College and the University of Manchester (UK). She is currently an instructor in English at a private boarding high school in MA.

Sponsored by the Department of American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:46:51 -0500 2021-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Alt-Ac Track: Job Searching & Opportunities Outside of and Adjacent to Academe
Group Chat: We Contain Multitudes and Exist in Multiverses: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in UMMA's Collections (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81443 81443-20895772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lick here to check availability of this.

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

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

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

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Presentation Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:15:58 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Queer Trivia Night (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82345 82345-21068627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Bored on a Friday night? Looking to flex your knowledge on queer history, artists, and media? Look no further! The Spectrum Center Programming Board is hosting "Queer Trivia Night," on February 26th at 7pm. Two rounds will be played, one centering Black queer trivia and the other on general facts and people of the community! Get ready for a night full of fun facts, friends, and if you're lucky, prizes! Please register using the link above. Looking forward to seeing you there!

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

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Recreational / Games Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:35:24 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Recreational / Games The Spectrum Center Programming Board presents Queer Trivia Night. All information contained in event description.
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (February 26, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-26T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Contemporary Directions Ensemble (February 26, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81976 81976-21000811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 26, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

Clarice Assad: Pole to Pole
Alejandro Viñao: "d'après Khan Variations" from Cuaderno del Ritmo
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 147

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
U-M Community: Free Digital Screening of SOME OLD BLACK MAN (February 27, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82016 82016-21006752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

You are invited to a special screening for the U-M community of SOME OLD BLACK MAN, a live theater piece produced by the University Musical Society (UMS) and filmed under strict public health and safety protocols as part of acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce’s (The Wire, Jack Ryan) Digital Artist Residency at the University of Michigan.

The screening is free with registration and available on-demand from Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, February 28. Duration is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes. Closed captioning is available.

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with an honesty rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

More info at https://myumi.ch/dO7Xl
Register for this free event at https://myumi.ch/NxZQN

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:01:54 -0500 2021-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Performance Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
Group Chat: We Contain Multitudes and Exist in Multiverses: Articulations of Blackness, Black Life, and Black History in UMMA's Collections (February 27, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81444 81444-20895773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 27, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lick here to check availability of this.

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

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

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

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Presentation Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:15:53 -0500 2021-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2021-02-27T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
U-M Community: Free Digital Screening of SOME OLD BLACK MAN (February 28, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82016 82016-21006753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

You are invited to a special screening for the U-M community of SOME OLD BLACK MAN, a live theater piece produced by the University Musical Society (UMS) and filmed under strict public health and safety protocols as part of acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce’s (The Wire, Jack Ryan) Digital Artist Residency at the University of Michigan.

The screening is free with registration and available on-demand from Wednesday, February 24 through Sunday, February 28. Duration is approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes. Closed captioning is available.

Written only a few years before the history-making events of 2020, Some Old Black Man frames racial prejudice with an honesty rarely confronted and dramatized. It challenges people of all ages to learn about the unique perspective of elders whose lived struggles created opportunities for future generations and to confront the experiential divides that can grow larger due to generational differences.

More info at https://myumi.ch/dO7Xl
Register for this free event at https://myumi.ch/NxZQN

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Performance Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:01:54 -0500 2021-02-28T00:00:00-05:00 2021-02-28T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Performance Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson in Some Old Black Man
Symphony Band Watch Party (February 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82320 82320-21068593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Tune in for a collection of impactful past performances by the U-M Symphony Band that celebrates the excellence of Black musicians and pays tribute to influential music, leaders, and Black history.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Black History Month's Closing Speaker - JANAYA KHAN (March 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82365 82365-21070618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:45:08 -0500 2021-03-01T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T19:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual JANAYA KHAN
The Residential College 2020-2021 Annual Robertson Lecture: "The News from Poetry: In An Era of False Facts and True Fallacies, What's to be Found in Art?" (March 3, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81245 81245-20877917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

The Residential College 2020-2021 Robertson Memorial Lecture

Award-Winning Writer, Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor and RC Alumna, Laura Kasischke

"The News from Poetry: In an Era of False Facts and True Fallacies, What's to be Found in Art?”

March 3, 2021 via Zoom
4 - 5:30pm, with an online reception to follow
Register at https://myumi.ch/yKA8b

This talk will explore the ways in which art crosses borders and boundaries, both personal and global, erases political divisions to unite generations and cultures, to speak to all genders and races, to erase religious and economic divisions, while traveling eternally and generously (and for free!) from continent to continent, century to century, enduring through crises and chaos, disease and despair, to bring us the truths without which we will die.

Laura Kasischke is a graduate of the Residential College and is now proud to be an instructor of creative writing in it as well as in the English Department, where she is the Theodore Roethke Distinguished University Professor. She has published eleven collections of poetry, nine novels, a novella, and a collection of short stories. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages, and three of her novels have been made into feature length films. The recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rilke Award for Poetry, and numerous teaching awards, Kasischke’s twelfth collection of poetry, Lightning Falls in Love, will be published in September.

Presented by the Residential College, celebrating 50 years of the Creative Writing & Literature Program

The Robertson Memorial Lecture is an annual Residential College event made possible by a gift honoring Professor James H. Robertson and Jean B. Robertson, the first Dean of the Residential College and his wife.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:45:22 -0500 2021-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Event flier
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-03T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
39th Annual WCTF Career Conference (March 4, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81641 81641-20935527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

The University of Michigan Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) will host its 39th annual career conference virtually on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5. All U-M staff, faculty, students, and the public, regardless of gender or ethnicity, are invited to register to attend this inclusive professional development event.

The conference is free this year; however, pre-registration is required to attend the workshops and keynote sessions. Conference information, including the 2-day event schedule, speaker details, and workshop descriptions, is available online at myumi.ch/VPwAE. The deadline to register for the conference is February 26, 2021.

On Thursday, March 4, the opening keynote program will feature U-M alumnae Corie Pauling, senior vice president, chief inclusion and diversity officer, and head of corporate social responsibility for TIAA, discussing strategies for creating inclusive anti-racist workspaces. Following her remarks, a nationally renowned panel of healthcare experts will respond to questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it works to develop immunity.

