Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (March 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-03-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (March 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
WCED Lecture. The Racial Politics of Citizenship: Anticolonial Imaginaries and the Making of Political Modernity from Haiti (March 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101979 101979-21803119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

While modern citizenship promises equality, it has deep entanglements with the colonial project. We have long analyzed mechanisms of citizenship inclusion through the lens of the class struggle and cultural boundary expansion, and we tend to tether citizenship rights to the nation state and European modernity. However, it was in European colonies where questions of rights had to be navigated, especially during the Caribbean struggles over freedom following racial slavery. As a result of this analytical bifurcation, the social sciences have largely overlooked how a project of racecraft made egalitarian ideals of freedom and citizenship compatible with continued colonial rule. Aiming to overcome this separation, this talk situates the making of political modernity in the Haitian Revolution. It proceeds in three steps. First, it specifies how Haitians thought about their freedom struggle, aiming to articulate their own humanity at a time when racial slavery raged around them. Second, it examines different approaches within the Haitian Revolution to overcome these power structures, including that of Toussaint’s egalitarianism, Dessalines’ Black humanism, and the peasant revolt. Finally, the talk examines how external constraints denied many of these political approaches. Hammer concludes by demonstrating how citizenship politics fail to address racial and colonial domination, while pointing to alternative approaches.

Ricarda Hammer is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-23. Her research interests lie at the intersection of global, historical, and postcolonial sociology. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University in 2021 and she is currently working on her book manuscript, “Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule across the Black Atlantic.” The book aims to build a new genealogy of rights formation by examining it through the colonial struggle, and from the perspective of the enslaved and colonized in the colonial Caribbean. Her work has been published in *Sociological Theory*, *Sociology of Race and Ethnicity*, *Political Power and Social Theory*, and *Teaching Sociology*.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/n8MkV

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:25:12 -0500 2023-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Ricarda Hammer
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (March 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CREES Noon Lecture. Media for the "Modern Child": Studying Children and Cinema during the Cold War (March 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102691 102691-21804987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk considers an enduring question in media theory and practice: how have adult imaginings of childhood perception shaped moving image aesthetics, thought, and culture? It does so through the intertwined histories of a series of institutions founded after World War II to study children’s relationship to the moving image and to make films for young audiences: Yugoslavia’s “Film and Child” commission, the East German National Center for Children’s Film and Television, France’s Institute of Filmology, and Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon). Via research by sociologist Edgar Morin and “film pedagogue” Miroslav Vrabec, and films by directors Dušan Vukotić and Abbas Kiarostami, the talk illuminates the links between social-scientific investigations of the “modern child” and formal techniques frequently associated with the avant-garde.

Alice Lovejoy is a media and cultural historian and comparatist whose research examines governmental and institutional media in transnational perspective. Her first book, *Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military* (Indiana University Press, 2015), was named co-winner of the Modern Language Association’s 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures. With Mari Pajala, she co-edited *Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations* (Indiana University Press, 2022), and she has published widely on East European, particularly Czech and Slovak, film and literature. Lovejoy has worked as a film critic, curator, and filmmaker, including as an editor at *Film Comment* magazine. Her research has been supported by, among others, an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship, two Fulbright fellowships, and the University of Minnesota's McKnight-Land Grant Professorship and Talle Faculty Research Award.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/e6RAV

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Feb 2023 16:32:16 -0500 2023-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Alice Lovejoy
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (March 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
Anthropologizing Eastern Europe: A Brief History of Forming an Ethnographic Region (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106492 106492-21814347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

Sociocultural Workshop:

Anthropologizing Eastern Europe:
A Brief History of Forming an Ethnographic Region

Katherine Verdery
Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor Emerita, Anthropology
City University of New York



Katherine Verdery, who obtained her Ph.D. at Stanford University, has conducted field research in Romania since 1973, initially focusing on the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. With the changes of 1989, her work has shifted to problems of the transformation of socialist systems, specifically changing property relations in agriculture. From 1993 to 2000, she did fieldwork on this theme in a Transylvanian community; the resulting book, The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (2003) received the J. R. Staley Prize in Anthropology. She completed a large collaborative project with Gail Kligman (UCLA) and a number of Romanian scholars on the opposite process, the formation of collective and state farms in Romania during the 1950s. The resulting book, Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949–1962 (2011), received a number of prizes in Slavic studies and in sociology.

Verdery’s teaching interests include contemporary and socialist Eastern Europe, the anthropology of property, and time and space. Recent books include "Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of the Romanian Secret Police" (Central European University Press, 2014) and "My Life as a Spy: Investigations In a Secret Police File" (Duke University Press, 2018).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:54:52 -0400 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Workshop / Seminar Portrait of Katherine Verdery
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (March 31, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
U-M History Film Series: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) (April 4, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105385 105385-21811639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

The U-M History department is proud to partner with the Michigan Theater Foundation for the History Matters film series. Look for us on the marquee soon!

Tickets are FREE for faculty, staff, and students, but seating is limited. Please RSVP using the link below in order to receive a complimentary ticket. Other members of the community are welcome to purchase tickets here: https://michtheater.org/all-quiet-on-the-western-front

On Tuesday, April 4, watch "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022) at the State Theatre. The film will be introduced by Professors Kira Thurman and Dario Gaggio who will also lead a brief discussion after.

