Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Making of Two Presidents, featuring Donald Holloway, Curator, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum; Marilynn Olson, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Texas State University; Claudia Nelson, Professor Emerita of English, Texas A&M University (January 26, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81064 81064-20840669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for three short talks about presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan who both celebrated childhood reading as roadmaps to the future. Come learn about beloved stories that provided them steps to get where they wanted to go.

Donald Holloway
Curator, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
"A Matter of Trust: The Molding of Jerry Ford"

Marilynn Olson
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Texas State University
“Boys not so different from me”: Gerald Ford and the allure of Horatio Alger

Claudia Nelson
Professor Emerita of English, Texas A&M University
“Morality and fair play”: Ronald Reagan’s Childhood Reading

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:00:00 -0500 2021-01-26T14:30:00-05:00 2021-01-26T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Event flier
AIG (American Institutions Group) (January 29, 2021 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81268 81268-20879907@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:05pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG will discuss a recent paper by Suryanaryan and White in American Political Science Review (APSR): "Slavery, Reconstruction and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South" (2020).

AIG is a group of graduate students and faculty who meet to discuss American institutions. For the first half of our meetings, we talk about our research, happenings in the field, and politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper.

To join the meeting via Zoom, email Jared Cory and Benjamin Lempert (blempert@umich.edu) for the meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:58:02 -0500 2021-01-29T12:05:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location American Institutions Group (AIG) Livestream / Virtual Flag
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)
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (February 19, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82020 82020-21006757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

U-M PhD Candidate in Political Science Chris Campbell will present "Escaping the Long Shadow of Madisonian Pluralism." Campbell focuses on political theories of rhetoric, the history of political thought in the ancient Mediterranean and in modern and recent Euro-American politics, and the political thought of democratic and revolutionary social movements.

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:13:32 -0500 2021-02-19T14:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Theory
Pandemic Populism: Does Covid-19 Boost Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Regimes? (February 21, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82231 82231-21058465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 21, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

This year, Model United Nations at the University of Michigan's (MUNUM) conference is virtual and we are offering programming opportunities in addition to our traditional conference. One such event is a panel titled Pandemic Populism: Does Covid-19 Boost Democratic Backsliding and Authoritarian Regimes?

Our panelists are:
- Professor Dan Slater, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies and Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Director; Professor of Political Science,
- Professor Joshua Cole, Professor of History,
- Professor Mary Gallagher, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor in Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights,

Our chair is Professor Charlotte Cavaille, Assistant Professor of Public Policy.

The panel, styled as a discussion with a Q&A, will take place Sunday 2/21, from 2:00-2:45 pm. There is no registration for the event. Here is the Zoom Webinar information:
https://umich.zoom.us/s/94038244458
Webinar ID: 940 3824 4458
Passcode: 179925

For more information about MUNUM, visit https://www.munum.org/.

MUNUM is an annual Model United Nations conference for high school delegates to debate historical and modern issues in international affairs.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:23:23 -0500 2021-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-21T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Model UN
Free Speech in the Digital Age: A WeListen Staff Discussion (February 23, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81988 81988-21000823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members across the political spectrum.

All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link for this event will be shared once you've RSVP'd.

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLFeb21

We will discuss free speech in the digital age in the United States with a focus on social media and the 2020 election. Participants will receive a content presentation to review in advance of the virtual session, and the majority of our time will be spent in small group discussion.

Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.