The closing keynote program on Friday, March 5, will feature a legislative panel comprised of US State representatives: the Honorable Debbie Dingell, MI-12, and the Honorable Rashida Tlaib, MI-13. Moderated by U-M alumnae, state representative, and Davenport University vice president for strategic partnerships, Lisa Howze, the discussion will focus on the role of women in the state’s economic recovery strategy.

Event sponsors include CEW+, the U-M Office of the Provost, University Human Resources, and Michigan Medicine Human Resources. TIAA will be the Platinum Plus corporate sponsor for the eighth year.

Click here to register: myumi.ch/VPwAE

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:09:59 -0500 2021-03-04T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Conference / Symposium Women at the 2020 WCTF Career Conference
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 4, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-04T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
39th Annual WCTF Career Conference (March 5, 2021 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81641 81641-20935528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

The University of Michigan Women of Color Task Force (WCTF) will host its 39th annual career conference virtually on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5. All U-M staff, faculty, students, and the public, regardless of gender or ethnicity, are invited to register to attend this inclusive professional development event.

The conference is free this year; however, pre-registration is required to attend the workshops and keynote sessions. Conference information, including the 2-day event schedule, speaker details, and workshop descriptions, is available online at myumi.ch/VPwAE. The deadline to register for the conference is February 26, 2021.

On Thursday, March 4, the opening keynote program will feature U-M alumnae Corie Pauling, senior vice president, chief inclusion and diversity officer, and head of corporate social responsibility for TIAA, discussing strategies for creating inclusive anti-racist workspaces. Following her remarks, a nationally renowned panel of healthcare experts will respond to questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it works to develop immunity.

The closing keynote program on Friday, March 5, will feature a legislative panel comprised of US State representatives: the Honorable Debbie Dingell, MI-12, and the Honorable Rashida Tlaib, MI-13. Moderated by U-M alumnae, state representative, and Davenport University vice president for strategic partnerships, Lisa Howze, the discussion will focus on the role of women in the state’s economic recovery strategy.

Event sponsors include CEW+, the U-M Office of the Provost, University Human Resources, and Michigan Medicine Human Resources. TIAA will be the Platinum Plus corporate sponsor for the eighth year.

Click here to register: myumi.ch/VPwAE

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:09:59 -0500 2021-03-05T08:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Conference / Symposium Women at the 2020 WCTF Career Conference
Student Recital: Olivia Taylor, violin (March 6, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82831 82831-21181572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 6, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM:

The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Violin Sonata in G Minor - Claude Debussy
Violin Partita no. 2 in D Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:15:08 -0500 2021-03-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
University Symphony Orchestra (March 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82792 82792-21179560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kenneth Kiesler and Adrian Slywotzky, conductors

Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Strauss: Serenade Op. 7
Mozart: Adagio from Serenade in E-flat, K. 375
Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto
   Valentin Kovalev, 2021 Graduate Concerto Competition Winner
Milhaud: La création du monde
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 "Paris"

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:15:07 -0500 2021-03-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Organ Improvisation Master Class: Bruce Neswick (March 8, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81786 81786-20959275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Bruce Neswick
Canon for Music, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
What are you laughing at? Understanding American Humor (March 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82159 82159-21044627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: English Language Institute

Want to learn more about American humor? Want to have some fun during this unusual, busy online semester? This small, interactive workshop will tell you what Americans are laughing at. Part of a research project exploring international students' reactions to American humor, this session will help you gain a deeper understanding of American culture by watching funny videos!

Registration required, register here: https://myumi.ch/NxZD3

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 02 Mar 2021 15:21:38 -0500 2021-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 2021-03-08T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
Unintended Consequences (March 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79979 79979-20523449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

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

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

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:53:47 -0500 2021-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust (March 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82401 82401-21092284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:05 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77488 77488-21034701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Seminar coordinator: Marlon James Sales (U-M Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies)

Although Filipino migration has historically converged in other places across the US, it is in the Midwest, particularly at the University of Michigan, where some of the most extensive archival sources on this Southeast Asian nation can be found. These sources are generally used to examine US imperialism in Asia-Pacific, often glossing over the fact that the American period in the Philippines also led to the flourishing of Filipino literature in Spanish as a nationalist response. In this second installment of our Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminars, we shall analyze the archive as a site of translation and historical memory as a multilingual construct, focusing specifically on Hispanofilipino texts in the libraries of the University of Michigan and the broader Midwest. Translation here means two things. Since Spanish has never been spoken widely in the Philippines despite three centuries of colonial rule, translation may refer to the rendering of texts in another language supposedly understood by a majority of local readers. But given the limitations in how archival data is stored in the Philippines, translation may also refer to the movement of the archival sources themselves, whether physically or digitally, thus reclaiming them as objects of cultural memory. How has translation contributed to a monolingualized commemoration of multilingual pasts? What are the stakes of reconstructing a nation’s history through texts written in colonial languages? In which ways can translation help in recuperating a peripheral literary tradition in Spanish?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:44:47 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest
Chinese in the Kitchen (March 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82827 82827-21179593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Amy Qian Liu and Miranda Brown are preparing a proposal for a co-taught class, "Chinese in the Kitchen." This class is intended to provide students with an immersive learning experience both inside of the traditional classroom and in the kitchen. Class content will focus on linguistic as well as cultural proficiency, with the goal of enabling students to develop the vocabulary necessary not only for cooking, but also describing regional cuisines and conducting themselves in business, family, and social settings -- in Chinese. Topics will range from the structure of the Chinese meal; the history of various staples (wheat, millet, rice); regional differences in cuisine; religious diversity within China; the role of food connoisseurship in Chinese culture.

