Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Michigan Archives Night@The DO: Alumni Games & Bonfires: Homecoming History (September 22, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97372 97372-21794486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Michigan Archives Nights at the Detroit Observatory feature compelling collections and selections from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library, covering U-M history, state history, and more. Join us as archivists pull fascinating items out of the collections and share the stories behind them. For this Bentley Night, Greg Kinney, archivist for athletics, will present items covering the history of Homecoming, from its early origins to more recent forms -- its traditions and offbeat moments in between. Tours of the Observatory will follow.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Aug 2022 16:59:07 -0400 2022-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2022-09-22T21:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Black-and-white image of a homecoming float; Greg Kinney's headshot in the top right corner.
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.
Michigan Archives@the DO: American North Russia Expeditionary Force in Archangel (December 8, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101205 101205-21800937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Michigan Archives Nights at the Detroit Observatory feature compelling collections and selections from the holdings of the Bentley Historical Library, covering U-M history, state history, and more. Join us as archivists pull fascinating items out of the collections and share the stories behind them.

The American military intervention at Archangel, Russia, at the end of World War I, nicknamed the "Polar Bear Expedition," is a strange episode in American history. Ostensibly sent to Russia to prevent a German advance and to help reopen the Eastern Front, American soldiers found themselves fighting Bolshevik revolutionaries for months after the Armistice ended fighting in France. Because many of the American troops involved in the intervention were from Michigan, the Bentley Historical Library has extensive records on the expedition. Join us for Archivist Olga Virakhovskaya's talk about this historic episode, replete with documents and artifacts from the exhibition.

Olga Virakhovskaya is the Lead Archivist for Collections Management at the Bentley Historical Library. She oversees the process of preparation of collections for use by Bentley's researchers, as well as creating collection guides and catalog records. A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Olga holds a BA in Sociology from Simmons University in Boston; M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Master in Library and Information Science from Southern Connecticut State University. She joined the Bentley in 2007. Archives related to the American North Russia Expeditionary Force, or the Polar Bears archives, are among Olga's favorite Bentley collections. Her other favorite collections include archives related to the University of Michigan Symphony Band's 1961 tour of the Soviet Union; as well as collections related to civil rights and accessibility rights activism in Michigan. Olga's current professional interests include the issues of ethics and privacy in archives.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:24:01 -0500 2022-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of Olga Virakhovskaya.