Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
The Clements Bookworm: "Vanguard" Author Conversation with Martha S. Jones (January 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90355 90355-21670449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most black women. Securing their rights required a movement of their own. Historian Martha S. Jones’ 2020 book “Vanguard” shows how African American women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, black women—Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou Hamer, and more—were the vanguard of women's rights, calling on America to realize its best ideals.

Register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Tom Wagner.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:03:17 -0500 2022-01-21T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-21T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual "Vanguard" Book Cover
The Premodern Colloquium. Manuscript to Print in England: Reconsidering the Divide (January 23, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90097 90097-21667836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 23, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

My talk is taken from the conclusion to my current book project, entitled Scribes and Readers: The Middle English Book, 1350-1500. In this book, I examine the surviving manuscripts of four popular Middle English verse texts: The Prick of Conscience, Piers Plowman, and John Lydgate's "Dietary" and "Stans puer ad mensam." Based on my analyses of the 199 manuscripts surviving from these poems, I argue that Middle English literary culture was a local affair--that is, manuscripts were produced in numerous sorts of institutional settings, often by scribes from the nearby area, making books for nearby readers. As a result of this diversity of sites of book production, we find an often bewildering variety among Middle English manuscripts. But what unites the books in the hands of most English readers in the period of 1350-1500 is that they came from within the cultural milieu/orbit of the readers themselves.

In this presentation, I look at how the advent of print brings about a sharp break in such practices of book production and in the relationship between readers and their books. In manuscript culture, I argue, books were bespoke artefacts. Print turns the book into a commodity, centralizing its production and moving it outside the immediate world of readers. In this presentation, I will thus revisit long-standing debates about whether the printing press marks a revolution or an evolution in book production. Returning to the ideas of Ann Arbor's own Elizabeth Eisenstein, I argue that we have been too quick to dismiss the revolutionary effects of the printing press.

Michael Johnston completed his BA in English at John Carroll University in 2000, his M.Litt. in Mediaeval English at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) in 2002, and his Ph.D. at Ohio State in 2007. His first book, Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England, appeared with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has also edited three collections of essays: a special volume on teaching the history of the book for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (vol. 19.1, Spring 2012); with Susanna Fein, Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts (York Medieval Press, 2014); and with Michael Van Dussen, The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:08:04 -0500 2022-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Prof. Michael Johnston
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-26T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
“Remembering my Father Fred T. Korematsu and Furthering His Civil Liberties Legacy” (January 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90353 90353-21670447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Karen Korematsu is the Founder and Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute. She and the Institute are devoted to furthering the memory of Fred Korematsu, the case Korematsu v. the United States, a case said to be a “civil liberties disaster”, and for advancing civil rights and civil liberties, equity and justice.

Fred T. Korematsu was one of many American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated during World War II. He is famous for his defying the government’s order to report to an assembly center. Fred Korematsu appealed his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 1944. Years later, his conviction was vacated by the U.S. District Court of Northern California. Fred’s courage and activism were recognized by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton in 1998. Fred T. Korematsu is the first Asian American honored by a state for a day in his name.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:55:21 -0500 2022-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T13:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Poster
EIHS Lecture: The Philadelphia Police and the Long History of the 1985 Bombing of MOVE: Writing the Past in the Vortex of Present (January 27, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85509 85509-21626796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This is a virtual event that will take place via Zoom webinar. Open to the general public. Please register here: https://myumi.ch/7e3qy

Description: Drawing from never-before-seen records, interviews with survivors, and the release of recently declassified documents, Heather Ann Thompson's forthcoming book seeks to recover the deep origins as well as legacies of one of the most lethal assaults by the police on African American citizens in the history of the twentieth century: the 1985 Philadelphia police bombing of the MOVE organization. Thompson will discuss the possibilities as well as challenges of navigating our discipline’s historiographical goals, scholarly imperatives, and methodological boundaries when one seeks to write a history of an iconic and pivotally important event and organization in the past that suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, makes news in the present for reasons that may be heartwarming and deeply unsettling alike.

Biography: Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of History, and Residential College. She is the author of Whose Detroit: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City, and Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and won five additional book prizes. Thompson also regularly writes about policing and prisons for The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, etc., as well for the top publications in her field. She sits on myriad policy advisory boards, and was appointed to National Academy of Sciences blue ribbon panel on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration. She currently sits on its standing Committee on Law and Justice. In 2021 Thompson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to write her next book: Bullet and Burn: The Move Bombing of 1985 and Law and Order America.

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 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:06:01 -0500 2022-01-27T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Heather Ann Thompson
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
EIHS Symposium: Radical Futures Through Indigenous Political Thought (January 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85510 85510-21626797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This is a virtual event that will take place via Zoom webinar. Open to the general public. Please register here: https://myumi.ch/9P6Xd

Description: Who gets to have futures? Who gets to imagine futures? Indigenous political activists and Indigenous studies scholars have turned these questions on their head. Indigenous peoples have too often been framed through the past. What would it mean to recognize their centrality to visions of futurity? Nowhere, perhaps, is this question more urgent than in the face of climate change and ecological disaster. Indigenous communities’ perspectives on sustainability offer critical methods and insights for thinking about our collective futures. This panel explores the contributions of Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous sciences, and Indigenous political thought to the making of just futures for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike.

Panelists:
• Rebecca D. Hardin (Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan)
• Ana María León (Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Michigan)
• David Myer Temin (Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Michigan)
• Kyle Whyte (George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan)
• Mrinalini Sinha (moderator; Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, 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.

Image credit: Screen grab from Biidaaban: First Light (image from Media Kit; "Rooted in the realm of Indigenous futurism, Biidaaban: First Light is an interactive VR time-jump into a highly realistic—and radically different—Toronto of tomorrow.").

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:06:56 -0500 2022-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Screen grab from Biidaaban: First Light installation (via media kit).
Film Screening of Eternal Harvest (January 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91673 91673-21681494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

Between 1964 and 1973, the U.S. military dropped 4 billion pounds of explosives on Laos. This film introduces Laotians who lived through the bombing campaign and those who live with bombs in their fields today.

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Film Screening Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:33:01 -0500 2022-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Global Scholars Program Film Screening North Quad
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 3, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
STS Distinguished Lecture. The Secret History of Rules: Algorithms, Laws, and Paradigms (February 4, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90460 90460-21671080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 4, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Three clusters of meanings have defined what rules could be since antiquity: algorithms, laws, and paradigms. Two of these clusters are still very much with us: laws and rules still keep close company, and algorithms have become the prototypical rules. But the third cluster, centered on paradigms, is not only no longer synonymous with rules; it has come to be opposed to them – most famously in Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Yet for over two thousand years, in both ancient and modern European languages, right through the Enlightenment, rules were paradigms – as well as laws and algorithms. This is the secret history of rules, reconstructed from examples of their pre-modern application.

Bio: Lorraine Daston is Director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, a regular Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science, including probability and statistics, wonders and the order of nature, scientific images, objectivity and other epistemic virtues, quantification, observation, algorithms, and the moral authority of nature. Her most recent books are Against Nature (MIT Press, 2019) and Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (Princeton University Press, 2021). Her scholarship has been recognized by the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Dan David Prize, and the Heineken Prize for History of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:42:36 -0500 2022-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 2022-02-04T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion The Cardplayers (detail), Pierre-Louis Dusimel
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CAS Workshop (Day 2) | Dispossession and Its Legacies: Comparisons, Intersections, and Connections (February 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90397 90397-21670699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

VIRTUAL EVENT

Register in advance for the webinars. You need one registration to attend the two-day workshop: https://myumi.ch/kyyx2.

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

Download the workshop program: https://myumi.ch/n8yJk

Visit the workshop website: https://myumi.ch/Nm6RM

This workshop focuses on the historical instances and aesthetic representations of dispossession, its violence, and its persisting legacies in the former Ottoman Empire and its diasporas. The organizers hope to bring Ottoman, Middle Eastern, and Armenian studies into conversation with settler colonial studies, critical Indigenous studies, and global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Invoking dispossession as a point of comparison and the framework for the discussion, the workshop joins recent work in Armenian studies and Ottoman studies, which has begun to explore chains of displacement and dispossession under conditions of what some have called internal colonization (Üngör and Polatel; Bloxham). The aim is to put these works into conversation with the distinct yet inseparable fields of settler colonial and Indigenous studies, and ask how they might inform, learn from, and complicate understandings of territorial removal, the settler/native binary, and Indigenous transnationalisms.

The two panels work towards an expansive understanding of dispossession. The first panel, “Displacement and Dispossession in the Late Ottoman Empire,” explores waves of displacement and the creation and seizure of property. It takes up the influx of Muslim refugees into Ottoman domains, the connected dispossessions of the Hamidian Massacres and Armenian Genocide, shifting property regimes in the Ottoman Mashriq, and famine and dispossession in the Ottoman East.

The second panel, “Memory, Narrative, and Aesthetic Form,” takes up representations of dispossession and its legacies, with a focus on film, literature, and testimony. It features analyses of a film on the silences of a Greek Orthodox woman dispossessed from the Black Sea region in 1916, of settlement and state memory work in an Armenian American and American Indian novel, and of lived memory practices pertaining to the 1915 Armenian and 1994 Rwandan genocides.

The workshop concludes with a roundtable discussion on dispossession, memory, settler colonial studies, and indigeneity in Ottoman and Armenian studies. In it, panelists reflect on how these concepts have factored or could factor into their work, and how these frameworks, largely rooted in other fields, might speak to the Middle East and Anatolia.

Co-sponsors: Department of American Culture, Department of English Language & Literature, Department of History, Donia Human Rights Center, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of Sociology, and Society for Armenian Studies.

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

Image credit: Commercial chart, World. George Philip & Son, Ltd. The London Geographical Institute. Philips' Mercantile Marine Atlas. Second Edition, 1905. Courtesy of Stanford Libraries David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Feb 2022 08:36:22 -0500 2022-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Image credit: Commercial chart, World. George Philip & Son, Ltd. The London Geographical Institute. Philips' Mercantile Marine Atlas. Second Edition, 1905. Courtesy of Stanford Libraries David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 11, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21677910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-02-11T16:15:00-05:00 2022-02-11T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Fun with the Dictionary (February 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90216 90216-21668727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Bar bets, Scrabble fights, or the Dictionary Game: The dictionary has long been the answer, but the so-called “answer-for-everything” book has a long and surprising history we can explore through interactive exercises and discussion. The dictionary has also been a source of conflict over racial slurs, proper usage, spelling and related matters. Various dictionaries disagree on all these issues. To understand why, we will visit with dictionary creators Samuel Johnson and Daniel Webster, review the development of the ultimate dictionary (the OED), and see what happens when the dictionary goes online in contemporary times.

Instructor Alice Horning is retired from Oakland University where she taught linguistics and writing for more than 30 years.

This class meets on Mondays, from February 14 – March 7. No classes on holidays.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:08:52 -0500 2022-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Frederick Douglass Day 2022 (February 14, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91999 91999-21684861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

We invite you to an online birthday party for Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, author, and orator. Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birth date, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14th. Let's honor him by celebrating and preserving Black history together.

We'll start with a keynote address by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer (http://www.suadabdulkhabeer.com/), and then you can drop in to participate:

* Virtual transcription session: transcribe the papers of the Colored Conventions (https://coloredconventions.org/) — documents from state and national conventions of Black activists in the 19th century
* Digital arts and crafts session: make valentines for Black women activists

Please register for a zoom link: https://myumi.ch/293ZN

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:21:27 -0500 2022-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2022-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University Library Conference / Symposium Black women sitting at desks, and the text Douglass Day 2022
"People, Paper, Cloth: Mixed Courtrooms and Materiality in Colonial Indonesia" (February 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87363 87363-21641517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Nineteenth and early-twentieth century photos of mixed law courts (landraad) in colonial Indonesia display spaces that were transformed into legal arenas using a plurality of materials. Thick lawbooks, papers piling up, the black gown of the judge, but also a green tablecloth, payongs, a Quran, forbidden patterns on batik, hats, hybrid uniforms, invisible amulets and more. This talk offers a distinct way to think about legal pluralism through exploring the visual dimensions of law making in a colonial context. Beyond merely staged curiosities, the materials in the landraad photos show a courtroom where different actors were signaling distinct messages to multiple audiences. Studying these objects, with their visible and invisible messages, provides insight into the various layers of (mis-)communication that were inherent to the mixed courtroom. Filled with people, paper, cloth as well as a plurality of languages, symbols, political interests, and legal cultures, this was a courtroom where objects often spoke louder than words.

Sanne Ravensbergen is a cultural historian of law in colonial Indonesia. Her interdisciplinary research connects the study of legal pluralism, materiality, and Dutch empire in the Indian Ocean world. She obtained her PhD in History from Leiden University in 2018. From 2018-2021, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on spatial and material encounters in law making tied to colonial commissions of inquiry in South- and Southeast Asia. She is the co-editor of Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Text, Ideas, and Practices (Routledge 2021) and has published articles and book chapters on colonial legal cultures in Indonesia and the postcolonial legacies of Dutch empire. She is currently a lecturer in the Museum Studies program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:19:21 -0400 2022-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Livestream / Virtual
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90784 90784-21673908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series

China was once the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China’s decline? Yuhua Wang will discuss his new book "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China," which offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required. You may do so here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5obeoPFaToChJMK8v_yeBg

Yuhua Wang is the Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of "Tying the Autocrat’s Hands: The Rise of the Rule of Law in China" (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and "The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development" (Princeton University Press, 2022). Dr. Wang received his BA from Peking University and PhD from the University of Michigan.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:38:36 -0500 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
WCEE Roundtable. From There to Here: The Yiddish Origins and Cultural Travels of *Fiddler on the Roof* (February 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90908 90908-21674687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

This roundtable discussion features scholars of the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe and specialists in Yiddish who will provide the historical context and geopolitical setting of *Fiddler on the Roof*, discuss the translation and adaptation of the original Yiddish text into the English-language play, explore the role of the play in representations of Jews and Jewish culture in North America and Europe, and analyze some of the key themes of the play.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/5WJqA

Mikhail Krutikov is professor of Slavic languages and literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of *Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905–1914*; *From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener*; and *Der Nister’s Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People*. He has co-edited nine collections on Yiddish literature and culture, most recently *Three Cities of Yiddish: St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow*, co-edited with Gennady Estraikh. He has been a cultural columnist for the Yiddish *Forward* since 1999. A collection of his Yiddish essays came out in Israel in 2018 under the title *Tsvishn shures: notitsn vegn yidisher kultur (Between Lines: Notes on Jewish Culture)*.

Anita Norich is Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the translator of *Fear and Other Stories* by Chana Blankshteyn (forthcoming, 2022) and *A Jewish Refugee in New York* by Kadya Molodovsky (2019). She is also the author of *Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century*; *Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust*; *The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer*; and co-editor of *Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives* (2016), *Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext* (2008), and *Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures* (1992).

Karolina Szymaniak is assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław as part of the Fugue Program of the National Science Center, and an assistant professor at the Jewish Historical Institute. She is a researcher, editor, and translator from Yiddish and English, and a language instructor with a PhD in literary and cultural studies. She has been a consultant for, among others, the POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Museum of Art in Łódź. She co-authored the exhibition “Montage. Debora Vogel and the New Legend of the City” (Museum of Art in Łódź, 2017-18). Szymaniak has been an organizer and co-organizer of numerous national and international conferences, most recently “Yiddishism: Mythologies and Iconographies” (Jewish Historical Institute, 2015). She is a member of the audit commission of the Polish Society for Yiddish Studies. Her scholarly interests include modern Yiddish literature, the problems of modernism and avant-garde literature written by women, as well as the history and theory of Polish-Jewish cultural contacts.

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki is professor of sociology and director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan. Zubrzycki is a comparative-historical and cultural sociologist who studies national identity and religion, collective memory and national mythology, and the contested place of religious symbols in the public sphere.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:09:49 -0500 2022-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Pagowski_Skrzypek na Dachu
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
The Clements Bookworm: The Varieties of Retail Experience; or, Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91288 91288-21677911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Few retail sectors have been as thoroughly transformed by the revolution in online commerce as the retail bookstore. The retail storefront dedicated primarily to the sale of printed books (new or used) has become a vanishing breed. Or so we are told. But how did readers in the past buy things to read? What sorts of retail outlets sold reading material? And what did it *feel* like to shop there? Clements Library Director Paul Erickson will draw on printed, manuscript, and visual sources to shed light on the various settings for the retail traffic in print in the 19th-century northern United States.

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:05:15 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Trade Card for New York Bookseller William W. Swayne, Clements Library.
The Premodern Colloquium. "As though death should every hour approach": Reformation Adaptations in English Women's Wills (February 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90098 90098-21667837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The wills of non-elite laywomen who lived and died in late-fifteenth and sixteenth century England provide a glimpse into their priorities, identities, and Reformation adaptations. From reluctant laywomen, removed from the rhythms of religious life
by the dissolution, to those who spent their days living, working, and worshiping in the diocese of Salisbury’s varied parishes, “everyday” women proved themselves to be capable administrators and active members of their local networks. In their wills, they cast themselves as faithful stewards of their worldly goods, prioritizing practical, occupational, and familial concerns, occasionally hinting at ongoing religious reform. Amidst unpredictable change and persistent continuity, non-elite laywomen were adept and adaptable, navigating the instability and unknowns of theological, social, and political reform. Looking back, usually from their final days, they elucidated their everyday lives and left vibrant traces of themselves, their memories, and their experiences.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:49:21 -0500 2022-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CREES Noon Lecture. Narratives of Transnational Solidarity in the Archives of Yugoslav Newsreels (February 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91241 91241-21677513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The Yugoslav Newsreels of Belgrade collection is a site of forgotten and untold stories about solidarities and transnational collaborations in an era of anti-colonial struggle. For the past five years, the Non-Aligned Newsreels artistic research project, headed by filmmaker Mila Turajlić, has been focused on reactivating the political potential of these filmed materials. From the films made by the Yugoslav cameramen accompanying President Tito's '"Voyages of Peace" across the non-aligned world in the 1950s, to the footage taken for liberation movements and newly independent countries in the 1960s, the aim has been to explore how filmed images chronicled the birth of a political project, becoming at the same time the vehicle through which this community was constituted. Working with the original cameraman, and soliciting the subjectivities of those represented in the images, the project aims to resurrect forgotten narratives and to invite a reflection on the cinematic representation of political visions.

Mila Turajlić is an award-winning director born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her documentary, *The Other Side of Everything,* won 32 awards including the prestigious IDFA Award for Best Documentary Film. It was nominated for the European Parliament’s LUX Prize. Mila’s previous film, *Cinema Komunisto,* premiered at Tribeca and won 16 awards including the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of Archival Footage. In 2018, she was commissioned by MoMA to create archive-based video installations for their landmark exhibition on Yugoslav architecture. In 2020, Mila was a Chicken & Egg Award grantee and invited to join the AMPAS Documentary Branch.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/5WJVg

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:51:47 -0500 2022-02-23T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Mila Turajlić, photo by Miguel Bueno
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
LHS Collaboratory (February 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90079 90079-21667713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The session will describe the landscape history, current status, and future of federated health data networks that are used to support a Learning Health System. Dr. Brown will describe the creation, infrastructure, operation, and uses of several networks from the perspective of a network coordinating center. Dr. Harris will describe insights from participating in multiple networks as a network partner, including infrastructure, governance, and operational lessons learned.

Presenters:
Jeffrey Brown, PhD
Dr. Brown is the inventor of PopMedNet, an open-source software platform that facilitates creation and operation of distributed health data networks.

Marcelline Harris, Ph.D., RN, FACMI
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership
University of Michigan School of Nursing

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:26:41 -0500 2022-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
EIHS Lecture: Writing the Past-Perfect: Memoir and the Making of a Meaningful Past (February 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85512 85512-21626798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/Ek82M).

Description: Questions about the relationship between historical memory and slavery have become increasingly acute in a political environment where thinly veiled claims to racial purity have been weaponized to proscribe the boundaries of national citizenship. At the same time, various protest movements have demanded that we reconsider the violent legacy of racism that is enshrined, commemorated, and memorialized in this country. In this talk, Jason Young argues that much of what we have inherited as the sights, sounds, and symbols of slavery are of very recent provenance, much of it produced by influential myth-makers in the early twentieth century who responded to the racial anxieties of their day by weaponizing their memories of the antebellum past. The themes explored in this talk continue to have great currency in the current moment when debates about historical memory, race and slavery are being waged both in the arena of popular culture as well as in the halls of academia.

Biography: Jason R. Young is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcounrty Region of Georgia and South Carolina in the Era of Slavery, an exploration into the religious and ritual practices that linked Kongo with South Carolina in the era of slavery. He is the co-editor, with Edward J. Blum, of The Souls of W.E.B. Du Bois: New Essays and Reflections. Professor Young has published articles in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Africana Religions and Journal of Southern Religion among others. He is currently conducting research toward his next book project, "'To Make the Slave Anew': Art, History and the Politics of Authenticity."

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 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:51:31 -0500 2022-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Jason Young
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 24, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
EIHS Symposium: Humanities-in-Recovery: The Case for Engaged Scholarship (February 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85513 85513-21626801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/bRV1e).

Description: The humanities have been in a state of “permanent crisis,” or so it seems. Yet the modern humanities were themselves conceived as a bulwark against a crisis of meaning and value. The current pandemic crisis has raised anew questions about the purpose of the humanities and what value they provide to society. Our multidisciplinary panel will engage with the question of the role of the humanities in relation to society. What is the role of engaged scholarship in this context? How can it avoid the mere instrumentalization of complex artifacts and problematics? The panelists will address these questions and more in the context of their own work.

Panelists:
• Peter Blackmer (Assistant Professor, Africology and African American Studies, Eastern Michigan University)
• Amal Hassan Fadlalla (Professor; Afroamerican and African Studies, Anthropology, Women's and Gender Studies; University of Michigan)
• Ricky Punzalan (Associate Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan)
• Anna Bonnell Freidin (moderator; Assistant Professor, History, 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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Conference / Symposium Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:46:06 -0500 2022-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Tisch Hall
Rethinking the Yuan “Chinese” Imperial City: Building Ordo Spatial Logic into the Mongol Great Capital / Gateways of Charity: Mongol Sacred Kingship in Fourteenth Century Iran (February 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92619 92619-21693696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Rethinking the Yuan “Chinese” Imperial City: Building Ordo Spatial Logic into the Mongol Great Capital by Andrea Valedón-Trapote

Current scholarship describes the layout and architecture of the Yuan dynasty’s (1279-1368) capital Dadu (contemporary Beijing) as a “Chinese” city. However, archaeological remains and textual descriptions of the “Great Capital” Dadu indicate that in comparison to previous and contemporaneous capitals constructed above and below the Great Wall, Khubilai Khan (r. 1260-1294) built a specifically Mongol gendered logic of tent cities (ordo) into the Yuan palatial complex. Moreover, the layout of Dadu aligned more closely with the spatial logic of cities in Mongolia and northeastern Asia than with urban traditions of “Chinese” capitals, to which Dadu is often compared. I assert that in order to understand the logic of Dadu, we must look more towards the urban spaces and places that Mongols had been building and engaging with in the steppe.

Gateways of Charity: Mongol Sacred Kingship in Fourteenth Century Iran by Golriz Farshi

This paper explores charitable complexes built by Mongol Khans to historicize sacred kingship in the thirteenth and fourteenth century Iran. As new converts to Islam, the Mongol Khans deployed divine symbols and rituals to lay claim on their ancestral lineage and the inherited mantel of the Islamic Caliphate. This project was not limited to the discursive realm but was embodied in the charitable cities the Khans endowed. These mausoleum-centered endowed charitable city-cum-sovereign was the material representations of the Khan’s sacred kingship. Inspired by Buddhist temples and Sufi shrines dotting the landscape of the greater Mongol Empire, endowed cities came to define sovereign piety and authority, linking imperial legitimacy to the circulation of goods and people around the sacred body of the Khan. I examine and reconstruct the physical space of these cities from their extant endowment deeds, ruins and remains to read the public performance of sacred kingship and the crafting of a new body politic. In specific, I explore endowed charitable cites built in or around Tabriz. I argue that these building projects, referred to as ‘gateways of charity,’ were the material representation of Mongol Islam that illuminated the confessional politics of shrine-centered kingship popularized in this period.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:43:18 -0500 2022-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Livestream / Virtual
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-02-25T16:15:00-05:00 2022-02-25T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS). The Consumption of Power: Kütahya Wares and Authority in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (March 1, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91501 91501-21680106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The consumption of coffee in the early modern period is often fixed to the image of the seditious and raucous coffeehouse or with the ritual of offering a guest hospitality. The material accompaniments of coffee consumption, however, frequently go understudied. This talk concentrates on Early Modern Greece and Cyprus to understand better the material role of coffee consumption on the Greek and Cypriot landscape through the presence of Kütahya wares from central Anatolia. The narrative that emerges emphasizes a material role in status display, arguing that Kütahya wares form an archaeological marker of a rural, non-urban authority in a landscape and time period often under analyzed by archaeology.

Justin Anthony Mann is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and currently a junior fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University). Mann has participated in a range of international archaeological projects in Greece, where he is currently a survey leader for the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project. In addition, he has worked extensively with cultural resource management firms in the American Great Plains region. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship (Fulbright Greece 2019–2020) for his dissertation research on Byzantine monastic landscapes, and he has also held the University of Virginia’s Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship and Kapp Family Fellowship. His research interests include Byzantine monasticism, landscape archaeology, human geography, and the archaeology of commodities in Byzantine and Ottoman periods.

Free and open to the public; register at
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtc-2rqj4jHdbMb-9_8MFQMPzJJEEcse9J

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:05:37 -0500 2022-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-01T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion The Consumption of Power: Kütahya Wares and Authority in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Caravans, Cultures, and Chinggis Khan Along the Silk Route (March 2, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90221 90221-21668755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Silk Route is a collection of pathways that, together, link China to Vienna, Istanbul, Baghdad, and India across the Inner Asian steppe and desert. During our meetings participants will discuss the Silk Route as a cultural conduit, on the one hand, as the source of empire and technologies, on the other, and look at specific examples of cultural dissemination. The Silk Route has provided some of the most engaging and best written volumes of travel literature.

There will be no required readings, but students may enjoy Owen Lattimore’s “The Desert Road to Turkestan”, from 1928, or the Franciscan William of Rubruck’s account of his journey to Karakorum in 1255, where he found a Parisian goldsmith preparing a soft drink dispenser for the Khan.

Instructor Rudi Lindner will lead this study group.

This class meets on Wednesdays, from Mach 2– March 30. No classes on holidays.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:10:25 -0500 2022-03-02T13:00:00-05:00 2022-03-02T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
The Populist Origins of Corporate Capitalism in Jeffersonian Virginia (March 7, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90222 90222-21668756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The modern corporation as a legal and economic entity finds its origins, in American history, in the generation following the American Revolution. Its advocates understood the corporation as an expression of the revolution’s radically republican ideology, embodying its principles of consent, natural property rights, and community welfare.

A counter narrative, viewing the corporation as an anti-republican concentration of oligarchic power, developed as corporations’ economic roles became manifest. This seminar will look at a region in northern Virginia from which a wave of corporations were launched, c. 1790- 1820.

Instructor Jason Barrett is Professor of History and Humanities Department Chair at Lawrence Technological University. This seminar derives from his ongoing research into the political economy of the founding era. Reading and visual materials will be distributed in the seminar.

This class meets on Mondays, from March 7 – March 21. No classes on holidays.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:14:04 -0500 2022-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Museum Studies Visiting Scholar: What’s the Object of this Museum?  Everyday Resistance at the National Public Housing Museum (March 8, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92828 92828-21697173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Join the Museum Studies Program as they present a lecture by visiting scholar, Lisa Yun Lee (Director, National Public Housing Museum, Chicago)  

Worker cooperatives to build a solidarity economy, contemporary art that grapples with history and unleashes radical imaginations about our collective futures, everyday objects and labels written by public housing residents, cultural work that contributes to more just public policies and reparations, collective joy and civic love.  Learn about the work of the National Public Housing Museum and how a cultural institution contributes to the ongoing struggle for housing as a human right.  

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:16:39 -0500 2022-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 2022-03-08T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
EIHS Lecture: "All the Devils this Side of Hades": Minnie Geddings Cox and Black Finance in the 1920s (March 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85515 85515-21626802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/n8V68).

Description: By 1920, Minnie Geddings Cox led a financial empire that included a wildly successful, Black-owned insurance company and bank. Few women of any race could boast of such an accomplishment. In 1923, she attempted a merger that would have made her Mississippi Life Insurance Company the largest Black-owned insurance company in the country. She could not have foreseen the daunting challenges poised to thwart her vision: from white regulators and businesses anxious to cash in on Black success to self-proclaimed Negro Captains of Industry determined that they—and not a woman—would remain the avatars of Negro progress in a Jim Crow financial world.

Biography: Shennette Garrett-Scott is committed to telling little-known stories of early Black business. She is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and the author of the multiple award-winning book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance before the New Deal, published by Columbia University Press in 2019. She is working on an upcoming book tentatively titled Black Enterprise: Black Capitalism in the Making of Modern America, which will be published by W.W. Norton. She has published widely in scholarly journals, popular magazines, and online blogs. Follow her on Twitter at EbonRebel.

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, 28 Feb 2022 08:01:06 -0500 2022-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Shennette Garrett-Scott
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
WCEE Teach-In on Ukraine (March 11, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92972 92972-21698648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 9:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Faculty and experts will provide information about the war in Ukraine. University of Michigan students and community are invited to join the discussion. The teach-in will be presented as a Zoom meeting, allowing for Q&A following each presentation. Please sign in here: https://myumi.ch/n8VNR

9:30 Ronald G. Suny, William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and professor of political science, U-M
"Lessons from History: Ukraine and Russia"

10:00 Ambassador Daniel Fried, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council
"Stuck in the Middle: Ukraine and U.S. Diplomacy in Eastern Europe before Putin’s War"

10:30 Yevgenia Albats, Russian journalist, political scientist, author, radio host, and former visiting professor, U-M
"Killing the Messenger: The War in Ukraine and Putin's Repression of Russian Media"

11:00 Yuri Zhukov, associate professor of political science and research associate professor with the Center for Political Studies, U-M
"Russian Military Scenarios and Strategies"

11:30 Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M
"A New Refugee Crisis: Poles Respond"

12:00 Jessica Zychowicz (PhD Slavic '15), director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine and Institute of International Education Kyiv Office
"Academic Leaders in Wartime: The Past and Future of Fulbright Ukraine”

12:30 Mikhail Krutikov, professor and chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (SLL) and Preston R. Tisch professor of Judaic Studies, U-M; Benjamin Paloff, professor of SLL and of comparative literature, and CREES Director, U-M; and Svitlana Rogovyk, Lecturer IV, Slavic language program director and advisor of the minor in Ukrainian language, literature, and culture, U-M
"Conclusions"

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, professor of sociology and WCEE Director, U-M

The teach-in will be presented as a Zoom meeting, allowing for Q&A following each presentation. Please sign in here: https://myumi.ch/n8VNR

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:05:36 -0500 2022-03-11T09:30:00-05:00 2022-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion War in Ukraine Teach-In
EIHS Workshop: Institutional Access and Autonomy (March 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85516 85516-21626803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: Format: This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/QeMXr).

Description: This workshop brings together graduate students from history, sociology, and anthropology who study questions of institutional access and autonomy in a panel of lightning talks, followed by an informal discussion and audience Q&A.

These talks will focus on a series of case studies that explore how access to political and economic institutions vary between individuals and communities. The panelists will address the National Domestic Workers Union and the Black Freedom Movement; the race and economic politics of Emergency Management in Michigan; homework and the social politics of breadwinner liberalism; the intersection of social capital and gender in French bankruptcy courts; and market liberalism and Black capitalism.

Panelists:
• John Finkelberg (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Luis Flores Jr. (Graduate Student, Sociology, University of Michigan)
• Reuben Riggs-Bookman (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Eshe Sherley (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Matt Carlos Stehney (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Rita Chin (moderator; Professor, History, 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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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:01:47 -0500 2022-03-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (March 11, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21665072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-03-11T16:15:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:15:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
CSAS Lecture | Registration and Resistance in Nineteenth Century Jaffna (March 11, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85978 85978-21630636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

By sanctioning and tapping into a perceived local practice of slavery and legally constituting slaves, Dutch colonial rulers in eighteenth century Northern Sri Lanka strengthened the power of the dominant caste Vellalar over their subordinates. British rule that conquered VOC controlled areas, first in the guise of the East India Company (1796-1802) then under the Crown (1802-1948) introduced a number of measures, acts, and incentives to dismantle slavery as it was practiced in the entire island. This presentation focuses on the effects of slave registration in the northern province of Jaffna that began in earnest in 1818 during a phase of gradual abolition of slavery (from 1806 to 1844). Bureaucratization provided for some enslaved people grounds for negotiation and resistance and opened up possibilities for them to take control over their individual lives. In this presentation, I will take two examples to illustrate the small spaces of resistance that were appearing in Jaffna society: the case of a bold young man riding the palanquin of his master, fearless of the whip; the case of a family of enslaved wearing jewels and standing proudly in front of the Nallur temple where they were prohibited from entering owing to their status.

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlde-hqTspHNJTe7y6LuUzimeCDsrFWYY6

Nira Wickramasinghe is Chair and Professor of Modern South Asian studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research centers on issues of belonging and everyday life under colonialism in Sri Lanka and the Indian Ocean world. Her books include: *Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka* (Columbia University Press 2020); *Sri Lanka in the Modern Age. A History* (Oxford University Press 2015); *Metallic Modern. Everyday machines in Colonial Sri Lanka* (Berghahn 2014), *L’Invention du Vêtement National au Sri Lanka* (Karthala 2006), *Dressing the Colonised Body *(Orient Longman 2003), *Civil Society in Sri Lanka* (Sage Publ. 2001). She has been, inter alia, a Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University (2008-2009), British Academy Visiting Professor (2005) at the University of Oxford and Fulbright Senior Scholar at ICAS, New York University (2003-2004). Her current research on enslaved people detaches Lanka from the subcontinent to insert the island in the Indian Ocean world.

Nira Wickramasinghe, grew up and schooled in Paris, and received her D.Phil in modern history from the University of Oxford (1989). She is presently spearheading a small academic press in Sri Lanka called *Tambapanni Academic Publishers*.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:47:11 -0500 2022-03-11T16:30:00-05:00 2022-03-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Livestream / Virtual Nira Wickramasinghe, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
Feel Good Fridays at UMMA (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92372 92372-21690458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Feel Good Friday is a gathering of art and humans.    Join us on the second Friday of each month at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Looking for a reason to feel good? Let art, music, and culture lift you up. Reconnect and recharge each month at Feel Good Friday.    Free and open to the public. No advance registration required.   March is Feel Good Voices: An evening of spoken word, poetry, music, and drumming to celebrate creative expressions of the African diaspora and the legacy of Michigan artist, educator, and activist Jon Onye Lockard. Visit , UMMA’s newly reinstalled galleries of African art, and meet the powerful work of Jon Onye Lockard alongside Mary Sibande, Jacob Lawrence, Qes Adamu Tesfaw, and more. In partnership and celebration of the African American Cultural and Historical Museum exhibition and the 50th anniversary of the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, this Feel Good Friday is about coming together during challenging times to lift our voices and honor the people who shape us as individuals and as a community. 

Featuring spoken word artists Debby Covington, Elizabeth James, Will Jones, Myron H. Michael, B. Ward, and Jacob Ward; with Tariq Gardner on drum.

About Jon Onye Lockard: Born in Detroit, Lockard was a powerful and awe-inspiring artist, muralist, master painter, educator, historian and storyteller. His works may be found in many collections nationally and internationally and some of his murals and portraits are at Wayne State University, University of Michigan, Central State University and the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. He was a professor emeritus from Washtenaw Community College where he taught life drawing and portraiture for over 40 years. He was also a lecturer and founding faculty member of the Department of African American & African Studies at the U-M.

Created in collaboration with the African American Culture and History Museum, the Jon Onye Lockard Foundation, and the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

SAVE THE DATE: future Feel Good Fridays on April 8, and the second Friday of every month.

Health & Safety Requirements

HEALTH SCREENING The ResponsiBLUE health screening will be required for all visitors and involves answering a few, quick questions about your health and recent COVID-19 exposure risk. Your check-in host will walk you through the process, it will take less than one minute.  You can pre-complete the health screening up to 24-hours in advance of your visit: https://responsiblue.umich.edu/sign-in

VACCINATION OR NEGATIVE TEST REQUIRED All guests and staff ages 12 and older will be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination OR a negative COVID-19 PCR or rapid test taken within 72 hours of the event.  If you haven't already done so, take a photo of your vaccine card and save it to your phone.

MASKS REQUIRED Masks are currently required for anyone entering the Museum regardless of vaccination status in accordance with University of Michigan policies. Thank you for helping us keep UMMA open and visitors safe.  UMMA has disposable masks available should you need one.

If you are not feeling well on the day of the event, please stay home.  

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the African Studies Center.

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Performance Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:16:26 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T22:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
The 6th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Robin Kimmerer (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90218 90218-21692643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies program at the University of Michigan invites you to the sixth annual Berkhofer Lecture on Native American Studies to be given virtually by Robin Kimmerer.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs that draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. www.robinwallkimmerer.com/

The past five Berkhofer Lectures, featuring Tommy Orange, author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, were grand affairs, with some 300 people in attendance each year. These audiences consisted of students and faculty from U-M, interested residents of Ann Arbor, Native Americans from the Metro-Detroit area, and with the event now online, audiences worldwide. In asking Robin Kimmerer, a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment we seek to shift the focus of the Berkhofer lecture to highlight emerging indigenous literary talent.

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

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Kreg1LmxTCuWxF61YyGEJg

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:29:02 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Robin Kimmerer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21704489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CCPS Lecture. How to Write History from Below and Why it Matters: A Conversation with Adam Leszczyński about his *People’s History of Poland* (March 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89947 89947-21666553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Adam Leszczyński’s *People’s History of Poland* shifts the lens of history to focus on the lower and working classes to retell the history of Poland from the perspective of serfs, industrial workers, domestic servants, and their turbulent road to (relative) emancipation. The book became an instant hit in Poland, selling nearly 50 thousand copies and sparking lively debates. In his lecture, Dr. Leszczyński will discuss his method and will reflect on the varied reactions to this new telling of national history.

Adam Leszczyński is a journalist, sociologist, and historian. He specializes on social history and historical sociology, teaching courses on journalism and the history of Poland at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw. He is a co-founder of OKO.press, a non-profit, investigative journalist and fact-checking project, created to preserve freedom of speech and secure access to information in Poland. Leszczyński is a frequent contributor to OKO.press, writing about Polish politics and history, and the Law and Justice government’s politics of memory.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/n8Z8m

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:13:26 -0500 2022-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Leszczynski book cover
CAS Lecture | Shaping the Landscape or Invisible Landscapes? Some Medieval Armenian Monastic Complexes between Past and Present (March 16, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90399 90399-21670701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EVENT

Room 555, Weiser Hall
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Or participate virtually by registering in advance for the webinar: https://myumi.ch/z119W

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

This talk discusses the significance of medieval Armenian coenobitic monasticism in the shaping of medieval landscapes and identities, as well as looks into the present-day destruction of this cultural heritage and the creation of ‘invisible landscapes’ as a strategy of obliterating the memory of the Armenian presence and part of this identity. Dr. Pogossian will start by introducing the first period of the flourishing of coenobitic monasticism in Medieval Armenia from the 9th to the 11th centuries and explore this religious-cultural phenomenon in light of historical-political processes taking place at this time. She will present the connection between changes in the dynastic system of Armenia of this period and the foundation and diffusion of monasteries supported by the very same princes or kings who were the primary agents of this process.

Pogossian suggests that the expansion of certain noble families (nakharars) into new territories, or the efforts of certain branches within an extended family to highlight their presence in a specific area, were paralleled by the establishment, re-establishment, and patronage of coenobitic monastic complexes by these élites. This is particularly evident in the case of the Bagratids, Artsrunis, and Syunis. Sources allow us to trace the various strategies adopted by some princes/kings for controlling newly acquired territories or consolidating their presence in other long-held lands. These strategies included the shaping of the landscape and inscribing a given noble family’s or its specific member’s presence therein via such massive landmarks requiring major investments as monastic complexes, among others. The monasteries and the saints to whom they were dedicated, not least some holy relics, also became crucial identity markers. Some of these markers were mobile. When a great number of Armenian princes and their following migrated to the Byzantine Empire in the 11th century, they often took with them such tangible or intangible identity markers as the devotion to a certain saint or his/her relics to Cappadocia and, subsequently, to Cilicia. Others, however, were by their very nature immovable and were meant to perpetrate the memory of their founders and of the Armenian presence on the landscape ‘forever’. Yet, it was this desired permanence that unfortunately could spell the demise of these monuments with a concomitant destruction of that memory.

The lecture will then close by looking into the modern and contemporary phenomenon of shaping the landscape yet once more by rendering it ‘invisible’ and what one may do to contest this phenomenon.

Zaroui Pogossian is a specialist in medieval Armenian history, culture, and religion, especially in relation to other peoples, cultures, and religions in the Near East and Asia Minor. She is Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization at the University of Florence, and the PI of the ERC Project ArmEn: Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia 9th-14th Centuries (Consolidator Grant). In her research, Dr. Pogossian has explored such diverse topics as female asceticism and ascetic communities in early Christian Armenia, the role of women in the spread of Christianity in Armenia, monastic establishments, and territory control, as well as monasteries in an inter-religious perspective. She has contributed significantly to the study of apocalyptic traditions in Armenia, especially between the 11th and 13th centuries, including a focus on inter-religious polemic hidden in these texts.

Her critical edition, with comments and a thorough historical study of Agat‘angel, “On the End of the World,” an anonymous Armenian apocalyptic text, is forthcoming. Pogossian is the author of a book acclaimed by reviewers, "The Letter of Love and Concord" (Brill, 2011), as well as numerous articles and book reviews. She has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, such as from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (University of Tübingen), Käte Hamburger Collegium at the Center for Religious Studies: Study of the Dynamics in the History of Religions (University of Bochum) and the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities: Fate, Freedom and Prognostication - Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe (University of Erlangen). She is on the editorial board of the online journal Entangled Religions and is one of the co-founders and general editors of a book series Eastern Christia Cultures in Contact (Brepols editors).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:39:56 -0500 2022-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Zaroui Pogossian, Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization, University of Florence
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Uncertain Powers: Sen’yōmon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan (March 17, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91088 91088-21676640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note that as this Zoom lecture is originating from Japan, the start time will be 7pm, Ann Arbor time.

Please note: Due to updated guidance from the university in regards to the COVID policy, this lecture will be only in a webinar format. Please register here to attend: https://myumi.ch/V7MZn

Dr. Sachiko Kawai discusses her recently published book, Uncertain Powers, which explores the power of Japanese royal women who held many landed estates during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Despite their enormous landholdings, these women faced challenges to actually get resources from their estates. While pointing out gender disparity at court society, she explains female landlords’ coping strategies and the complex interplay of authority and power.

After receiving a PhD in history from the University of Southern California, Dr. Kawai taught as a College Fellow at Harvard and later served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. She is currently an assistant professor at the National Institutes for the Humanities/ National Museum of Japanese History.

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

This event is cosponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:01:14 -0500 2022-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Sachiko Kawai, Project Researcher and Assistant Professor, National Institutes for the Humanities/ National Museum of Japanese History, Japan
THE MCCARTHY-ERA RED SCARE IN MICHIGAN: Its Meaning, Then and Now (March 17, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93070 93070-21700319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

David Maraniss, journalist and Associate Editor at the Washington Post, is the author of twelve books, among them: Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story; They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October, 1967; as well as biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Roberto Clemente. His most recent book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, should be of particular interest to the University and to the Ann Arbor Community at large. Both Maraniss's parents, Elliot and Mary, were student activists at the University of Michigan in the late 1930s. His uncle, Robert Cummins, was one of three students who volunteered in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War in defense of the Republic. In his book Maraniss offers an account of his parents' anti-fascist activism at the University, his father's work as a reporter and editor at the Michigan Daily (alongside Arthur Miller), and the persecution his parents suffered during the McCarthy era. In 1952 his father was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. After refusing to name names, Elliot Maraniss was fired from his job at the Detroit Times and endured five years of being blacklisted from the newspaper business. Maraniss's presentation will bring to light a largely forgotten chapter in the history of the University and the Detroit area. His family's experiences in a period of heightened ideological tensions should resonate with a broad audience and prompt a serious discussion, given our own era of increasing political polarization.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:05:10 -0500 2022-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion David Maraniss Poster
The Clements Bookworm: "Women in Photographs" Collector's Corner (March 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92545 92545-21692156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In celebration of Women's History Month, prolific collector Cynthia Motzenbecker will share and discuss historic images of women from her private collection. Beginning with daguerreotypes and ambrotypes, she will comment on the development of techniques and photographic history illustrated by her examples. Motzenbecker is a member and past president of the Michigan Photographic Historical Society.

This episode is generously sponsored by an avid Bookworm supporter.

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:13:36 -0500 2022-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Photograph by Gösta Florman, Motzenbecker Private Collection
CSEAS Lecture Series. Pedagogies of Transfemininity in the Spanish Colonial Philippines 1589-1864 (March 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91621 91621-21681040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In this talk, Jaya Jacobo narrates and describes the simultaneous disavowal and affirmation of transfemininity in the Spanish colonial Philippines within the apparatus of colonial cisheteropatriarchy by looking at narratives which mark out the emergence of the transfeminine in Catholic religious discourse and its catechetical project of conversion.

In particular, Jacobo reads the instrumentalization of transfeminine divinity against the establishment of imperial priesthood in chronicles written by Spanish friars as they document the evangelization of the islands. What emerges in these chronicles is the pedagogical value of the transfeminine priest/trans priestess as a recalcitrant body gaining the ideal subjectivity of a “rectified heathen.” To triangulate the discursive formation of the transfeminine as an aberrant body rectifying its own inclinations as well as resisting the force of interdictions, Jacobo turns to lexicons and grammars through the colonial centuries, ending with an analysis of the figuration of cisgenderhood and the concomitant recession of trans possibility in the didactics of a significant Tagalog novel of manners in the late nineteenth century.

Jaya Jacobo is Assistant Professor of Gender, Equality and Diversity at the Institute of Education of Coventry University, United Kingdom. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow of the Philippine Work Package of the GlobaLGRACE Genders and Cultures of Equality Programme at the University of the Philippines, which enabled her to work alongside travesti and transsexual women artists, academics and activists in Brazil. She is a founding co-editor of *Queer Southeast Asia: A Transgressive Journal of Literary Art* and a member of the board of trustees of the Society of Trans Women of the Philippines.

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/9P63y

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:25:39 -0500 2022-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
Winter 2022 MEMS Lecture. Arcadia Brasiliensis: Landscape and Colonial Dislocation in the Poetry of Cláudio Manuel da Costa (March 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92049 92049-21686409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The publication of the Orbas of the Brazilian Cláudio Manuel da Costa in 1769 is recognized as the beginning of a period in Brazilian colonial literature termed ‘Arcadianism.’ The literature of this period displays the initial formulations of Brazilian national identity, anticipating its independence in 1822 and negotiated by means of a neoclassical armature.

My lecture will consider formulations of space and landscape in the work of Cláudio Manuel da Costa, whose poetry, centered around the Greco-Roman bucolic Arcadia, reconciles the experience of inhabiting a landscape altered by colonialist intervention with the idyllic projection of the European literature which serves as his literary antecedent. Such a formulation encapsulates the tension between real and imagined spaces that characterizes European geographical thinking after the so-called ‘discovery’ of the Americas, which fundamentally altered the European world view.

The literature that emerged from the era of Iberian discovery and exploration would shape its colonial spaces in its own imagination through reliance on literary formulations of space coined in the literatures of Greco-Roman antiquity. This Eurocentric narrative is disrupted by literatures produced by the inhabitants of this New World, shaping the world that was their center in contradistinction to its image in European literatures.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:27:51 -0500 2022-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Orbas Title Page
The Premodern Colloquium. An Ottoman Encyclopedist as Public Intellectual: Katib Chelebi (1609-1657) (March 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90124 90124-21668030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In the middle of the seventeenth century, a lower-level bureaucrat in the Ottoman fiscal administration, with a wide-ranging but irregular education, set out single-handedly to create a set of encyclopedic works that were designed to make all useful knowledge of mankind accessible to his contemporaries. The geographical part of this enterprise was recently translated into English: An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā, ed. Gottfried Hagen and Robert Dankoff (Brill, 2021). Now, for a new publication on his place in intellectual history, I will use it to raise old and new questions about the practices of knowledge production and organization, as I discuss this work and its companions in a new culture of knowledge that sought to remedy the troubles of the Ottoman Empire by prioritizing empirical validity, accessibility, and applicability over moral and spiritual edification.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:34:35 -0500 2022-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar R.1624-45a
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
‘An Issue of Mercy’: Exploring the Life and Writing of Phillis Wheatley Peters Through Documents and Poetry (March 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93026 93026-21699127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Poet, essayist, and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers will discuss the research and practice that led to her award-winning book of poetry The Age of Phillis (2020). This collection is based upon fifteen years of research on the life and times of Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), a formerly enslaved person who was the first African American woman to publish a book. Professor Jeffers will discuss the connections between archival research and creative practice, and on the ways that early Americanist scholarship can benefit from engagement with contemporary poetry. The Age of Phillis won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Literary Work: Poetry, was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for both the 2021 PEN/Volcker Award and the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. The Age of Phillis was also chosen as the “common read” for the Society of Early Americanists’ conference for the academic year of 2020-2021.

A Randolph G. Adams Lecture presented by the William L. Clements Library in partnership with the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Residential College, Department of English Language and Literature, and Department of History.
Please register at myumi.ch/QeMVk.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:19:49 -0400 2022-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Age of Phillis
STS Speaker. "And the other face was terrible": Risking the Future and Colonizing the Past in the Nuclear Southwest (March 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90476 90476-21671178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

In the early twentieth century, tourists traveled to the US Southwest in search of a “vanishing way of life” that they associated with Indigenous traditions and rugged adventure on what many saw as the nation’s last frontier. The Indigenous textiles and pottery that became popular in US consumer culture were a symbolic resource, as were Indigenous ancestral sites and artifacts excavated in what archaeologist Berenika Byszewski terms “the colonization of antiquity as a national and scientific space.” The rush for art and artifacts anticipated another rush that would soon engulf the Southwest. When the first nuclear test shot was fired at White Sands, New Mexico, in 1945, the atomic age dawned with the desert as its ground zero.

There were two American Southwests, one a source of natural and cultural riches, the other an absorber of radiation, from slag to fallout. Yet the two Southwests were twined together in the everyday lives of residents. This talk looks at the careers of two nuclear scientists who exemplify this entanglement. The first, Francis Harlow, was a Los Alamos physicist who studied Pueblo pottery in his spare time, becoming a national authority on it. The second is Floy Agnes Naranjo Lee, also a researcher at Los Alamos. Lee devoted her career to studying the health effects of radiation. Lee’s family came from the nearby Pueblo of Santa Clara, and she was one of the few Native people working in technical jobs during the Manhattan Project. Configured around Aziz Rana's image of the "two faces of American freedom," these stories illuminate how the nation's survival was made contingent on the appropriation of Indigenous pasts and futures.

Alicia Puglionesi is a writer and historian. She earned a PhD in the history of science, medicine, and technology from Johns Hopkins University in 2015 and has taught at Johns Hopkins and MICA. Her first book, Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science, explores how the practices of seances, clairvoyance, and telepathy both questioned and reinscribed social boundaries. She lives in Baltimore.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:32:53 -0500 2022-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Dr. Alicia Puglionese
LHS Collaboratory (March 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90095 90095-21667763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1: PCORNet and the PaTH subnetwork

Kathleen McTigue, MD, MPH, MS

In this talk, Kathleen McTigue describes the vision of PCORNet, its organization, and its value to the field of clinical research. PCORNet is divided into regional subnetworks one of which is PaTH. The organization of PaTH along with its priories will be discussed.

Presentation 2: UM’s site within PCORNet/PaTH

David Williams, PhD

The University of Michigan is an institutional member of PaTH/PCORNet.
In this talk, David Williams describes the organization and processes of the UM site within PCORNet/PaTH, studies in which UM participates, and resources for UM investigators interested in participating in PCORNet studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:38:45 -0500 2022-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
WCED Lecture. Foreign Support and Authoritarian Rule (March 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93204 93204-21701530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Conventional wisdom suggests that great power patrons prop up client dictatorships. However, this is generally assumed rather than systematically analyzed. This project provides a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship between foreign sponsorship and authoritarian survival using original data on autocratic client regimes in the postwar period. These results demonstrate that patronage from Western powers—the United States, France, and the United Kingdom—is not associated with client regime survival. Instead, only Soviet sponsorship reduces the risk of regime collapse. Casey explains this variation by considering the effects of differing strategies of foreign sponsorship on client regime coup vulnerability. Seeking to establish the basis for stable patron-client relations, the Soviet Union and United States built the institutional foundations for their alliances on very different institutions with profound consequences for client regime durability. The Soviet Union bet on building Leninist parties and partisan armies which proved remarkably effective in preventing military coups: not a single Soviet client regime lost power to a military coup. By contrast, the United States invested in cultivating client military
forces built in its own nonpartisan image. This rendered American clients vulnerable to their own military forces, and successful coups were accepted as "faits accompli" by the United States. Casey evaluates these arguments using evidence from the full universe of client dictatorships in the Cold War as well as six detailed historical case studies.

Adam Casey is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-23. His research broadly considers the relationship between dictators and their armed forces. He is currently working on two book manuscripts he will develop as a postdoctoral fellow. The first considers the relationship between foreign support and authoritarian rule. His second book project (with Dan Slater and Jean Lachapelle) considers the origins of military political power in the postcolonial world. In particular, this project investigates why some militaries have come to dominate their polities, while others have been tightly controlled by political leadership. Casey received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto in 2020.

This lecture will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/WJD7D

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:20:08 -0500 2022-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Adam E. Casey
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Then and Now: Observations on Aging From a 19th-Century Physician (March 24, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90223 90223-21668759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join Clements Library Assistant Curator of Manuscript, Jayne Ptolemy as she hosts an interactive discussion focused on aging. The conversation will focus on a remarkable historical document written by a 19th-century physician, Vine Utley. His notebook, entitled “Observations on Old People 80 Years of Age,” details the interviews he conducted with the aging population in Connecticut, between 1809 and 1827.

His notes give glimpses into the biographies, habits, and health of octogenarians in the early 19th century. We will share our reactions and reflect together. A typed transcript will be shared upon registration.

This class meets on Wednesday, March 24.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:17:08 -0500 2022-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
EIHS Lecture: "The Things to Come": Francisco Solano Faces Irremediable Humanity (March 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85550 85550-21626840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/bRb7x).

Description: Lima, Peru, 1605. What matters when the coincidence of an apocalyptic sermon by a famous holy man and a visiting orchestrator of devotion turns out to have been largely invented to serve the needs of the latter and the readers for whom he dreamed? Perched between the prospects of recovery and oblivion, a public mindset emerges that illuminates the early modern Spanish world and speaks to our times.

Biography: Kenneth Mills (D.Phil Oxon, 1992), J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, investigates the histories of the early modern Iberian world and of colonial Latin America. His emphases fall on religious and cultural transformations, and on the interpretation of people's thinking and interactions within idiosyncratically and fragmentarily reported episodes. Professor Mills's scholarship is notable for its trans-oceanic vision and its cross-disciplinary curiosity. His recent published works include the multi-author and multi-discipline Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation, coordinated and edited with Evonne Levy (University of Texas Press, 2013).

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 Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:48:17 -0400 2022-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Saint Francisco Solano, unidentified artist, engraving, eighteenth century (PESSCA 4586).
AA&PI HM: Burmese Americans: Weaving a Liberated Life Through Coups, Narratives, & Organizing (March 24, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93876 93876-21709214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

"Burmese Americans: Weaving a liberated life through coups, narratives, & organizing” is a panel and conversation with Michigan-based organizers Dim Mang and Tha Par. This event will discuss the history of Burmese-Americans in Michigan, and related political organizing such as the founding of the Burma Center in Battle Creek, MI. This conversation will also center ethnic and religious minorities in Burma, and how these identities play into Burmese American organizing. We will end by asking how community members and activists can integrate the identities and histories of Burmese ethnic minorities in our efforts for collective liberation.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:00:00 -0400 2022-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Livestream / Virtual The graphic includes a light blue solid background. At the top in orange text it reads, "Burmese Americans." Below is the text, "Weaving a liberated life through coups, narratives, & organizing" followed by, "Join the Burma Center and AA&PI Heritage Month for a panel and conversation with Michigan-based organizers Tha Par & Dim Mang." Two photos of Par and Mang in circular frames are shown next to their respective names. The date, time, and location are listed at the bottom as "Thursday, March 24th from 6-7PM over Zoom."
Listen In: Big(ger) Ideas in Co-Curation and Equitable Engagement of Cultural Heritage Through Art with Dr. Tonya M. Matthews (March 24, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89311 89311-21661916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://umma.umich.edu/plan-your-visit.

A public keynote presentation from Dr. Tonya Matthews, President and CEO of International African American Museum, will ask curators and other listeners to grapple with an increasing call for bolder conversations in the curation of African American cultural heritage. 

Dr. Tonya Matthews, President and CEO of International African American Museum, will ask us to grapple with increasing expectation for bolder conversations in curation of African American cultural heritage – particularly in considerations of descendants and living history. Is centering stewardship of enslaved African Americans’ craftwork at predominantly white institutions cultural appropriation or long-overdue acknowledgement? What are potential triggers of curating a community’s culture from outside of that geography? Is there any cross-learning in working with donors and working with descendants? Matthews will share learnings and current conversation surrounding the creation of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina as context for being on the frontlines of grappling with the intersection of historical and living history.

The event is free and open to the public. It will also be available via livestream.

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This talk is presented in preparation for Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, an upcoming traveling exhibition focused on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South and the contemporary artists who have responded to it. The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After debuting in New York City, the exhibition will travel to Boston, followed by UMMA in Fall 2023, before the fourth and final venue, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Dr. Tonya M. Matthews is Chief Executive Officer of the International African American Museum (IAAM) at the historically sacred site of Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, SC. As a champion of authentic, empathetic storytelling of American history, IAAM is one of the nation’s newest platforms for the disruption of institutionalized racism as America continues the walk toward “a more perfect union.”  A thought-leader in inclusive frameworks, social entrepreneurship, and education, Matthews has written articles and book chapters across these varied subjects. She is founder of The STEMinista Project, a movement to engage girls in their future with STEM careers. Matthews is also a poet and is included in 100 Best African-American Poems (2010) edited by Nikki Giovanni. Matthews received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her B.S.E. in engineering from Duke University, alongside a certificate in African/African-American Studies. 

About the exhibition: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 9, 2022 – February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 6, 2023 – July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (August 26, 2023 – January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (February 16, 2024 – May 12, 2024)

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is an exhibition focused on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South and the contemporary artists who have responded to it. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition is a groundbreaking presentation of approximately 60 ceramic objects from Edgefield, South Carolina, a center of ceramic production in the decades before the Civil War. Considered through the lens of recent scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, diaspora, material culture, and African American studies, these 19th-century wares testify to the artistic ambitions, lived experiences, and material knowledge of enslaved peoples and the realities of slavery in the industrial context.  

Hear Me Now offers a novel view of an underrepresented aspect of American enslavement, foregrounding objects made by enslaved potters and bringing this important history to larger audiences. Additionally, it aspires to link past to present, in part by including the work of leading contemporary Black artists who have responded to the Edgefield story, such as Simone Leigh and Woody De Othello, among others.

Adrienne Spinozzi, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts in the American Wing at The Met, Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas at the MFA, and Jason Young, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan are co-curating this project. They are advised and supported by a national board of artists and scholars who offer invaluable input and perspectives, throughout both the planning and development process.  

This program is organized in partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the U-M Department of History with support from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the U-M Arts Initiative.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:16:17 -0400 2022-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2022-03-24T19:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
EIHS Symposium: Whither Critical Disaster Studies? (March 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85519 85519-21626806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Format: This event is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/M9zd4).

Description: The interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies both builds on and expands long-standing work on disasters in a variety of disciplines. Its critical contribution lies in raising several first-order questions that have often been taken for granted: Why are some things defined as disasters and others are not? What is the assumed temporality in naming something as a disaster? How are disasters represented and experienced? How do particular understandings of disasters impact post-disaster recoveries? Our multi-disciplinary panel will explore these questions and more as each panelist engages the field from the perspective of their area of specialization.

Panelists:
• Matthew Ghazarian (Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan)
• Susan Scott Parrish (Professor; English Language and Literature, University of Michigan)
• Dean Yang (Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan)
• Melanie Tanielian (moderator; Associate Professor, History, 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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Conference / Symposium Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:36:41 -0400 2022-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium "cracks," a.dombrowski (CC BY-SA 2.0)
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Detroit River Story Lab: Community Narratives and Carbon Economies (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89836 89836-21665914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Detroit River Story Lab: Community Narratives and Carbon Economies
Rebecca Hardin and David Porter, University of Michigan

Monday, Mar. 28, Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
This event will be held via Zoom.

Abstract:
U-M's Detroit River Story Lab is comprised of interdisciplinary faculty, partnering with a wide array of Michigan based organizations in efforts to reconnect residents with the Detroit River. The Story Lab uses the term “narrative infrastructure” to refer both to the fabric of shared stories that binds a given community together and the pipelines and platforms by which these stories are circulated and elevated. For decades, the needs of Detroit riverside communities’ have been framed in terms of physical infrastructure (transportation, utilities, etc). Today, community leaders and scholars alike have recognized how the arts, civic life, local journalism, and public history are also critical to social cohesion and vitality. Alongside Detroit's legacies of inequity due to pollution, the privatization of shorelands, the bulldozing of neighborhoods, and mass-incarceration, has come the loss of sustaining stories about the Detroit River--or resident’s stories for framing sustainability for the city's and region's future. Learning from local residents who do (or who seek to) engage with its waters, the Story Lab partnership seeks to strengthen the narrative infrastructure of the Detroit River corridor with respect to its indigenous sacred sites, roles in the Underground Railroad, and long histories of water activism, among other themes. We work together through independent media, software platforms, innovative secondary and higher education curricula, and interpretive programing in public spaces. We are also developing youth participatory research trainings in river heritage, ecosystem regeneration, carbon accounting and equitable landscape design, to encourage direct personal ties with the river as well as community identification and advocacy along the corridor. Drawing from pathbreaking recent scholarship on Detroit's history and collaborative sustainability science, we work toward possible narrative transformation from the one and only "Motor City” to a preeminent "River City" worthy of emulation as an international and intercultural confluence of innovations in climate change adaptation, active learning and environmental and social justice.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:01:30 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (March 28, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92110 92110-21686891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. In 2021, the forty-eighth year of the lecture series, Lynn Meskell (2015 Resident), Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the ethics of global heritage and archaeology.

This series, entitled The Ethics of Heritage and Archaeology in Global Perspective, addresses the role of archaeology and heritage within international networks of social and political change from the legacies of colonialism, to Cold War tensions, to the era of neoliberalism. The lectures reveal how the discovery and salvage of sites worldwide has mobilized government, military, and corporate interests, in what Meskell describes as a form of archaeological adventurism. Employing case studies from the Middle East, India, and Europe, Meskell attempts to uncover the dense network of social, political, and economic agendas that are at play in preserving the past.

This series includes four lectures given on different dates. All events will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Palmer Commons, Forum Hall.

Monday, March 28 - Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia

Wednesday, March 30 - Imperialism, Internationalism and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East

Friday, April 1 - Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO’s Mid Century Mission in Conflict

Monday, April 4 - Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the Desert

Lynn Meskell is a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design, a curator at the Penn Museum, and an AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

If you are unable to join us in person, please register for webinars using the links below:

Lecture #1 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R1uK4q9CR5mXXn1jjdvV6A

Lecture #2 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kFiLQTHyR42kmMuMGjjtnQ

Lecture #3 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnBbnQ6SQU6nx_E2Xh6iCg

Lecture #4 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o6g4msaDQBKPFuvMr4iPpQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:10:21 -0400 2022-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T17:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
Roundtable on Pedagogy & Undisciplining in the C19 Classroom (March 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93069 93069-21701394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a discussion on pedagogy, led by Ryan Fong of Kalamazoo College. Professor Fong is a founding member of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, "a peer-reviewed digital humanities project that reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens" (undiscipliningvc.org). We will discuss a variety of relevant themes, including teaching diverse texts and authors, and bringing one's own research into the classroom.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:09:17 -0500 2022-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CANCELED--CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Painted Okinawan Female Body: The Struggles of Okinawan Identity and Politics (March 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91089 91089-21676643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

We regret that we have had to cancel this lecture.

The paper explores how the Okinawan female body has been appropriated not only as a trope of the relationship between subjugated Okinawa and its ruler, mainland Japan, but also as a site where intricate issues of discrimination, gender, power and Okinawan identity converge.

Eriko Tomizawa-Kay is lecturer in Japanese Language and Culture, at School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies, the University of East Anglia. She specializes in modern Japanese art history, particularly nihonga (Japanese style painting).
She is the organizer of 2019 international conference, entitled "Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice". The conference report (Japanese/English) will be available on the website shortly as Sainsbury Institute Occasional Papers 2. Her publications include ‘Reinventing Localism, Tradition, and Identity: The Role of Modern Okinawan Painting (1630s - 1960s)’ In East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context, edited by Tomizawa-Kay, E. & Watanabe, T. Routledge, 2019.

Image credit: Naha City Museum of History

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:52:30 -0500 2022-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Image credit: Naha City Museum of History
Aiton Lecture: “Civil War and Radical Reaction: the Confederate States of America and Mexico’s Second Empire” (March 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93323 93323-21702629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In the 1850s and 1860s, North America was transformed by war, political crises and constitutional overhaul. We will explore two radical political experiments that meant to deal with the era’s chaos: the Confederate States of America and Mexico’s Second Empire.

Erika Pani (PhD, El Colegio de México, 1998) is research professor at El Colegio de México. Her research and teaching focus is on nineteenth century politics, Mexico’s Second Empire, Conservatism and citizenship. She has published the Historia minima de los Estados Unidos de América (2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:58:45 -0400 2022-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion French battle-field painter Jean Adolphe Beaucé depicts the 1865 meeting between Maximilian and the Kickapoo embassy which had traveled to Mexico City.
CSEAS Lecture Series. Racial Capitalism and Interspecies Empire in Colonial Myanmar (April 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91620 91620-21681039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Under British rule in Myanmar, colonized people’s relationships with animals changed. Increasingly, animals were commoditized. Some creatures, such as elephants and oxen, became vital resources for the colony’s globally-important rice and teak industries. At the same time as these shifts were occurring, Burmese conceptions of human difference were undergoing significant changes themselves. Notions of race became more prominent in politics and culture, especially during the interwar years. These processes—the commoditization of animals and the racialization of human difference—were not only coincident with one another, they were connected. In this talk I will uncover some of these connections and their wider import for the history of modern imperialism in Southeast Asia.

Jonathan Saha is an Associate Professor of South Asian History. He serves as faculty with the Department of History at the University of Durham.

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/7e3n6

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Feb 2022 15:43:59 -0500 2022-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (April 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92125 92125-21687038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. In 2021, the forty-eighth year of the lecture series, Lynn Meskell (2015 Resident), Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the ethics of global heritage and archaeology.

This series, entitled The Ethics of Heritage and Archaeology in Global Perspective, addresses the role of archaeology and heritage within international networks of social and political change from the legacies of colonialism, to Cold War tensions, to the era of neoliberalism. The lectures reveal how the discovery and salvage of sites worldwide has mobilized government, military, and corporate interests, in what Meskell describes as a form of archaeological adventurism. Employing case studies from the Middle East, India, and Europe, Meskell attempts to uncover the dense network of social, political, and economic agendas that are at play in preserving the past.

This series includes four lectures given on different dates. All events will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Palmer Commons, Forum Hall.

Monday, March 28 - Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia

Wednesday, March 30 - Imperialism, Internationalism and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East

Friday, April 1 - Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO’s Mid Century Mission in Conflict

Monday, April 4 - Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the Desert

Lynn Meskell is a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design, a curator at the Penn Museum, and an AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

If you are unable to join us in person, please register for webinars using the links below:

Lecture #1 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R1uK4q9CR5mXXn1jjdvV6A

Lecture #2 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kFiLQTHyR42kmMuMGjjtnQ

Lecture #3 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnBbnQ6SQU6nx_E2Xh6iCg

Lecture #4 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o6g4msaDQBKPFuvMr4iPpQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:10:15 -0400 2022-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T17:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster Image
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
2022 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series (April 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92126 92126-21687039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. In 2021, the forty-eighth year of the lecture series, Lynn Meskell (2015 Resident), Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the ethics of global heritage and archaeology.

This series, entitled The Ethics of Heritage and Archaeology in Global Perspective, addresses the role of archaeology and heritage within international networks of social and political change from the legacies of colonialism, to Cold War tensions, to the era of neoliberalism. The lectures reveal how the discovery and salvage of sites worldwide has mobilized government, military, and corporate interests, in what Meskell describes as a form of archaeological adventurism. Employing case studies from the Middle East, India, and Europe, Meskell attempts to uncover the dense network of social, political, and economic agendas that are at play in preserving the past.

This series includes four lectures given on different dates. All events will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Palmer Commons, Forum Hall.

Monday, March 28 - Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia

Wednesday, March 30 - Imperialism, Internationalism and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East

Friday, April 1 - Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO’s Mid Century Mission in Conflict

Monday, April 4 - Developing Petra: UNESCO, the World Bank, and America in the Desert

Lynn Meskell is a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Historic Preservation in the Weitzman School of Design, a curator at the Penn Museum, and an AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

If you are unable to join us in person, please register for webinars using the links below:

Lecture #1 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R1uK4q9CR5mXXn1jjdvV6A

Lecture #2 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kFiLQTHyR42kmMuMGjjtnQ

Lecture #3 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnBbnQ6SQU6nx_E2Xh6iCg

Lecture #4 - https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_o6g4msaDQBKPFuvMr4iPpQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 15:10:11 -0400 2022-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T17:15:00-04:00 Palmer Commons The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Poster image
Clements Library Zooniverse Workshop (April 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94197 94197-21724107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan is calling on lovers of Michigan history for a special project. Please join us for a live demonstration of crowdsourcing the cataloging of over 60,000 real-photo postcards from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography. This session will showcase a project in the Zooniverse platform and will cover the registration, categorization, transcription, and communication features as well as a review of this special project's goals and outcomes. No special download or purchase is necessary.

Please register for this virtual workshop at myumi.ch/bRqpX

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:36:59 -0400 2022-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Tinder-Grasslake
Heritage Preservation and Ethics During Upheavals: A Roundtable (April 6, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93871 93871-21709205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

Over the past few years the cultural heritages of Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Myanmar, and currently Ukraine, to give a few instances, have been subject to devastation. This roundtable addresses the ethics entailed in heritage preservation, emergency preparedness, and the responsibilities of institutions and ordinary citizens toward heritage during upheavals.

Will be held over Zoom. Please register in advance for this webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q2qwBPASQZG9OE3mCh1SHw

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:52:32 -0400 2022-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Lecture / Discussion public statue wrapped in fireproof material, as of March 2022, Lviv, Ukraine
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Native Americans of the Upper Great Lakes: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Land and Schooling Among the Anishinaabek (April 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93434 93434-21704490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Insights Speaker Series:
"Native Americans of the Upper Great Lakes: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Land and Schooling Among the Anishinaabek"
Thursday, April 7, noon ET via Zoom

Presenters:
-Arland Thornton, Department of Sociology, Institute for Social Research, and Native American Studies, the University of Michigan
-Eric Hemenway, Anishanaabe/Odawa. Director of Archives and Records, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Harbor Springs, Michigan.
-Linda Young-DeMarco, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
-Alphonse Pitawanakwat, Odawa member of Wiikemkoong First Nation Unceded Territory, Ontario, Canada. Lecturer in American Culture and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan.
-Lindsey Willow Smith, Citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, University of Michigan Class of 2022, History and Museum Studies B.A.

Abstract:
In this presentation a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Archive and Records Department discuss the land and schooling of the Anishinaabek—the Three Fires of the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi. Of particular focus is the spread of Euro-American schooling among the Anishinaabek from the early 1800s through 1950. We trace the establishment of schools in the early 1800s and the growth of literacy and school attainment from the 1850s through 1940. In addition to considering schooling levels and trends of the Anishinaabek at the national level, we examine state differences, and focus on one particular group, the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, who today live in Waganakising—the Land of the Crooked Tree—located in the northwest portion of the lower peninsula of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:21:53 -0400 2022-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Africa’s Struggle for its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat 1965-1985 (April 7, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93796 93796-21708129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

In the wake of postcolonial African independence, African intellectuals and politicians spearheaded a movement to pursue repatriation of artworks stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. Art Historian and curator Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. An expert on restitution and cultural heritage, Savoy reconstructs a story of missed opportunity and defeat that still resonates in today’s repatriation discourse.

Details here: http://ummsp.rackham.umich.edu/tribe-event/africas-struggle-for-its-art-history-of-a-postcolonial-defeat/

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Presentation Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:30:23 -0400 2022-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation Africa’s Struggle for its Art
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 8, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-04-08T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-08T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
CCPS Film. *The Wedding Day (Wesele)* (April 10, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92566 92566-21692520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 10, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

*The Wedding Day (Wesele),* by acclaimed director Wojciech Smarzowski, tackles the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, during which Polish villagers tortured and murdered hundreds of Jewish neighbors. The story is set at a wedding celebration in a small town in northeastern Poland, and moves between past and present, with repressed memories of past violent events resurfacing in the present. In *The Wedding Day,* Smarzowski offers a stringent critique of current-day nationalism and the politics of denial in Poland.

In Polish with English subtitles (135 min., 2021). Free and open to the public. Tickets can be obtained in advance at https://myumi.ch/Nmr2M

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Film Screening Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:30:08 -0500 2022-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-10T16:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening Wedding Day film poster
The Premodern Colloquium. "Con mis manos": Multi-Sensory Mysticism in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish World (April 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90100 90100-21667839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:55:03 -0500 2022-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Vaisakhi Night (April 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90907 90907-21734391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Sikh Student Association

Vaisakhi is an important part of the Sikh religion and Punjabi culture that is celebrated throughout the US and in India. Vaisakhi is the remembrance of the birth of Khalsa, as well as a celebration of the Punjabi New Year and the spring harvest. At this event we will have a speaker, cultural and religious performances, food, and a presentation.

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Fair / Festival Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:31:21 -0400 2022-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-10T21:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Sikh Student Association Fair / Festival Vaisakhi Night Event Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
STS Speaker. Birth of a Notation: Charting Human and Machine Failure at the Dawn of the Jazz Age (April 11, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90031 90031-21667627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk examines how one of the central graphic technologies of Scientific Management and of modern project consulting — the Gantt Chart — grew out of attempts to create intricate psychic and cultural linkages between two kinds of failure in Progressive-Era America: failure as a condition of industrial machinery, and failure as a kind of person. For its creator, Henry Gantt, the chart ultimately formed part of a project of racial containment: a vision that kept black workers out of northern factories by encoding a relationship between whiteness and efficiency and providing a graphic formalism for white racial uplift. Against the backdrop of the Great Migration, the charts combined with racist union practices, anxieties about black mobility, and fears of racial degeneration to create northern industrial concerns as closed white democracies that cultivated a specific kind of technological self. Linking those developments to our own worries in the early-21st century, the talk encourages us to see the history of modern technology as a history of the intersections between failing machines and historical selves, and of the social orders and dystopias they both made possible.

Bio: Edward Jones-Imhotep is a historian of the social and cultural life of machines and Director of the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He writes about topics ranging from the history of music studios and artificial life to space technologies and the technological geographies of islands. His research is particularly interested in histories of technological failure — breakdowns, malfunctions, accidents — and what they reveal about the place of machines and the stakes of machine failures in the culture, politics, and economics of modern societies. He is the recipient of the Society for the History of Technology’s Sidney Edelstein Prize for his book, The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (MIT Press, 2017), and the Abbot Payson Usher Prize for his article, “Malleability and Machines: Glenn Gould and the Technological Self.” His current book project, Unreliable Humans/Fallible Machines, examines how people from the late-18th to the mid-20th centuries understood machine failures as a problem of the self — a problem of the kinds of people that failing machines created, or threatened, or presupposed.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:07:52 -0400 2022-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Henry Laurence Gantt, Work, Wages, and Profits (New York: The Engineering Magazine, 1910), Chart I.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 12, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94206 94206-21724117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!
Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

VISITOR INFO
The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.
Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:47:18 -0400 2022-04-12T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Clements Library
The Formation of Islamic Culture (April 13, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90227 90227-21668761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Rising from the background of Greece, Rome, and Persia, Islamic culture melded together aspects from each. We will see how this happened and then examine some of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish contributions. Topics for discussion will include art, law, cultural exchange, and daily life.

Instructor Rudi Paul Lindner has taught Islamic history at the university level for over fifty years.

This class meets on Wednesdays, from April 13 – May 4. No classes on holidays.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:20:59 -0500 2022-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 13, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94207 94207-21724118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!
Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

VISITOR INFO
The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.
Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:49:19 -0400 2022-04-13T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Clements Library
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-13T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
EIHS Lecture: Little Ice Age and the Oyo Empire: An Unfinished Process of Recovery in West Africa, ca. 1420-1840 (April 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85520 85520-21626808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Presented with support from the African Studies Center.

This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/M9JPR).

This lecture highlights the crisis and aftermath of the Little Ice Age in West Africa, with emphasis on the ramifications it had for (1) the emergence and decline of the Oyo Empire and (2) the entanglement of the empire and the Bight of Benin in the early modern commercial revolution. The entire history of the Oyo Empire was shaped by the quest to cope with the erratic climatic regime of the Little Ice Age. What were the opportunities and limitations of these coping strategies, what Professor Ogundiran calls the unfinished process of recovery?

Akin Ogundiran is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, and History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Professor Ogundiran’s scholarship has focused primarily on the deep-time cultural history of the Yoruba world, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. His research has been supported by the National Geographic Society, American Institute of Archaeology, and American Philosophical Society, among others. He is also a past fellow of the National Humanities Center. Professor Ogundiran's latest book is The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020).

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 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:57:17 -0400 2022-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Akinwumi Ogundiran
The Clements Bookworm: “Legends and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier" Author Conversation (April 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94201 94201-21724111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, University of Michigan Professor Gregory Dowd joins us to discuss his book *Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier* (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries.

This episode is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

Please register at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.
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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:24:26 -0400 2022-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Groundless
EIHS Workshop: Landscape, Indigenous Knowledge, and Power (April 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85523 85523-21626810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This lecture is presented in hybrid format: in-person in 1014 Tisch Hall and virtual via Zoom webinar (register: https://myumi.ch/QeGR8).

Landscape constitutes an analytical category that reflects the double-way entanglement between human and environment. It specifies the geographical or spatial dimension while acknowledging human activities and their multivalent constructs of physical spaces. As Akinwumi Ogundiran writes in Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa, “landscapes do not exist a priori as a natural stage upon which social processes unfold. Rather, they are produced by human social and cultural practice.” In the light of Ogundiran’s pioneering works, this Eisenberg Institute roundtable panel calls attention to rethink landscape as a prism to understand diverse patterns of political, economic, social, and cultural structures that involve the formation and operation of knowledge-power systems in different historical settings.

This panel brings together graduate students from architecture, and history who, through the analytic of landscape, draw important connections between linguistic analysis, spatial continuities, geographic knowledge and histories of colonial power. These connections help them recover lost worlds of indigenous languages, technologies, labor, and skills.

Panelists:
• Deepthi Bathala (Graduate Student, Architecture, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan)
• Anne Marie Creighton (Graduate Student, Anthropology, University of Michigan)
• Jonathan Quint (Graduate Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Gregory E. Dowd (moderator; Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor; History, American Culture; 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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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Apr 2022 06:39:18 -0400 2022-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Copy of a sketch of the Monongahela during the French and Indian War, ca. 1755.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 15, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94208 94208-21724119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics.
Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!
Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

VISITOR INFO
The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.
Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:50:45 -0400 2022-04-15T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Clements Library
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Political Futures and the Ends of Empire: Self-Determination and Federation in Twentieth-century South India (April 15, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85973 85973-21630623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

The conference will be hybrid. If you wish to participate remotely, please register here: https://myumi.ch/J89qx

The princely state of Hyderabad became home to a unique confluence of political debate, combining questions about the future of Muslim politics and states on the subcontinent with discussions of postcolonial federation. Hyderabad was a multilingual and multireligious society, a predominantly Hindu society governed by a Muslim king. What arose in Hyderabad in the colonial period was an emergent critique of monarchy along with an explicit desire for the continuance of the Hyderabad polity, either as a federated unit of India, or as an independent state, after the withdrawal of the British. Previously the history of linguistic nationalism that led to the formation of the first regional state of Andhra Pradesh immediately in post-independence India has been analyzed without any consideration of the history of the dissolution of its powerful neighbor, the princely state of Hyderabad. My current research analyzes the parallel development of public life, political modernity and the mapping of democratic futures in British India and the princely state of Hyderabad. Some were coordinated efforts, others were parallel but all were in dialogue with larger international discourses of self-determination and federation to ultimately rethink democratic futures towards a people-centered government in postcolonial South Asia. In this talk, I explore the meaning and implications of federation in late-colonial India broadly, as well as anticolonial nationalism's engagement with federation more specifically. Did federation proposals offer a break with the past or a continuation of empire? In broaching this question, I examine the discourse of federation and the debates over self-government and self-determination in the Telugu regions in both the Madras Presidency and in princely Hyderabad.

Rama Mantena is Associate Chair and Associate Professor of History and Global Asian Studies (Affiliate) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before UIC, she was Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pembroke Center, Brown University and a Kluge Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC. As a historian of Modern South Asia and the British Empire, her research is wide-reaching encompassing subjects covering Indian liberalism, the emergence of the public sphere and civil society in colonial India, practices of democracy in modern India, the study of historical methods and practices of history, and the comparative and transnational study of empires from the early modern to the modern world. Her first book, The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), examines the emergence of modern practices of history writing and methods of arriving at historical truth in colonial India. The book argues that new practices of history in colonial India were disciplined by a distinct intellectual encounter, rather than the byproduct of a diffusion of ideas and concepts resulting from the imposition of colonial rule. Her current research and book project concerns the political imaginaries of the princely state of Hyderabad with its unique relationship within the British Empire and British Indian political and social movements. Political Imaginaries and the End of Empire: Anticolonialism, Self-determination and Civil Liberties in Twentieth-Century India (book manuscript) aims to rethink the period between empire and nation, the early decades of the twentieth century, which ushered in a new era of liberalism and the increased use of the language of political rights and self-determination with open-ended political futures. The book project is an attempt to braid together narratives of civil societal discussions on political life and citizenship with proposals of federated arrangements and calls for regional autonomy using the particular case of the princely state of Hyderabad and the emergence of Telugu nationalism in neighboring Madras Presidency.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:44:44 -0400 2022-04-15T16:30:00-04:00 2022-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Liberalism and Anticolonial Politics in South India
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
River Life and the Ticker of Time (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89843 89843-21665971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

River Life and the Ticker of Time
Naveeda Khan, Johns Hopkins University

Monday, Apr. 18, Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.
Join us via Zoom.


Abstract:
My talk starts with an examination of Padma Nodir Majhi (The Boatman of the Padma), the 1936 novella by Manik Bandopadhaya, to draw out the attention it lavishes on the Padma River. There are the usual anthropomorphic depictions of the river as a capricious woman, bountiful and destructive in turn, but also much in the way of descriptions of the waxing and waning depth of the river, the flow patterns, the color of the water, the dissolved matter in it, the taste of it, and the fishes and other marine life. Each is a chronotope in the literary sense of configuring time, space, and subjectivity in particular ways, but also a ticker of time in the sense of marking the objective state of the river at a particular moment. But again, the anthropomorphic inflections of our language break through with the ticker indicating the beating heart of the river, the river oft described has having a wavering and flickering heart. I examine these tensions between poetic figurations and objective descriptions of the river in the novel, following them across the filmic register to two art films based on the novel, Jago Hua Severa (The Dawn will Break, 1959) and Padma Nodir Majhi (1993) and finally across the scientific register to current studies of the river, with its focus on fluvial channel dynamics, metal content in the river and declining state of fish species. I explore how anthropology inherits this tension with its encounters not just with people but with texts and media by and about them and what anthropology does or can do with this tension to realize what Katherine McKittrick calls living outside of prevailing knowledge systems by reciting and recasting human-environment interactions.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:50:57 -0400 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
Putin’s Russia: Imperial Past, Imperial Future? (April 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94485 94485-21742258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

This event will be presented via Zoom. Zoom registration is here: https://tinyurl.com/58xthznj

Rogov's recent tweet: https://twitter.com/WarTranslation/status/1501223445148831745/photo/1

Kirill Rogov is a senior research fellow at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Poli­cy, and a member of the supervisory board of the Liberal Mission Foundation (Moscow).

Originally a specialist in Russian intellectual and cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries, Rogov started his career as a journalist in the late 1990s. In the 2000s, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the news and opinion portal “Polit.Ru” – one of the first Russian on-line media. He was a columnist for the leading business daily Vedomosti, and later deputy editor-in-chief at Kommersant daily, another leading Russian newspaper.

Since 2007, Rogov has held positions at the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, the leading Russian think-tank in economics, and at the Academy for the National Economy and Public Policy. In 2011, he was an academic secretary and a member of the editorial committee of the working group on economic growth that formulated the Government Strategy Until 2020. His recent articles published in Russia and abroad are focused on problems of current political development and the post-Soviet history of Russia. He is a columnist for Vedomosti, Forbes–Russia, and Novaya Gazeta.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:14:52 -0400 2022-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Kirill Rogov, prominent Russian political analyst and scholar
Environmental Art History Sharing Session (April 18, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94667 94667-21755015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: History of Art

List of presenters (in an alphabetical order):

Deepthi Bathala (Architecture), Cecilio M. Cooper (History of Art), Brendan McMahon (History of Art), Katherine Mitchell (History of Art and Architecture, Boston University), David Norman (History of Art), Rosa Novak (History of Art), Kaeun Park (Asian Languages and Cultures), Soyoon Ryu (History of Art), Akshaya Tankha (History of Art, Yale University, incoming Forsyth Fellow)


Please join us for this virtual session where scholars from art history, architecture, and visual studies will share projects that illustrate approaches to environmentally-informed scholarship. Consisting of 10-minute presentations by nine scholars of various stages, the session aims to bring together different approaches, scopes, and questions surrounding this rapidly growing field. It will also be a cross-disciplinary platform where U-M scholars from multiple departments and other Ann Arbor-area scholars working on environmental topics can share their works and build connections. This event is hosted by Michaela Rife and Soyoon Ryu of the History of Art department and is open to the entire University of Michigan community.

Via Zoom

Registration: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ReLsg83KTmG1hLZR9u7s1g

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:22:50 -0400 2022-04-18T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location History of Art Lecture / Discussion Image details: Still from Yamashiro Chikako, Mud Man, 2016, HD color with sound.
Study @ the Clements (April 18, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94379 94379-21736326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 5:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

U-M students are invited to enjoy studying in the Clements Library’s Avenir Foundation Room. No reservations needed. Enter through the north doors (facing Hatcher) and show your ResponsiBlue screening at the reception desk. Please note that masks are required at the Clements Library and food and drinks are not allowed. Students can also take a break from studying to #ColorOurCollections and view our current exhibit “Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America.”

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Other Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:57:23 -0400 2022-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T21:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Other Study Sessions @ the Clements
LHS Collaboratory (April 19, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93101 93101-21700618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1:
Medical AI - Three Common Myths on the Path from Code to Clinic
Alan Karthikesalingam, MD, PhD
Research Lead, Google Health UK at Google

In this talk, Alan Karthikesalingam will discuss lessons learned in Google's experiences of taking medical AI systems from early research to clinical implementation.

Presentation 2:
Medical AI - Raising the Bar on Evidence Standards
Xiao Liu, MBChB, PhD(link is external)
Ophthalmologist and Clinical Researcher
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust University of Birmingham, UK

In this talk, Xiao Liu will discuss existing and new clinical evidence standards as applied to medical AI systems. Her talk will focus on recently published standards to ensure transparency and reproducibility of clinical evidence underpinning medical AI systems, including reporting guidelines such as SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:04:28 -0500 2022-04-19T11:00:00-04:00 2022-04-19T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
Student-Made Video Games Virtual Showcase (April 19, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93647 93647-21707515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience 20+ new student-made video games at the EECS 494 + EMU Games Virtual Showcase! Interact with the developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Visit https://494showcase.com Friday evening (the 10th) to participate!

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Exhibition Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:55:40 -0400 2022-04-19T19:00:00-04:00 2022-04-19T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition EECS 494 UMich GameDev Showcase
Racism in America - The History We Didn’t Learn in School (April 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90228 90228-21668762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Much of the racial turmoil in our country today can be traced directly to elements of our history, even before the founding of the United States. Understanding this history gives us a foundation for action to address the profound inequities that exist in our society today. Topics include the early years, slavery by another name, public policy and the civil rights movement, mass incarceration and the war on drugs, and voter suppression then and now, where do we go from here.

Instructor Suzanne Linderman will lead this study group.

This class meets on Wednesdays, from April 20 – May 25. No classes on holidays.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 21 Dec 2021 18:25:36 -0500 2022-04-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-20T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CAS Lecture | The Geography of Genocide: Mapping Refugee Movement at the End of World War I (April 20, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93488 93488-21705059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EVENT

Room 555, Weiser Hall
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Or participate virtually by registering in advance for the webinar: https://myumi.ch/J899b

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

This talk maps the Armenian Genocide refugee crisis to render visible the human geography of total war. For those stuck in the no man’s land between war and peace in the Ottoman Empire, World War I did not end with the signing of the 1918 armistices or the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. It continued beyond the signing of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty and produced the world’s largest refugee crisis to date while leaving a legacy of political instability that continues to plague the region. Deep maps – rendered using ARC- GIS technology and data from official documents, institutional records, and diaries of aid workers, refugees, and other non-combatants – reveal how refugee routes and war relief infrastructure reconfigured the landscape. The refugee experience of those fleeing genocide took form in the desert, the camp, and on the road during a protracted and seemingly unending war that had important consequences for minorities in the postwar Middle East.

Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her publications include “The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide” (2017/2019), “Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East” (2012), and articles in the American Historical Review and Past and Present. A forthcoming piece in the Journal of Modern History, “From Concentration Camp to Site of Refuge,” traces the significance of the camp in the refugee experience during WWI. She is working on a book provisionally entitled, “The Last Treaty: The Middle Eastern Front and the End of the First World War” which rewrites the final years of the war as a story of humanitarian crisis and failed diplomacy.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:00:02 -0400 2022-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 2022-04-20T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Michelle Tusan, Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Classical Receptions Colloquium (April 21, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91433 91433-21679569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 21, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

Please join us for the Classical Receptions Colloquium featuring a keynote by Laura Jansen, University of Bristol. If you are unable to attend in-person, please join us by Zoom at https://umich.zoom.us/j/99540013792.

SCHEDULE

PANEL 1: 9:30am-10:30AM
Will LaMarra: "The Acts of Andrew’s Reception of the Greek Novelistic Tradition"
Kaitlin Karmen: "László Krasznahorkai's *Chasing Homer*"
Lena Grimm: "Barbara Köhler’s *Elektra. Mirrorings*"

BREAK 10:30AM-10:45AM

PANEL 2: 10:45AM-11:45AM
Ciara Barrick: "Eva Palmer-Sikelianos’s *Craftwork Economy: Weaving the Queer, the Classical, and Modern Greece*"
Ana Santory Rodriguez: "A Cartography of Sorts: Medea on the World’s Stage"
Eleanor Choi: "Classical Receptions in Films, Documentaries, and Online Media"

BREAK 11:45AM-12:00PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: 12:00PM-1:00PM
Laura Jansen, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Bristol: "Classical Reception and Oblique Classicisms" (see below for details)

LUNCH BREAK 1:00PM-2:00PM

PANEL 3: 2:00PM-3:00PM

Allison Grenda: "Truth Before Beauty? The American School's Restoration of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Postwar Athens"
Laura Petersen: "Receiving Egeria’s *Itinerarium*"
Adam Gustan: "How Can We Practice Classical Reception in Old French Literature?"

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE:

"Classical Reception and Oblique Classicisms"
Laura Jansen (University of Bristol)

More than anything else, Classical Reception has become the study of connectivity. The subfield is predominantly preoccupied with how modernity establishes its dialogical connections with the ancient Mediterranean world, or how this world continues to make a significant impact on our present. Yet certain ideas underpin this practice. For a reception exercise to be worth pursuing (even publishable), the links between antiquity and modernity should be largely frontal and the classical presences explored be demonstrably substantial. Indeed, reception seems to have become a study of relevance, driven by closely plotted links and sizeable returns. But what about the case of modern authors for whom the classical lives alongside but not in their work? What about authors for whom the classical is an alluring yet not necessarily weighty presence, and for whom the connective thread of influence in their work seems to exist at breaking point? Is this something worth pursuing? And, if so, how capacious is the current paradigm to respond to such instances of 'oblique' and/or 'tangent' classicisms? This lecture will consider these questions, drawing attention to new lines of investigation, some of which no longer appear to suit the premises and aims of Reception as we know it.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:34:09 -0400 2022-04-21T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Contexts for Classics Conference / Symposium Laura Jansen
History Department Honors Symposium (April 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92241 92241-21688748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of History

Honoring the History Department's 2022 honors students.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:14:30 -0500 2022-04-29T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T11:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of History Ceremony / Service U-M History balloon
History Department Commencement Ceremony (April 29, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92211 92211-21688191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Department of History

Honoring the History Department's 2022 graduates.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 10 Feb 2022 14:29:13 -0500 2022-04-29T15:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Department of History Ceremony / Service U-M History graduation balloon
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (April 29, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21671714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-04-29T16:15:00-04:00 2022-04-29T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (April 29, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94205 94205-21724116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 5:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

To attend a guided tour, please see the schedule at httpp.//myumi.ch/Aw9Zb. Additional tour times and open hours will be added.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library

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Exhibition Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:07:01 -0400 2022-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
History Department PhD Commencement Ceremony (April 29, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92262 92262-21766119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of History

Honoring the History Department's 2022 PhD graduates!

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:33:58 -0400 2022-04-29T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-29T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of History Ceremony / Service U-M History balloon
Pan-African Pulp: A Commission by Meleko Mokgosi (May 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64426 64426-16348358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Pan-African Pulp, Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi explores the history of Pan-Africanism, the global movement to unite ethnic groups of sub-Saharan African descent. His Vertical Gallery installation, which inaugurates a new biennial commission program at UMMA, features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, posters from Pan-African movements from around the world, including those founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s, and stories from Setswana literature. Pan-African Pulp vividly connects to Detroit’s deep history of activism, where organizations such as Black Nation of Islam, The Republic of New Afrika, Shrine of the Black Madonna (Black Christian Nationalism), Pan-African Congress, and United Negro Improvement Association were founded. The renewed urgency for diversity and civil rights in Detroit, and the country as a whole, heightens the relevance of Mokgosi’s project and reveals the deep connections between these historical movements and those developing today.

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

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Exhibition Sun, 01 May 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-05-01T09:00:00-04:00 2022-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Meleko Mokgosi, Pan-African Pulp, 2019. Courtesy the artist. © Meleko Mokgosi. Photography: Patrick Young and Jeri Hollister
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 6, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89336 89336-21724106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!

Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:18:40 -0400 2022-05-06T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-06T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The Clements Library's Avenir Foundation Reading Room
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 6, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94212 94212-21724631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include a student-curated exhibit "Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America", Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers, and more!
Please register at http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.
VISITOR INFO
The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.
Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:19:08 -0400 2022-05-06T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Clements Library
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (May 6, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21724629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 6, 2022 5:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-05-06T17:00:00-04:00 2022-05-06T20:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Property and Being Under Colonial Conditions in Asia and Africa (May 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94706 94706-21761599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference will be hybrid. Join the Zoom meeting here: https://myumi.ch/1nMed

Historians have long proposed that property is as much about relationships between people as it is about the ownership of “things.” It is about both belonging, and belongings. Property offers a window onto contestations over power, social relations, resources, identity and political imagination. Histories of property in Asia and Africa, in particular, are intertwined with histories of colonial expansion, the emergence of new forms of state power, the creation of new categories/taxonomies of governance, the appropriation of indigenous lands, the reordering of social relations, and new or reworked imaginaries of property

The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference, “Property and Being under Colonial Conditions in Asia and Africa,” is to explore how comparing intellectual, cultural, social, political-economic, and legal histories of property from African and Asian colonial contexts may help us rethink ideas about land, ownership, dispossession, rights, credit, subjectivities, and political imaginations. Participants will engage with the historically sedimented entanglements of colonial policy and indigenous practices, developmentalist desires, and cultural and climatic change. Conversations across these regions may thus enable new understandings of property histories.

Schedule:

Friday 13 May, 2022

9:00  Arrival in 1014 Tisch Hall; pastries and coffee

9:30 Welcome 
Meenu Deswal and Tara Weinberg, University of Michigan

9:45 Panel I: Racial Logics of Property
Commentator: Brian Klein

Xafsa Ciise (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Species Extinction and Terrorism: The Political Economy of Conservation Wars in Africa”

Claire Cororaton (Cornell University), “On Property and the Philippine Democratic Experiment: Mateo Cariño’s Case and its Afterlives in Philippine History”

Sajdeep Soomal (University of Toronto), “Fatty Bitumen in Punjab”

11:45 Lunch (Provided)

13:00 Panel II: Of Collective Property, Communities, and Claim-Making 
Commentator: Jatin Dua

Amelia Burke (University of Michigan), “Titles, Rights and Shares: Individual Inheritance and Collective Lands in Colonial Morocco” 

Dipanjan Mazumder (Vanderbilt University), “A sacred history of property: Vernacular legal culture in early modern Bengal” 

Sauda Nabukenya (University of Michigan), “Struggles and strategies of the landless: contesting possession, and the framing of legal regimes in Buganda”

Tara Weinberg (University of Michigan), “Imaginaries of collective property ownership in South Africa: a history of land buying syndicates in the early 20th century”

15:00 - 15:15 Tea Break

15:15 Keynotes and Reflections on Day 1:
Rohit De and Nafisa Essop Sheik

Saturday 14 May, 2022

9:30 Arrival in 1014 Tisch Hall; Pastries and coffee

10:00 Panel III: Property, Contracts, and Being 
Commentator: Sanne Ravensbergen 

Fusheng Luo (University of Michigan), “A Tale of Two Settlements: The Formation of the Treaty Port Property Regimes in the British Settlements in Shanghai and Guangzhou”

Halimat Somotan (Carnegie Mellon University), “Property Owners, Renters, and Claims to Public Amenities in Colonial Lagos”

Lamin Manneh (University of Michigan), “‘Their reckless and dissipating husbands’: Property, marriage, and intercolonial trade in the British West African Settlements 1860-1888”

Meenu Deswal (University of Michigan), “Consent and the Question of Women as Property in Colonial Law, South Asia 1850-1920”

12:00 Break

12:15 Reflections on Day 2 and Conference Closing

13:00 Departure lunch – walk over to LSA canopy for lunch

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 May 2022 10:46:30 -0400 2022-05-13T09:00:00-04:00 2022-05-13T17:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Dusk in Hasangarh, outskirts of Delhi, c. 2003. Photo by Meenu Deswal
Feel Good Friday at UMMA (May 13, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94895 94895-21780615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 13, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Feel Good Friday is a monthly gathering of art and humans. 

Join us on the second Friday of each month at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Looking for a reason to feel good? Let art, music, and culture lift you up. Reconnect and recharge each month at Feel Good Friday. 

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

May is Feel Good Vibes: UMMA will come alive with good vibrations through an exploration of experimental film, Afrofuturism, creative magic, and Detroit techno. 

Featuring:
KESSWA, a Detroit-based performer who will grace us with a special performance followed by the premier of her experimental film The 12th House, an Afro-surrealist story about an unrealized artist trapped in her mind and trapped in her corporate life on a seemingly endless loop. Through inspiration and illumination, she's able to access a creative breakthrough and free herself.  Shigeto & Tammy Lakkis, Detroit-based musicians and DJ’s will host a special performance highlighting experimental sound through techno and house.  AK, Detroit-based DJ who will take listeners through a musical history of Afrofuturism via Ghetto Tech, Dubstep, and Deep House.  Mark Tucker, an Ann-Arbor-based artist, will kick off UMMA’s latest exhibition, FUN, with a hands-on workshop. The collaborative creation will be accompanied by ambient-sound musician Jordan McKay.  Free latte-making workshop in the UMMA Cafe with Storm Saddler, UMMA Cafe Manager (Limited space available).
All Galleries open!

SAVE THE DATE: next Feel Good Fridays is on June 10. 

Feel good faster! Registration is not required to attend Feel Good Friday - it simply speeds up the check-in process for you. Register now and skip the line on Friday, May 13!

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Performance Sat, 14 May 2022 00:15:19 -0400 2022-05-13T19:00:00-04:00 2022-05-13T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Property and Being Under Colonial Conditions in Asia and Africa (May 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94706 94706-21761600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference will be hybrid. Join the Zoom meeting here: https://myumi.ch/1nMed

Historians have long proposed that property is as much about relationships between people as it is about the ownership of “things.” It is about both belonging, and belongings. Property offers a window onto contestations over power, social relations, resources, identity and political imagination. Histories of property in Asia and Africa, in particular, are intertwined with histories of colonial expansion, the emergence of new forms of state power, the creation of new categories/taxonomies of governance, the appropriation of indigenous lands, the reordering of social relations, and new or reworked imaginaries of property

The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference, “Property and Being under Colonial Conditions in Asia and Africa,” is to explore how comparing intellectual, cultural, social, political-economic, and legal histories of property from African and Asian colonial contexts may help us rethink ideas about land, ownership, dispossession, rights, credit, subjectivities, and political imaginations. Participants will engage with the historically sedimented entanglements of colonial policy and indigenous practices, developmentalist desires, and cultural and climatic change. Conversations across these regions may thus enable new understandings of property histories.

Schedule:

Friday 13 May, 2022

9:00  Arrival in 1014 Tisch Hall; pastries and coffee

9:30 Welcome 
Meenu Deswal and Tara Weinberg, University of Michigan

9:45 Panel I: Racial Logics of Property
Commentator: Brian Klein

Xafsa Ciise (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Species Extinction and Terrorism: The Political Economy of Conservation Wars in Africa”

Claire Cororaton (Cornell University), “On Property and the Philippine Democratic Experiment: Mateo Cariño’s Case and its Afterlives in Philippine History”

Sajdeep Soomal (University of Toronto), “Fatty Bitumen in Punjab”

11:45 Lunch (Provided)

13:00 Panel II: Of Collective Property, Communities, and Claim-Making 
Commentator: Jatin Dua

Amelia Burke (University of Michigan), “Titles, Rights and Shares: Individual Inheritance and Collective Lands in Colonial Morocco” 

Dipanjan Mazumder (Vanderbilt University), “A sacred history of property: Vernacular legal culture in early modern Bengal” 

Sauda Nabukenya (University of Michigan), “Struggles and strategies of the landless: contesting possession, and the framing of legal regimes in Buganda”

Tara Weinberg (University of Michigan), “Imaginaries of collective property ownership in South Africa: a history of land buying syndicates in the early 20th century”

15:00 - 15:15 Tea Break

15:15 Keynotes and Reflections on Day 1:
Rohit De and Nafisa Essop Sheik

Saturday 14 May, 2022

9:30 Arrival in 1014 Tisch Hall; Pastries and coffee

10:00 Panel III: Property, Contracts, and Being 
Commentator: Sanne Ravensbergen 

Fusheng Luo (University of Michigan), “A Tale of Two Settlements: The Formation of the Treaty Port Property Regimes in the British Settlements in Shanghai and Guangzhou”

Halimat Somotan (Carnegie Mellon University), “Property Owners, Renters, and Claims to Public Amenities in Colonial Lagos”

Lamin Manneh (University of Michigan), “‘Their reckless and dissipating husbands’: Property, marriage, and intercolonial trade in the British West African Settlements 1860-1888”

Meenu Deswal (University of Michigan), “Consent and the Question of Women as Property in Colonial Law, South Asia 1850-1920”

12:00 Break

12:15 Reflections on Day 2 and Conference Closing

13:00 Departure lunch – walk over to LSA canopy for lunch

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 05 May 2022 10:46:30 -0400 2022-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-05-14T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Dusk in Hasangarh, outskirts of Delhi, c. 2003. Photo by Meenu Deswal
Muslim Modernity in South Asia (May 20, 2022 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94722 94722-21763082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 9:45am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Muslim Modernity in South Asia
Center for South Asian Studies
University of Michigan
May 20-21, 2022
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor

Co-organized by Farina Mir (Department of History, UM) and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University), this workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to revisit established understandings of Muslim modernity in South Asia, particularly as they relate to questions of gender, colonialism, the status and role of the ulama, Islamic law, and notions of political and religious subjectivity. All papers are precirculated. Conversations on each paper will be opened with a comment from a member of the UM faculty, followed by open discussion. Please join us and contribute to the conversation!

Note: All papers are pre-circulated. Contact Farina Mir (fmir@umich.edu) for papers.

Schedule:
Friday, May 20, 2022

9:45 Welcome
Muhammad Qasim Zaman & Farina Mir

10:00 Julia Stephens, Department of History, Rutgers University
“Material Modernities: Tracing Janbai’s Gendered Mobilities Across the Indian Ocean”
Respondent: Gaurav Desai, Department of English, University of Michigan

11:00 Tea/coffee break

11:30 Justin Jones, Theology and Religion, Oxford University
“Islamic Feminist Thought and Islamic Modernism in Modern India”
Respondent: Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History, University of
Michigan

12:30 Lunch Break

2:00 SherAli Tareen, Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
“Competing Muslim Responses to Colonial Modernity: The
Aligarh-Deoband Divide”
Respondent: Juan Cole, Department of History, University of
Michigan

3:00 Tea/Coffee Break

3:30 Farina Mir, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Urdu Akhlaq Literature and Secularity in Colonial, South-Asian Islam”
Respondent: Kathryn Babayan, Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Saturday May 21, 2022
9:30 Humeira Iqtidar, Department of Political Economy, King’s College
“Spiritual or Political Equality?”
Respondent: Webb Keane, Department of Anthropology, University
of Michigan

10:30 Tea/coffee Break

11:00 Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Department of Religion, Princeton University
“Law and Sufism in Modern South Asia: A Changing Relationship”
Respondent: Alexander Knysh, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 May 2022 13:41:17 -0400 2022-05-20T09:45:00-04:00 2022-05-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Bait ur Rouf mosque. Photography: Sandro di Carlo Darsa
The Clements Bookworm: The Importance of Companion Animals to U.S. Civil War Soldiers (May 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95161 95161-21788714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Historian Marcy S. Sacks discusses her research examining the role of pets and other domesticated animals in helping U.S. Civil War soldiers both endure the trauma of war and stay connected with their loved ones at home. Using soldiers’ letters and drawings, she argues that the men’s attention to animals helped them grapple with the brutality and boredom that marked their military service.

Cats, dogs, mice, pigs, and other animals served the critical function of softening the wartime experience and enabled soldiers to communicate – especially to women and children – through discourses of sympathy and sentimentalism, thereby reassuring their families of their continued humanity. By demonstrating that they remained capable of holding and expressing loving emotions, they showed that they would safely return home at war’s end.

Dr. Sacks, author of two books, is the Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor and chair of the History Department at Albion College (Michigan). Her research and teaching focus is on African American history and race in the United States.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Betty Bishop and Diane Hummel.

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Presentation Tue, 17 May 2022 10:51:02 -0400 2022-05-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-05-20T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation [Klemroth, The Cook with dog][1864], Edgar H. Klemroth Sketches from the Clements Library Image Bank.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (May 20, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-05-20T16:15:00-04:00 2022-05-20T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Muslim Modernity in South Asia (May 21, 2022 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94722 94722-21763083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 21, 2022 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Muslim Modernity in South Asia
Center for South Asian Studies
University of Michigan
May 20-21, 2022
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor

Co-organized by Farina Mir (Department of History, UM) and Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University), this workshop brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to revisit established understandings of Muslim modernity in South Asia, particularly as they relate to questions of gender, colonialism, the status and role of the ulama, Islamic law, and notions of political and religious subjectivity. All papers are precirculated. Conversations on each paper will be opened with a comment from a member of the UM faculty, followed by open discussion. Please join us and contribute to the conversation!

Note: All papers are pre-circulated. Contact Farina Mir (fmir@umich.edu) for papers.

Schedule:
Friday, May 20, 2022

9:45 Welcome
Muhammad Qasim Zaman & Farina Mir

10:00 Julia Stephens, Department of History, Rutgers University
“Material Modernities: Tracing Janbai’s Gendered Mobilities Across the Indian Ocean”
Respondent: Gaurav Desai, Department of English, University of Michigan

11:00 Tea/coffee break

11:30 Justin Jones, Theology and Religion, Oxford University
“Islamic Feminist Thought and Islamic Modernism in Modern India”
Respondent: Mrinalini Sinha, Department of History, University of
Michigan

12:30 Lunch Break

2:00 SherAli Tareen, Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
“Competing Muslim Responses to Colonial Modernity: The
Aligarh-Deoband Divide”
Respondent: Juan Cole, Department of History, University of
Michigan

3:00 Tea/Coffee Break

3:30 Farina Mir, Department of History, University of Michigan
“Urdu Akhlaq Literature and Secularity in Colonial, South-Asian Islam”
Respondent: Kathryn Babayan, Departments of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

Saturday May 21, 2022
9:30 Humeira Iqtidar, Department of Political Economy, King’s College
“Spiritual or Political Equality?”
Respondent: Webb Keane, Department of Anthropology, University
of Michigan

10:30 Tea/coffee Break

11:00 Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Department of Religion, Princeton University
“Law and Sufism in Modern South Asia: A Changing Relationship”
Respondent: Alexander Knysh, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 May 2022 13:41:17 -0400 2022-05-21T09:30:00-04:00 2022-05-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Bait ur Rouf mosque. Photography: Sandro di Carlo Darsa
IGDA Ann Arbor : Dr. Stephen Mallory (LTU / Terminal Reality / IGDA Detroit) (May 26, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95246 95246-21789060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 26, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

==Industry Lecture==
Dr. Stephen Mallory (LTU / Terminal Reality / IGDA Detroit)

Step into the world of game design and game pedagogy as IGDA Ann Arbor welcomes LTU Game Program Director, IGDA Detroit Chair, and former Terminal Reality designer Dr. Stephen Mallory!

IN-PERSON : Ann Arbor SPARK Central (parking directions below)
VIRTUAL (Discord) : https://discord.gg/V9xHntm
VIRTUAL (Twitch.tv) : https://www.twitch.tv/igda_annarbor

==Community Showcase ~ SIGN UP ==
https://forms.gle/qRsMBzx121Xz3ef2A
Have a project you're working on? Looking for feedback, teammates, or advice? Don't be a stranger! Register via the above form and prepare your 5-minute demo / pitch (with 5 minutes of Q&A).

==Parking==

Republic Parking : 324 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Library Lane Parking : 319 S 5th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Streetside parking / meter parking free after 6pm EST.

==In-Person Requirements==

You must have been vaccinated, and will need to attest to this fact before entering.

== Resources ==
MI Game Studios Database : https://michigangamestudios.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/IGDA2_Official
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IGDA-Ann-Arbor-143150996287453/
Discord : https://discord.gg/V9xHntm

==IGDA Resources==
https://igda.org/resources/harassment/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 May 2022 12:29:42 -0400 2022-05-26T19:00:00-04:00 2022-05-26T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Lecture / Discussion Dr. Stephen Mallory joins IGDA Ann Arbor
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-01T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (June 2, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 2, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-06-02T04:15:00-04:00 2022-06-02T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
The Clements Bookworm (June 6, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95162 95162-21789934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Clements Library Fellows Dr. Richard Bell (Professor of History, University of Maryland) and Latoya M. Teague (PhD Candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) will join Maggie Vanderford (Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, Clements Library) to discuss the teaching of Black history with primary sources.

The roundtable conversation will address various approaches to Black history pedagogy in university lectures, secondary school classrooms, and in library primary source instruction. From curriculum design to syllabus and lesson plan creation, join the conversation to think more deeply about how to teach the triumphs and the heartbreaks of the past in ways that are both informed and intentional.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:11:45 -0400 2022-06-06T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 William L. Clements Library Presentation LaToya M. Teague (Left) and Dr. Richard Bell (Right)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-06T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-07T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-08T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-08T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-08T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-09T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-09T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-10T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-10T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21789999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-13T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Making Sense of Afghanistan History and Place in World Politics (June 14, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91310 91310-21677935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will explore the recent withdrawal from Afghanistan, and its causes and consequences in America’s position on the international stage. It will also provide historical, political, and cultural context for this country and region spanning the last 20 years, even 200 years.

Our speaker, Saeed A. Khan is a lecturer in the Department of History and Near East and Asian Studies at Wayne State University. He teaches Islamic and Middle East History, Politics and Culture and where he is also a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Citizenship.

His primary area of research is the identity politics of Muslim Diaspora communities in the US, UK, and Europe. Dr. Khan is also Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Detroit-Mercy and at Rochester College, a panelist on CBC’s Turning Point and contributor to Detroit Today on Detroit Public Radio.

This is the last of five lectures to be presented once each month from February through June of 2022. A new series will start in September 2022. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:44:58 -0500 2022-06-14T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion OLLI Image
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-14T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-15T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-16T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
The Clements Bookworm (June 17, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95162 95162-21788715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Clements Library Fellows Dr. Richard Bell (Professor of History, University of Maryland) and Latoya M. Teague (PhD Candidate in African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin) will join Maggie Vanderford (Librarian for Instruction & Engagement, Clements Library) to discuss the teaching of Black history with primary sources.

The roundtable conversation will address various approaches to Black history pedagogy in university lectures, secondary school classrooms, and in library primary source instruction. From curriculum design to syllabus and lesson plan creation, join the conversation to think more deeply about how to teach the triumphs and the heartbreaks of the past in ways that are both informed and intentional.

Please register at: myumi.ch/gjgzR

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Presentation Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:11:45 -0400 2022-06-17T10:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation LaToya M. Teague (Left) and Dr. Richard Bell (Right)
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-17T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-17T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-20T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
LHS Collaboratory (June 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95245 95245-21789057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Restructuring health systems for learning: Building equity into the Learning Health System"
Learn more about ELSI-LHS (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Learning Health Systems). The session will be moderated by, Jody E. Platt, MPH, PhD, Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences.

Speaker:
Lauren A. Taylor, PhD, MDiv, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Population Health
Division of Medical Ethics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 May 2022 00:20:49 -0400 2022-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-21T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-22T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 23, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-23T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-23T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (June 23, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21788609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 23, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-06-23T16:15:00-04:00 2022-06-23T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-24T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-24T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-27T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-28T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (June 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 29, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-29T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-29T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (June 30, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 30, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-06-30T12:00:00-04:00 2022-06-30T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America (July 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94211 94211-21790008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The four display cases in this exhibit were curated by members of a combined undergraduate and graduate course on disability history and literature at the University of Michigan to convey what it was like to be disabled in the United States before the modern category of “disability” existed. Together, the artifacts gathered from the Clements Library collections provide a glimpse of the cruelties, triumphs, and intimate acts of care that shaped the lives of people with disabilities in the past.

The Clements Library is offering Open Hours Monday through Friday, from 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm. To attend a behind the scenes guided tour of the Library and the exhibit, please see the schedule at myumi.ch/Aw9Zb.

Curated By: Dr. Ittai Orr and the Students of English 420, Winter 2022, with Maggie Vanderford and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:33:37 -0400 2022-07-01T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-01T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Navigating Disability in 19th-Century America
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-06T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 7, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-07T16:15:00-04:00 2022-07-07T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-13T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 20, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 20, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-20T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-20T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 21, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21791486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 21, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-21T16:15:00-04:00 2022-07-21T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (July 22, 2022 4:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21791487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 22, 2022 4:15am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-07-22T04:15:00-04:00 2022-07-22T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (July 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-07-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-07-27T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Watershed for Families (July 30, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95907 95907-21791420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 30, 2022 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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In Watershed, fifteen contemporary artists explore the interconnected histories, present lives, and imagined futures of the Great Lakes region.

UMMA and the U-M Natural History Museum invite families with children ages 5 and up to drop in this summer to explore the artworks and learn about what we need to make a healthy environment.

Free, no registration required. Recommended age: 5 and up.

Saturday, July 30, 11am to 1 pm: Watershed DIY Tour & Activity at UMMA

Pick up an illustrated activity kit at the front desk and use it to explore Watershed and learn more about the art and the artists on display. The kit also provides materials necessary to make your own sunprint cyanotype, just like some of the artists in Watershed!   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 30 Jul 2022 12:15:33 -0400 2022-07-30T11:00:00-04:00 2022-07-30T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 2, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-02T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-02T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (August 3, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21776818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

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

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-08-03T12:00:00-04:00 2022-08-03T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (August 24, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-08-24T14:00:00-04:00 2022-08-24T15:00:00-04:00 Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 24, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-24T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-24T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 25, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-25T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-25T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (August 26, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95141 95141-21789242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 26, 2022 4:15pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library welcomes you to join us to learn more about the Clements’ early American history collections. Highlights include an exhibit on collecting “19th-Century Cuba”, Benjamin West’s iconic painting “Death of General Wolfe,” a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage’s papers, and more!

Open Hours are offered on Wednesday and Friday from 12:00 - 4:30 PM.

Please register at: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

VISITOR INFO

The University of Michigan requires that our visitors wear masks and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screening on the day of the event in order to participate.

Please plan to arrive a few minutes early at our North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library tower to check-in for your tour.

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Presentation Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:56:45 -0400 2022-08-26T16:15:00-04:00 2022-08-26T17:15:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation The William L. Clements Library.
Watershed for Families (August 28, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95920 95920-21791436@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, August 28, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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In Watershed, fifteen contemporary artists explore the interconnected histories, present lives, and imagined futures of the Great Lakes region.

UMMA and the U-M Natural History Museum invite families with children ages 5 and up to drop in this summer to explore the artworks and learn about what we need to make a healthy environment.

Free, no registration required. Recommended age: 5 and up.

Sunday, August 28, 2022 from 1 to 4 pm: Healthy Rivers at U-M Museum of Natural History Build a river and watch what happens during a flood! You'll learn more about rivers and watersheds at this hands-on event. Dip your hands into our 10-foot model of a river and work together with others on an art activity to learn how rivers form and what it takes to keep water fresh and safe. How does pollution spread? How do we limit erosion? How do the ways people use land affect a river?   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, Susan and Richard Gutow, and the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Graham Sustainability Institute, and the Department of English Language and Literature. Special thanks to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin.  

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Workshop / Seminar Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:16:39 -0400 2022-08-28T13:00:00-04:00 2022-08-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (August 29, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 29, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-08-29T16:00:00-04:00 2022-08-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Meet the Author: Jazz from Detroit (August 30, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96448 96448-21792542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Are you interested in Detroit's role in shaping modern and contemporary jazz? Join us on Tuesday, August 30th for a discussion about the book "Jazz from Detroit” by Mark Stryker. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. The recording will be posted on Facebook.

About the Author:
Mark Stryker is an award-winning arts journalist and critic based in Detroit, Michigan, specializing in jazz, classical music, and visual art. You can find more information about the author, including upcoming events at https://jazzfromdetroit.com/

"Jazz from Detroit" is on sale for $20 and free shipping during the month of August. https://www.press.umich.edu/4454129/jazz_from_detroit and use the discount code "UMGL20JAZZ" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:29:36 -0400 2022-08-30T19:00:00-04:00 2022-08-30T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of book Jazz from Detroit with photo of author Mark Stryker
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Muslims of the Heartland: How Ottoman Syrians Made a Home in the American Midwest (September 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96757 96757-21793267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Arab American author Edward E. Curtis IV is the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts at Indiana University, Indianapolis. The author or editor of fourteen books about Black, Muslim, and Arab American history and life, he has received major fellowships and grants from Carnegie, Fulbright, Luce, Mellon, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:59:34 -0400 2022-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-08T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
STS Speaker. Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (September 12, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90018 90018-21794548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 12, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, an economic style of reasoning—one focused on efficiency, incentives, choice, and competition—became prominent within U.S. public policy, including in domains that were once not seen as particularly “economic”. Drawing on historical research on policy domains ranging from environmental to welfare to antitrust policy, I show how particular intellectual communities introduced and disseminated this style of reasoning, and examine its lasting political effects. As the values of economics—especially various forms of efficiency—became institutionalized through law, regulation and organizational change, it became harder for competing claims about rights, universalism, equity, and power to gain purchase. While economic reasoning had the potential to conflict with conservative as well as liberal values, in practice it was particularly constraining for the Democratic left—the implications of which continue to be felt. This talk will illustrate this larger argument with a focus on how these dynamics played out in the arena of social policy—welfare, health, housing, and education.

Bio: Elizabeth Popp Berman is Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and (by courtesy) Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her new book, Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, will be published with Princeton University Press in March 2022.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:03:23 -0400 2022-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Popp Berman
No Straight Lines: Peculiar Pasts and Crooked Futures (September 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95228 95228-21797001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of History

Geoff Eley’s work has fundamentally reframed key questions in the field of German history and lastingly shaped the discipline of history. His work spans centuries and reaches across oceans. The questions he has asked are both pointed and of universal relevance. His contributions witnessed and shaped the many “turns” the discipline of history itself has made. His list of publications spans more pages than the average reading list for preliminary examinations in the field of German history. If one counts the presentations he has given at workshops and conferences one would assume he has lived three lives. As the organizers of this symposium in his honor, we suggest that the work of Geoff Eley deliberately evades “capture.” Instead of pounding a signpost into the ground and leaving his mark, Geoff has built bridges between fields and made waves within them, touching innumerable lives and minds in the process. To ride the waves and travel across these bridges by bringing together some of the many scholars, colleagues, students, and friends that have learned with and from Geoff is the purpose of this symposium.

No Straight Lines celebrates Geoff Eley’s impressive career, the breadth, range and importance of his scholarship, his spirit as a teacher, mentor and colleague, and his life-long commitment to justice, within and beyond the academy. Starting out as a scholar of German nationalism and the German political right and reframing the “peculiarities” of that history as an emerging young scholar, Geoff Eley’s work bore the imprint of comparative history, of thinking with concepts and theories rather than applying them, of pushing against boundaries that confine “acceptable” ways of thinking about the past, which he is currently putting into practice again by writing a comprehensive history of 20th Century Europe. Throughout his career, he has traced and critically reflected on how historical thinking has itself changed as a result of historical processes. No Straight Lines seeks to take stock of and celebrate the extent to which Geoff Eley’s work has in fact been indispensable to the intellectual shifts he has so skillfully traced and succinctly explained.

Besides celebrating the breadth and impact of Geoff Eley’s scholarship, No Straight Lines seeks to remind us all of the many ways in which his work was never just theoretical but was always connected with and energized by thinkers, writers, scholars, and students, and in turn, supported and touched so many of them in lasting ways. In this regard the Saturday dinner is as crucial a part of this symposium, as is the discussion of Eley’s scholarly footprint. That footprint was never purely abstract; nor was it only intellectual. Rather it continues to invigorate the many friendships and collaborations he has built and sustained over his career. This symposium brings us together to honor the experience of learning from and with Geoff Eley.

Find more information and the conference schedule here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/eley/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:38:41 -0400 2022-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-13T11:00:00-04:00 Department of History Conference / Symposium Gina and Geoff Eley
CAS Lecture | A Disease in the Lungs of Anatloia: Politics of Reform and Modernization at the intersection of Armenian, Kurdish, and Kizilbach Questions across Empire and Nation-State (September 14, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97964 97964-21795401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This hybrid event will be held in-person on Wednesday, September 14th at 4:00PM in Weiser Hall 555. It will also be available to attend via zoom using the following link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91902644887 or by entering the Meeting ID: 919 0264 4887.

In their efforts to modernize the state and establish direct rule in territories under their sovereignty, the late imperial Ottoman and early republican Turkish state elites faced a common problem: Dersim. A Kizilbash Kurdish–majority region with a rich and diverse natural environment in Eastern Anatolia, Dersim toward the end of the nineteenth century became a domain where the Kurdish, Armenian, and Alevi (historically known as Kizilbash) questions came together and clashed with the project of Ottoman and Turkish state formation. Subsumed under the banner of the Eastern Question in the literature, these interwoven questions placed foundational limits on the late imperial and early republican state in the realms of ethnicity, religion, and geography, and turned Dersim into a battlefield for Turkish state making. Often used interchangeably with “military operation,” the language of “reforming Dersim” started under the Ottoman administration in the mid-nineteenth century, gained momentum following the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 and reached its peak with the early republican era. After the Turkish state’s violent transformation of the region in 1937–38, the state elite abandoned the word reform (ıslahat), which indicates that they had achieved what they understood by “reforming Dersim.” The survivors of the Dersim massacres and their descendants, however, remember Dersim 38, a phrase that evokes tragic memories of genocidal operations in the region, as a collective trauma. This lecture provides the conflicting narratives of this “reform process” from the perspective of both the state elite and the inhabitants of Dersim. It proposes that mutual fear and insecurity defined both the state elite’s approach to Dersim and the Dersimis’ reactions to the state, and all three of the Armenian, Kizilbash, and Kurdish questions played a role.

Cevat Dargın specializes in modern Middle Eastern and Eurasian history with a focus on the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century transformations from empires to nation-states and their impact on borderlands and peoples in the peripheries. Interested in the theory of internal colonialism as a means of state making, his research explores continuities across regime changes and revolutions. Cevat earned his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University in 2021. He is currently working on several publication projects based on his doctoral research on the history of Dersim, an Alevi Kurdish–majority region with a rich and diverse natural environment in Eastern Anatolia, from the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 to the Turkish state’s violent transformation of the region in 1937–38.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 14:52:56 -0400 2022-09-14T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion CAS Lecture | A Disease in the Lungs of Anatloia: Politics of Reform and Modernization at the intersection of Armenian, Kurdish, and Kizilbach Questions across Empire and Nation-State
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Harry Harootunian: In Conversation (September 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96649 96649-21793012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: This lecture will be held virtually via Zoom at https://myumi.ch/DJNmw. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once you've registered, the joining information will be sent to your email.

As part of our Center for Japanese Studies 75th Anniversary programming, we are honored to hold a conversation with renowned historian and alumnus Harry Harootunian about his experiences within and beyond the field of Japanese studies. We will discuss topics including his experiences as a student at the University of Michigan, his perspective on the development of Japanese studies, and his forthcoming book on historical form and fascism in modern Japan. The conversation will be hosted by Reginald Jackson, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, with audience Q/A to follow.

Harry Harootunian, Max Palevsky Professor of History at the University of Chicago and Research Associate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, has written and edited a number of books and essays on early modern and modern Japan, Marxism, and the theory of historical practice. His most recent book, *Archaism and Actuality. Historical Form, Time and Fascism in Modern Japan*, will be published and issued by Duke University Press next year. He is currently involved with two colleagues from other universities on a projected book relating to Marxism in Japan.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:12:47 -0400 2022-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Livestream / Virtual Harry Harootunian, Max Palevsky Professor, History of the University of Chicago, Research Associate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
EIHS Lecture: Commodified Communism: Values and Prices in the Polish People’s Republic (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95286 95286-21789122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Can a market society exist without commodifying human labor? That question has been debated by Marxist theoreticians for over a century, but in the Polish People’s Republic it penetrated even the most mundane policy discussions. The people who staffed the planning offices had to figure out what things were worth, and in the process they came to erase the line between values (in every sense of that word) and prices. They tried to pursue socialist goals with a neoclassical economic methodology, which even today is often defended as a viable strategy. Maybe it is, but in Poland it failed catastrophically.

Brian Porter-Szűcs is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1994. His most recent book is Całkiem zwyczajny kraj: Historia Polski bez martyrologii (A Perfectly Ordinary Country: A History of Poland without Martyrology) (Wydawnictwo Filtry, 2021), which is a revised and expanded version of Poland and the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom (Wiley Blackwell, 2014). His earlier works include Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland (Oxford University Press, 2011), and When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in 19th Century Poland (Oxford University Press, 2000).

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 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 16:47:52 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Brian Porter-Szücs
Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature (September 15, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97968 97968-21795407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Classical Studies

Slavery and the Book: Toward a New Social History of Roman Literature

Joseph Howley,
Columbia U.

Thurs. Sept 15th 2022
4:00 PM

2175 Angell Hall
Classical Studies Library

Summary: Histories of the book have tended to distinguish periods of book history and cultures of the book in technological terms: manuscript and print, scroll and codex, papyrus and parchment, silent reading, hypertext. This paper will argue that the defining material condition of the book in ancient Rome was not an element of format or medium, but rather the role played by enslaved book workers — secretaries, readers, copyists, and other specialists. Though Roman elites could and did read and write for themselves, their book culture depended on enslaved labor to operate at the scale it did. This book culture arose in elite households of the late Republic, and even as book use spread more widely in the early centuries of the Empire, practices and values of the book formed by the role of slavery remained dominant, and the shadow cast over the book trade by elite domestic slavery remained long. This paper will argue for the centrality of enslaved labor to the history and culture of the Roman book, and will consider how the source and evidence challenges of book history intersect with those of social history and the history of slavery. It will consider three case studies from the spheres of writing, reading, and copying books, and suggest that specific practices of enslavement in the Roman world have significantly shaped ideas that are central to how we imagine the book in the long European tradition.

Zoom registration:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9lsHGLNvT7y29qMT_moHPw

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:18:33 -0400 2022-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-15T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion poster image
The Clements Bookworm: “O Say Can You Hear?, A Cultural Biography of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’” (September 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/95567 95567-21790162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Mark Clague brilliantly weaves together the stories of the song and the nation it represents in his newest book, "O Say Can You Hear?, A Cultural Biography of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'" Examining the origins of both text and music, alternate lyrics and translations, and the song’s use in sports, at times of war, and for political protest, he argues that the anthem’s meaning reflects—and is reflected by—the nation’s quest to become a more perfect union. From victory song to hymn of sacrifice and vehicle for protest, the story of Key’s song is the story of America itself.

Mark is Professor of musicology and American culture at the University of Michigan; associate dean at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance; and codirector of the American Music Institute.

This episode of the Clements Bookworm is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

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Presentation Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:34:35 -0400 2022-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Presentation Mark Clague pictured with the cover of his book, “O Say Can You Hear?"
EIHS Symposium: Against History: Interpretation, Erasure, and the Politics of Method (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95296 95296-21789132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

"Against History” interrogates the following premise: History is a concept and set of practices whose ideological work is often rendered invisible or obscured by the assumption that its narratives and analyses offer an objective representation of the past. Our participants will draw on their innovative work in ancient history (Sara Forsdyke) and colonial or post-colonial studies (Joshua H. Cole, Deirdre de la Cruz) to consider some of the ways in which historical interpretations are fashioned and deployed as well as the erasures that are intentionally or unintentionally produced. How has history been used to buttress or challenge political and social orders? What methods might we use to restore a more complex, inclusive—and accurate—representation of the past?

Panel:
• Joshua H. Cole (Professor, History, University of Michigan)
• Deirdre de la Cruz (Associate Professor, History and Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Michigan)
• Sara Forsdyke (Professor of Classical Studies & Josiah Ober Collegiate Professor of Ancient History, University of Michigan)
• John Carson, moderator (Associate Professor, History, 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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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Sep 2022 07:35:46 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Old broken hammer closeup, Nenad Stojkovic (CC BY 2.0)
The Breath of Every Living Thing: Zoocephali and the Limits of Alterity (September 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97970 97970-21795408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: History of Art

Abstract: This paper focuses on the woefully understudied Hammelburg Mahzor (Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13), a Jewish festival book completed in Lower Franconia in the middle of the fourteenth century. The book’s most remarkable feature is perhaps the inclusion of carefully curated zoocephalic, or theriomorphic, figures: humans with beastly and bestial heads. By virtue of their alterity, the zoocephali call attention to themselves with emphatic force. The purpose of this talk is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this alterity, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language, philosophy, poetry, and history. In the Hammelburg Mahzor this visual idiom also signals distinction, albeit in a way that, conspicuously, collapses temporalities, tests the limits of alterity, and makes an argument about likeness and difference. By foregrounding linguistic elisions between words, images, and the celebrants, such an idiom establishes visceral connections with the community of the book’s users. Ultimately, theriomorphs stand as a fitting metaphor for medieval Jewish art as it has been viewed in mainstream scholarship.

Bio: Elina Gertsman, Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University (where she is Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II), has authored an extensive series of field-changing, prize-winning publications. Her many books include The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and most recently The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021), winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Foundations as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:17:51 -0400 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union History of Art Lecture / Discussion Haman and His Sons Hanging from a Tree, The Hammelburg Mahzor, Hammelburg, 1347-1348. Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13, fol. 53v.