During the colloquium, Amy and Miranda will introduce the design and aims of the course, and open a dialogue with faculty about the challenges. They also hope to solicit feedback and suggestions from the faculty.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:49:13 -0500 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines (March 12, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82097 82097-21034705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Immediately after the book talk, join us for the launch of the virtual exhibit about the history of translation in Filipino literature in Spanish. This virtual exhibit, curated by Professor Sales with assistance from Barbara Alvarez and Fe Susan Go of the U-M Library, Charlotte Fater (U-M Library Scholar), Júlia Irion Martins (U-M Comparative Literature), and Colin Garon (U-M Anthropology) coincides with the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano voyage.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:52:33 -0500 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation, Memory and the Archive: The Literary Worlds of the Spanish Philippines
Symphony Band - Livestream (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81784 81784-20959272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

PROGRAM
Gabrielli - Aria de Bagatallia
Michalsky - Fanfare after Seventeenth Century Dances
Varese - Integrales
Bidenbender - Schism
Dooley - Point Blank
Weill - Three Penny Opera Suite

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:15:04 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Symphony Band - Livestream (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82523 82523-21116074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

Andre Gabrielli, Aria del Bagatallia
Donal Michalsky, Fanfare after Seventeenth Century Dances 
David Biedenbender, Schism
Paul Dooley, Point Blank
Edgar Varese, Integrales
Kurt Weill, ThreePenny Opera Suite

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:05 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Senior Recital: Natalie Myers, horn (March 13, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82918 82918-21221268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Glière - Horn Concerto in B-flat Major, op. 91; Gomez - La Calavera; Ries - Introduction and Rondo, op. 113, no. 2; Gillie - Horn Quartet no. 1.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:15:06 -0500 2021-03-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Faculty Recital: Matthew Bengtson, piano (March 13, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81766 81766-20953358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 13, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Iberia, Book 1 and 2 Isaac Albeniz
12 Estudios ritmicos y sonoros (world premiere) Roberto Sierra

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Performance Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-13T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Concert Band (March 14, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82456 82456-21102175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 14, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan Concert Band Chamber Winds
Courtney Snyder, conductor
Richard Frey and John Pasquale, guest conductors

Join the Concert Band for a evening of music for chamber winds from Renaissance through modern day. A Gabrieli canzon performed by consorts of brass, double reeds, and saxophones. Ravel's Mother Goose Suite transcribed for chamber winds by UM faculty Richard Frey. Gounod’s icon symphony for flute and harmonie ensemble. Krenek’s three parody marches from the early 1900s and a brand new piece for winds and fixed media inspired by the debacle of a presidential debate this past fall and composed for the UM Concert band by UM student composer Stephen Mitton.

Program: Gabrieli - Canzon Noni Toni a 12; Gounod - Petite Symphonie; Ravel - Mother Goose Suite; Mitton - Talking Points; Krenek - Drei Lustige Marche.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:15:05 -0500 2021-03-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Stearns Collection Lecture: Instruments of Africa II: Uganda and East Africa, Charles Lwanga (March 16, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79348 79348-20280630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series

Charles Lwanga is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan.

Watch at http://myumi.ch/r8Bbe

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:15:04 -0500 2021-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Food Literacy for All (March 17, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82937 82937-21225231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Please join us for a virtual Food Literacy for All series with returning speakers! Themed around the Politics on our Plate, speakers will discuss the vision for our food system, the role of grassroots organizing, the impact of policy, and the responsibility of the media. To kickoff the series, join us for a conversation with Raj Patel and Ricardo Salvador, moderated by UM faculty Andy Jones on Wednesday March 17 at 12 pm EST.

Food Literacy for All is FREE, but registration is required.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is co-led by Andy Jones (UM School of Public Health), Devita Davison (FoodLab Detroit), and Lilly Fink Shapiro (UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). Future sessions to be announced on this page and our newsletter, which you can sign up for on our homepage or in your registration.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is supported by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:19:48 -0500 2021-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Livestream / Virtual Session 1 Graphic
Alumni Networking | The Society for Asian Studies Students (March 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83077 83077-21266959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

The Society for Asian Studies Students (SASS) is hosting an alumni networking event with Julia Shiota and Elise Huerta, two U-M Asian Studies graduates!

If you're interested in pursuing a degree in Asian Studies or want to learn more about what you can do with an Asian Studies major or minor, join us!

Register for the event at tinyurl.com/sassalumni

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:08:05 -0400 2021-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Yellow Background Featuring Photos of Julia Shiota and Elise Huerta
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 18, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Creative Arts Orchestra (March 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82776 82776-21175584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Mark Kirschenmann, director

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Trombone Studio Recital (March 18, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82774 82774-21175582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor David Jackson

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture: Leong Leong (March 19, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82894 82894-21211378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

The 2021 John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Leong Leong Founding Partners, Christopher Leong and Dominic Leong.

Leong Leong is a minority-owned architecture firm and creative agency that uses the power of design to advance visionary social agendas within the built environment for institutions, cultural enterprises, and forward-thinking clients.

Founded in 2009 in New York, Leong Leong works globally and at many scales including buildings, interiors, exhibitions, and furniture. As both architects and creative thought partners, we synthesize vision, design, and execution to generate projects with cultural resonance for diverse clientele.

The studio has been the recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award, the AIA New York New Practices Award, and has been recognized as a Design Vanguard by Architectural Record.

In 2014, Leong Leong designed the U.S. Pavilion for the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and has been exhibited in The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and MoMA. Notable buildings include the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood, California and the Center for Community and Entrepreneurship in New York. Other current projects include the Eaton Workshop, a ground-up, co-working and hospitality project in San Francisco, and several private residences in Los Angeles. Leong Leong has worked as creative thought partners for The Wing, Sweetgreen, Block, Everlane, and Google.

The John Dinkeloo Memorial Lecture was established to recognize John Dinkeloo's extraordinary contributions to architecture, to honor his distinguished professional work and to pay tribute to this highly respected alumnus of the Architecture Program at the University of Michigan. This annual lecture recognizes and commemorates excellence in architectural design, and celebrates those designers whose work combines design excellence with structural ingenuity.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 14:31:49 -0500 2021-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Livestream / Virtual Leong Leong Lecture
Masters Recital: Tiani Grace Butts, violin (March 20, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83037 83037-21259007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

PROGRAM: Bologne - Sonata no. 3 in G Minor; Fauré - Violin Sonata no. 1 in A Major, op. 13; Montgomery - Rhapsody no. 1 for solo violin; Hubay - Carmen Fantasie Brilliante.

