Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Clements Bookworm (August 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73985 73985-19073308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this weekly webinar. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session as we vary between formats: Reader Panel, Author Conversation, Collectors Corner, and Fellow Spotlight.

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

*When*: Fridays Weekly at 10:00am EDT

*Where*: Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR. In your confirmation email, find the link to join the meeting.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:46:10 -0400 2020-08-14T10:00:00-04:00 2020-08-14T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
The Clements Bookworm (August 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73985 73985-19073309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this weekly webinar. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session as we vary between formats: Reader Panel, Author Conversation, Collectors Corner, and Fellow Spotlight.

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

*When*: Fridays Weekly at 10:00am EDT

*Where*: Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR. In your confirmation email, find the link to join the meeting.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:46:10 -0400 2020-08-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-08-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
The Clements Bookworm (August 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73985 73985-19073310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this weekly webinar. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session as we vary between formats: Reader Panel, Author Conversation, Collectors Corner, and Fellow Spotlight.

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

*When*: Fridays Weekly at 10:00am EDT

*Where*: Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR. In your confirmation email, find the link to join the meeting.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 11 Jun 2020 14:46:10 -0400 2020-08-28T10:00:00-04:00 2020-08-28T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (August 31, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 31, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-08-31T17:00:00-04:00 2020-08-31T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (September 1, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-01T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (September 2, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-09-02T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-02T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (September 3, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-03T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (September 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 4, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-04T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (September 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-05T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
Welcome Week: Clements Library digital primary sources from American history (September 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76400 76400-19711192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Watch this quick video tour through online resources and digitized collections from the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan: myumi.ch/1pvnZ

Learn more and explore primary sources from American history at clements.umich.edu.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:17:48 -0400 2020-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 2020-09-06T17:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The Clements Library on South University Ave
CAS Webinar | From the Alexander Romance to the Base of the City of Brass: Movements of Medieval Armenian Poetry (September 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76238 76238-19679536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here:

http://myumi.ch/mnYVk

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

The Armenian “Alexander Romance,” translated as early as the 5th century, was accompanied in the medieval period by short poems that heightened the sensory or emotional stakes of a scene, moralized on Alexander’s actions, or fit the marvels of the world’s edges into Christian Creation. These poems traveled further: into the early modern, abbreviated version of the “Alexander Romance” where new poems were composed; and into separate anthology manuscripts, where they were copied in short, standalone collections alongside hymns, poetry, or entire wonder tales. This lecture will explore the movements of these poems, offering a guide into their fluidity and change between texts and manuscripts across the centuries.

Alex MacFarlane earned their PhD from the University of Oxford in 2020. Their dissertation titled “Alexander Re-Mapped: Geography and Identity in the ‘Alexander Romance’ in Armenia” examines how medieval Armenian literary traditors composed ‘kafas’ (short, monorhymed poems) to accompany the “Alexander Romance.” Using these ‘kafas’, Dr. MacFarlane is able to situate the text’s more fantastical parts – where Alexander journeys to the edges of the world – within a broader Christian cosmology. Dr. MacFarlane’s current research interests include the translation and circulation of wonder tales in the medieval and early modern Caucasus and Middle East, especially the “Alexander Romance” and the “History of the City of Brass.”

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:01:19 -0400 2020-09-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-09T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Alex MacFarlane, 2020-21 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (September 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76968 76968-19782530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Abstract: Do refugees reshape long-term political behavior in receiving areas? To investigate this question, I examine the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe into West Germany at the end of WWII. Expellees were strangers to the cultural practices in their new surroundings. Tensions with natives forced expellees to rely on each other and helped foster a strong group identity. I argue that this shared identity, coupled with political circumstances specific to Germany, engendered support for the radical right among expellees. Using district-level data from 32 elections spanning 100 years, I find that communities which received greater shares of expellees remain more supportive of the radical right in the short, medium, and long term. This legacy of forced migration responds to changes in the political context within Germany, and is driven primarily by districts that received greater shares of expellees who were not citizens of the Reich during the interwar period.

Email political-economy-workshop@umich.edu for the meeting link.

PEW provides a unique forum for doctoral students and faculty members to share and develop interdisciplinary research in political economy. Political science and economics are intimately linked in both substance and methodology, and the field of political economy is among the most fertile and enduring areas for cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences. Currently, PEW is the sole interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Michigan wholly dedicated to the exploration of current research in political economy, and thus plays a valuable role in fostering connections among the university’s various departments and schools.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:49:37 -0400 2020-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-15T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Livestream / Virtual Anil Menon
Author Event | Sara Fitzgerald shares Conquering Heroines (September 16, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76875 76875-19772613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join us for a free, virtual, author event for the new book "Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX", by Sara Fitzgerald, published in July by the University of Michigan Press!

In 1970, a courageous group of women in Ann Arbor worked together on an objective that seemed beyond reach at the time—force the University of Michigan to treat women the same as men. Drawing on oral histories from archives as well as new interviews with living participants, "Conquering Heroines" chronicles that pivotal period of history for the University of Michigan and women in higher education.

Author Sara Fitzgerald is a former editor and new-media developer for the Washington Post and was the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:12:59 -0400 2020-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Conquering Heroines"
Presidential Impeachment, from Johnson to Trump: What Have We Learned? (September 17, 2020 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75859 75859-19615925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 4:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join us for UM's annual commemoration of Constitution Day. Professor Michael Gerhardt (UNC School of Law) and Professor Jonathan Turley (GWU Law School)- two of the four scholars who testified, one on each side, on constitutional standards for impeachment before the House Judiciary Committee during President Trump's impeachment- will debate. MLaw Professor Rich Friedman will moderate.

Join via Zoom at https://umich.zoom.us/j/97622039094

Michael Gerhardt (https://law.unc.edu/people/michael-j-gerhardt/) serves as the Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill School of Law. His teaching and research focuses on constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress. Gerhardt is the author of seven books, including “Lincoln’s Mentors” (Harper Collins, 2021), and leading treatises on impeachment, appointments, presidential power, Supreme Court precedent, and separation of powers.

Jonathan Turley (https://www.law.gwu.edu/jonathan-turley) is the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law, the Director of the Environmental Law Advocacy Center, and the Executive Director of the Project for Older Prisoners at the George Washington University Law School. He is a nationally recognized legal scholar who has written extensively in areas ranging from constitutional law to legal theory to tort law.

Read Professor Gerhardt's written testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on “Constitutional Processes for Addressing Presidential Misconduct" at: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20190712/109768/HHRG-116-JU00-Wstate-GerhardtM-20190712.pdf

Read Professor Turley's written testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on “The Impeachment Inquiry Into President Donald J. Trump: The Constitutional Basis For Presidential Impeachment” at:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6547-jonathan-turley-s-opening-stat/739d3374f20a9ed69157/optimized/full.pdf

Read both Professor Gerhardt's and Professor Turley's prepared statements for the hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution for the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton at:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc3/pdf/GPO-CDOC-106sdoc3-20.pdf

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:42:07 -0400 2020-09-17T16:10:00-04:00 2020-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
The Clements Bookworm: Sheet Music from the Lynch Archives (September 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76568 76568-19727079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Clements Library Graphics curator Clayton Lewis and collector/archivist Kevin Hugh Lynch will discuss one of the premier private collections of sheet music, the Lynch Archives (firstepoch.com), highlighting rare and unique music title-pages.

The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:26:03 -0400 2020-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Premodern Colloquium. Le Roman de Saint Fanuel: Plant-Thinking, Family Trees and Grafted Fictions (September 20, 2020 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76894 76894-19774594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 20, 2020 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-second year of continuous operation. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:39:44 -0400 2020-09-20T15:45:00-04:00 2020-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual
The Soul of America (September 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75863 75863-19615929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will read and discuss the title book by Jon Meacham. He describes how our country overcame partisan fury and fear in the past, and he provides perspective on how the current critical moment in politics and life may be overcome by leadership and the will of the people.
The book details the actions taken by notable presidents to fight danger and dissension. We will also read how citizen-led movements such the suffragettes, civil rights and others initiated progress towards greater democracy, even when those in power could not or would not.
Gerry Lapidus has conducted OLLI book discussion classes since 2005. The classes are informal and conversational. Please read Introduction and Chapter One for the first session. The Study Group meets on Mondays Sep. 21 to Nov. 2 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (No class on Sep. 28.) 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 15:05:02 -0400 2020-09-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-21T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Art History I--Paleolithic through New Kingdom Egypt (September 22, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75796 75796-19608012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The first in a sequence of 3 introductory art history courses, this study group will focus on works of art that demonstrate the ways in which artists documented their world. Beginning in the pre-historic era artists painted cave paintings and carved images on stone and bison horn.
In the subsequent Neolithic time period, technology and art joined to support the burgeoning agricultural society in the ancient Near East. The Sumerians, Akkadians, and Assyrians depicted their gods and religious rituals of their cultures, wars and empires. I will focus on early Egyptian art and one of their pyramids.
Molly Lindner brings to this subject her 11 years of teaching art history at Kent State Univ. The Study Group meets on Tuesdays Sept. 22 to Oct. 27 from 2:30 to 4:00 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 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:41:13 -0400 2020-09-22T14:30:00-04:00 2020-09-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Understanding Current Issues through Heroines of the Past: Women and Words 1880-1930 (September 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75855 75855-19615921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

A look back to the period 1880-1930 is quite instructive to understand the present moment. Then as now, there was a pandemic, more than one serious economic downturn, sanctioned segregation and assorted other issues.
This study group will introduce you to some real heroines such as Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Sarah Winnemucca and Ida Tarbell, who did amazing feats with literacy, attempting to address these matters in the Modern period, using their literacy abilities as exemplars and sponsors of literacy to address social justice issues. Important lessons for contemporary problems arise from the work of these women. Instructor Alice Horning, professor emerita Oakland University has been studying and teaching about literacy >30 years.
The Study Group meets on Wednesdays Sept. 23 to Oct. 14 from 10:00-11:30 a.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 14:31:37 -0400 2020-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T23:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Caravans, Cultures, and Chinggis Khan along the Silk Route (September 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75858 75858-19615924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Silk Route is a collection of pathways that, together, link China to Vienna, Istanbul, Baghdad, and India across the Inner Asian steppe and desert. During our meetings participants will discuss the Silk Route as a cultural conduit, on the one hand, as the source of empire and technologies, on the other, and look at specific examples of cultural dissemination.
The Silk Route has provided some of the most engaging and best written volumes of travel literature. There will be no required readings, but students may enjoy Owen Lattimore's The Desert Road to Turkestan, from 1928, or the Franciscan William of Rubruck's account of his journey to Karakorum in 1255. Rudi Lindner leads the discussion.
The Study Group meets on Wednesdays Sep. 23 to Oct. 21 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 14:42:25 -0400 2020-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
In Plain Sight: Looking for Women’s History in the Archives (September 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76570 76570-19727081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for an online presentation with Assistant Curator of Manuscripts Jayne Ptolemy as she explores some of the ways to uncover women’s stories within the rich collections of the Clements Library. Inspired by the centennial of the 19th Amendment, this lecture muses on the power of including the quieter histories of everyday women in our celebrations of the anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.

The Clements Library's Virtual Discover Series: Women's History in the Archives consists of three sessions on consecutive Wednesdays (Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7). Please register at myumi.ch/wlnQw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:26:47 -0400 2020-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual The life & age of woman: Stages of woman’s life from the cradle to the grave (ca.1848)
Making Michigan: "The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the U-M's Jewish Students, 1897-1945" (September 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76665 76665-19735028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Learn about the evolution of Jewish life on the U-M campus from the late 1890s to the end of World War II. Join us for this *Making Michigan* event, as Terry McDonald and Gary Krenz from the Bentley Historical Library talk with authors Andrei Markovits and Kenneth Garner about their new book, *The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan's Jewish Students from 1897-1945.* The conversation will cover how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan, how they were integrated by and large, how they made U-M a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss, as the University's commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.

This conversation is the first in the 2020-21 Making Michigan series.

Registration is required. To register, please visit https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZLn_cYMlT5W8K9rJE0-j3g

To learn more about *Making Michigan,* go to https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/making-michigan-series/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:32:16 -0400 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and pictures of authors Markovits and Garner.
The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945 (September 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76897 76897-19774596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Political Science

U-M Professor of Political Science Andrei S. Markovits presents his new book, The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945 (Ann Arbor: Maize Books, 2020) [with Kenneth Garner].

Learn in great detail what student life was like at the University of Michigan in the first four decades of the 20th century. Hear about how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan, how they were integrated by and large, how they made this a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss. Discover how the University’s commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.

https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/making-michigan-series/

Andrei S. Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies as well as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:43:52 -0400 2020-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Professor Andrei S. Markovits
EIHS Symposium: Practices of Decolonization (September 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75587 75587-19542899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What is decolonization? What does it mean and what does it entail? These questions and more have emerged center-stage in recent years with a spate of new academic scholarship on decolonization as well as from the politically vibrant clamor on the streets. The latter ranges from #RhodesMustFall to Standing Rock and the recent global iterations of #BlackLivesMatter. At stake is a vastly expanded understanding of the histories of colonialism. The effects are, of course, not just out there in the colonies, but also in the erstwhile imperial centers. The consequences were never just political and economic but also social and cultural. And colonialism is not just a matter of the past; it persists well into the present. The resulting push back against colonialism has produced a reanimation of the myriad uses of the term decolonization: as an axial event of the twentieth century; a more long-term and ongoing political process; a metaphor and a method; and as a distinctive project for the repatriation of Indigenous lands.

Our panel of scholars will explore the meaning of decolonization from within their respective fields. Our Q&A format will help to navigate the tensions and contradictions between different uses of the term as well as to reflect on its continued usefulness for scholarly analysis.

Panelists:
Sascha Crasnow (Lecturer, Residential College, University of Michigan)
Andrew Herscher (Associate Professor; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, History of Art, Slavic Languages and Literatures; University of Michigan)
Derek Peterson (Professor, History and Afroamerican and African Culture, University of Michigan)
Michael Witgen (Professor, History and American Culture, University of Michigan)
Mrinalini Sinha, chair (Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan)

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cjGxgypqT0G-fx6lXEVKzQ

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Image: "Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor," Kyle Goen, 2016. Courtesy The Palestine Poster Project Archives.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 18 Sep 2020 13:55:47 -0400 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium "Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor," Kyle Goen, 2016.
MEMS Virtual Kick-Off, Fall 2020 (September 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76958 76958-19780558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

We welcome the community back from isolation and give a preview of what's coming up. Bonus: MEMS Summer Awards recipients Salman Amir and Rheagan Martin will give us their takes on research work during COVID.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 11:54:13 -0400 2020-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Fellowship of the Round Table
A Taste of History: Cookbooks in the Archives (September 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76573 76573-19727084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Cookbooks, recipes, and the kitchen can reveal a great deal about women's experiences in the past. Listen to a conversation between curators and historians about what you can find in these oft-overlooked sources, including hints about women’s political engagement.

The Clements Library's Virtual Discover Series: Women's History in the Archives consists of three sessions on consecutive Wednesdays (Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7). Please register at myumi.ch/wlnQw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:27:03 -0400 2020-09-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual “Cucina – Cuisine – Küche – Kichen – Keuken,” color lithograph, 19th century
Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson: In Conversation (October 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77320 77320-19840075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Our lens on history powerfully influences how we envision and shape the future. Join two of our country’s most accomplished storytellers, Ken Burns and Isabel Wilkerson, as they discuss the complexities of the American narrative and how grappling with the past might lead us forward.

Journalist Isabel Wilkerson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2016 “for championing the stories of an unsung history.” The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, her book The Warmth of Other Suns, a sweeping and intimate examination of the Great Migration, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, examines the entrenched hierarchies that shape American life. Told through intimate personal narratives and deeply researched history, Wilkerson examines the ties between the American caste system and those in India and Nazi Germany, and points to ways America can move beyond our artificial and destructive human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; Jackie Robinson; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The Vietnam War; The Central Park Five; and Country Music. His films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Oscar nominations; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His new website UNUM rearranges clips from his past films into playlists to add historical context to the present.