When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. Award-winning Daniel Bruhl ("Inglourious Basterds") stars in this tense drama by Grimme Award winner Edward Berger.

148 mins. Drama. R.

Faculty, students, and staff reserve your ticket here: https://forms.gle/FVdA55khmMx12EwW9

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:43:29 -0500 2023-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening All Quiet on the Western Front poster
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
Italian Film Festival USA - Metro Detroit (April 8, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107031 107031-21815173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 8, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

@ 5:00 PM : Nevia by Nunzia de Stefano (2019)
Nevia is seventeen-too old to live where she does, and grown up before she's even had the chance to be a child. Tiny and naive, but stubborn, she and her younger sister Enza are being raised by their grandmother Nanà and aunt Lucia in a container park in Ponticelli.
Cast: Virginia Apicella, Pietra Montecorvino, Rosi Franzese, Pietro Ragusa, Franca Abategiovanni, Simone Borelli, Lola Bello, Gianfranco Gallo.
Awards: Lizzani Award (Nunzia De Stefano): Venice Film Festival; Best Breakthrough Actress (Virginia Apicella): Golden Globes, Italy; Nominated Best Film: Venice Film Festival; Best New Director (Nunzia De Stefano): Nastro d'argento.
More info here: https://italianfilmfests.org/nevia.html

@ 7:30 PM: L'immensità by Emanuele Crialese (2022)
Rome, 1970s: Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage is over: they don't love each other anymore, but they can't let go. It is the children who keep them together, on whom Clara pours all her desire for freedom. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned 12 and is the most attentive witness of Clara's moods and the growing tensions between her parents. Adriana rejects her name, her identity, and wants to convince everyone that she is a boy. Her obstinacy of hers brings the already fragile family balance to breaking point. While the children wait for a sign to guide them, whether it's a voice from above or a song on TV, everything around and inside them changes.
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, Penelope Nieto Conti, Alvia Reale, India Santella, Mariangela Granelli, Valentina Cenni, Elena Arvigo, Carlo Gallo, Laura Nardi, Rita De Donato, Filippo Pucillo, Aurora Quattrocchi.
Awards: Nominated Best Film, Queer Lion (Emanuele Crialese): Venice Film Festival.
More info here: https://italianfilmfests.org/immensita.html

*Free and open to the public*
For more info: detroit@italianfilmfests.org
Web: http://italianfilmfests.org/detroit.html
Event sponsored by Michigan Arts&Culture Council; Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM) | U-M LSA; Romance Languages and Literatures | U-M LSA; LGBT+ History Month Italia

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Film Screening Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:05:23 -0400 2023-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-08T22:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening "Crialese narrates the desire to be authentic." - IL GIORNALE
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-10T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
Winter 2024 Study Abroad Advising with CGIS (April 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102029 102029-21803373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Are you thinking of study abroad during the winter term but have questions?

Pop in to the CGIS office on April 13th any time between 11am and 1pm for open advising on Winter 2024 study abroad options with CGIS!

We can answer questions about Winter 2024 programs, the application process, scholarships and financial aid, and more! Come learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, Spanish, and Humanities/Social Sciences, and interest-specific program sessions, such as studying abroad in the UK and English-taught programs in Asia, to name a few.
*LSA Scholarships, the Office of Financial Aid, and Newnan will also be in attendance.*

Popcorn will be provided!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:18:28 -0400 2023-04-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival Consider studying abroad for Winter 2024!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
The Premodern Colloquium. Erhard Ratdolt: The Manipulation of Light in Fifteenth Century Mathematical and Astronomical Treatises (April 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101636 101636-21801623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In his editio princeps of Euclid’s Elements, German-expatriate publisher Erhard Ratdolt included a dedicatory letter to the Venetian Doge entirely printed in gold leaf. The technological feat forces the viewer to participate with a light source in order to read the luminous text. Taking this notion of embodied reading further, I propose that both in his Euclid and later, in his astronomical compilation Sphaera Mundi, Ratdolt aligned diagrams on either side of a single folio. In the course of turning the page, light transmitted through the thin paper support illuminates both diagrams at once. This allowed viewers to compare related geometric proofs or to visualize overlaps in the orbits of celestial bodies.

Through an investigation of translucency and luminosity in late fifteenth-century Venetian visual and material culture, I consider how publishers mobilized technologies of print to exploit the material properties of paper. Similarly, I examine how contemporary epistemologies may have led viewers to look through the folio. I argue that producers of Venetian material culture were particularly skilled in the creation of these effects between translucency and opacity and that savvy Venetian viewers were attuned to the movement of light within and through familiar objects.

To receive a registration link, please contact Terre Fisher telf@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:35:14 -0400 2023-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Portrait of Luca Pacioli, Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari, 1495-1500, Tempera on Panel, Museo Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (99 cm x 120 cm).
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-17T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
WCEE Symposium. Ukrainian Scholars at Risk Discuss their Research (April 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102683 102683-21804980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

The Ukrainian recipients of the WCEE Scholars at Risk Fellowships will discuss their research.