By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine, and the LSA DEI Office.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:58:13 -0500 2021-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Workshop / Seminar WeListen February 2021
WCED Lecture. Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts (February 23, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80394 80394-20713711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

One of the most striking trends of modern authoritarianism is the extent to which power has been consolidated through law. In this seemingly legalistic world order, courts have unsurprisingly emerged as a prominent forum to adjudicate conflict and contest power. When courts become sites of autocratic contestation, the proceedings which ensue often bear little resemblance to the conduct of courts in functioning democracies. This is especially true wherever autocrats invoke judicial procedures for repressive ends, a practice sometimes referred to as "persecution through prosecution.” Yet, the judicial dimensions of repression are largely underappreciated despite the far-reaching implications of using law and courts to facilitate oppressive outcomes. In this talk, Shen-Bayh will address questions focused directly on the role that courts play in strategies of autocratic survival: why do autocrats bother holding a political trial when the outcomes are assumed to be known from the start? What are the goals of going to court and by what mechanisms are these goals achieved? Do autocrats face risks by going to court, and if so, how do they ensure that proceedings go as planned? To answer these questions, she develops a theoretical framework that centers around the disciplinary dimensions of autocracy, or how the process of punishment can be institutionalized in autocratic courts. She evaluates her theory in the context of postcolonial autocratic regimes across sub Saharan African cases.

Fiona Shen-Bayh is an assistant professor of government and data science at the College of William & Mary and an affiliated researcher at the University of Bergen. She earned her PhD and MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and her BA in economics from Vassar College. From 2018-19, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the role that law and courts play in defending and upholding autocratic rule, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and published in *World Politics*. Her current book project examines why autocrats use courts to repress and the ramifications of such strategies on autocratic survival in the Global South. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, her work draws on a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative and quantitative analyses and leverages a variety of data science tools.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/wloB7.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Jan 2021 16:21:03 -0500 2021-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Fiona Shen-Bayh
Campaign finance: Does money in politics matter? (February 25, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82341 82341-21068623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Join Rick Hall, professor of public policy and professor of political science, for an engaging conversation on campaign finance. All Ford School alumni and students are invited.

Spending on federal elections has accelerated rapidly over the last decade, with the total in 2020 more than doubling than the previous high. But does the money make any difference? Does it influence the outcomes of elections or the decisions of legislators post-election? If so, what can be done about it?

Professor Hall will give an overview of the topic and attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a lively Q & A, followed by breakout sessions with fellow alumni and students to further discuss the topic in detail.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:39:24 -0500 2021-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Livestream / Virtual Hall
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (March 5, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82022 82022-21006759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

U-M Political Science doctoral student David Suell will present, "Grounding radical democracy: Nyerere, Cabral, and narrating the anti-colonial state." Suell's research and teaching focuses on critical theory, comparative political theory, and African politics and political thought.

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:12:01 -0500 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Suell
WCED Roundtable. Reviving Democracy, Globally and Locally (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80977 80977-20824922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

How do we revitalize democracy, both globally and locally? And are there any common threads linking the two?

Hahrie Han is the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and faculty director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. She specializes in the study of organizing, movements, civic engagement, and democracy. Her newest book will be published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2021, entitled *Prisms of the People: Power and Organizing in 21st Century America*. She has previously published three books: *How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century*; *Groundbreakers: How Obama's 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America*; and *Moved to Action: Motivation, Participation, and Inequality in American Politics*. Her award-winning work has been published in the *American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),* and numerous other outlets, including the *New York Times, Washington Post*, and elsewhere.

Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, director and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He was also the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University from June to August of 2015. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995. He is also an analyst for NBC News and a contributing columnist to *The Washington Post*. McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-12), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-14). He has authored several books, most recently the *New York Times* bestseller, *From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia*. Earlier books include *Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should, How We Can*; *Transitions To Democracy: A Comparative Perspective* (eds. with Kathryn Stoner); *Power and Purpose: American Policy toward Russia after the Cold War* (with James Goldgeier); and *Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin*. His current research interests include American foreign policy; great power relations between China, Russia, and the United States; and the relationship between democracy and development.

Moderated by Dan Slater, WCED Director.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/O4yPQ

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:23:07 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion WCED Roundtable
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
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (March 26, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82450 82450-21100196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan Shayla Olson will present her co-authored book chapter, "Political Content in Sermons and Changes in the Trump Era." Her research fits broadly within American political behavior, with a specific interest in the interaction between race and religion.

The Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics (IWAP) is a forum for the presentation of ongoing interdisciplinary research in American politics. Most of our presentations are given by graduate students. Each graduate student presenter is assigned a faculty and student discussant. IWAP circulates the work beforehand and the student presents it briefly at the start of the meeting. After discussant feedback, the bulk of the time is reserved for group discussion among all workshop participants. This format leads to informal yet highly interactive and productive conversations.

Email zcwalker@umich.edu/ for meeting link.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:48:11 -0400 2021-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Livestream / Virtual Olson
WCED Lecture. Varieties of Populists: Paths to Power and Implications for Regime Stability (March 30, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80863 80863-20815009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Scholars have spent more time arguing over definitions of populism than attempting to clearly identify and differentiate among populists. Jones and Menon develop a typology to identify types of populists based on two key dimensions: 1) their position within the political landscape; and 2) the degree of their ideological commitment to populism. They argue that these distinctions are key to our understanding of how populists gain power and their impact on regime stability and change.

Pauline Jones is professor of political science and director of the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum at the University of Michigan (U-M). Previously, she served as director of U-M’s Islamic Studies Program (2011-14) and of the International Institute (2014-20). Her work has contributed broadly to the study of institutional origin, change, and impact with an empirical focus on the former Soviet Union—primarily the five Central Asia states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Currently, she is exploring the influence of religion on political attitudes and behavior in Muslim majority states with an emphasis on the relationship between religious regulation, religiosity, and political mobilization.

Anil Menon is a political science PhD candidate and Gerald R. Ford Predoctoral Fellow at U-M. His dissertation explores the long-term political legacy of trauma across three different contexts: China, Germany, and Northern Ireland.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:15:47 -0500 2021-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Pauline Jones & Anil Menon
WCED Roundtable. Submerging Democracy in America's States: An Emergency Roundtable (April 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83422 83422-21375694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Register at https://myumi.ch/jxjbw

Speakers:
Jenna Bednar, Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director for the Michigan in Washington Program, professor of public policy and political science, research professor at the Institute for Social Research's Center for Political Studies, U-M

Alexandra Filindra, associate professor of political science, University of Illinois, Chicago

Jake Grumbach, assistant professor of political science, University of Washington

Danielle McGuire, award-winning author and historian of the African American freedom struggle

Robert Mickey, associate professor of political science, U-M

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:17:26 -0400 2021-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Submerging Democracy in America's States
The 2021 Miller-Converse Roundtable (April 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81052 81052-20838704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Join faculty members from the Center for Political Studies on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at 4 PM Eastern for a roundtable discussion of current challenges to democracy. This event is part of the annual Miller-Converse Lecture Series.

Panelists include:
Ken Kollman: Moderate and Extreme Swings in American Party Politics
Pauline Jones: Democratic Survival, Using Lessons from the Muslim World
Robert Franzese: What Causes People to Become Political Extremists?

Register for this event at https://myumi.ch/mnrbG
A link to participate will be emailed to registrants.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:30:19 -0400 2021-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer for Miller-Converse Roundtable
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (April 9, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82025 82025-21006763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 9, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

U-M Doctoral Student in Political Science Amir Fleischmann will present "Popular Problems: Towards a Post-Liberal Conception of Popular Sovereignty.” Fleischmann's work is focused on critical and continental political theory. He is interested in questions concerning critical history, the history of capitalism, and democratic theory.

