Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology (December 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113643 113643-21831372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:11:10 -0400 2023-12-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition "Family from the village of Dihmit in Egyptian Nubia, 1962." Courtesy of The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of The American University in Cairo.
The Art of Resistance in Early America (December 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2023-12-14T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology (December 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113643 113643-21831373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:11:10 -0400 2023-12-15T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition "Family from the village of Dihmit in Egyptian Nubia, 1962." Courtesy of The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of The American University in Cairo.
The Clements Bookworm: The Clements & the Rosenbach: The Intertwined Histories of Two Great American Libraries (December 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114456 114456-21832898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, a prominent rare book dealer from Philadelphia (1876-1952), is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of rare book dealing in the United States. He played a pivotal role in assisting William L. Clements in curating the extraordinary collections housed at the University of Michigan's renowned library. Rosenbach and Clements' leadership will discuss how the legacies of their founders live on today, and how the institutions have evolved to serve their communities.

Sponsored by Tom Wagner

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:45:33 -0400 2023-12-15T10:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T11:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Bookworm Graphic
The Art of Resistance in Early America (December 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2023-12-15T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology (December 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113643 113643-21831374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:11:10 -0400 2023-12-16T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-16T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition "Family from the village of Dihmit in Egyptian Nubia, 1962." Courtesy of The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of The American University in Cairo.
The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology (December 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113643 113643-21831375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:11:10 -0400 2023-12-17T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-17T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition "Family from the village of Dihmit in Egyptian Nubia, 1962." Courtesy of The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of The American University in Cairo.
Curriculum / Collection: Arts & Resistance (December 17, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109938 109938-21823313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 17, 2023 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Presented as part of the Fall 2023 Theme Semester, "Arts & Resistance"

The capacity of the arts to challenge dominant regimes and ideologies, resist oppression, and envision pathways of change is at the center of the University of Michigan’s Fall 2023 Theme Semester: Arts & Resistance. A theme semester is a university-wide effort to engage with a subject of importance to learning across the disciplines and to public life and informed citizenship. 

More than 100 classes are being taugh this semester that engage with the theme, ranging from a political history of hula dance in American Culture to a class about carbon-climate interactions in the College of Engineering. All of the classes consider art’s potential to communicate with power and complexity about questions of justice.

In the Curriculum / Collection series, the guiding themes and questions of U-M courses take material form in installations of art curated from UMMA’s collection. For the Arts & Resistance theme semester, we asked fifteen faculty to choose artworks for their students to work with. 

Their selections address histories of injustice and of social and political transformation. They invite us into questions of identity and representation within historical and present-day processes of exclusion and inclusion. They enable us to think about all the ways that art resists, from formal qualities like materials, color, and shape, to the identities of makers, subjects, and viewers. And they demonstrate the diverse and creative ways in which art can play a central role in learning across the disciplines.

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Arts Initiative, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.
 

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Exhibition Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:15:36 -0500 2023-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 2023-12-17T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Piotr Michalowski, They Came, They Saw, They Did a Little Shopping, 1989, photograph on paper. Gift of Nicholas and Elena Delbanco, 2017/1.575. Courtesy the artist. © Piotr Michalowski
The Sentimental Archive: Remembering Nubia through Salvage Anthropology (December 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113643 113643-21831376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit showcases select photographs from The American University in Cairo’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library taken by the renowned Egyptian photographer Abd al-Fattah Eid as well as by the Cairo-born Swiss artist Margo Veillon.

In 1964, the construction of the Aswan High Dam displaced Nubians from their ancestral villages along the banks of the Nile in Egypt. In the years immediately preceding the dam’s construction, the American University in Cairo directed a large-scale project of salvage anthropology with funding from the Ford Foundation.

This endeavor yielded hundreds of photographs of al-nuba al-qadima or “Old Nubia” the term affectionately used by community members. Over the past sixty years, Nubians have used these images to cultivate a collective memory of a lost homeland. From Aswan to Alexandria and beyond, community members are salvaging their own stories from this anthropological archive, reshaping it as a sentimental terrain of solidarity across time, space, and circumstance.

This selection of photographs includes persons, places, and practices as well as glimpses of the presence of the photographer and researchers. Both online and offline, Egyptian Nubians continue to share and re-mediate these photos as they recall their historical displacement and revitalize their heritage for future generations.

The exhibit is curated by Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, and coordinated by Nesrien Hamid, doctoral student in anthropology, with funding from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory.

For a deeper dive, visit the companion exhibit, Narrating Nubia, at the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. It delves into the archaeological, anthropological, and community narratives of both ancient and modern-day Nubia spanning Egypt and Sudan.

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Exhibition Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:11:10 -0400 2023-12-18T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-18T23:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition "Family from the village of Dihmit in Egyptian Nubia, 1962." Courtesy of The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of The American University in Cairo.
The Art of Resistance in Early America (December 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2023-12-19T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-19T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (December 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2023-12-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-20T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (December 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2023-12-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-21T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (December 22, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2023 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2023-12-22T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-22T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library (December 22, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115520 115520-21834948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2023 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements’ early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting “Death of General Wolfe” by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage’s papers, and much more!

You will have the opportunity to view the exhibit, "The Art of Resistance in Early America. " This exhibit addresses the theme of the Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: “The Arts of Resistance.” This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms.

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Tours Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:13:40 -0400 2023-12-22T14:00:00-05:00 2023-12-22T15:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours William Clements Library
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 2, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-02T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-02T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 3, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-03T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-03T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 4, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-04T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-04T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 5, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-05T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (January 7, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107784 107784-21816479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 7, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Confront the past and celebrate the creative voices of an untold chapter of American history.

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is a landmark exhibition of more than 60 objects representing the work of African American potters in the decades surrounding the Civil War. 

It is a reckoning with the central role that enslaved and free Black potters played in the long-standing stoneware traditions of Edgefield, South Carolina. It is also an important story about the unrelenting power of artistic expression and creativity, even while under the brutal conditions of slavery—and about the joy, struggle, creative ambition, and lived experience of African Americans in the 19th-century American South.

The exhibition features many objects rarely seen outside of the South, bringing together monumental storage jars by the enslaved and literate potter and poet Dave, later recorded as David Drake (about 1800–about 1870), along with rare examples of the region’s utilitarian wares and powerful face vessels by potters once known but unrecorded. 

The inclusion of several contemporary works from leading Black artists links the past to the present in Hear Me Now. Established figures like Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh, as well as younger, emerging artists like Adebunmi Gbadebo, and Woody De Othello have contributed to the exhibition. Working primarily in clay, these artists respond to the legacy of the Edgefield potters and consider the resonance of this history for audiences today.

Curated by Jason Young, Professor of History, University of Michigan; Adrienne Spinozzi, Associate Curator, American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair, Art of the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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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 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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Exhibition Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:15:46 -0500 2024-01-07T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition hellowhellowUnidentified potters, Edgefield District, South Carolina Three Face Vessels, ca. mid-19th century Alkaline-glazed stoneware with kaolin inserts H: (from left to right) 7 in., 10 1/4 in., 7 in.The Metropolitan Museum of Art(from left to right) Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.26.4); Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2017 (2017.310); Lent by April L. Hynes (L.2014.16)
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 8, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-08T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-08T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 9, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 10, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
BARE AUDITIONS! (January 10, 2024 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116427 116427-21836812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Submit a virtual audition for "BARE"! Join us as we put on this contemporary classic! Help us to amplify LGBTQIA+ stories and storytellers as we highlight the Queer themes of this masterpiece!

Audition forms and videos are due by Wednesday, January 10 at 8:00pm. Callbacks will be held Thursday, January 11 and Thursday, January 12. Our performances will be March 7-9 in the Arthur Miller Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

BARE is a coming-of-age rock musical with music by Damon Intrabartolo, and lyrics and a book by Jon Hartmere. A group of high school seniors at a Catholic boarding school faces issues of sexuality and personal identity. As they struggle to come to terms with who they are, and who the world thinks they should be, they seek answers from their Church, their friends, and ultimately, from within themselves. Its rich, vibrant score draws on many styles of contemporary music.

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Auditions Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:17:13 -0500 2024-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Bare Logo
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 11, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-11T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 12, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 15, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-15T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
History & Healing: Reparations and Repair in Detroit & Beyond (January 15, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116049 116049-21836108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 15, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of History

How do we maintain and encourage an authentic commitment to AfroUrbanism by utilizing the knowledge to be found in resources such as storytelling, oral histories, and archives that center the lived experiences of Black peoples? How do projects like the Black Bottom Archives and the Friends of Royal Oak Township’s Truth Toward Reconciliation initiative help us think about the possibilities of reparations as a form of remembrance and healing?

Program

Welcome and Introductions:

Bénédicte Boisseron
Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies
University of Michigan

Opening Remarks and Framing:

Angela D. Dillard (moderator)|
Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education
Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and in the Residential College
University of Michigan

Reflections:

Lauren Hood
Founder/Director, Institute for AfroUrbanism
Associate Professor of Practice in Urban and Regional Planning
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan

Marcia Black
Director, Black Bottom Archives

Baba Cheikh Mbacké
Co-Founder, Friends of Royal Oak Township
Preceded by four-minute except of film, A Tale of Ten Cities

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Closing Remarks:
John Carson
Director, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Associate Professor, History
University of Michigan

This event is presented by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of History, and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:47:28 -0500 2024-01-15T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-15T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of History Lecture / Discussion (Courtesy Black Bottom Archives)
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 16, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Dinner for Democracy: How to be a Good Follower of Local Politics (January 16, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116288 116288-21836567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:48:14 -0500 2024-01-16T19:00:00-05:00 2024-01-16T20:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 17, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library (January 17, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115520 115520-21835700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 1:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We invite you to join us on a guided tour where you can delve deeper into the rich tapestry of Clements’ early American history and culture collections. Experience the allure of our esteemed treasures, including the legendary painting “Death of General Wolfe” by Benjamin West, a remarkable trunk from the Revolutionary War era that once safeguarded General Gage’s papers, and much more!

You will have the opportunity to view the exhibit, "The Art of Resistance in Early America. " This exhibit addresses the theme of the Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: “The Arts of Resistance.” This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms.

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Tours Wed, 20 Mar 2024 11:13:40 -0400 2024-01-17T13:00:00-05:00 2024-01-17T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours William Clements Library
Winter 2024 MEMS Lecture. Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (January 17, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114420 114420-21832857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Beginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who denounced the evils of usury as they expelled Jews from their lands. Yet Jews were not alone in supplying coin and credit to needy borrowers. Across much of Western Europe, foreign Christians likewise engaged in professional moneylending, and they too faced repeated threats of expulsion from the communities in which they settled. In charting the emergence and spread of this association between usury and expulsion, this talk will explore how mass expulsion became a pervasive feature of European law and politics—with tragic consequences that have reverberated down to the present.

Bio: Rowan Dorin is associate professor of History at Stanford University, where his teaching and research focus on premodern Europe and the Mediterranean. He holds degrees from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, and he was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In addition to his recent book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton UP, 2023), he has also published articles on Jewish-Christian relations, medieval canon law, digital humanities, and the circulation of people, goods, and manuscripts in the premodern world.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Nov 2023 07:11:05 -0500 2024-01-17T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-17T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion BL-Arundel-157-fol-6v
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 18, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Slavery and the U.S. Catholic Church: Confronting History and the Case for Reparations (January 18, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116880 116880-21838142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 18, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Join New York Times journalist and author Rachel Swarns in conversation with Wallace House director Lynette Clemetson, as she discusses her book “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold To Build the American Catholic Church,” a story of servitude and slavery spanning nearly two centuries and detailing the beginnings of Georgetown University and the U.S. Catholic Church. Swarns’s journalism started a national conversation about universities with ties to slavery.

"The 242: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold To Build the American Catholic Church" will be available for purchase at the event. The author will stay for a short book signing after the program.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:22:06 -0500 2024-01-18T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-18T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion New York Times journalists and author Rachel Swarns
deMystify Detroit (January 19, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116098 116098-21836161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Blow past the misconceptions to uncover the history, culture and economics behind the beautiful city of Detroit. Faculty, students and partners can engage in explorations by Data Driven Detroit, Detroit Regional Chamber, CDAD, and Detroit Historian, Jamon Jordan. To save your spot please scan the QR code or register here. Please call us at (313) 593-3584 or email at detroitcenter@umich.edu if you have any questions or concerns.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:14:06 -0500 2024-01-19T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion deMystify Detroit
The Clements Library Bookworm (January 19, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116620 116620-21837649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join author Kerri Greenidge as she discusses how she reexamines the story of the renowned white abolitionist Grimkè sisters, shifting the focus to their Black relatives. The Grimkès is presented as a landmark biography that explores the complex and conflicted legacy of racial myths within the family, echoing through American history.

Martha Jones joins in the conversation as they discuss the challenges of researching and telling “hard history.”
This event is VIRTUAL
Please register here: http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:28:11 -0500 2024-01-19T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
EIHS Symposium: The Role of History in Investigative Reporting (January 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108413 108413-21819555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

It is not news that historians rely on journalists’ accounts nor that journalists often turn to historians’ research for background and context for their own investigative reporting. Since Charlottesville in August 2017, however, the urgency of these collaborations has seemed to markedly increase. Beyond signature initiatives like the 1619 Project, journalists and historians are collaborating in ever more fruitful ways, whether by working in tandem on investigative reporting, sharing op-ed pages, or appearing together on podcasts and other digital media. These projects demonstrate that journalists and historians can work together to produce public knowledge about the past—and hint at new possibilities for new partnerships. In this symposium, journalists Kat Stafford (Reuters) and Anna Clark (ProPublica) will join historian Stephen A. Berry (University of Michigan) to discuss how journalists investigate the past and what future collaborations might entail.

Anna Clark is an investigative journalist for ProPublica. She is the author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, which won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. She also edited A Detroit Anthology and wrote a slim book on the literary history of the Great Lakes State. Anna teaches nonfiction in Alma College’s MFA program in creative writing. She was a Fulbright fellow in Kenya and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. She graduated from U-M with degrees in history of art and creative writing/literature, and also from Warren Wilson College's MFA program in creative writing. She has been a longtime leader of writing and improv theater workshops in prisons, detention centers, high schools, libraries, and beyond.

Kat Stafford is the global race and justice editor for Reuters, where she leads agenda-setting coverage of race, identity and social justice across the newsroom. Prior to joining Reuters, Kat was a national investigative race writer and global investigations correspondent at the Associated Press. She has received several awards for her work, including the National Press Club Journalism Institute's 2023 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism. She was a 2022 University of Michigan Knight-Wallace fellow, where she published a five-part investigative series examining how health inequities have impacted generations of Black Americans.

Stephen A. Berrey is an associate professor in American Culture and History and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi. Berrey is director of the Sundown Towns Project and website, an initiative begun by James Loewen to document places that have intentionally excluded some racial groups. He is also involved with Singing Justice, a collaborative project of performers and scholars dedicated to centering Black music and Black musicians in American history.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies in partnership with Wallace House Center for Journalists. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 12 Jan 2024 06:36:47 -0500 2024-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium From left: Kat Stafford, Anna Clark, Stephen A. Berrey
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 19, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
LaTasha Barnes’ The Jazz Continuum (January 19, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109634 109634-21822434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 19, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

LaTasha Barnes, who appeared in Ann Arbor as part of Caleb Teicher’s SW!NG OUT in April 2021, presents The Jazz Continuum, a new production centering the prolific artistry of Jazz music and dance as a cornerstone of Black American culture and community.

Supported by a live music ensemble, including a DJ/Turntablist, the all-star powerhouse cast of Explorers brings mind-bending musicality, spectacular athleticism, and boundless joy to each offering. This interdisciplinary and intergenerational experience investigates the energetic relationships and throughlines from Jazz and Lindy Hop to vibrant contemporary styles such as House, Hip-Hop, and more that developed from them. Each offering is also curated to amplify the cultural contributions of the local geographic area to the continuum.

The Jazz Continuum celebrates music and dances from across the diaspora, conjuring the spirits of Black dance elders and transporting audiences from Harlem and Cuba to New Orleans and Brazil in its ever-evolving celebration of being, dance, and music.

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:21:16 -0400 2024-01-19T19:30:00-05:00 2024-01-19T21:00:00-05:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Jazz Continuum
LaTasha Barnes’ The Jazz Continuum (January 20, 2024 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109634 109634-21822435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 20, 2024 7:30pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

LaTasha Barnes, who appeared in Ann Arbor as part of Caleb Teicher’s SW!NG OUT in April 2021, presents The Jazz Continuum, a new production centering the prolific artistry of Jazz music and dance as a cornerstone of Black American culture and community.

Supported by a live music ensemble, including a DJ/Turntablist, the all-star powerhouse cast of Explorers brings mind-bending musicality, spectacular athleticism, and boundless joy to each offering. This interdisciplinary and intergenerational experience investigates the energetic relationships and throughlines from Jazz and Lindy Hop to vibrant contemporary styles such as House, Hip-Hop, and more that developed from them. Each offering is also curated to amplify the cultural contributions of the local geographic area to the continuum.

The Jazz Continuum celebrates music and dances from across the diaspora, conjuring the spirits of Black dance elders and transporting audiences from Harlem and Cuba to New Orleans and Brazil in its ever-evolving celebration of being, dance, and music.

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Performance Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:21:16 -0400 2024-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 2024-01-20T21:00:00-05:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts University Musical Society (UMS) Performance The Jazz Continuum
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 22, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 22, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
*Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution* Workshop with Marlene L. Daut (January 23, 2024 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117270 117270-21839081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 11:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

We will be discussing Professor Daut's new book, Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). The event will be on Tuesday, January 23, from 11:30AM to 1:00PM in the 4th Floor Commons of the Modern Languages Building.

Awakening the Ashes is available online at https://myumi.ch/n7MXm

Participants are encouraged to read the Introduction and Part II of the book.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:35:30 -0500 2024-01-23T11:30:00-05:00 2024-01-23T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Workshop / Seminar *Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution* Workshop with Marlene L. Daut
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 23, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Dinner for Democracy: Medicaid Expansion (January 23, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116289 116289-21836568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:48:44 -0500 2024-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 2024-01-23T19:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
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.
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 24, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 25, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
EIHS Lecture: Piercing Flesh and Joining Bones: The Materiality of the Body in the History of Chinese Medicine (January 25, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108406 108406-21819548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What are we talking about when we talk about “Chinese medicine”? By analyzing the surgical and bone setting techniques used to treat traumatic injuries in sixteenth- to early nineteenth-century China, this talk challenges the conventional wisdom that Chinese medicine was concerned with vital function but indifferent to anatomy. The need to heal bodies damaged by accidents and social violence historically motivated literate doctors to develop therapeutic doctrines in which manipulating the body’s morphology was inseparable from regulating its vital functions. Attention to this material body not only expands our appreciation of medical diversity in China, but also provides a more historically informed basis for cross-cultural medical comparisons.

Yi-Li Wu is a historian of Chinese medicine focusing on the history of gender, sexuality, and the body. She is the author of Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2010), awarded the 2011 Margaret W. Rossiter Prize of the History of Science Society. She has published articles on a range of topics including forensic medicine, medical illustration, breast cancer, Sino-Korean medicine, and Chinese views of European anatomical science. She is currently completing a manuscript on the history of traumatology in imperial China. She holds a joint appointment as associate professor of history and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:38:53 -0500 2024-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-25T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Yi-Li Wu
Manuscript Studies Interest Group (January 25, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116746 116746-21837881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Manuscript Studies Interest Group aims to bring together faculty, graduate students, librarians/curators, fellows/visiting scholars, and anyone else at U-M interested in manuscript studies or engaged in research on manuscripts. Manuscript cultures are central to premodern societies. Different manuscript formats and material substrates connect texts, images, languages, reading practices, and ritual performances, which in a university setting are often split across multiple departments and fields. Having this broad framework will enable the interest group to explore collaboration across disciplines and facilitate research among different manuscript traditions through an object-centered approach.

In monthly meetings during the Fall and Winter terms, participants will present on current research interests as well as give more general overviews of particular manuscript cultures for informal discussion and exchange. They will also occasionally discuss key readings which have shaped manuscript studies in specific areas or in broader ways. In addition, the interest group hopes to be able to explore manuscript collections in person together, both in and around Ann Arbor as well as further afield. Inviting an external speaker once a year (potentially funded through the History of Art Department) would be a great way to connect the interest group with scholars beyond U-M.

Organized by Tina Bawden (History of Art) and Trent Walker (Asian Languages & Cultures)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:51:24 -0500 2024-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar MSG poster
Michigan in Washington Information Session (January 25, 2024 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116881 116881-21838140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 6:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

Please join us to learn about the Michigan in Washington program and how it can help you achieve your career goals. https://umich.zoom.us/j/96067832605

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Meeting Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:15:10 -0500 2024-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 2024-01-25T19:00:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Michigan in Washington Program Meeting MIW
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 26, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
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.
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

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. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (January 30, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-01-30T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 30, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Dinner for Democracy: Campaign Finance (January 31, 2024 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/116290 116290-21836569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 7:00am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Turn Up Turnout

Dinners for Democracy are nonpartisan presentations and small group discussions on topics students care about hosted by the student organization, Turn Up Turnout (TUT). Free food at in-person events!
Participants can expect to gain a deeper knowledge of the issue and an opportunity to discuss your thoughts, information about how your vote in local offices can affect the issue, and additional resources you can use to learn more.

Sign up at: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/10547

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:49:08 -0500 2024-01-31T07:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T20:00:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Turn Up Turnout Workshop / Seminar Turn Up Turnout Logo
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.
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

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. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (January 31, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-01-31T11:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
The Art of Resistance in Early America (January 31, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
Cannupa Hanska Luger: You're Welcome (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107165 107165-21815464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

How Do We Remember? 

Memories are deeply embedded in the physical structures of modern day society — our neighborhoods, our laws, our monuments, our buildings — but those memories are often sculpted and built into those structures by a privileged few. How have their perspectives shaped the enduring stories of our history and visions of the past?

You’re Welcome is a three-part installation and dynamic intervention that exposes the histories and narratives of the land occupied by the University of Michigan and UMMA’s neoclassical building, Alumni Memorial Hall. A large-scale commission from artist Cannupa Hanska Luger on the exterior of UMMA’s building asks the campus and community to reconsider the memories molded into the Museum’s stone — the perspectives that shaped those traditions and the stories that remain unseen in our facade. This artistic interrogation dissects colonialist norms of monument-making, explores the roles of buildings in upholding selected cultural systems, and develops new forms of memorials that center Indigenous perspectives and collaboration to tell fuller stories and histories. 

Luger communicates stories of 21st-century Indigeneity, sovereignty, and anti-colonialism while offering critical cultural analysis through deep engagements with materials, environments, and communities. In addition to the exterior commission, a gallery exhibition places Luger’s works of art in conversation with objects in UMMA’s collection, allowing for discussion and thinking on long histories of collecting practices, environmental degradation, and the afterlife of colonialism. And, a monument classroom from nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab invites the community to come together and examine how historic structures on the University of Michigan’s campus uphold social and cultural systems and narratives.  

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. 
 

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:46 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition From left: Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab surrounded by the architecture of Alumni Memorial Hall at the U-M Museum of Art. Photo by Ian John Solomon.
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism (February 1, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 84303-21621197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 10:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Toni Morrison

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

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Exhibition Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:15:51 -0500 2024-02-01T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Titus Kaphar, Flay (James Madison), 2019, oil on canvas with nails. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museum purchase made possible by Joseph and Annette Allen, 2019/2.184. Courtesy Maruani Mercer and the artist. © Titus Kaphar
The Art of Resistance in Early America (February 1, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115674 115674-21835289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: "Arts & Resistance." This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings, and in different forms. What "arts" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions

Exhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm

Link to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/

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Exhibition Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:30:48 -0500 2024-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition The Arts of Resistance in Early America
EIHS Lecture: Listening to the Water, Capping a Verse: What Enslaved Women Did in the Medieval Mediterranean (February 1, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108407 108407-21819549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What did enslaved women do in the medieval Mediterranean? The usual answer has been domestic work, but the field of slavery studies is in the midst of a historiographical turn toward the importance of sexual and reproductive labor. Enslaved women certainly performed these types of labor in medieval Mediterranean contexts, and Professor Barker will introduce some of the sources that enable historians to understand these aspects of their enslavement. She will also argue that the framework of domestic, sexual, and reproductive labor remains insufficient to express the full range of enslaved women’s activities.

Hannah Barker is an associate professor of medieval history at Arizona State University. She studies connections between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean during the late medieval period, especially the slave trade and the transmission of plague leading to the Black Death. Her book, That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500, was published in 2019. It received the Paul E. Lovejoy Prize and the ASU Institute for Humanities Research book prize, as well as honorable mentions for the Mediterranean Seminar’s Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize and the Middle East Medievalists book prize.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:41:55 -0500 2024-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Hannah Barker
Mapping the Sky: Celestial Coordinates from the Babylonians to Ptolemy (February 1, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117506 117506-21839396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Modern astronomers find the positions of celestial bodies in the sky using coordinate systems, that uniquely identify the position of a celestial object (a planet, a star, a galaxy) through a pair of easily measurable angles. Now a common tool in modern science, such coordinate systems have not been always available in the past; rather, they are the result of a long evolution which started as far back as the Babylonians in first millennium BCE. This talk will outline the history of celestial coordinates from their early beginning in ancient Babylon to their final establishment with Ptolemy (ca. 100-170 CE), with a special focus on the great innovations introduced by one of the greatest astronomers of the ancient world: Hipparchus of Nicaea (ca. 150 BCE).



Talk begins at 7PM at the Detroit Observatory. Tours of the historic Detroit Observatory will be available after the talk, including telescope observing, if weather permits.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:00:21 -0500 2024-02-01T19:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion The Detroit Observatory