Oksana Chabanyuk, associate professor of architectural environment design, Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
"Foreign Technologies in the Construction of Industrial Plants in Eastern Ukraine during Early Industrialization (1928-1938): American Companies, Projects, Engineers"

Yurii Kaparulin, associate professor of law and law enforcement, Kherson State University
"Holocaust Studies in Ukraine: Impact and Challenges in the Context of Russian Aggression"

Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova, associate professor of journalism, Zaporizhzhia National University
Anna Taranenko, senior lecturer in international relations, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Kseniya Yurtayeva, associate professor of criminal law and criminology, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
"Сyber Threats and the Russia-Ukraine War: Telegram-based Resistance among Ukrainian Government-led Volunteer Forces"

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, WCEE Director

This event will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at https://myumi.ch/bRkW6

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Apr 2023 13:26:52 -0400 2023-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion WCEE Scholars at Risk Research
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803113@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-24T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
CCPS Exhibition. Survivors Saving Survivors: Photographing the Ukrainian Refugee Experience in Poland (April 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/101977 101977-21803117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

In April and June 2022, at the invitation of JCC Krakow, Chuck Fishman traveled to Poland to document the JCC and the Jewish community’s commitment to helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. What he witnessed and captured in a series of gripping photographs is *tikkun olam*, a central concept in Judaism that denotes activities that repair and improve the world we live in. The exhibit shifts the lens away from the horror the refugees have endured to focus instead on human goodness and how it can overcome lingering evil.

In his 45-year career, freelance photographer Chuck Fishman has focused on social and political issues with a strong humanistic concern. His work on Jewish life in Poland, begun in 1975, continues to the present day. Fishman’s work has been extensively published, exhibited, and collected worldwide, and has earned him prestigious World Press Photo Foundation medals four times. His photographs have appeared on the covers of *Time*, *Life*, *Fortune*, *Newsweek*, *The London Sunday Times*, *The Economist*, and numerous others. Fishman’s work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the United Nations POLIN: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Stanford University and New York Public Libraries, to name a few, as well as private and corporate collections.

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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Exhibition Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:11:36 -0500 2023-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2023-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Survivors Saving Survivors, photo by Chuck Fishman
Healthcare workers mental health in disaster settings: lessons from Beirut and Ukraine (May 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108029 108029-21818858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

This presentation is the first of 2023 UMSN Coffee and Conversation Series following the UMSN Global Health Summer Institute. Follow the registration link below to see all sessions.

Dr. Maya Bizri is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine and a global mental health consultant. She also holds an MPH from Tufts. After starting her clinical career in Beirut in 2019, a time where the country was undergoing political, economic and COVID-19 challenges, and having started the first psycho oncology program mid-pandemic and Beirut blast, her interests shifted to global mental health. More particularly, Dr Bizri is interested in addressing the mental health of healthcare workers in disaster, conflict and low-resource settings. Most recently, she was on a medical mission to Ukraine with MedGlobal to pilot a training in trauma-informed care for healthcare workers. Clinically, Dr Bizri's interests lie in delirium management, psychiatry for the medically ill, psycho-oncology and transplant psychiatry.


Register on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/2tsv3va9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 May 2023 11:44:37 -0400 2023-05-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-05-23T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Livestream / Virtual Dr. Maya Bizri conversation series flier
WCEE Lecture. Closer to Michigan or Madrid? Reflections on Ireland’s Unique Geopolitical Position (September 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108971 108971-21820664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

For more than two decades, Irish politicians, economists and legal scholars have commented on whether Ireland is “closer to Boston than Berlin” in its orientation. The U.S. and Europe are often presented as offering competing visions of prosperity in liberal democracies, with different understandings of the role of government.

Ireland has a unique position (and not only in geographical terms) sitting between these two worldviews. Ireland has a close economic relationship with the U.S. Ireland’s culture and legal system has often drawn on American examples. However, Ireland is also a Member State of the European Union, is committed to the project of European economic integration and is bound by laws passed by its institutions.

This question of Ireland’s relationship to the US and Europe merits further consideration in light of more recent developments on both sides of the Atlantic. This lecture will consider how Ireland combines ideas and insights from both systems, drawing on the wisdom of both Boston and Berlin, both Michigan and Madrid. It will examine the pattern of legal, cultural and political links between Ireland, the U.S. and Europe. It will also emphasize the role that these ties have played in nurturing Ireland’s economic development and success.

Rossa Fanning was appointed as Attorney General of Ireland on 17 December 2022. In that role, he attends Cabinet as the legal adviser to the Government and the chief law officer of the State. Prior to his appointment as Attorney General, he was a Senior Counsel in private practice at the Irish Bar with a varied caseload spanning commercial law, public law and judicial review, professional negligence, product liability, defamation, and privacy law. He graduated from University College Dublin with a First Class Honours BCL degree in 1997. He was awarded the Swift McNeill Memorial Prize, a Postgraduate Research Scholarship by UCD, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1999 after graduating from King’s Inns in the first place as the John Brooke Scholar. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a University Fellowship to pursue an LL.M. at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 2000.

This event will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at https://myumi.ch/AWDqj

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, 03 Jul 2023 12:58:54 -0400 2023-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-06T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Rossa Fanning
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107937 107937-21819158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M?
Come explore everything the Center for Global and Intercultural Study has to offer and find the best program for you!

*CGIS is part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), but all U-M undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs.*

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.

Get your questions answered! Come chat with:
- CGIS Program Advisors
- Recent U-M study abroad students
- Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarships Office
- Newnan Academic Advisors
- Other on-campus offices
*Several study abroad offices from around campus will also be present.*

With over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year, there are many options to choose from.