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Horn Studio Recital (March 20, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83040 83040-21259010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 20, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Adam Unsworth

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Cute Cute Kokeshi! A Conversation with artist Takatoshi Hayashi and UMMA curator Natsu Oyobe (March 22, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82794 82794-21179562@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

register here.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:15:40 -0400 2021-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
March Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gathering (March 23, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83027 83027-21257025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

Those who are close to UM's campus can choose to pick up a free meal the day of the event!

The Togetherness: QTBIPOC Gatherings are a collaboration between MESA and the Spectrum Center focusing on centering the experiences of Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Students of Color through sharing meals, discussions, and creating connections with people in the QTBIPOC community at UM and in the surrounding areas.

This event’s host will be Askari Rushing (he/him/his). Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Askari graduated from Auburn University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Accountancy. Upon graduating, he taught K-8 Spanish in the DC Public School System for one year. After realizing that teaching was not his passion, he attended Middlebury College and received his Master of Arts in Spanish in 2017. Directly following this, he returned to his alma mater and received his Master of Accountancy in 2018. While studying for his MAcc, he realized that he had a passion for academic advising and decided to pursue a Master of Arts in Higher Education at the University of Michigan. He graduated in 2020 and accepted a job with Mississippi State University working in their Athletic Academics department as a Tutor Coordinator. After 6 months, he returned to the University of Michigan where he currently works as an Academic Program Specialist on the Rackham Professional Development DEI Certificate Program.

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

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:25:57 -0400 2021-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Social / Informal Gathering Time and date details along with the description of Askari available in event text. Pictured is Askari, a Black individual with short-shaved hair, beard, and mustache. He is wearing glasses and a jacket and is smiling at the camera.
Inside The Cartel Project: The Power of Collaborative Investigative Journalism (March 24, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82579 82579-21124020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

In 2012 Mexican journalist Regina Martinez was murdered in her home. She had been reporting on the links between drug cartels, public officials and thousands of individuals who had mysteriously disappeared. Eight years later, her investigations were published simultaneously around the world as The Cartel Project.

Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit newsroom created by Laurent Richard during his year as a Knight- Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, organized the project, secretly bringing together an international network of journalists dedicated to continue the work of Martinez. Sixty reporters from 18 countries, followed her leads to expose a global network of Mexican drug cartels and their political connections around the world.

Join journalists Laurent Richard of Forbidden Stories, Dana Priest of The Washington Post and Jorge Carrasco of Proceso with moderator, Lynette Clemetson, for a behind the scenes look at the global investigation and learn how collaborative journalism can keep alive the work of reporters who are silenced by threats, censorship or death.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:22:40 -0500 2021-03-24T12:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Wallace House Center for Journalists Livestream / Virtual 2021 Eisendrath Symposium
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
Symposium: Disruption. Action. Change (March 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82777 82777-21175587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by EXCEL in partnership with The Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation & Research.

The three-part online series features in-depth conversations with five performing arts change-makers who will explore the role of disruption as an essential force in the pursuit of a more just and equitable arts ecosystem. 

Each speaker will write an article to be released in advance of their session to spark ideas and questions for their conversations, which will take place on Thursdays, March 11, 18, and 25  from 4:30-6 p.m. EST via Zoom. The free symposium is open to all, and is especially relevant for the next generation of arts leaders, including students and young professionals.

To learn more about Disruption. Action. Change. and to register for the symposium, visit iml.esm.rochester.edu/DAC

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:15:07 -0500 2021-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Trombone Ensemble (March 25, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82772 82772-21175580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

David Jackson, conductor

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Overcoming Systemic Barriers to Entrepreneurship (March 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82917 82917-21219294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTS:

The Business and Society Speaker Series: Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: Noon- 1:15 p.m. EDT

OVERCOMING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Over the past five years, less than 3% of venture capital funding went to Black and Latinx founders. What are the barriers to entrepreneurship for minorities and how can venture capital become more inclusive to entrepreneurs? What steps should be taken by operators and financiers to ensure that sufficient funding is accessible to businesses in these communities? Join moderator Rashmi Menon, entrepreneurship lecturer at Michigan Ross, for a panel discussion with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists about how they are working to expand equity in this space.

MODERATOR // RASHMI MENON // MICHIGAN ROSS
Entrepreneurship Lecturer

VASCO BRIDGES // NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL
Chief of Staff, Distribution

LATRESHA (LC) HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder

MARC HOWLAND // BREADLESS
Co-Founder & CEO

HARLYN PACHECO // MICROSOFT VIVA
BD & Strategy

MARLO RENCHER // TECHTOWN DETROIT
Director, Technology-Based Programs

Business and Society web page:
https://michiganross.umich.edu/business-society

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:28:12 -0500 2021-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T13:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Workshop / Seminar Join us for a conversation addressing race in business and business education.
Chamber Music Master Class: Mark Steinberg (March 27, 2021 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83036 83036-21259006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 2021-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Violin Studio Recital (March 27, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83041 83041-21259011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 27, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Danielle Belen

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Saxophone Studio Recital (March 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82773 82773-21175581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Timothy McAllister

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-03-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Gran Torino, Refugees, and Anti-Asian Racism: A Conversation with Actor Bee Vang (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83150 83150-21282829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Bee Vang, at 16, held the leading Hmong American role as Thao Vang Lor in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino. He subsequently performed in independent films and on stage at Brown University where he received a 2016 liberal arts degree in international politics, media, and cultural studies. He also trained in China in techniques of Chinese opera and Japanese performance. Throughout this time, Vang engaged in social justice and media activism, and published works related to the visibility and inclusion of Southeast Asian Americans and, more broadly, Asian Americans in Hollywood and mainstream popular culture. His work covered such topics as representation, race, gender, sexuality, production, geopolitics, refugees, criminal justice, mass incarceration. Vang presented at multiple conferences related to these topics, and publicly lectured or gave workshops in over thirty venues, domestically and overseas including the University of Toronto, Beijing University, Minzu University, and Zhongshan University.