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:12:33 -0500 2021-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Amir Fleischmann
CREES Noon Lecture. Poland and Hungary - Two Autocratic Attempts to Overthrow Liberal Democracy (April 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83410 83410-21375680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The Polish election results of 2015 seem to have brought Hungarian and Polish development into synchronicity again, a congruence that has been apparent many times throughout history. At first glance, it may appear that we are dealing with regimes of an identical nature, especially taking into account the similarities of the authoritarian politics practiced by Jarosław Kaczyński (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) and Viktor Orbán (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége, Fidesz), characterized by a tendency to eliminate autonomous social forces and control mechanisms, as well as the application of similar ideological frames. But beneath the superficial similarities, these attempts are aimed at establishing different types of autocratic regimes. Orbán’s regime, which Dr. Magyar defines as a mafia state, is built on the twin motivations of power centralization and the accumulation of personal and family wealth; the instrument of its power is the adopted political family, freed of the limitations posed by formal institutions. Kaczyński’s regime is better described as a conservative-autocratic experiment, driven by ambitions of power and ideological inclinations. In this lecture, Dr. Magyar will offer his comparative assessment of these two regimes.

Bálint Magyar is a Research Fellow at the Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute (since 2020), holding a University Doctoral degree in Political Economy (1980) from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He has published and edited numerous books on post-communist mafia states since 2013. He was an Open Society Fellow carrying out comparative studies in this field (2015-2016), Hans Speier Visiting Professor at the New School (2017), Senior Fellow at the CEU Institute for Advanced Study (2018-2019), and Research Fellow at the Financial Research Institute (2010-2020). Formerly, he was an activist of the Hungarian anti-communist dissident movement, founder of the liberal party of Hungary (SZDSZ, 1988), Member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-2010), and Minister of Education (1996-1998, 2002-2006).

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5likEdQMSwCKcWD4qbLTyg

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 30 Mar 2021 08:24:53 -0400 2021-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Livestream / Virtual Bálint Magyar, Research Fellow, Central European University (CEU) Democracy Institute
Political Theory Workshop (PTW) (April 23, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82026 82026-21006764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 23, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

Ann Heffernan is an LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching interests include contemporary political theory, disability studies, feminist theory, and American political development.

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Feb 2021 16:06:13 -0500 2021-04-23T14:30:00-04:00 2021-04-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Livestream / Virtual Heffernan
Learn about International Subtitling and Dubbing (October 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87969 87969-21648224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Flying Subtitles Collective

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

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

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

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

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:57:15 -0400 2021-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Flying Subtitles Collective Careers / Jobs Flying Subtitles Collective
WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Nicaragua (November 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88476 88476-21654236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Luciana Chamorro, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics, Michigan State University; Kai M. Thaler, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Emilia Yang, Annenberg Fellow and PhD Candidate in Media Arts + Practice, University of Southern California. Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director.

From the deadly suppression of nationwide protests in 2018 to the recent incarceration of dozens of political leaders, journalists, and human rights advocates, including seven presidential hopefuls, the Ortega regime in Nicaragua has consolidated an authoritarian dictatorship dependent on the use of force to sustain itself in power. In light of these events, scholars and Nicaraguan activists share their observations and insights on the political and social developments in Nicaragua.

Luciana Chamorro is a political anthropologist who specializes in Central America and writes on revolution and its afterlives, populist politics, authoritarianism, affect and aesthetics. She is currently preparing a book manuscript titled “Afterlives of Revolution: Authoritarian Populism and Political Passions in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua,” which examines populist governance and affective attachments to the Sandinista political project after the return of Daniel Ortega to power in 2007. Luciana received her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2020 and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate for the “Neoliberalism at the Neopopulist Crossroads” Sawyer Seminar at the University of Arizona for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Jennifer Goett is a cultural anthropologist, specializing in political and feminist anthropology. She has published work on Indigenous and Afrodescendant social movements in Central America, particularly Nicaragua, and on state violence, racialized policing, land dispossession, and infrastructure megaprojects. Goett is the author of *Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism *(Stanford 2017). Her current research focuses on Nicaraguan asylum seekers in Costa Rica and the United States. In addition to her scholarship, she publishes editorials on Central American politics and works as a pro bono expert witness for asylum cases in U.S. immigration court.