This conversation will be moderated by Lynette Clemetson, Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society.

This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester with support from Wallace House and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

How to Watch

All speaker series events will be webcast on Fridays at 8 pm EST at http://pennystampsevents.org and at https://www.dptv.org/programs/arts-culture/penny-stamps-series/ starting Friday, September 18. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennyStampsSeries/.

Notice of uncensored content

In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:06:56 -0400 2020-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Ken-Burns.jpg
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: ​Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson, In Conversation (October 2, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77115 77115-19798483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

the Penny Stamps Series Facebook.

Our lens on history powerfully influences how we envision and shape the future. Join two of our country's most accomplished storytellers, Ken Burns and Isabel Wilkerson, as they discuss the complexities of the American narrative and how grappling with the past might lead us forward. 

Journalist Isabel Wilkerson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2016 “for championing the stories of an unsung history.” The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, her book The Warmth of Other Suns, a sweeping and intimate examination of the Great Migration, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, examines the entrenched hierarchies that shape American life. Told through intimate personal narratives and deeply researched history, Wilkerson examines the ties between the American caste system and those in India and Nazi Germany, and points to ways America can move beyond our artificial and destructive human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War; Baseball; Jazz; The War; The National Parks: America’s Best Idea; The Roosevelts: An Intimate History; Jackie Robinson; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The Vietnam War; The Central Park Five; and Country Music. His films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including sixteen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Oscar nominations; and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. His new website UNUM rearranges clips from his past films into playlists to add historical context to the present.

This conversation will be moderated by Lynette Clemetson, Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society. 

This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester with support from Wallace House and UMMA.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:16:01 -0400 2020-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (October 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77774 77774-19919781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Registration Required: myumi.ch/O4P30

Join members of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) community as they explore the meanings and implications of Wilkerson's work.

Moderator
Earl Lewis
Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy; Director, Center for Social Solutions

Panelists
Aliyah Khan
Associate Professor of English and
Afroamerican and African Studies

Karyn Lacy
Associate Professor of Sociology

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor of American Culture and
Afroamerican and African Studies

Damani Partridge
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies

Renée Pitter
DAAS Alum, Research Program Manager for the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities, U-M School of Nursing

This live, virtual conversation will occur as a community engagement opportunity following the Penny Stamps Speakers Series Event Ken Burns & Isabel Wilkerson: In Conversation on Friday, October 2 at 8:00 p.m. More information: pennystampsevents.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:03:09 -0400 2020-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality (October 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75663 75663-19558810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In Undermining Racial Justice, Matthew Johnson (Texas Tech University) contends that over the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible.

Focusing on the University of Michigan, Johnson argues that U-M leaders incorporated black student dissent selectively into the institution's policies, practices, and values. This strategy was used to prevent activism from disrupting the institutional priorities that campus leaders deemed more important than racial justice. As Johnson illustrates, inclusion has always been a secondary priority, and, as a result, the policies of the late 1970s and 1980s ushered in a new and enduring era of racial retrenchment on campuses nationwide.

Join the author for a discussion of Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and Inequality. Angela Dillard (University of Michigan) will serve as interlocutor.

Matthew Johnson is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University. He is currently an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow working on a book about the impact of urban campus police forces on Black communities and students.

Angela Dillard is the Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History, and in the Residential College. She specializes in American and African American intellectual history, particularly around issues of race, religion, and politics—on both the Left and the Right sides of the political spectrum—and maintains an active interest in urban studies.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a90DMOeVRZy18VWjsPyc_A

This event is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:17:02 -0400 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Undermining Racial Justice cover
A Review of the Modern History of Iran (October 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75862 75862-19615928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This class is intended to foster a better understanding of Iran and its history. The topics include: a review of Iranian history from the 16th century to today; the rise of Safavid Empire; conversion of the Iranians from Islam to Islam-Shia; the Qajar dynasty and European powers; modernization of Iran; the Constitutional Revolution at the turn of the twentieth century; and Iran during WWI.
Moe Bidgoli leads the discussion. The Study Group meets on Wednesdays Oct. 7 to Oct. 28 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 14:59:30 -0400 2020-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Building the Archives: Women’s Influence as Librarians, Curators, and Collectors (October 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76576 76576-19727087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Many institutional histories of rare book and manuscript libraries center on tales of prominent (and typically male) figures - the original collectors, directors, and major donors. But what happens to our understanding of the archive if we shift our perspective to allow for women’s contributions to the library to come to the forefront? Listen to a discussion between Clements Library curators and staff to learn more about how we can achieve this and what it enables.

The Clements Library's Virtual Discover Series: Women's History in the Archives consists of three sessions on consecutive Wednesdays (Sept. 23, Sept. 30, Oct. 7). Please register at myumi.ch/wlnQw

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:32:38 -0400 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Georgia Haugh, Clements Library Book Curator 1948-1978
CGIS Virtual Study Abroad Fair (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77893 77893-19943564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Study abroad is not just for juniors. It's not just for language and international studies majors. It's not just for students from certain communities or socioeconomic backgrounds. No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Whether you want to develop the skills you’ll need to compete in a global economy, cultivate your language competencies, or build meaningful connections with people from around the world, this is the best time in your life for a global experience.

Studying abroad often proves to be a pivotal experience, but deciding which program is the best fit can be daunting as you consider questions such as: How will this enhance my course of study? When should I go? For how long? Where? Can I afford it? How do I prepare? Will my credits transfer? The CGIS Study Abroad Virtual Fair is the best time to get all of your questions answered!

During the day of the virtual fair, you'll have instant access to academic advisors, education abroad advisors, Office of Financial Aid & LSA Scholarship Office representatives, and program representatives as well as scheduled events throughout the fair!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:17 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Image300
Learning from History at The Henry Ford – Two Perspectives (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77772 77772-19911886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This is a conversation where each participant will discuss a different project that they were involved with at The Henry Ford Museum. The presenters are:
- Bradley L. Taylor (Associate Director Emeritus, Museum Studies Program)
- Calder Fong (PhD, Germanic Languages and Literatures)

Taylor's talk showcases Henry Ford’s efforts to preserve historic buildings by moving them from across the country and re-assembling them at Greenfield Village. The stories of three English structures brought to the Village will challenge assumptions about the nature of “originality” and “authenticity.”

Fong will trace the history of an 1887 Crossley Bros. internal combustion engine at The Henry Ford Museum. Along the journey he will discuss Henry Ford as an early pioneer of urbexing and explore the wide range of disciplines that intertwine at this museum of American innovation.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93045738463
Meeting ID: 930 4573 8463
Password: 103356

Full details can be found here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/event/learning-from-history-at-the-henry-ford-two-perspectives/

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:08:28 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual The Henry Ford's Sir John Bennett Jewelry Store and the Deluxe Engine
Scripts, Sounds, and Songs: Mediating History in the Caucasus and Beyond (Part 1) | Crosscultural Archives and Contrapuntal Reading: Three Texts from an Era of Transition (October 9, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76661 76661-19735023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here:
http://myumi.ch/O4zKR
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

The 10th-century Arab historian and geographer Al-Mas'udi long ago called the Caucasus “jabal al-alsun,” the "mountain of tongues," referencing the densely compacted presence of topographical variation and cultural-linguistic diversity. This description rings true locally, as a dynamic internal to the region’s indigenous inhabitants, as well as transregionally, to the extent that the historical destiny of the Caucasus has generally been determined by external pressures, above all the interimperial rivalry unfolding in recent centuries between Russia, Iran, and Ottoman Turkey. One of the many challenges in studying the Caucasus, then, arises from the need for a crosscultural and multilingual archive which asks to be read “contrapuntally,” as Edward Said would have it, to grasp the entangled nature of historical events and cultural processes. This talk looks at three texts representing two successive military conflicts of the late eighteenth century: Agha Mohammad Khan's campaign of 1795, which briefly reasserted Persian control over the South Caucasus while devastating the region, and Count Valerian Zubov’s campaign of 1796, militarily inconsequential but anticipating Russia's annexation of the South Caucasus in the decades to come. The texts that will be examined are the Russian poet Gavrila Derzhavin’s “On the Return of Count Zubov from Persia” (1797), the Armenian Harutiun Araratian (Artemy of Ararat)’s “Life and Adventures” (1813), and the Georgian poet Nikoloz Baratashvili’s “The Fate of Kartli” (1839). All three texts address the key events of a transitional decade which saw the South Caucasus pass from Persian into Russian hands and reflect shifting perspectives that owe much to the complex interplay between ethnicity, social class, political allegiances, and aesthetic form.

Harsha Ram's first book, “The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire” (2003), addressed the relationship between poetic genre, aesthetic theory, territorial space, and political power in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Russian literature. His recent publications chiefly concern Russian-Georgian and Russian-Italian literary relations in the context of theories of world literature and comparative modernisms. His forthcoming book, “The Geopoetics of Sovereignty. Literature and the Russian-Georgian Encounter,” seeks to provide a historical account of cultural relations between Georgian and Russian artists and writers over the course of the nineteenth century and early Soviet eras, focusing specifically on how the Caucasus region has been mapped geopolitically as contested territory and geopoetically as a space of natural and ethnolinguistic diversity. His third book project, tentatively titled “The Worlding of Russian Literature,” will examine the interaction of Russian and world literatures during two crucial moments of transition and rupture: the 1840s, which saw the emergence of plebeian intellectuals and a new sense of the public sphere, and the 1920s, when the Russian avant-garde sought to reimagine the relationship between society and the written word.

Samuel Hodgkin is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University, who has published on the modern verse, theater, and criticism of Iran, Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. His current book project, entitled “The Nightingales’ Congress: Literary Representatives in the Communist East,” shows how the Soviet internationalist project of world literature emerged from sustained engagement between leftist writers of West and South Asia and state-sponsored writers of the multinational Soviet East.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:53:30 -0400 2020-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Ask-a-Docent: Ibrahim Mahama (October 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77982 77982-19949609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with experienced museum docents, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours. 

 

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Presentation Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:15:58 -0400 2020-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
STS Speaker. Timescapes of Behavior: Resilience and Long-Term Ecological Research (October 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77484 77484-19875779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series features scholars doing research across the range of STS subject matter. This term:

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches, including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies, challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. We explore these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:22:28 -0400 2020-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion
Hot off the Press (October 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78282 78282-20002863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

*Registration is required for this event:* http://myumi.ch/jxNGK

*Hot off the Press* is a forum for graduate students, lecturers, and faculty to share their research, talk about the challenges they have encountered and the approaches they have, or are considering in the process of formulating their frames of analysis.

The October round of *Hot off the Press* will explore entangled histories of confessionalism in the Middle East. Salman Elamir (MES, PhD Candidate) will discuss the ethnographic research he conducted last summer on the Druze community living in Israel, how they remember their past incarnations and spoke about the past through their life stories. Joshua Cole (History, Professor) will talk about the challenges he encountered writing his recent book, *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria* on anti-Jewish violence in French Algeria at a moment of growing rupture between Algeria’s Jews and Muslims. Golriz Farshi (MES, PhD Candidate) will discuss her dissertation chapter that reads the establishment of an endowed charitable complex by a Jewish convert to Islam, Rashid al-Din Fazlallah al-Hamadani, both as an act of individual conversion and the materialization of Mongol collective conversion to Islam.

Joshua Cole (History)
Salman Elamir (MES)
Golriz Farshi (MES)
Moderator: Kathryn Babayan (MES)

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:13:58 -0400 2020-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Hot off the Press
Critical Conversations: #Politics (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76730 76730-19741036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2020-21. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

This semester's series will be entirely online -- please RSVP to receive the Zoom link (see "Related Links" for RSVP form).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:37:52 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
The Power of Naming during Life Changing Events (October 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75552 75552-19521126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In this memoir workshop we will write about 4 periods of change: Preparing for Attack-from the Cold War to 9/11, the Space Race, the Vietnam War, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. We will discuss how global events generate their own vocabulary, a language we use to define and process our new reality. From new words such as N-95 masks to new realities such as toilet paper shortages, the vocabulary of change has power. The writing prompts will help us explore our memories of these life changing events.

Instructor Diane Nash will lead this study group on Wednesdays from October 14 through November 4.

Pre-registration 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 Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:10:57 -0400 2020-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M (October 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78057 78057-19957547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this "Making Michigan" webinar with U-M Professor Stephen Ward, who will discuss the impact of the Black Power movement and struggles around race, nationally and locally, at U-M during the 1960s and 1970s. You'll learn about the Black Action Movement (BAM I), an important moment in U-M's history of student activism. He'll also discuss the motivations and rationale for Black Studies as an academic discipline, and the origins of U-M's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:51:06 -0400 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and picture of Stephen Ward
The Clements Bookworm: The papers of William H. Busbey, Civil War Soldier and Newspaper Editor (October 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76966 76966-19782529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Manuscripts Curator Cheney Schopieray hosts a conversation about the story of William H. Busbey and his family with Ted Young, a Busbey descendant, and Linda Zimmermann (Author of “Civil War Memories: The Collected Writings of Sgt. William H. Busbey (1839-1906)”). The Busbey papers (1838-1928, bulk 1848-1903) reside at the Clements Library.

The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:33:49 -0400 2020-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Ask-a-Student: Ibrahim Mahama (October 16, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78306 78306-20006824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with UMMA Student Engagement Council members. They will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work on a drop-in basis. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:01 -0400 2020-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Flint First Day of Action: Literature Drop Campaign (October 17, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78496 78496-20079924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 17, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Event Sponsors: ACLU, UM Flint, Latinx Technology Center

A day of action is a city-wide literature drop campaign to inform Flint residents on their voting rights for the 2020 general election. Organized volunteers will be spread throughout the community to address historic voter suppression and intimidation tactics. Due to Flint’s historically low voter turnout rate, it is important that we are active in encouraging ALL people to exercise their constitutional responsibility and vote.

Saturday, October 17th
10 am to 2 pm

We have four sites volunteers will be assigned to:
Latinx Technology and Community Center ​- *2101 Lewis St. Flint, MI 48506*
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint - *​3701 N Averill Ave, Flint, MI 48506*
Flint Development Center - ​ ​*4121 Martin Luther King Ave, Flint, MI 48505*
Sylvester Broom Empowerment Village - ​*4119 N. Saginaw Flint, MI 48505*

The Flint First Initiative ​was created to extend a strong student leadership presence in the community beyond The University of Michigan-Flint campus. The goal of the Initiative is to register and inform a historically disenfranchised community affected by voter suppression and systemic racism.

For our second phase of the initiative, we are mobilizing 300 volunteers to participate in a door-to-door literature drop campaign to inform residents of their voting rights, on ​Saturday, October 17, 2020.​ The target goal for this day is 21,000 households. There will be guest speakers who are elected officials from local, state and federal governments.

Make sure to register at bit.ly/flintfirst

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Community Service Sat, 17 Oct 2020 01:50:20 -0400 2020-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-17T14:00:00-04:00 Students of Michigan (CSG) Community Service Event flyer - Event occurs on October 17, 2020 and will feature Gary Peters, Dan Kildee, and Sheldon Neeley (whose pictures are included)
Ask-a-Docent: Ibrahim Mahama (October 18, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77997 77997-19951592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 18, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with experienced museum docents, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:15:56 -0400 2020-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Premodern Colloquium. Musical Topics as Pathosformeln: From Monelle and Allanbrook to Aby Warburg and Back Again (October 18, 2020 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76969 76969-19782532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 18, 2020 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate student discussion group, now in its forty-second year of continuous operation. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discus work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles, and dissertation chapters.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:00:11 -0400 2020-10-18T15:45:00-04:00 2020-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual
Race, Gender, and Rights: Histories of the Practice of Democratic Citizenship (October 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77555 77555-19883827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

A panel discussion presented in partnership with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

What does it mean to be a citizen of the United States? The Constitution does not define who gets to be a citizen, or what citizenship means. Rather, citizenship has been defined over time, often through struggle and activism by people who were denied the full rights of citizenship. The Clements Library at the University of Michigan in partnership with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences will host a virtual panel discussion featuring Derrick Spires of Cornell University (author of *The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States*) and Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins University (author of *Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America* and *Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All*). The conversation will be moderated by Ben Vinson III, Provost of Case Western Reserve University.