Meanwhile, Vang worked at MSNBC with The Rachel Maddow Show in broadcast journalism, at The Economist in print journalism, and at First Look Media in documentary filmmaking with Laura Poitras. After several years working as a print journalist, nonfiction writer, and policy researcher, he recently moved to LA to devote himself to acting, filmmaking, and other creative pursuits.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:29 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gran Torino
Immigrants in Michigan: The Untold Story (April 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82047 82047-21012684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:41:29 -0500 2021-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Immigrants in Michigan: The Untold Story
#FunnyAsHAIL Wellness Evening with Magician Eric Jones (April 1, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83408 83408-21371764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Get ready for this #FunnyAsHAIL wellness break with The Magic of Eric Jones. Take a study and work break and prepare to be amazed as he shares his life-changing pandemic story and takes us on an exciting journey navigating this year's racial political challenges as a showman in today’s climate. This wellness break is free and open to all UM students, staff and faculty. Register: https://myumi.ch/2DbVG

From his start performing simple coin tricks on the streets of Philly, to America’s Got Talent (Semi-Finalist), Penn and Teller (he beat them), and Masters of Illusion, Eric did it all with a few coins and these brilliantly crafted routines. Eric teaches methods, nuances and theory for creating magic that resonates deeply with the people watching it. He gives you coin magic that, for the first time ever, translates as well on stage as it does in person. Whether it’s an audience of 1 person or 1 million, he teaches the skills required to take your coin magic to a level you never thought.

#FunnyAsHAIL is sponsored by the student organizations Here Earning a Destiny (H.E.A.D.S) and Support for Incoming Black Students (S.I.B.S.) along with U-M Library and in partnership with the My Brothers Empowerment Series.

*This event will not be recorded.

For the best experience please be sure to;
1. Have the latest version of Zoom installed on their device.
2. Feel free to turn your cameras on so you can interact with Eric and participate in the show/ conversation.
3. Be sure to watch in speaker view.
4. Eric will teach a magic trick with a regular deck of cards. If you want to follow along, be sure to have a deck near you. It doesn't have to be a full/complete deck.
5. Try to watch from a laptop or desktop. It is preferred over mobile devices for a magic show so you don't miss a THING!

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:13:00 -0400 2021-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T19:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual The Magic Of Eric Jones
Reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83156 83156-21282858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

The Arab & Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan (AMAS), Hikayat, the Spectrum Center, and Arab Heritage Month (AHM) are partnering to host a reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar! Zeyn will be reading from his new book Thirty Names of Night & answering your questions!

Visit http://www.zeynjoukhadar.com to learn more about Zeyn's work.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:37:31 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS, HIKAYAT & ANAM PRESENT
Oboe Studio Recital (April 1, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82775 82775-21175583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Students of Professor Nancy Ambrose King

watch online at https://myumi.ch/mnj91

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:05 -0400 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
First Ladies: Tales and Travails of Our First Ladies (April 2, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79976 79976-20523446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Historical gossip is fun. You do not want to miss this humorous yet historical take on our First Ladies. One of them could be a murderess, another had her child kidnapped! Of course this includes their husbands wandering eyes -and wander they most certainly did. You know one of these gals committed vehicular manslaughter but...well...no arrest...privilege is privilege. Hear the full story. Instructor Pam Watson guarantees you will not be bored.
This study group will meet for five Fridays beginning April 2.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 10:52:39 -0500 2021-04-02T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Van Loo Family Saturday Morning Physics VIRTUAL Event | Graduate Student Presentations (April 3, 2021 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82127 82127-21036722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 3, 2021 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Pre-recorded lecture followed by “live” Q&A
Virtual Presentation Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc340N56GvY

Instruments to Study Rocket Plume Surface Interactions (PSI) on the Lunar Surface
Ariana Bueno (U-M Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering & Applied Physics)
In space exploration, the rocket plume-surface interaction (PSI) can lead to the ejection of large amounts of energetic particles, potentially damaging the spacecraft, its instruments, and associated hardware. Thus, understanding PSI processes is paramount to the safety of the lunar exploration program and beyond. In this presentation, Ariana will highlight how her research has led to a better understanding of PSI by developing in-flight instrumentation and conducting ground tests to simulate PSI.

Histotripsy: Crushing Cancer Cells with Acoustic Cavitation
Ryan Hubbard (U-M Biomedical Engineering & U-M Applied Physics)
Histotripsy is a non-invasive cancer-treatment approach using focused beams of ultrasound. In this presentation, Ryan will highlight the results of his research, illustrating histotripsy's ability to destroy tumor cells and elicit anti-tumor immune responses. He will describe the basics behind ultrasonic pulse generation, acoustic cavitation, and how the mechanism of histotripsy compares to other external beam treatments such as X-ray irradiation.

We celebrate the Van Loo Family Lecture on this occasion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:04:35 -0400 2021-04-03T10:30:00-04:00 2021-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Saturday Morning Physics Lecture / Discussion
Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury (April 5, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82620 82620-21147746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

In this presentation, Anthony Mora, Associate Professor of History and Interim Director of Latina/o Studies, will consider the decisions that Disney producers made during the production of the widely popular 1950s television show Zorro. As had been the case with the iconic character since his creation in 1919, setting the action in Southern California inevitably raised questions about prevailing racial assumptions and the meaning of the United States' Mexican past. Widely popular among children, Zorro concealed more secrets than just his identity.

Register here: tinyurl.com/ZorroLatinxSuperhero

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:17:44 -0500 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Zorro as a "Southwestern": The Ambivalent Latinx Superhero at Midcentury
Anti-Asian Violence and the LGBTQ+ Community (April 6, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83275 83275-21330360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Register: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events

This panel will consist of Queer Asian individuals who will talk about the more visible increase in anti-Asian violence. It is important for the LGBTQ community to dialogue about and to take actions addressing in-community racism and anti-racism efforts in the broader society. With the rise anti-Asian violence highlighted in the media, this panel will discuss their personal experiences being Asians in the LGBTQ+ community and calls to action supporting Asian communities experiencing harm.