If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad, how to afford study abroad, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip, or want to know what to expect, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:34:42 -0400 2023-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival CGIS Study Abroad Fair - Come find the program for you!
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS 50th Anniversary Symposium (October 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110074 110074-21824293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

“Polish Studies, Then and Now”
Anna Cichopek-Gajraj (PhD History ’08), associate professor of history, Arizona State University
Paulina Duda (PhD Slavic ’17), visiting assistant professor, Brown University; assistant professor, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Keely Stauter-Halsted (PhD History ’93), professor of history and Stefan & Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ewa Wampuszyc (PhD Slavic ’04, MA Russian and East European Studies ’96), content review manager, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Moderator: Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M

“Poland: Here, There, and Elsewhere”
Raymond A. Patton (PhD History ’11, MA Russian and East European Studies ’05), associate professor of history, City University of New York
Jessica C. Robbins-Panko (PhD Anthropology/Graduate Certificate Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies ’13), associate professor of cultural anthropology, Wayne State University
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio (PhD History ’10), associate research professor of history, University of New Mexico
Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology and CCPS Director, U-M


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Conference / Symposium Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:15:06 -0400 2023-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-09T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium CCPS 50th symposium
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
Book Talk with Andrea Rottmann (October 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113124 113124-21830120@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Andrea Rottmann (she/they) is postdoctoral research fellow in the project "Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s" at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin. She got her PhD in German Studies at the University of Michigan in 2019. Her book *Queer Lives Across the Wall. Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945-1970* came out with the University of Toronto Press in May 2023. Andrea has researched and published on queer spaces, on sexuality and gender in museums, on the politics of queer history and the LGBTIQ movement in Germany and the US. With Martin Lücke (FU Berlin) and Benno Gammerl (EUI Florence) she coordinates the network "Queer Contemporary Histories of German-speaking Europe," which brings together queer history scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:38:45 -0400 2023-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Woman stands outdoors in front of a microphone
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
European History Workshop: Book Talk (October 24, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113721 113721-21831507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: European History Workshop

The European History Workshop (EHW) is proud to announce the workshop’s first book-talk of the semester, featuring the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Prof. George Steinmetz. He has graciously agreed to speak about his recent book, *The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire* (Princeton University Press, 2023).

Prof. Steinmetz will join us on Tuesday, October 24, 2023, from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM at 1014 Tisch. The EHW will serve light refreshments. The professor’s talk will be followed by discussant commentary from the EHW’s co-coordinators, Keanu Heydari and Paige Newhouse, and then will open to questions and comments from workshop participants.

From the publisher: “In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz places the history and development of modern French sociology in the context of the French empire after World War II. Connecting the rise of all the social sciences with efforts by France and other imperial powers to consolidate control over their crisis-ridden colonies, Steinmetz argues that colonial research represented a crucial core of the renascent academic discipline of sociology, especially between the late 1930s and the 1960s. Sociologists, who became favored partners of colonial governments, were asked to apply their expertise to such “social problems” as detribalization, urbanization, poverty, and labor migration. This colonial orientation permeated all the major subfields of sociological research, Steinmetz contends, and is at the center of the work of four influential scholars: Raymond Aron, Jacques Berque, Georges Balandier, and Pierre Bourdieu.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2023 15:01:27 -0400 2023-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall European History Workshop Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Extraordinary Women in the Balkans: a lecture (October 24, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112879 112879-21829703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Elizabeth Gowing worked in primary education and in education policy in the UK before moving to Kosovo in 2006. She is co-founder of charitable NGO The Ideas Partnership which empowers and supports people in need in Kosovo in the fields of education, health and social welfare. She is also the owner of the Sapune social enterprise, offering employment to village and minority community women and support to the education of their children, and promoting Kosovo's traditional craft of filigree in eco-friendly products.
Elizabeth is the author of five travel books, of which four are about Kosovo and the Balkans. Her most recent book, written together with Robert Wilton, is No Man's Lands: 8 extraordinary women in Balkan history. Elizabeth also translates from Albanian.

Robert Wilton was Private Secretary to the UK Secretary of State for Defence, advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo in the period before the country's independence and head of an international human rights mission in Albania, and has lived and worked in the Balkans for most of the last fifteen years. He also writes on the history and culture of the region, and translates Albanian poetry. He's co-founder of The Ideas Partnership charity, working with marginalized Balkan communities.
The first of his Comptrollerate-General literary historical thrillers won the inaugural Historical Writers Association/Goldsboro Crown for best debut novel. There have been four in the series, all critically-acclaimed. His Gentleman Adventurer novels are a series of historical entertainments exploring the seedier aspects of espionage and mystery in the years before the First World War.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:06:49 -0400 2023-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Panel. European Elections 2023 (October 25, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109713 109713-21822725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

U-M Faculty and international experts will discuss the results of parliamentary elections in Spain, Slovakia, Poland, and the Netherlands, and their implications.

This lecture will be offered both in-person and via Zoom. Register for the Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/y2Wk8

Panelists: Julián Casanova, professor of contemporary history, University of Zaragoza, and visiting professor, Central European University, Budapest/Vienna; Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M; Peter Terem, professor of international relations, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica; Annemarie Toebosch, lecturer of Germanic languages and literatures.

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology, WCEE Director, U-M.

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University of Budapest/Vienna. Casanova is one of Spain’s foremost historians of the 20th century and one of the world’s greatest historians of the Spanish Civil War. His many books have been published in both Spanish and English and some have been translated into other languages. In April 2021 the Government of Aragon (Spain) awarded him the “Premio de las Letras Aragonesas” 2020 for "his long career, the scientific quality of his texts, the vigor and agility of his essay style, his ability and willingness to communicate, and the social commitment of his work." Casanova has been a visiting professor at a number of prestigious universities in Europe and the Americas: Queen Mary College, London, Harvard University, the New School for Social Research, and FLACSO (Quito, Ecuador). In 2018-19, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. In 2022-23, he was a Distinguished Fellow at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan.

Peter Terem is professor and head of international relations and diplomacy at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic. His background combines academic research and project management with over 27 years of professional experience in scholarly research, teaching, research supervision, and team-leading. His research focuses on the foreign policy of the Slovak Republic, the role of powers in world politics, the use of the concept of soft power in the strategies of small states, and the external relations of the European Union. He has served on the Slovak National Convention on the EU, an expert’s board for the Slovak Ministry of Defense, and as a senior fellow of the GLOBSEC Academy Centre. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Boston College in 2015 and received the Outstanding Pedagogue Award from the SPP Foundation in 2008. He has written several books, contributes to international relations journals, and is a political commentator for RTVS (Radio and Television of Slovakia). In 2019 Terem was a Weiser Professional Development Fellow at WCEE, U-M.

Brian Porter-Szűcs is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1994. He served as director of the Copernicus Endowment from 2000-10. His work includes *Całkiem zwyczajny kraj: Historia Polski bez martyrologii* (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2021), which is a revised and expanded version of his earlier English work, *Poland and the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom* (Wiley Blackwell, 2014). He is also the author of *Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland* (Oxford University Press, 2011), which has appeared in Polish as *Wiara i Ojczyzna: Katolicyzm, Nowoczesność, i Polska* (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2022), as well as *When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in 19th Century Poland* (Oxford University Press, 2000), which was translated into Polish as *Gdy nacjonalizm zaczął nienawidzić: Wyobrażenia nowoczesnej polityki w dziewiętnastowiecznej Polsce* (Pogranicze, 2011).

Annemarie Toebosch is a Chomskyan linguist at the University of Michigan who works within a Chomskyan-inspired model of political and academic activism that challenges colonial power structures in the Dutch-speaking world and beyond. As director of Dutch studies and affiliate faculty in Judaic studies, she takes her students on a journey toward a decolonial language program, the first of its kind on our campus and a model for other language programs. In her language classroom, students build the communication skills to translate minoritized and racialized voices and contrast colonial versus decolonial texts. Her culture courses focus on comparative Holocaust education, analyzing the story of Anne Frank in the context of Dutch colonial genocide in Indonesia, Africa, and the Americas. Her writing on Dutch politics has been published in *The Conversation, Newsweek,* and *Truthout.*

Geneviève Zubrzycki is William H. Sewell Jr. Collegiate Professor of Sociology and director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan. She has published widely on nationalism and religion, the politics of memory, and the Holocaust and Poland’s Jewish revival. Her work has been translated into French, Polish, and Russian.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:55:34 -0400 2023-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion WCEE Panel. European Elections 2023
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
The Inherent Tension between Managerial and Professional Knowledge (October 27, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114361 114361-21832791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Professional workers, especially in health care and education, are among the least happy, most burnt-out categories of workers. This should be surprising, given that what they do is inherently meaningful, and that the content of their work is interesting and engages skills that most people find intrinsically rewarding to exercise. I argue that the discontent of so many professionals is likely due to their increasing proletarianization. As professionals become increasingly submerged as employees in large organizations, often operated on a for-profit basis, they suffer losses of professional autonomy. The organizations they work for operate on a managerial logic that disdains and suppresses the kinds of local, personal, practical knowledge that professionals cultivate and need to exercise to do their jobs well. I explore the contrasts between the kind of knowledge managers use to pursue organizational goals and the kind of knowledge professionals use in their everyday interactions with patients, students, and clients, to explain the pervasive burnout of professionals in large organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:34:54 -0400 2023-10-27T13:30:00-04:00 2023-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Anderson
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (October 31, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-03T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
Conversations on Europe. A New Kind of Progressive: How Poles, Venezuelans, and Germans Reimagined Latin America (November 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108972 108972-21820665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

In the 1950s and 1960s, Caracas—like many Latin American capitals—played host to global Cold Warriors of various ideological stripes. What makes the Venezuelan story unique is the degree of synergy achieved as U.S. agents of “political warfare” found common ground with European representatives of a political family known as Christian Democracy. In the homegrown Latin American vocabulary of “progressivism,” East European exiles and West European powerbrokers alike saw a chance to marginalize Marxism by remaking Latin America into a breeding ground for distinctively Catholic visions of justice in politics, economics, and society. Polish political refugees served crucially as liaisons between the CIA-backed Free Europe Committee; West Germany’s governing political party, the CDU; and emerging Latin American networks of Catholic lawyers, academics, and anti-junta dissenters.

In this lecture, mid-century Caracas emerges as a place where Latin Americans and Europeans from both sides of the Iron Curtain pioneered a new kind of transnational politics: at once Catholic, progressive, and anti-communist. Our guide will be the Polish émigré Janusz Śleszyński, who served as gatekeeper for much of the networking that built Venezuelan Christian Democracy into a continental powerhouse.

Piotr H. Kosicki is a global and transnational historian of modern Europe. His early work focused on Catholic intellectual partnerships linking France and Poland; this research yielded *Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France, and “Revolution,” 1891-1956* (Yale, 2018), in addition to peer-reviewed articles in *Contemporary European History, Modern Intellectual History, Slavic Review,* and *Vingtième Siecle: Revue d’histoire*. After curating a project about the Second Vatican Council’s impact on Eastern Europe (*Vatican II behind the Iron Curtain*, 2016) and another concerning historical memory of the Katyń Massacres, Kosicki’s research has turned to the global history of the political family known as Christian Democracy, about which Kosicki has co-edited 3 books (*Christian Democracy across the Iron Curtain*, 2017; *Christian Democracy and the Fall of Communism*, 2019; and *Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century*, 2021). Piotr H. Kosicki contributes frequently to journals of public opinion, including *Commonweal, the Nation,* the *TLS*, and *The Washington Post*.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:01:57 -0400 2023-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Piotr Kosicki
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CREES Noon Lecture. To See and Write Vietnam: Polish Socialist Travelogues and Documentary Photography (November 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113023 113023-21829908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Literature and documentary photography on decolonization and the postcolonial period played an essential role in forging global socialist connections, a sense of connectivity, and in shaping grassroots imaginaries of socialist anti-colonialism. These discursive moorings brought closer to the audiences in Eastern Europe the far-away conflicts and developments that came with decolonization and life amid war in Southeast Asia. As part of the then-newly established political contacts between Poland and Vietnam, Polish professionals were delegated to Vietnam, leading to a series of books, memoirs, and reportages covering the situation on the ground in Vietnam. In my talk I will analyze the largely forgotten travelogues and documentary photographs that were published in state-socialist Poland by journalists and diplomats who had spent time in Vietnam amid and, subsequently, after unification. This material underlines how literary works and documentary photography dealing with cultural and societal transformation have the power to reveal, obscure, and construct the perception of national liberation struggles.
Rather than negatively casting the work by Monika Warneńska and Jerzy Chociłowski as mere socialist propaganda or treating it as “purely” documentary, my talk will unpack how the postcolonial period—especially after the Second Indochina War—was narrated and understood in these publications and photographs. Vacillating between different genres and political commitments, the travelogues and documentary photography point to shifting boundaries of strongly context-dependent knowledge production. Chronicling prolonged wartime violence and hardship as well as the challenges that came with postcolonial restructuring and social upheaval, this discursive production around the war and post-war period in Vietnam used the power of literary narrative to humanize and translate to another context the experience of a seemingly perennial war without victimizing Vietnamese society.
The talk will also address how literary and visual representations and misrepresentations contribute to or undermine global socialist awareness of decolonization and postcolonialism—whether in line with or against the intentions of the authors and their political sponsors. Merging empathy and political rationale, the travelogues and documentary photographs I discuss warrant asking: Were these overtly political yet empathetic accounts immune to an Orientalizing gaze and framing? Does the empathy towards war-torn Vietnamese society, seemingly based in an ideal of socialist brotherhood, suffice as a tool for self-validation and motivation? How exactly did the Vietnamese version of the story come to matter in these representations?

Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ is a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) at the University of Vienna. Linh is a cultural historian with a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches. She is currently working on two books manuscripts: one on the cultural history of everyday life and of political mobilization in a dissident milieu in socialist Poland, and a second one on contacts between Poland and Vietnam after 1955. Linh has published in *Cahiers du Monde Russe, East European Politics and Society,* and *History Workshop Journal,* as well as in non-scholarly outlets such as TAZ and krytykapolityczna.pl.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:25:03 -0400 2023-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-21T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-21T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-23T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-24T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Alternative Narratives: Social Knowledge of Literature in the Post-Yugoslav Cultural Field (November 28, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113028 113028-21829939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This year’s Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture will address Yugoslav socialism in contemporary literature and culture after the collapse of socialism in the broader cultural, political and economic context of Eastern Europe. Unlike so-called ‘’peaceful revolutions’’ in the rest of Eastern Europe, the collapse of socialism and the disintegration of Yugoslavia in a tragic war influenced the course of a specific local transition where change of the social system went hand in hand with a thorough and rapid metamorphosis of a new collective identity. A particular ideological treatment of Yugoslavia and socialism in institutional memory and mainstream political discourse continues to hold a prominent place in the process of building a new identity. Parallel to this process, a large number of literary and cultural texts articulated specific narratives about the recent socialist past. In this talk, Maša Kolanović will provide insight into various figures and modes of literary and cultural articulations of the specific politics of remembrance, producing affective tones of nostalgia, melancholy, humor, trauma, as well as irony and parody, which are characteristic of the works of Dubravka Ugrešić, Miljenko Jergović, Ratko Cvetnić, Lana Bastašić and others.

Maša Kolanović is an associate professor in the Department of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb and a multi-genre writer. Her works include the poetry collection *Pijavice za usamljene (Leeches for the Lonely)*, the novel *Sloboština Barbie (Underground Barbie)*, the prose poem *Jamerika*, and the short story collection *Poštovani kukci i druge jezive price (Dear Pests and Other Chilling Stories)*. Following her monograph *Udarnik! Buntovnik? Potrošač…Hrvatski roman i popularna kultura od socijalizma do tranzicije (Strike! Rebel? Consumer…The Croatian Novel from Socialism to Transition)*, which she completed in 2011 for her PhD in Croatian language and comparative literature, she published articles on literature and popular culture. She co-edited the volumes: *Komparativni postsocijalizam: slavenska iskustva (Comparative Post-socialism: Slavic Experiences)*; *The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia* with D. Jelača and D. Lugarić; *Povijest, tekst, kontekst (History, Text, Context)* with L. Molvarec; and *Ekonomija i književnost (Economy and Literature)* with L. Molvarec and M. Hameršak. Her short story collection *Dear Pests and Other Chilling Stories* received the 2020 European Prize for Literature, the Pula Book Fair Audience Award, and the Vladimir Nazor Prize for Literature. Maša Kolanović is a member of Croatian Academy of Science and Art.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:02:44 -0500 2023-11-28T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-28T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Maša Kolanović
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War (November 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109333 109333-21821477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Presented in association with UMS*.

In Guardian Passage, artists Irina Bondarenko and Katya Lisova employ the tools and imagery of traditional Ukrainian art forms to face down the existential threat brought about by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Bondarenko’s installation forms a causeway for visitors to encounter Ukrainian poetry and the art form of motanka dolls in a newly imagined configuration. Motanka are guardian symbols assembled from the clothes of deceased ancestors. Bondarenko’s ceramics illustrate motanka in situations responding to the war; each graphic is accompanied by a poem or a song. These ceramics act as lifeboats, which ferry the Ukrainian resistance through the flood waters of destruction. Lisova’s series of tapestries explore the power of cultural memory to grow in times of war. Traditional embroidery explodes on the surface of photo collage, where images of the past and present collide on a single surface. Like a lifeline, red thread connects these projects, weaving through clay and fabric, bringing tradition to bear on new significances and the cultural will to survive. This exhibition is part of the LSA theme semester on “Arts and Resistance.”

Irina Bondarenko is an emerging ceramic artist, a native of Ukraine, and a biostatistician at the University of Michigan. Irina has been with the University of Michigan Biostatistics Department for more than 20 years. and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Along with her career at the School of Public Health, for the last 10 years Irina has been pursuing her interest in ceramics. Her work was featured in over a dozen national shows, the 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, and the “Strictly Functional Pottery National Show” in 2021 and 2022, and, most recently, the Regional Biennial Juried Sculpture Exhibition at Marshall Fredericks Sculpture Museum.

Artist website: https://www.ibondceramics.com/

Katya Lisova is an artist, designer, and art historian. Born in Kyiv, she is a graduate of the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk (2009) and the National Academy of Cultural and Artistic Leaders (2018). Since 2019 she has been teaching at the Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design named after Mykhailo Boichuk. Her work is in the field of artistic textiles and digital graphics. She is also the art director of the “Ukrainian Unofficial” research project, which compiles archives of Ukrainian unofficial art of the second half of the twentieth century.

Artist website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/196914550@N02/albums

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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Exhibition Mon, 02 Oct 2023 14:18:28 -0400 2023-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Exhibition WCEE Exhibition. Guardian Passage: The Power of Ukrainian Cultural Memory in the Face of War
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (November 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-01T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Mass Flight from and in Ukraine: A Game Changer in International Refugee and Migration History? (December 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108975 108975-21820666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The mass flight from and in Ukraine indeed deserves to be labeled as a major "refugee crisis” for Europe. The talk will take this case as a point of departure, but then zoom back a century into the aftermath of World War I, when refugees from Ukraine and Russia were formative for international refugee politics and international law. The lecture will then analyze who was accepted as a refugee over time and who was not, and why Ukrainian refugees have been received surprisingly positively since the beginning of the second Russian-Ukrainian War.

The open door policy in Europe since February 2022 is based on the reaction to mass flights from the former Yugoslavia. The history of Croatia and Bosnia from 1991 to 1995 are also important points of reference to understand Ukraine's predicaments in its struggle against Russian neo-imperialism and fascism. Another recurring topic of the lecture will be the dialectic between humanitarian and utilitarian refugee politics and how they might be combined. The countries of origin are usually set aside once the mass flight has occurred and play only a minor role in migration history. This must change in the case of Ukraine, where the return of refugees and other ways to strengthen human capital should be a major consideration.

Philipp Ther is Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, where he also founded the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET). Five of his monographs have been published in English: *Europe since 1989: A History* (Princeton UP); *The Dark Side of Nation States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe* (Berghahn Press); *Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in 19th Century Central Europe* (Purdue UP); *The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492* (Princeton UP); and *How the West Lost the Peace. The Great Transformation since 1989* (Polity Press). In 2019 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize by the Austrian Research Fund, the highest recognition for scientists in Austria.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:03:07 -0400 2023-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Philipp Ther
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-05T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-06T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-07T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-08T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-11T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-12T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-15T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-18T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-19T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-20T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-21T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (December 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21826871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2023-12-22T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 2, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-02T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-02T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 3, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-03T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-03T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 4, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-04T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 5, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-05T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 8, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-08T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 9, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-09T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 10, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-10T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 11, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-11T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 12, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-12T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 15, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-15T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 16, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-16T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-16T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 17, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-17T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-17T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (January 17, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115777 115777-21835495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award winning African-American lesbian poet came to live in West-Berlin in the 1980s. This documentary traces her stay as a visiting professor, when she acted as mentor and catalyst to ignite the Afro-German movement. Lorde also had a decisive impact on white women, challenging them to acknowledge the significance of their white privilege and learning to deal with difference in constructive ways.