In anticipation of the discussion, Clements Library Director Paul Erickson highlights recent work by Spires, Jones and AAA&S in this blog post: myumi.ch/2DlAZ

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 16 Oct 2020 14:30:16 -0400 2020-10-19T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Burning the Mortgage of the Phyllis Wheatley Home, Detroit, 1915. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-1887/wcl001978
EIHS Lecture: Medical Science and Legal Personhood: Remaking “Unsoundness” in English Civil Law, 1745-1830 (October 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63595 63595-15808576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

During the early nineteenth century British judges and juries remade the legal condition “unsound of mind.” Understood as the inability to manage one’s affairs, unsoundness of mind created the potential to tangle the legal, the social/economic, and the medical, and foregrounded the place of claims about the mind as a means of rationalizing decisions as to the extent of one’s legal personhood. Using the famous wills case Dew v. Clark and Clark as a jumping off point, this talk will explore some of the ways in which an individual’s legal personhood became, in part, a matter of medical judgment and the law itself became to a certain extent medicalized.

John Carson is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He was born in Philadelphia and received his PhD in history (of science) from Princeton University in 1994. He specializes in history of the human sciences and US intellectual/cultural history. His publications include The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton University Press, 2007) and “‘Every Expression Is Watched’: Mind, Expertise, and Display in the Nineteenth-Century English Courtroom,” Social Studies of Science 48 (2018). John’s current research project explores the development and deployment of the medico-legal category “unsoundness of mind” in Anglo-America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Note: This event was rescheduled from September 10 to October 20.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-qorT0iGdDu-NmL1AbwoQa04n40fZvF

This event is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:48:12 -0400 2020-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion
CHM 19th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities (October 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78729 78729-20113300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce its 19th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.

This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Powel Kazanjian, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Kazanjian is also Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he teaches on the history of epidemics and the history of sexually transmitted diseases. He has written extensively about the history of AIDS, syphilis, commercial botulism, plague, and the development of bacteriology in America.

Dr. Kazanjian will deliver his lecture, “The Persistence of Contagious Diseases.” By the later 20th century, it had become common for public health officials and lay writers to envision a future in which epidemic diseases had been eliminated. The appearance of the new deadly disease that would eventually be known as AIDS in 1981, however, challenged their confident vision. The potent antiretroviral therapies (ART) introduced in 1996 enabled individuals receiving treatment to survive a full lifespan. By 2014, a global UNAIDS campaign sought to “end AIDS as a global health threat” by 2030” by maximizing the distribution of ART to infected people. The UNAIDS campaign is conceptually similar to earlier 20th century programs that sought to end syphilis by expanding specific therapy. The failure of these syphilis campaigns, together with the realization that today’s efforts to end AIDS is falling short of their 2020 milestones, however, raise uncertainties about whether the ongoing UNAIDs campaign will succeed. Socioeconomic and behavioral factors have hindered the biomedical campaigns to eliminate syphilis and AIDS. To be effective, scientific public health campaigns must also address how to rectify the socioeconomic conditions and human behaviors that vex elimination efforts and lead to emerging epidemics like AIDS and Covid-19. Epidemic diseases, along with efforts launched to contain them, have been and continue to be an inescapable part of our existence.

Please join us for this engaging and timely online lecture from one of the nation’s premiere infectious disease experts.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93152555886

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:06:52 -0400 2020-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for the History of Medicine Lecture / Discussion CHM 19th Annual Davenport Lecture
Ask-a-Student: Ibrahim Mahama (October 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78307 78307-20006825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with UMMA Student Engagement Council members. They will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work on a drop-in basis. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:15:53 -0400 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Reimagining Detroit’s Museum and Cultural District (October 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78454 78454-20044427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Drawing on their expertise in cultural programming, museum and urban planning, the webinar’s panelists will share their insights on the Detroit Square design proposal. This project aims to transform the cultural district and create synergy between museums, publics, and urban space in the heart of Detroit.

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B-JxPS7UQaOtOLhkaS8nGw

Friday, October 22 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual panel discussion
Museum Studies Program website: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:02:21 -0400 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Museum Studies Program Livestream / Virtual Detroit Square
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in State Government Panel (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78591 78591-20068100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

Leading Women of Tomorrow at the University of Michigan is hosting the first event in its new Bridging the Gap Series on Thursday, October 22nd from 7-8:30pm!

The first event will be a Women in State Government Panel featuring Michigan State Representatives Christine Greig, Kristy Pagan, and Padma Kuppa. Each representative will introduce themselves followed by an open Q&A.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:20:21 -0500 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in State Gov Panel
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Indies of the Setting Sun: Asia and the Early Modern Spanish Geopolitical Imagination (October 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76307 76307-19685534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; please register in advance at: http://myumi.ch/3qV0m

Ricardo Padrón will be discussing his new book, *The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West *(Chicago, 2020). Against established historiography that emphasizes the ways in which America was “invented” as a continent separate from Asia relatively early in the history of European contact with the New World, Padrón looks at the ways in which early modern Spaniards imagined the two continents as connected spaces. Crucial to this effort was the concept of the “Indies,” which retained a powerful transpacific dimension throughout the sixteenth century, in Spanish-speaking circles at least, serving to figure East and Southeast Asia as the western frontier of Spain’s New World empire.

Padrón is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. His earlier monograph, *The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain* (Chicago 2004) established his reputation as a scholar of early modern cartography, broadly conceived, and on the relationship between visual and verbal mapping. His work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Renaissance Society of America.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:33:52 -0400 2020-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual padron_image
EIHS Symposium: Chaos and Clamor: An Introduction (October 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75586 75586-19542898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Chaos and clamor resist our analytical grasp. They invoke a liminality that can be disruptive of, and also a provocation to, stability and order. Yet their outcomes are seldom predictable. It is precisely as threshold moments that they acquire their historical charge. Chaos and clamor, a public outcry or protestation, brings into focus the challenge of historical change: the often unexpected manner in which seemingly stable political and social orders can be suddenly made, unmade, and re-made. This theme invites us to offer new inflections on long-standing debates about the nature of history itself, the relative weight of individual and collective actions, of discrete events and moments, and of longer-term historical trends. This semester we explore the disorganization that propels history and our approach towards it.

Panelists:

Howard Brick (Louis Evans Chair in US History, University of Michigan)
Katherine French (J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, University of Michigan)
Ellen Muehlberger (Professor of History and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan)
Mrinalini Sinha, chair (Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan)

Note: This event was rescheduled from September 11 to October 23.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vHFO9O5MQgu1gSdTR5IJ_Q

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:57:17 -0400 2020-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium
Penny Stamps Speaker Series & UMMA Present: ​Ibrahim Mahama, In-Between the World and Dreams (October 23, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77116 77116-19798484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This conversation brings together collaborators of the ambitious Institute for the Humanities-led project, In-Between the World and Dreams: Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator UM Institute for the Humanities and Lead Curator; Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator for Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Neil Alan Barclay, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History; and Ibrahim Mahama, internationally known Ghanaian artist and Director of the Savannah Center for the Arts in Tamale, Ghana. 

The project presents public facing installations at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for engagement with the arts are limited. Mahama's work acknowledges the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world, and the labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange. At the same time, the work and overall project speaks to building new worlds out of failed systems, futures out of disappointments, asking the question, What can we do? Mahama addresses this prompt in a statement for the project: “promises of the present can start with ghosts from both the future and past. Ghosts are an embodiment of failed revolutions and unrealized futures, which need to be used as a starting point for new conversations within this century and beyond. Every life form is a gift.” The conversation discusses the critical role art and artists can play in times of crisis, and the significance of public art at a time when we are changing the picture as to who we honor and what we value. 

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supporting the Institute for the Humanities commitment to High Stakes Art. In partnership with Institute for the Humanities, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Charles Wright Museum of African American History, and UMMA. This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:15:51 -0400 2020-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Ask-a-Docent: Ibrahim Mahama (October 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77998 77998-19951593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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UMMA is wrapped! In-Between The World and Dreams presents an outdoor, public installation at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for collective engagement with the arts are limited. As part of the U-M Institute for Humanities led project, IH, UMMA, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History each presents work from artist Ibrahim Mahama, whose use of decommissioned jute sacks as artistic material celebrates the often-invisible labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange and commerce while acknowledging the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world.  

Explore Ibrahim Mahama's outdoor installation with experienced museum docents, who will be standing outside the Frankel Family Wing (weather permitting) to answer questions and provide context for this exciting work. Reminder: Only UM community members (students, staff, and faculty holding an MCard) are allowed inside the museum building during open hours.

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Presentation Sat, 24 Oct 2020 18:15:51 -0400 2020-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (October 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76545 76545-19830116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a talk with Dr. Richard Bell, who will share the incredible story of five boys whose courage forever changed the fight against slavery in America.

Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home.

Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War.

Dr. Richard Bell is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He is the author of the new book *Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home* which is shortlisted for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. He has won more than a dozen teaching awards, including the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for teaching faculty in the Maryland state system. Rick has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Historical Society, as an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

To order a signed copy of STOLEN directly from the author, send an email to rjbell(at)umd.edu with your shipping address. Payment options include Venmo, PayPal, Amazon gift card, cash, or check. Signed copies of STOLEN are $20, including delivery.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:57:03 -0400 2020-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Dr. Richard Bell, Historian
Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78958 78958-20162586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art for the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will bring to life the incredible James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of Chinese ceramics in this talk for the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series. The collection, consisting of bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works, was donated by Plumer's family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art. Plumer (1899 – 1960), who served as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, developed a phenomenal network of scholars, collectors, and artists, and is known for his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares and for his teaching at U-M.  In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US. 

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono (2010), Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century (2010), and Mari Katayama (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 (2013), Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits (2016) and Copies and Invention in East Asia (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

This event is cosponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:50 -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) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-14563721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-20162611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
CREES Noon Lecture. Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76039 76039-19655370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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

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

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

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, 26 Oct 2020 14:48:33 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Mackenzie Pierce
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (October 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78829 78829-20131189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the first class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

The first class will frame the trajectory of our four-week course before moving on to address the impact of the Watts rebellion on state violence. It situates the Watts rebellion as a key turning point that led to increasingly militant Black activism as well as the militarization of police, expanded surveillance, and the promulgation of “copaganda” that built off of growing calls for “law and order” and reinforced and expanded hyper-policing and the criminalization Black urban communities, residents, and politics in the 60s, including in Detroit.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg (Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. His work deals with the intersection of Black labor, urban and social movement history, with a particular focus on Detroit (where he is from). He is currently writing a biography of General Baker and is on the board of the General Baker Institute.)
- Max Felkner-Kantor
- Baba Charles Simmons
- Will McClendon

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:40:08 -0400 2020-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
A "Common Spectacle" of the Race: The Visual Politics of Founding in the Age of Garveyism (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75583 75583-19542895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Addressing a crowded Liberty Hall full of members of the New York Division in the summer of 1920, Marcus Garvey declared, “We are a new people, born out of a new day and new circumstance. We are born out of the bloody war of 1914-1918.” This essay is concerned with the constitution of a new people, attending in particular to the role of images, performance, and practices in the project of political founding. Focusing on the 1920 and 1921 convention, I argue that for the United Negro Improvement Association, political founding was a vehicle through which participants came to understand themselves as constituting the figure of Universal Negro—a figure represented through the convention as a transnational and empowered political subject. Political founding was on this view a process of transforming one’s self-perception, of cognizing oneself as a member of a transnational people politically capable of transforming the prevailing conditions of racial domination.

Professor Getachew will present a short introduction to her pre-circulated paper; this will be followed by brief comments by Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (University of Michigan) and audience questions.

***NOTE: The link to the pre-circulated paper will be supplied in the Zoom registration confirmation email.***

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (PUP, 2019).

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prwS5vb6R2ORRvW9taPevQ

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:17:06 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Adom Getachew
Quantitative Methods in my Work (at U-M!) (October 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78831 78831-20131190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

This session will be facilitated by U-M LSA/QMSS students, Sarah Childs and Jack Lee

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:39:00 -0400 2020-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Lecture / Discussion Session 2 flyer
Virtual ​Art & Activism: Printing Totes & Posters for a Cause (October 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78627 78627-20077942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Please click here to register.

As we all look ahead to the November election, and think about the role artists play in activism, we want to get our creative juices flowing and print our own favorite slogan!

Timnet Gedar, PhD student in History, will share some background on the work of Botswana born artist Meleko Mokgosi, whose installation Pan African Pulp, is currently on view at UMMA and includes posters from Pan-African movements founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s as well as a few designed by Mokgosi.

Then Michigan-based artist Shayla Johnson will show you how to create a unique poster (or tote bag) featuring your own personal slogan and design. Shayla Johnson is founder and designer of Scarlet Crane Creations, a dedicated micro-batch textile printing house specializing in hand-printed fabrics for home decor products and lifestyle accessories. Unique surface patterns range from free flowing florals to abstract textures in order to produce stylish and sophisticated collections. Scarlet Crane Creations is housed at POST so you’ll have the opportunity to see Shayla’s work space, printing table, and work in process. Shayla also works for UMMA as a Museum Applications Developer.

This event is part of a collaboration between UMMA, the African Graduate Student Association, the African Student Association, and the African Business Council. All are welcome if there is space, but we will prioritize student participants as supplies are limited.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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, 30 Oct 2020 00:15:45 -0400 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Books and Press under Different Regimes of Power: The Philippines between 1850 and 1950 (October 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78740 78740-20115264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join us for these four talks about book history in the Philippines, organized by the University of Michigan and Universidad Complutense de Madrid:

“Under Three Flags, 1896-1946: A Brief History of Philippine Book History,” Vernon R. Totanes, Ateneo de Manila University
"Contested Readings of US Empire in the Philippines," Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Alabama
"Culture and Science in Philippine Journalism, 1850-1900," Jorge Mojarro, University of Santo Tomas, Manila
"The Printing of Spanish language Literature in the Philippines and its Digital Preservation Today," Rocío Ortuño Casanova, University of Antwerp
Chair: Marlon James Sales, University of Michigan

Registration is limited to 100. After we receive your registration we'll be in touch to share the Zoom details. Register here: http://myumi.ch/4p9DX

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:06:08 -0400 2020-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion The Bridge of Spain, over the Pasig River in the Philippines, 1900/1902 (U-M Library digital collection)
EIHS Workshop: Categorical Imperatives: The Stakes of Scholarly Units of Analysis (October 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75588 75588-19542900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How do scholars determine the appropriate units of analysis for studying the past? What is at stake in the choice of a city, a province, a nation, a region, an empire, or even the world? This panel explores what is gained or lost when grouping people into naturalized territorial categories, as well as the agency of historical actors in rejecting or reconstituting these categories. Panelists will reflect on tensions between the boundedness of pre-given units of analysis and the freedom of historical actors to deploy, contest, or radically re-imagine the dominant ordering of their worlds from a diverse set of geographic and temporal perspectives: museums in late imperial Russia, gender and power in the Yuan court, interwar population exchanges in the Balkans, and multiculturalism and policing in 1980s Los Angeles.