The panelists are:
Arielle Chen, B.A. (she/her) from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
K. Ian Shin, PhD. (he/him) from the Asian / Pacific Islander American Studies program
Grace Sekulidis, MSW (she/her), an alumnx from UM
Anooshka Gupta (she/her), an LSA student

The moderator will be Mark Chung Kwan Fan, M.A. (he/him), from the Spectrum Center.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:29:16 -0400 2021-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Event information alongside headshots of the four panelists and moderator.
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 8, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-08T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-08T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Storytelling for Social Justice (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82050 82050-21012685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Storytelling — listening to the stories of others and sharing one’s own stories — builds a foundation for human interaction. Telling others how we got here and why we care about an issue builds connection, allows us to share our values, and creates meaning. The art of public narrative is used in all aspects of social work practice — from helping our clients rewrite the stories they tell themselves, to helping communities and groups galvanize social change, to helping policy makers and politicians tell a “story of self” while creating a “story of us.” Join us for a discussion featuring Aaron Foley, former chief storyteller for the City of Detroit and current professor of journalism at New York University; Eric Thomas, current chief storyteller for the City of Detroit; and Jessica Care Moore, Detroit poet, activist and author.
RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W210

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:47:23 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Storytelling for Social Justice
Indian Literature Series (April 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83559 83559-21426681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 May 2021 13:16:47 -0400 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Discussion on Silappatikāram - The Tamil Epic
Symphony Band (April 8, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83042 83042-21259012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Michael Haithcock, conductor

A Renaissance Set
Antoine Bonelli, “Toccatta” from Il primo libro de Ricercari et Canzoni
Samuel Scheidt, “Galliard battaglia” from Ludi Musici

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in E-flat, K.166

David Gillingham, Serenade for Winds and Percussion 

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Notturno

Rob Smith, Catalytic Concerto

Evan Chambers, Crazed for the Flame, chamber winds version, premiere performance

watch online at https://myumi.ch/yK1g3

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:06 -0400 2021-04-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 9, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-09T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-09T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Loving Our Planet Like We Should Love Each Other (April 9, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82372 82372-21084380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab

A student-organized symposium to help our community learn about how climate change impacts people with disabilities

Featuring:
Sarah Young Bear-Brown (Meskwaki Nation)
Izzy Laderman (Disability Awareness Around Climate Change)
Rafi Darrow (Sins Invalid)
Teddy Dorsette III (Detroit Disability Power)

Production Team:
Def Lens Media

This event is being organized by first year students in Linguistics 102 Deafness & Disability v. Climate, Contagion, and Capital.

ASL-English interpreting and CART captions will be provided. Please contact Natasha Abner (nabner@umich.edu) if you have any additional access needs.

Registration: tinyurl.com/DisabilityClimateCrisis

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:19:42 -0400 2021-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab Conference / Symposium Event flyer - screen reader-friendly PDF available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pRGzh-k3qma1MFjvkMlqmEyCcyabEQXK/view?usp=sharing
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 10, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 10, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-10T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 11, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-11T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Annual Vaisakhi Night (April 11, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83541 83541-21414964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 11, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sikh Student Association

Join the University of Michigan's Sikh Students Association in celebrating Vaisakhi, a Punjabi and Sikh festival. We are featuring Sukhman Gill, a model, actor, and influencer based out of Toronto! There will also be a showing of a Bhangra performance by the Michigan Bhangra Team, a special Senior Send-Off, and a short presentation on Vaisakhi!

For any questions, feel free to contact the SSA's co-chairs:
Jasnoor Singh: jasnoors@umich.edu
Ramneet Kaur: ramneetc@umich.edu

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Fair / Festival Sun, 04 Apr 2021 17:38:12 -0400 2021-04-11T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-11T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sikh Student Association Fair / Festival This image includes a description of the various components of the Vaisakhi night, including the speaker, Senior send-off, and performance by Michigan Bhangra Team
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 12, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Film Screening Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:58 -0400 2021-04-12T00:01:00-04:00 2021-04-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Film Screening Dissonance Event Series: Free Screening of the Film Coded Bias
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies Professors, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (University of California, Davis), about their book Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin (University of Michigan)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power-holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fight-the-tower/9781978806368

Bios:
Dr. Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora, co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower, and co-editor of Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.

Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
Inovations That Will Change The Ways We Experience Life (April 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79977 79977-20523447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will read and discuss "Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny" by Debora L. Spar, Dean of Harvard Business School. She argues that the major changes we are seeing in biology and artificial intelligence are about to change how we think of ourselves in fundamental ways.
Now, as we enter an era of artificial intelligence and robots, how will our deepest feelings and attachments evolve? Can people fall in love with robots? Will they? She says, "We make Machines and they make us!"
Leader Gerry Lapidus leads the first week's discussion and requests volunteers to lead the remaining sessions while he serves as moderator. Please read the Prologue and Section 1 (p.3-38) for the first session.
This study group will meet for five Mondays beginning April 12.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:17:34 -0500 2021-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Beauty of Your Face (April 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82538 82538-21116089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Novelist Sahar Mustafa to read from and discuss her novel The Beauty of Your Face, W. W. Norton, 2020. The novel has been assigned in some AMAS courses and will be the April selection for the Muslim Student Association book club.
The workshop will be open to the public.

Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. She writes and teaches outside of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:19:30 -0500 2021-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion The Beauty of Your Face
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 13, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:59:36 -0500 2021-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar
Stearns Collection Lecture: Sound the Alarm! The Trumpet as Symbol and Messenger, Kris Kwapis (April 13, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79407 79407-20298395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Part of the Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series.

