Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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"
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.
Contemporary Issues Discussion: Death and Grief (October 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87688 87688-21645075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the spring of 1846, Nancy Dorsey of Piqua, Ohio, sent a letter to her sister vividly describing the death of her infant daughter and her struggle to come to terms with her loss.

All are welcome to a panel discussion of this emotional letter, the universal experiences of death and grief, and healing after a loss.

Join in the conversation together with grief counselors, historians, and local community members. Peer counselors from GrieveWell, a local nonprofit that supports people in grief, will be on hand as we explore these topics and the emotions they raise.

Coordinated by the U-M William L. Clements Library with generous support from Frank & Judy Wilhelme. Presented in collaboration with the U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and GrieveWell of Ann Arbor.

Virtual Meeting via Zoom – Register at http://myumi.ch/Lqoje or call 734-649-3370.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:05:27 -0400 2021-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Mourning Print, Clements Library Graphics Division