Kai M. Thaler works on conflict and security, authoritarianism and democratization, and protest and repression, focused on Latin America and Africa. His research and commentary on Nicaraguan politics has been published in *Comparative Politics* and the *Journal of Democracy* and in public venues including *Foreign Policy*, *Latinoamérica 21*, the *Los Angeles Times*, and the *Washington Post*.

Emilia Yang is an artist, organizer, and scholar. Her art practice utilizes digital media, archives, film, games, performance, and urban interventions for the creation of transnational and speculative feminist media, and transformative justice projects. Her more recent project, “AMA y No Olvida, Memory Museum Against Impunity” (http://www.museodelamemorianicaragua.org/) is a transmedia memory museum that explores participatory forms of mediation for remembering victims of state violence in her home country Nicaragua. Emilia’s theory-practice work has been published in *Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change* (NYU Press, 2020); *Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology*; and *The Additivist Cookbook* (Institute of Network Cultures, 2015).

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:48:17 -0400 2021-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Flashpoint Nicaragua, photo by Luciana Chamorro
WCED Roundtable Discussion. Democratic Ceilings (November 16, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89152 89152-21660698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Presenters: Aram Hur, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri; Gerardo L. Munck, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California; Grigore Pop-Eleches, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science, UCLA
Respondent: Ricarda Hammer, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow
Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director

Following transitions to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, many countries have ceased making democratic progress. They have failed to improve the quality of their democracy even after being democracies for several decades. They have hit a democratic ceiling. The collection of papers offer an alternative to the influential “erosion narrative” and draw attention to the distinct problem of democratic ceilings. The papers consider the evolution of democracy on a global scale and analyze in depth cases in East Asia, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. They consider various factors (economic development, nationalism, patrimonialism, and citizen attitudes) that determine why democratic progress has stalled. Jointly, they show that scholarship on democracy should treat the problem of democratic ceilings as a central problem in global politics.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/Qe7w7

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Aram Hur’s research focuses on nationalism and democracy in East Asia, with particular emphasis on issues of identity change, integration, and democratic support in the Korean peninsula and Taiwan. Her work has been published in the *British Journal of Political Science*, *Comparative Politics*, *Electoral Studies*, and the *Journal of East Asian Studies*.

Gerardo Munck's research focuses on political regimes and democracy, methodology, and Latin America. His forthcoming and most recent books include *Latin American Politics and Society: A Comparative and Historical Analysis* (with Juan Pablo Luna; Cambridge, forthcoming, 2022); *Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies: Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science* (edited with David Collier; Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming, 2022); and *A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America* (with Sebastián Mazzuca, Cambridge, 2020).

Grigore Pop-Eleches' main research interests lie at the intersection between comparative and international political economy with a particular interest in Eastern Europe and Latin America. He is the author of two books: *From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe* (Princeton University Press, 2009) and *Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes* (joint with Joshua A. Tucker, Princeton University Press, 2017).

Daniel Treisman’s work focuses on Russian politics and economics and comparative political economy. He has published four books and many articles in leading political science and economics journals including *The American Political Science Review* and *The American Economic Review*, as well as in the public affairs journals *Foreign Affairs* and *Foreign Policy*.

Ricarda Hammer's research interests lie at the intersection of global, historical, and postcolonial sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brown University in 2021, and she is currently working on her book manuscript, “Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule across the Black Atlantic.”

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:57:07 -0500 2021-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion WCED Democratic Ceilings
Webinar: Teaching Social Action – An Introduction (January 13, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90686 90686-21672281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Campus Compact’s National Webinar series returns for 2021-2022 with more to support and inspire you.

In social action courses, students develop and enact campaigns to change a policy, which provides them with first-hand experience with power and democracy. There is no better response by Higher Education to the growing anti-democratic forces than social action since it is designed to do democracy.

Join Bobby Hackett of the Bonner Foundation and Scott Myers-Lipton of San Jose State University for information, tools, and resources to help you in your work.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 07 Jan 2022 16:05:32 -0500 2022-01-13T15:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ginsberg Center Livestream / Virtual Campus Compact logo