Featuring:
Albert Cavallaro, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
Andrea Valedón-Trapote, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
David Helps, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
Lediona Shahollari, Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan 
Michael Witgen (chair), Professor, American Culture & History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0GQ6_D41Tp-OF6h451pYIw

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Oct 2020 06:58:57 -0400 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
Iconic Images: Charlottesville 2017, Selma 1965, Birmingham 1963 (October 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78741 78741-20115265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

REGISTRATION REQUIRED - SEE LINK BELOW

The Martin Luther King-led Birmingham and Selma campaigns resulted in iconic photographic images that to this day signify “the civil rights movement”: typically those images feature empowered, active whites and victimized, powerless blacks. The events of August 11th and 12th during Charlottesville’s “Summer of Hate” have also produced a group of iconic images that the mass media relies on to signify the violent and emboldened racist hatred of the “Unite the Right” rally and its aftermath. In analyzing and comparing the most frequently circulated photographs, I want to suggest a similarity in the narrative that these frequently circulated photos tend to tell about the struggle for racial justice. A photo of the terrorist car attack that killed Heather Heyer won the Pulitzer Prize. Why? What is this horrifically chaotic, violent, almost visually incomprehensible photo communicating? Why is this image reproduced over and over again? How is it thematically and visually similar to iconic images from the civil rights era? How and why does it matter that our photographic record encourages us to remember key events around race and white supremacy in particular ways?

Aniko Bodroghkozy is a Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where she has been on faculty since 2001. She is a media historian with a particular focus on American television, the social change movements of the 1960s, media audiences and reception practices in historical context, and the development of television journalism in the 1960s.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:20:36 -0400 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Film, Television, and Media Livestream / Virtual event poster
Great Riddles in Archeology (November 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75860 75860-19615926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

From the knights of King Arthur's roundtable to the deepest depths of Atlantis, some of the world's greatest archaeological riddles have eluded us for centuries. Discover and explore these mind-boggling riddles in the Penn Museum's popular monthly lecture series presented by current archaeologists and scholars.
We will be viewing and discussing three of these lectures: (1) Otzi the Iceman, a frozen body discovered in the South Tyrolean Alps, (2) discovering the true story of Noah's Ark, and (3) Atlantis, the Lost Continent. The facilitator for these lectures will be Sydney Kaufman.
The Study Group meets on Tuesdays Nov. 3 to Nov. 17 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.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 14:48:03 -0400 2020-11-03T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Zoom Webinar: "The City in the Present Tense: Writing the Urban Landscape in Eleventh-Century China" (November 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76229 76229-19677560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Fall 2020 lecture series will be only available on-line as a Zoom webinar. Registration link below.

During the eleventh century, literati tried for the first time to capture the living urban landscape in writing. As a new literary subject, the urban streetscape afforded scope for original effects, but literati also wrote the city for ideological reasons. On the written page, they could set themselves apart—as individuals in the anonymous crowd, as connoisseurs among spendthrift nobles—as they could not in the streets and markets of the dense metropolis, and they could conform the confusing movement of people, goods, and money to a moral economy of perfect circulation and equitable distribution, as they could not in practical administration.

Christian de Pee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries" (2007) and co-editor of "Senses of the City: Perceptions of Hangzhou and the Southern Song, 1127-1279" (2017). He is currently writing a history of eleventh-century China for a general audience, "The Chinese Renaissance: How the Song Dynasty Changed China and the World in the Eleventh Century."

Zoom webinar registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qxUG36ZlQwiehkKBTK0Rtw

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 02 Nov 2020 09:50:35 -0500 2020-11-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Christian de Pee, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 2 (November 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77843 77843-19933641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How Milk Became "Ethnic" in China: Koumiss Rituals of the Qing and Its Contemporary Legacies

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:51:42 -0400 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Koumiss-fermented mare's milk
CAS Webinar | Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in Armenia’s Soviet Factories (November 4, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76664 76664-19735024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here:
http://myumi.ch/MERKz
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

The factory ruins that litter Armenia’s urban outskirts constitute a colossal agglomeration of what Ann Stoler calls “imperial debris”. In the wake of the Soviet collapse, they are remnants of a process of aggressive industrialization that thrust Armenia headlong into the age of high modernity. Like other modern ruins, from a distance, these industrial carcasses stand as poignant allegories of failed utopian projects, both socialist and capitalist. But up close, they are sites of improbable livelihood practices that defy familiar critique. Based on archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in decommissioned Soviet factories across Armenia, this research examines deviant projects at the margins of global capitalism to retain industrial lifeways and make a living under conditions of ruination. ‘Trials of ruination’ refers to the struggle to unlock or forgo the salvage value of Soviet machines and factories undergoing slow, irreversible decay. These trials enlist people into acts of constant improvisation. A ‘life extempore’ is one in which the primary tactic for capturing or forestalling salvage value is perpetual extemporization, doing things one never planned or was trained to do. This talk focuses on the improvisational practices of two extemporists in the cities of Yerevan and Yeghegnadzor, and their efforts to revalue the anachronistic but persistent material world of Soviet industry, a massive accumulation of displaced socialist things out of proper time.

Lori Khatchadourian is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Her research centers on the relationship between imperialism and the vast world of material things. As both an archaeologist of Armenia and the Near East, as well as a scholar of the Soviet and post-Soviet Caucasus, Dr. Khatchadourian pursues this concern with the materiality of empire across temporal and disciplinary boundaries—ancient and modern, archaeological and ethnographic. She is the author of “Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires” (UC Press, 2016). Her current book project centers on the ruins of modernity in Armenia. Dr. Khatchadourian is co-director of Project ArAGATS and directs the Afterlife of Socialist Modernity project.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:47:22 -0400 2020-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Lori Khatchadourian, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 4, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78832 78832-20131196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the second class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

This class addresses grassroots efforts to organize against police crimes and abuses during the 1970s. In particular, we will examine Detroit’s anti-STRESS movement, the rise of “community policing” during the Young and Bradley administrations in Detroit and L.A., and the relationship between the violence of deindustrialization, austerity, and globalization, community policing, and the rise of the carceral state.

(Speakers TBA - please check our website for further information)

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:46:20 -0400 2020-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
RESCHEDULED: The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Tommy Orange (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72820 72820-20058231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Department of Native American Studies presents The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: A Conversation with Tommy Orange, award-winning, New York Times Best-selling novelist.

The Berkhofer Lecture is scheduled for Friday, November 6th, 2020, at 7:00 pm on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97486211859

Tommy Orange is the author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, a multigenerational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever explored – the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best books of the year and won the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemingway Award. There There was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland California.

The Berkhofer Lecture series (named for a former U-M professor and founder of the field of Native American studies) was established in 2014 by an alumni gift from the Dan and Carmen Brenner family of Seattle, Washington. In close consultation with the Brenners, Native American Studies decided to create a public lecture series featuring prominent, marquee speakers who would draw audiences from different communities (faculty and students, Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Michigan tribal communities as well as writers and readers of all persuasions). Native American students at U-M have consistently expressed their desire to make Native Americans more visible both on campus and off, and we believe that this lecture takes a meaningful step in that direction. Additionally, because of the statewide publicity it generates, we think it is already becoming another recruitment incentive for Native American students. It goes without saying that the speakers we are inviting provide tremendous value to the mission and work of Native American Studies at U-M.

For more information on this speaker please visit www.prhspeakers.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:28:33 -0400 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tommy Orange
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Photographs (November 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76976 76976-19782538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Since the nation’s founding, Americans have used images to define political power and gender roles. Popular pictures praised male political leaders, while cartoons mocked women who sought rights. In the mid-nineteenth century, women’s rights activists like Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony challenged these powerful norms by distributing engraved and photographic portraits that represented women as political leaders. Over time, suffragists developed a national visual campaign to win voting rights. Their photographs captured their public protests and demonstrated their dedication to their cause for mass audiences. Allison Lange’s talk is based on her book, "Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement," published in May 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. The book focuses on the ways that women’s rights activists and their opponents used images to define gender and power during the suffrage movement.

Presented in partnership with the Michigan Photographic Historical Society.

Allison K. Lange is an assistant professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in history from Brandeis University. Various institutions have supported her work, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Library of Congress, and American Antiquarian Society. Her writing has appeared in Imprint, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. Lange also engages in public history. She has worked with the National Women’s History Museum and curated exhibitions for the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center. In preparation for the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, she is curator of exhibitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society and Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:40:40 -0400 2020-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Suffrage Paraders"
MES Webinar Series: Public Scholarship in Middle East Studies (November 9, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78686 78686-20105420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Please register for the Zoom webinar here: http://myumi.ch/ZQNem

We know how important public scholarship is in our fields of study. What's the best way to manage our public profile? What platforms and outlets reach the widest and most curious audience? How do we invite engagement - and manage the trolls? Join us for a conversation with Christiane Gruber (Art History), Ellen Muehlberger (Middle East Studies & History), and Shachar Pinsker (Middle East Studies & Judaic Studies). Moderator: Karla Mallette (MES).

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:13:39 -0400 2020-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Public Scholarship in Middle East Studies
Veterans Week: War Dogs (November 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78626 78626-20075981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The “War Dogs” panel will discuss the historic use of dogs in the military, the selection and training of current and future K-9’s for military and law enforcement work, and the invaluable service that K-9’s provide to veterans and people with visible and invisible disabilities. We will discuss the benefits of therapy dogs to raise awareness of unconditional love and comfort that these animals provide, for however short a time, to individuals in hospitals, nursing homes, and schools. Finally, we will discuss the history of the Michigan War Dog Memorial and the services it provides to honor these wonderful dogs in a special location in South Lyon.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:05 -0400 2020-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion War Dog Memorial - Michigan
Art History II: Archaic Greek through Early Christian Art (November 10, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75798 75798-19608013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The second in a sequence of three art history courses, this study group begins with Archaic Greece and the influence of the Trojan War on vase painting and Egyptian art on statuary of this period. Archaic artists created ways to tell stories on vases and relief sculptures. Even though Classical Greece is much better known to the general public, we will talk about how Greek art found its way to the West.
Lastly, we will look at early Christian architecture, paintings, and mosaics. I taught the introductory art history courses at Kent State University for eleven years, and I look forward to discussions with participants in this study group. Molly Lindner brings to this subject her 11 years of teaching art history at Kent State Univ.
The Study Group meets on Tuesdays Nov. 10 to Dec. 15 from 2:30 to 4:00 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 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:50:25 -0400 2020-11-10T14:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
Veterans Week: The Finest Hours: The Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue & Leadership Lessons' Learned/ (November 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78628 78628-20077956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

New York Times bestselling author Michael Tougias will give a lecture and slide presentation on his book The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue. This book was made into a major motion film by the Disney Corporation that was released in 2016 and details the Coast Guard's response to two oil tankers that were split in half by a ferocious nor'easter off the coast of Cape Cod, MA in 1952. Of the 84 seaman aboard the tankers, 70 would be rescued and 14 would perish. Tougias will also share the leadership lessons from this event that can help all of us in our decision-making and job performance. He will provide time for Questions and Answers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:01:08 -0400 2020-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Bernie, Richard and Andy - Coastguardsmen involved in the heroic rescue
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78833 78833-20131197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the third class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

This session discusses the War on Drugs, federally funded gang initiatives, and the expansion of the prison-industrial complex. We will explore the cost of the War on Drugs, grassroots efforts against violence in Black communities, and the relationship between police escalation, anti-Blackness, and drug criminalization and the Los Angeles rebellion and the DPD’s murder of Malice Green in 1993.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg
- Yusef Shakur
- Additional speakers TBA

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:50:05 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
Course Backpacking for Winter 2021 (November 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79238 79238-20233432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Interested in K-Pop, Postwar Japan, or the Lotus Sutra? Come to SASS’s course backpacking session to learn more about the opportunities that the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) offers!
If you have any questions about the process of backpacking or registration, or simply interested in learning about the fun courses offered by the ALC department, this is the event for you! Asian Studies students will be there to share their past experiences with various culture and languages classes as well as offer advice about course selection. It will be a good opportunity to connect with others in your major/minor and make new friends :)
This event will take place during our general meeting time, from 7-8PM on Wednesday,
November 11th. We look forward to meeting you then!

Zoom Meeting ID: 977 6496 8069
Zoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97764968069

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:45:48 -0500 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Orange Background with Black text - information on time and meeting description
Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945: Virtual Launching of *Radical History Review 138 * (November 12, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76899 76899-19774598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: http://myumi.ch/v2Z2Q

The *Radical History Review* Issue 138, “Fascism and Anti-fascism Since 1945” is currently open access (until January 2021) and available to read on the Duke University Press website. (https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2020/138)

Presenters: Co-editors Jessica Namakkal (Duke), Mark Bray (Rutgers), Eric Roubinek (UNC Asheville) and Giulia Riccò (University of Michigan)

Respondents: Federico Finchelstein (The New School); Victoria de Grazia (Columbia University)

Contributors to this special issue of *Radical History Review* study histories of fascism and antifascism after 1945 to show how fascist ideology continues to circulate and be opposed transnationally despite its supposed death at the end of World War II.

The essays cover the use of fascism in the 1970s construction of the Latinx Left, the connection between antifascism and anti-imperialism in 1960s Italian Communist internationalism, post-dictatorship Argentina and the transhistorical alliance between Las Madres and travestí activism, cultures of antifascism in contemporary Japan, and the British radical right's attempted alliance with Qathafi's Libya. The issue also includes a discussion about teaching fascism through fiction in the age of Trump, a reflection on the practices of archiving and displaying antifascist objects to various publics, and reviews of recent works on antifascism, punk music, and the Rock Against Racism movement. Please RSVP for the Zoom link and password (RSVP link can be found below). This event is sponsored by the Democracy and Debate Theme Semester.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:25:45 -0500 2020-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Livestream / Virtual Fascism and Anti-fascism since 1945
Reflections on Learning to Improve: Foundational Ideas, Observations from Practice, and Building a Field (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78908 78908-20152763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

While the LHS Collaboratory is typically focused on learning health, learning systems actually have very broad applicability. Moreover, there has been a strong interest in the Collaboratory from the education community which is also focused on learning systems.

A thought leader in this area, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be speaking about a set of critical observations acquired in the course of his own efforts to improve how large complex educational systems work.

Discussants:

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Dean,
George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education,
and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor School of Education
Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research; Latino/a
Studies; and the Joint Program in English & Education
University of Michigan

Caren M. Stalburg, MD, MA
Collaborative Lead for Education
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director of HILS Online Masters
University of Michigan

Moderator:

Donald J. Peurach, PhD
Professor
University of Michigan School of Education
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:41:04 -0400 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
The Persistence of Contagious Diseases: The Davenport Lecture in Medical Humanities (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79267 79267-20262816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

Epidemic diseases, and efforts to contain them, have been and continue to be an inescapable part of human existence. Dr. Powel Kazanjian, chief of infectious diseases at Michigan Medicine and a professor of history and public health, will trace these efforts, including similarities between efforts to contain syphilis in the early 20th Century and HIV/AIDS in the latter part of the century, as well as COVID-19 in 2020.

He'll also explore why scientific public health campaigns must also address how to rectify the socioeconomic conditions and human behaviors that vex elimination efforts and lead to emerging epidemics.

The lecture is the 19th annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities, presented by the U-M Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine.

Full details and a Zoom link to watch the lecture are at https://chm.med.umich.edu/chms-19th-annual-davenport-lecture-nov-12-2020/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:54:33 -0500 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Medicine Lecture / Discussion Persistence of Contagious Diseases
Lecture: Translating the Chaos: The Ancient History of Hate Symbols (November 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75584 75584-19542896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This lecture addresses the ancient origins of various symbols––the cross, the swastika, torches, and the Roman fasces––used today in order to communicate messages of marginalization, hate, legitimacy. The use and abuse of these hate symbols by white supremacist groups has been catalogued by groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, but can better understanding the history behind these symbols help us to render them impotent?

Lecture followed by questions moderated by Professor Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan). 

This event is eligible for RCRS credit for History PhD students.