Kris Kwapis is trumpeter and lecturer at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

Watch online at http://myumi.ch/2DN9v

During each webinar, attendees may submit written questions which may be discussed in the Q&A period following the presentation. For more information, please contact stearnsoutreach@umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-04-13T20:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Coded Bias - Free Film Screening (April 14, 2021 12:01am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83579 83579-21430623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:01am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:29:27 -0400 2021-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Lee
Ziibimijwang Farm: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty (April 14, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83685 83685-21454208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

Guest Speaker: Joe Van Alstine - Chair of the Board of Directors, Ziibimijwang, Inc.

Discussants (from the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum):
David Michener - Curator
Jeremy Moghtadar - Campus Farm Program Manager

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DFmTFvx2S62udpTJsgDvqA

Ziibimijwang Farm is helping restore food sovereignty for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and other communities throughout the northern Great Lakes region.

What opportunities and benefits are there for Native American Tribes and Communities in operating a sustainable, community-based farm? What are the challenges associated with this approach and how can they be successfully managed? How can collaboration with tribal and non-tribal institutions, such as the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, help promote Ziibimijwang’s mission?

Please join us as Joe Van Alstine will discuss ways in which Ziibimijwang is working to provide a reliable food source for tribal community members independent of the larger food system, encourage healthy eating, and enhance people’s knowledge of how to raise their own food.

Sponsors:
UM College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum
UM Office of Research
UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
UM Museum Studies Program
UM Department of American Culture
UM Native American Studies Program
UM Office of Government Relations
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:16:20 -0400 2021-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
2021 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Hopwood Lecture (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75561 75561-19521135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Awards Ceremony for the Hopwood Awards and related contests, including the First- and Second-Year, Undergraduate, and Graduate Hopwood Awards; The Academy of American Poets Prizes; The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry; The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry; The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award; The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship; The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry; The Andrea Beauchamp Prize; The Frank and Gail Beaver Scriptwriting Prize; The Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing; The Helen J. Daniels Prize; The Geoffrey James Gosling Prize; The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award; The Robert F. Haugh Prize; The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing; The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting; The Meader Family Award; The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Dramatic Writing; The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction; The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize; The John Wager Prize; The Stanley S. Schwartz Prize; The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award; The Cora Duncan Award in Fiction; The Peter Phillip Pratt Award in Fiction; The Keith Taylor Excellence in Poetry Award; and the David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:34:30 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
2021 Hopwood Awards Virtual Ceremony and Lecture (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83503 83503-21393428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Presentation of the 2021 Hopwood Awards and other creative writing contests managed by the Hopwood Awards Program. Kiese Laymon, an award-winning memoirist and fiction writer, will deliver the Hopwood Lecture. This event will feature live captioning.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:01:05 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Flyer featuring photo of Hopwood Lecturer Kiese Laymon
Coded Bias "At the Movies" Panel Discussion (April 15, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83580 83580-21430624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information Assurance

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:43:13 -0400 2021-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information Assurance Lecture / Discussion Dissonance Event Series: Panel Discussion on the film Coded Bias
Mapping without Boundaries: A collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and U-M (April 15, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83546 83546-21420817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Maps are used to represent physical topographies of land or borders between nations, and to assist with directing us to a desired destination. But can they also be used to represent emotions? To make unseen connections? Or to understand the past or move forward into a new future? Can the arts help to shape a new kind of map?

International performing artist Yo-Yo Ma will be joined by U-M President Mark Schlissel and a newly formed Steering Committee of U-M students and Michigan-based artists to kick-off a 6-month artist residency project that explores these questions. They will reflect on the challenges of the past year, and how the pandemic has radically altered educational modes and dispersed the university's students, faculty and staff on all three campuses. The event will also incorporate performance and outline ways the audience can get involved in the residency project as it develops.

Registration required to attend the event:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YOx3HPGiSbyspNS29bH-gw

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Performance Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:26:32 -0400 2021-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Performance Mapping without Boundaries
Nji Kchi-Nshinaabe’baniik Gdish-Chigemi Wi (We Do This for the Ancestors): The Basics of NAGPRA (April 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83684 83684-21454206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

Panelists:
William Johnson - Ziibiwing Center of Anishinaabe Culture & Lifeways, Interim Director
Veronica Pasfield - Bay Mills Indian Community NAGPRA Designee
Amadeaus Scott - UMMAA NAGPRA Collections Manager

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_agbr9WzoQaGnCxSfAc_YQQ

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) created a federal legal process for the return of Native American human remains and cultural items to Native American Tribes and Native Hawaiian Organizations. However, the work that museums and tribes complete together can also be used as an opportunity to create good and lasting relationships that extend beyond NAGPRA.

How can museum best practices and traditional tribal knowledge work together in mutually beneficial ways? How can transparency and mutual respect forge productive relationships between tribes and museums? How can future collaborations emerge as a result of the personal and professional relationships that are developed?

The panelists will provide a basic overview of NAGPRA compliance through a consideration of both the tribal and museum sides of the process. They will also draw from practical experience to show how indigenous knowledge and teachings can help inform and improve professional methods of care and an understanding of the best practices of museums.

Sponsors:
UM College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
UM Office of Government Relations
UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Office of Research
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
UM Museum Studies Program
UM Department of American Culture
UM Native American Studies Program
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:43:24 -0400 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
SALP New Year Celebration (April 16, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83753 83753-21491328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Please join the South Asian Languages Program for a New Year Celebration this Friday, April 16 from 1-2pm! Invite your friends! There will be fun activities!

Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesDl5rWKtVBlRAvoSu7OrYcXm-IJokQ0qEIti1vbHJUGsGUQ/viewform

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 14 Apr 2021 11:21:13 -0400 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Social / Informal Gathering SALP New Year Celebration
Technology and the Future of Art (April 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83641 83641-21446271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Join American Artist and Salome Asega, artists whose work explores themes of art, technology, and activism in conversation with Marisa Olson, a fellow practitioner and Executive Director of the Digital Studies Institute. They will discuss the role of the arts in framing and producing social justice commentary and the ways in which they use technology to both critique and intervene in the problematics often posed by technology. How can the arts model critiques of technological utopianism? How can the arts lead the way to a better future, which will inevitably be shaped by the technologies we use?

