Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. "I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 28, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 28, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-28T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 29, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (November 30, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2022-11-30T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 2, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 5, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 6, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 7, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 8, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 9, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 12, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 14, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-14T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
"I have a crisis for you": Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War (December 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96538 96538-21792866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 15, 2022 9:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

An exhibit curated by Grace Mahoney and Jessica Zychowicz
Featuring work by Kinder Album, JT Blatty, Oksana Briukhovetska (MFA, Stamps School of Art and Design), Oksana Kazmina, Sonya Hukaylo, Svetlana Lavochkina, Kateryna Lisovenko, and Lyuba Yakimchuk.

Lane Hall Exhibit Space
204 South State Street

About the exhibit:
In February 2022, the world witnessed the invasion of Ukraine and all-out war of aggression by the Russian Federation. Since this time, massive casualties, human rights violations, and an unprecedented refugee crisis have ensued. Women artists of Ukraine have responded. They paint on found materials in refugee housing, illustrate in bomb shelters, photograph their shelled cities wearing press passes and bulletproof jackets. They document, create, and share. They post their daily journals and images on social media. They perform at the Grammy Awards. They know their message is powerful, and the amplification of their voices is critical for victory in a very real battle for survival.

Curated by Grace Mahoney (U-M Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Jessica Zychowicz, Ph.D. (Fulbright Ukraine and U-M Alumna), "'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" showcases work created by women artists in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The involved artists are painters, photographers, filmmakers, poets, translators, and textile artists. Many of the works exhibited demonstrate a continuity of engagement by the artists with the topic of war, especially since 2014 when the people of Ukraine gathered in a “Revolution of Dignity” against attempts by the Russian Federation to control the country’s independence resulting in Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and backing of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east.

The featured artists have also been selected because of their prominent interest and exploration of issues relating to gender in their works. The title for this exhibit comes from a poem of the same name by Lyuba Yakimchuk:

“— our love’s gone missing, I explain to a friend/ it vanished in one of the wars/ we waged in our kitchen/ — change the word ‘war’ to ‘crisis,’ he suggests/ because a crisis is something everyone has from time to time.”

Like in Yakimchuk’s poem, many of these artists approach the war with personal perspectives. They intertwine, juxtapose, and disrupt experiences of war with the intimacies of personal relationships, the workings interior lives, and perceptions of social roles. The featured artworks and documents engage a range of subjects from women volunteering as combatants to the processes of grieving and reflect ongoing discourses in Ukrainian feminist scholarship.

The exhibit will be accompanied by a companion website which includes an expanded set of informational and aid-related resources.

"'I have a crisis for you': Women Artists of Ukraine Respond to War" is hosted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies with co-sponsorship from the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Museum Studies Program, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

Related Events:

Opening Reception with comments by the curators
4:00-6:00 pm ET, Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Lane Hall

Artists’ Roundtable (Hybrid)
3:30-5:00pm ET, Friday, September 16th, 2022
Weiser Hall, 1010

*U-M classes may schedule visits outside of regular gallery hours by emailing LaneHallExhibits@umich.edu

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Exhibition Tue, 22 Nov 2022 14:47:29 -0500 2022-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2022-12-15T16:00:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition Lane Hall Fall Exhibit, 2022
Slavic Colloquium (Czech-themed) (February 2, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103989 103989-21808192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Jindrich Toman
One Day in the Center, Next Day in the Periphery: Czech Avant-garde and Its Shifting Networks
The presentation is framed by discussions about centers and peripheries in cultural studies. It focuses on the relation between Prague and "peripheral" Brno avant-garde of the 1920s, and the relation between "peripheral" Prague and Paris in the 1930s. The analysis stresses the asymmetric nature of these configurations.

Tanya Silverman
Inebriation and Westward Projections: Bolek Polívka’s Father Figures in Mid-2000s Czech CinemaIn the Czech films Pupendo (2003) and Something Like Happiness (2005), renowned Czech actor Bolek Polívka plays downtrodden patresfamilias who face challenges of the times that gravely impact their livelihoods. While notions of professional success in the West continuously arise in both narratives, Polívka’s patresfamilias remain in situ, turning to alcohol, not only to cope with dissatisfactions but also to develop companionships and reveal their personal concerns. This paper explores how Polívka’s characters inflect the trope of the Czech anti-hero in addition to assessing the tensions between his roles in fiction films with his role as a national movie star.