Sarah E. Bond is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is an ancient historian who has written for the New York Times, Forbes, and online arts journal Hyperallergic. She is the author of numerous articles on Roman law and the economy, in addition to her work as a blogger and public historian. Her book, Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2016.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ihjdPGHTnKqiLojb6lvTg

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:27:59 -0500 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Sarah Bond
Anti-Fascism at U-M: Defending Democracy During the Spanish Civil War (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78688 78688-20105423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this Making Michigan conversation with U-M Professor Juli Highfill, who will discuss the context and impact of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism on the U-M student body. You will gain an understanding of the large mobilization of students and faculty during this time (with examples of events organized by the Progressive Club and efforts by the Medical Aid Committee to send supplies to Spain). And you’ll learn about four students who volunteered and fought in Spain with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the controversy on campus after the capture and presumed execution of Ralph Neafus, one of the volunteers. The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:21:41 -0400 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Poster for event with picture of Professor Juli Highfill
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in Political Campaigns Panel (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79322 79322-20272780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

We are hosting the second event in our Bridging the Gap Series this Thursday, November 12th from 7-8:30pm!

The second event will be a Women in Political Campaigns Panel featuring Laura Marsh, Michigan Fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Kellie Lounds, Political Director for Debbie Dingell; and Carina Teoh, Multimedia Content Producer for Representative Elissa Slotkin and former Senior Videographer/Photographer on Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:22:46 -0500 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in Political Campaigns Panel
EIHS Workshop: Memorializing History: Monuments, Myths, and Symbols (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75589 75589-19542901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What roles do monuments, myths, and symbols play in generating historical memory? How might monuments or symbols be reviewed, recast, reimagined, or transformed? In a series of flash talks covering expansive historical and contemporary terrain, our graduate student panelists explore material memorialization and countermonumental practice, the historical and political legacies of endowed institutions, Ptolemaic coins and political legitimacy, and the myths and realities of eulogized pasts. Please join a moderated roundtable discussion following panelist presentations moderated by Ian Moyer (University of Michigan).

Panelists:
Leila Braun, Graduate Student, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan 
Golriz Farshi, Graduate Student, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan 
Allen Kendall, Graduate Student, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan 
Emily Na, Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan
Julianna Loera Wiggins, Graduate Student, American Culture, University of Michigan  
Ian Moyer (chair), Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcO6urTorHNXGK6xgC0D-goeabuYI81RC

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:08:49 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
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
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
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 3 (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77841 77841-19933639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Chinese Renaissance: Problems of Form and Style in Writing a Trade Book about Eleventh-Century China

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:15:45 -0400 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion 11th c painting of 4th c scholars collating texts
CAS Webinar | The Lebanonization of Armenians (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78270 78270-20002853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: http://myumi.ch/51Gxd

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

This talk tells a post-genocide history of power. Dr. Nalbantian discusses how an absence of a national homeland accepted by all Armenians did not translate into a lack of political life. Focusing on the Armenian Diaspora of Lebanon, Dr. Nalbantian shows how by the 1950s, Armenians were firmly part of and ensconced in Lebanese politics. Armenians’ (re)-positioning vis-à-vis Lebanon’s imminent post-colonial independence in the mid-1940s included a fair share of double-entendres, tensions, and contrasts. Lebanese Armenians were divided along the right-left fault lines that divided Lebanese politics and society in general – they, Nalbantian argues, were Lebanonized. At the same time, the Lebanese state was somehow Armenianized, as it started to pay more attention to Armenian matters than before. For example, the state directly intervened with military force in Armenian neighborhoods to end the internecine Armenian confrontation in December 1958. Armenian parties participated in and contributed to the considerable political tensions in Lebanon, simultaneously, they used their position within the Lebanese political system to jostle for power within the Armenian community. Dr. Nalbantian’s talk aims to register Lebanon as a space of both Armenian fashioning and belonging and challenge the tendency to read Middle East history through the lens of dominant (Arab) nationalisms and Lebanon through sectarianism.

Tsolin Nalbantian is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History at Leiden University working on the social and cultural history of the Middle East. She is the co-editor of Critical, Connected Histories series (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies, and History Compass. Nalbantian is the author of "Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon" Their Own (Edinburgh University Press; 2019).

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Oct 2020 10:27:03 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Tsolin Nalbantian, Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History, Leiden University
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
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
Detroiters Speak Fall 2020: Policing Black Power - From Watts to Detroit (November 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78834 78834-20131198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Note: This is the last class in a 4-part series. For more information on the series, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/wattstodetroit

The last session will recap the previous three courses before expanding our definition of state violence and violence beyond formal “policing.” Using local examples, our speakers will address how the elite elide democracy as a means to profit off of Black people while punitively blaming them for conditions externally imposed upon them. These containment and policing schemes endanger Black lives and futures, and force the poorest urban residents to subsidize the cost of welfare capitalism and gentrification.

SPEAKERS:

- Facilitator: David Goldberg
- Claire McClinton (Squeeky)
- Additional speakers TBA

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:54:36 -0400 2020-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Black background with yellow text box gives details of series titles. Three images of uprisings appear in circles.
The History and Future of Black Studies and BLM: DAAS at 50 (November 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79360 79360-20282623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join local and university community panelists PG Watkins, Omolade Adunbi, Eshe Shirley and Stephen Ward in a discussion about Black Studies and its connection to BLM as the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies commemorates its 50th anniversary and looks to what lies ahead.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:37:04 -0500 2020-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 19, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
The Magnificent Library of Abby E. Pope (November 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75861 75861-19615927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Beginning as a young single woman in Chicago in the 1880s, Abby Ellen Pope rose from obscurity to build a book collection of surpassing rarity, including treasures now housed in some of the greatest libraries in the world. She was on track to become one of the great book collectors of her generation. Yet despite her stunning successes, few traces of her extraordinary life remain.
Her books are dispersed, house and library demolished, papers gone, and even her portrait has vanished. This talk explores her life and reconstructs her collection to provide a glimpse into a lost library.
Instructor Emiko Hastings is Curator of Books and Digital Projects Librarian at the Clements Library. The Study Group meets on Thursday November 19 from 1:00 to 2:30 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 14:53:23 -0400 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professorship in History and Judaic Studies, Inaugural Lecture (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75456 75456-19495326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

As the tsarist empire collapsed in 1917, liberal intellectuals and political leaders in the newly-independent states of Poland and Ukraine offered new models for integrating ethnic and religious minorities into the nation-state. But they were confronted instead with another brutal reality, as some one hundred thousand Jews were murdered in a wave of violence and pogroms, followed twenty years later by the Holocaust and the murder of millions more. Yet, these ideas of interethnic existence were revived decades later by immigrants from that region, who sought to build new multicultural societies on American shores. This talk asks what these violent origins of multiculturalism can offer us today.

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Nov 19, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professorship in History and Judaic Studies, Inaugural Lecture, November 19, 2020

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.us/u/aRh3APQHL

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:00:19 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Image
MAS Lecture | Pioneer Farmers of Pleasant Valley (November 19, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79496 79496-20343465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Warners arrived in Michigan in 1837 as pioneers from Livingston County, New York. The site dates to 1841 with the purchase of an 80-acre parcel by Timothy Warner. Members of the family were involved in a variety of capacities within the community such as assisting in naming and organizing the township, holding government positions, operating a gristmill, and serving in school and church activities. The farm expanded to nearly 500 acres by the 1870s and parts remain in the family to this day.

Sixth generation descendant Tim Bennett will discuss the results of thirteen seasons of archaeological excavation along with supporting genealogical and historical research. The nearly 180-year-old sesquicentennial farm is a Michigan State Historic Site and the extant 1855 Greek Revival home is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96831330054

Call-in number if link not working
+1-301-715-8592 w/ passcode 96831330054#

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:04:58 -0500 2020-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Warner House
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
The Clements Bookworm: Writing and Publishing Inspired by Genealogical Research (November 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78707 78707-20107398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode, panelists will share their journey to understand, document and publish family stories. Featuring Wendy Chapin Ford (author of "A Frontier Romance: 'Tiger Bill and Kate'”); Sarah Messer (author of “Red House: Being a mostly accurate account of New England’s oldest continuously lived-in House”) and Clements Library volunteer Kay Miller (discussing how she uses genealogy to research letters, journals and diaries in the Clements manuscript collections).

Episode generously sponsored by Kate Moore.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:13:23 -0500 2020-11-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future Conference (November 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79433 79433-20325784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power: Past, Present, and Future (GWSPP) conference is a multi-day virtual meeting that brings together academics and activists to explore the critical history of women’s suffrage and political power, and the future possibilities for expanding gender equity in political participation and representation in the United States and across the globe. This conference intends to have a particular focus on womxn of color and will conceptualize suffrage broadly as encompassing civic participation and political power within and outside of electoral politics, and will include a critical perspective on the role of white supremacy in the suffrage movement. There will also be a portion of the conference dedicated to women’s power in higher education, with a view to drawing links between the exclusion of diverse women’s voices in the academy, and women’s broader political power.

Registration is free and open to the public.

Schedule At-A-Glance
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
12:00PM - 1:00PM Keynote with President Elizabeth Bradley of Vassar College
4:30PM - 5:00PM Keynote with Erin Vilardi, Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead
5:00PM - 6:00PM Featured Workshop: Vote Run Lead’s 90-Day Challenge

Thursday, November 19, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: The Politics of Women’s Power
10:45AM - 12:15PM Discussion: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Transnational Feminisms, Women, & Conflict
3:00PM - 4:15PM Book Talk: Jewish Women and Power
4:30PM - 6:00PM Panel: Women’s Suffrage & Political Participation: Historical Examinations
6:15PM - 6:30PM Keynote with Governor Gretchen Whitmer of the State of Michigan

Friday, November 20, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Discussion: Women Empowering Women
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Sexual Politics
1:00PM - 2:30PM Panel: Jewish Women, Citizenship, Suffrage, and Sexuality
2:45PM - 4:15PM Panel: Asian Immigrant, Asian American Women, and the TransPacific Afterlives of World War II
4:30PM - 6:00PM Roundtable: Ways to Lead a Political Life
6:15PM - 7:30PM Cocktails & Networking Discussions

Saturday, November 21, 2020
9:00AM - 10:30AM Panel: Political Organizing & Activism
10:45AM - 12:15PM Panel: Future Directions of Work & Radicalism
1:00PM - 2:30PM Discussion: Womxn of Color Identity: Implications for Solidarity

All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Hosted by:
Michigan State University's Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)
Michigan State University's Department of History
University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)

Sponsors:
The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel James Madison College at Michigan State University
Michigan State University College of Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan University of Michigan's History Department
Michigan State University Asian Studies Center
Michigan State University African Studies Center
Michigan State University Muslim Studies Center
Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Michigan Women's Commission
Vote Run Lead
Michigan Women Forward

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:36:44 -0500 2020-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Livestream / Virtual purple and yellow graphic of woman with fist in the air, conference title and dates
Bioethics Discussion: The Coming Administration (November 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58832 58832-14563724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our (new?) government.

A few readings to consider:
––Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
––Affording Obamacare
––Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
––The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/051-the-coming-administration/.

Please also swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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[OUR FIRST PLANNED REMOTE DISCUSSION]
While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:13:08 -0400 2020-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Coming Administration
Bioethics Discussion: The Coming Administration (November 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58832 58832-20382972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our (new?) government.

A few readings to consider:
––Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
––Affording Obamacare
––Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
––The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/051-the-coming-administration/.

Please also swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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[OUR FIRST PLANNED REMOTE DISCUSSION]
While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:13:08 -0400 2020-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Coming Administration
A Little Math History Two (December 1, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75519 75519-19515163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In this course we continue to investigate the 5,000 year history of mathematics, learning about the lives of some great mathematicians and their discoveries. We will study the contexts of these discoveries and recognize how they developed from the cultural, economic, and religious needs of their time. For example, mathematical thought often flourished at times when societies had enough wealth to support intellectual discoveries, or in times of war or great upheaval.
This course, requires no advanced knowledge of mathematics and is not dependent on the first course in this series. Instructor Joan Cohen Jones is a retired mathematics professor who has taught a number of OLLI courses.

This study group will be held on Tuesdays from December 1 through 8.
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 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:11:11 -0400 2020-12-01T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
German Angst (December 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75585 75585-19542897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In his latest book, German Angst: Fear and Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany, Professor Frank Biess (University of California-San Diego) analyses the relationship between fear and democracy in postwar West Germany.  In this event, Professor Biess will present opening remarks on the book and the ambivalent role of the emotions of fear and anxiety in a democratizing society. Response from Professor Geoff Eley (University of Michigan) followed by audience questions.

Frank Biess is Professor of History at the University of California-San Diego. He is the author of German Angst. Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany (Oxford, 2020). A German version of the book Die Republik der Angst. Eine andere Geschichte der Bundesrepublik was published in 2019. His main research has focused on the post-1945 period with an emphasis on memory, emotions, gender, and political cultures. His new project explores the interwar Weimar Republic as a one of the first postcolonial states.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DoysfKsqQzCysvRWTmBOJw

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:07:05 -0500 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Frank Biess
EIHS Workshop: Affect and the Archive: Writing the History of Emotions In Emotional Times (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75590 75590-19542902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In the past year, the day-to-day conduct of historical research and teaching has changed substantially, creating new forms of engagement with archival material, as well as novel "structures of feeling" and mood that shape the narratives historians produce both on the page and in the (now virtual) classroom. These developments have prompted a number of pressing questions about affect and the archive, emotionality and history: How does one historicize affect? What are the emotional consequences of historical work, both for historians and for those affected by their research and teaching? How does one approach a "difficult" or "traumatic" archive, and what makes an archive "difficult" or "traumatic" in the first place? This roundtable will discuss these questions and more from a self-reflexive perspective, exploring affect not only as a subject of historical inquiry and a methodological approach, but also as an integral component of the experience of being a historian in emotional times.

Panelists:
•Colin Garon, PhD Student, Anthropology and History, University of Michigan
•Matthew Hershey, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
•Tara Weinberg, PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan
•Deirdre de la Cruz (chair), Associate Professor; History, Asian Languages and Cultures; University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register here in advance: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fnV7XugkTKK8krUXt5APqg

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:04:12 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar
The Archaeology of the Japanese Diaspora in the United States (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79491 79491-20341507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This talk examines the emerging field of the archaeology of the Japanese diaspora in the United States. The first part of this talk examines archaeological work conducted on World War II incarceration sites associated with Japanese Americans, including the presenter’s archaeological research at Idaho’s Kooskia Internment Camp. The second part of the talk considers the directions that interdisciplinary and extra-site archaeological research on the Japanese diaspora in the United States can take in the coming years, including efforts to digitize and disseminate data from sites associated with the Japanese diaspora.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:31:15 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Camp 12.4.2020
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
MES Webinar Series: Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Middle East Studies (December 7, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79589 79589-20428438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Please register for the Zoom webinar here: http://myumi.ch/Gkz7M

Given the urgency of our times to promote social justice, Jay Crisostomo (MES, UM), Kristina Richardson (History, CUNY), and Bryan Roby (Judaic Studies, UM) will reflect on their experience of systemic racism, sexism, and homophobia in Middle East Studies. Much critique has been voiced by Ethnic Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies programs about structural inequalities in the academy, yet we have remained silent about the peculiar forms of discrimination that inhabit ME Studies. How can we raise awareness and practice social justice in our teaching, research, and professional activities? Join us for a conversation on intolerance in the field of Middle East Studies.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:27:05 -0500 2020-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 2020-12-07T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual MES Webinar Series: Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Middle East Studies
Residential College Social Theory & Practice Senior Thesis Presentations (December 8, 2020 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79590 79590-20428439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 4:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

You're invited to join our senior Social Theory & Practice (STP) majors as they present their thesis research on topics ranging from sustainable food in MDining to dialectical steps toward non-capitalism, Tuesday December 8 from 4:10 - 5:30pm at https://umich.zoom.us/j/97960464467.

The Residential College STP major supports students in developing the analytical and practical skills necessary for active engagement in the world and for building careers that promote equality and responsible citizenship. Students learn theories, methods, and strategies that enable them to understand and critique social structures and processes, and choose a focus of study that can encompass sociology, political science, history, anthropology, economics, education, environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, geography, and psychology to approach current issues in U.S. society and the global environment. Like our students, no two STP major plans are alike.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:04:00 -0500 2020-12-08T16:10:00-05:00 2020-12-08T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Presentation Photos of all presenters and their topics
Bioethics Discussion: Annihilation (December 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58833 58833-14563725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our obliteration.

[Video-conference link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94651294615]

A few readings to consider before oblivion:
–– Bioethics and the Metaphysics of Death
––The Ontological Representation of Death: A Scale to Measure the Idea of Annihilation Versus Passage
––The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective
––Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President’s Council on Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/052-annihilation/.

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When the server hosting this blog is turned off, where does the website go: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:52 -0500 2020-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Annihilation
The Treasonous Correspondence of Benedict Arnold (December 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78708 78708-20107416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for an online presentation with Curator of Manuscripts Cheney J. Schopieray as he discusses one of the William L. Clements Library’s greatest treasures, the treasonous correspondence of Revolutionary War hero and turncoat Benedict Arnold. This discussion will explore the details of Arnold’s treason, the contents and methods of his clandestine correspondence, and his effectiveness as an informant.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:04:52 -0400 2020-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-12-09T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Detail from “Colonel Arnold, who commanded the provincial troops sent against Quebec…” (1776)
Negotiating Offense of Rhodesian Proportion (December 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79755 79755-20484061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

The essay on which this talk is based explores the multiple positions of offense across
racial and artistic lines in Cape Town's Rhodes Must Fall Campaign of 2015, raising questions about how offense might best be negotiated.

Email rachelsu@umich.edu for Zoom link info.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:06:20 -0500 2020-12-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-14T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual Negotiating Offense of Rhodesian Proportion
The Clements Bookworm: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists (December 18, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78709 78709-20107418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a virtual conversation with Martha Kennedy, author of *Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists* (2018), winner of the 2019 Eisner Award for the Best Comics-Related Book. She is curator of popular and applied graphic art in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.

Kennedy will be in conversation with Phoebe Gloeckner, Associate Professor in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design.

This episode was generously sponsored by Robert and Jean Julier.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:15:02 -0500 2020-12-18T10:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Bioethics Discussion: The Madness of Crowds (January 12, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58834 58834-14563726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on popular delusions.

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

A few readings from the madding crowd:
––The Liverpool Cholera Epidemic of 1 and Anatomical Dissection—Medical Mistrust and Civil Unrest
––The Wisdom of Crowds, the Madness of Crowds: Rethinking Peer Review in the Web Era
––The Hippocratic Thorn in Bioethics’ Hide: Cults, Sects, and Strangeness
––The Importance of Complying with Vaccination Protocols in Developed Countries: “Anti-Vax” Hysteria and the Spread of Severe Preventable Diseases

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/053-the-madness-of-crowds/.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:27 -0500 2021-01-12T19:00:00-05:00 2021-01-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Madness of Crowds
MLK Reading Series (January 13, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80674 80674-20771622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:06:54 -0400 2021-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Lecture / Discussion The MLK reading series flyer
The Duderstadts' Contributions to the U-M Millennium Project (January 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80267 80267-20666614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

The Duderstadts have devoted considerable time and talent to the U-M Millennium Project. In particular, they have developed staff and faculty memoir sites where retirees can record for history their U-M experiences and accomplishments. The website, http://milproj.dc.umich.edu, also includes the Duderstadt U-M books, videos, and histories. This presentation will focus on their work and will demonstrate how easy it is for staff and faculty to contribute their own stories to the Millennium Project.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:53:21 -0500 2021-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T13:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Livestream / Virtual
The Clements Bookworm: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American Expansion (January 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80391 80391-20713708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Still-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight, but were depictions of food merely delicious and pretty pictures to admire? Shana Klein's new book, "The Fruits of Empire," argues otherwise. This book talk will address Klein's research on representations of food to understand how they reflected and shaped conversations about race and national expansion in the United States. She will discuss the paintings, photographs, and silverware objects in the book and ask: Who do images of food serve? And at whose expense? The results are not always delicious.

Dr. Klein, Assistant Professor of Art History at Kent State University, is trained in the history of American art, with sub-specialties in African-American and Native-American art.

This episode was generously sponsored by Duane and Marilyn Kirking.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:05:33 -0500 2021-01-15T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-15T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "The Fruits of Empire" Book Cover
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
A Conversation about The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (January 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79654 79654-20438372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

Please join us for a discussion of Julius S. Scott's seminal book, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution. Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History, the work presents a remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era. The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World.

Featuring remarks by Julius S. Scott (University of Michigan), Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Rebecca J. Scott (University of Michigan), and Stephen Ward (University of Michigan). Chaired by Matthew J. Countryman (University of Michigan).

Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Department of History, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

Speakers

Julius S. Scott
Lecturer, Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan

Professor Scott is author of The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (2018). Based on his influential but previously unpublished 1986 Duke University doctoral dissertation, The Common Wind has earned numerous accolades, including the MAAH Stone Book Award and the Special Achievement Award from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Laurent Dubois
Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History, Duke University

Professor Dubois specializes in the history and culture of the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti. Recent books include Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) and The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (2016). In 2009 he edited, with Julius S. Scott, Origins of the Black Atlantic. Professor Dubois is faculty director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University.

Rebecca J. Scott
Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Professor Scott's research centers on the intersection of law and slavery, both in the United States and the Caribbean. Her books include Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (2008) and Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies (with Frederick Cooper and Thomas C. Holt; 2014). Professor Scott is the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Stephen Ward
Associate Professor, Afroamerican & African Studies and the Residential College, University of Michigan

Professor Ward's teaching and writing focus on African American political thought and social movements, particularly the Black Power movement, and the evolution of cities since World War II, with an emphasis on grassroots activism and community-based approaches to urban redevelopment. He is the author of In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs (2016). Professor Ward is faculty director of the U-M Semester in Detroit Program.

Matthew J. Countryman (chair)
Associate Professor of History, American Culture, University of Michigan

Professor Countryman's work centers on twentieth-century African American social movements. He is the author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (2007). Professor Countryman is chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:49:45 -0500 2021-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Conference / Symposium The Common Wind
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
Write through Life Changing Events (January 20, 2021 2:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79971 79971-20521487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 2:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The best stories are often the tough ones about life changing events. For some of us, 2020 is one of those stories. Our shared history as a generation gives us a unique perspective when it comes to processing recent events. Responding to writing prompts, we will reflect on the events of past decades and consider how our past helps us understand this year of COVID-19.

The study group led by Diane Nash will meet Wednesdays from January 20 through February 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 10:09:31 -0500 2021-01-20T02:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T03:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 20, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 2:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
"Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home" (January 20, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79951 79951-20517558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us for a talk with Dr. Richard Bell, author of the new book "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home"—a finalist for both the 2020 George Washington Prize and the 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize.

Study Group leader Richard Bell is Professor of History at the University of Maryland and author of the new book "Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home" which is shortlisted for the George Washington Prize and the Harriet Tubman Prize. Dr. Bell has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award.

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 10:11:04 -0500 2021-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Webinar | Armenians and the End of Ottomans: Envisioning Peace in Occupied Istanbul (1918- 1923) (January 20, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80202 80202-20596104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

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

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

The Armistice of Mudros, signed in October 1918, ended the Great War in the Middle East. While it was a signature of defeat for the Ottoman Empire, it was the beginning of a new period for the Ottoman Armenians and other non-dominant groups such as Greeks and Jews. Yet, the history of the Armistice period has been mostly absent in the existing academic literature. In this lecture, Dr. Şekeryan will analyze the social and political developments regarding the Ottoman Armenian community in Istanbul by utilizing the Ottoman Turkish and Armenian press sources. The lecture will discuss the political transformation within the Armenian community during the Armistice years and then contextualize this transformation within the framework of ethnic bargaining theory to understand how the Ottoman Armenian community organized itself while facing political turmoil.

Ari Şekeryan received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2018. His thesis, titled "The Armenians in the Ottoman Empire after the First World War (1918-1923)," bridges the disciplines of history, international relations, and area studies by analyzing the minority-majority relations in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, primarily focusing on the relations between the Armenians and Turks. His research was grounded in detailed archival research conducted at the library of the Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna, Austria; the Prime Minister’s Ottoman Archives in Istanbul, Turkey; and the National Library of Yerevan, Armenia. He edited "The Adana Massacre 1909: Three Reports and An Anthology of Armenian Literature 1913." His latest articles appeared in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and War in History. Dr. Şekeryan was a fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 and the Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at California State University, Fresno during Spring 2020.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:57:00 -0500 2021-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Ari Şekeryan, 2020-21 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CSEAS Lecture Series. Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok (January 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80034 80034-20548978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Event is free and open to the public; please register at http://bit.ly/3oS7YLq
Friday, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST

This talk will be a discussion of Professor Winichakul's latest book, *Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok* (University of Hawai`i, 2020).

The ‘October 6 massacre’ remains enigmatic to Thai society. The unforgetting—the inability to remember or forget, or to articulate memories in a meaningful way—has been due to the state’s suppression, shame and guilt, historical ideology, and the changing politics. This book is the story of the changing memories and the variable conditions for silence over the past forty years.

Thongchai Winichakul is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, *Siam Mapped: a History of the Geo-body of a Nation* (1994), was awarded the Harry J Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS, USA) and was translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Thai. He was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Award in 1994. and was President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2013/14. He has also published eight books in Thai.



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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:19:15 -0500 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Extending Apologies: Memorializing the World War II Japanese American Incarceration at the Tanforan Assembly Center (January 22, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80716 80716-20777530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 22, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Abstract: “Extending Apologies”, focuses on the future memorial for the Tanforan Assembly Center –a former Japanese American Incarceration Camp in San Francisco, California– and the demand of victims and their families to extend the official apology, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, beyond mere words. A series of on-site historic plaques and an exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s incarceration photographs at a nearby train station serve as background to study the development of the new memorial. The design and iconography of the future Tanforan memorial –a figurative bronze surrounded by a landscaped memorial plaza– are analyzed alongside the motivations of the main actors that have shaped it: a group of memory activists, a transit agency, and a shopping mall developer. “Extending Apologies” argues that these past and future commemorative interventions reveal the tensions between an unsettled memorial landscape and the Japanese American community’s ongoing demands for apology.

Bio: Valentina Rozas-Krause received her Ph.D. in Architecture (History, Theory & Society) from the University of California, Berkeley. She is an architect with a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her field of study encompasses architecture, urbanism, and landscape from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular research and teaching interests in memory, postcolonialism, preservation, public space, social justice, and gender. Valentina has published two books. The first, Ni Tan Elefante, Ni Tan Blanco (Ril, 2014), is an urban, architectural, and political history of the National Stadium in Chile. The second is the co-edited volume Disputar la Ciudad (Bifurcaciones, 2018) which deals with spatial strategies of oppression, resistance, memory and reparation within varying urban contexts. These join peer-reviewed articles in History & Memory, e-flux, Latin American Perspectives, Anos 90, ARQ, Revista 180, Cuadernos de Antropología Social, and Bifurcaciones alongside a chapter in the edited volume Neocolonialism and Built Heritage (Routledge, 2020). Her research has been supported by numerous fellowships and grants, including a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, a Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, a John L. Simpson Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies from UC Berkeley, a DAAD Dissertation Research Grant, and a Becas Chile Grant. Valentina is currently working on a book project titled Memorials and the Cult of Apology, which examines how contemporary memorials aim to atone for past injustices. In effect, apologies are being materialized into memorials, a phenomenon of global importance, which presents a major shift in national self-representation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:03:18 -0500 2021-01-22T14:30:00-05:00 2021-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Lecture / Discussion Members of the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee and artist Sandra Shaw posing with the clay model of the Tanforan Memorial at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, CA, 2018. Source: Valentina Rozas-Krause
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 25, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Susan Rice -- A Remarkable Life and Career (January 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79980 79980-20525404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will read and discuss "Tough Love: My Story of Things Worth Fighting For" by Susan Rice. Her personal story begins with her great-grandfather, who was born a slave and it unfolds through Susan, who grew up in privilege with an elite education, worked at the State Department and rose to become UN Ambassador and National Security Advisor.

Ms. Rice provides an insider's account of the complex international issues confronted by the United States during her decades of service.

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 Sections 1 and 2 (p.1-58) for the first session.

This study group will meet Mondays for eight weeks beginning January 25. 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 10:13:21 -0500 2021-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2021-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
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
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 27, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 28, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
CLASP Seminar Series: Sean Potter (January 28, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80416 80416-20719752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Sean Potter will give a virtual lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

This is a zoom virtual event.
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92505573756?pwd=aGhlSGpvaVVidDMzMnM2VzBYMm1jdz09
Meeting ID: 925 0557 3756
Passcode: 935679

In the first installment of our Winter 2021 Series, meteorologist and weather historian Sean Potter will share excerpts and insights from his new book, "Too Near for Dreams: The Story of Cleveland Abbe, America’s First Weather Forecaster."

"Cleveland Abbe’s Michigan Connection"

Abstract:
Abbe was the first person in America to successfully provide regular, practical weather forecasts to the public, based on reports from a network of observers. Before he turned his attention to meteorology, however, Abbe was an astronomer—and he spent time at the University of Michigan, studying astronomy under the famed astronomer Franz Brünnow and teaching physics and civil engineering. These early experiences in his professional life helped set him on a course that would lead to his establishment, in 1869, of a weather forecasting enterprise at the Cincinnati Observatory, where he served as director.

In 1871, he moved to Washington, where he became a civilian assistant to General Albert Myer, chief signal officer of the Army, who had taken charge of the nation’s first weather service the year before. Abbe would lead the forecasting efforts at the nation’s newly established weather service and set the standard for scientific research in a career that would last nearly half a century. Throughout his life, this “man of gentle and generous ways,” guided by his abiding faith, overcame personal and professional hardships in pursuit of science to become the most famous—and celebrated—meteorologist in America, if not the world.

During his talk, Mr. Potter, whose career in weather and communications has included work for ABC News, and the National Weather Service, will share stories from Abbe’s life and career, with a focus on his time in Michigan.

Please join us!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Jan 2021 08:44:35 -0500 2021-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Livestream / Virtual Sean Potter 2
EIHS Lecture: Towards a History of Agrarian Urbanism in India (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79649 79649-20438367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk presents one genealogy for exploring how the city and the countryside were conceptualized in relation to one another in late colonial India. In particular, it will underscore the contribution urban professionals made to managing—and imagining—agrarian space. Rural change and the expert knowledge required to manage the countryside opened paths for urban concepts and categories to reshape agrarian space in a process that, among other things, gradually made the Indian village legible to town planners. In this way, rural space was made subject to an ensemble of institutional forms and practices grounded in emergent urban paradigms.

William Glover teaches modern South Asian history at the University of Michigan. His research interests include South Asian colonial and post-colonial urban and cultural history, social theory, and the material culture of built environments. He is the author of Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City (University of Minnesota Press, 2008; winner of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies Junior Book Award), and of several articles exploring the imbrication of built environments, knowledge cultures, and urban processes in South Asia.  Professor Glover is the former director of the University of Michigan's Center for South Asian Studies, and former associate director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan.

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

Presented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:05:29 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion William Glover
Privacy@Michigan: Privacy Day Discussion with Guest Speaker Sarah Igo (January 28, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80919 80919-20832763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

What’s in a number? In the case of the U.S. Social Security number, the now-familiar nine digits hold a fascinating story about modern citizenship, governance and data. Starting in 1936, the SSN was affixed to more and more American lives, spurring new uses of punch cards and filing systems as well as novel dilemmas about personal data. This talk gives a brief history of the SSN and what it reveals about the changing state of “our” information.

