Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. EIHS Workshop: Beyond the Written Record: Exploring Past Sounds, Tastes, Smells, Vistas, and Touches (December 2, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95300 95300-21789136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

An EIHS Multi-sensory Presentation Series and Roundtable Discussion

The past does not just consist of written words which are stowed away in archives. Just like we today, historical actors gained a sense of themselves and their surroundings through sounds, tastes, smells, vistas, and touches. What are ways through which historians can retrieve these past sensory experiences, and to what extent do they allow us to extend our engagement with the past beyond the confines of conventional historiography? In this EIHS graduate student workshop, our panelists explore these questions by shedding light on the “tactile semiotics” of fifteen-century tapestries and seventeen-century copper engravings, the visual imaginings of temple sanctuaries in ancient Greece, and the significance of the roaring boom of a cannon for a living history reenactment at an eighteen-century fort in upstate New York. As part of the EIHS graduate student workshop series, we strive to create an inclusive, collegial, and affirmative forum of exchange where participants can test and experiment with ideas which they might not yet feel comfortable enough to present in more formalized settings. Please join us in creating such a forum for our four panelists who set out to explore the potentialities of and challenges to histories which are multisensorial in character.

Panelists:

• Genevra Higginson (PhD student, History of Art, University of Michigan)
• Julia LaPlace (PhD Candidate, History of Art, University of Michigan)
• Ginevra Miglierina (PhD Candidate, Classical Studies, University of Michigan)
• Estrella Salgado (MA Student, Educational Studies, University of Michigan)
• Helmut Puff, moderator (Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:35:58 -0500 2022-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Pietro Paolini, "Allegory of the Five Senses," oil on canvas, c. 1630 (Walters Art Museum)
The Fording Tiger: Two Painting Colophons by Yang Weizhen in the Lo Chia-Lun Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, lecture and Q&A with Dr. Amy McNair (December 2, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100988 100988-21800644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 2, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRU8qbd_Wq4.

Earlier this year, UMMA received a transformative gift of more than 70 works of important and influential Chinese calligraphy. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection adds an impressive breadth of works to an already stellar collection of Chinese paintings and ceramics at UMMA. To mark the occasion, UMMA and the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies are delighted to present this important lecture with Chinese Art Historian, Dr. Amy McNair. McNair will discuss works in the collection by the famous Yuan-dynasty poet, Yang Weizhen (1296-1370), and highlight the importance of the Lo Chia-Lun Collection in the future studies of Chinese calligraphy. These works are colophons (a publisher's emblem or imprint) to one or two lost paintings, called The Fording Tiger, and are superb examples of his intentionally eccentric, awkward style of writing. The “fording tiger” image comes from the story of the Han-dynasty official Liu Kun (d. 57 CE), whose reputation for good government was so powerful that when he arrived to govern Hongnong (modern Sanmenxia, Henan), the local man-eating tigers swam across the Yellow River rather than face him. Yang was instrumental in establishing the importance of colophons on paintings and reviving the practice of yuefu poetry in the 14th century, making these two colophons containing yuefu poems highly significant works. 

Prior to the keynote, we are delighted to offer a rare opportunity to see works from the Lo Chia-Lun collection in UMMA’s object study rooms. You must register for a study room session. Please register for only one time slot. Capacity is extremely limited.

Both study sessions are currently full. You can register for the waitlist below. 

Waitlist for 4:30 p.m. Study Session 2

More about Dr. Amy McNair Amy McNair is a Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Kansas and Editor-in-chief of the Asian art history journal Artibus Asiae. Her research interests are Chinese calligraphy and painting, and Chinese Buddhist sculpture. Her 1998 book on the Tang-dynasty calligrapher Yan Zhenqing was recently translated into Chinese as 中正之笔——颜真卿书法与宋代文人政治 (The Righteous Pen—Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and the Song Dynasty Literati Politics). Her latest book, The Stigma of the Painting Master: Liang Shicheng and The Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, will appear in 2023, published by Harvard Asia Center Publications.

Please join us after Dr. McNair’s talk for refreshments in the UMMA Apse.  

This workshop is made possible by the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, the Department of History of Art, and the Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur Endowment for Chinese Art. The Lo Chia-Lun Calligraphy Collection at UMMA is the gift of Jiu-Fong Lo Chang and Kuei-sheng Chang. 

]]>
Other Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:18:49 -0500 2022-12-02T17:00:00-05:00 2022-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 5, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 5, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Redemption, Raids, and Restitution: The “Tail” of Private Ownership in the Early People’s Republic of China (December 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96546 96546-21792874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

What Karl Marx termed the “expropriation of the expropriators” and PLA Marshal Lin Biao referred to as “getting property” was key Chinese Communist Party’s industrial strategy and essential to building socialism. In the People’s Republic of China, state control over industry and commerce was achieved in the mid-1950s through a policy of redemption; a controversial solution that preserved a residue of private ownership within the socialist system and determined the fraught relationship between the government and former business owners through the Cultural Revolution and into the early years of Reform and Opening.

Puck Engman is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. In the academic year 2022-2023, he is a faculty fellow with the UC Berkeley Social Sciences Matrix. He is currently working on a book that examines how the Chinese state defined and attempted to solve the problem of capitalists following the takeover of private enterprises and the integration of the management in a socialist system. He is the co-editor of "Victims, Perpetrators and the Role of Law in Maoist China: A Case-Study Approach" (De Gruyter 2018, with Daniel Leese) and author of “What Right to Property when Rebellion is Justified? Revolution and Restitution in Shanghai” (in "Justice after Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People’s Republic of China," edited by Daniel Leese and Amanda Shuman, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press).

Zoom registration link:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FK4Jxg6zQQS36iqtT78wUg

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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:15:18 -0400 2022-12-06T12:00:00-05:00 2022-12-06T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Puck Engman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (December 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97348 97348-21794439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:24:12 -0400 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CAS Lecture | Race, Environment, and the Modern Middle East: A Historical Microanalysis (December 12, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101971 101971-21803006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 12, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This hybrid event will be held in person and via zoom on Monday, December 12th at 3:00 PM.

On Campus Location: Weiser Hall 555

Zoom Alternative: https://myumi.ch/5W7Pr

Meeting ID: 912 9148 8313
Passcode: 649856

This talk explores the role that the late imperial Ottoman and early republican Turkish state elites attributed to environmental factors in their racialization of the Kizilbash (Alevi) Kurdish inhabitants of the Dersim region in Eastern Anatolia as being “Muslim sons of Muslims”in 1890s to becoming “Turkish sons of Turks” by 1930s. State elites developed a double-sided racialization process from the late nineteenth century onwards. In their internal writings, they never doubted the Kurdishness of the Dersimis, even after the state actors came to believe that they had successfully Turkified them. Publicly, however, they argued that Dersim Kurds were indeed the purest Turks; that their Kizilbash belief system, which the state elite had until then perceived as deviant and threatening, reflected primordial Turkish shamanism; and that Dersim’s inaccessible geography had preserved ancient Turkish characteristics in Dersim’s Alevis. First appearing in official reports and later spreading to private publications and media, by the 1940s, the “Turkishness” of Dersim Kurds was so established that government officials considered calling them Kurds in public tantamount to a curse. Using the historical developments in Dersim as a case in point, the talk elucidates the racialization of ethnic and religious communities in the Middle East in the course of transition from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state rule during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the historical backgrounds of some of the contemporary dynamics of structural racism in the region.

Cevat Dargın specializes in the modern history of the Middle East, with a focus on the transformation from indirect imperial to centralized nation-state rule through the lenses of environmental history across regimes changes and revolutions from the late eighteenth-century onwards, thereby challenging official narratives and conventional historiographies that treat such historical junctures as radical ruptures with the past. With a background in political science and Middle Eastern studies, Dr. Dargın integrates theoretical approaches from multiple disciplines and applies them to the study of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, and environment through the histories of understudied and marginalized peoples and places in the peripheries and borderlands. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Mountains and the Modern State: An Environmental History of State-Making in the Middle East. The book explores the role of environmental factors in shaping the transition to modernity in state-making in the Middle East through the case of Dersim, a region in Eastern Anatolia with a rich and diverse natural environment and a predominantly Alevi Kurdish population. The project covers the period from the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 to the Turkish state’s violent transformation of the region in 1937–38. Dr. Dargın received his PhD from Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies in 2021.

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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:07:35 -0500 2022-12-12T15:00:00-05:00 2022-12-12T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Kizilbash Kurds gathered on the mountains of Dersim during the military operations in the region in 1937 via Dersim Oral History Project.
Treasures from our History of Medicine Collections (December 13, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96821 96821-21793371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Browse a display that includes a wide selection of artifacts illustrating the early history of western medicine, ranging from ancient medical amulets to medieval manuscripts to richly-illustrated early printed books. These artifacts are eloquent witnesses of a long history of healing and extraordinary medical discoveries in the West, including landmarks such as Andreas Vesalius' "Seven Books on the Fabric of the Human Body" (Basel, 1543) and William Harvey's "Anatomical Treatise about the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals" (Frankfurt, 1628).

Join us in Room 660D in the Special Collections Research Center on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library. No registration is required, and you may stop by anytime from 4:00-5:00pm to peruse the display and chat with staff.

]]>
Reception / Open House Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:13:56 -0400 2022-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Detail of copperplate engraving from "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus" by William Harvey. Frankfurt: William Fitzer, 1628.
The Clements Bookworm: Exploring Tooth Worm and Tooth Fairy Folklore (December 16, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/100132 100132-21799251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 16, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this 50th episode of The Clements Bookworm, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry curator, Tamara Barnes discusses two enchanting characters associated with teeth – the Tooth Fairy and the Tooth Worm. Surprising and delightful beliefs from all over the world will be explored including ancient tales and modern-day superstitions. The Bookworm will meet the Tooth Worm, the mythical culprit who was believed to cause dental caries, and which was selected by student vote to be explored in a new exhibit.

Barnes will include an overview of the Museum’s mission including how it uses objects and images to make the history of oral health more relevant. A new exhibit, Teeth Transformations, explores the myriad ways people alter our teeth in order to express themselves.

Free, registration required at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:23:32 -0500 2022-12-16T10:00:00-05:00 2022-12-16T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Exploring Tooth Worm and Tooth Fairy Folklore
Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution (December 31, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84307 84307-21623078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 31, 2022 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This exhibition proactively engages with debates about restitution and the ethics of museums’ owning African heirlooms collected during the era of colonization. The investigation and research into 11 works of African art will be conducted publicly — visitors will have access to documents, photographs, and correspondence that will help us develop a better understanding of each object’s history, grappling in real time with questions surrounding legal and ethical ownership of these artworks. Though complex, this project presents exciting opportunities for museum transparency and creating new pathways for relationship-building with partners in Africa and its diaspora. Museum visitors can begin to explore this investigation online and in-person in Fall 2021.

Lead support for the UMMA exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.

]]>
Exhibition Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:15:36 -0500 2022-12-31T11:00:00-05:00 2022-12-31T15:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Wish You Were Here: African Art and Restitution
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 5, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 5, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-05T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-05T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (January 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102858 102858-21805249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

Register at: myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

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

]]>
Presentation Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:51:24 -0500 2023-01-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-06T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation N. Entrance of the Clements Library
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (January 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21806190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

]]>
Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (January 10, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21806191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

]]>
Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-01-10T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
We Collect and We Connect: Philippine Collections in the U-M Library (January 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102476 102476-21804106@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Drop by anytime during this open house for an opportunity to peruse our extensive collection of letters, diaries, photographs, maps, books, and other material documenting early 20th century Philippine history, and an opportunity to learn about ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan. Join us in room 660 on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library.

ReConnect/ReCollect is a two-year project funded by the Humanities Collaboratory to develop a framework and practices for culturally-responsive and historically-minded stewardship of the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan. Library staff and project team members will be on hand to answer questions about the collections and the project. Light refreshments will be provided!

Take advantage of our monthly Special Collections After Hours events to explore a sliver of the many books, documents, and artifacts in the Special Collections Research Center.

]]>
Reception / Open House Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:21:13 -0500 2023-01-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-10T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Don Pedro Sanz, his Visayan wife, his sons-in-laws, daughters, and grandchildren in Manila, 1899, Philippine Photographs Digital Archive, PHLA131.
CAS Lecture | Kings of Rome, Rulers of Heaven: Conceptions of Sovereignty and Empire in Syriac and Armenian Historiography (January 11, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102054 102054-21803399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This event will also be offered via Zoom at http://umich.zoom.us/j/96552630099

In their recently edited volume published in 2021, Philip Michael Forness, Alexandra Hasse-Ungeheuer, and Hartmut Leppin collected a wide array of contributions that examine common concepts of good rulership in eastern Christian communities in the global Mediterranean. Taking seriously their invitation to build on the volume’s conclusions and identify productive areas of future research, this lecture will explore concepts of sovereignty and empire in Syriac and Armenian historiography as evidence for the ontology of the Roman state in late antiquity and early Byzantium.
Although Tim Greenwood, Hartmut Leppin, and Philip Michael Forness have treated similar questions about rulership in Syriac and Armenian literature in their contributions in this volume, they have done so separately and without comparison. Wolfe argues that it is in fact through comparison that we discover that, while Syriac terminology for Roman sovereignty was both diachronically and synchronically extremely stable, Armenian terminology was not, reflecting, among other things, the evolution of Roman imperial titulature in Byzantium. This contrast, suggests divergent experiences of empire in Syriac- and Armenian-speaking communities during a period of transformation and change that reshaped the late antique Near East into the early medieval Middle East.

Dr. James (Jimmy) Wolfe is a historian of Roman institutions and the Roman imperial administration in the late antique and early medieval Middle East. His research examines the evolution of the late Roman state in this period of transformations by re-reading evidence from early Christian communities in the eastern Mediterranean using non-traditional frameworks. He studies dialectics of cultural exchange in northern Mesopotamia, experiences of and impact of empire in Armenian- and Syriac-speaking communities, and the replication of Roman imperial discourses in Greek, Syriac, and Armenian historiography. James received his PhD in Greek and Latin from the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University in December 2020. He has held appointments as a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:49:07 -0500 2023-01-11T16:30:00-05:00 2023-01-11T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Kings of Rome, Rulers of Heaven: Conceptions of Sovereignty and Empire in Syriac and Armenian Historiography
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 12, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-12T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-12T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
70's Night: A Century Retro-spective (January 13, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102449 102449-21804062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 13, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the U-M Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor for a 70s themed event on Friday, January 13th from 8-10:30pm! Learn about an observatory that lived through both the 1870s and 1970s, from the height of its discoveries to its near-total demise in 1976. Enjoy music, socializing, historic telescopes, and 70s themed programming in the historic observatory. Night sky observation will occur if the weather permits.

70s attire (19th and 20th century) encouraged!

]]>
Reception / Open House Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:19:11 -0500 2023-01-13T20:00:00-05:00 2023-01-13T22:30:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Reception / Open House Image of a disco ball, stars, a telescope, a teacup, and two men dressed in 19th-century attire.
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-16T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Before the Black Action Movement: The U-M African American Student Project, Washtenaw County’s Black Communities, and the Struggle for Inclusion (January 16, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102402 102402-21804015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 16, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of History

A distinguished panel of U-M African American alumni, and representatives of the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County (AACHM) and the Bentley Historical Library, will discuss the African American presence in Washtenaw County prior to 1970.

After the panel discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to discover more and interact with the sponsors about their various projects pertaining to the topic.

Program

Welcome & Introduction
Angela D. Dillard
Chair, Department of History

Overview of African American Student Project
Brian A. Williams
Assistant Director and Archivist for University History, Bentley Historical Library

Panel Introduction and Moderator
Matthew Countryman
Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; Member, Black Washtenaw County Humanities Collaboratory

Panel Discussion
• Lauretta Flowers (U-M Alum)
Teacher, Ann Arbor Public Schools (Retired)
• Joyce Hunter
President/CEO, African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County
• Elizabeth James (U-M Alum)
Program Associate, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
• Alma Wheeler Smith (U-M Alum)
Michigan State Representative (2005–2010), Michigan State Senator (1995–2002)

Closing Words
John Carson
Director, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Project Stations and Reception
• Living Oral History Project
AACHM & Ann Arbor District Library
• African American Student Project
Bentley Historical Library
• 50th Anniversary Project
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

The 2023 DAAS-History-EIHS Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium is presented in partnership with the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County (AACHM) and the Bentley Historical Library. Additional support from the Kalt Fund for African American and African History.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:34:40 -0500 2023-01-16T14:00:00-05:00 2023-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of History Lecture / Discussion Group posed on front porch steps of Alpha Phi Alpha House, 1017 Catherine St., Ann Arbor, circa 1912. (Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)
An Abundance of Riches: A Celebration of Recent Books by U-M Historians (January 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103041 103041-21805752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The Eisenberg Institute and Department of History invite you to help celebrate the recent publication of more than 20 new works by our U-M History colleagues. Free and open to the public. Light hors d'oeuvres and beverages provided.

The authors/editors and their books include:

• Kathryn Babayan, The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
• Pamela Ballinger, The World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy
• Howard Brick, Casey Nelson Blake, and Daniel H. Borus, At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
• Joshua Cole, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
• Juan Cole, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Henry Cowles, The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey
• Christian de Pee, Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100
• Geoff Eley and Julia Thomas (eds.), Visualizing Fascism: TheTwentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right
• Katherine French, Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity After the Plague
• Paul C. Johnson, Automatic Religion: Nearhuman Agents of Brazil and France
• Paul C. Johnson and Hugh Urban (eds.), Handbook of Secrecy and Religion
• Victoria Langland, James N. Green, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (eds.), The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics
• Ian Moyer and Paul Kosmin (eds.), Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East 
• Rudolf Mrazek, The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity
• Ellen Muehlberger, Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity
• Douglas Northrop and Cameron Gibelyou, Big Ideas: A Guide to the History of Everything
• Perrin Selcer, The Cold War Origins of the Global Environment
• LaKisha Simmons and Corinne T. Field (eds.), The Global History of Black Girlhood
• Mrinalini Sinha and Manu Goswami (eds.), Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India
• Ronald G. Suny, Stalin: Passage to Revolution
• Kira Thurman, Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms
• Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
• Jonathan Wells, The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
• Anthony Wood, ​​Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930

Presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies and the Department of History.

]]>
Conference / Symposium Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:03:08 -0500 2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Conference / Symposium Book open to title page, which reads: An Abundance of Riches: A Celebration of Recent Books by U-M Historians
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-19T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Making Michigan: Dr. Bethany Hughes on Native Americans at U-M (January 19, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102925 102925-21805370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 19, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

The University of Michigan has a complicated history with Native American communities, which were vital to its very existence. Join us for a discussion with Bethany Hughes, assistant professor of American Culture, on the historic and ongoing activism of Native American students. The talk will examine the founding of the Native American Student Association, the work to compel the University to recognize the promise of education made to Native Americans in the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs (including a critical lawsuit brought by a U-M football player), and the decades-long work to bring to light the racial stereotyping and misuse of Native American symbols by the Michigamua student organization.

* You can attend this event in person at the Detroit Observatory or virtually. *

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:35:50 -0500 2023-01-19T19:00:00-05:00 2023-01-19T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Graphic of the event title, speaker name, and image of the speaker.
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
The Clements Bookworm: Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th Century America (January 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103077 103077-21806077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Bookworm is happy to welcome the instructor and several students to the program where they will be in the conversation as they discuss the inspiration and work which generated the student-curated exhibit.

The exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

Registration required:http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Jan 2023 15:28:55 -0500 2023-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion The Clements Bookworm
EIHS Workshop: Can the More-Than-Human Speak? Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of Post-Anthropocentric Histories (January 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95301 95301-21789137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Most histories are histories of human actors. No matter if those actors were dominant, marginalized, or not even recognized as fully human at the time, historians have mainly focused on highlighting the role of humans in making their own histories under radically distinct circumstances. Following the lead of scholars from the fields of Science and Technology studies (STS), environmental history, anthropology, digital studies, material history, archaeology, book history, and literary and cultural studies, this EIHS roundtable discussion investigates the possibilities and limitations of engagements with the past that decenter humans as the driving force and focal point of history. Examining a wide array of more-than-human actors, including sturgeon fish in the Amur River, the Kaho’olawe island, and the Seosan Land Reclamation Juvenile Camp in South Korea, this panel challenges conventional archival and scholarly practices of historians by subverting anthropocentric and empiricist notions of voice, agency, and linear time.

Panelists:

• Christopher DeCou (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Sunhong Kim (PhD Student, Musicology, University of Michigan)
• Lopaka O'Connor (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
• Perrin Selcer, moderator (Associate Professor, History and Program in the Environment, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Jan 2023 06:42:27 -0500 2023-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Jan Luyken, "Father Time prevents death from cutting down a tree" (Amsterdam, 1710)
Winter 2023 Masterclass in Activism with Angela Harrelson (January 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102430 102430-21804044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Center for Racial Justice proudly welcomes Angela Harrelson to the Ford School and the University of Michigan as our Winter 2023 Masterclass in Activism speaker. Angela Harrelson is the aunt of George Floyd, as well as the author of Lift Your Voice. Joined in conversation by Dr. Celeste Watkins-Hayes, the Interim Dean of Ford School and Founding Director of the Center for Racial Justice, Ms. Harrelson will share her journey into racial justice activism and the work that she is currently doing in this space. This Masterclass in Activism event is hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and co-sponsored by U-M's Democracy & Debate.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Tue, 20 Dec 2022 16:02:35 -0500 2023-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Workshop / Seminar Winter 2023 Masterclass in Activism with Angela Harrelson
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 22, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 22, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 22, 2023 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-22T11:00:00-05:00 2023-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 23, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-23T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-23T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-23T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
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.

]]>
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
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 24, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-24T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 25, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 25, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 26, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803625@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-26T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 27, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-27T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-27T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
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.

]]>
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
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 28, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 28, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-28T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
BOYS IN THE BAND AUDITIONS! (January 29, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103808 103808-21807903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 29, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: In the Round Productions at U-M

Send in an audition for BOYS IN THE BAND at In the Round Prod! Audition forms and videos are due by next Sunday, January 29! Callbacks will be held the following week. Our performances will be March 31- April 2 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre!

For more information, check out our LinkTree!

]]>
Auditions Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:00:25 -0500 2023-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 2023-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location In the Round Productions at U-M Auditions Boys in the Band Auditions!
The Premodern Colloquium. Imperial Logistics and Comparative Racialization in Colonial Mexico (January 29, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101633 101633-21801620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 29, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This paper draws from a section from the chapter I had intended to share (“Divisions of labor”), and does some of the groundwork for another chapter that I’m only just beginning to think about (“Translation and solidarity”). Overall, the book is structured around the building of an important new leg of the camino real or royal road in colonial Mexico, and the conflicts and fantasies that emerged along and around it as a result. I’d be interested to hear people’s comments about the arguments about race and comparative racialization as method; about early modern imperial logistics as a framework; about the relation between infrastructure and indigenous labor; and about the translation of techniques from the northern “frontier” to the colonial "core."

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:11:00 -0500 2023-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Anton de la Parada Venta Camino Real 1600
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (January 30, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2023-01-30T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-30T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
STS Speaker Series. A World Cast in Concrete: How the US Built Its Empire (January 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101844 101844-21802547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

We are familiar with concrete as a medium of everyday construction: from sidewalks to kitchen countertops, the material defines our daily experiences of life. But how has concrete performed as a medium of culture and politics? How did it serve as the critical materiel that structured the US empire and spread global capitalism?

This talk will weave together two stories: (1) how the US cement and concrete industries expanded their material and technological reach across the globe and into outer space; and (2) how the material itself became a tool for spreading US cultural values and racial politics. In the end, it will show that concrete---and ensuing critical infrastructure like roads, buildings, bridges, airplane landing strips, and oil drilling platforms, among others---was an essential medium for US imperialism.

Bio: Vyta Pivo is a historian of the built environment and a postdoctoral scholar with the Michigan Society of Fellows. Her current project is a social and cultural history of the US cement and concrete industries, their global and transplanetary ambitions, and environmental and social costs. She has published academic and public-facing articles on concrete, labor, and architecture, and her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, and others.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:50:44 -0500 2023-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2023-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Cement quarry
Hear, Here: Humanities Up Close (January 31, 2023 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103747 103747-21807766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 31, 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. Today: "Monumental Revisions," with Anca Trandafirescu.

Across the world monuments are being torn down and dragged away as if they never existed. But what is lost when we no longer have to face who we once were? Considering ways to radically expand and complicate our monuments’ vocabularies through physical revision, this talk will present proposed design corrections to the Washington Monument. The talk will include a brief historical trace of the monument itself and drawings-in-progress of its imagined alterations.

About Anca Trandafirescu:
Anca Trandafirescuis a 2022-23 Steelcase Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities and associate professor, architecture.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:31:17 -0500 2023-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 2023-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Drawing of the Washington Monument.
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

]]>
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
The Challenge of Transition (February 1, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104225 104225-21808691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 1, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

As stewards of transition, we look to arm incoming students with the hope and promise of a better future through higher education. Why then, does that process create such challenges for the students and for the helpers themselves? In this webinar, we will explore the common vulnerabilities in both students and educators that most miss when undertaking the awesome task of guiding youth through the milestones of life. While the goal stays focused on how best to support the students, the process of supporting and protecting yourself comes first.

Mark Talaga has been counseling gifted individuals for over 10 years and is the owner and director of the Center for Identity Potential. Mark's experience with gifted counseling began in 2012 under the mentorship of Andy Mahoney, a pioneer and expert in the field of counseling the gifted. Mark is a former video game professional who utilizes his knowledge of gaming and technology to create a strong relationship with many of the kids with whom he works. Through his own personal struggle with executive functioning, validating his giftedness, and finding purpose and meaning in this world, Mark has developed expertise in the education and skills necessary to help gifted children activate their potential and live more authentic, fulfilling lives.

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:16:10 -0500 2023-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Educational Outreach Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
EIHS Lecture: Stuff and NonSense! (February 2, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95292 95292-21789128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Our speakers have requested that attendants mask and the Eisenberg Institute will provide K95s at the door.

The institute will provide a streaming link upon request. Please contact (eisenberginstitute@umich.edu).

Ancient history can be described as the study of old stuff, although as practiced in academia it is sometimes associated with a closed and rarified stuffiness. For those who have given up on the exclusivity of many forms of academic knowledge-making, for those who are against that kind of history, we ask about what happens when our history making involves actual making with matter, so that historical inquiry becomes stuff itself, escaping beyond the vaunted confines of the lecture hall, the lectern, the powerpoint, the Argument, the cute introductory anecdote, and the Archive with all its known limitations. Acknowledging that such experimentation of this kind can result in silliness, and even feel like nonsense, artist-historians Mike Chin and Rafael Rachel Neis nonetheless invite us into their performance/installation. Let us venture into our illustrious History Department, its hallways bedecked with stuffed animals (or as they have come to be known, “stuffies”). As we enter together into a kind of history-making set against the certainties of familiar modes of knowing, let us embrace / cultivate a salutary unknowing, all the while doing stuff with stuff.

Mike Chin is associate professor of classics at the University of California, Davis. He earned his PhD from Duke University. Publications include Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) and Melania: Early Christianity Through the Life of One Family, co-edited with Caroline T. Schroeder (University of California Press, 2016).

Rafael Rachel Neis is professor of History and Judaic Studies and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History at the University of Michigan. Their book, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, will be out in May 2023.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:32:55 -0500 2023-02-02T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Rafael Rachel Neis (left) and Mike Chin
"Keeping resistance alive": Chandler Davis and Academic Freedom at Michigan (February 2, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103293 103293-21806753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Detroit Observatory
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

H. Chandler Davis — courageous, stalwart and lifelong champion of academic and intellectual freedom in the face of persecution, including his own imprisonment — passed away on September 24, 2022, at the age of 96. He was a former instructor at the University of Michigan who, in 1954, was called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He and others from U-M l were “unfriendly witnesses, refusing to confess” their political dissent. Davis, unlike the others, based his refusal to answer only on the First Amendment, waiving his protection under the Fifth Amendment. Thereby he deliberately invited a citation for Contempt of Congress, so as to give himself standing to argue in court that the Committee’s proceedings were unconstitutional. He got the citation, but he did not prevail in court; his appeals were exhausted in 1959 and he served prison time in 1960. This Making Michigan will reflect on Davis’s life, actions and legacy at U-M and beyond and will seek to understand and recognize his contributions. Panelists include Steve Batterson, author of a forthcoming bio of Davis; Peggie Hollingsworth, founding chair and longtime director of the Academic Freedom Lecture Fund; and Alan Wald, expert on the political left in the US and Davis's contributions to it.

This event is both in-person at the Judy and Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory on the U-M campus and virtually on YouTube.

As with other Detroit Observatory events, in-person attendees may tour the Observatory after the conclusion of the panel, with stargazing if weather permits.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:10:55 -0500 2023-02-02T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-02T21:00:00-05:00 Detroit Observatory Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Chandler Davis in the 1950s and 1990s
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

]]>
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
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
CSEAS Lecture Series. Refugee Youth Agency in Flux: Active and Passive Waiting in Transit Country Indonesia (February 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102843 102843-21805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

*Lecture co-sponsored by the Association of Asian Studies*

For more than two decades, Indonesia has been a transit spot for asylum seekers from Central Asia, South Asia, East Africa, and Southeast Asia while irregularly en route to Australia. Following Australia’s controversial ‘stop the boats’ policy, thousands of refugees, including the young population, must wait longer in Indonesia to get their refugee status processed by UNHCR and to have a chance to resettle in a third country. As a non-signatory state to the 1951 Refugee Convention, Indonesia has a limited legal framework to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, which causes grave precarious conditions for them. Nevertheless, arbitrariness in Indonesia’s legal framework and its flexibility in handling refugees surprisingly has provided a certain level of “informal protection” and opportunities for young refugees to make maneuvers in the fluid arenas. As they wait, the young people also plan, anticipate, negotiate, hustle, play, and rest. This talk will focus on the dynamics of refugee youths’ agency-in-waiting. Professor Masardi explores how young refugees exercise passive and active waiting and what contributing factors catalyze or impede the distribution of their agency.

Speaker Bio
Realisa D Masardi is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She is the awardee of the prestigious 2022 Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies. Currently, Professor Masardi is completing her postdoc program at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Professor Masardi has been working on the issues of children and young people in several migrants/refugees communities in Southeast Asia, focusing on their identities, access to rights, and agency, particularly on their everyday survival movements. She received her PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her dissertation focuses on the social navigation of independent young refugees from diverse countries facing precarities during transit in Indonesia.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/29V6E

---
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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:04:39 -0500 2023-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan
EIHS Workshop: Material Culture: Objects Against the Historical Grain? (February 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95302 95302-21789138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Our guests have requested that attendants mask and the Eisenberg Institute will provide K95s at the door.

The institute will provide a streaming link upon request. Please contact (eisenberginstitute@umich.edu).

Humans shape the material world every day, but to what extent does the material shape us back? In the wake of the so-called “material turn,” historians have become increasingly cognizant of the power of material culture, learning to appreciate both the importance of objects as part of people’s everyday lived experience in the past and their value as a form of historical evidence. In this EIHS workshop, graduate students working across different disciplines will explore how attending to the material can complicate traditional historical narratives and methodologies. The objects our panelists will consider run the gamut from the seemingly mundane to the monumental and fantastical: a cloak of beards from a fifteenth-century poem, George Washington's dentures, the nineteenth-century artist Edmonia Lewis’ Death of Cleopatra, and milk cans from the Warsaw Ghetto. Join us as we explore how these objects tell untold stories.

Panelists:

• Sierra Jones (PhD Student, Ancient History, University of Michigan)
• Ekaterina A. Olson Shipyatsky (PhD Student, Political Science, University of Michigan)
• Lucy Smith (PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)
• Robyn Thum-O’Brien (PhD Candidate, English Language and Literature, University of Michigan)
• Katherine French, moderator (J. Frederick Hoffman Professor of History, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:33:10 -0500 2023-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. The Invention of Fascist Governmentality: 1925-1940 (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102682 102682-21804979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

In this lecture, Victoria de Grazia develops the concept of “fascist governmentality” to capture the historically distinctive mode of political rule that emerged at the beginning of 20th century. Focusing on Italy, she will explore how Mussolini assembled instruments of power, networks, and constituencies well outside of the ordinary sphere of governance to implement his solution to “the population question.” A focus on governmentality, she argues, helps account for the extraordinary political fortune of fascism globally in its first iteration (1920-1945), its capacity to disrupt the conventions of liberal imperial governance, and the difficulty of defeating it through peaceful means. It is also better suited to explain the breakthrough of like-structured movements from the second decade of the 21st century than ahistorical and moralizing concepts such as totalitarianism, illiberalism, and populist and authoritarian democracy.

Victoria de Grazia is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emerita of History at Columbia University and the author of *The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy* (2022); *Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth Century Europe* (2005); *How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945* (1992); and *The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy* (1981).

This lecture will be presented in person in 1010 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration is required at https://myumi.ch/J8m4D

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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:03:06 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Victoria de Grazia
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CANCELED - CAS Lecture | Armeno-Turkish: The Space of Language in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (February 8, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104037 104037-21808301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

We apologize that we have had to cancel this event. We will repost the event when we are able to reschedule it.

Armenians consistently composed works in Turkish (with Armenian letters), from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries. Most historians have had a tendency to shy away from using Armeno-Turkish as a means of getting at myriad aspects of both pre-Ottoman Anatolian and Ottoman pasts. In fact, aside from a few unique examples, Armeno-Turkish texts have almost uniquely been used by historians when considering aspects of Armenian history, literature, or identity, rather than as a tool for looking at realities present inside an overarching Turkish language space, or the Ottoman Empire. In reflecting upon the volume of texts composed in Armeno-Turkish from the late medieval through the modern periods, one can’t help but understand that many Armenians—whether monolingual, bilingual or multilingual—were engaged with oral and written Turkish linguistic and literary cultures. And that they participated in the shared space of the Turkish lyric throughout—and before and beyond—the Ottoman Empire.

Rachel Goshgarian is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College. She is a social historian who is interested in the circulation of ideas, patterns of social organization and the communication of cultural ideals. She works with primary sources composed in Armenian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Armeno-Turkish, and her academic work is also deeply informed by interrogations and interpretations of material culture. Her first monograph, The City in Late Medieval Anatolia: Inter-faith Interactions and Urbanism in the Middle East, is forthcoming with I.B. Tauris in 2022. Goshgarian has also co-edited Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 with Patricia Blessing (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and co-authored Kendi Kendine Ermenice (or, Teach Yourself Armenian) with Şükru Ilıçak (Istanbul: Armenian Patriarchate, 2006). Rachel Goshgarian is a member of the Middle East Studies Association, the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and is the vice president of the Society for Armenian Studies. She serves as Reviews and Reconsiderations Editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies.

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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:18:44 -0500 2023-02-08T17:30:00-05:00 2023-02-08T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion CAS Lecture | Armeno-Turkish: The Space of Language in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni (February 8, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104166 104166-21808549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 8, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Join us for a “A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni” on Wednesday, February 8th | 6:00 - 7:30 PM EST in the Rackham Auditorium. moderated by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies faculty, Dr. SaraEllen Strongman, Michigan Medicine Special Programs Manager and DEI Practitioner, Blaire Tinker, M.Ed. and Kayla Tate, Black Student Union Speaker.

Nikki Giovanni is a Grammy-nominated poet, National Book Award finalist, recipient of several NAACP Image Awards, the Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award, a Literary Excellence Award, the Langston Hughes Medal and a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Ms. Giovanni is one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement and has authored 3 New York Times and Los Angeles Times Best Sellers. Her experiences are incredibly relevant and perfectly aligned with the theme of this year’s for the Black History Month.

Giovanni last visited the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in January 1999 to speak at the annual MLK, Jr. Day Symposium. While on campus, she also spoke to a group of students in the Nikki Giovanni Lounge in Mosher-Jordan Hall. This lounge celebrates her activism and literary contributions which centers race, gender, sexuality and the African-American family.

If you have questions, please contact Braini McKenzie, blackhistorymonth@umich.edu

]]>
Presentation Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:37:21 -0500 2023-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-08T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Presentation Nikki Giovanni Event Flier
Black Perspectives in Public Policy (February 9, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104296 104296-21808799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Program in Practical Policy Engagement

Join the Ford School Program in Practical Policy Engagement (P3E) for a discussion on policy perspectives on contemporary and historical issues related to black Americans with P3E community engagement manager DeAndré J. Calvert; Patrick Wimberly, mayor of Inkster, MI; Alma Wheeler Smith, former Michigan state legislator; and Theodore Jones, Detroit Public Schools Community District project manager.

Our panelists will provide insight into whether current legislation meets the needs of America’s black population and will examine present-day and systemically inequitable policies in education, access to resources, and civil rights. By sharing the experiences and knowledge gained throughout their journeys, our panelists aim to inspire hope and action for the future of public policy for black Americans.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Feb 2023 14:58:01 -0500 2023-02-09T11:30:00-05:00 2023-02-09T12:50:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Program in Practical Policy Engagement Lecture / Discussion Black Perspective in Public Policy Speakers
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Confronting an Institution’s Pasts (February 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95303 95303-21789139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Please note new location: Ballroom, Michigan League

In-person registration (February 1 deadline): https://myumi.ch/4rnkm

Zoom webinar: https://myumi.ch/j7y9Z.

The live event will include an ASL interpreter. The Zoom webinar will include CART captioning. In-person attendees can view CART captions on a personal device at https://myumi.ch/DwJ6j. A recording will be available after the event.

Over the past twenty years, scores of universities have committed themselves to uncovering and reckoning with their ties to slavery as well as broader histories of exclusion and discrimination at their institutions. As the University of Michigan embarks on its own Inclusive History Project, this symposium will explore what it means for universities to undertake this work and what the future of these efforts might be. Panelists representing projects from Brown University, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will discuss the principles that have guided their projects, the processes that have shaped them, the communities that have partnered with them, and the outcomes they have produced, including reparative measures.

• Kacie Lucchini Butcher (Public History Project Director, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• James Campbell (Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History, Stanford University)
• Evelynn Hammonds (Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies; Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University; Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies, Spelman College)
• Kirt von Daacke (Assistant Dean and Professor of History, University of Virginia)
• Elizabeth Cole, moderator (University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies; Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan)
• Earl Lewis, moderator (Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy; Director and founder, Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Inclusive History Project and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:31:34 -0500 2023-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Map showing suggested lines of development and proposed locations of new buildings of the University of Michigan, 1919 ( Bentley Historical Library)
Winter 2023 MEMS Lecture. Blood, Fat, and Fear in Seventeenth-Century Travelogues (February 10, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101950 101950-21802972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Why do travelers, past and present, dwell on scenes of disgusting food preparation and consumption? Modern audiences might be familiar with the genre of culinary adventure shows, in which intrepid celebrity hosts travel to remote parts of the globe as food ethnographers, sampling everything from tarantulas in Cambodia to horse rectum sausages in Kazakhstan. Their early modern counterparts, while lesser-known, tell us equally grisly tales of food preparation that variously involve dripping fat, bloody entrails, and dung-smeared meats.

Indeed, the performance of disgust in encounters with foreign culinary and commensal rituals is a generic convention of the early modern travelogue. Travelers to different parts of the globe make sure to pause at a certain juncture in their narrative to record their affective response to the food of the other. Disgust, it would seem, lends immediacy and credibility to their tales of encounter. These narratives, especially when placed in conversation with domestic scenes of food preparation, depicted in household manuals and recipe books of the period, provide us an opportunity to analyze what we might call ‘gut responses’ to the idea of racial and cultural difference.

Gitanjali Shahani is Associate Dean and Professor of English at San Francisco State University, specializing in Shakespeare studies, postcolonial studies, and food studies. She is the author of Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature (Cornell University Press, 2020). She has edited two collections, Food and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Emissaries in Early Modern Literature & Culture (Routledge 2016, Ashgate 2009). Her articles on race and colonialism in early modern literature have been published in numerous collections and journals, including Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies, and The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:52:12 -0500 2023-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Tasting Difference
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-13T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Sensing Noise and Aural Politics under the Chinese Kuomintang in Taiwan (February 14, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104264 104264-21808766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Please note that Professor Hsieh's talk will be in-person only.

In this talk, Dr. Hsieh examines the political discourse and auditory experience of noise under the Kuomintang (KMT) regime in 1970s-1980s Taiwan. Drawing on news articles, KMT archives, and legislative records, she analyzes distinct transformations of noise—first as a moralizing discourse in the creation of a Chinese citizenry, then as an object in the destabilization of political power, and finally as an arena for environmental rights—-that tethered the embodied sensibilities of citizens to the KMT's aspirations for democratic reform. She concludes by arguing that through noise, hearing is made political: the ability for Taiwanese to hear noise, and what that meant at the time for the legitimacy of the KMT, positions noise at the center of Taiwan’s democratic liberalization.

Jennifer Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. She investigates sensory practices in institutional and technological settings, with an emphasis on urban East Asia. Her work has appeared in "American Ethnologist," "Hau," and "Sound Studies Journal," and she has contributed chapters to the edited volumes "Resounding Taiwan: Musical Reverberations Across a Vibrant Island" (2022 Routledge) and "Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality" (2020, Oxford University Press). She has held research fellowships at the Fairbank Center at Harvard, the Vossius Center at University of Amsterdam, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:28:02 -0500 2023-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Jennifer C. Hsieh, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Douglass Day 2023 (February 14, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103556 103556-21807468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

We invite you to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. Although Douglass was born into bondage, and never knew his birthdate, he chose to celebrate every year on February 14th.

Join us either virtually in Zoom (register at https://myumi.ch/Prn1k) or onsite in the Hatcher Gallery Lab to celebrate creating and preserving Black history together. 

This year, Douglass Day celebrates the life and activism of Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893). She was one of the earliest Black women to edit a newspaper, serve as a Civil War recruiter, attend law school, and so much more. Help us transcribe documents from Shadd Cary's long and fascinating life to enrich several newly digitized collections at Archives of Ontario and Libraries and Archives Canada.

Join us for three events! 

1. First, a keynote address to kick off the festivities at 1:00 pm with Ozi Uduma, assistant curator of Global Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art 

Followed by these concurrent events, which start around 1:30 pm:

2. a transcribe-a-thon of the papers of Mary Ann Shadd Cary
3. an arts and crafts session to make valentines for Black women activists

We hope you can join us for all three events, but feel free to attend what your time allows. The keynote, transcribe-a-thon, and arts and crafts session will all be available both in-person and on Zoom.

]]>
Other Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:21:56 -0500 2023-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 2023-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Other Mrs. Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
CCPS Lecture. Other Kinds of Beauty: Aesthetic Valuation and the Making of Cities in Eastern Europe (February 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101974 101974-21803061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Urban beautification projects are often used to justify political agendas. Embellished with colorful façades, even the most deceitful fantasy about the past, present, and future might appear attractive. But what makes beauty such a powerful and politically efficient notion? And what happens when beauty fails to convince us? In this talk, Anastasiya Halauniova will expose the complex relations between architecture's aesthetic resonance and the political work it performs. By focusing on competing valuations of urban ‘beauty’ and ‘ugliness’ in Wrocław (Poland) and Klaipėda (Lithuania), she shows the emotional, symbolic, and material labor required to turns buildings into either valuable ‘icons’ or worthless ‘eyesores’ used to legitimize different historical narratives.

Anastasiya Halauniova is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 2022, specializing on the role of maintenance and repair of built environments in shaping urban political visions, particularly in the context of postwar reconstructions and more recently on climate change adaptation.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at https://myumi.ch/Awz3w

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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:22:09 -0500 2023-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-15T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Wrocław Rynek (1961) by Stefan Arczynski, Courtesy of Herder Institute, Marburg
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
EIHS Lecture: Reviving old Desires: The Rubaiyat, the Victorian Underworld, and the Mass Market for the Orient (February 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95293 95293-21789129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Edward FitzGerald likely translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as a roman-a-clef about the end of his relationship with his Persian teacher and lover, Edward Cowell. Self-published in 1859, it attracted the attention of the Pre-Raphaelites, who deployed it in their search for alternative forms of sexuality and post-Renaissance culture in Victorian London. From this circle it jumped to the public and became a century-long bestseller that created new possibilities for role-playing and world creation. The massive impact of this slight volume raises questions about the Anglo-American uses of the Orient for purposes of self-enlargement.

Link here to access the full text of the 75 quatrains published in FitzGerald's first edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: https://myumi.ch/JppNw

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History and director of Arab and Muslim-American Studies in American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. His most recent books include Peace Movements in Islam, ed. (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: a New Translation from the Persian (Bloomsbury, 2020), Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires (The Nation Books, 2018), and The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is changing the Middle East (Simon & Schuster, 2014).

This event is presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Feb 2023 09:51:06 -0500 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Juan Cole
Mapping Black America: The Great Migration and Other 20th Century Journeys (February 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104625 104625-21809740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Explore maps examining Black journeys and spaces in the 20th century, and visualize the ways that Black movement has impacted demographics, labor, and culture in the United States. This student-curated event will draw mainly from the U-M Library’s collections, but will also include images and printed maps from the Digital Public Library of America and the Library of Congress Great Migration collections. Join us in the Clark Library, on the second floor of the Hatcher Library.

Third Thursday in the Clark Library is a themed monthly open house that allows you to peruse maps and other treasures from the Clark Library's vast collection and chat with our librarians.

]]>
Reception / Open House Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:10:07 -0500 2023-02-16T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Detail from The Migration Series, Panel No. 1; History of Art Department, Visual Resource Collection; U-M Library Digital Collections.
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (February 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
The Clements Bookworm: Early African American Women Writers and Their Libraries (February 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104783 104783-21810255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Author of “Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century”, Associate Professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky, and long-time researcher Dr. Nazera Wright is working on her second book titled “African American Women Writers and their Libraries”. Wright explores Frances E. W. Harper, who extended her private library to other African American Women to grant them access to literature and research that they wouldn’t have otherwise had access to. Wright's new book uncovers the radical and transgressive practices that black women writers engaged in to gain access to research libraries at the end of the nineteenth century.

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:31:21 -0500 2023-02-17T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Nazera Wright along side with her book "Black Girlhood"
Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Excellence Gala! (February 17, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104688 104688-21809862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

.

The university community is invited to formally celebrate Black History Month (BHM) at a gala-themed event. With the theme, “Rooting for Everybody Black,” the BHM Planning Committee wants to uplift and honor all of the incredible contributions of folx within the community through an evening of recognition, dinner and entertainment.

]]>
Other Sat, 18 Feb 2023 00:15:35 -0500 2023-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Black History Month Scavenger Hunt (February 18, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104754 104754-21810079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 18, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Team up with your friends to find items hidden throughout Couzens Hall. Be the first team to find all items to win a cash prize in Blue Bucks! In this event, you will learn about some amazing people and organizations that have left a lasting legacy on the ongoing Black Liberation Movement, culture, and the US overall. Food will be provided for all participants. Register now!

]]>
Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:50:00 -0500 2023-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Couzens Hall Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Social / Informal Gathering Yellow and black squares. A white Black Power Fist. Text includes details of the event.
The Premodern Colloquium. Cervantine Blackness (February 19, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101634 101634-21801621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 19, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This presentation focuses on Miguel de Cervantes’s literary archive of Blackness. It builds on previously published public engagement work from a co-authored op-ed essay with Chad Leahy that went viral, titled “Cervantes y la materia de las vidas negras” (“Cervantes and the Matter of Black Lives”).

The proposed contribution argues for a more nuanced critical reckoning with the cultural, historical, and literary legacies of antiblackness within the Iberian Peninsula and the global reaches of its empire.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Feb 2023 08:55:43 -0500 2023-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Cervantes Statue, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Language, Religion, and Indigenous Identity (February 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104651 104651-21809774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Dr. Abelardo de la Cruz, Nahua scholar & Instructor of Nahuatl Language at the University of Utah, will present a forthcoming book chapter, titled “Language, Life-Cycle Rituals, and Indigenous Identity.” In this article, Dr. de la Cruz explores contemporary religious rituals in Nahuatl discourse.

This is a two-part event on Monday, February 20, 2023 in the MLB Commons, 4th Floor

Nahuatl Language Lesson: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lecture: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:25:21 -0500 2023-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Language, Religion, and Indigenous Identity (February 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104651 104651-21809775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Dr. Abelardo de la Cruz, Nahua scholar & Instructor of Nahuatl Language at the University of Utah, will present a forthcoming book chapter, titled “Language, Life-Cycle Rituals, and Indigenous Identity.” In this article, Dr. de la Cruz explores contemporary religious rituals in Nahuatl discourse.

This is a two-part event on Monday, February 20, 2023 in the MLB Commons, 4th Floor

Nahuatl Language Lesson: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Lecture: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:25:21 -0500 2023-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Mardi Gras Celebration (February 20, 2023 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104958 104958-21810509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 8:00pm
Location: Mosher-Jordan Hall
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Join DPEs Sharonda (of MOJO) and Annabel (of Stockwell) in the Cesar Chavez Lounge as they explore the many ways Mardi Gras is celebrated as well as the history behind the holiday.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Feb 2023 12:52:31 -0500 2023-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T21:30:00-05:00 Mosher-Jordan Hall Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Tan background with yellow clouds at the bottom icons includes pink and green joker's hat, drums, trumpets, maracas, and Comedy and Tragedy masks.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
LHS Collaboratory Joint Session with UM School of Dentistry (February 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102701 102701-21805007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

“The Future is Data Analytics: Many Challenges, Many Opportunities”

Keynote Speaker:

Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD
Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Register in advance via Zoom Webinar: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GyKMMpgVQHu2ezvxaJfZEA#/registration

12:00 pm-1:15 pm ET (Keynote)

1:30 pm-2:15 pm ET (Breakout rooms)

The keynote presentation (12:00 pm-1:15 pm ET) will be followed by breakout rooms (1:30 pm-2:15 pm ET) on topics presented by the UM faculty and guests.

Opening Remarks:
Laurey McCauley, DDS, MS, PHD

Breakout room #1: Data Integration and Sharing: Opportunities in Entrepreneurship and Research

Wenyuan Shi, PhD
Presentation: Building the Eco-system to Support Disruptive Technologies in Dentistry

Christopher Balaban, DMD, MSC, FACD
Presentation: Entrepreneurship and AI/LHS in Dentistry

Breakout room # 2 Data Integration and Sharing in/out of the Clinic: New Medical and Dental technologies and LHS methods to optimize care

Alexandre F. M. DaSilva, DDS, DMedSc
Presentation: Integrating and Sharing Dental and Medical Data in a Diverse Ecosystem – The Learning Health Systems Perspective

Muhammad F. Walji, PhD
Presentation: BigMouth: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Sharing EHR Data in Dentistry

Breakout room #3: Data Integration and Sharing in Imaging and Pharmacogenetics

Lucia Cevidanes, DDS, MS, PhD
Presentation: Innovations in Multimodal Imaging Data Integration and Sharing

Amy Pasternak, PharmD
Presentation: Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Daily Practice

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:22:37 -0500 2023-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Livestream / Virtual LHS Collaboratory logo
YehRim Lee: Cross-Continental Flux – Artist Talk and Q&A (February 21, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102187 102187-21803660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

YehRim Lee’s work explores the contemporary human condition using decorative clay techniques (coiling, sculpting glaze, incising, and layering multiple colors) acquired through traditional training. She grew up in a family of artists who made Korean onggi ware, an iron-glazed brown pottery used for storing and fermenting food. She also studied ceramic making in Jingdezhen, China, the “porcelain city” that produced much of the high-quality blue and white ware for global trade between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. However, Lee seeks to expose the materiality and the processes hidden by the smooth surfaces and precise decorations of historic porcelain ware. Her work shows how contemporary ceramic artists critically engage the form, the practice, and the history of ceramic art.   In this talk and Q&A, Lee will discuss her journey as a ceramics artist and the challenges of negotiating her multifaceted background and training. Her exhibition, Dopamine Dressing, will be on display at UMMA from December 2022 to August 27, 2023 in the Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery. This exhibition–inspired by the fashion trend that explores ideas that bright colors and astonishing textures can affect chemicals in the brain–responds to this theory by inviting visitors to respond to vibrancy, materiality, and expressive movement in art.    Please join YehRim Lee in the exhibition Dopamine Dressing following her talk.

More about the artist: YehRim Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. She earned her BFA in ceramics from Korea National University of Cultural Heritage (2013). In 2014, she continued her studies at the California State University Long Beach as Post-Baccalaureate in Ceramic Arts (2014-2015). She received her MFA in Ceramic Art at Alfred University (2017). She has shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Lee was the visiting resident artist at the University of Georgia in the ceramics department (2017-2018), the University of the Arts (2018-2019), and the Clay Studio in Philadelphia (2018-2020). Recent shows include the Korean International Ceramic Bienniale 2019 and A Dead Reckoning, Pensacola Museum of Art (2021). Most recently shewas a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana 

This program is presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.  

Support for Lee's residency at U-M and Cross-Continental Flux is provided by the Nam Center for Korean Studies, the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and the Stamps School of Art & Design Roman J. Witt Residency Program. Special thanks to Professor Susan Crowell (Stamps School of Art & Design and Residential College) for partnering with UMMA on this artist residency. 


Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the William C. Weese, M.D. Endowment for Ceramic Arts, the U–M Office of the Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the U-M Department of History of Art and the U-M Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Feb 2023 18:15:30 -0500 2023-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 2023-02-21T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-23T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CAS Workshop | Negotiating “Ambiguous Race”: Hierarchies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Empires of the Ancient Mediterranean (February 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104751 104751-21810075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at http://umich.zoom.us/j/93701950330

In the second book of the Annals, the Roman historian Tacitus describes the Armenians as an ambigua gens - an “ambiguous race.” According to Tacitus, not only did Armenia defy definition, but its volatile political history between Rome and Persia reflected the inherent ambiguity of the Armenian gens. Neither Roman nor Persian, Greek nor barbarian, Armenia simply did not fit into one of the established hierarchies the Romans used to order their world and to situate their subjects within the existing hierarchies of their empire.

By drawing the experiences of Armenians into dialogue with other minoritized populations in the Roman empire, Sasanian Persia, and other empires of the Mediterranean, this workshop explores how hierarchies of citizenship, race, and belonging functioned as technologies of imperial rule across a variety of case studies. In particular, it seeks to contribute to critical conversations on the study of race in the ancient and late ancient Mediterranean, thereby shedding light on the ways in which imperial subjects fashioned their individual and communal subjectivities both diachronically and synchronically.

How, then, might the “ambiguity” of the Armenian ambigua gens illuminate not only the experiences of empire, but also the ontology of empires themselves in the premodern Mediterranean? How did imperial hierarchies of citizenship and belonging shape daily life at the center and on the periphery? And how did imperial subjects engage with, manipulate, or even reject these imperial hierarchies in order to navigate their place in their local and supra-local imperial contexts? This workshop brings together scholars from multiple academic disciplines to reconsider the dynamics of imperialism and to propose new historical paradigms to decenter, decolonize, and deconstruct the historiography of empires in the premodern Mediterranean.

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at http://umich.zoom.us/j/93701950330

February 23nd | Weiser Hall 555

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Keynote Address
Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
Racialization in the Roman Empire: Dispositions and Affects

February 24rd | Weiser Hall 555

9:00 am - 10:45 am

Panel I: Whence Ambiguity?: Imperial Hierarchies and the Experiences of Empire
Respondent: Aileen Das, University of Michigan

Cliff Ando, University of Chicago
"Rome and the Peoples Without Name"

Jimmy Wolfe, University of Michigan
"An Ambiguous Race: Armenian and Assyrian Identities in Roman and
American Imperialism"

10:45 am - 11:00 am Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel II: Racialized Paradigms and Minoritized Populations in the Ancient and Medieval Middle East
Respondent: Katherine Davis, University of Michigan

Jessie DeGrado, University of Michigan
"Ancient Alterity, Modern Racialization: Language, Culture, and the Construction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire"

Kayla Dang, St. Louis University
"The Entangled Eran: Ethnicity, Religion, and Race in Iranian Studies"

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel III: Visual Subjects: Art and Identity in Byzantium
Respondent: Bryan Miller, University of Michigan

Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan
"Image-Breaking as Otherness in Byzantium: Business as Usual?"

Christina Maranci, Harvard University
"Breaking Down Byzantium with Nerses III Catholicos (c.641 - c.661)"

This workshop is organized by James Wolfe, 2022-23 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of History, U-M) and Michael Pifer (Department of Middle East Studies, U-M)

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Departments of Classical Studies and Middle East Studies and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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.

]]>
Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:50:00 -0500 2023-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Conference / Symposium CAS Workshop | Negotiating “Ambiguous Race”: Hierarchies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Empires of the Ancient Mediterranean
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-02-23T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-23T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CAS Workshop | Negotiating “Ambiguous Race”: Hierarchies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Empires of the Ancient Mediterranean (February 24, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104751 104751-21810076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at http://umich.zoom.us/j/93701950330

In the second book of the Annals, the Roman historian Tacitus describes the Armenians as an ambigua gens - an “ambiguous race.” According to Tacitus, not only did Armenia defy definition, but its volatile political history between Rome and Persia reflected the inherent ambiguity of the Armenian gens. Neither Roman nor Persian, Greek nor barbarian, Armenia simply did not fit into one of the established hierarchies the Romans used to order their world and to situate their subjects within the existing hierarchies of their empire.

By drawing the experiences of Armenians into dialogue with other minoritized populations in the Roman empire, Sasanian Persia, and other empires of the Mediterranean, this workshop explores how hierarchies of citizenship, race, and belonging functioned as technologies of imperial rule across a variety of case studies. In particular, it seeks to contribute to critical conversations on the study of race in the ancient and late ancient Mediterranean, thereby shedding light on the ways in which imperial subjects fashioned their individual and communal subjectivities both diachronically and synchronically.

How, then, might the “ambiguity” of the Armenian ambigua gens illuminate not only the experiences of empire, but also the ontology of empires themselves in the premodern Mediterranean? How did imperial hierarchies of citizenship and belonging shape daily life at the center and on the periphery? And how did imperial subjects engage with, manipulate, or even reject these imperial hierarchies in order to navigate their place in their local and supra-local imperial contexts? This workshop brings together scholars from multiple academic disciplines to reconsider the dynamics of imperialism and to propose new historical paradigms to decenter, decolonize, and deconstruct the historiography of empires in the premodern Mediterranean.

If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at http://umich.zoom.us/j/93701950330

February 23nd | Weiser Hall 555

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Keynote Address
Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
Racialization in the Roman Empire: Dispositions and Affects

February 24rd | Weiser Hall 555

9:00 am - 10:45 am

Panel I: Whence Ambiguity?: Imperial Hierarchies and the Experiences of Empire
Respondent: Aileen Das, University of Michigan

Cliff Ando, University of Chicago
"Rome and the Peoples Without Name"

Jimmy Wolfe, University of Michigan
"An Ambiguous Race: Armenian and Assyrian Identities in Roman and
American Imperialism"

10:45 am - 11:00 am Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Panel II: Racialized Paradigms and Minoritized Populations in the Ancient and Medieval Middle East
Respondent: Katherine Davis, University of Michigan

Jessie DeGrado, University of Michigan
"Ancient Alterity, Modern Racialization: Language, Culture, and the Construction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire"

Kayla Dang, St. Louis University
"The Entangled Eran: Ethnicity, Religion, and Race in Iranian Studies"

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel III: Visual Subjects: Art and Identity in Byzantium
Respondent: Bryan Miller, University of Michigan

Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan
"Image-Breaking as Otherness in Byzantium: Business as Usual?"

Christina Maranci, Harvard University
"Breaking Down Byzantium with Nerses III Catholicos (c.641 - c.661)"

This workshop is organized by James Wolfe, 2022-23 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of History, U-M) and Michael Pifer (Department of Middle East Studies, U-M)

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Departments of Classical Studies and Middle East Studies and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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.

]]>
Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:50:00 -0500 2023-02-24T09:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T15:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Conference / Symposium CAS Workshop | Negotiating “Ambiguous Race”: Hierarchies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Empires of the Ancient Mediterranean
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (February 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-02-24T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Guided Tour of the Clements Library (February 24, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102858 102858-21807075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 24, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

Register at: myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

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

]]>
Presentation Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:51:24 -0500 2023-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation N. Entrance of the Clements Library
Michigan in Washington Application Deadline Winter 2023 (February 27, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/102775 102775-21805124@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan in Washington Program

The Michigan in Washington Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2023 semester and early admission to Winter 2024.
The MIW program offers an opportunity each year for 20 undergraduates from any major to spend a semester (Fall or Winter) in Washington D.C. Students combine coursework with an internship that reflects their particular area of interest (such as American politics, international studies, history, the arts, public health, economics, the media, the environment, science, and technology). Students work four days a week, attend an elective one evening a week, and a research course on Friday mornings. They spend their weekends exploring the city and taking in cultural events.

]]>
Other Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:33:50 -0500 2023-02-27T00:00:00-05:00 2023-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan in Washington Program Other MIW
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (February 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-27T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (February 28, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-02-28T10:00:00-05:00 2023-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 1, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-01T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 2, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 2, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-02T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-03T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-03T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-06T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 7, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-07T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 8, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-08T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Coffee with the Curators: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 8, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104816 104816-21810299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Come celebrate a new exhibit, Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books. Join us for refreshments, viewing the exhibit, and casual conversation with the student curators! We'll be in the Special Collections Research Center (room 660) on the 6th floor of the Hatcher Library.

The exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books.

Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

]]>
Reception / Open House Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:42:22 -0500 2023-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 9, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-09T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Designing Wartime Economic Controls: Productivity and Firm Dynamics in the Japanese Cotton-Spinning Industry, 1937–1939 (March 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102330 102330-21803859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

If you wish to attend this event via zoom, please register at http://myumi.ch/EkqXE

When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1937, the Japanese government imposed wide-ranging economic controls to mobilize resources for the war. This presentation investigates the evolution of controlling systems and its economic implications.

Tetsuji Okazaki is a professor of economic history at the University of Tokyo. He served as President of the International Economic History Association from 2015 to 2018. He has published extensively in major journals in economic history and economics, including *Journal of Economic History*, *Economic History Review*, and *American Economic Review*. His recent research interests include history of war economies, and historical research on innovation.

This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:39:17 -0500 2023-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economic History, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo
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.

]]>
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.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 9, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 9, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
Guided Tour of the U-M Clements Library (March 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105790 105790-21812952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a guided tour to learn more about the Clements' early American history collections. Highlights include viewing of Benjamin West's iconic painting "Death of General Wolfe," a Revolutionary War-era trunk that once housed General Gage's papers and more!

Registration: http://myumi.ch/Aw9Zb

]]>
Tours Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:42:26 -0500 2023-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Tours North Entrance of the Clements Library
Spring 2023 MEMS Lecture. In the Aftermath of the Divine Winds: Religious Responses to the Mongol Threat and the Medieval Reimagining of Japan (March 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102062 102062-21803407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Twice in the late thirteenth century, the Mongol empire launched attack fleets against Japan. On both occasions, they were repelled by fortuitous storms. Scholarly accounts of the Mongol threat have focused on Japan’s military defense. However, massive efforts were also poured into ritual countermeasures: Sacred texts were copied and recited, buddha images commissioned, and enemy-subduing rites performed. The failure of the invasion attempts was attributed to the intervention of Japan’s local deities (kami) and catalyzed a conceptual inversion of Japan’s cosmological status, from “a marginal land in the last age” to a timeless, inviolable realm at the very center of the Buddhist world.

Bio: Jacqueline Stone is professor emerita of Japanese Religions in the Religion Department of Princeton University. She focuses on Japanese Buddhism of the medieval and modern periods. Her current research interests include traditions of the Lotus Sutra, particularly the Tendai and Nichiren sects; Buddhism and Japanese identity formation; and modern reinterpretations of Buddhist thought and practice. She is the author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (1999) and Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan (2016).

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:42:46 -0500 2023-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Battle engaged with Mongol forces
CSEAS Lecture Series. Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: The Marcos Diaries (March 10, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105176 105176-21811240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Central Campus Classroom Building
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In his haste to evacuate the Malacañang Presidential Palace in February 1986, former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos left many handwritten diaries covering the years 1969-1984. While the originals are in the custody of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, unofficial copies have been circulating for years.

Preparing the diaries of publication entailed collating, validating, and annotating entries from different sources, contemporary newspapers, the *Official Gazette*, and declassified U.S. State Department records. The project is not just an exercise in documentary editing but being critical of Marcos’ self-referential and biased view of events. In light of the current rewriting of the first Marcos presidency, these documents are double-edged, the fruit of the poisonous tree.

Ambeth R. Ocampo is a public historian whose research covers the 19th-century Philippines—its art, culture, and the people who figure in the birth of the nation. Professor and former chairman of the Department of History at the Ateneo de Manila University, Professor Ocampo writes “Looking Back,” the longest-running editorial page column on history for the *Philippine Daily Inquirer*. To read his articles, visit https://opinion.inquirer.net/column/looking-back.

Professor Ocampo has published over 35 books, the most recent being: *Queridas de Rizal: Looking Back 16 and Yaman: History and Heritage in Philippine Money*, which was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for History. He served as president of the City College of Manila; president of the Philippine Historical Association; co-chair of the Manila Historical and Heritage Commission; chairman of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines; and chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. In another life, he was a Benedictine monk known as Dom. Ignacio Maria, OSB. He now moderates growing Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube channels.

This is an in-person and virtual event. Register at http://myumi.ch/AwANn

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:29:19 -0500 2023-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T19:30:00-05:00 Central Campus Classroom Building Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion CSEAS Lecture Series. Fruit of the Poisonous Tree: The Marcos Diaries
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Celebrating Women's History Month (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104373 104373-21808973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Martha Cook Residence
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

“Celebrating Women’s History Month” will be a 90-minute presentation and dialogue on and celebrating the contributions of women throughout history. We will recognize the promotion of feminism and how it has evolved over time with discussion topics ranging from politics, science, art, and culture. Through a candid conversation highlighting women’s voices across time, we will highlight the impact of women in the industry and the contributions of women throughout the globe as well at the University of Michigan.

The experiences of minority women including but not limited to: Trans women, trans femme women, African American & Black women, Latinx & Pacific Islander women, Native American women, East Asian women, South Asian women, Central Asian women, and Middle Eastern women will be central to our workshop. Within our resident halls, we encourage the awareness and active condemnation of misogynistic stigmas. Thus, we will discuss not only women’s accomplishments but also the burdens they had to overcome, and how we can all be part of a future where these burdens are removed for all individuals who identify as women.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:33:34 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T20:00:00-04:00 Martha Cook Residence Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Martha Cook Residence
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 14, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-14T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940: New Evidence (March 14, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105803 105803-21812980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Economics

The consensus view among economic historians is that wage inequality in American manufacturing followed an inverted-U path from the early nineteenth century until just before World War Two. The previous literature, however, has been unable to fully document this path over time, or fully assess the role of explanatory factors such as changes in firm organization and technology. We provide fresh evidence that allows us to better document the inverted U as well as its causes. In the first part of the paper, we use the Department of Labor’s Hand and Machine Labor Study to show that wage inequality within manufacturing establishments rose over the nineteenth century. In the second part, we use information from Massachusetts on construct a new time series showing that wage inequality among production workers declined from the 1890s to the late 1930s. For both periods technology played a role – the shift to steam-powered factories over the nineteenth century raised wage inequality, whereas electrification after 1900 reduced it.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:19:21 -0500 2023-03-14T14:30:00-04:00 2023-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940: New Evidence (co-authored with Jeremy Atack and Paul Rhode)
Subject Matter: Clay As Soft Power (March 14, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104633 104633-21809749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ejn6k39r3240b770.

This Pottery Changed The Course of Global History — Seriously

Shigaraki ware ceramics transformed the American public’s image of Japan, helping the country shift its identity from World War II enemy to Cold War ally to global cultural change maker. Join UMMA curators Natsu Oyobe and Dave Choberka for an exploration of Shigaraki ware’s earthy tones, rough clay surfaces, and global intrigue.   

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the U-M Office of the Provost, the Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and the U-M Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation, James M. Trapp, Nancy and Joe Keithley, and the William C. Weese, M.D. Endowment for Ceramic Arts.  

]]>
Other Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:15:32 -0400 2023-03-14T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 15, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Historic Postcard Archives Blitz (March 15, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105097 105097-21810735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 3:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Would you like to help describe historic postcards, play a game, and win prizes? Bring along your laptop, tablet, or smartphone and join us any time between 3:00 - 7:00 pm on March 15. You'll learn about and sign up for the Clements Library's "Picturing Michigan's Past" Zooniverse Project. You can also visit the current exhibit, “Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America.”

]]>
Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 17 Feb 2023 12:47:33 -0500 2023-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Social / Informal Gathering Crossing the Falls with a Deer (part of historic postcard)
Political Violence and the Carceral State: From COINTELPRO to Counterterrorism (March 15, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105634 105634-21812538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Daniel S. Chard will discuss his book, Nixon's War at Home, and how the history of violent domestic conflict in the 1960s and 70s can inform contemporary American debates over political violence, policing, and social change.

Daniel S. Chard is Visiting Assistant Professor of U.S. history at Western Washington University.

This is an in-person event in 1014 Tisch Hall.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:45:20 -0500 2023-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Cover of the book "Nixon's War at Home" next to the author, Daniel S. Chard
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 16, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-16T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
EIHS Lecture: Speak Politely to the Ancestors: Gender and Moral Community in Southeastern Africa's Second Millennium CE (March 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95294 95294-21789130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

In the ninth-century South African Highveld, Nguni-speakers lost their ancestors. They would spend nearly a millennium seeking new ones and appeasing them by teaching young men and women to speak and act with modesty. As they did, Nguni-speakers crafted an evolving politics of gender in which the ability to behave politely brought social connections and economic opportunities. Against European and African accounts that reduce modesty to a lever for women’s oppression, this talk asks what happens to our understanding of power and alterity when men and women perform gender in the same way, and when some cannot perform gender at all.

Raevin Jimenez is an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan. Professor Jimenez specializes in the interdisciplinary study of Africa’s distant past with an emphasis on language, orality, and materiality. Her current work traces the role of gender as concept and practice across the precolonial history of South Africa.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Dec 2022 11:30:41 -0500 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Raevin Jimenez
Illustrating the World: Pictorial Maps From the Clark Library Collection (March 16, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106012 106012-21813572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Please join us to explore our diverse collection of vibrant and unique pictorial maps. Pictorial maps make up a distinct cartographic genre of artistic renderings of places and events in a way that helps shape the way people look at the world.

This is a student curated event which will draw mainly from the U-M Library’s collections, including the Clark Library.

Third Thursday in the Clark Library is a series of themed open houses that share highlights from the Clark Library’s vast collection.

]]>
Reception / Open House Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:01:17 -0400 2023-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Illustrating the World, with a pictorial map showing the upper peninsula of Michigan.
The Seduction, Refusal, and Retention of Universality in Collections Care (March 16, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105500 105500-21811967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 16, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Universality as an intellectual and ethical imperative has substantially shaped museum work, including the management and care of collections. Critiques of the universal—including universal museums—contribute to current and necessary conversations encouraging the decolonization of cultural institutions. At the same time, the ethical impetus of universal design offers a new set of values with which to imagine the universal in museums. In this talk, I consider moves from universalism to relativism, and from singularity to plurality. In seeking to understand why universalism, its refusal, and its retention within museum spaces matters, I propose that museums’ evolving interpretations of universality directly shape how they care—for their collections, their publics, and their environments.

Presentation by Cara Krmpotich, University of Toronto

]]>
Presentation Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:15:33 -0500 2023-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2023-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Museum Studies Program Presentation Cara Krmpotich, University of Toronto
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
The Clements Bookworm: The Legacy of Albert Kahn with Michael Hodges and Carol Rose Kahn (March 17, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106009 106009-21813569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, Carol Kahn will share how she finds inspiration in her grandfather's work while uncovering remarkable family stories. She will be joined by longtime friend and author, Michael Hodges, Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit. Hodges will discuss how the German-Jewish immigrant rose from poverty to become one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century.

This event has no cost, but please register here: http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:54:27 -0500 2023-03-17T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T11:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion The Clements Bookworm
EIHS Symposium: Quarrying History and the Art of Remembrance (March 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95304 95304-21789140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This symposium will be structured as a conversation between Paul Farber, co-founder of the renowned nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab, and Ozi Uduma, assistant curator of global contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with Elizabeth James, program associate in Afroamerican and African Studies, as moderator. They will discuss aspects of their new collaborative project examining the role of historic structures at the University of Michigan, particularly UMMA’s Alumni Memorial Hall, in upholding social and cultural systems and narratives and how these histories might be challenged and made more complex. As Uduma explains, “It’s our duty as a free, public museum to tell more complex and more honest stories about the choices made by artists or by builders or by university administrations because those choices often have direct impacts on our communities. To move forward, we must unpack this past."

Panelists:

• Paul M. Farber (Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Mountment Lab)
• Ozi Uduma (Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art)
• Elizabeth James (moderator; Program Associate, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Mar 2023 12:50:22 -0500 2023-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Alumni Memorial Hall (Bentley Historical Library)
Quarrying History and the Art of Remembrance with UMMA curator Ozi Uduma and Monument Lab's Paul Farber (March 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106049 106049-21813627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_866YduLURCeZhRW2IYbH4A.

This symposium, presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, will be structured as a conversation between Paul Farber, co-founder of the renowned nonprofit public art and history studio Monument Lab, and Ozi Uduma, assistant curator of global contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Elizabeth James, program associate in Afroamerican and African Studies, will join them as moderator. The discussion will focus on aspects of a new collaborative project examining the role of historic structures at the University of Michigan, particularly UMMA’s Alumni Memorial Hall, in upholding social and cultural systems and narratives and how these histories might be challenged and made more complex. As Uduma explains, “It’s our duty as a free, public museum to tell more complex and more honest stories about the choices made by artists or by builders or by university administrations because those choices often have direct impacts on our communities. To move forward, we must unpack this past."

Panelists:

• Paul M. Farber (Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Mountment Lab) • Ozi Uduma (Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art) • Elizabeth James (moderator; Program Associate, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

For more information, please visit the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

 

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:15:31 -0400 2023-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T14:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
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

]]>
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)
Talk by Professor Julián Casanova: Historia de España en el Siglo XX (March 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105706 105706-21812820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Join us for a talk by professor Julián Casanova Friday, March 17th, 4:00pm-6:00pm in the RLL Commons on the 4th floor of the MLB, or by Zoom. The talk will be in Spanish.

The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally varied. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, that of Alfonso XIII, lived through two dictatorships, a Republic and a civil war, and died with the grandson of Alfonso XIII, Juan Carlos I, as Head of State. The first third of the twentieth century was not the chronicle of a secular frustration foretold which of necessity was to finish up as a collective tragedy; neither was the brief democratic experiment of the Second Republic the inevitable prologue to the civil war; nor was the long, drawn-out Francoist dictatorship a parenthesis which, at the end of the day, favoured economic development and the advent of freedom; and the transition to democracy was never a perfect script previously written from the upper echelons of power. We historians also know that there is no
‘normal’ model of modernisation with which Spain could be contrasted as being an anomalous exception.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:36:16 -0500 2023-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Historia de España en el Siglo XX Poster
Clements and Kahn: Influencing architecture and the archives (March 19, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105793 105793-21812956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 19, 2023 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Clements Library and the Albert Kahn Foundation invite you to attend an event to celebrate the Clements centennial. Join us for behind-the-scenes tours, viewing of the student-curated exhibit: Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America, Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation pop-up exhibit including the unveiling of a new panel celebrating the Kahn-designed Clements Library. Register early as space is limited. Free and open to the public.

Registration: https://myumi.ch/1AEXy

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:43:50 -0500 2023-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2023-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition William Clements Library
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 20, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 20, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 21, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Xunzi and Aristotle on Freedom (March 21, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103259 103259-21806687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

If you would like to attend via Zoom, please register at https://myumi.ch/dk2Z6

In the end, a truly "global perspective" should consider how Chinese thinking, taken seriously, might help us revise our default presumptions and priorities in today's EuroAmerica. Dr. Nylan’s talk will register two main points: (1) that the early thinkers Xunzi and Aristotle both urge due attention to the situation at hand (communal as much as individual, institutional as much as volitional), unlike many modern philosophers intent upon devising universal ethical principles for individual autonomous rational beings; and (2) that these two early thinkers excel in leading us to consider how best to avoid becoming enslaved by people and things, with their kind of self-rule (being "lord over oneself") an attainment that fundamentally depends upon long training by a range of social institutions. Her talk will also suggest that Xunzi's worldview suits the exigencies of the contemporary world somewhat better than Aristotle's perspective.

Michael Nylan 戴梅可 generally writes in three disciplines: the history of the early empires in China (475 BC-AD 316), philosophy, and art and archaeology. Of late, she has been focusing on the sociopolitical context for local communities in China; on aesthetic theories and material culture; and cosmological belief; and on gender history and the history of such emotions as "daring" and "salutary fear" (aka prudential caution). She is finishing up two books, a mammoth translation of the Han-era Documents classic and a book tentatively titled "The Four Fathers of History" (on Herodotus and Thucydides, Sima Qian and Ban Gu). Her comparative interests have been highlighted in such books as "Chang'an 26 BCE: an Augustan Age in Rome" and "The Chinese Pleasure Book," as well as in numerous essays.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:47:51 -0500 2023-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Michael Nylan, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley
Aiton Lecture: Rethinking the Aztecs: Have we been wrong for 500 years? (March 21, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105175 105175-21811239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

In this talk, Professor Camilla Townsend, author of "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs," will address what we can learn from Nahuatl-language sources produced in the sixteenth century if we open ourselves to everything they have to teach us. She will also discuss what she believes are the reasons we have tended to be resistant to their messages, even in recent times.

Camilla Townsend is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of numerous books on Indigenous history, among them "Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma" (2004), "Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico" (2006), and "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" (2019), which won the 2020 Cundill Prize in History. Her research has been supported by such entities as the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

This lecture will take place in person in 1014 Tisch Hall on Tuesday, March 21 at 4:00 pm.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:11:53 -0500 2023-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Professor Camilla Townsend
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 22, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-22T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Dissertation Chapter Workshop---"The Queer Anxiety of John Addington Symonds" (March 22, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105937 105937-21813288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum to provide feedback on member Ana Popovic's work-in-progress! Email Dana Moss (danamoss@umich.edu), Elizabeth Reese (eareese@umich.edu) or Emma Soberano (soberano@umich.edu) for pre-circulated chapter.
Chapter Abstract:
In this essay, I read John Addington Symonds' Memoirs and personal correspondences as textual repositories of queer anxiety. I focus on Symonds' recollections about living in fear of being discovered and publicly humiliated, and I argue that queer anxiety is a structure of feeling constitutive of the homosexual closet. Examining his correspondence with Havelock Ellis and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, I reveal that Symonds theorized his affective life and developed a notion of the cultural origins of queer anxiety. With this, he sought to challenge the psychiatric definitions of homosexual neurosis as a congenital condition and dispute the scientific theories of homosexuality as illness. His autotheoretical contributions, however, were dismissed by sexologists as subjective inferences inadmissible to scientific epistemologies: as the object of the medical gaze, the anxious homosexual could speak, but he could never have the last word.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:11:55 -0500 2023-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar
John W. Shy Memorial Lecture (March 22, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105091 105091-21810726@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Fred Anderson, historian and author of Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, will deliver the John W. Shy Memorial Lecture titled “From a ‘New’ Military History to a New Grand Narrative for North America: The Surprising Legacy of John Shy” on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Join us for coffee, tea, snacks, and cookies at 4:30 on the 4th floor in Assembly Hall followed by the lecture at 5:30 in the Amphitheatre.

Funding for the lecture has been generously provided by members of the Michigan War Studies Group.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:44:08 -0500 2023-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 2023-03-22T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Crucible of War Bookcover Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 23, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-23T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
LHS Collaboratory (March 23, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105035 105035-21810617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Speaker:
Thomas R. Campion, Jr., Ph.D., FACMI, FAMIA
Chief Research Informatics Officer
Associate Professor of Research in Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

Clinical and translational investigators need patient data, especially from electronic health record (EHR) systems, to conduct research, but optimal approaches are unknown. This talk explores an approach for supporting different types of investigators and study designs by matching investigators with informatics tools and services.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:51:27 -0500 2023-03-23T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory logo
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 24, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CSEAS Lecture Series. History in Ruins: Keramat and Stories of Singapore Islam (March 24, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102881 102881-21805279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 24, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This paper studies oral and textual traditions concerning select Islamic miracle workers (*keramat*) of Singapore. Materials about *keramat* are richly informative about charismatic religious authority, the materiality of miracles, and the saintly mediation of societies, trade, and politics. The history of Singapore’s *keramat* and devotional communities is one interwoven with histories of the Indian Ocean, maritime Sufism, capitalism, colonialism, and post-colonial bureaucracy. The story of *keramat* and Islamic pasts and presents, moreover, is one learned from sacred places and ruins as well as from the caretakers, storytellers, and historians from within devotional communities. Biographies and miracle stories of *keramat* also illuminate the networks of storytellers and scholars involved in compiling chapters of Singapore’s Islamic history, who affirmed the oceanic reach of *keramat* as pivots of widespread networks connecting the eastern and western Islamic world. Keramat were abundant in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Singapore; this paper will focus on some of God’s "friends” in the port city.

Speaker Bio
Teren Sevea is the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. He is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia and the author of *Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya*. He is also the co-editor of a volume entitled *Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia,* and author of numerous articles on Islamic textual traditions, Sufism, oceanic networks, and spirituality. He is currently working on a forthcoming book entitled *Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans*.

Register here: http://myumi.ch/DJdyj
---
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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Jan 2023 09:06:04 -0500 2023-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Teren Sevea, Harvard Divinity School
The Premodern Colloquium. Maroon Assemblages: Mexico, from the 21st to the 18th Century. (March 26, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101635 101635-21801622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 26, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This is a draft chapter from my book, Maroon Assemblages: Mexico, 21st to 17th centuries. The book charts the traces of fugitivity in the eastern jurisdictions of New Spain beginning in the 17th century through to its absences in present-day Amapa, a Oaxacan pueblo that was founded during Mexico’s colonial occupation by Black fugitives who fled sugar haciendas located in the southeastern provinces. The book approaches the practice of colonial fugitivity through Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage, bringing it into focus as shifting constellations of racialized peoples, geographies, discourses, archives and political projects that crystallize and disperse at different moments in time. I track these constellations across multiple archives—archaeological materials, historical documents, contemporary landscapes, and oral histories. Specifically, this chapter interrogates an image that troubles the legal archives in colonial Mexico—the category of negro cimarrón, or Black maroon—and situates it within a history of Spanish colonial epistemologies, discursive processes, and material practices.

This chapter 1) tracks the fractured process of creating a maroon archive, that is, the physical consignation of documents that repeated and reproduced ‘the question of maroons’; 2) it considers how the colonial category 'maroon' both configured the lived subjectivities of those conscripted into it and how those subjects exceeded it; and 3) it examines maroon durations. By the mid 18th-century, when Spanish colonial officials began to systematically gather sources on maroons, they had already been a centuries-old problem. These archived images, then, folded time, as documents recorded various processes with different material durations such as the fugitive practices of maroons, fluctuating political conditions in New Spain, and colonial ‘problem spaces’ that had outlived their political presents.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:52:45 -0400 2023-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 27, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-27T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CJS 75 Time Capsule Workshop (March 27, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106627 106627-21814591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Join us on Monday, March 27 for a workshop led by CJS alumnus Bradly Hammond!

This year, the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) marks its 75th anniversary. Every CJS anniversary has generated commemorative books, brochures, and videos that spotlight the center’s past while staking out new horizons for its work. Although not necessarily intended as such by the small groups of faculty and staff who made them, we can think of these items as time capsules of CJS’s self-image and ambitions at different points in its history.

This workshop invites participants to reflect on those past time capsules, and also to make an intentional time capsule to mark CJS’s 75th year. Guided by curricula created by the Detroit Justice Center for its Restorative Justice Youth Design Summit, we will discuss and record our thoughts about such questions as:

What is the purpose or intent of a Center for Japanese Studies?
What does a generative and ethical Center for Japanese Studies look like?
How do you think CJS ought to be investing its resources 75 years from now?

Refreshments will be provided. Registration for this event is required as space is limited. Please RSVP at myumi.ch/by6NW and contact us at umcjs@umich.edu with any questions.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:03:14 -0400 2023-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Center for Japanese Studies Workshop / Seminar CJS 75th Anniversary
Panel on Reconstructing History and Challenging Canons (March 27, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106665 106665-21814659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 27, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

This panel seeks to bring together a diverse group of professors whose work centers the process of recontextualizing history. There are two goals—to produce interesting discussion across disciplines and geographies, investigating how to properly critique “accepted histories.” As well to provide an educational entry point for students unfamiliar with critiques of history. Our hope is the audience leaves the panel with the ability to question the history that they were taught and will experience in their education.

The speakers on this panel challenge topics such as academic and literary canons, the linear progression of history, and its ultimate westernization. It is by centering voices and stories outside of these “accepted histories” that we are able to better understand the world around us. We hope to move closer to communicating a history that is open and inclusive to everyone.

The RSVP link is https://forms.gle/mJY16rn6fG26HHBf6.

Organized by LSA Student Government.

This event is cosponsored by the Center for Armenian Studies, Michigan Community Scholars Program, Residential College, Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts, Comparative Literature, International Institute, Center for Global and Intercultural Study, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Central Student Government, Program in International and Comparative Studies, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), LSA Honors Program, Department of History, Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History, Department of Political Science, LSA Opportunity Hub.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:13:49 -0400 2023-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Panel on Reconstructing History and Challenging Canons
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 28, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
WCED Lecture. The Racial Politics of Citizenship: Anticolonial Imaginaries and the Making of Political Modernity from Haiti (March 28, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101979 101979-21803119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

While modern citizenship promises equality, it has deep entanglements with the colonial project. We have long analyzed mechanisms of citizenship inclusion through the lens of the class struggle and cultural boundary expansion, and we tend to tether citizenship rights to the nation state and European modernity. However, it was in European colonies where questions of rights had to be navigated, especially during the Caribbean struggles over freedom following racial slavery. As a result of this analytical bifurcation, the social sciences have largely overlooked how a project of racecraft made egalitarian ideals of freedom and citizenship compatible with continued colonial rule. Aiming to overcome this separation, this talk situates the making of political modernity in the Haitian Revolution. It proceeds in three steps. First, it specifies how Haitians thought about their freedom struggle, aiming to articulate their own humanity at a time when racial slavery raged around them. Second, it examines different approaches within the Haitian Revolution to overcome these power structures, including that of Toussaint’s egalitarianism, Dessalines’ Black humanism, and the peasant revolt. Finally, the talk examines how external constraints denied many of these political approaches. Hammer concludes by demonstrating how citizenship politics fail to address racial and colonial domination, while pointing to alternative approaches.

Ricarda Hammer is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for 2021-23. Her research interests lie at the intersection of global, historical, and postcolonial sociology. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University in 2021 and she is currently working on her book manuscript, “Citizenship and Colonial Difference: The Racial Politics of Rights and Rule across the Black Atlantic.” The book aims to build a new genealogy of rights formation by examining it through the colonial struggle, and from the perspective of the enslaved and colonized in the colonial Caribbean. Her work has been published in *Sociological Theory*, *Sociology of Race and Ethnicity*, *Political Power and Social Theory*, and *Teaching Sociology*.

This lecture will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and on Zoom. Webinar registration required at http://myumi.ch/n8MkV

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.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:25:12 -0500 2023-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Ricarda Hammer
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 29, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-29T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 30, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-30T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CANCELLED: EIHS Lecture: Writing Enslaved Women’s Histories from the Crevices of the Archive (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95295 95295-21789131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This presentation offers an intimate portrait of the life of an enslaved woman, known as Abba, who appears multiple times in the diary of a slaveholder in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Abba’s life, like many others chronicled in the diary, is incompletely established in the literature, a pathetic figure overcome by violence, domination, and a demanding labor regime. Shifting analytic gaze and narrative voice to the enslaved, this discussion uncovers enslaved women’s affective creativity and configuration of a life aligned with their maternal and communal values.

Sasha Turner is associate professor of history at The Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica. Professor Turner has received many awards for her research, including from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Southern Association of Women Historians, African American Intellectual History Society, Association of Black Women Historians, and North American Conference on British Studies. She is working on a new project on slavery and emotions.

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:21:55 -0400 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Sasha Turner
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Elements and Edges: Inhabitable and Uninhabitable Worlds in Medieval Encyclopaedias (March 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105717 105717-21812840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Encyclopaedias portray the earth as perfectly round, nestled within concentric circles of the elements. Yet they also present a jagged earth, with borders between inhabitable and uninhabitable worlds creating geographical divisions that combine in the encyclopaedic environment with natural-historical taxonomies and anthropocentric narratives. This talk will argue that encyclopaedias interrelate concepts of elemental, human and animal bodies with landscapes shaped by histories of geological change, empire and epistemological rupture.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:23:29 -0400 2023-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
Women in the Salt March: A Gandhi Lounge Deep Dive (March 30, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106407 106407-21814193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 30, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Oxford Housing
Organized By: Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion

Oxford DPE will explore the role that women played in the Indian independence movement, specifically Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and her involvement in Gandhi's Salt March. This event will highlight women activists and be specifically related to Oxford Houses.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:18:13 -0400 2023-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2023-03-30T20:00:00-04:00 Oxford Housing Michigan Housing Diversity and Inclusion Workshop / Seminar Tan background with black and white photos of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Mahatma Ghandi. Text details event
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Sense of Self: The Islamic Contemporary (March 31, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105043 105043-21810642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Despite recent panels and scholarship aiming to dispel the notion, there is a conception that contemporary art and religion are incompatible.

When paired with the Islamophobic sentiment that Islam is destructive, rather than constructive like artistic practices and that it even forbids many forms of artistic production, there is a presumption that contemporary art that engages with Islam as religion and faith (rather than simply as identity) cannot exist.

There is an additional assumption that those who identify as women, queer, trans, and non-binary are unlikely to engage with Islam in their work outside of critique, because of the belief that Islam is inherently (and uniquely) oppressive of and therefore contradictory to individuals who identify as such.

In an attempt to disabuse viewers of these notions, as well as give a space of exploration to these often overlooked or excluded voices, this exhibition brings together women, queer, trans, and non-binary Muslim artists who explore their connection to religion, their other identities (be those related to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or status as artists), and their practices.

Participating Artists:
Nour Ballout
Yasmine Diaz
Arshia Fatima Haq
Yasmine Kasem
Manal Shoukair
Saba Taj

]]>
Exhibition Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:12:31 -0500 2023-03-31T10:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Sense of Self, RC Art Gallery
CANCELLED: EIHS Workshop: Atmospheres of Violence: Loss, Silence, and Affect in Archival Research (March 31, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/95305 95305-21789141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Researching historical violence poses methodological, ethical, political, and affective challenges, particularly when this violence continues into the present, disrupts linear notions of time, and undermines triumphant progress narratives. When working in an archive defined by violence and terror, scholars are surrounded by emotions, both their own and their subjects’. In this workshop, an interdisciplinary group of graduate students will consider how scholars can write about marginalized subjects and communities whose voices have been systematically silenced and distorted by traditional historical archives. Foregrounding the affective politics of archival erasure, our panelists will offer different models for navigating archives characterized by profound violence. Our panel will include case studies from the temple of Sarapis in Ptolemaic Egypt during the second century BCE, the St. Charles School for Boys in Progressive-era Illinois, and contemporary social media archives documenting trauma and activism.

Panelists:

• Dora Gao (PhD Student, Ancient History, University of Michigan)
• Allie Goodman (PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)
• Kristen Leer (PhD Candidate, Communication and Media, University of Michigan)
• Kathryn Babayan, moderator (Professor, History, Middle East Studies, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:22:27 -0400 2023-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Ghost Archives
POSTPONED: Ann Arbor Art+Feminism 2023: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (March 31, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105674 105674-21812669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: University Library

POSPONED: This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled.

Artists and activists who identify as women, non-binary, trans, queer, Black, Indigenous, or People of Color only make up a fraction of contributors and content subjects in Wikipedia. Help rectify these biases by joining this Wikipedia editing session at the Digital Studies Institute, complete with editing mentors, food, swag, and a DJ.

First, though, join us at the University of Michigan Museum of Art's Helmut Stern auditorium at 1 p.m. (https://myumi.ch/2mxAm) for an opening panel of avant-garde game designers, artists, and academics whose work specifically addresses the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in digital art, design, and code.

Sponsored by the U-M Library, Stamps Gallery at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and LSA Technology Services.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:43:05 -0400 2023-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall University Library Workshop / Seminar Ann Arbor Art+Feminism events have been postponed.
The Michigan Energy Justice Teach-In (April 1, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105336 105336-21811568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 1, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Michigan Energy Justice Teach-In will be an educational event that takes place during the afternoon on April 1st, 2023. The Teach-In will bring together students, organizations, and energy justice champions to talk about different energy justice topics and is organized into three tracks:

1. Power to the People: Utilities & Electricity Production

2. US Federal Climate Policy and its Global Implications: The Inflation Reduction Act and Impacts of the Renewable Energy Transition in the Global South

3. Energy Infrastructure and Resistance: Strategies to Shut Down Line 5

Attendees will leave this event with an increased awareness about the complexity of energy justice issues, the efforts to address them, and their impacts on everyday life. If you are a student, staff member, or faculty member interested in learning more about energy justice, meeting new people, and sharing ideas, this event is for you!

Lunch and refreshments will be provided for attendees

]]>
Conference / Symposium Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:03:38 -0400 2023-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 2023-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Student Sustainability Coalition Conference / Symposium This is a graphic with information about the Energy Justice Teach-In. Raised hands are joined together raising fists towards the sky. In the background behind the fists is a skyline of buildings with yellow-shaded windows.
Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America (April 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103055 103055-21805807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This student-curated exhibit focuses on the theme of secrecy and how it has shaped our inquiry into how the family, as an institution and an ideal at the heart of debates about American identity and national belonging, has changed over time.

The materials gathered here represented various ways in which cultural concepts of family evolved in both public and private ways.

Please enter through the North Entrance (glass vestibule) that faces the Hatcher Graduate Library.

Curated by: Grace Argo and the Students of History 195, Fall 2022, with Maggie Vanderfold and Julie Fremuth at the Clements Library.

]]>
Exhibition Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:18:15 -0500 2023-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T14:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition Family Secrets: Uncovering Identity in 19th-Century America Image
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (April 3, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
What to do after college???? (April 3, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106998 106998-21815094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 6:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join several Clements staff and volunteers as they talk about the questions they had after college and the path they ended up taking. Questions are encouraged.
This is an in-person event.

Please enter the Clements through the North entrance (facing Hatcher Library).

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:50:45 -0400 2023-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion What to do after College?
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (April 4, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
History: Title Pending (April 4, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105346 105346-21811583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract pending.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:50:51 -0500 2023-04-04T14:30:00-04:00 2023-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar Title Pending
STS Distinguished Lecture. Vulnerometry: Historical Reflections on the Quest to Measure Climate Vulnerability (April 4, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/103038 103038-21805747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This presentation will track a series of discoveries of previously unknown atmospheric forces, made in Vienna between the 1770s and 1850s: animal magnetism, Aereon, and Od. I propose that these belonged to a larger category of atmospheric influences on living things whose workings were obscure yet tantalizing, including ozone, moonlight, and “atmospheric electricity” (the last a new designation to distinguish it from that generated by electrical machines).

The controversies that surrounded the discoveries of these forces need to be recognized as episodes in an overlooked history: the history of investigating the interrelations of life and the atmosphere. I show how this strain of research reflected the Habsburgs’ imperial and industrial ambitions. It is a story with telling parallels in present-day attempts to study the determinants of environmental health and to measure what experts refer to as “degrees of vulnerability” to climate change.

Co-sponsored by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

]]>
Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:02:18 -0400 2023-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion A register of susceptibility to atmospheric influence: the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is said to have modeled his Character Heads on the expressions of Franz Anton Mesmer's patients during magnetic therapy. Photo credit: Jon Lambert.
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

]]>
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
CANCELLED Don't Swipe: An Immersive Exploration of Memories and Imaginings (April 4, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106634 106634-21814603@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 7:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/Mrm8n.

We’re inviting students (individuals and/or groups of friends) to come to the Institute for the Humanities Gallery and explore how art can be the catalyst for recalling memories and imaginings.

Inspired by Sojourner Truth’s use of image and archive, Ricky Weaver's installation "a way outta no way," in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery through May 5, continues to privilege the fugitive material of the image as a method and a route.

This interactive experience includes:

-A tour of the installation led by the artist, Ricky Weaver
-An opportunity to use paper and charcoal to explore how art can be the catalyst for recalling memories and imaginings
-An ice-cream sundae bar with lots of toppings!

Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/Mrm8n.

Learn more about the artist and "a way outta no way" at https://myumi.ch/n7Jpd.

Presented by the Public Humanities Interns at the Institute for the Humanities.

]]>
Other Mon, 03 Apr 2023 10:06:15 -0400 2023-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 2023-04-04T20:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Other Don't Swipe Graphic
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (April 5, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-04-05T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
Openings: Title Pages in the History of Printed Books (April 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/104490 104490-21809391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit explores the creativity and utility of an essential part of practically every modern book, the title page. Such pages signal and inform, incite pleasure and intrigue, as well as conceal and mislead. The works shown here from the holdings of the University of Michigan Library illuminate critical moments in the history of books. Students in a Fall 2022 History Lab class researched and created the exhibit.

The exhibit is available for viewing in the Special Collections Research Center (on the sixth floor of the Hatcher Library), Monday-Friday, 10am-4:30pm.

]]>
Exhibition Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:09:09 -0400 2023-04-06T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail from the opening page of Appianus, "Historia Romana," Venice: Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1477. Incun 118, Special Collections Research Center. Photo by Randal Stegmeyer.
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.

]]>
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
CAS 2023 International Graduate Student Workshop | The Quotidian and the Divine: Early Modern Gendered Economies of Monasticism in the Eastern Christian World (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104753 104753-21810078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Over the decades, the Center for Armenian Studies at U-M has fostered a critical dialogue with graduate students around the globe through our annual graduate student workshops. Together with our faculty, graduate students, visiting and post-doctoral fellows we have pushed scholarship in Armenian Studies in new directions through our collective efforts. Our interventions in the study of Armenian history, literature, translation studies, materiality and the visual arts can be gauged by a carefully curated set of initiatives we have undertaken that will have a long-term impact on the field. The Twelfth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop is a great opportunity to bring together a wide range of disciplines that have engaged closely or obliquely with Christian monasticism.

Scholars of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East have highlighted the complexities of cultural and social life in the empire’s provinces, yet monasticism and monastic life as a social institution remain unstudied. Monasteries have been explored as sites of state cooperation and their leaders as agents of the state, but how can a focus on the social and economic life of monasteries critically reassess themes such as piety, community, and empire?

The church was a critical institution for the physical and spiritual livelihood of Armenians and other Eastern Christian communities. Monasticism existed interdependent of the church; monks and nuns sustained the church’s labor as spiritual shepherds of their communities and served as material stewards of the land and holy spaces. Gendered aspects of monastic life, including the protocols of sexual and spiritual discipline that shaped intimacy and religious life (e.g., celibacy), offer rich vantage points through which the social fabric of confessional communities comes into view. The multiple social, sexual, and spiritual hierarchies that configured these spaces and the relationships they created have yet to be examined.

April 6th Keynote Address I
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
1014 Tisch Hall

Albrecht Diem, Syracuse University
*Was the First Medieval Monk a Woman? - Reconsidered*

Zoom Meeting ID:
959 3416 0523
http://umich.zoom.us/j/95934160523

*This workshop, sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Center for Armenian Studies and funded by the Alex Manoogian Foundation, is organized by Kathryn Babayan (Department of History & Middle East Studies, U-M) and Kelly Hannavi, PhD Candidate (Department of History & Women’s Studies, U-M)*.

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.

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:55:27 -0400 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar CAS 2023 International Graduate Student Workshop | The Quotidian and the Divine: Early Modern Gendered Economies of Monasticism in the Eastern Christian World
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

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

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

]]>
Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
The Right to not Gestate (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107220 107220-21815636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This week, we will be hosting Sophie Lewis for a workshop (on Thursday) and a lecture (on Friday).

Thursday, April 6 Workshop: 4PM will be held at Canterbury House (721 E Huron St)

**LOCATION CHANGE**
Friday, April 7 Lecture: 5PM at the Wesley Foundation | 602 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI (entry at the tower door on the corner of State and Huron)

]]>
Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:55:10 -0400 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Poster