Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The McCarthy Era Red Scare in Michigan: Its Meaning, Then and Now (March 17, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92871 92871-21697525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

In 1952, David Maraniss’s father, a U-M alumnus, was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. David wrote about his family’s experiences in his book – many of which centered around U-M – in his book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, and will discuss how this period of heightened ideological tension still reverberates today, especially given our own era of increasing political engagement and polarization.

Hosted by Gary Krenz.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:23:07 -0500 2022-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Event poster with title and image of speaker.
Making Michigan: To put living force into the symbols: Journeys of Anatol Rapoport (September 29, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97630 97630-21794830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

As a boy, Anatol Rapoport and his father succeeded in a daring escape from the Soviet Union. He went on to become a leading mathematical psychologist, semanticist and game theorist, making major contributions to the understanding of strategy, conflict, war, and peace -- always intent on tying strategic analysis to the conscientious appreciation of real human beings. As he wrote at one point, "One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls . . . ." Rapoport spent a significant portion of his variegated career at U-M, where among other things he helped found the Mental Health Research Institute and organize the first Teach-In, on the Vietnam War. Join us for an exploration of Anatol Rapoport's journeys -- personal and intellectual -- with three panelists: Shirli Kopelman, leading researcher, expert, and educator in the field of negotiations at the U-M Ross School of Business; Anthony Rapoport, son of Anatol and principal violist with Sinfonia Toronto and the Windermere Quartet; and Roger Rapoport, LSA '68, award-winning author and filmmaker and author of "A Professor's War for Peace."

This event will take place at the Detroit Observatory and will also be streamed online. Advance registration is required for either the in-person or virtual event.

Registration for the in-person event can be found here: https://myumi.ch/wM4XX

Registration for the virtual event can be found here: https://myumi.ch/WJqP9

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:53:52 -0400 2022-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Black and white image of Anatol Rapoport with surrounding newspaper clippings.
A Difficult Archive: Reckoning with the University of Michigan’s Complicity in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines (October 13, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99652 99652-21798506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join us for discussion with Professor de la Cruz about the historical relationship between the University of Michigan and the Philippines in the first decades of the American colonial period, out of which came some of the most extensive collections of Philippine material (historical, cultural, and natural scientific) in North America. Professor de la Cruz will introduce two collaborative projects by U of M faculty and students being carried out to recognize and repair the harm caused by these collections at all levels, including in their acquisition, representation, contextualization, stewardship, and use. The event will be followed by tours of the historic Detroit Observatory, with observing if weather permits.

Deirdre de la Cruz is Associate Professor of History and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is an historian and cultural anthropologist of the Philippines, with an interest in the transformation of religious sensibilities, beliefs, and phenomena in modernity. She is the author of the book Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and several articles on religion in the Philippines. Her current projects include a scholarly book on the history of faith healing in the Philippines, an edited volume on religious diversity in the Philippines, and two plays, one on the legacies of Filipinos who fought in WWII, and another that tells the history of Christianity through the eyes of its apostates. In the last few years, Deirdre has turned her attention to the vast collections of Philippine materials at the University of Michigan and an exploration of related questions and concerns, including affect as archival object and archival method, translingualism in the imperial archives, and how to decenter the US in US empire studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:03:36 -0400 2022-10-13T19:00:00-04:00 2022-10-13T20:30:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Graphic of the event title and speaker names.