Speaker: Sarah Igo, acclaimed author and historian
Presentation: “Nine Digits: A Brief History of Data, Privacy and the SSN”
Webinar: Thursday, January 28 • 4 – 5 p.m.
More info: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/privacy-at-michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:36:43 -0500 2021-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Privacy@Michigan Webinar - Speaker: Sarah Igo
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (January 28, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80751 80751-20783452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Documentary, 1985. The movie follows the struggle of the Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo, a group of mothers who challenged authorities during the repressive regime in Argentina (1976-1983), trying to discover the whereabouts of their missing sons and daughters, taken by the regime.
During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. A discussion period will follow the movie. The faculty discussant will be Susan Waltz, Professor Emerita of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy, and moderated by Sioban Harlow, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health. Other dates include Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, and March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcu-srj4jHtZpCETVEs-3WM5xygNoTF4m

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

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:00:02 -0500 2021-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Disappeared Film Series: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
How to Teach About the Middle East—and Get it Right! Islam Through Art (January 28, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80587 80587-20759740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:01 -0500 2021-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 2021-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar event_image
The History of the Stars: An Introduction to Early Astronomy (January 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79981 79981-20525405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The University of Michigan Library holds an extraordinary collection of manuscripts and early printed books describing the early history of astronomy. These holdings range from ancient papyri to richly illustrated books that made possible the scientific revolution in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries including works by Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.

One of the most impressive highlights of the collection is a one-page manuscript where Galileo himself recorded his observations of the moons of Jupiter for the very first time. Attendants of this workshop will have the unique opportunity to examine closely these artifacts and learn how astronomical ideas were transmitted, read, and interpreted from antiquity through early modern Europe.

This study group led by Pablo Alvarez will meet Friday January 29. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:14:09 -0500 2021-01-29T10:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
EIHS Symposium: Thinking with The Country and the City: Revisiting the Raymond Williams Classic (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79657 79657-20438375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Originally published in 1973, Raymond Williams's The Country and the City has generated concepts that have influenced generations of cultural critics. His magisterial survey of the construction of archetypical images of the country and the city in English literature in the context of the shift from agrarian capitalism to the industrial metropolis has justly acquired canonical status. The book’s analysis of how these images obscured the actual historical and social relations that shaped them continues to remain relevant today. Join our panelists as they discuss how the book continues to inform their own work. They explore the city/country opposition and the political interests it serves in contexts quite different from Williams’s original English focus.



Panelists:
Kathryn Babayan
Professor, History, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

Stephen A. Berrey
Associate Professor, American Culture, History, University of Michigan

Christian de Pee
Associate Professor, History, University of Michigan

Mrinalini Sinha (chair)
Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan

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

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:39:36 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner: In Conversation (January 29, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80896 80896-20818972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Pausing for a moment of post inaugural reflection, following one of our nation’s most contentious presidential elections, this conversation brings together filmmaker, scholar, journalist and cultural critic, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with prominent historian Eric Foner to contemplate how a divided nation comes together. The two will discuss Reconstruction, the all-too-brief period following the Civil War when the United States made its first effort to become an interracial democracy. The period saw the Constitution rewritten to incorporate the ideal of racial equality, but ended as a result of a violent backlash that erased many of the gains that had been made, with consequences we still confront as a nation. The program will also preview Gates' most recent project, The Black Church, which will premiere on PBS in February.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Professor Gates is an author and filmmaker whose work includes Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, winner of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the related books, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, with Tonya Bolden, and 2019 New York Times Notable Book, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow. Gates’ groundbreaking genealogy series, Finding Your Roots, is now in its sixth season on PBS and has been called “one of the deepest and wisest series ever on television,” leveraging “the inherent entertainment capacity of the medium to educate millions of Americans about the histories and cultures of our nation and the world.” Gates is the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, an NAACP image award, an MacArthur Foundation “genius award,” and in 1998 he was the first African American to receive the National Humanities Medal. Gates was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, to Ebony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and to Ebony’s Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, is one of this country's most prominent historians. Professor Foner's publications have concentrated on the intersections of intellectual, political and social history, and the history of American race relations. One of his best-known books includes Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Parkman Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His latest book is The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution . Foner has also been the co-curator, with Olivia Mahoney, of two prize-winning exhibitions on American history: A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln, which opened at the Chicago Historical Society in 1990, and America's Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War, which opened at the Virginia Historical Society in 1995 and traveled to several other locations.

Lynette Clemetson is the Director of Wallace House, Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan. A longtime journalist, she was a correspondent for Newsweek magazine in the U.S. and Asia, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and senior director of strategy and new initiatives at NPR. Wallace House works to sustain and elevate the careers of journalists, foster civic engagement, and uphold the role of a free press in democratic society.

This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester with support from Wallace House and the Ford School of Public Policy. It is also part of the 2021 U-M Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Symposium. Our 2020-2021 Series is brought to you with the support of our streaming partners, Detroit Public Television and PBS Books.

How to WatchAll events will be webcast on Fridays at 8pm (ET) at http://pennystampsevents.org and https://dptv.org/pennystamps. Join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

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Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

 

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:04:10 -0500 2021-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Livestream / Virtual https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Gates-Henry-Louis.jpg
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 30, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (January 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832778@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 31, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 1, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Becoming 'Inner Kirghiz': Qianlong Emperor’s Policy Toward Five Tribes in Qing Xinjiang (February 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80184 80184-20594125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Using hundreds of Manchu-language archival materials from the Qianlong period, this talk will focus on the Kirghiz, who have largely been overlooked in scholarship on Qing Xinjiang. More specifically, it will argue that there was a group of people Dr. Kim calls "inner Kirghiz" who were firmly incorporated into Qing Xinjiang, thereby bridging the Qing world and the Central Asian world. The case of the inner Kirghiz highlights the blurred boundary between Qing and "foreign" as well as the plurality of Qing Xinjiang society.

Jaymin Kim is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. He received his PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 2018 and has been a LRCCS Center Associate since then.

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

Zoom webinar; attendance requires registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BD4f12KcSXG4zuwjeoBxSg

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:59:47 -0500 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Jaymin Kim, Assistant Professor of History, University of St. Thomas
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-02T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Executive Decision Making (February 3, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81238 81238-20877910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Central Student Government

Please join Dean Michael Barr, Professor Barbara McQuade, and Towsley Policymaker Javed Ali to discuss how these past weeks in our nation have unfolded and opportunities for Americans to move forward. Join us as they provide insight into fundamental questions regarding the effects of government policymaking on civic life and opportunities for bipartisanship

Link to Register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mzGM3JgrSUKeOfEri9Fksw

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:11:49 -0500 2021-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Central Student Government Conference / Symposium Panelists
Webinar | Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915 (February 3, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80204 80204-20596106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinar here: http://myumi.ch/wloN7

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

Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armenian migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response, dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution of these networks resemble those that drive the phenomenon of migrant smuggling in the present day. Furthermore, migrants who returned home found themselves stuck in an uneasy legal limbo as both Ottoman and United States governments disavowed them as citizens, leaving them vulnerable to deportation from their own ancestral lands. As this talk contends, the Armenian migratory experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both parallels and sheds light on themes such as smuggling, deportation, and the criminalization of migration, that are central to the issue of global migration in the 21st century.

David Gutman is Associate Professor of History at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. He is the author of “The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners Smugglers and Dubious Citizens” (Edinburgh University Press 2019). He has also published several articles and book reviews on themes ranging from migrant smuggling and mobility control to the historiography of genocide. His current research interests include the global history of border control regimes and comparative history of pogroms and urban violence.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:16:20 -0500 2021-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 2021-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual David Gutman, Associate Professor of History, Manhattanville College
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 4, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Roots, Routes, and Performative Mobilities: The Next 50 Years of Knowledge Production for Africa and its Diasporas (February 4, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81352 81352-20887827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This lecture explores the movements of people and ideas over centuries between and among various geographies of Africa and its diasporas and the impact of such mobilities on shaping politics and identities for people of African descent. Centering the analysis on the country of Liberia and its connections to the United States over several centuries, the lecture presents the concept of “performative mobilities” to frame the larger consequences of movement. Moreover, the lecture argues for the central role that a focus on mobilities will play in the next 50 years of knowledge production in African and African Diaspora Studies more generally.

February 4, 2021 at 4 p.m.
Featuring
Yolanda Covington-Ward,
Department Chair, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies
Secondary Appointment, Department of Anthropology, President, Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA)
Executive Board Member, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), University of Pittsburgh
Yolanda Covington-Ward received her Masters and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
Zoom Register:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UQH7psqiQb-CP67h9En2wQ

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:10:02 -0500 2021-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (February 4, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80754 80754-20783462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

FINDING OSCAR is a feature length documentary about the search for justice in the devastating case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. That search leads to the trail of two little boys who were plucked from a nightmare and offer the only living evidence that ties the Guatemalan government to the massacre.
The discussant will be Maggie Barnard, Ford School of Public Policy, and moderated by Hardy Vieux, Ford School of Public Policy. During Winter semester, a series of human rights films that focus on the theme of disappearances will be shown through Zoom. A discussion period will follow the movie. Other dates include Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, and March 11. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdemurzwiHt3BJvJfo8Zs8mA5-Xx9gwYA

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:28:27 -0500 2021-02-04T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-04T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening The Disappeared Film Series: Finding Oscar
A Primer for Student Activists (February 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80502 80502-20730281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Community Scholars Program

What are the secrets for effective student activism? How do student activists leverage their experiences with activism on campus in their personal and professional lives, after graduation?

Join eight members of the Students of Color Coalition twenty years after their takeover of the Michigan Union tower on Feb. 6, 2000, a sit-in to protest the appropriation of Native American culture by elite campus club and “secret society” Michigamua. Their protest lasted for 37 days and impacted their lives during and after their careers at Michigan, while bringing greater awareness of systemic racism to campus and in the greater community. Come learn about their experiences during the strike and how campus activists shape meaningful lives and careers when their days of campus activism are behind them.

Panelists:
Farah Aquino (LSA 1999)
Brian Babb (LSA 2002, SSW 2008)
JuJuan Buford (LSA 2002)
Sabrina Dycus (LSA 2001)
Richard Nunn (LSA 2008)
Rupal Patel (LSA 2001, SPP 2004)
Malika N. Pryor (LSA 2000)
Joe Reilly (SNRE 2000, SSW 2013)

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Presentation Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:23:15 -0500 2021-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-04T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Community Scholars Program Presentation Image of a page from the New York Times, showing a protestor waving an American flag, overlaid with an image of a Native American man
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 6, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 6, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 7, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 7, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Beastly Badges: the art of adaptive political cultures in nomadic regimes" (February 8, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81756 81756-20951377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Summary: Nomadic polities are conventionally treated as loose and fragile regimes, adept at far-reaching conquests yet inept at managing the resulting large realms or extensive constituencies. In order to provide a more constructive and robust narrative of nomadic regimes, this talk elucidates strategies of political culture developed by the Xiongnu Empire of Inner Asia (ca. 200 bce- 100 ce), as manifested in the array of belt ornaments that served as badges of personal prestige and emblems of political participation in the steppe empire. Just as adaptations of long-standing traditions of steppe art in the early era served to bolster claims of legitimacy over the entirety of Inner Asia, so did significant alterations that emphasized exotic components allow the imperial nomads of the later era to adapt their political culture not only in response to challenges of interior politics but also to capitalize on the expanding resources of cross-continental exchanges via the Silk Roads.

About: Bryan Miller is a Lecturer in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the archaeology of empires in East Asia, with particular focus on nomadic regimes of Inner Asia. His research includes investigations of hybrid art and practices in the course of culture contact, as well as the interface between local elites and ruling factions, and he is currently completing a book on the Xiongnu nomadic empire.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:10:07 -0500 2021-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual Xiongu bronze belt plate
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
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/80887 80887-20816995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The University of Virginia—designed by Thomas Jefferson and now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—was built and maintained by 4000 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 the interviewer.

This virtual event takes place Monday, February 8, 2021 4-5:30pm E.S.T. (Click at the bottom of this page where it says "Event Link" to register.)

About the Participants

*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 since 2008. Höweler has published essays and articles in Perspecta, Archis, Thresholds, The Architect’s Newspaper, Architectural Lighting, and Praxis.

Höweler is 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. Höweler + Yoon’s work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the 2006 Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and has been published and reviewed in publications including Architect, Architectural Record, Metropolitan, Domus, Interior Design magazine, Architectural Lighting, and I.D. Magazine, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Financial Times.

*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. He is the Director of the Turnbull Townhouse Gallery in New York. Otitigbe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where is an Assistant Professor and Head of Sculpture in the Art Department of Brooklyn College.

Otitigbe's work has been in national and international exhibitions such as Topophilia, as part of the Meetings Festival in Denmark; Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, organized by the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill. He has participated in residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Austin, TX; 701 CCA, Columbia, SC; Center for Book Arts, New York, NY; and Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO. Otitigbe received public commissions for FLOW at Randall’s Island Park and the Emerging Artist Fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park. In 2015 Otitigbe was awarded a CEC Artslink Project Award for travel to Egypt.

*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.

Wilson is the author of Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums (2012), co-editor of Race and Modern Architecture, and currently at work on a book entitled Building Race and Nation: Slavery and Dispossessions Influence on American Civic Architecture. Her scholarly essays have appeared in numerous journals and books on art and architecture, black studies, critical geography, urbanism, memory studies.

*J. Meejin Yoon*, AIA FAAR, is dean of AAP/Architecture, Art, Planning at Cornell University. She is co-founding principle of Höweler and Yoon Architecture; her 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's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, and the National Art Center in Japan. Publications by Yoon include Expanded Practice (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), Public Works (MAP Book Publishers, 2008), and Absence (Printed Matter and the Whitney Museum of Art, 2003).

*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 is 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.*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:29:45 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Bioethics Discussion: Sex (February 9, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58836 58836-14563728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what we do.

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

A few readings to consider:
––Sex Differences in Institutional Support for Junior Biomedical Researchers
––Sex as an important biological variable in biomedical research
––Deciding on Gender in Children with Intersex Conditions: Considerations and Controversies
––The Use of Sex Robots: A Bioethical Issue

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/055-sex/.

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Not going to make a sex joke. We're above that here. All the same, please come to the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:42:03 -0500 2021-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Sex
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 12:00pm
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The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (February 10, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81911 81911-20988917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Racism has been declared a public Health emergency, but this has been given little analytic content. "Structural racism and public health: A way forward?" takes up this challenge. Professor Peter Hammer explores the relationship between spatial-structural racism and the social and economic determinants of health. Water shutoffs in Detroit are taken as a case study. Monica Lewis Patrick, Dr. Nadia Gaber and Dr. Emily Kutil lift up the work of the We The People of Detroit Community Research Collaborative. They will discuss the geography of water shutoffs in Detroit, including new research about how shutoffs have shaped the COVID-19 pandemic. Martina Guzman, the Damon J. Keith Civil Rights Center Racial Equity Media Fellow provides a global perspective juxtaposing water shutoffs in Detroit and South Africa.

Suggested reading:

Redlining and Neighborhood Health, https://ncrc.org/holc-health/

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:27:41 -0500 2021-02-10T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-10T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 12:00pm
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Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Tour and Themes of “No, not even for a picture” online exhibit (February 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81663 81663-20941448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this online presentation, Lindsey Willow Smith and Veronica Cook Williamson will provide an introductory glimpse into the Clements’ new online exhibit: 'No, not even for Picture': Re-Examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography. This exhibit seeks to re-historicize and re-humanize the contexts, subjects, and circumstances leading to the production of the Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography. Using examples from the exhibit to speak about their motivations and goals as co-curators, the two will touch on themes of photography as a tool of settler colonialism, photographic assertions of sovereignty and agency, and raise questions about (in)visibility and voice. They will also discuss how the transition to remote work affected the exhibit design and their approaches.

Register for the link to join at http://myumi.ch/ovD4P

Explore the exhibit at http://clements.umich.edu/pohrt

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:17:16 -0500 2021-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Unidentified Ojibwa men at White Earth Indian Reservation, Minnesota.
The Disappeared: A Human Rights Film Series & Discussion (February 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80824 80824-20793354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

Documentary. Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones, Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall'Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria.

The discussant will be Mohammad Al-Abdallah of the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre; moderated by
Melanie Tanielian, Director of the Center for Armenian Studies and Associate Professor of History. Other dates include Feb 25, March 4, and March 11.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED. https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscuGgrDoiHd0iy04JxJC5VEl4i-t0Dldl

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

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:01:54 -0500 2021-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Midlife Science Film Screening Ayouni (The Disappeared: Human Rights Film Series)
Constructing Gender: The Origins of the Michigan League and Michigan Union (February 11, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81480 81480-20895808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this Making Michigan conversation with archivists Nancy Bartlett and Sarah McLusky about the gendered spaces of the Michigan League and Michigan Union. You’ll learn how the architects achieved their vision of separate spaces for men and women; why students and alumni/ae envisioned these buildings as their clubhouses—rather than the University’s; and how these iconic destinations served as the backdrop for rituals and relaxation, from formal dances to solitary study. Archival photographs, architectural drawings, and other memorabilia will illustrate the lecture, with discussion of how these items are used in current classes for learning about the history of campus culture. The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:18:41 -0500 2021-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Event poster with images of panelists
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
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
NCF 'Keywords' Discussion (February 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81348 81348-20887817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This open-ended discussion forum will center around various “keywords” of your choosing. We invite you all to contribute a keyword or theme that you are currently thinking about in relation to your own research. Our goal with this virtual event is to think collectively, form connections, and inspire creative directions.

You do not need to come prepared with a presentation, but merely an idea, thought, or question centered around your chosen word. Equally, there is no requirement that you come prepared to discuss a specific keyword if you would prefer to attend as a listener/respondent.

For inspiration, you might turn to the Victorian Literature and Culture 'Keywords' double-issue containing hundreds of mini-essays on keywords.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:24:22 -0500 2021-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-12T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Typesetting in wood
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Feb. 15th (February 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81007 81007-20832793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for Fall 2021 and early admission Winter 2022. The application is available on M-Compass. Deadline is February 15th at midnight.

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Meeting Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 2021-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Meeting
Portraits of Lincoln (A Public Lecture of the Residential College & Program in the Environment Course Children Under Fire) (February 16, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81932 81932-20990913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for Portraits of Lincoln on Tuesday, February 16, from 2:30-3:30pm to learn about the consequences of early reading, the boyhood of Lincoln, and the politics of education and self-improvement of one of our most revered presidents. We'll be hearing from:

>>> Dave Choberka, Ph.D. Andrew W. Mellon Curator for University Learning and Programs at the University of Michigan Museum of Art;

>>> Julia Mickenberg, Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

>>> Liz Goodenough, RC lecturer in Arts & Ideas in the Humanities

In course Children Under Fire: Narratives of Sustainability (RCHUMS 337 / ENVIRON 337) taught by Liz Goodenough, students learn that literature for and about children, from the earliest folk tales, has always addressed life and death. In diverse genres, from horror story to high adventure, from rags to riches, young heroes sustain themselves in the face of adult decisions regarding scarcity (food and water), violence, illness, and abuse. This environmental humanities seminar examines how early reading mediated crises challenging the future lives of US Presidents and First Ladies--from Andrew Jackson and James Garfield to Eleanor Roosevelt and Barack Obama.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:51:36 -0500 2021-02-16T14:30:00-05:00 2021-02-16T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Portraits of Lincoln
Detroiters Speak Winter 2021 - Pandemic Politics: From Lockdown to Liberation (February 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81921 81921-20990901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:17:27 -0500 2021-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Semester in Detroit Livestream / Virtual Event title and session titles with blue accent colors and an image of a face mask with a fist made up of racial justice words on it
Workshop (Day 1) | From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923) (February 18, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80216 80216-20601992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinars here: http://myumi.ch/O4jGQ

You need just one registration to attend the two-day workshop. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

For full details and schedule, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/news-events/all-events/workshops/february-2021--from-empire-to-nation-state--the-ottoman-armistic.html

The First World War came to an end for the Ottoman Empire when the Armistice of Mudros was signed on October 30, 1918. While the Ottoman government formed by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) embarked upon a series of armed and political campaigns to save the Empire from collapse, Ottoman minorities such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Arabs suffered from genocide and famine. It is well documented that the demographic engineering policies of CUP resulted in a significant decrease of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities in Anatolia, and a famine in Arab provinces of the empire killed thousands. Even though the wartime was equal to a “cataclysm” for Ottoman “minorities”, the beginning of the Armistice years remarked a new start, an opportunity for revival and rebirth. While the Armenian community leadership was organizing relief activities to save genocide survivors who were scattered throughout the

Empire, they envisioned the establishment of a “United Armenia” with the support of the Allied Powers. Anatolian Romioi (Orthodox Greeks), Arabs, and Kurds, in a similar fashion, were motivated to declare independence to map their nation-states during a time when the world was living what has been referred to as the “Wilsonian moment.” This workshop will revisit and re-explore the Ottoman Armistice and the transition from empire to ethno-nation-state from hitherto neglected perspectives of Ottoman “minorities” through the lens of history, literature, and political science disciplines.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:43:26 -0500 2021-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Workshop (Day 1) | From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923)
Mapping in the Enlightenment (February 18, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79984 79984-20525408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Study group leader Mary Pedley, Assistant Curator of Maps at the Clements Library, will explore how maps aided the search for answers to big scientific questions, how innovative mapping practices changed the look of maps, and how the general public participated in the creation and consumption of maps during the European Enlightenment (ca 1650-1800).

Mary is co-editor with Matthew Edney of The History of Cartography, Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

This study group will meet Thursday February 18. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 06 Jan 2021 12:13:55 -0500 2021-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
EIHS Lecture: Risk, Bodies, and Disease: Transatlantic Slavery and the History of Science and Medicine (February 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79650 79650-20438368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk will examine the history of the slave trade in the Iberian Atlantic and its relationship to the emergence of novel practices related to the study and quantification of bodies and nature. Specifically, it will discuss the development of ideas about the human body, population, and disease that appeared in Iberian-Atlantic slave markets during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The practices undergirding the development of the slave trade as a technological, bureaucratic, economic, legal, and intellectual enterprise went hand in hand with the appearance of new notions about risk, disease, nosology, and population health that would become normative in subsequent decades. In analyzing the invisibility of both this history and the archives of the slave trade in traditional HSMT narratives, this lecture will also examine the role that ideas about knowledge (and what constitutes knowledge) have had in shaping fundamental and exclusionary tenets in the histories of science and Medicine in Euro America.

Pablo F. Gómez is associate professor in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, and the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works on histories of knowledge-making, race, and health and corporeality with a particular focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, and more largely the African Diaspora. His book The Experiential Caribbean Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, won the William H. Welch medal in medical history, the Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize in Africana religion, and Honorable Mention for the Bolton-Johnson Book Prize in Latin American history.

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

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:07:50 -0500 2021-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Pablo F. Gómez
LACS Event. Prison-Industrial Complexity: On Carceral Material Worlds & Ethical Aporias in Ecuador (February 18, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81771 81771-20953363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Virtual Event. Register at http://myumi.ch/R5D0Q

Chris Garces is Research Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Visiting Invited Professor in the Law School at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. His ethnographic interests range from the study of politics and religion—or contemporary political theologies–to the Western outgrowth of penal state politics, and counter-histories of Catholic ethics in Latin America. His co-edited volume, *Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century *(Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penality), will be published in February 2021.

Everywhere it seems, democracy has been freighted with the psychic weight of punitive infrastructure. Symptomatically, for most citizens, a world without prisons is impossible even to imagine. But consider the flip side of this most curious problem: uncomfortable or intrusive memories—that in the name of enforcing justice and democratic order, living human beings are being held in cages—publicly forgotten almost as soon as they are remembered. The prison is a machine for disappearing humans and remaking worlds. Carcerality as such boxes the prisoner into what might be called ethical aporias, unrelenting state-imposed sacrifice and civil disregard, or an experimental process of human disposal which nevertheless demands increasingly accelerated flows of exchange between free citizens and dehumanized offenders. In this talk, I explore how even the most modest of prison technologies participate in penal infrastructure’s human unmaking and world-remaking processes. Taking into account Ecuador’s 20th century material history of a humble water spigot in a municipal prison, I demonstrate the perverse tenacity of carceral relations and how penality itself—the state-sponsored ritual reproduction of punishment across the prison-neighborhood nexus—involves continuous, albeit disavowed human experimentation on diverse citizen-subjects.

Lecture presented in conjunction with HIST197: Journeys & Stories

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Co-sponsors: Department of History, Prison Creative Arts Project, and The Quito Project
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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact alanarod@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:52:19 -0500 2021-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Prison-Industrial Complexity poster
Workshop (Day 2) | From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923) (February 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/80217 80217-20601993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Please register in advance for the webinars here: http://myumi.ch/O4jGQ

You need just one registration to attend the two-day workshop. After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.

For full details and schedule, please visit: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/news-events/all-events/workshops/february-2021--from-empire-to-nation-state--the-ottoman-armistic.html

The First World War came to an end for the Ottoman Empire when the Armistice of Mudros was signed on October 30, 1918. While the Ottoman government formed by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) embarked upon a series of armed and political campaigns to save the Empire from collapse, Ottoman minorities such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and Arabs suffered from genocide and famine. It is well documented that the demographic engineering policies of CUP resulted in a significant decrease of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities in Anatolia, and a famine in Arab provinces of the empire killed thousands. Even though the wartime was equal to a “cataclysm” for Ottoman “minorities”, the beginning of the Armistice years remarked a new start, an opportunity for revival and rebirth. While the Armenian community leadership was organizing relief activities to save genocide survivors who were scattered throughout the Empire, they envisioned the establishment of a “United Armenia” with the support of the Allied Powers. Anatolian Romioi (Orthodox Greeks), Arabs, and Kurds, in a similar fashion, were motivated to declare independence to map their nation-states during a time when the world was living what has been referred to as the “Wilsonian moment.” This workshop will revisit and re-explore the Ottoman Armistice and the transition from empire to ethno-nation-state from hitherto neglected perspectives of Ottoman “minorities” through the lens of history, literature, and political science disciplines.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Feb 2021 11:43:49 -0500 2021-02-19T10:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Livestream / Virtual Workshop (Day 2) | From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923)
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
Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics (IWAP) (February 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81944 81944-20992893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

Jake Walden is a doctoral student studying political science at the University of Michigan. Yuri Zhukov is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.

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, 09 Feb 2021 19:05:58 -0500 2021-02-19T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Livestream / Virtual Jake & Yuri
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Time, Memory, Oblivion: Social Frames and the Production of Collective Pasts (February 19, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76257 76257-19679586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Autobiographical memories make individuals who they are but they are anchored in the frame of collective memory. These together that make us who we are. How then are these are made? And how do those processes bear on academic history?

I will argue that collective memory world-wide has been made by how communities recollect pasts in order to shape their presents. The shaping of collective and historical memory must be seen in world-historical context. Analysis reaches out beyond the cloistered world of the formal academy to argue that “history” is but one kind of collective memory .

Collective memory itself is the result of both remembering and forgetting, of the preservation and the decay of record. These processes work through socio-political organizations that shape collective memory. The two disappear alongside each other.

I will sketch the diverse ways these practices worked before colonial rule came to South Asia. I emphasize that the feebleness of organized power made it possible for many contradictory memories to coexist. The creation of a centralized educational system and the mass production of textbooks began to unify historical discourses under colonial auspices. For the first time, students and their families were confronted by an authoritative, unified narrative. That triggered opposition and the development of alternative anti-colonial histories. Finally, these discourses diverged in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization.

I will gesture therefore toward sources in many languages from different regions to provide an intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized collective and historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. Most of the lecture will focus on the less studied period before Western imperialism and the imposition of Western modes of thought. I hope thereby to contribute to contemporary debates about historical memory and objective evidence in seemingly ‘post-truth’ world.

Sumit Guha, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Before his current position, Sumit Guha has taught at the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, Brown University and Rutgers University. He began as an economic historian with interests in demography and agriculture. These widened into the study of environmental and ethnic histories. His first book was *The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan 1818-1941* (Oxford University Press, 1985) followed by *Environment and Ethnicity in India, c. 1200-1991* (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and *Health and Population in South Asia from earliest times to the present* (Permanent Black, and Charles Hurst & Co., 2001). This was followed by *Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present* (E.J. Brill, 2013). A corrected Indian edition appeared from Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2016.

His recent book *History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000* was published by the University of Washington Press in October 2019. In Spring 2021, the Association for Asian Studies will publish his newest work, *Tribe and State in Asia* through Columbia University Press.

Registration for this Zoom lecture is required: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlcuCgqjgvG9Mij4KP5nymLs_cXh4sL5NW

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at csas@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:32:37 -0500 2021-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 2021-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Sumit Guha, Professor, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professorship in History, University of Texas at Austin
Cold Weather Hot Takes: We Heard Ann Arbor Used To Be Cooler (February 22, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81523 81523-20905715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

egister.

This program takes place on Zoom. Please register to receive the link.

Jacob Gorski from the Ann Arbor District Library and Sean Kramer from UMMA chat about their discoveries while digging into Ann Arbor’s queer history for their respective projects, the AADL podcast, The Gayest Generation, and the UMMA exhibition, Oh, honey… A queer reading of the collection. Jacob, a transplant from Saginaw, Michigan, and Sean, a native of middle-of-nowhere Kansas, have both lived in Ann Arbor for several years now and both had expectations about what they heard was a hip, artsy college town where coffee shops, bookstores, bars, and restaurants abound. They’ll discuss their earliest encounters with Ann Arbor—from walking to the food co-op to Google searching “gay bar near me”—and how their perceptions have changed over the years just as the city has. Audience members are invited to share their own hot takes on Ann Arbor’s past and present.

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Other Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:16:22 -0500 2021-02-22T12:30:00-05:00 2021-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Future of Art Institutions: Rebuild or Repair? (February 22, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81750 81750-20951371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 22, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

ere.

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 they have reexamined their origins, shifting their missions toward education and visitor experience, museums and other arts institutions carry the baggage of their historic trajectory. For our arts institutions to be truly useful to future audiences, our panelists ask, can we rethink and repair these institutions to make them more relevant? Or, should we knock them all down and rebuild new institutions?

Moderated by Tina Olsen, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Panelists:

Maurita Poole is director and curator of the museum at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU, whose collection focuses on Black artists of the mid-20th century. Her PhD from Emory University is in anthropology; she has worked as a curator at Williams College Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

Terence Washington is program director at NXTHVN, a model to advance the careers of artists and curators of color through mentorship and professional development. He worked in the Education Department at the National Gallery of Art after receiving his master’s degree in art history from Williams College.

Anya Sirota is Associate Professor of Architecture Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Through her design firm, Akoaki, she explores the intersection of design and social enterprise to rethink the urban landscape. She received her Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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, 22 Feb 2021 18:16:20 -0500 2021-02-22T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-22T17:10:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
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
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
Bioethics Discussion: Artificial Life (February 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58837 58837-14563729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on new forms.

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

A few readings to consider:
––Is the creation of artificial life morally significant?
––Why Do We Need Artificial Life?
––Artificial Life
––The Bioethicist Who Cried “Synthetic Biology”: An Analysis of the Function of Bioterrorism Predictions in Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/056-artificial-life/.

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Life finds a way over to the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:41:49 -0500 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Life