Register to receive the event Zoom link: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/apr19_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 10 Apr 2021 14:37:07 -0400 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion American Artist, Salome Asega, Marisa Olson
One Thousand & One Journeys: The Arab Americans - Discussion with filmmaker (April 20, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83806 83806-21534271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join the Center for Campus Involvement (CCI) and Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) Social Connectivity & Community Engagement for a free virtual screening  of "ONE THOUSAND & ONE JOURNEYS: THE ARAB AMERICANS" and dialogue on Activism, Advocacy and Allyship with film director Abe Kasbo. A zoom watch party and discussion will take place at 5:30 p.m. with the film's executive producer and director who will share the untold story of almost 200 years of the contributions of those who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf have made to the American fabric. A zoom link for the discussion after registration in a separate email. Access only available for U-M students, staff, and faculty.

ABOUT THE FILM

“Arab-Americans have proudly ventured beyond their ethnicity, language and religion to make noteworthy contributions to both the immigrant experience and ultimately the American experience. They served this nation with significant contributions throughout the spectrum of society – as politicians and public servants, entertainers, physicians, business leaders, and educators. It is this extraordinary and uniquely American story of people and places that must be told.” Abe Kasbo, filmmaker.A Thousand And One Journeys: The film vividly paints a portrait of the Arab-American immigrant experience through the stories of people who, like all Americans, immigrated in pursuit of the American Dream, including Senator George Mitchell, Jamie Farr, General John Abizaid, Anthony Shadid, Helen Thomas and more. With historical immigration patterns as background, the film explores the personal stories of Arab-Americans and how they have contributed to the collective American experience. At a time when the media tends to paint Arab peoples and culture with the broad brush of terrorism, it is increasingly important to present a positive image of the many people of Middle Eastern, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula who have made America their home, and highlight their American journey as an important part of the larger American Experience.As the Arab-American community increasingly finds itself in the media and public spotlight, now is the time to present a positive image of Arab-Americans and the diversity of their contributions, experiences, backgrounds and faith.

ABOUT THE FILM SERIES

“Activism is inherently a creative endeavor. It takes a radical imagination to be an activist, to envision a world that is not there. It takes imagination and that’s not far from art.” - Ava DuVernayMESA’s social connectivity and CCI hope to generate thought provoking discussion, engagement around advocacy, activism and allyship this semester by presenting a series of films huddled around these topics, areas that we believe require critical and intentional reflection year round. Each film presentation will conclude with a discussion from students, professionals, and artists familiar with the themes presented throughout the series and in the film. Each film and discussion will be available virtually and will take place the third Tuesday each month at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are available through MUTO for each film. (2/16 - Just Mercy, 3/16 - Hidden Figures, 4/20 - One Thousand Journeys: The Arab-Americans).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:58:50 -0400 2021-04-20T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual
The Human Voice in Virtual Concert (April 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83620 83620-21438457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Performance Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:14:35 -0400 2021-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Flier
Dance Despite COVID (May 5, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83905 83905-21611024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch online at https://myumi.ch/1pOWY

Featuring new works by three faculty members and one alumna (under the artistic direction of Associate Professor Judy Rice), DANCE DESPITE COVID celebrates the ingenuity, tenacity, and talent within the Department of Dance as they create beautiful movement together despite the challenges of a pandemic.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 05 May 2021 12:15:03 -0400 2021-05-05T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Race - The Power of an Illusion (May 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83854 83854-21555865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

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

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

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

Registration is open to all, free of charge.

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Film Screening Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:24:36 -0400 2021-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-06T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Film Screening
Romeo & Juliet (May 7, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83906 83906-21611025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 7, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch online at https://myumi.ch/eroR4

Department of Theatre & Drama

This modern take on Shakespeare’s most beloved tragedy–led by Sam White from Shakespeare in Detroit–leans into the parallels between our divisive era and the period during which Shakespeare wrote the play originally, pandemic and all.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 05 May 2021 12:15:03 -0400 2021-05-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Shirley Verrett Award Ceremony (May 12, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83983 83983-21619297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The University of Michigan Women of Color in the Academy Project will present its 9th Annual Shirley Verrett Award to Professor of Music (Voice), Daniel Washington.

Professor Washington is being recognized for his exemplary leadership and advocacy on behalf of diverse students and faculty artists at U-M. In addition, we are celebrating his innovation and impact on advancing diversity and inclusion at U-M and beyond through his performances and service.

Marcía Porter, Professor of Voice, Florida State University, and the cousin & former student of Shirley Verrett, will be a special guest performer!

The event is free and open to the public, however, registration is requested. Register online at https://myumi.ch/4pAoR

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 06 May 2021 12:15:04 -0400 2021-05-12T17:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
As You Like It (May 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83907 83907-21611026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Watch online at https://myumi.ch/gjdKq

Department of Musical Theatre

Assistant Professor Malcolm Tulip guides the Department of Musical Theatre students in this expressionist approach to one of Shakespeare’s best-known romantic comedies. What might appear at first look to be a romantic game is at its roots a test of binary gender assignations and expectations, made all the more interesting by the challenge of depicting romance when your actors must stay 6 feet apart.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 05 May 2021 12:15:03 -0400 2021-05-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Livestream / Virtual
Food Literacy for All Session #3 (May 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83782 83782-21508902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Please join us for a virtual Food Literacy for All series with returning speakers! Themed around the Politics on our Plate, speakers will discuss the vision for our food system, the role of grassroots organizing, the impact of policy, and the responsibility of the media. In this third session in the series we will be joined by Shirley Sherrod and Samina Raja who will discuss how we can "Enact" a more equitable, sustainable food system.

Food Literacy for All is FREE, but registration is required.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is co-led by Andy Jones (UM School of Public Health), Devita Davison (FoodLab Detroit), and Lilly Fink Shapiro (UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). Future sessions to be announced on this page and our newsletter, which you can sign up for on our homepage or in your registration.

The 2021 Food Literacy for All series is supported by the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and the Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:08:51 -0400 2021-05-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-13T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Livestream / Virtual Event flyer
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF