Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. A Religion & Feminism Author Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean (November 29, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99378 99378-21797972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Panel: Ken Chitwood, Aliyah Khan, William Calvo-Quirós, and Jocelyn Fenton Stitt.


The Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) are proud to highlight and launch the new books of current and former University of Michigan faculty in religion and feminist studies in the Americas. The authors of three books in the field read from and discuss their work at a roundtable moderated by Dr. Ken Chitwood, author of The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean (2021).


William Calvo- Quirós discusses his *Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions* (2022), which follows the migration of popular Catholic saints from Mexico into the U.S. and the evolution of their meaning in the context of racism and Latinx immigrant battles for survival.


Aliyah Khan talks about *Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean* (2020), the first academic monograph on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean, focusing on the gendered fiction, poetry, and music of Islam of enslaved West African Muslims, indentured South Asian Indian Muslims, and their descendants in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica.


Jocelyn Fenton Stitt's *Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing* (2021), the first academic book on pan-Caribbean life writing and the recent use of the genre by Caribbean women to explore historical and archival absences. This talk focuses on Cuban Jewishness, feminism, and formal practices used to write about historical absences.

Combining literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, women’s and gender studies, and historiography, these books showcase the innovative, interdisciplinary ways in which religious studies and feminist scholars study and write about creolized and syncretic cultures in the Caribbean and the hemispheric Americas.


Ken Chitwood will be moderating this conversation. He is a religion scholar conducting research on ethnographic journalism with the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture’s Engaged Spirituality Project and on Latinx Muslim philanthropy with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI. He is the author of the award-winning book, *The Muslims of Latin America and the Caribbean* (2021).

This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and co-sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).


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Film Screening Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:52:40 -0500 2022-11-29T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-29T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening A Religion & Feminism Author Roundtable: Muslims, Saints, & Jewishness in Latin America & The Caribbean
CSAS Film Series | *Bombay: Our City* (November 30, 2022 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98306 98306-21796467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 7:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

*Bombay: Our City* tells the story of the daily battle for the survival of the four million slum dwellers of Bombay that make up half the city's population. Although they are Bombay's workforce - industrial laborers, construction workers, domestic servants - they are denied city utilities like electricity, sanitation, and water. Many slum dwellers must also face the constant threat of eviction as city authorities campaign to "beautify" Bombay.

*Bombay: Our City* is an indictment of injustice and a call to action on the side of the homeless.

"Quite clearly, *Bombay: Our City* is the best documentary ever made in India." - Khalid Mohamed - The Times of India

"Patwardhan gives us this story simply and clearly, with restrained passion, and it becomes, finally, appalling and moving." - Michael Wilmington - The Los Angeles Times

"Simply one of the best documentaries I have ever seen."- Sean Cubitt - City Limits

Anand Patwardhan, India’s leading documentary filmmaker, is known for his socio-political, award-winning films. He has spent decades capturing Mumbai’s slum dwellers, the reality of the caste system, the rise of Hindu nationalism, and tensions between India and Pakistan. He is a member of the Oscar academy, and his films have earned more than 20 international awards.

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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Film Screening Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:58:45 -0400 2022-11-30T19:30:00-05:00 2022-11-30T22:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening Bombay: Our City
Day With(out) Art - Film Screening (December 1, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101451 101451-21801360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

RSVP: https://bit.ly/UM-DWA-2022
Spectrum Center is proud to partner with the Visual AIDS organization for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting BEING & BELONGING, a program of seven new videos centering the emotional reality of living with HIV today. Join us for a free screening December 1 from 5-7 PM in the Spectrum Center. The program features new work by Clifford Prince King, Jaewon Kim, Mikiki, Davina “Dee” Conner & Karin Hayes, Camila Arce, Jhoel Zempoalteca & La Jerry, and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas & Santiago Lemus. A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. AIDS is not over! A screening of the films will be accompanied by a short discussion with Evan Hall, HIV test counselor from Unified HIV Health & Beyond.

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Film Screening Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:29:15 -0500 2022-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 2022-12-01T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Film Screening Flyer for the BEING AND BELONGING film screening, as part of the Day With(out) Art observance for World AIDS Day presented by the Visual AIDS organization. Text shares that this will be a film screening and discussion at the UM Spectrum Center on Thursday, 12/1 from 5-7pm.
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *Death By Hanging* (December 1, 2022 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100235 100235-21799376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/DJ9Q6

Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire *Death by Hanging*. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima’s constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country. Look for former CJS guest Adachi Masao playing the role of a cop.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063198/mediaviewer/rm1513185536/?ref_=tt_ov_i

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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Film Screening Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:17:32 -0400 2022-12-01T19:15:00-05:00 2022-12-01T21:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 1960s: Death By Hanging (118 min., 1968)
CSAS Lecture Series | “Bazaar Rumors” or “All Facts”? Film Sound Debates and the Transition to Sound in Indian Cinema (December 2, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100627 100627-21800158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This talk will analyze competing film sound technologies during the period of conversion to sound in Indian cinema (1931 to 1935), with a special focus on claims about swadeshi (or indigenously developed) recording equipment. Using ads for sound recording and projection equipment, as well as reports by and about salesmen-technicians, such as the Americans Wilford Deming and C. Willman, the talk explores ideas about sound technologies circulating in 1930s India. Using the lens of “imaginary media” as theorized by media archaeologists, the talk will focus on “impossible” machines such as the locally developed tropically sensitive sound machines advertised in Indian film magazines in the early 1930s for “understanding the assumptions concerning media technological innovations” (Parikka). Contrary to one of these ads, it is precisely “bazaar rumors” rather than “all facts” that shed light on the discourse of sound recording in the early 1930s.

Neepa Majumdar is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of *Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s to 1950s* (University of Illinois Press, 2009) and co-editor of the *Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema* (2022). Her research interests include film sound, star studies, South Asian early cinema, and documentary film. She is co-editor of the journals *[In]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies* and *Music, Sound, and the Moving Image*.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact csas@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, 31 Oct 2022 16:41:55 -0400 2022-12-02T16:30:00-05:00 2022-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Neepa Majumdar
German Film Series: Fremde Haut (December 6, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101830 101830-21802527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 6:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Join us for the December Film in this year's German Film Series. Directed by Angelina Maccarone and starring Iranian-German actor Jasmin Tabatabai, this 2005 film follows Fariba, a lesbian refugee from Iran, as she escapes the death penalty, navigates German bureaucracy, endures the difficulties of securing asylum, and encounters Western racism, xenophobia, and homophobia. By depicting migratory, racial, and sexual difference, Maccarone describes this film as an exploration of society's dangerous polarities. Fremde Haut is a drama, a German social critique, and a love story that will leave you reflecting on your own definition of normal. You might find that society's line between what is "right" and "wrong" is not always as clear as it seems.

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Film Screening Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:33:15 -0500 2022-12-06T18:30:00-05:00 2022-12-06T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening North Quad
Submissions Deadline for the 2023 Hopwood Awards contests (January 12, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/97255 97255-21794236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:00am
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

University of Michigan graduate and undergraduate students may submit original work to one or more of the contests managed by the Hopwood Program. See the Hopwood Program website for submissions guidelines and important details.

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Other Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:52:02 -0400 2023-01-12T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T23:59:00-05:00 Hopwood Awards Program Other Hopwood Awards flyer showing a bookcase and wing chair in the Hopwood Room.
German Film Series: From Swastika to Jim Crow (2000) (January 12, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102958 102958-21805616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Thursday, January 12, 2023
Room 2435 North Quad | 105 S. State Street
4:30 PM Refreshments | 5:00 - 6:00 PM Film Screening

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:49:08 -0500 2023-01-12T16:30:00-05:00 2023-01-12T20:00:00-05:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening flyer
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *House* (January 12, 2023 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100236 100236-21799377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/843Dg

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie *House* (*Hausu*)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of *Scooby-Doo* as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equally absurd and nightmarish, *House* might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/?ref_=tt_mv_close

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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Film Screening Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:28:38 -0400 2023-01-12T19:15:00-05:00 2023-01-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 1970s: House (88 min., 1977)
Korean Cinema NOW | Broker/브로커 (January 14, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102936 102936-21805566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 14, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Rated R | 2022 | 2h 9m | Drama | Hirokazu Koreeda
Free & Open to the public | In Korean with English Subtitles

The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can't have children of their own. After an infant's mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/vm3B-fDc9Xw

*Audience members are solely responsible for the decision to watch any KCN screening. Please note certain films are not rated.*

Sponsored by the U-M International Institute; Asian Languages & Cultures; American Culture; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Department of Film, Television, and Media.

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:47:10 -0500 2023-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-14T15:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Broker/브로커
Winter DEI Film Discussion Series | Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp (January 19, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103319 103319-21807023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

More than 127,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in concentration camps in remote areas of the seven western U.S. states during World War II. Their crime? Ancestry. Almost two-thirds of the interns were Nisei, or U.S.-born. Even World War I veterans of Japanese descent were forcibly evacuated. Families were made at gunpoint to leave their homes, businesses, schools, their lives for spartan, communal tarpaper barracks in inhospitable regions. This powerful documentary premiered last May on PBS (available for streaming here). This discussion is open to all. Please register to receive the Zoom link prior to this session.

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Other Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:09:24 -0500 2023-01-19T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Other A circa-1942 black-and-white news photograph depicting hundreds of Americans of Japanese descent -- men, women, and children -- amassed at a train depot awaiting transport to internment camps. [Credit: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection]
Korean Cinema NOW | Hunt/헌트 (January 21, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102937 102937-21805567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 21, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Not Rated | 2022 | 2h 11m | Action, Mystery & Thriller | Lee Jung-jae
Free & Open to the public | In Korean with English Subtitles

After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho (LEE Jung Jae) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (JUNG Woo Sung) are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other. In this tense situation where if they cannot find the mole, they may be accused themselves, Pyong-ho and Jung-do slowly start to uncover the truth. In the end, they must deal with an unthinkable plot to assassinate the South Korean president.

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/fZBPhTYta3U

*Audience members are solely responsible for the decision to watch any KCN screening. Please note certain films are not rated.*

Sponsored by the U-M International Institute; Asian Languages & Cultures; American Culture; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Department of Film, Television, and Media.

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:46:51 -0500 2023-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 2023-01-21T15:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Hunt/헌트
CES Film and Discussion. *While at War (Mientras dure la guerra)* (January 23, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101603 101603-21801569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Set in the first months of the Spanish Civil War, this riveting and timely drama from acclaimed writer-director Alejandro Amenábar tracks the country’s slide into nearly four decades of fascism under dictator Francisco Franco. (107 min., 2019)

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University of Vienna. He has authored and co-authored important books on the history of Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s Spain which were published, in English, by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and I.B. Tauris. His latest book, *Indomitable Violence: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe,* was published in 2020, with a remarkable impact and several editions, and will be translated by Princeton University Press. In addition to his scholarship, Casanova is a frequent contributor to the Spanish newspaper *El País,* and serves as a historical consultant in the television and film industry, both in documentaries and TV series and films. He is in residence at the University of Michigan for the 2022-23 academic year as the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Distinguished Fellow.

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Film Screening Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:27:37 -0500 2023-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2023-01-23T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Center for European Studies Film Screening While at War poster
Movie Night: "An Uncommon Education" Revisited (January 26, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103652 103652-21807599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

What does it mean that U-M's first president, Henry Philip Tappan, wanted to turn Michigan into a "true university"?  How has student activism remade Michigan over the decades?  How did one of the nation's most prestigious student literary awards come to U-M?  What does it mean to be a leader and best -- on the playing field or in the laboratory?  And, how should you depict U-M's history?  For its 2017 bicentennial, the University of Michigan collaborated with Detroit Public Television to produce ten mini-documentaries covering questions such as these from U-M's history.  What do those videos look like six years later, given so many changes in the University and the world? For this movie night, we will screen several videos from the series, and our panel will discuss those videos and the series as a whole.  The panel will consist of Fran Blouin and Kim Clarke, who both appeared in many of the videos, and Gary Krenz, who directed the University's bicentennial.

As with all public events at the Observatory, this movie night will include tours of the building by our student docents, with observing if weather permits.

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Film Screening Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:38:44 -0500 2023-01-26T19:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Film Screening Poster of "An Common Education" with ring of leaves.
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *Tampopo* (January 26, 2023 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100237 100237-21799378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/qAeW2

Juzo Itami’s rapturous “ramen western” follows an enigmatic band of ramen ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe. *Tampopo* serves up a savory broth of culinary adventure seasoned with offbeat comedy sketches and the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster. Sweet, sexy, surreal, and mouthwatering, *Tampopo* remains one of the most delectable examples of food on film.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/?ref_=tt_mv_close

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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Film Screening Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:51:47 -0500 2023-01-26T19:15:00-05:00 2023-01-26T21:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 1980s: Tampopo (114 min., 1985)
WCEE Film and Discussion. *Kalinindorf* (January 27, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102772 102772-21805122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

*Kalinindorf,* Yurii Kaparulin and Les Kasyanov, directors (29 min, 2020). Following the film screening, Kaparulin will lead the discussion.

The documentary film tells the story of Kalynivske, a village in the Kherson region. Between 1927 and 1944, the village–then known as Kalinindorf–was the center of the first Jewish oblast in Ukraine. Through their encounters with the inhabitants of Kalynivske and of several other former Jewish settlements, the film directors explore the common history of Ukrainian and Jews, complex Ukrainian-Jewish relations, and the Holocaust, and investigate how that layered history is remembered today. The story of Kalynivske and Jewish settlements in the region takes on new meaning following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, as the region was occupied by Russian troops and then annexed to the Russian Federation. After their liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on November 9, 2022, war crimes committed by the Russian army are being discovered and investigated, providing the occasion to revisit the history of violence in the region.

Les Kasyanov is a photographer and filmmaker who has been working with the French historical organization Yahad—In Unum since 2011 collecting evidence of the Holocaust. Les was responsible for principal photography, sound, and editing.

Yurii Kaparulin, associate professor and director of the Raphael Lemkin Center for Genocide Studies at Kherson State University, is a legal scholar and Scholars at Risk Fellow at the University of Michigan Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. He has been researching the history of Jewish agricultural settlements in southern Ukraine for the past five years. Prof. Kaparulin researched and produced the film.

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Film Screening Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:16:31 -0500 2023-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-27T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Film Screening Kalinindorf film
Talking Trash: an Interactive Discussion Inspired by The Plastic Bag Store (January 30, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103169 103169-21806219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3P0DUEe1P8.

Turn inspiration into impact with insights from researchers, scientists, artists, and activists tackling the question: What can we do about single-use plastics? The U-M Museum of Art, U-M Arts Initiative, the Graham Sustainability Institute, and the University Musical Society join forces to offer this illuminating event designed to share diverse perspectives and empower individual action.

Moderated by Jena Brooker, Detroit-based freelance journalist, an environmental reporter for BridgeDetroit, Data Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, and Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellow through the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). 

Panelists include: 

Lashaun Jackson, Graham Sustainability Scholar

Samuel McMullen, Co-Founder, Live Zero Waste

Shelie Miller, Professor, Director, Program in the Environment; Jonathan W. Bulkley Collegiate Professor of Sustainable Systems; U-M Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Sustainability, SEAS

Meredith Miller, Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College

Thomas Moran, Associate Professor of Architecture, Taubman College; collaborator, Thing Thing

Genevieve Rattray, Director of Environmental Initiatives and Affairs for the Belle Isle Conservancy and Founder & Chair of the Detroit River Coalition

Hannah Tizedes, Artist and Environmentalist

Single-use plastics, such as plastic bags, straws, and cutlery, have become a major environmental concern due to their widespread use and presence as a global polluter. These plastics can take hundreds of years to break down, and, in the process, release harmful chemicals into the environment.

During the event, the diverse panel of experts will explore various ways to reduce our reliance on single-use plastics, such as using reusable alternatives, implementing policies to reduce plastic production and consumption, and promoting recycling and proper waste management. The speakers will also discuss the role that individuals, businesses, and governments can play in addressing this issue.

 by Robin Frohardt is a custom-built public art installation and immersive film experience that uses humor, craft, and a critical lens to question our culture of consumption and convenience — specifically, the enduring effects of our single-use plastics. 

Shelves are stocked with thousands of original items meticulously sculpted by hand — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from discarded single-use plastics collected from streets and garbage dumps. Several times a day, the store transforms into an immersive, dynamic stage for a film in which inventive puppetry, shadow play, and intricate handmade sets tell the darkly comedic and sometimes tender story of how the overabundance of plastic waste we leave behind might be misinterpreted by future generations — and how what we value least may become our most lasting cultural legacy.   

The Plastic Bag Store is co-presented by the University Musical Society, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the U-M Graham Sustainability Institute, with support from the U-M Arts Initiative.

Title Sponsors: Rachel Bendit and Mark Bernstein
Principal Sponsors: Max Wicha and Sheila Crowley and an anonymous gift supporting programming focused on climate change and a sustainable environment
Supporting Sponsors: Destination Ann Arbor and Ilene H. Forsyth Theater Endowment FundMedia Partner: WEMU 89.1 FM

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Other Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:15:30 -0500 2023-01-30T18:30:00-05:00 2023-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
U-M History Film Series: Been Rich All My Life (January 31, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104025 104025-21808288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

The U-M History department is proud to partner with the Michigan Theater Foundation for the History Matters film series. Look for us on the marquee soon!

Tickets are FREE for faculty, staff, and students, but seating is limited. Please RSVP using the link below in order to receive a complimentary ticket. Other members of the community are welcome to purchase tickets here: https://michtheater.org/been-rich-all-my-life

On Tuesday, January 31, watch the documentary "Been Rich All My Life" (2006) at the State Theatre. The film will be presented by Professor LaKisha Simmons along with special guest Professor Robin Wilson (School of Music, Theatre, and Dance). Simmons and Wilson will lead a brief discussion after the film.

Five tap dancers who performed in 1930s Harlem at the Apollo and Cotton Club, with band leaders like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. They have rich stories to tell about the history they made during the Harlem Renaissance. With pride, sly wit and candor, they share their rich legacy. Fueled by a music score that ranges over 8 decades of evolving jazz styles and directed by Sundance-winner Heather Lyn MacDonald.

80 mins. Documentary. NR.

Faculty, students, and staff reserve your ticket here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfd3IWyjtw2vzjVXtXK-80zkSJd8Pkiy8pqEEtqOhnemmAIlA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Film Screening Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:53:25 -0500 2023-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 2023-01-31T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening Been Rich All My Life poster
Frankel Institute Film Screening (February 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102702 102702-21805008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies for a film screening with director and Frankel Fellow, Rafael Balulu.

The Frankel Institute will be Screening *Levantine - Jacqueline Kahanoff* in MLB 1420 - Lec 2 at 5:30pm on February 2. Film Description:

Jacqueline Kahanoff lived in ebullient Cairo, Paris, and New York, but died lonely in an old-age home in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was the first to write of Levantine and Mizrachi identities and was charismatic and admired, but only a few people knew her work during her lifetime. Director Rafael Balulu goes on a journey in the footsteps of “Levantine thinker” and author, through encounters with her friends in Paris, with intellectuals in the Mizrachi discourse, and with Levantine artists, he not only draws a portrait of this impressive thinker and writer, but also chronicles the trajectory of Levantine identity in Israel as a cultural option.

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/OSd53dGCi_I


*Rafael Balulu* was born in Israel to a Jewish Moroccan family. He is the director of the films A Song of Loves, R. David Buzaglo, and Levantine, Jacqueline Kahanoff. He is currently working on a monumental documentary series recounting the history of the Jews in the The Muslim world, writing a feature film about the Israeli Black Panther movement, and directing a documentary feature film about the life and politics of Rabbi Israel Abuhazira – the Baba Sali. Balulu participated at the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2008, 2011, and 2012. He also participated at the TIFF Talent Lab and Greenhouse Film Centre. Balulu has written and directed projects for television and eight shorts that won international prizes. Among them – Such Eyes which won the NYC Shorts. Batman at the Checkpoint, which won the Berlin Today Award at the 62nd Berlinale. My Name Is Solomon Hagos, which premiered at the 2013 TIFF. Close Your Eyes premiered at the Jerusalem Film Fest Rafael teaches film studies at the Technion’s department of architecture, is a board member of the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Forum, a member of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television, and a board member of The Lottery Council for Culture and the Arts where is held the position of the chairperson to the subcommittee of Film & Television. He holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School. He lives in Jaffa.

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Film Screening Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:18:37 -0500 2023-02-02T17:30:00-05:00 2023-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Judaic Studies Film Screening Rafael Balulu
Inside The Peculiar Patriot: A Preview Event (February 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102790 102790-21805155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for a film screening of Liza Jessie Peterson's *Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison*, along with LIVE performances by the PCAP *Linkage Community*, and an engaging Q&A to follow!

Thursday, February 2nd
7:00 - 8:30 pm
at the Keene Theater in the U-M Residential College
701 E University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Free and Open to the Public

A collaboration of Detroit Public Theatre & the Prison Creative Arts Project

More about the film:
MTV Documentary Films Presents *Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison* (formerly known as A Peculiar Silence) tells the story of playwright Liza Jessie Peterson, whose acclaimed play *The Peculiar Patriot* was shut down mid-performance at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola Prison.

Directed and edited by Cinque Northern, produced by Catherine Gund, featuring Liza Jessie Peterson and Norris Henderson (Peterson and Henderson are also Executive Producers), the film examines how one woman's play challenged the country's largest plantation prison and impacted the incarcerated men long after the record of her visit was erased by the institution's administration.

More about the play:
LaQuanda ‘Betsy’ Ross knows a lot about the New York State Penitentiary system. Her regular visits to loved ones in various upstate institutions have made her quite the expert and a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot." In-between neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy educates herself and the audience on the systemic inequity within America’s prison complex system and its effect on those behind bars, as well as their family and friends.

Written and performed by the incomparable Liza Jessie Peterson, The Peculiar Patriot was inspired by her comprehensive and extensive work in prisons, including on Riker’s Island. Peterson’s tour de force solo piece is an important, funny, and profound investigative look into America’s criminal justice system.

February 8 - March 5
At the Detroit Public Theatre
3960 Third Avenue
Detroit, Mi 48202

Tickets:
February 11 @ 8PM - FREE performance for System-Impacted Individuals
Student Rate - $20 per ticket
System-Impacted Individuals - Pick Your Price

To purchase, visit www.detroitpublictheatre.org or call 313.974.7918

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Performance Fri, 06 Jan 2023 12:01:57 -0500 2023-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Performance Scene of Liza Jessie Peterson from The Peculiar Patriot
Wondering Wakanda: Hannah Beachler in conversation with Scott Poulson-Bryant (February 9, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102370 102370-21803929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Hannah Beachler is an American production designer whose work includes *Black Panther*, *Black Panther: Wakanda Forever*, *Moonlight*, and Beyonce’s visual album *Lemonade*, among others. She’ll discuss her life and work with cultural historian, critic, and U-M assistant professor of Afroamerican and African studies, Scott Poulson-Bryant.

About Humanities Afrofutures
Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Humanities Afrofutures is a month-long series of events at the University of Michigan bringing together scholars, artists and activists to reexamine the past, explore critical issues in the present, and create a space for imagining possible futures.

Speakers include poet-activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler, scholars Moya Bailey, Jennifer Nash, and Samantha Pinto, regional community leaders engaging in multi-faceted activist and creative work, U-M faculty, and more.

Join us for Humanities Afrofutures in February 2023. All events are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2023 11:21:01 -0500 2023-02-09T17:30:00-05:00 2023-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Hannah Beachler
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
We’ve Been Here All Along: Finding Belonging and Purpose Through Connecting with Cultural & Community Ancestors (February 9, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103087 103087-21808806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event Description: Join us for a film screening and discussion of “My Name is Pauli Murray,” a portrait of the life and impact of a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world toward a more just and equitable future. After the screening, please join us for a discussion with Dolores Chandler (they/them) where we will explore the painful impact of institutional erasure, what can be learned from Murray’s legacy and our activist ancestors, as well as consider Murray as a model for changing the world through living authentically as our full, undivided selves.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:05:54 -0500 2023-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A square image with a blue background. With a title circled in pink that reads: We've Been Here All Along: Finding Belonging and Purpose Through Connecting with Cultural and Community Ancestors. Underneath the title there is an event description and a photo and description of our guest speaker Dolores Chandler. The flier has both an image in the top left corner of Pauli Murray, a Black androgynous presenting person and in the center towards the right there is an image of Dolores chandler, a mixed race-Black masculine presenting person. The bottom of the image is outlined with the details of the event such as location, date, time, and the RSVP link.
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *Cure* (February 9, 2023 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100238 100238-21799379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/bRW23

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s spellbinding international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of the emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac who may be evil incarnate. Awash in a mood of hushed, hypnotic dread, *Cure* is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/?ref_=tt_mv_close

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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Film Screening Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:52:08 -0500 2023-02-09T19:15:00-05:00 2023-02-09T21:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 1990s: Cure (111 min., 1997)
Korean Cinema NOW | The Roundup/범죄도시 2 (February 11, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102938 102938-21805568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 11, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Not Rated | 2022 | 1h 46m | Crime, Action | Lee Sang-yong
Free & Open to the public | In Korean with English Subtitles

“You feeling it? We have to get this guy” 4 years after the events of Garibong district round up operation, Geumcheon Police’s Major Crimes Unit is given a mission to repatriate a fugitive who fled to Vietnam. Beast cop Ma Seok-do and Capt. Jeon Il-man intuitively realize that there’s something wrong with the suspect’s willingness to turn himself in and uncover crimes committed by a terrifying killer named Kang Hae-sang. Ma and his unit begin their investigation across two countries and follow the bloody breadcrumbs left behind by Kang… No borders in catching the bad! Another exciting and tension-filled round up!

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/ziG80PNrJYI

*Audience members are solely responsible for the decision to watch any KCN screening. Please note certain films are not rated.*

Sponsored by the U-M International Institute; Asian Languages & Cultures; American Culture; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Department of Film, Television, and Media.

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:50:27 -0500 2023-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | The Roundup/범죄도시 2
“Black Mirror and Black Feminist Futures or Leticia Wright’s Wrongs?” Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture by Moya Bailey (February 15, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102175 102175-21803619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk takes a look back at the “Black Museum” episode of the popular pre-pandemic technodystopian SciFi series *Black Mirror*, to ask: is this a Black feminist text and does it make a difference if the actor in the role is not a feminist? Examining the filmography of Leticia Wright in contrast with her conservative Christian views, this talk endeavors to think through the messiness of the feminist potential of performance even in spite of oneself. Moderated by Apryl Williams, assistant professor of communication and media and the Digital Studies Institute.

About Moya Bailey
Moya Bailey is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University and is the founder of the Digital Apothecary and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network and the Board President of Allied Media Projects, a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of *#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice* (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021).

About Humanities Afrofutures
Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Humanities Afrofutures is a month-long series of events at the University of Michigan bringing together scholars, artists and activists to reexamine the past, explore critical issues in the present, and create a space for imagining possible futures.

Speakers include poet-activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler, scholars Moya Bailey, Jennifer Nash, and Samantha Pinto, regional community leaders engaging in multi-faceted activist and creative work, U-M faculty, and more.

Join us for Humanities Afrofutures in February 2023. All events are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Feb 2023 11:21:29 -0500 2023-02-15T17:30:00-05:00 2023-02-15T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Moya Bailey
Film Screening of *Neptune Frost* (February 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102180 102180-21803653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist punk musical that debuted at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to critical acclaim. The story takes place in Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective and attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime. When an intersex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry. Set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonized and free, male and female – *Neptune Frost *is a call to reclaim technology for progressive political ends.

Admission is free but tickets are required. Reserve your ticket at https://myumi.ch/zwwjn.

About Humanities Afrofutures
Presented by the Institute for the Humanities, Humanities Afrofutures is a month-long series of events at the University of Michigan bringing together scholars, artists and activists to reexamine the past, explore critical issues in the present, and create a space for imagining possible futures.

Speakers include poet-activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs, *Black Panther* production designer Hannah Beachler, scholars Moya Bailey, Jennifer Nash, and Samantha Pinto, regional community leaders engaging in multi-faceted activist and creative work, U-M faculty, and more.

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Film Screening Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:58:01 -0500 2023-02-16T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Film Screening Neptune Frost
ASC Film Screening & Discussion. *13th* (2016, Documentary, 1h 40m) (February 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104658 104658-21809785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: African Studies Center

*13th* is a thought-provoking documentary that explores the history of racial inequality in the United States with a focus on how the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.

A discussion with panelists will follow the film screening:

Matthew Countryman, chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; and professor, Afroamerican and African Studies, American Culture, and history

Irene Routté, doctoral student in social work and anthropology

Omolade Adunbi, director, African Studies Center; and professor, Afroamerican and African Studies

The event is free but space is limited. Please register at
http://www.myumi.ch/y29R2

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Film Screening Wed, 08 Feb 2023 10:49:30 -0500 2023-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences African Studies Center Film Screening 13th documentary film screening and discussion
Korean Cinema NOW | In our Prime/이상한 나라의 수학자 (February 18, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102940 102940-21805569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 18, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Not Rated | 2022 | 1h 57m | Drama | Park Dong-hoon
Free & Open to the public | In Korean with English Subtitles

Ji-woo, an outcast at a prestigious private school, meets Hak-sung, the school janitor who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea.

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/EBJF_TZGWMY

*Audience members are solely responsible for the decision to watch any KCN screening. Please note certain films are not rated.*

Sponsored by the U-M International Institute; Asian Languages & Cultures; American Culture; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Department of Film, Television, and Media.

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Film Screening Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:54:10 -0500 2023-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | In our Prime/이상한 나라의 수학자
Screening of Into the Weeds: Dewayne Johnson vs. Monsanto Company (February 20, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104950 104950-21810498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

Re:wild Your Campus and U-M Program in the Environment are putting on a screening of "Into the Weeds," a documentary about the just-ended environmental activism case against Monsanto Company.

Here's an introduction:
Dewayne Johnson, suffered from rashes and wondered if they were caused by the herbicide he'd been using for the past couple years. Johnson became the face of a legal battle to hold a corporation accountable for a product.

Please RSVP using this link to ensure enough popcorn and snacks!
https://forms.gle/qRrNsijkMsCSNmPB7

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Film Screening Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:10:36 -0500 2023-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Program in the Environment (PitE) Film Screening Screening of Documentary Into the Weeds
Brooklyn, InshaAllah (February 20, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104486 104486-21809138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please join us for a screening of "Brooklyn, InshaAllah", followed by a conversation with Linda Sarsour and Director, Ahmed Mansour. Leading the Q&A section, filmmaker and UofM alumni, Razi Jafri.

Learn more about the film here: https://www.brooklyninshallah.com/

Register to attend here: https://forms.gle/tGiDX7Q8dhnXw3Ky6
(Registration will be limited to UMich faculty, students, and staff until February 10th and then open to our broader community).

This event is co-sponsored by SAFE, the Muslim Coalition, the Arab Students Association, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and Middle East Studies Department.

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Film Screening Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:46:19 -0500 2023-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2023-02-20T21:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Film Screening Event Poster
SDG Action & Awareness Week Kickoff Event (March 1, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105595 105595-21812256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 2:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Monday, March 6, 12:00 - 1:00 PM | UMSI Engagement Center

SDG Action & Awareness Week Kickoff [Register - Lunch Provided]

On Monday, the U-M School of Information's Engaged Learning Office will host a launch of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Action and Awareness week. During this event, we will show several short films on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (and some ways that information and communication technologies (ICTs) might help address the goals) and hold a conversation about how those in the UM community can participate in actions to help address the SDGs both locally and globally. Lunch is provided for registered attendees.

Register to attend at https://airtable.com/shrzC2HBwmDi2ijmP

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Film Screening Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:08:20 -0500 2023-03-01T14:00:00-05:00 2023-03-01T15:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Film Screening United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Winter DEI Film Discussion Series | "Denial" (March 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103321 103321-21807025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

This riveting 2016 drama is based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book, "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier." An award-winning theatrical release starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, and Tom Wilkinson, it's an account of the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Holocaust scholar Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel in London's High Court of Justice in 1996. Available to stream FREE Kanopy for everyone in the U-M community. This discussion is open to all, but please register to receive the Zoom link prior to the session.

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Other Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:50:01 -0500 2023-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Other "Denial" original theatrical film poster featuring actors (left to right) Timothy Spall, Rachel Weisz, and Tom Wilkinson.
Winter DEI Film Discussion Series | "Denial" (March 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105469 105469-21811912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion

This riveting 2016 drama is based on Deborah Lipstadt's 2005 book, "History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier." An award-winning theatrical release starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, and Tom Wilkinson, "Denial" is the account of the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Holocaust scholar Lipstadt was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving for libel in London's High Court of Justice in 1996. Available to stream FREE Kanopy for everyone in the U-M community. This discussion is open to all, but please register to receive the Zoom link prior to the session.

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Other Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:49:35 -0500 2023-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location MSA Diversity Equity & Inclusion Other Theatrical poster for film "Denial," with actors (left to right) Timothy Spall, Rachel Weisz, and Tom Wilkinson.
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 9, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-09T15:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim 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
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *Tony Takitani* (March 9, 2023 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100239 100239-21799380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://michtheater.org/

Jun Ichikawa’s brilliant adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story. The film centers on Tony Takitani, the neglected only son of a jazz musician. His talent in drawing leads to a successful career in advertising, a life he is ambivalent about. After an encounter with client Eiko, played by Miyazawa Rie, he comes alive. They marry and live a rich life together—until they don’t. With music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ichikawa captures a spiritual isolation felt at the turn of the century in his stunning yet subtle cinematic technique.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420260/?ref_=tt_mv_close

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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Film Screening Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:08:52 -0400 2023-03-09T19:15:00-05:00 2023-03-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 2000s: Tony Takitani (75 min., 2004)
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 10, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-10T00:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 11, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-11T00:00:00-05:00 2023-03-11T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
Korean Cinema NOW | Hansan: Rising Dragon/한산: 용의 출현 (March 11, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104909 104909-21810433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Not Rated | 2022 | 2h 10m | Historical Drama, War | Kim Han-min
Free & Open to the public | In Korean with English Subtitles

A prequel to THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS--the most-watched film in Korean cinema history--HANSAN: RISING DRAGON depicts the historical Battle of Hansando. In 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his fleet face off against the might of the invading Japanese navy and its formidable warships. As the Korean forces fall into crisis, the admiral resorts to using his secret weapon, the dragon head ships known as geobukseon, in order to change the tide of this epic battle at sea.

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/OD1ocTY75ts

TERMS FOR THE 1:00PM SCREENING:
-ALL TICKETS NOT SCANNED AT THE THEATER BY 1:00PM ARE INVALID
-Audience members must be present in-line at the theater to scan their pre-registered tickets by 1:00pm on the screening date. All tickets not scanned by 1:00pm will be released by the theater and thus open to another patron.
-All confirmed films are free and open to the public as long as seating is available.
-Seating is not guaranteed without a registered free ticket scanned by 1:00pm.
-After 1:00pm if open seats are available, audience members without a valid scanned ticket may select a seat in the theater on a first come first served basis.
-Some films are not rated and audience members are solely responsible for the decision to watch any KCN screening.

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE: michtheater.org/korean-cinema-now

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:17:44 -0500 2023-03-11T13:00:00-05:00 2023-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Hansan: Rising Dragon/한산: 용의 출현
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 12, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-12T00:00:00-05:00 2023-03-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
"Maasai Remix" Screening and Discussion (March 12, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105545 105545-21812092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 12, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Department of Anthropology proudly present:

MAASAI REMIX
Sunday, March 12, 2023; 7 p.m.

Free admission; doors open at 6 p.m.

Following the screening, hear from the filmmakers, Kelly Askew (Chair, U-M Anthropology) and Ron Mulvihill. They will be joined by Queenae Taylor Mulvihill and two of the Maasai personalities featured in the film: Evalyne Mkulati Leng’arwa and Eliah Parpulis Madukuli.


ABOUT THE FILM:
"Maasai Remix" follows three Maasai individuals who—in the United Nations, a Tanzanian village, an American university—confront challenges and bring hope to their community by drawing strength from local traditions, modifying them when necessary, and melding them with new resources. Adam Ole Mwarabu advocates for Maasai pastoralists rights to land in international political spheres. Evalyne Mkulati pursues a college education in the USA, having convinced her father to return 12 cows to a man contracted to marry her. Frank Ole Kaipai, the village chairman, faces opposition as he promotes secondary school education and tries to save the village forest. Sharing a goal of Maasai self-determination in an ever-changing world, Adam, Evalyne and Frank innovate while maintaining an abiding respect and love for their culture.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORS:
The award-winning team of filmmaker Ron Mulvihill and anthropologist Kelly Askew has produced several films on Tanzania, exploring topics from Zanzibar orchestral music to contemporary Maasai lifeways: "Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar’s Nadi Ikhwan Safaa" (Buda Musique, 2012); and "Orkiteng Loorbaak: Rite of Elders" (2017).

Ron Mulvihill’s feature film "Maangamizi: The Ancient One" won the 2004 Paul Robeson Award for Best Feature Film and was Tanzania’s official selection at the 74th Academy Awards. His film "The Marriage of Mariamu" won Best Short Film, the OAU Award, and the Journalists and Critics Award at FESPACO, Africa’s leading film festival (1985).

Kelly Askew, an anthropologist with over 30 years of experience in Tanzania and Kenya and chair of the U-M Department of Anthropology, has worked on several documentary films, including "The Chairman and the Lions" (Documentary Educational Resources, 2012), and a Hollywood feature, "The Ghost and the Darkness" (Paramount Pictures, 1996).

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:29:36 -0500 2023-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2023-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Anthropology Film Screening Poster for Maasai Remix showing two people in silhouette against a red and yellow stylized landscape
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 13, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-13T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
A Storm Was Coming (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105367 105367-21811615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This is a two-part event:

A Storm was Coming:
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Monday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
at Palmer Commons Forum Hall

Workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MLB Commons, 4th Floor

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Film Screening Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:39:14 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening A Storm Was Coming Poster
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 14, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-14T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
A Storm Was Coming (March 14, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105367 105367-21811616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This is a two-part event:

A Storm was Coming:
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Monday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
at Palmer Commons Forum Hall

Workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MLB Commons, 4th Floor

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Film Screening Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:39:14 -0500 2023-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening A Storm Was Coming Poster
Film Viewing: Eternal Harvest (March 14, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105931 105931-21813283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Global Scholars Program

Join the the non-profit We Help War Victims in
sponsorship with the Global Scholars Program in
learning about how people in Laos continue to be
affected by the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

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Film Screening Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:32:42 -0500 2023-03-14T18:30:00-04:00 2023-03-14T21:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Global Scholars Program Film Screening Orange flyer with images of film reels and admission ticket and details of event: March 14 from 6:30pm - 9pm Palmer Commons
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-15T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Sudanese Film, *You Will Die At Twenty* (2019) (March 16, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104484 104484-21809446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16:* You Will Die at Twenty *- Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 9-16 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff.

*You Will Die at Twenty*
2019 | 103 minutes | Arabic | Sudan
Directed by: Amjad Abu Alala
Based on a short story by Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada: A Sufi mystic of a Sudanese village in Gezira State near the river Nile predicts that Muzamil, a newborn boy, will die when he reaches the age of twenty. During his first years of adolescence, Muzamil grows up like other children, but sometimes feels uneasy about his future. When Muzammil turns 19, he begins grappling with a holy man's prediction that he will die when he turns twenty.

Film Facts & Background:
Since few films had been produced in Sudan since independence in 1956, You Will Die at Twenty was only the country's eighth feature film. Filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala, who was born in Dubai to Sudanese parents, shot the film in northern Sudan during the upheavals of the Sudanese revolution and despite challenges in a country without a film industry and under the Islamist government of the time.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.

Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:52:14 -0500 2023-03-16T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
TikTok, Boom - Conversation with Director, Shalini Kantayya and U-M Panel (March 16, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104991 104991-21810544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join the Dissonance Event Series and participate in a discussion with the director of TikTok Boom, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Shalini Kantayya, along with a panel of U-M faculty and students. TikTok, Boom examines the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural influences and impacts of TikTok and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

The film will be available to view on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/tiktok-boom/

TikTok, Boom Events Page: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/TikTokBoom

Register to attend the March 16 virtual discussion: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a7DS9uIcQdKpkVCdqDJNRQ

Add the event to your Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/NHFwNGRjODBuam5qOXNrNGZhdm84OGwyazkgdW1pY2guZWR1X2ZkczI0Z2V2cGE0MnY5NTc2bG5wZTJjbWxrQGc

ABOUT THE FILM
Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TikTok Boom examines the algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural influences and impact of the history-making app. This rigorous exploration balances a genuine interest in the TikTok community and its innovative mechanics with a healthy skepticism around the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the platform. A cast of Gen Z subjects, helmed by influencer Feroza Aziz, remains at its center, making this one of the most needed and empathetic films exploring what it means to be a digital native.

DIRECTOR & PRODUCER: SHALINI KANTAYYA
Emmy-nominated filmmaker Shalini Kantayya directs fiction and nonfiction films that artfully marry the future of science with the future of story. Her latest film, TikTok, Boom, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and was official selection at SXSW. Her critically-acclaimed 2020 Sundance film, Coded Bias, was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Independent Lens and globally on Netflix in April 2021. The film has been nominated for a Critics’ Choice, and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. The film won Best Director at the Social Impact Media Awards, and the Visionary Filmmaker Award at GlobeDocs. Shalini’s debut feature, Catching the Sun, released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo DiCaprio and was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick.

Shalini directed for National Geographic television series Breakthrough ), Executive Produced by Ron Howard, and episodes for NOVA and YouTube Originals. She is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and Concordia Studios Artist Fellow. She is an Associate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

LINKS & RESOURCES
- Shalini Kantayya website: https://www.shalinikantayya.net/about
- National Geographic television series Breakthrough: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/
- TED Fellow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVzNNZ6w-ls)
- Coded Bias - Dissonance Panel Discussion - April 15, 2021: https://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/dissonance/coded-bias-panel-discussion
- Women Make Movies: https://www.wmm.com

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Mar 2023 13:54:26 -0500 2023-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion TikTok, Boom logo on black background with Sundance festival 2022 selection logo
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 16, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-16T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 17, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-17T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
ASC Film Screening & Discussion. *Mama Africa—The story of Zenzile Miriam Makeba* (Women's History Month) (March 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106138 106138-21813837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: African Studies Center

Film screening followed by a panel discussion about the life of Zenzile Miriam Makeba, a South African singer and crusader against apartheid, with a look at her life, career, and activism through the lens of archival footage.

*Mama Africa—The story of Zenzile Miriam Makeba*
A film by Mika Kaurismäki, Documentary, South Africa (2011)

SYNOPSIS

MAMA AFRICA: MIRIAM MAKEBA serves as a powerful introduction to a new generation of Americans to Miriam Makeba, South African singer and anti-apartheid activist, the voice and the hope of Africa.

Miriam Makeba was the first African musician to become a true international star. Her music - which influenced artists across the globe - always remained anchored in her traditional South African roots and conveyed strong messages against racism and poverty.

Miriam Makeba was forced into a life in exile, after staring in the 1959 documentary film “COME BACK AFRICA” which exposed the harsh realities of apartheid. She sang for John F. Kennedy and Marlon Brando, performed with Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone and Dizzie Gillespie, was married to Hugh Masekela and also the radical Black Panther, Stokely Carmichael. Her life was tumultuous but always fascinating. She stood for truth and justice, fought for the oppressed and campaigned tirelessly against apartheid.

She died collapsing after leaving the stage at a concert in the Southern Italian town of Castel Volturno in November 2008. Makeba was 76 years old.

This documentary, directed by Mika Kaurismäki, traces her life and music through more than fifty years of performing. Using rare archive footage of her performances, interviews and intimate scenes filmed over the years, this powerful documentary expertly exposes the biography of a unique person, a world icon. Friends and colleagues, some who knew her since she started performing in the dance halls of South Africa (remember “Pata Pata”), together with her grandchildren Zenzi Monique Lee and Nelson Lumumba Lee, allow us to learn about the remarkable journey of Miriam Makeba, “Mama Africa”.

https://www.miriam-makeba-movie.com/synopsis

The event is free, please register at http://forms.gle/uwi58aAtKQjn4e246

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:07:00 -0400 2023-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Munger Graduate Residences African Studies Center Film Screening ASC Film Screening & Discussion. *Mama Africa—The story of Zenzile Miriam Makeba* (Women's History Month)
Being "Americanish" (March 17, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105812 105812-21812994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: LSA Student Government

Join LSA Student Government and other sponsors in a free film screening, Americanish (2021), directed and co-written by Iman Zawahry, on Friday, March 17th, from 6:00-8:30 in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League. Viewers are invited into the home and lives of three marriage-aged women as they navigate the often turbulent waters of romance, culture, career, and family. Americanish delves into the complexity of trying to both honor and break from cultural traditions while balancing personal values and career goals in a society that does not always accommodate both. The film highlights different layers of womanhood intersecting with cultural and societal expectations. Following the film's screening, a panel of the director Iman Zawahry and lead actress and co-writer Aizzah Fatima will take place and have a Q&A portion. Snacks and refreshments will be provided! This event is a MESA AA&PI Heritage Month event.

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Film Screening Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:43:43 -0500 2023-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League LSA Student Government Film Screening Join us for a free screening of the film Americanish (2021) and a panel of director/co-writer Iman Zawahry and lead actress/co-writer Aizzah Fatimah! March 17th, 2023 6:00-8:30 pm Hussey Room in the Michigan League (2nd floor)
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 18, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 18, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-18T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 19, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 20, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-20T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 21, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-21T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close (March 21, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105130 105130-21811114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

With the “Hear, Here” series, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.

About this talk:
The first Indian film was made in 1913. However, filmmaking was recognized as an industry almost a hundred years later. Yet, Indian films have been circulating globally since their inception. In this talk, Dr. Rai unearths this oft-elided history of Bollywood’s globalization illustrating how India’s prominent stars directed the globalization of the world’s largest entertainment industry.

About Swapnil Rai:
Swapnil Rai is a 2022-23 Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and assistant professor of film, television, and media.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:59:00 -0500 2023-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 2023-03-21T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion networked bollywood
"Picture a Scientist" Documentary Screening (March 21, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106130 106130-21813789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

“Picture a Scientist” chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries -Sharon Shattuck including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.

Join us for a post screening Q&A with filmmaker and University of Michigan Program in the Environment alumna, Sharon Shattuck (BS ‘05).

Sharon Shattuck is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and podcast host. “Picture a Scientist” was an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, broadcast in 2021 on NOVA (PBS), was nominated for a 2022 News & Documentary Emmy, and is available on Netflix worldwide. “From This Day Forward” was a New York Times Critic's Pick and broadcast on POV (PBS) and Netflix in 2016. She was the series story producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix Original Documentary series “Follow This,” the co-creator of the Emmy-nominated New York Times Op Docs series “Animated LiPitE 20th Anniversaryfe,” and the cohost of the true crime podcast “Conviction: American Panic” from Spotify. Sharon was one of DOC NYC and HBO Documentaries’ ‘40 Under 40’ filmmakers for 2021. She is a University of Michigan (PitE) alumna and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

This event is part of the yearlong celebration of the Program in the Environment’s (PitE) 20th anniversary.

Questions: Email seas-communications@umich.edu

Free and open to the public.

RSVP to reserve your seat here: https://forms.gle/4yEkh2cF6vv8Qzqi8

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:10:00 -0400 2023-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Program in the Environment (PitE) Film Screening "Picture a Scientist" Documentary Screening
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 22, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-22T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CREES-sponsored film at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Burial" (March 22, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105671 105671-21812665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

61 min., 2022, Lithuania/Italy/France/U.S.

A python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of Chernobyl’s sister, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, its radioactive core an unleashed monster that will slither through time for a million years. From Etruscan ruins and sunken cities to the most modern of underground repositories, director Emilija Škarnulyte follows our attempts to bury the immortal. Addressing the epochal effects of nuclear technology on all levels, Burial follows the cycle of power, an eternal return, another serpent eating its tail.

Use our code AAFF61_UMREEEA for a discount on your tickets!

The film will also be available March 21-29 for online viewing. Visit the Ann Arbor Film Festival website for the full schedule and information about special events: www.aafilmfest.org

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Film Screening Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:23:53 -0500 2023-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Film Screening CREES-sponsored film at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Burial"
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Chadian Film, *Abouna* (2002) (March 23, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104493 104493-21809455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 16-23 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Abouna*
2002 | 84 minutes | Arabic | Chad
Directed by: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Brothers Armine (Hamza Moctar Aguid) and Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) are devastated when their father deserts them. Together, they search for him all over their small town in Chad -- and believe they find him onscreen in one of the movies at the local cinema! After they get caught stealing the film, the boys' exasperated mother, Achta (Zara Haroun), packs them off to a strict boarding school. While the pair plan their escape, Tahir catches the eye of a mute girl (Mounira Khalil).
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:00 -0500 2023-03-23T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
Movie Night: "Big Astronomy" w/ Dr. Shannon Schmoll (March 23, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105145 105145-21811179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

The Detroit Observatory is excited to present Big Astronomy, featuring MSU Abrams Planetarium Director, Dr. Shannon Schmoll, as part of our monthly Movie Night series. Each Movie Night showcases a documentary or feature film, followed by a conversation with experts on the subject matter or production. Film screening begins at 7PM, followed by a conversation with Dr. Shannon Schmoll.

Big Astronomy or Astronomia a Gran Escala shares the story of the people and places who make big astronomy and big science happen. The show takes visitors to the extreme sites where astronomy happens in the most extreme environments and with some of the most interesting people. Produced by the California Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Shannon Schmoll is the Director of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University where she runs programs for Pre-College students. She has a joint degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Education at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation research was on how to integrate planetarium field trips into formal K-12 education using the digital planetarium at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. She began work on astronomy in Chile as part of the 2015 Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program. She serves as chair of the International Planetarium Society’s education committee and sits on the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee where she continues to explore new ways of teaching the public the wonders of the universe and making it accessible for everyone.

Night sky observing with the Detroit Observatory's historic will take place after the program, weather permitting.

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Film Screening Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:27:25 -0500 2023-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T21:00:00-04:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Film Screening Image of film poster with the background of the sky at sunset.
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *Tale of Princess Kaguya* (March 23, 2023 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100242 100242-21799382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://michtheater.org/

*The Tale of The Princess Kaguya* is one of Studio Ghibli’s finest films, the strikingly beautiful culmination of decades of contemplation by director Isao Takahata. An adaption of a story from the late 9th or early 10th century, it tells the tale of a tiny girl found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife. The girl grows into an exquisite young lady. From the countryside to the grand capital city, she enthralls all who encounter her, including five noble suitors. *The Tale of The Princess Kaguya* is the culmination of Takahata’s career.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2576852/mediaviewer/rm601603329/?ref_=tt_ov_i

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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Film Screening Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:25:29 -0400 2023-03-23T19:15:00-04:00 2023-03-23T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 2010s: Tale of Princess Kaguya (137 min., 2013)
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 24, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-24T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CREES-sponsored film at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Dor" (Longing) (March 24, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105670 105670-21812664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

53 min., 2021, Bistrita, Romania

A cinematic and existential encounter between Belgian-Romanian Stefan Gota and a group of young shepherds. Gota returns to his native Romania to make a fresh start as a shepherd. Jannes Callens’s film moves at the same pace as a pasture crossing, between expedition, pause, and contemplation. Striking images of this profession merge with existential considerations. How can you guide a flock when you’re a little lost yourself?

Use our code AAFF61_UMREEEA for a discount on your tickets! The film will also be available March 21-29 for online viewing.

Visit the Ann Arbor Film Festival website for the full schedule and information about special events: www.aafilmfest.org

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Film Screening Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:04:10 -0500 2023-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Film Screening CREES-sponsored film at the 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival. "Dor" (Longing)
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 25, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-25T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
"The Story of Plastic" Film Screening with ECO-UM (March 25, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106463 106463-21814313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 25, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Join the Environmental Consulting Organization at the University of Michigan (ECO-UM) for this unique experience. The Story of Plastic is a searing exposé revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling. Different from every other plastic documentary you’ve seen, The Story of Plastic presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. From the extraction of fossil fuels and plastic disposal to the global resistance fighting back, The Story of Plastic is a life-changing, Emmy-winning film depicting one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues.

This event is part of ZeroWaste.org's University of Michigan Zero Waste Challenge. You can join the challenge here: zerowaste.org/umich.

This screening is presented by the Environmental Consulting Organization at the University of Michigan (ECO-UM), LiveZeroWaste, and the Unviersity of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Film Screening Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:15:29 -0400 2023-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-25T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 26, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-26T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 27, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-27T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 28, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 29, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-29T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CREES Noon Lecture. Media for the "Modern Child": Studying Children and Cinema during the Cold War (March 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102691 102691-21804987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk considers an enduring question in media theory and practice: how have adult imaginings of childhood perception shaped moving image aesthetics, thought, and culture? It does so through the intertwined histories of a series of institutions founded after World War II to study children’s relationship to the moving image and to make films for young audiences: Yugoslavia’s “Film and Child” commission, the East German National Center for Children’s Film and Television, France’s Institute of Filmology, and Iran’s Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (Kanoon). Via research by sociologist Edgar Morin and “film pedagogue” Miroslav Vrabec, and films by directors Dušan Vukotić and Abbas Kiarostami, the talk illuminates the links between social-scientific investigations of the “modern child” and formal techniques frequently associated with the avant-garde.

Alice Lovejoy is a media and cultural historian and comparatist whose research examines governmental and institutional media in transnational perspective. Her first book, *Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military* (Indiana University Press, 2015), was named co-winner of the Modern Language Association’s 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures. With Mari Pajala, she co-edited *Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations* (Indiana University Press, 2022), and she has published widely on East European, particularly Czech and Slovak, film and literature. Lovejoy has worked as a film critic, curator, and filmmaker, including as an editor at *Film Comment* magazine. Her research has been supported by, among others, an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) postdoctoral fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship, two Fulbright fellowships, and the University of Minnesota's McKnight-Land Grant Professorship and Talle Faculty Research Award.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/e6RAV

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, 22 Feb 2023 16:32:16 -0500 2023-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Alice Lovejoy
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: Egyptian Film, *Mawlana* (2016) (March 30, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104494 104494-21809463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 23-30 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Mawlana*
2016 | 130 minutes | Arabic | Egypt
Directed by: Magdi Ahmed Ali
Mawlana tells the story of the well-known preacher Hatem Al Shenawy who hosts a series of moral, ethical, and religious debates through his popular TV show. After gaining popularity as a TV Celebrity, Hatem finds himself in a web of political discord that tests his credibility and convictions. Hatem deals with the pressure of concealing what he really thinks about religious issues, especially under the restrictions imposed by state security.

Film Background & Facts:
Adapted from a novel by prominent journalist Ibrahim Eissa, *Mawlana* (“The Preacher”) tells the story of a popular television preacher who struggles to reconcile his religious principles with demands and pressures from politicians and security agencies, as well as ordinary human temptations. Because of its portrayal of the complex relationship between clerics and the government, this film has provoked a lot of backlash from Sunni Muslim leaders, with some calling for the film to be banned.
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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:53:32 -0500 2023-03-30T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T14:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (March 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-03-30T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (March 31, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-03-31T00:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
LSA@Play: Movie Night: Legally Blonde (March 31, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105414 105414-21811734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 7:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

7:30–8:00 p.m. | Pre-Show Mingle
8:00–10:00 p.m. | Movie Showing

Get comfy and join us for a movie, snacks, and swag!*

Limited spots. Registration required.

Register Now: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/8987

LSA@Play is a series of events to welcome and support LSA students. Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize self-care, inclusivity, and community. Plus, get free food, LSA swag, and meet Dean Curzan!

Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details, sign-up to receive text/email updates, and check for additional events being added soon!

If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, please email lsaatplay@umich.edu. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to remove those barriers.

* While supplies last. Please complete the ResponsiBLUE health questionnaire prior to arriving at all in-person events.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:33:56 -0500 2023-03-31T19:30:00-04:00 2023-03-31T22:00:00-04:00 LSA Building The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Social / Informal Gathering Event graphic
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (April 1, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-04-01T00:00:00-04:00 2023-04-01T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (April 2, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-04-02T00:00:00-04:00 2023-04-02T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (April 3, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-04-03T00:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (April 4, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-04-04T00:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
U-M History Film Series: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) (April 4, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105385 105385-21811639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

The U-M History department is proud to partner with the Michigan Theater Foundation for the History Matters film series. Look for us on the marquee soon!

Tickets are FREE for faculty, staff, and students, but seating is limited. Please RSVP using the link below in order to receive a complimentary ticket. Other members of the community are welcome to purchase tickets here: https://michtheater.org/all-quiet-on-the-western-front

On Tuesday, April 4, watch "All Quiet on the Western Front" (2022) at the State Theatre. The film will be introduced by Professors Kira Thurman and Dario Gaggio who will also lead a brief discussion after.

When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. Award-winning Daniel Bruhl ("Inglourious Basterds") stars in this tense drama by Grimme Award winner Edward Berger.

148 mins. Drama. R.

Faculty, students, and staff reserve your ticket here: https://forms.gle/FVdA55khmMx12EwW9

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Film Screening Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:43:29 -0500 2023-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Film Screening All Quiet on the Western Front poster
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (April 5, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



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This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-04-05T00:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered (April 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106543 106543-21814444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

On May 5th, 1991, people took to the streets of Washington D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to protest the police shooting of Daniel Gomez, a young man from El Salvador. Through testimony, song, poetry, and street theatre, La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered weaves together the collective memory of one of D.C.’s first barrios, and dives into the roots of the ‘91 rebellion. As people across the world take to the streets to demand an end to police brutality, the film honors the largely untold stories that have come before us, and explores how artists prompt us to remember what we still have to fight for.

RSVP for the reception after the screening: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQ1doM4tGR_dF66vyX9iSw4PR9VTGCzIl3BYP5zSGvUKbG_w/viewform

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Film Screening Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:22:26 -0400 2023-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Latina/o Studies Film Screening Event Poster
The Kingmaker (April 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106995 106995-21815090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Film screening and discussion of the compelling documentary film *The Kingmaker*

Discussion in Filipino with Ambeth Ocampo: CSEAS Visiting Professor, University of Michigan; and H.V. deal Costa Professor of History and the Humanities, Anteneo de Manila University

Moderated by Irene Gonzaga, Filipino Lecturer, Asian Languages and Cultures/CSEAS, University of Michigan

Join us April 5th, 2023 5:30-8:30pm, Room 0420 in the CCC Building, 1225 Geddes Ave. Ann Arbor

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Film Screening Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:59:29 -0400 2023-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-05T20:30:00-04:00 Central Campus Classroom Building Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening Poster
The African Muslim Film Festival. Stream: South African Film, *Barakat* (2020) (April 6, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104495 104495-21809471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to the first-ever African Muslim Film Festival (AMFF) 2023!

The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online, with a variety of films from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, and South Africa.

This year’s festival will offer four films in total, each available as one film a week during the month of March.

March 9-16: *You Will Die at Twenty* - Sudan | 2019 | Drama/Narrative | Directed by Amjad Abu Alala

March 16-23: *Abouna* - Chad | 2002 | Drama | Directed by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

March 23-30: *Mawlana* - Egypt | 2016 | Drama/Mystery | Directed by Magdi Ahmed Ali

March 30- April 6: *Barakat* - South Africa | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Amy Jephta

The festival opens on Thursday, March 9th at 3 pm ET and closes on Thursday, April 6th at 3 pm ET.

Each film will open and close every Thursday of March at 3 pm ET.

All screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America. Check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.

Pre-order your films, watch trailers, and learn more here: http://watch.eventive.org/amff

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE:
Available to stream on demand from March 30-April 6 at http://watch.eventive.org/amff

*Barakat*
2020 | 105 minutes | Afrikaans | South Africa
Directed by: Amy Jephta

When matriarch Aisha Davids decides to accept a marriage proposal, she devises a plan to break the news to her four sons over Eid. The only problem is that the two eldest sons have been at odds since their father passed away and refuse to be in the same room at the same time.

Her big reveal is spoiled when the boys hear via the grapevine about their mother’s pending marriage and come together to voice their disapproval. Now it’s up to Aisha, her fiancé, and her daughters-in-law to bring the sons around to her way of thinking using the one thing they can all agree on–the *barakat*. *Barakat*, an Arabic word meaning blessings, is a story about celebrating life, culture, and the importance of family.

Film Background & Facts:
*Barakat* is a 2020 South African family drama film directed by Amy Jephta and produced by Ephraim Gordon. It is the first Afrikaans-language Muslim feature film produced in South Africa. *Barakat*, an Urdu word meaning “Blessings,” was told with gentle humanity stemming from filmmakers with lived experience. This is a rare and insightful glimpse into the heart of the Muslim, Malay, mixed-race community of Cape Town, seen through the prism of one family’s travails as they grapple with the ups and downs of life, love, and familial relationships in a way that is recognizable and relatable.



__________________
This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Center for Middle East and North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the Sawyer Seminar on the Africana Muslim and Genealogies of White Supremacy.


Visit http://watch.eventive.org/amff for more details.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter (https://myumi.ch/nbW83)! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:
Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:54:04 -0500 2023-04-06T00:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening African Muslim Film Festival
CANCELED: DSI Lecture Series | The “Great White Way”: Photography and America’s White Imaginary (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102956 102956-21805614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

In the twenty-first century, large-scale media spectacles are ubiquitous in metropolises around the world. These polychromatic spectacles offer a diversity of colors and scintillating delights, though they fail to acknowledge––by their very design––how they also perpetuate historically entrenched legacies of chromophobia. This talk responds to this odd contradiction by leaping backwards in time, to analyze the tensions and power struggles in the history of illuminated light in the American city in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. The polemic between old world (European) whiteness and the explosive colors that mark America's twentieth-century “white imaginary” are charted through an archaeological critique of early advertising, photography, and the development of electric palettes for large-scale illuminated signs. By zeroing in on the “White City” at Chicago’s 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, and New York City’s “Great White Way” in the 1910s-1930s, I argue that a new training ground was forged for the American subject, engendering a unique brand of spectatorship rooted in visual possession by way of spectacle-based consumption.

Carolyn L. Kane is the author of "High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure" (University of California Press, 2019) and "Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics After Code" (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Her current monograph, "Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America’s White Imaginary" is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2023. More information can be found here: https://www.torontomu.ca/kane/

Lida Zeitlin-Wu is a DISCO Network Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan. She is a scholar of screen-based media and visual culture whose research focuses on the commodification and quantification of sensory experience under global techno-capitalism. Her current book project, "Seeing By Numbers" traces how color systems—diagrams and models that attempt to encompass the full range of human color vision—came to play a key role in engineering perception over the course of the 20th century.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. Please register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/3Cvlmyq

Please register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/qG1VX

CART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Mar 2023 14:04:58 -0400 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion Flyer advertising the Great White Way with photo examples of architecture
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
*Diamonds by the Decade*: The Best of CJS 75th Anniversary Film Series | *Drive My Car* (April 6, 2023 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100244 100244-21799384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/7eNGz

Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku, a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of *Uncle Vanya* at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. As the production’s premiere approaches, tensions mount amongst the cast and crew, not least between Yusuke and Koji Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke’s late wife. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins—with the help of his driver—to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind. Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning *Drive My Car* is a haunting road movie traveling a path of love, loss, acceptance, and peace.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14039582/?ref_=tt_mv_close

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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Film Screening Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:31:12 -0400 2023-04-06T19:15:00-04:00 2023-04-06T22:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening 2020s: Drive My Car (179 min., 2021)
Korean Cinema NOW | Decision to Leave/헤어질 결심 (April 8, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104910 104910-21810434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 8, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Not Rated | 2022 | 2h 18m | Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Romance | Park Chan-wook
Free & Open to the public | In Korean with English Subtitles

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man's wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/Bmoy73lhs-s

TERMS FOR THE 1:00PM SCREENING:
-ALL TICKETS NOT SCANNED AT THE THEATER BY 1:00PM ARE INVALID
-Audience members must be present in-line at the theater to scan their pre-registered tickets by 1:00pm on the screening date. All tickets not scanned by 1:00pm will be released by the theater and thus open to another patron.
-All confirmed films are free and open to the public as long as seating is available.
-Seating is not guaranteed without a registered free ticket scanned by 1:00pm.
-After 1:00pm if open seats are available, audience members without a valid scanned ticket may select a seat in the theater on a first come first served basis.
-Some films are not rated and audience members are solely responsible for the decision to watch any KCN screening.

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:24:38 -0500 2023-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | Decision to Leave/헤어질 결심
Italian Film Festival USA - Metro Detroit (April 8, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107031 107031-21815173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 8, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

@ 5:00 PM : Nevia by Nunzia de Stefano (2019)
Nevia is seventeen-too old to live where she does, and grown up before she's even had the chance to be a child. Tiny and naive, but stubborn, she and her younger sister Enza are being raised by their grandmother Nanà and aunt Lucia in a container park in Ponticelli.
Cast: Virginia Apicella, Pietra Montecorvino, Rosi Franzese, Pietro Ragusa, Franca Abategiovanni, Simone Borelli, Lola Bello, Gianfranco Gallo.
Awards: Lizzani Award (Nunzia De Stefano): Venice Film Festival; Best Breakthrough Actress (Virginia Apicella): Golden Globes, Italy; Nominated Best Film: Venice Film Festival; Best New Director (Nunzia De Stefano): Nastro d'argento.
More info here: https://italianfilmfests.org/nevia.html

@ 7:30 PM: L'immensità by Emanuele Crialese (2022)
Rome, 1970s: Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage is over: they don't love each other anymore, but they can't let go. It is the children who keep them together, on whom Clara pours all her desire for freedom. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned 12 and is the most attentive witness of Clara's moods and the growing tensions between her parents. Adriana rejects her name, her identity, and wants to convince everyone that she is a boy. Her obstinacy of hers brings the already fragile family balance to breaking point. While the children wait for a sign to guide them, whether it's a voice from above or a song on TV, everything around and inside them changes.
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, Penelope Nieto Conti, Alvia Reale, India Santella, Mariangela Granelli, Valentina Cenni, Elena Arvigo, Carlo Gallo, Laura Nardi, Rita De Donato, Filippo Pucillo, Aurora Quattrocchi.
Awards: Nominated Best Film, Queer Lion (Emanuele Crialese): Venice Film Festival.
More info here: https://italianfilmfests.org/immensita.html

*Free and open to the public*
For more info: detroit@italianfilmfests.org
Web: http://italianfilmfests.org/detroit.html
Event sponsored by Michigan Arts&Culture Council; Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM) | U-M LSA; Romance Languages and Literatures | U-M LSA; LGBT+ History Month Italia

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Film Screening Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:05:23 -0400 2023-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-08T22:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening "Crialese narrates the desire to be authentic." - IL GIORNALE
John Sayles on Welles and Altman (April 14, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106991 106991-21815085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Noted writer and director John Sayles kicks off the Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker series by sharing items of interest he discovered while looking through the archives of fellow maverick directors Orson Welles and Robert Altman.

Researchers from across the globe have been using the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the U-M Library since items began arriving more than a decade ago. Books, papers, articles, movies, mapping projects, and semester-long courses are just some of the outcomes that have been generated from this wealth of material.

We'll also recognize the generosity of Joshua Bilmes, who funded these four research and programmatic initiatives for the U-M Library’s Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection, which is held within the Special Collection Research Center:

* The Hubert I. Cohen Research Fellowship
* The Bilmes Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Student Internship
* Open access support for the U-M Press’s Out of the Archives manuscript series
* The Bilmes Visiting Filmmaker Series

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:06:55 -0400 2023-04-14T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Director John Sayles, 2017. Photo courtesy of Pasatiempo.
Dreams of a Black Cinema: Toni Cade Bambara and the Building of a Black Women's Film Culture. (April 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106598 106598-21814546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join our guest speaker University of Michigan Alum Hayley O'Malley (The University of Iowa), as she discusses "Dreams of a Black Cinema: Toni Cade Bambara and the Building of a Black Women's Film Culture."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:49:09 -0400 2023-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Toni Cade Bambara
VR / AR Student Project Exhibition (EECS 498) (April 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107122 107122-21815369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

Experience socially-impactful VR / AR apps made by Michigan students at the EECS 498 XR Exhibition! Join us December 9th in the first-floor Duderstadt VizStudio.

Learn more about the new "Extended Reality and Society" capstone / MDE course at https://bit.ly/umich_xr

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Exhibition Mon, 03 Apr 2023 02:21:47 -0400 2023-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T22:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition Students exhibit VR and AR projects
UM + EMU Student Games Showcase (April 18, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107121 107121-21815368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 7:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development

[Hybrid In-Person / Online Showcase!]

In Person : Beyster Building Atrium
Online : https://494Showcase.com

Experience 15+ new student-made video games at the UM + EMU Student Games Showcase! Interact with the student developers, learn more about Michigan and EMU's game development programs, and vote for your favorite games!

Learn more about EECS 494 and the EMU SAG program at https://www.eecs494.com and https://www.emich.edu/cot/vbe/programs/sag/curriculum.php respectively.
Learn more about michigan game development : https://MichiganGameStudios.com
Learn more about IGDA Ann Arbor : https://www.meetup.com/a2-game-designers/

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:58:39 -0400 2023-04-18T19:00:00-04:00 2023-04-18T22:00:00-04:00 BBB EECS 494: Introduction to Game Development Exhibition students exhibit their game development / XR projects!
Movie Night in Trotter (April 20, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107298 107298-21815846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Please join students of POLSCI 489: Saving the World or Wasting Time: Social Movement Efficacy on April 20, 2023, at 6 pm at the Trotter Multicultural Center MPR for a screening of Hotel Rwanda with snacks, opening remarks, and a short discussion regarding global political prisoners, recently-freed Paul Rusesabagina, and the Rwanda Genocide.

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Film Screening Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:30:00 -0400 2023-04-20T18:00:00-04:00 2023-04-20T20:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Department of Political Science Film Screening Event description with photo of Paul Rusesabagina and QR code for more information
The 23rd Annual M-agination Film Festival (April 20, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106888 106888-21815031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 20, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: M-Agination Films/UAC

Since 2000, M-agination Films has produced 8 short films each semester from student-submitted scripts, for a total of around 16 films per year, which we showcase at a festival at the Michigan Theater annually.

This year the festival will be held on Thursday, April 20th at 7pm. Doors open at 6pm. Head over to the Michigan Theater for free swag while supplies last, and 16 brand new student produced films.

We're excited to premiere the following films:
Blue Check
Danny & Me
Golden Gate
Hitchhiker's Guide to a Business Fraternity
House Hunters: Ann Arbor
I’ll Be Your Ahab
Left Behind
Mobstrology
Momo
Neanderthal
New Year, Same Shit
Salem, Bitch!
Tick Tock
Tony Can’t Speak French

Hope to see you there!

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Film Screening Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:47:02 -0400 2023-04-20T18:00:00-04:00 2023-04-20T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location M-Agination Films/UAC Film Screening THE 23RD M-AGINATION FILM FESTIVAL THURSDAY APRIL 20TH DOORS 6PM • SHOW 7PM MICHIGAN THEATER FREE ADMISSION & SWAG
CSEAS Film Screening and Discussion. Dragon For Sale (May 1, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107886 107886-21818347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 1, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), is proud to present a screening of Dragon for Sale followed by a discussion with the film’s Director, Producers, and Research Team.

Dragon for Sale documents the Indonesian government’s “10 New Balis” development project in Eastern Indonesia and its attempts to turn Flores and the Komodo Islands into an international tourist destination. The documentary film highlights the darker side of the project’s history, including catastrophic environmental degradation and multiple human rights violations as local populations are forced out of their ancestral homes to make way for resorts and restaurants. The film showcases the resistance movements of local communities striving to create alternative tourism development and conservation plans through an indigenous framework of human-animal kinship and coexistence.

This hybrid event, simulcast in-person at six leading universities across the United States and on Zoom across the globe, is the first international screening of this groundbreaking documentary since its mid-April release in Indonesia. Join us on May 1, 2023, at Weiser Hall 555 at 6:00 pm or on Zoom at http://bit.ly/41Uqw0X.

Light refreshments will be served.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with Jonathan Valdez at valdezjo@umich.edu.

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

In collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carolina Asia Center at University of North Carolina, American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), and the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University

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Film Screening Mon, 01 May 2023 12:06:12 -0400 2023-05-01T18:00:00-04:00 2023-05-01T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Film Screening Dragon For Sale poster
International Romance Film Fest (June 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108278 108278-21819205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Drop by the Hatcher Gallery (just off the Diag) to watch one — or all four — romance movies from around the world. All films are either in English or subtitled in English.

11:00am — Karmen Gei (Wolof & French)
2001, 1 hr 26 mins
Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.

12:45pm — Lost in Paris (French & English)
2016, 1 hr 23 mins
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.

2:45pm — The Worst Person in the World (Norwegian)
2021, 2 hrs 8 mins
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

5:15pm — And Then We Danced (Georgian)
2019, 1 hr 53 mins
A passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the conservative confines of modern Tbilisi, the film follows Merab, a competitive dancer who is thrown off balance by the arrival of Irakli, a fellow male dancer with a rebellious streak.

These movies are brought to you by the U-M Library's department of International Studies.

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Film Screening Mon, 22 May 2023 15:00:08 -0400 2023-06-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-06-06T19:15:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening DVD covers from four films.
CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Ann Arbor Japan Week Kickoff Film, *Howl’s Moving Castle* (June 11, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108223 108223-21819123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 11, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See the full Ann Arbor Japan Week schedule here: https://myumi.ch/PrxXn

Reserve Your FREE Ticket at the Michigan Theater website: https://myumi.ch/GkEA1

Sophie finds her life changed when she is literally swept off her feet by the handsome, mysterious wizard Howl. In search of a cure to a witch’s curse, Sophie boards his magnificent moving castle into a new life of wonder and adventure.

Presented with English dubbing. 2004. 119 mins. Anime/Adventure. PG.

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Film Screening Fri, 19 May 2023 16:11:47 -0400 2023-06-11T15:00:00-04:00 2023-06-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Ann Arbor Japan Week Kickoff Film, "Howl’s Moving Castle"
CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Film Screening, *Mifune: The Last Samurai* (June 12, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108234 108234-21819151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See the full Ann Arbor Japan Week schedule here: https://myumi.ch/PrxXn

Join us for a screening of the documentary Mifune: the Last Samurai by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki which explores the acting career of Toshiro Mifune. Mifune was a prolific actor who starred in many Akira Kurosawa films during what is considered the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema. 2015, 80min, unrated.

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Film Screening Fri, 19 May 2023 16:16:08 -0400 2023-06-12T18:00:00-04:00 2023-06-12T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Ann Arbor Japan Week | Film Screening, *Mifune: The Last Samurai*
Artscapade! (August 25, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109118 109118-21821090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts Initiative

The Arts Initiative and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an exciting evening of art-making, live music, dance, poetry, and games.

We're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!). Sign up today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:36:40 -0400 2023-08-25T18:00:00-04:00 2023-08-25T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts Initiative Reception / Open House Students celebrate Artscapade 2022 with performance group Groove
Master of Light (August 31, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108923 108923-21820593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 31, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Join us for a screening of *Master of Light* and discussion with artists and staff from the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP).

Master of Light is a beautiful documentary about George Anthony Morton, an artist who studied classical painting while incarcerated and returned to his hometown to reconnect with his family, painting their portraits to bond and heal. It’s a powerful, raw, hopeful film you don't want to miss!

The screening will be followed by a discussion about the transformative power of arts in prisons with artist Flint Kougar, Program Coordinator - Mary Heinen, and Arts Programming Coordinator - Emily Chase. This event is part of the *Shared Humanity* traveling art sale & exhibition.

Presented by the Greater Flint Arts Council

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Film Screening Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:03:54 -0400 2023-08-31T19:00:00-04:00 2023-08-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Film Screening Artist, George Anthony Morton, painting a self portrait
Mesmerica (September 1, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-01T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-01T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 1, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-01T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-01T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 1, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-01T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-01T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 2, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-02T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-02T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-02T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-02T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 2, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 2, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-02T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-02T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 3, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 3, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-03T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-03T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 3, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 3, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-03T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-03T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 3, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 3, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-03T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-03T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
The Other 9-11. Chile ‘76 (2022): Film Screening and Discussion (September 5, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111602 111602-21827314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Chile '76 is an intriguing historical noir that radiographs Pinochet's patronizing and patriarchal society through the eyes of a steely bourgeoise woman who dares to take a stand. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

Co-sponsors:
University of Michigan [ Organized by the History Department, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; International Institute; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Office of Research; Department of History; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; Museum Studies Program; Institute for the Humanities] and Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:09:24 -0400 2023-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 2023-09-05T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 8, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-08T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-08T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 8, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-08T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 8, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-08T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-08T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 9, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-09T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 9, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 9, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 9, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-09T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-09T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 10, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-10T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 10, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-10T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 10, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 10, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-10T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-10T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
GISC Screening & Talkback. American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story (September 12, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110627 110627-21825179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

RSVP: http://bit.ly/AmJedi
When: Sept 12th, 2023 | 6:30 PM ET
Where: U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Join the Global Islamic Studies Center, on September 12th at 6:30 PM at the UMMA for a screening of the short film “American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story”. This screening will be followed by a talkback with filmmakers Nick Eyde and Mohammad Khalil.

*American Jedi*: The Salman Hamdani Story: A devout Muslim and proud American immigrant makes the ultimate heroic sacrifice. Like the fictional Jedi he admires, Salman Hamdani is ready to face adversity for the sake of others. On the morning of September 11, 2001, this young man takes a daring leap and runs toward the Twin Towers. When his body isn't immediately found, his absence inevitably leads to questions--and suspicions. His family is forced to overcome tragedy and ostracization in response to their son's death.

Mohammad Khalil is a professor of Religious Studies, adjunct professor of Law, and the director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. He has authored and edited multiple books on Islam and Muslims and was the lead investigator of the Muslims of the Midwest digital archive. He received all of his degrees from the University of Michigan.

Nick Eyde played for six seasons in the Italian Football League, quarterbacking for the Rome Ducks, Reggio Emilia Hogs, Lazio Marines and Bolzano Giants, including one Italian Bowl appearance. He is now a real estate developer in the Toledo area. He redeveloped the former Fiberglas Tower into the mixed-use Tower on the Maumee and spearheaded the effort to bring the Italian Bowl to the Glass City (Toledo). He has been a featured guest star on Chicago Fire and has produced a handful of independent film projects.


This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, The Department of Middle East Studies, Arab and Muslim American Studies, and the MSU Muslim Studies Program.

Want to hear about similar events from U-M Islamic Studies? Sign up for the GISC Newsletter below! We send out a monthly newsletter in collaboration with the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum. Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact islamicstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:11:18 -0400 2023-09-12T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-12T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story
Ukrainian Film Series: "Mr. Jones" Screening (September 13, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112008 112008-21828323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Ukrainian Film Days will start this Wednesday, September 13th 6-9 pm in MLB Auditorium 3 with a screening of “Mr. Jones” film - an important new historical drama with a very contemporary context. Released in the US in spring 2020, it sheds long overdue light on one of Stalin’s worst crimes, while also serving as a timely reminder that today’s talk of fake news is actually nothing new.

Written by Andrea Chalupa and directed by the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland, this joint Polish, Ukrainian, and British production follows one man’s struggle to expose Stalin’s man-made famine in Ukraine, a crime the Soviet regime was desperate to hide from the outside world.

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Film Screening Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:54:59 -0400 2023-09-13T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T21:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Mr. Jones
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 15, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-15T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-15T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 16, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-16T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-16T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-17T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 17, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-17T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-17T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Swedish Film Series (September 20, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112685 112685-21829421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The German Department will be screening a Swedish film each month in NQ1255. Bring a friend! Bring a snack! English subtitles, no language knowledge required!

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Film Screening Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:29:02 -0400 2023-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening Swedish Film Series
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824169@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 22, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-22T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-22T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111860 111860-21827690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

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Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T14:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T14:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Hear Us Now Quartet (September 23, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111862 111862-21827692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

Gather to see two live performances by Hear Us Now, an exciting new quartet featuring Helga Davis (vocals), Ashley Jackson (harp), and Fred Cash Jr. (bass), and Justin Hicks (composer). The quartet will perform new work inspired by the exhibition Hear Me Now, The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina in which direct poetry and texts created by Edgefield potter David Drake are used to craft the composition.

***

Helga Davis is a vocalist and performance artist with feet planted on the most prestigious international stages and with firm roots in the realities and concerns of her local community whose work draws out insights that illuminate how artistic leaps for an individual can offer connection among audiences. Davis was principal actor in the 25th-anniversary international revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach.

, a harpist praised for her “soulful” and “eloquent” playing (Musical America), enjoys a multifaceted career as a highly sought-after musician and collaborator in New York and beyond. As a soloist, she has performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn! and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, the Qatar Philharmonic, and is the principal harpist of NOVUS NY, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street led by Grammy-nominated conductor Julian Wachner. She is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players, with whom she has developed a number of projects, including her first film, In Song and Spirit and the Harlem Walking Tour Series.

Fred Cash, Jr. hails from Chicago and was born into soul royalty, as the son of Fred Cash Sr. of The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield. After college, Fred moved to New York where he has worked with artists such as India Arie, Toshi Reagon, Alicia Keys, Henry Butler, Elvis Costello and George Clinton.

is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, vocalist, and sound artist.  He’s worked with notable artists such as Abigail DeVille, Meshell Ndegeocello, Hilton Als, Steffani Jemison, Joan As Policewoman, Charlotte Brathwaite, Mimi Lien, and Toshi Reagon.  His work has been presented at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,  The Public,  Baryshnikov Art Center, Festival steirischer herbst (Graz, AT), Symphony Space. He recently provided music for Lynn Nottage's Clyde's on Broadway and presented his commissioned work Outside as part of The Shed's Open Call series. Hicks was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from ICE in New York City.

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

Hear Me Now is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Henry Luce Foundation.

Lead support for UMMA's presentation of the exhibition is provided by Michigan Engineering, the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M Office of the President, the Americana Foundation, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the U-M Inclusive History Project, and Michigan Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by Larry and Brenda Thompson and Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman. 

 

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Performance Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:15:55 -0400 2023-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Performance Museum of Art
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 23, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-23T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-23T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-24T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 24, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-24T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-24T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
“Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine” Film Screening & Panel Discussion (September 27, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110064 110064-21824279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Join leaders in astronomy, the space sciences, and documentary film-making for a special screening of "Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine," at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, at Stamps Auditorium. Hosted by the U-M Space Institute, the event will include a screening of the Netflix documentary about the design and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope and a panel discussion featuring Film Director Shai Gal and Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, the previous Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, as well as other experts in space and astronomy.

Admission is free, but registration is required for this event due to limited seating.
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/68039

Event: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center

Parking will be limited near venue so please plan ahead by viewing the North Campus parking map.

For more information about the event and the panelists involved visit: https://space.umich.edu/u-m-space-institute-to-host-screening-of-unknown-cosmic-time-machine-and-panel-discussion/

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:01:18 -0400 2023-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-27T20:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Film Screening Netflix- Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 28, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112387 112387-21830594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Join "Afterthought" editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways.

September 30, 1pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:44 -0400 2023-09-28T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T12:00:00-04:00 Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 28, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-28T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (September 29, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-09-29T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 29, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824170@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-29T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112383 112383-21828851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look
like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials
and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, “Afterthought”
memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing. Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

September 29, 6pm
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of
Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Film Screening Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:17:23 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Department of American Culture Film Screening Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 29, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109622 109622-21822415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:16:01 -0400 2023-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 29, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-29T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-29T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (September 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109705 109705-21822717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/112385 112385-21828855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

This workshop invites graduate students to consider film as a modality for presenting research. It explores art as a pathway for resisting the centrality of text in academic expression. “Afterthought" director and University of Michigan Ph.D. student Charlotte Juergens will share clips from three academic film projects, discuss the possibilities and challenges of film as a research methodology, and work with attendees to troubleshoot next steps for integrating film into their academic practices. This event will include a continental breakfast.

September 30, 11am
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:28:03 -0400 2023-09-30T11:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Workshop / Seminar Event Poster
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (September 30, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-09-30T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112387 112387-21830593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Join "Afterthought" editor Mark Juergens and technical producer Lydia Robertson for a career talk and coffee hour. Juergens and Robertson each have decades-long careers in film, news, and television, and they invite students to ask questions about their educational and professional pathways.

September 30, 1pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:44 -0400 2023-09-30T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Careers / Jobs Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (September 30, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112389 112389-21828862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Collaborators from the memorials featured in the documentary “Afterthought” will participate in a panel discussion. Participants include: Laura Taylor (creator of “Half-Built House”), Laura Mott (Chief Curator for the Cranbrook Art Museum and curator for the Detroit Healing Memorial), and Rachel Frierson (Director of Programming for the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy and organizer for the Detroit Healing Memorial). Panelists will discuss the role of art in individual and community healing after mass-trauma events like COVID-19.

September 30, 3pm
Rackham Graduate School East Conference Room
915 E Washington St
Co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of
Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:55:20 -0400 2023-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-30T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (September 30, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21824208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-09-30T20:30:00-04:00 2023-09-30T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic – Screening and Filmmaker Q&A (October 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109706 109706-21822718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Free and open to the public. No pre-registration required. .

Over the past three years, COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than one million Americans. Nearly one-fifth of us knew someone among them. All of us have been impacted. In a culture that avoids talk of death and puts grief on a timeline, what does our mourning look like? How will we manage the voids the pandemic has created? 

Currently in production, Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic is a documentary feature about COVID memorials and the people who build them. It centers on two projects: a community memorial in Detroit involving thousands of participants, and one artist’s personal memorial in New York commemorating the loss of a friend. In documenting these stories, Afterthought memorializes individuals lost and communities changed by the pandemic and asks universal questions about shared trauma, memory, and healing.   Join the filmmakers for a free screening of clips from the film-in-progress, followed by conversation.

Hosted by UMMA and co-sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies & the Museum Studies Program. 

The Arts & Resistance Theme Semester, organized by UMMA and the U-M Arts Initiative, is generously supported by the U-M Office of the Provost, the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, and Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:15:55 -0400 2023-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Film Screening Museum of Art
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 1, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 1, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-01T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 2, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 2, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-02T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-02T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107937 107937-21819158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M?
Come explore everything the Center for Global and Intercultural Study has to offer and find the best program for you!

*CGIS is part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), but all U-M undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs.*

No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Get your questions answered! Come chat with:
- CGIS Program Advisors
- Recent U-M study abroad students
- Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarships Office
- Newnan Academic Advisors
- Other on-campus offices
*Several study abroad offices from around campus will also be present.*

With over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year, there are many options to choose from.

If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad, how to afford study abroad, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip, or want to know what to expect, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:34:42 -0400 2023-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival CGIS Study Abroad Fair - Come find the program for you!
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 3, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-03T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 4, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-04T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 4, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives (October 4, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113131 113131-21830128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This roundtable brings together scholars of the horror film working in the contexts of Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli cinemas. They will discuss these questions and issues: How do we take stock of concurrent developments in Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli horror films? What are the points of convergence and divergence among them? What does horror add to our understanding of Muslim and Jewish cultures? Alternatively, how do Jewish and Muslim interventions contribute to the horror genre?

Attend in-person, or online at https://myumi.ch/gRAV2

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:11:32 -0400 2023-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives
POSTPONED - CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening (October 5, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110634 110634-21825192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

*These film screenings have been postponed to a still to-be-determined date later in October. Once we have received the new times from the State Theatre we will post them here. We apologize for the inconvenience.*

The Center for Armenian Studies is sponsoring the weeklong Michigan release of Aurora's Sunrise at State Theatre.

Showtimes listed here will be updated as we receive the details. You may also check for updates at: https://myumi.ch/Jp2Gx

Director Inna Sahakyan will be in attendance for post-film Q&As on Friday, September 29th at 3:00 & 7:00 PM.

Synopsis: At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid animation, interviews with Aurora herself, and 18 minutes of surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora's Sunrise revives a forgotten story of survival. Synopsis Aurora was a teenager when she lost her family to the first genocide of the twentieth century, a nightmare that she herself barely survived. But when asked to not just remember but relive this experience all over again, she said “yes”. In 1915, as WWI raged on, the Ottoman Empire singled out its entire Armenian population for destruction. Only 14 years old at the time, Aurora’s story was tragically relatable. Forced onto a death march towards the Syrian desert, she lost her entire family before being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. But through multiple miraculous twists of fate, Aurora was able to use her wits and courage to escape her captors, and find her way to the shores of the United States. Young, beautiful, and with an extraordinary story to tell — the papers quickly found Aurora, and within a year her story of survival was on every newsstand from coast to coast. It didn’t take long for Hollywood to take notice. With little regard for the toll it would take on the traumatised teenager, they convinced Aurora that by bringing her story to the silver screen she would be able to help other survivors of the genocide. And so Aurora relived the unbearable, and became the most improbable starlet of the silent era in Auction of Souls, a runaway success, breaking box office and fundraising campaign records. After the film’s release, one out of every three American families reportedly contributed to the campaign to help the victims of the genocide. With the help of the film, a campaign by the aid group Near East Relief raised $116 million and saved the lives of over 132,000 orphaned survivors. The number of their descendants are in the millions. In the late 1920s, expanding US-Turkish relations caused any mention of the Genocide to fade away. All copies of Auction of Souls were believed to be lost. Only in 1994, several months after Aurora's death, fragments of Auction of Souls were rediscovered. Utilizing a dynamic blend of different mediums, including archival interviews with Aurora herself, as well the restored surviving footage of Aurora’s silent-era blockbuster Aurora’s Sunrise brings Aurora’s incredible story to life for a new generation — the story of how one girl relived her life’s greatest pain to save her people.

*"Aurora's Sunrise" was made possible by the academic contribution of the Zoryan Institute and is based on its Oral History Archive.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@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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Film Screening Tue, 03 Oct 2023 10:03:00 -0400 2023-10-05T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening CAS Film | Aurora's Sunrise - Ann Arbor Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 5, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-05T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
'Seed Stories' viewing and conversation with Filmmakers (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112986 112986-21829852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Thursday, October 5 at 5:30pm
1040 Dana Building, U of M

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha, eastern India, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his team are conserving over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice in-situ, the world’s largest project of its kind. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with farmers and shifting cultivators, particularly from Indigenous communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their own seeds, evolved over centuries. But the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified Bt and herbicide-tolerant cotton seeds and associated agrochemicals like glyphosate. ‘Seed Stories’ takes a worm’s eye view of how the swift expansion of a chemical-intensive cotton monoculture is reshaping a geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge, and altering their attitudes towards farming, food and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’

Chitrangada Choudhury is an alumnus of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship program at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and her reportage on issues of the environment and human rights has been cited for multiple national and international journalism awards. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Aniket Aga is an Assistant Professor of Geography at SUNY Buffalo and the author of ‘Genetically Modified Democracy’ (Yale University Press, 2021). The book won the 2022 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). His research interests lie in science & technology, democratic politics and agrarian change.

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Film Screening Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:18:06 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Film Screening Join us for a viewing of Seed Stories
CSAS Documentary Screening | *Seed Stories* (October 5, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112724 112724-21829467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

*Seed Stories*
Documentary Film (42 minutes)
Directed by Chitrangada Choudhury & Aniket Aga. Edited by Ajay T.G.
Odiya, Kui, English – with English subtitles

In a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of the Eastern Ghats in Odisha, eastern India, a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his team are conserving over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice in-situ, the world’s largest project of its kind. Odisha’s Eastern Ghats region is one of the world’s surviving biodiversity hotspots, with farmers and shifting cultivators, particularly from Indigenous communities like the Kondhs possessing the knowledge of growing multiple crops with their own seeds, evolved over centuries. But the village and the wider region is irreversibly changing with the coming of genetically modified Bt and herbicide-tolerant cotton seeds and associated agrochemicals like glyphosate. ‘Seed Stories’ takes a worm’s eye view of how the swift expansion of a chemical-intensive cotton monoculture is reshaping geography and a people steeped in agro-ecological knowledge and altering their attitudes towards farming, food and ecology. It invites audiences to reflect on the question, ‘What is sustainability?’

Chitrangada Choudhury is an alumnus of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship program at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and her reportage on issues of the environment and human rights has been cited for multiple national and international journalism awards. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Aniket Aga is an Assistant Professor of Geography at SUNY Buffalo and the author of ‘Genetically Modified Democracy’ (Yale University Press, 2021). The book won the 2022 Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). His research interests lie in science & technology, democratic politics and agrarian change.

The lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant awarded to the University of Michigan Center for South Asian 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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Film Screening Thu, 28 Sep 2023 08:50:22 -0400 2023-10-05T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-05T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS Documentary Screening | Seed Stories
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 6, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Mesmerica (October 6, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-06T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-06T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 6, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-06T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 6, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-06T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-06T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster (October 7, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/110207 110207-21824495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship?

Come experience the big, bold, colorful use of illustrations, playful use of scale, and the magic of cinema. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, live music, and the wonder of real-time filming to bring Mo Willems’ books to life. You can watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or watch the artists below as they create the story in real time — there is no wrong way to watch the show!

Recommended for ages 3+ and their parents and guardians. Production contains some loud sounds, flashing lights, and furry monster puppets.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:54:31 -0400 2023-10-07T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Manual Cinema Productions
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster (October 7, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110207 110207-21824496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Musical Society (UMS)

Leonardo is a terrible monster. He tries so hard to be scary, but he just…isn’t. Then Leonardo finds Sam, the most scaredy-cat kid in the world. Will Leonardo finally get to scare the tuna salad out of someone? Or will it be the start of an unlikely friendship?

Come experience the big, bold, colorful use of illustrations, playful use of scale, and the magic of cinema. Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster uses hundreds of illustrated puppets, book pages, two-dimensional props, furry monster puppets, live music, and the wonder of real-time filming to bring Mo Willems’ books to life. You can watch the big screen like a traditional movie, or watch the artists below as they create the story in real time — there is no wrong way to watch the show!

Recommended for ages 3+ and their parents and guardians. Production contains some loud sounds, flashing lights, and furry monster puppets.

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Performance Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:54:31 -0400 2023-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Musical Society (UMS) Performance Manual Cinema Productions
Mesmerica (October 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 2023-10-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 7, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Mesmerica (October 7, 2023 8:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110041 110041-21830801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 8:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

In addition to our regularly scheduled planetarium programming, the U-M Museum of Natural History is pleased to present MESMERICA, a groundbreaking immersive audio-visual experience, exhibiting in planetariums and dome venues across the US. Combining musician and producer James Hood's compositions with carefully curated 3D animations from artists around the world, the award-winning show is an enormous hit with both audiences and planetarium operators alike, breaking all existing records for full-dome/planetarium music shows. The hour-long show features 360° projections and stunning 5.1 surround sound.

Purchase tickets here: ummnh.mesmerica.tickets or tickets.mesmerica.com.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 07:39:48 -0400 2023-10-07T20:30:00-04:00 2023-10-07T21:30:00-04:00 Museum of Natural History Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Film Screening
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 8, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 9, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (October 9, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113301 113301-21830720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition manages $100,000 worth of grant money that we allocate to student groups who are working on projects related to environmental and social sustainability on Campus! We offer information sessions to help teams through the application process and work with grant recipients to help achieve their goals!

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Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 10:58:28 -0400 2023-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Other A grant recipient of the Student Sustainability Coalition, this is an amazing group of students working on mushroom growing at Oxford Housing!
Afterthought: Remembering a Pandemic (October 10, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112261 112261-21828694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

About the exhibition:
In “Half-Built House,” Brazilian-American artist Laura Taylor grieves the loss of her childhood friend Tina to COVID. When COVID took Tina’s life, Taylor started ordering identical versions of their childhood games and toys on eBay. As she assembled these objects, Taylor recalled a memory of climbing with Tina through the skeletal frameworks of unfinished houses in the 1970s. Late at night, the girls would pick their way through floorless rooms and speculate about their future inhabitants. In this spirit of imaginative experimentation, Taylor began taking apart her eBay acquisitions. Gathering, breaking, sawing, splicing, painting, gluing, layering, and reassembling these toys became, for her, a way to probe the complicated nature of a lost friendship and to explore the multidimensional nature of grief. Ultimately, Taylor built the framework of an unfinished house to evoke those she once explored with Tina. Taylor describes the house as a “container for grief.”

September 28 - October 27
Opening & Reception: September 28, 1-3pm
GalleryDAAS

About this series of events:
Art & Resistance Fall 2023 Theme Semester Programming
Sponsored by Arts Initiative, UMMA, American Culture, Latina/o Studies, the Department of Film, Television and Media & the Museum Studies Program
Presented by Charlotte Juergens, 2nd year Ph.D. student in American Culture
http://bit.ly/UMafterthought

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Exhibition Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:52:58 -0400 2023-10-10T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Exhibition Event Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 10, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
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Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-10T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 11, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

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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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)