Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. International Romance Film Fest (June 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108278 108278-21819205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Drop by the Hatcher Gallery (just off the Diag) to watch one — or all four — romance movies from around the world. All films are either in English or subtitled in English.

11:00am — Karmen Gei (Wolof & French)
2001, 1 hr 26 mins
Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.

12:45pm — Lost in Paris (French & English)
2016, 1 hr 23 mins
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

2:45pm — The Worst Person in the World (Norwegian)
2021, 2 hrs 8 mins
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

5:15pm — And Then We Danced (Georgian)
2019, 1 hr 53 mins
A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

These movies are brought to you by the U-M Library's department of International Studies.

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Film Screening Mon, 22 May 2023 15:00:08 -0400 2023-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-06T19:15:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening DVD covers from four films.
CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Ann Arbor Japan Week Kickoff Film, *Howl’s Moving Castle* (June 11, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108223 108223-21819123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See the full Ann Arbor Japan Week schedule here: https://myumi.ch/PrxXn

Reserve Your FREE Ticket at the Michigan Theater website: https://myumi.ch/GkEA1

Sophie finds her life changed when she is literally swept off her feet by the handsome, mysterious wizard Howl. In search of a cure to a witch’s curse, Sophie boards his magnificent moving castle into a new life of wonder and adventure.

Presented with English dubbing. 2004. 119 mins. Anime/Adventure. PG.

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Film Screening Fri, 19 May 2023 16:11:47 -0400 2023-06-11T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Ann Arbor Japan Week Kickoff Film, "Howl’s Moving Castle"
CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Film Screening, *Mifune: The Last Samurai* (June 12, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108234 108234-21819151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See the full Ann Arbor Japan Week schedule here: https://myumi.ch/PrxXn

Join us for a screening of the documentary Mifune: the Last Samurai by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki which explores the acting career of Toshiro Mifune. Mifune was a prolific actor who starred in many Akira Kurosawa films during what is considered the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema. 2015, 80min, unrated.

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Film Screening Fri, 19 May 2023 16:16:08 -0400 2023-06-12T18:00:00-04:00 2023-06-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Film Screening, *Mifune: The Last Samurai*
Artscapade! (August 25, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109118 109118-21821090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts Initiative

The Arts Initiative and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an exciting evening of art-making, live music, dance, poetry, and games.

We're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!). Sign up today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:36:40 -0400 2023-08-25T18:00:00-04:00 2023-08-25T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts Initiative Reception / Open House Students celebrate Artscapade 2022 with performance group Groove
Master of Light (August 31, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108923 108923-21820593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 31, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for a screening of *Master of Light* and discussion with artists and staff from the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP).

Master of Light is a beautiful documentary about George Anthony Morton, an artist who studied classical painting while incarcerated and returned to his hometown to reconnect with his family, painting their portraits to bond and heal. It’s a powerful, raw, hopeful film you don't want to miss!

The screening will be followed by a discussion about the transformative power of arts in prisons with artist Flint Kougar, Program Coordinator - Mary Heinen, and Arts Programming Coordinator - Emily Chase. This event is part of the *Shared Humanity* traveling art sale & exhibition.

Presented by the Greater Flint Arts Council

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Film Screening Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:03:54 -0400 2023-08-31T19:00:00-04:00 2023-08-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Film Screening Artist, George Anthony Morton, painting a self portrait
Mesmerica (September 1, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-01T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-01T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 1, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-01T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-01T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 1, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-01T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-01T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-02T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-02T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-02T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-02T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 2, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-02T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-02T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 3, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 3, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-03T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-03T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 3, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 3, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-03T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-03T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 3, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 3, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-03T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-03T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
The Other 9-11. Chile ‘76 (2022): Film Screening and Discussion (September 5, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111602 111602-21827314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Chile '76 is an intriguing historical noir that radiographs Pinochet's patronizing and patriarchal society through the eyes of a steely bourgeoise woman who dares to take a stand. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

Co-sponsors:
University of Michigan [ Organized by the History Department, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; International Institute; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Office of Research; Department of History; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; Museum Studies Program; Institute for the Humanities] and Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:09:24 -0400 2023-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 2023-09-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 8, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-08T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-08T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 8, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-08T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-08T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 9, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-09T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 9, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 9, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-09T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-09T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 10, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-10T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 10, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 10, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-10T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-10T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
GISC Screening & Talkback. American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story (September 12, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110627 110627-21825179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

RSVP: http://bit.ly/AmJedi
When: Sept 12th, 2023 | 6:30 PM ET
Where: U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Join the Global Islamic Studies Center, on September 12th at 6:30 PM at the UMMA for a screening of the short film “American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story”. This screening will be followed by a talkback with filmmakers Nick Eyde and Mohammad Khalil.

*American Jedi*: The Salman Hamdani Story: A devout Muslim and proud American immigrant makes the ultimate heroic sacrifice. Like the fictional Jedi he admires, Salman Hamdani is ready to face adversity for the sake of others. On the morning of September 11, 2001, this young man takes a daring leap and runs toward the Twin Towers. When his body isn't immediately found, his absence inevitably leads to questions--and suspicions. His family is forced to overcome tragedy and ostracization in response to their son's death.

Mohammad Khalil is a professor of Religious Studies, adjunct professor of Law, and the director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. He has authored and edited multiple books on Islam and Muslims and was the lead investigator of the Muslims of the Midwest digital archive. He received all of his degrees from the University of Michigan.

Nick Eyde played for six seasons in the Italian Football League, quarterbacking for the Rome Ducks, Reggio Emilia Hogs, Lazio Marines and Bolzano Giants, including one Italian Bowl appearance. He is now a real estate developer in the Toledo area. He redeveloped the former Fiberglas Tower into the mixed-use Tower on the Maumee and spearheaded the effort to bring the Italian Bowl to the Glass City (Toledo). He has been a featured guest star on Chicago Fire and has produced a handful of independent film projects.


This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, The Department of Middle East Studies, Arab and Muslim American Studies, and the MSU Muslim Studies Program.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:11:18 -0400 2023-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story
Ukrainian Film Series: "Mr. Jones" Screening (September 13, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112008 112008-21828323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Ukrainian Film Days will start this Wednesday, September 13th 6-9 pm in MLB Auditorium 3 with a screening of “Mr. Jones” film - an important new historical drama with a very contemporary context. Released in the US in spring 2020, it sheds long overdue light on one of Stalin’s worst crimes, while also serving as a timely reminder that today’s talk of fake news is actually nothing new.

Written by Andrea Chalupa and directed by the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland, this joint Polish, Ukrainian, and British production follows one man’s struggle to expose Stalin’s man-made famine in Ukraine, a crime the Soviet regime was desperate to hide from the outside world.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:54:59 -0400 2023-09-13T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T21:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Mr. Jones
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-17T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-17T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Swedish Film Series (September 20, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112685 112685-21829421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Department will be screening a Swedish film each month in NQ1255. Bring a friend! Bring a snack! English subtitles, no language knowledge required!

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:29:02 -0400 2023-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Swedish Film Series
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111860 111860-21827690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

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Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111862 111862-21827692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No registration required. .

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

***

Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-24T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-24T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
“Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine” Film Screening & Panel Discussion (September 27, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110064 110064-21824279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Join leaders in astronomy, the space sciences, and documentary film-making for a special screening of "Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine," at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at Stamps Auditorium. Hosted by the U-M Space Institute, the event will include a screening of the Netflix documentary about the design and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a panel discussion featuring Film Director Shai Gal and Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, the previous Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, as well as other experts in space and astronomy.

Admission is free, but registration is required for this event due to limited seating.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/68039

Event: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

Parking will be limited near venue so please plan ahead by viewing the North Campus parking map.

For more information about the event and the panelists involved visit: https://space.umich.edu/u-m-space-institute-to-host-screening-of-unknown-cosmic-time-machine-and-panel-discussion/

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:01:18 -0400 2023-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Film Screening Netflix- Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 28, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112387 112387-21830594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Join "Afterthought" editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways.

September 30, 1pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:44 -0400 2023-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 28, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 29, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112383 112383-21828851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look
like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials
and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, “Afterthought”
memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing. Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

September 29, 6pm
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of
Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:17:23 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Film Screening Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109622 109622-21822415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:16:01 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-29T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109705 109705-21822717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112385 112385-21828855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

This workshop invites graduate students to consider film as a modality for presenting research. It explores art as a pathway for resisting the centrality of text in academic expression. “Afterthought" director and University of Michigan Ph.D. student Charlotte Juergens will share clips from three academic film projects, discuss the possibilities and challenges of film as a research methodology, and work with attendees to troubleshoot next steps for integrating film into their academic practices. This event will include a continental breakfast.

September 30, 11am
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:28:03 -0400 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Workshop / Seminar Event Poster
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (September 30, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112387 112387-21830593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Join "Afterthought" editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways.

September 30, 1pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:44 -0400 2023-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112389 112389-21828862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Collaborators from the memorials featured in the documentary “Afterthought” will participate in a panel discussion. Participants include: Laura Taylor (creator of “Half-Built House”), Laura Mott (Chief Curator for the Cranbrook Art Museum and curator for the Detroit Healing Memorial), and Rachel Frierson (Director of Programming for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and organizer for the Detroit Healing Memorial). Panelists will discuss the role of art in individual and community healing after mass-trauma events like COVID-19.

September 30, 3pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of
Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:55:20 -0400 2023-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-30T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-30T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109706 109706-21822718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 1, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 1, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 2, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
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!
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 3, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-03T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 4, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 4, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives (October 4, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113131 113131-21830128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This roundtable brings together scholars of the horror film working in the contexts of Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli cinemas. They will discuss these questions and issues: How do we take stock of concurrent developments in Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli horror films? What are the points of convergence and divergence among them? What does horror add to our understanding of Muslim and Jewish cultures? Alternatively, how do Jewish and Muslim interventions contribute to the horror genre?

Attend in-person, or online at https://myumi.ch/gRAV2

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:11:32 -0400 2023-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 5, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

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

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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 5, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
'Seed Stories' viewing and conversation with Filmmakers (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112986 112986-21829852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Thursday, October 5 at 5:30pm
1040 Dana Building, U of M

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha, eastern India, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his team are conserving over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice in-situ, the world’s largest project of its kind. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with farmers and shifting cultivators, particularly from Indigenous communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their own seeds, evolved over centuries. But the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified Bt and herbicide-tolerant cotton seeds and associated agrochemicals like glyphosate. ‘Seed Stories’ takes a worm’s eye view of how the swift expansion of a chemical-intensive cotton monoculture is reshaping a geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge, and altering their attitudes towards farming, food and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’

Chitrangada Choudhury is an alumnus of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship program at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and her reportage on issues of the environment and human rights has been cited for multiple national and international journalism awards. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Aniket Aga is an Assistant Professor of Geography at SUNY Buffalo and the author of ‘Genetically Modified Democracy’ (Yale University Press, 2021). The book won the 2022 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). His research interests lie in science & technology, democratic politics and agrarian change.

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Film Screening Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:18:06 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Film Screening Join us for a viewing of Seed Stories
CSAS Documentary Screening | *Seed Stories* (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112724 112724-21829467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

*Seed Stories*
Documentary Film (42 minutes)
Directed by Chitrangada Choudhury & Aniket Aga. Edited by Ajay T.G.
Odiya, Kui, English – with English subtitles

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha, eastern India, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his team are conserving over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice in-situ, the world’s largest project of its kind. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with farmers and shifting cultivators, particularly from Indigenous communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their own seeds, evolved over centuries. But the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified Bt and herbicide-tolerant cotton seeds and associated agrochemicals like glyphosate. ‘Seed Stories’ takes a worm’s eye view of how the swift expansion of a chemical-intensive cotton monoculture is reshaping geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge and altering their attitudes towards farming, food and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’

Chitrangada Choudhury is an alumnus of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship program at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and her reportage on issues of the environment and human rights has been cited for multiple national and international journalism awards. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Aniket Aga is an Assistant Professor of Geography at SUNY Buffalo and the author of ‘Genetically Modified Democracy’ (Yale University Press, 2021). The book won the 2022 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). His research interests lie in science & technology, democratic politics and agrarian change.

The lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant awarded to the University of Michigan Center for South Asian Studies.

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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Film Screening Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:50:22 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS Documentary Screening | Seed Stories
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 6, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (October 6, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-06T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-06T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 6, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 6, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-06T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-06T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster (October 7, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110207 110207-21824495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship?

Come experience the big, bold, colorful use of illustrations, playful use of scale, and the magic of cinema. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, live music, and the wonder of real-time filming to bring Mo Willems’ books to life. You can watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or watch the artists below as they create the story in real time — there is no wrong way to watch the show!

Recommended for ages 3+ and their parents and guardians. Production contains some loud sounds, flashing lights, and furry monster puppets.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:54:31 -0400 2023-10-07T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Manual Cinema Productions
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster (October 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110207 110207-21824496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship?

Come experience the big, bold, colorful use of illustrations, playful use of scale, and the magic of cinema. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, live music, and the wonder of real-time filming to bring Mo Willems’ books to life. You can watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or watch the artists below as they create the story in real time — there is no wrong way to watch the show!

Recommended for ages 3+ and their parents and guardians. Production contains some loud sounds, flashing lights, and furry monster puppets.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:54:31 -0400 2023-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Manual Cinema Productions
Mesmerica (October 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 7, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 7, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-07T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-07T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 8, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 9, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 9, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 10, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 10, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-10T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 11, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 11, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 12, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 12, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 13, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 13, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-13T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Takes More Than Talent: An Alum Connection Exploring Pathways to Success in the Entertainment Industry with Nicole Teddone (October 13, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113560 113560-21831155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Are you worried about what it takes to break into the entertainment industry? Have you ever wondered what it’s like to begin climbing the ranks at a major talent agency? LSA alum Nicole Teddone (2019 Film, Television, and Media) joins us to share about her journey starting out in the entertainment industry and how she used her skills, liberal arts experiences, and support resources to align her career trajectory with her identified passions. Come and gain insight on what can truly help you connect and stand out in a competitive industry.

About Nicole:
“Nicole Teddone is an Agent Trainee for the TV Scripted Department at William Morris Endeavor, one of the largest global talent agencies focusing in Entertainment, Fashion and Sports. Working with their TV Scripted and Comedy Departments, Nicole assists the company’s agents through assessing client scripts and submissions for potential opportunities, monitoring and assisting with staffing, directing, and casting decisions for developing projects, and tracking negotiations and redlining agreements for client contracts. Nicole also established WME's Comedy Assistant Tracking Team, where she manages a proficient 30+ assistant team (spanning across both NY and LA offices) dedicated to monitoring emerging comedic talent. Through this team, she has orchestrated seamless individual and group coverage for showcases, auditions, and over 200 shows, including distinguished showcases for Just for Laughs, Netflix is a Joke, Paramount CBS’s Annual Showcase, and the Brooklyn Comedy Collective’s Pitchfest. Throughout her tenure at WME, Nicole has also serviced the Talent Department and the Business Affairs Department (the latter having a focus on aiding the Commercials and Brand Endorsements Department and the TV Scripted and Non-Scripted Departments).

Prior to working at WME, Nicole graduated from Michigan in 2019 with a B.A. in Film, Television & Media (sub-major in Screenwriting), a minor in Business from Ross Business School, and was a Fellow of the Entrepreneurs Leadership Program (through the Center for Entrepreneurship). She also spent significant time screenwriting, completing three feature length screenplays and multiple shorts while at Michigan. Nicole also worked with MPowered Entrepreneurship, where she co-founded their alumni relations team and content marketing team. When Nicole is not working or spending time with family and friends, she loves catching up on her favorite stand-up specials, scripts, and comedy shows, cooking new recipes, watching Michigan Football, working out, and mentoring others!”

You should attend this session if you are:
- An undergraduate LSA student exploring careers in entertainment and media.
- Concerned about work-life balance in time-demanding careers.
- Seeking strategies to best position yourself for opportunities in a constantly changing industry.

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Make a valuable connection with a successful LSA alum ready to help you navigate the early career building experience.
- Learn what actions can make or break your entry in the entertainment industry.
- Find out what you can start doing now to align your future profession with your passions.

RSVP now to be a part of the conversation. Lunch will be provided.

The Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor, places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby on Maynard Street. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:52:02 -0400 2023-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Nicole Teddone
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 13, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 13, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109707 109707-21822719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:57 -0400 2023-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Mesmerica (October 13, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-13T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 13, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 13, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-13T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-13T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 14, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109708 109708-21822720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:57 -0400 2023-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 14, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-14T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (October 14, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-14T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-14T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 14, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 14, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-14T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-14T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109709 109709-21822721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:43:30 -0400 2023-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Afterthought (website cover: How will we remember the pandemic and the lives it cut short?)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 15, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 16, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-16T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 16, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 16, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-16T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-16T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
CSEAS and GETSEA present *Above and Below the Ground*, Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion (October 16, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112848 112848-21829650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Above and Below the Ground* depicts the Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors leading Myanmar’s first country-wide environmental movement. When the Myanmar army and a Chinese corporate giant force Indigenous Kachin people off their ancestral land to build the massive Myitsone Dam, Grandmother Lu Ra stands her ground. We see her struggle to save the sacred confluence and build a movement, mentoring young female law student Hkawn Mai. A Kachin punk rock band made of pastors, BLAST, also takes action, transforming their love songs into protest anthems. Our film follows these individuals through their journey of activism, from their underground beginnings during Myanmar’s military junta rule, to supposed “democratic” reforms and a sudden military coup. During such periods of fledgling democracy and dictatorship–in Myanmar and globally–our film asks how ordinary people can use the power of music, community organizing and women’s leadership to challenge authoritarianism.

The in-person portion of GETSEA’s simulcast film screening of *Above and Below the Ground *will be held at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where Director Emily Hong and Producer Maggie Lemere will hold a discussion following the screening. Twenty other universities will screen the film simultaneously and join the discussion via Zoom.

A production of Rhiza Collective in association with Ethnocine Collective

Director & Director of Photography: Emily Hong
Produced By: Maggie Lemere, Ja Nang Tsen, Emily Hong

Register to the event: https://forms.gle/AinPQGU6dkiFqJvd7

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Film Screening Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:45:47 -0400 2023-10-16T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 17, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
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Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-17T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 17, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-17T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
NCKS Korean Cinema NOW Series | *Crossings* (October 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111723 111723-21827498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

In 2015, an international group of women activists turned their own bodies into vehicles for peace by crossing the last remaining border of the Cold War: the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea. The film documents this remarkable journey. Following the event, the audience will have an opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the chief organizer of this movement and the documentary filmmaker.

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Film Screening Wed, 06 Sep 2023 16:41:44 -0400 2023-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening NCKS Korean Cinema NOW Series | Crossings
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 18, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Swedish Film Series (October 18, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112685 112685-21829422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Department will be screening a Swedish film each month in NQ1255. Bring a friend! Bring a snack! English subtitles, no language knowledge required!

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:29:02 -0400 2023-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Swedish Film Series
Anxious Nation: Film screening & panel with U-M anxiety experts (October 18, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113976 113976-21831990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

The U-M Department of Psychiatry will screen the film "Anxious Nation" at two theaters in October, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts.

The screening on 10/18 is at the Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township, and the screening on 10/25 is at Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.

This documentary sets out to lift the shroud of shame around mental health while giving emotional insights into how anxiety shows up in our lives, impacts families, and what parents’ contributing role may be in the journey.

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Film Screening Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:07:05 -0400 2023-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Medicine Film Screening Movie poster: Anxious Nation
South Asian Film Series | *Shoebox* Screening with Filmmaker Faraz Ali (October 18, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110435 110435-21824906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

CSAS will be launching their South Asian Film Series with *Shoebox* and its filmmaker Faraz Ali.

“*Shoebox* is an exploration of the evolving urban landscape in India, particularly through the lens of Allahabad's transformation,” says Ali as he describes the film. “It encapsulates the struggle to preserve identity, memory, and heritage in the face of rapid development and change. As a filmmaker, I've experienced the profound impact of such transitions firsthand, having grown up in a small Indian town that eventually gave way to urbanization.

“The human story around a single-screen theatre, intertwined with the city's renaming and the backdrop of the Kumbh Mela, reflects a universal narrative of how communities grapple with progress while honoring their history. As a director, I believe that this film holds a mirror to the challenges many regions across South Asia face as they navigate the intricate balance between preserving cultural heritage and embracing modernity.

“By showcasing *Shoebox* to the audience at the Center for South Asian Studies, I hope to spark meaningful conversations about the multifaceted dimensions of development, identity, and the value of preserving cultural roots. I'm excited to contribute to the dialogue and offer a glimpse into the emotional journey that my protagonist undertakes, searching for belonging amidst the changes in her hometown,” adds Ali.

Appetizers and drinks from Everest Sherpa Restaurant (https://www.everestsherparestaurant.com/) will be served between 6:30 and 7:30pm.

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.

*Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. *

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Film Screening Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:02:43 -0400 2023-10-18T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-18T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening South Asian Film Series | "Shoebox" Screening with Filmmaker Faraz Ali
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 19, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 20, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 20, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (October 20, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-20T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-20T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 20, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Friday Night Films (October 20, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114074 114074-21832289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The Digital Media Common’s CCA Gallery student staff are partnering with the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) crew to present films from the AAFF archive. Monthly themes correspond with art exhibits in the CCA Gallery. Screenings will begin at 7:30 pm in Design Lab 2 at the Duderstadt Center.

October 20: Scary Movie Night

November 10: Respond, Resist, Rethink

December 1: Animation Night

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Film Screening Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:55:44 -0400 2023-10-20T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-20T21:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Film Screening The flyer for Friday Night Films features an icon of a 16mm film projector
LSA@Play: Movie Night - Hocus Pocus 2 (October 20, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113087 113087-21830014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 7:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Get comfy and join us for a night at the movies! Featuring Hocus Pocus 2. 7:30 p.m. pre-show mingle, 8:00 p.m. movie showing. Registration is required: https://myumi.ch/x7558
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LSA@Play is a series of events to welcome and support LSA students. Gatherings and activities offer opportunities for students to prioritize self-care, inclusivity, and community. Plus, get free food and LSA swag!

Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details, sign-up to receive text/email updates, and check for additional events being added soon!

If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at an event, please email lsaatplay@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to remove those barriers.

* While supplies last. One swag item per student, must be present with MCard to receive.

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:59:31 -0400 2023-10-20T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-20T22:00:00-04:00 LSA Building The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Film Screening LSA@Play: Movie Night
Mesmerica (October 20, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-20T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-20T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 21, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (October 21, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-21T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 21, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 21, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-21T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-21T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 22, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 23, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 23, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830722@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 24, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828708@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022) (October 24, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113409 113409-21830966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *CAIRO CONSPIRACY* (2022)

Join us for a free screening of the Egyptian horror/thriller *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022) on October 24th, 7:30 PM at the State Theatre. Reserve your free tickets now: watch.eventive.org/halaloween, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 121 minutes | Arabic | Egyptian
Directed by: Tarik Saleh
Tickets: bit.ly/CCtix

Halaloween Horror Rating: 2/5 | Rating Explanation: Includes eeriness, murders, psychological tension, the political Egyptian state’s relationship to religion, and religious figure corruption.

Religious Content: Set in Egypt, primarily at Al-Azhar University, a historical center of Islamic learning. All characters are Muslim. Includes Qur’an, adhan, prayer, fiqh reasoning, and general discussion of Islam and Islamic learning.

In *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022), Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, a center of power of global Sunni Islam. Adam then becomes an unwitting pawn in a conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
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Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit https://ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

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

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:22:43 -0400 2023-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 25, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Anxious Nation: Film screening & panel with U-M anxiety experts (October 25, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113976 113976-21831991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

The U-M Department of Psychiatry will screen the film "Anxious Nation" at two theaters in October, followed by a discussion with a panel of experts.

The screening on 10/18 is at the Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township, and the screening on 10/25 is at Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.

This documentary sets out to lift the shroud of shame around mental health while giving emotional insights into how anxiety shows up in our lives, impacts families, and what parents’ contributing role may be in the journey.

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Film Screening Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:07:05 -0400 2023-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Medicine Film Screening Movie poster: Anxious Nation
The Stroll Movie Screening (October 25, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113323 113323-21830754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University Students Against Rape/Take Back The Night (USAR/TBTN)

When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money to survive, Kristen, like many transgender women of color during this era, began sex work in an area known as “The Stroll” in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan, where trans women congregated and forged a deep camaraderie to protect each other from harassment and violence.

Reuniting her sisters to tell this essential New York story from their first-hand experiences, Kristen’s intimate narration and interviews bring an astonishing array of archival material of bygone New York from the 1970s through the early 2000s to life.

Please note – Mature content, sexual imagery and sexual violence. No one under 17 admitted.

In order to attend this event please register for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stroll-movie-screening-tickets-712460367137?aff=oddtdtcreator

This event will take place on October 25th from 7:00-9:30pm at The Rackham Graduate School. Doors open at 6:45.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:30:46 -0400 2023-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T21:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University Students Against Rape/Take Back The Night (USAR/TBTN) Film Screening The image contains a black trans woman looking to the side of the camera. The image also contains the University Students Against Rape logo and information about the event.
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 26, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
ASC Film Screening. *Germany’s Forgotten Genocide in South West Africa: Nuh-Mi-Bee-Uhn*, followed by a discussion with Film Director Kavena Hambira (October 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113447 113447-21831025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: African Studies Center

*Germany’s Forgotten Genocide in South West Africa: Nuh-Mi-Bee-Uhn* was directed by Kavena Hambira. The film “focuses on the twentieth century’s first genocide—the Herero and Nama Genocide, carried out by Germany in 1905 in his family’s native Namibia. Hambira bridges geography and time to describe the indelible and far-reaching impacts of the genocide and the ongoing struggle for reparations and reconciliation.” The film will be accompanied by a discussion with Hambira and ASC Director Omolade Adunbi.

Kavena Hambira, MFA (he/ him) – With his work grounded in documentary filmmaking, Hambira seeks to connect nodes of history that tell a story of shared resilience and invention despite ongoing colonial and racial oppression. While his earlier work documented families impacted by police violence, his current work focuses on the twentieth century’s first genocide—the Herero and Nama Genocide, carried out by Germany in 1905 in his family’s native Namibia.

Engaging textiles and traditional costumes alongside documentary film, here Hambira bridged geography and time to describe the indelible and far-reaching impacts of the genocide and the ongoing struggle for reparations and reconciliation. Kavena holds a master’s in fine art (MFA) from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an adjunct faculty at California State University Stanislaus.

Omolade Adunbi is a political and environmental anthropologist and professor of Afroamerican and African Studies in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). His research examines the dynamics of power, natural resource extractive practices, governance, human and environmental rights, culture, transnational institutions, multinational corporations, and the postcolonial state.

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Film Screening Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:04:10 -0400 2023-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Munger Graduate Residences African Studies Center Film Screening ASC Film Screening. Germany’s Forgotten Genocide in South West Africa: Nuh-Mi-Bee-Uhn
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 27, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-27T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 27, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
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
Live podcast recording of Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger, with artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur (October 28, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113108 113108-21830055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 28, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join Broken Boxes co-hosts Ginger Dunnill and Cannupa Hanska Luger as they record an upcoming episode featuring artists Andrea Carlson and Matika Wilbur. This will be the culminating event for the Memory & Monuments Open House at UMMA.

More about the artists: Artist and producer Ginger Dunnill centers human complexity and intersection through broadcasting, sound composition, performance and advocacy driven communication efforts in order to create a living archive of solidarity. For over two decades she has produced experiential artwork and organized numerous exhibitions and social engagement projects globally, collaborating with artists and activating transformative justice practices through long term acts of respect, relationship building, accomplice-ship and accountability. Dunnill is the founder of Broken Boxes, a nearly decade long archival project which amplifies narratives of solidarity, contradiction and inspiration in the Arts via broadcasting, exhibition and live programs. As a practicing artist, Dunnill has exhibited internationally at institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Smack Mellon, Washington Project for the Arts and Io Deposito in Italy, among others. She is currently touring as a DJ and continues to produce large scale projects in collaboration with other artists.

Multidisciplinary artist Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara), and Lakota. Through monumental installations and social collaborations that reflect a deep engagement and respect for materials, the environment, and community, Luger activates speculative fiction and communicates stories about 21st century Indigeneity. Luger is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, recipient of the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship Award for Craft, and was named a Grist 50 Fixer for 2021, a list that includes emerging leaders in climate, sustainability, and equity from across the nation.

Andrea Carlson is a visual artist maintains a studio practice in northern Minnesota. Carlson's works primarily on paper, creating painted and drawn surfaces with many mediums. Her work addresses land and institutional spaces, decolonization narratives, and assimilation metaphors in film.  Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellow, a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors award, a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award, and a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship. Carlson is a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago.

Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562, has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.

More about the Broken Boxes podcast here.

Related events & exhibitions:
October 26, 5:30 p.m. Cannupa Hanska Luger: How Do We Remember? A conversation with Monument Lab Co-Founder Paul Farber, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI Oct 27-28: Under the Campus, the Land, UMMA and Stamps Gallery October 28, 12-4 p.m. Memory & Monuments Open House, UMMA, 525 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI October 28, 6-8 p.m. Matika Wilbur Artist Talk and Book Signing, Stamps Gallery, 201 South Division Street Ann Arbor, MI On-going: Andrea Carlson Future Cache, UMMA On-going: Cannupa Hanska Luger You’re Welcome, UMMA

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 28 Oct 2023 18:15:36 -0400 2023-10-28T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 30, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
International Studies Horror Filmfest (October 31, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112778 112778-21829539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

It’s the library's annual Halloween spectacular, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world! Drop by the Hatcher Library Gallery (just off the Diag) for one or all of these free movies. All films are subtitled in English.

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These movies may contain violent content, disturbing imagery, and sexual situations which may be too intense for some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.
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11:00 a.m. — The Skin I Live In — Spain
2011, 2 hrs.
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

1:15 p.m. — The Wailing — Korea
2016, 2 hr. 36 min.
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

4:10 p.m. — Suspiria — Italy (director), Germany (movie locale)
1977, 1 hr. 32 min.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

6:00 p.m. — Der Samurai — Germany
2014, 1 hr. 19 min.
Set in a small German village, a bloody game of cat-and-mouse ensues between a young, straight-shooting police officer and a cross-dressing villain with a large sword and a predilection for beheadings.

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Film Screening Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:07:36 -0400 2023-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-31T19:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening DVD covers from four films.
Halloween Movie Night (October 31, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112499 112499-21829016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Ford Robotics Building
Organized By: Gender Diversity in Robotics

Join GENDiR and GoSTEM for our favorite spooky movie, Coraline (2009)! Costumes are encouraged. We'll be providing light refreshments for this event.

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Film Screening Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:30:14 -0400 2023-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Ford Robotics Building Gender Diversity in Robotics Film Screening Purple glittery slime drips from the top of the image. "Halloween Movie Night" in orange letters. GoSTEM and GENDiR logos in rainbow.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 3, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-03T11:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 6, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting, film screening and panel discussion – presented by RISE. (November 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113629 113629-21831258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_YFGTuPwYrc7YghmcmLubnoMwSCIPXGKLR1tLLtIiAI/viewform?edit_requested=true.

Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity (RISE) presents a screening of Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting, immediately followed by a panel discussion featuring internationally renowned Indigenous activists, scholars, and film makers: Suzan Harjo, Stephanie Fryberg, Phil Deloria, Aviva Kempner, Ben West, and Yancey Burns.

Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting is an award-winning documentary that examines the movement that is ending the use of Native American names, logos, and mascots in the world of sports and beyond. The film details the current uprising against the misappropriation of Native culture in a national reckoning about racial injustice that has succeeded in the removal of Confederate imagery, toppling statues of Christopher Columbus and forcing corporate sponsors of Washington’s NFL team to demand it change its most-offensive name. It examines the origin and proliferation of the words, images, and gestures that many Native people and their allies find offensive. Imagining the Indian explores the impact that stereotyping and marginalization of Native history have had on Native people. It chronicles the long social movement to eliminate mascoting.  

Lead support for this project is provided by Teiger Foundation, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the U-M Marsal Family School of Education, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, Michigan Humanities, and the U-M Arts Initiative. Additional generous support is provided by Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org. 

Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.

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Film Screening Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:15:26 -0500 2023-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T21:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
ASC/DAAS Film Screening and Q&A. *ÀYÌNLÁ* (followed by a reception and meet & greet) (November 9, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113775 113775-21831572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: African Studies Center

Film Screening 5:30 PM | Q&A 7:30 PM
Following the Q&A will be a meet & greet with Omowunmi Dada, and a reception. Free to the public; please register at https://myumi.ch/MrdgR.

(1 hr 50 mins; Musical/Drama; 2021; Directed by Tunde Kalani)
*Ayinla* is a musical eponymous film based on the life of Ayinla Yusuf, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura, an Apala musician who was allegedly struck to death by his manager Bayewu in a bar fight on May 6, 1980 at Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Omowumi Dada is a Nigerian-born, award-winning Nollywood actress, presenter, and model who has been gracing the screens and stages for nearly ten years. She is most well known for her roles as “Folake” in the popular M-Net Africa television series Jemeji and “Linda” in the Netflix Original Film *Òlòtūré*. Dada was also in the film *Eleshin Oba*, an adaptation of Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, nominated for a top 2023 Toronto Film Festival award.

Dada is DAAS/ASC’s 2023 Global Artist in Residence. While in Ann Arbor, Dada will work with the Swahili and Yoruba language instructors from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) in developing audio-visual materials for teaching African languages as well as engaging with the broader University of Michigan (U-M) campus community. In addition, she will engage with elementary, middle, and high school students and teachers in Southeast Michigan. She will be featured in a series of events—about Nollywood and African filmmaking—organized by ASC and DAAS and collaborated with the School of Music, Theatre and Dance, the Residential College, and the Department of Film, Television, and Media.

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Film Screening Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:51:00 -0400 2023-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2023-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location African Studies Center Film Screening ASC/DAAS Film Screening and Q&A. *ÀYÌNLÁ*
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
A Platform Rating System and Vulnerable Workers: Evidence from Field Experiments in Singapore (November 10, 2023 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114388 114388-21832822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

How to enhance the working conditions and wellbeing of vulnerable workers is a topic of growing importance. This study examines the use of two-sided labor market platforms as a private governance solution to protect vulnerable workers in contexts where the power dynamics between employers and workers are highly unequal. Specifically, we collaborated with a Singapore-based online platform that connects foreign domestic workers with employers (families). In this setting, it is not uncommon for workers to be mistreated by employers via various forms of exploitation and abuse. The collaborating platform was interested in exploring whether introducing a new rating system that allows workers to rate employers could improve this situation for workers. Accordingly, we randomized communication about such a rating system and examined how each side of the platform reacted. We found that employers did not respond positively to the rating system, though their negative reaction was offset if they were nudged to consider the instrumental benefits of the intervention for them. Surprisingly, workers also disliked the idea of the rating system, despite it being intended to protect and empower them. Post-hoc analysis and interviews suggest that the most vulnerable workers were particularly concerned about the employer-rating system. Our paper illustrates that, in settings with large power differentials, platform governance mechanisms intended to help vulnerable workers could have unintended negative consequences. It thus highlights the importance of understanding the nuanced determinants of vulnerable workers’ challenges when considering whether platform governance might improve or exacerbate them.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Oct 2023 14:34:29 -0400 2023-11-10T13:30:00-05:00 2023-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Vanessa Burbano
Movie Night with BIPOC PLSG (November 10, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115087 115087-21834035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join BIPOC PLSG for a movie night viewing of Matilda!

Food will be provided! Feel free to bring a blanket or pillow!

Learn more about BIPOC PLSG here: https://sapac.umich.edu/POC-PLSG

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Well-being Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:48:58 -0500 2023-11-10T16:30:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being Flier stating "Join BIPOC PLSG for Matilda Movie Night"
30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 10, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109581 109581-21822332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

The 30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival will take place:

-Friday, November 10 from 6:30 PM-10 PM at Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty St., Ann Arbor
-Saturday, November 11 from 10:00 AM-10:00 PM at State Theatre, 233 S State St, Ann Arbor
-Sunday, November 12 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM at State Theatre, 233 S State St, Ann Arbor

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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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Film Screening Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:03:00 -0400 2023-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 2023-11-10T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
Friday Night Films (November 10, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114074 114074-21832295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The Digital Media Common’s CCA Gallery student staff are partnering with the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) crew to present films from the AAFF archive. Monthly themes correspond with art exhibits in the CCA Gallery. Screenings will begin at 7:30 pm in Design Lab 2 at the Duderstadt Center.

October 20: Scary Movie Night

November 10: Respond, Resist, Rethink

December 1: Animation Night

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Film Screening Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:55:44 -0400 2023-11-10T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-10T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Duderstadt Center Film Screening The flyer for Friday Night Films features an icon of a 16mm film projector
Friday Night Films (November 10, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114466 114466-21832947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Digital Media Commons

The Digital Media Common’s CCA Gallery student staff are partnering with the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) crew to present films from the AAFF archive. The screenings will highlight similar themes that appear in the art and films. Pre-film discussions begin at 7:00 pm, in Design Lab 2, room 1365 of the Duderstadt Center.

The November 10th screening will focus on the Fall semester theme of "Arts and Resistance", in conjunction with the Respond/Resist/Rethink exhibition in the gallery.

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Film Screening Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:44:05 -0400 2023-11-10T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-10T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Digital Media Commons Film Screening Friday Night Films Poster
30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 11, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109581 109581-21822333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

The 30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival will take place:

-Friday, November 10 from 6:30 PM-10 PM at Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty St., Ann Arbor
-Saturday, November 11 from 10:00 AM-10:00 PM at State Theatre, 233 S State St, Ann Arbor
-Sunday, November 12 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM at State Theatre, 233 S State St, Ann Arbor

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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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Film Screening Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:03:00 -0400 2023-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-11T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (November 12, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109581 109581-21822334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in cooperation with the Ann Arbor Polonia Association and the U-M Polish Student Association. Since its inception in 1993, the festival has featured contemporary Polish documentaries, animated shorts, and feature films offering diverse perspectives on a range of Polish and global issues. The festival features a juried film competition in three categories: documentary film, short narrative film, and film debut.

The 30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival will take place:

-Friday, November 10 from 6:30 PM-10 PM at Michigan Theater, 603 East Liberty St., Ann Arbor
-Saturday, November 11 from 10:00 AM-10:00 PM at State Theatre, 233 S State St, Ann Arbor
-Sunday, November 12 from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM at State Theatre, 233 S State St, Ann Arbor

For this year's full program and to purchase tickets, please see the festival website: https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/

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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Film Screening Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:03:00 -0400 2023-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2023-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening 30th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 13, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
The John H. Mitchell Critical Conversations Symposium (November 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113696 113696-21831470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Our Fall 2023 John H. Mitchell Critical Conversation, "Finding Your Way: Creative Careers in an Era of Streamers, Studios, and AI" will be held on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, from 4:00 - 6:00 PM in Rackham's Amphitheatre.

This year's conversation features the Fall 2023 John H. Mitchell Visiting Professor in Media Entertainment, Scholar and Author, Miranda Banks, in conversation with Writer Robb Chavis; CMO of Fantom Foundation, Joseph Epstein; and Writer/Director/Producer Gail Lerner.

Please join us for a conversation about exploring career paths related to contemporary transformations in the entertainment industry.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:51:15 -0400 2023-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Film, Television, and Media Conference / Symposium Symposium Poster
Talking Black in America (November 14, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115096 115096-21834046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Presented by Language Matters: "Talking Black in America"

ABOUT THE FILM:
This film provides an overview of African American Language by exploring its origins, the circumstances that shape the language, and the influence it has on other varieties of English. (57 minutes)

The film will be followed by a panel discussion led by:
Dominique Canning, PhD Candidate
Ashani Coviello, PhD Student
Sovoya Davis, PhD Student
Kendall Lowe, PhD Student
Nia Nickerson, PhD Candidate

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Film Screening Fri, 10 Nov 2023 08:24:04 -0500 2023-11-14T16:30:00-05:00 2023-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Linguistics Film Screening Talking Black in America
History Matters Film Series: Summer of Soul (November 14, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114008 114008-21832071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

Join U-M History at the Michigan Theater for "Summer of Soul" (2021), Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson's documentary film about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Stay after for a discussion and Q&A with Stephen Berrey and Traci Lombre. Part of the U-M History Department's History Matters Film Series.

Admission is free for all; tickets are not required. This program is provided with support from the LSA Arts Initiative and is presented in conjunction with the Arts & Resistance Theme Semester.

Reserve your FREE tickets here: https://michtheater.org/summer-of-soul

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Film Screening Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:20:20 -0500 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening Summer of Soul poster (2021)
Swedish Film Series (November 15, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112685 112685-21829423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Department will be screening a Swedish film each month in NQ1255. Bring a friend! Bring a snack! English subtitles, no language knowledge required!

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:29:02 -0400 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Swedish Film Series
CSAS South Asian Film Series | *Zwigato* at the Michigan Theater (November 15, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114356 114356-21832783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

CSAS is proud to feature Zwigato, by Nandita Das, as the second film in our South Asian Film Series.

Reserve your FREE ticket at https://myumi.ch/y28zV

In the film, a man works as a food delivery rider, grappling with the world of ratings and incentives. To support the income, his homemaker wife begins to explore different work opportunities, with fear but also excitement of a new found independence.

See the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtd1aB-iLe0

This event is free and open to the public. Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

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Film Screening Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:29:06 -0400 2023-11-15T19:30:00-05:00 2023-11-15T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS South Asian Film Series | *Zwigato*
CHOP | China Ongoing Perspectives Film Screening (November 16, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114666 114666-21833275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Followed by Q&A with discussant U-M Assistant Professor Sangseraima Ujeed

(2011, 93 min., directed by Marc Tiley, Tim Pearce, and Sophie Lascelles)

Free and open to the public.
Light refreshment will be served.

Immerse yourself in the vibrant culture and music of Inner Mongolia through the documentary screening featuring the versatile band AnDa Union in From The Steppes To The City. Over the years, AnDa Union have performed at world music festivals all over the globe and we invite you to experience the unique blend of traditional and modern musical styles that this group is known for. Whether you're a fan of world music, interested in exploring different cultures, or simply looking for something new to enjoy which touches on innovative musical movements, this film offers a visual experience to highlight the Festival of Asian Music calendar program. The film screening is followed by a Q&A session with the discussant U-M Assistant Professor Sangseraima Ujeed, who helped with subtitling the documentary in 2011.

This event is a perfect musical and visual precursor to Thanksgiving. Hors d'oeuvres from Everest Sherpa will be served.
A program connected with the U-M Fall 2023 Festival of Asian Music.

Discussant:
Sangseraima Ujeed is U-M Assistant Professor of Tibetan Buddhism Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Her research focuses on the transnational, transregional, and cross-cultural aspects of Tibetan Buddhism. Some of her leading research questions include: How do people form transcultural identities, and how do those identities change across time and space? What is the role of language in the translation, transmission, and preservation of a tradition? She has traveled extensively throughout the Himalayas, Inner Asia, and China and has a deep love for the folk sounds that resonate through these regions and is a long time friend of AnDa Union.

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Film Screening Wed, 01 Nov 2023 12:17:32 -0400 2023-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening CHOP: China Ongoing Perspectives Film Screening | From the Steppes to the City
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 20, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 24, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-24T11:00:00-05:00 2023-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (November 27, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-11-27T14:30:00-05:00 2023-11-27T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Friday Night Films (December 1, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114074 114074-21832296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 7:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Duderstadt Center

The Digital Media Common’s CCA Gallery student staff are partnering with the Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) crew to present films from the AAFF archive. Monthly themes correspond with art exhibits in the CCA Gallery. Screenings will begin at 7:30 pm in Design Lab 2 at the Duderstadt Center.

October 20: Scary Movie Night

November 10: Respond, Resist, Rethink

December 1: Animation Night

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Film Screening Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:55:44 -0400 2023-12-01T19:30:00-05:00 2023-12-01T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Film Screening The flyer for Friday Night Films features an icon of a 16mm film projector
VR / AR Student Project Exhibition (EECS 498.003 : XR) (December 5, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115216 115216-21834194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience socially-impactful VR / AR apps made by Michigan students at the EECS 498 XR Exhibition! Join us December 9th in the first-floor Duderstadt VizStudio.

Learn more about the new "Extended Reality and Society" capstone / MDE course at https://bit.ly/umich_xr

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:52:12 -0500 2023-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T21:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition Students exhibit their VR and AR projects
UM + EMU Student Games Showcase (December 6, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115215 115215-21834193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 7:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

[Hybrid In-Person / Online Showcase!]

In Person : Beyster Building Atrium
Online : https://494Showcase.com

Experience 15+ new student-made video games at the UM + EMU Student Games Showcase! Interact with the student developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Learn more about EECS 494 and the EMU SAG program at https://www.eecs494.com and https://www.emich.edu/cot/vbe/programs/sag/curriculum.php respectively.
Learn more about michigan game development : https://MichiganGameStudios.com
Learn more about IGDA Ann Arbor : https://www.meetup.com/a2-game-designers/

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Exhibition Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:32:16 -0500 2023-12-06T19:00:00-05:00 2023-12-06T22:00:00-05:00 BBB EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition Students exhibit their EECS 494 game projects
The Godfather Live (January 7, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109632 109632-21822432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 7, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

With all of the plot twists, emotional outbursts, and suspenseful scenes of a true grand opera, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic film The Godfather deserves a full sensory experience.

Relive this chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power as the Grand Rapids Symphony performs Nino Rota’s Oscar®-nominated score live to picture: The Godfather Live in Concert. This three-time Academy Award® winning film features Marlon Brando as the Corleone family patriarch, accompanied by career-making performances from Al Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall. A concert experience you can’t refuse!

Join host Doyle Armbrust for “The Society of Disobedient Listeners” — a special pre-performance talk, 2 pm in the lower lobby of Hill Auditorium.

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Presentation Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:15:54 -0400 2024-01-07T15:00:00-05:00 2024-01-07T18:00:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium University Musical Society (UMS) Presentation Film with Live Orchestra The Godfather Live
Ann Arbor Chinese Film Festival (January 10, 2024 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116970 116970-21838266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 9:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Cinnamon Cinema

The Ann Arbor Chinese Film Festival (AACFF), hosted by Cinnamon Cinema at the University of Michigan, is a vibrant event dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding through cinema. Celebrating the richness of Chinese language and artistic expression, the festival showcases an array of new and original Chinese films, connecting audiences with one of the world's oldest cultures. This year, we feature a unique premiere of original Chinese-based micro-films from filmmaking students globally, in partnership with filmarthorron, a non-profit filmmaking contest. The selection covers a wide range of subjects and genres, showcasing the diverse storytelling abilities of emerging filmmakers, with a focus on student creators. The festival is consist of a reception, a 2-hour film screening, and a closing ceremony, promising a memorable and impactful celebration of Chinese film and culture.
RSVP form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdw_Fys4TbcM8fcQEV4QSGx9pcPwwLnDlfk4vAFoHabSAyacQ/viewform?usp=send_form

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Film Screening Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:04:32 -0500 2024-01-10T21:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T22:00:00-05:00 Cinnamon Cinema Film Screening POSTER and RSVP Form
Ann Arbor Chinese Film Festival (January 10, 2024 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116970 116970-21838267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 9:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Cinnamon Cinema

The Ann Arbor Chinese Film Festival (AACFF), hosted by Cinnamon Cinema at the University of Michigan, is a vibrant event dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding through cinema. Celebrating the richness of Chinese language and artistic expression, the festival showcases an array of new and original Chinese films, connecting audiences with one of the world's oldest cultures. This year, we feature a unique premiere of original Chinese-based micro-films from filmmaking students globally, in partnership with filmarthorron, a non-profit filmmaking contest. The selection covers a wide range of subjects and genres, showcasing the diverse storytelling abilities of emerging filmmakers, with a focus on student creators. The festival is consist of a reception, a 2-hour film screening, and a closing ceremony, promising a memorable and impactful celebration of Chinese film and culture.
RSVP form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdw_Fys4TbcM8fcQEV4QSGx9pcPwwLnDlfk4vAFoHabSAyacQ/viewform?usp=send_form

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Film Screening Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:04:32 -0500 2024-01-10T21:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T22:00:00-05:00 Cinnamon Cinema Film Screening POSTER and RSVP Form
Korean Cinema NOW | Past Lives | 패스트 라이브즈 (January 13, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116506 116506-21837252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 13, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

"Past Lives" is a 2023 American romantic drama film written and directed by Celine Song in her feature directorial debut. Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro, it follows two childhood friends over the course of 24 years while they contemplate the nature of their relationship as they grow apart, living different lives. The plot is semi-autobiographical and inspired by real events from Song's life.

Past Lives premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023, and was released theatrically in the United States on June 2, 2023. The film received largely positive reviews and was named one of the top ten films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute and received various accolades including five nominations at the 81st Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama.

Presented in English and Korean with English subtitles

Korean Cinema NOW 2024 - Diaspora Edition series features critical picks of recent diaspora film hits. Screened at the Michigan Theater, all films are free and open to the public.

Details at the Michigan Theater website: https://michtheater.org/korean-cinema-now

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:30:57 -0500 2024-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 2024-01-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Past Lives | 패스트 라이브즈
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
CSAS South Asian Film Series | *Aattam* (*The Play*) (January 17, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116233 116233-21836483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Join us for our third film in our South Asian Film Series, award-winning Attam (The Play), in partnership with the historic Michigan Theater. The screening is free and open to the public.

See the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UczdNpVB1I

Free tickets are available at https://myumi.ch/73yGj

From the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles:

On the face of it, the Arangu theater group looks like a safe space for a woman. Its sole actress, Anjali, appears to enjoy a forthright camaraderie with the rest of the twelve male members. Things are put to a test when one of the members gropes Anjali during a celebratory night out. When her partner and fellow actor Vinay finds out, he calls for a group meeting to decide on the expulsion of the accused. As doubts grow and skeletons come tumbling out, things quickly descend into chaos, with none of the men coming off with flying colors.

In his debut feature film, Anand Ekarshi, deftly deals with a critical feminist issue, but from the flip side. Instead of foregrounding the act of violation against the woman, he trains his camera on how men try to take control of the narrative in the aftermath of an offense. Ekarshi scripts Aattam like a chamber drama, builds the tension bit by bit to a taut, riveting cliffhanger of a climax. Having started his own creative journey on stage, Ekarshi draws from the world of theater and performance arts. The strong, finely tuned ensemble is led by young emerging star Zarin Shihab (The Family Man) and popular names like Vinay Forrt (Premam, Thamasha) and Kalabhavan Shajohn (Drishyam, Lucifer). Aattam is not just an authentic portrayal of patriarchy but also a stinging dissection and critique of toxicity and male entitlement.

Anand Ekarshi is a filmmaker from Kerala, India. His interest in theater and acting began at the age of 10 and grew with time into a passion for filmmaking. He credits his roots in storytelling to his time with Lokadharmi, a Kochi-based theater group where he was a part of numerous performances across India for over a decade. His recent projects include Malayalam short films, music videos, and a short stint under acclaimed filmmaker Imitaz Ali. A graduate in communicative English and a post-graduate in psychology, Anand finds inspiration for his narratives in the complexities of the human mind. Aattam (The Play) is his feature debut.

*Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.*

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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Film Screening Wed, 03 Jan 2024 09:53:50 -0500 2024-01-17T19:00:00-05:00 2024-01-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS South Asian Film Series | Aattam (The Play)
Malaysian Cultural Night 2024 (January 18, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116736 116736-21837863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Malaysian Student Association (UMIMSA)

For the past decade, the Michigan Malaysian Students’ Association (MiMSA) comes together for Malaysian Cultural Night (MCN): an all-encompassing play and exhibition that underlines our differences in religious values, social identity, and social issues in Malaysia. MCN encapsulates the perceptions that we have of our homeland into a night’s worth of unique cultural experiences, like showcasing multiple traditional dances from different ethnicities in Malaysia.

Welcoming all ages with a free-of-charge admission to this year's MCN and free cultural food, we present Desa Dendam.

Date: January 18, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 6-9PM
Venue: Lydia Mendelssohn Theater (Michigan League)
Doors open at 5 PM and dinner will be served after the show

RSVP here!: https://forms.gle/9gHRomwiTHNPtm4F7

For any questions, reach out to us on MiMSA's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michiganmalaysian/

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Performance Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:57:24 -0500 2024-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 2024-01-18T21:00:00-05:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Malaysian Student Association (UMIMSA) Performance Malaysian Cultural Night 2024 Official Poster
Ann Arbor Chinese Film Festival (January 19, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116970 116970-21838265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Cinnamon Cinema

The Ann Arbor Chinese Film Festival (AACFF), hosted by Cinnamon Cinema at the University of Michigan, is a vibrant event dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding through cinema. Celebrating the richness of Chinese language and artistic expression, the festival showcases an array of new and original Chinese films, connecting audiences with one of the world's oldest cultures. This year, we feature a unique premiere of original Chinese-based micro-films from filmmaking students globally, in partnership with filmarthorron, a non-profit filmmaking contest. The selection covers a wide range of subjects and genres, showcasing the diverse storytelling abilities of emerging filmmakers, with a focus on student creators. The festival is consist of a reception, a 2-hour film screening, and a closing ceremony, promising a memorable and impactful celebration of Chinese film and culture.
RSVP form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdw_Fys4TbcM8fcQEV4QSGx9pcPwwLnDlfk4vAFoHabSAyacQ/viewform?usp=send_form

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Film Screening Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:04:32 -0500 2024-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Cinnamon Cinema Film Screening POSTER and RSVP Form
Korean Cinema NOW | Return To Seoul | 리턴 투 서울 (January 20, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116520 116520-21837279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

View the trailer at https://youtu.be/oaPiUlPpRWE?si=VLKtOIEoRTIjpLj1

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions. From writer/director Davy Chou.

"Return to Seoul" premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival on 22 May 2022. The film was selected as the Cambodian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, and made the December shortlist.

Presented in English, French and Korean with English subtitles

Korean Cinema NOW 2024 - Diaspora Edition series features critical picks of recent diaspora film hits. Screened at the Michigan Theater, all films are free and open to the public.

Details at the Michigan Theater website: https://michtheater.org/korean-cinema-now

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Film Screening Thu, 04 Jan 2024 08:30:10 -0500 2024-01-20T13:00:00-05:00 2024-01-20T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Return To Seoul | 리턴 투 서울
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 24, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
CJS Winter 2024 Film Series | *Jigoku* (January 25, 2024 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117357 117357-21839211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: http://myumi.ch/EPqe6

After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelgänger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell—literally.

Curator's note by Markus Nornes: This was the final production from Shintoho, the studio that had made its reputation with quick, violent genre films; however, here Nakagawa attempted to depart from the stead conventions of Japanese horror and ghost stories by climaxing his excessively elaborate plot with a spectacular vision of hell.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Read more about the film, including ratings, at http://imdb.com/title/tt0154683/

More about the film series at https://michtheater.org/cjs-film-series-2024

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@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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Film Screening Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:22:07 -0500 2024-01-25T19:15:00-05:00 2024-01-25T20:55:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Winter 2024 Film Series | Jigoku
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
CCPS Film and Lecture. “Europa” (1931, 12 min.) followed by lecture *Europa: An Empirical Film about an Experimental Continent* (January 29, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115856 115856-21835748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Considered a lost, "legendary" masterpiece of early avant-garde film before its unexpected 2019 rediscovery in a German archive, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson's *Europa* (1931) displays all the trappings of early experimental cinema: jarring jump-cuts, bewildering or shocking juxtapositions, strange animated sequences, provocative photo-collages, etc. Yet the artists themselves insisted that their film, assembled frame-by-frame in Warsaw and based on Anatol Stern's 1925 poem of the same name, entailed too much intentional design and pointed political commentary to be called an "experiment."

In this talk, Paloff argues that *Europa*, rather than offering an artistically reimagined vision of a tradition-bound society, begs to be experienced as a digest of the interwar European experiment. Against appearances, the Themersons saw themselves as operating at the intersection of both established and developing artistic traditions, just as twentieth-century Europe represented the collision of modernity with traditional ways of life. Whereas the filmmakers knew precisely what their film aimed to convey, however, they regarded the new European order as a vast experiment whose outcome was uncertain—and potentially disastrous.

Benjamin Paloff is the author of *Lost in the Shadow of the Word (Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe)* (Northwestern University Press, 2016), which was named 2018 Best Book in Literary Studies by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, and of two poetry collections, *And His Orchestra* (2015) and *The Politics* (2011), both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He has translated about a dozen books and many shorter literary and theoretical texts from Polish, Czech, Russian, and Yiddish, notably works by Dorota Masłowska, Marek Bieńczyk, Richard Weiner, and Yuri Lotman, and he has received grants and fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows (2007-2010), Poland’s Book Institute (2010), the Stanford Humanities Center (2013), and the National Endowment for the Arts (2009, 2016). His research focuses on philosophical dilemmas, particularly in metaphysics and the ethics of representation, in modern Central and Eastern European literature, as well as on translation theory and practice.

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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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:43:38 -0500 2024-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Benjamin Paloff, Chair, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 31, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.