As usual, we will start around 6:30 pm with a light supper, and the presentation will begin at 7 pm. The colloquium is in-person, in 3308 MLB. We will have a hybrid option.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuceqtpjsuGtVajU7dey-Qu67oTCvF_p-T

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Presentation Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:31:09 -0500 2023-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 2023-02-02T20:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Slavic colloquium — Czech-themed
Ukrainian Film Series — Winter 2023 (February 9, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104049 104049-21808327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Ukrainian Film Series

Thursday, February 9th
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
Mariupol: The Chronicles of Hell
The fall of one of Ukraine's major cities
Mariupol — ruined but not conquered. The city in the east of Ukraine has survived the occupation, total destruction, and a humanitarian catastrophe. The story of Mariupol is an especially horrifying one, with accounts reported that occupiers were murdering civilians, and actively preventing them from escaping. This film is the story of the survivors, and their life in a hell on Earth. Yet it's also a testament to the power of resilience, and Ukrainian fighting spirit.

Thursday, March 9th
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
ПОВОДИР (The Guide)
Soviet Ukraine, the 1930s. American engineer Michael Shamrock arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year-old son, Peter to help "build socialism". He falls in love with an actress Olga who has another admirer, Commissar Vladimir.
Under tragic circumstances, the American is killed and his son is saved from his pursuers by a blind bard (kobzar). With no other chance to survive in a foreign land, the boy becomes his guide.

Thursday, April 6
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Ukrainian: Тіні забутих предків
A 1965 Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud.[2][3] New York Film Festival program described the film as an "avant-garde, extravagant, sumptuous saga" and a "haunting work" that combined folk songs and atonal music with fantastic camera work.[5] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history,[6] and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.[7]

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Film Screening Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:42:48 -0500 2023-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T20:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ukrainian Film Festival
Ukrainian Film Series — Winter 2023 (March 9, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104049 104049-21808328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Ukrainian Film Series

Thursday, February 9th
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
Mariupol: The Chronicles of Hell
The fall of one of Ukraine's major cities
Mariupol — ruined but not conquered. The city in the east of Ukraine has survived the occupation, total destruction, and a humanitarian catastrophe. The story of Mariupol is an especially horrifying one, with accounts reported that occupiers were murdering civilians, and actively preventing them from escaping. This film is the story of the survivors, and their life in a hell on Earth. Yet it's also a testament to the power of resilience, and Ukrainian fighting spirit.

Thursday, March 9th
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
ПОВОДИР (The Guide)
Soviet Ukraine, the 1930s. American engineer Michael Shamrock arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year-old son, Peter to help "build socialism". He falls in love with an actress Olga who has another admirer, Commissar Vladimir.
Under tragic circumstances, the American is killed and his son is saved from his pursuers by a blind bard (kobzar). With no other chance to survive in a foreign land, the boy becomes his guide.

Thursday, April 6
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Ukrainian: Тіні забутих предків
A 1965 Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud.[2][3] New York Film Festival program described the film as an "avant-garde, extravagant, sumptuous saga" and a "haunting work" that combined folk songs and atonal music with fantastic camera work.[5] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history,[6] and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.[7]

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Film Screening Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:42:48 -0500 2023-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T20:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ukrainian Film Festival
Representations of the Theresienstadt ghetto in survivors' testimonies (March 28, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105801 105801-21812971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Please join us for this Presentation on narratives of the Theresienstadt Ghetto in early postwar Czechoslovakia based on two reports written by Czech Jewish survivors: Mirko Tůma’s “A ghetto of our days” (1946) and Richard Feder's “Jewish tragedy – Last act” (1947). Analyzing how those narratives were perceived by contemporaries in Czech media.

Lena Franke studied European Studies (BA) and Slavic Studies (MA) at the universities of Passau, Tübingen and Regensburg and spent semesters abroad in Kazan, Riga and Prague. In 2020 she worked as a research assistant for the project “Grenze/n in nationalen und transnationalen Erinnerungskulturen zwischen Tschechien und Bayern” at Bohemicum, Center for Czech Studies, University of Regensburg. During her Ph.D., research stays in Prague were supported by the Bavarian-Czech Academic Agency and by a Josef Dobrovský Fellowship at the Institute for Czech literature at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Since April 2021 she is a scholarship holder at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at slavic@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Thank you!

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Presentation Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:59:49 -0500 2023-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Theresienstadt ghetto
Ukrainian Film Series — Winter 2023 (April 6, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104049 104049-21808329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Ukrainian Film Series

Thursday, February 9th
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
Mariupol: The Chronicles of Hell
The fall of one of Ukraine's major cities
Mariupol — ruined but not conquered. The city in the east of Ukraine has survived the occupation, total destruction, and a humanitarian catastrophe. The story of Mariupol is an especially horrifying one, with accounts reported that occupiers were murdering civilians, and actively preventing them from escaping. This film is the story of the survivors, and their life in a hell on Earth. Yet it's also a testament to the power of resilience, and Ukrainian fighting spirit.

Thursday, March 9th
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
ПОВОДИР (The Guide)
Soviet Ukraine, the 1930s. American engineer Michael Shamrock arrives in Kharkiv with his ten-year-old son, Peter to help "build socialism". He falls in love with an actress Olga who has another admirer, Commissar Vladimir.
Under tragic circumstances, the American is killed and his son is saved from his pursuers by a blind bard (kobzar). With no other chance to survive in a foreign land, the boy becomes his guide.

Thursday, April 6
Location: MLB Aud 3 (MLB 1200)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Ukrainian: Тіні забутих предків
A 1965 Ukrainian film by the filmmaker Sergei Parajanov based on the novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that tells a "Romeo and Juliet tale" of young Ukrainian Hutsul lovers trapped on opposite sides of a Carpathian family blood feud.[2][3] New York Film Festival program described the film as an "avant-garde, extravagant, sumptuous saga" and a "haunting work" that combined folk songs and atonal music with fantastic camera work.[5] Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history,[6] and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.[7]

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Film Screening Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:42:48 -0500 2023-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T20:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Ukrainian Film Festival
Let’s Save the Poems: Manuscripts in Albanian Communist Prison (April 14, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107064 107064-21815250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

At the end of the 1970s, the Albanian poet Visar Zhiti sent a book of poems to the press expecting to publish his first book. But Zhiti ‘s poems had to go under strict control before being given permission to get printed. Not only did his poems not ‘pass’ the state propaganda hand, but according to the state, his poems contained ‘grave errors’; they were considered hermetic and against the format of socialist realism under the Albanian communist regime. For this reason, he was arrested in 1979 and sentenced to ten years in prison and served eight years. As the poet states, he continued to write even within the prison to keep his sanity under the regime’s dire circumstances.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:11:42 -0400 2023-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Visar Zhiti Lecture
Slavic Department Presents: Ukrainian Film Days — Fall 2023 (October 11, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112690 112690-21829431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Join us in the Modern Languages Building, Lec Room 1 (1220), for the Fall 2023 Ukrainian Film Series!

We will be showing wonderful Ukrainian films; light snacks will be available. Our October featured film is Mavka, a remarkable animation based on the work of Lesya Ukrainka "Lisova pisnya (Forest Song)."

The November featured film, Carol of the Bells is adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody. The peaceful and neighborly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish, sharing a large house in the years preceding and post-war, is shattered. It's beautiful in its small details of food and cutlery, children's games, and objects of the everyday life of the city of Stanislaviv.

Thank you to our generous event co-sponsor, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE). If you have questions or accommodation needs, please contact the Slavic Department at slavic@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:34:21 -0400 2023-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T20:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Poster
Slavic Department Presents: Ukrainian Film Days — Fall 2023 (November 15, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112690 112690-21829432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Join us in the Modern Languages Building, Lec Room 1 (1220), for the Fall 2023 Ukrainian Film Series!

We will be showing wonderful Ukrainian films; light snacks will be available. Our October featured film is Mavka, a remarkable animation based on the work of Lesya Ukrainka "Lisova pisnya (Forest Song)."

The November featured film, Carol of the Bells is adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody. The peaceful and neighborly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish, sharing a large house in the years preceding and post-war, is shattered. It's beautiful in its small details of food and cutlery, children's games, and objects of the everyday life of the city of Stanislaviv.

Thank you to our generous event co-sponsor, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE). If you have questions or accommodation needs, please contact the Slavic Department at slavic@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:34:21 -0400 2023-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Poster