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:38:23 -0500 2024-01-17T16:30:00-05:00 2024-01-17T18:30:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Event poster with image of smiling African American woman wearing a straw hat in a cityscape
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 18, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-18T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Hélène Grimaud (January 18, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109633 109633-21822433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

An exceptional pianist with an original and probing mind who takes no note for granted.” (Los Angeles Times)

Hélène Grimaud is a deeply passionate and committed musical artist with multiple talents that extend far beyond the instrument she plays with such poetic expression and peerless technical control. A committed wildlife conservationist, she is also a compassionate human rights activist and a writer; but it is through her thoughtful and tenderly expressive music-making that she most deeply touches the emotions of audiences. After her UMS debut in 2015 as featured soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, she was due to return in March 2020 for her UMS recital debut. Four years later, we look forward to bringing her back to the Hill Auditorium stage at last.

PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Johannes Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op. 117
Johannes Brahms Fantasies, Op. 116
J.S. Bach Chaconne from BWV 1004 (arr. F. Busoni)

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:18:22 -0400 2024-01-18T19:30:00-05:00 2024-01-18T21:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Hélène Grimaud, piano
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 19, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-19T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 22, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 23, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 24, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 25, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-25T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-25T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 26, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-26T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 29, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-29T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 30, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-30T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (January 31, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 1, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 2, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 3, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 3, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-03T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 4, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 4, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 5, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-05T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-05T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 6, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-06T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 6, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-06T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 7, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 8, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 8, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 8, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-08T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 9, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 9, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-09T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 11, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 12, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-12T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
This is What I live For: Italian Rapper Amir Issaa Book Launch (February 12, 2024 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117672 117672-21839823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2024 2:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Born and raised in Rome, in the neighborhood of Torpignattara, Amir is the son of an Egyptian immigrant father and an Italian mother. He initially approached hip-hop culture in the 1990s, first as a b-boy/breaker, and then as a writer for Roma’s graffiti crew The Riot Vandals. He is among the founders of the legendary Rome Zoo, a group made of Rome’s rap artists such as Colle Der Fomento, Cor Veleno, Flaminio Maphia, Piotta, and many more.

In June 2017, Amir published his first book, *Vivo per questo* (Chiarelettere). An autobiographical novel that has been well-received by Italian literary critics and was praised by Internazionale as one of the best books for young adults in 2017. Now in English translation, Amir will be presenting his book at the University of Michigan. *The English translation is the culmination of a multi-year project undertaken by multiple advanced Italian classes across the US. *

A *free* live performance by Amir will follow the book launch at Wayne State University. For more information see here.

For those interested, there will also be a Zoom workshop hosted by WSU in the morning from 10:30AM -12:10 PM. Please email Giulia Riccò (gricco@umich.edu) for more information.

This event is co-sponsored by: The Consulate of Italy in Detroit, Wayne State University, Michigan State University, and the Language Resource Center at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:58:12 -0500 2024-02-12T14:30:00-05:00 2024-02-12T15:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Amir Issaa Book Launch Poster
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 13, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-13T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 13, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-13T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 14, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-14T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 14, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-14T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 15, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 15, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 15, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-15T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 16, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 16, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-16T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-16T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 17, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 17, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 18, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 18, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 19, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 19, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-19T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 20, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-20T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 20, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 21, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 21, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 22, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 22, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 22, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 23, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834769@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 23, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 24, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 24, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-24T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 25, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 25, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-25T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 26, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 26, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-26T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 27, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-27T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 27, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 28, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 28, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (February 29, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-02-29T08:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 29, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 29, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-29T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-29T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
CCPS Exhibition. Modernist Glass from the Polish Past (March 1, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111352 111352-21834776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The glass in this rare collection represents the work of renowned Polish glass artists and designers created between 1960 and 1980. Known as Polskie szkło artystyczne (Polish art glass), the works were produced in glass factories in southern Poland and are a feature of many homes throughout Central Europe. The glass masters were trained in schools of art and design and many achieved international fame during their lifetimes.

The collectors, Endi Poskovic and his wife Julie Anne Visco, began acquiring the glass in 2015-16 while Endi was a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Scouring flea markets, antique shops, and websites, they continue to acquire pieces and build the collection to this day. We are grateful to them for making this remarkable exhibit possible at CCPS and WCEE.

Organized by the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, this exhibition is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

Learn more about the exhibition and the artists at https://myumi.ch/8eVrM

The exhibit opens on September 15, 2023 in 1010 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor. Contact copernicus@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:07:34 -0400 2024-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Modernist Glass from the Polish Past
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-03-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (March 2, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 2, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison), this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art, 1650-1850.

In recent times, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.

Pieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  

In this online exhibition, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery, which will open in early 2021, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. 

By challenging our own practice, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles, and fails to settle for, simple narratives. 

“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed, so ornate, so planned, they call attention to themselves; arrest us with intentionality and purpose, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” 

— Toni Morrison

Lead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the U-M Arts Initiative, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-03-02T11:00:00-05:00 2024-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar