Events Calendar
—updated November 2, 2009
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On-going Events
- October 19, 2009-February 19, 2010
Exhibit: Reframing the Color Line: Race and the Visual Culture of the Atlantic World
This exhibit will focus on the Clements’ recent acquisition of original artwork by the American caricaturist Edward Williams Clay. The discovery of Clay’s watercolors and scrapbooks opened a door to understanding the artist’s engagement with the work of early nineteenth-century French and British caricaturists. Clay’s notorious “Life in Philadelphia” series, which parodied that city’s free black community, was produced immediately after his return from Europe. Reframing the Colorline situates Clay’s work among that of his peers, including George Cruickshank, Thomas Rowlandson, Edme-Jean Pigal, and Honore Daumier. The result is a reframing of the early U.S. visual culture of race and difference in a new, trans-Atlantic perspective.
Presented by the William L. Clements Library and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan
The Clements Library is located at 909 South University Avenue on the central campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Public exhibits are open Monday through Friday from 1:00 to 4:45 p.m. For further information please call 734-764-2347.
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See affiliated symposium, October 30 and 31.
- November 12 through December 11, 2009
Exhibit: REDUX/The Berlin Wall. 1989/2009
Photos by Piotr Michalowski, professor, U-M.
Opening: Thursday, Nov. 12 Exhibition continues through December 11, 2009.
Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.
LOCATION: 202 S. Thayer, Osterman Common Room
November 18, 2009 - Wednesday
- CREES Brown Bag Lecture: Modern Zagreb: City as Open Work
Eve Blau, adjunct professor and director, Master in Architecture Degree Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
DATE: Wednesday, 18th
TIME: noon - 1:30 PM
LOCATION: 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
SPONSORS: CREES, CES-EUC
Contact Information: crees@umich.edu or 734.764.0351
November 19, 2009 - Thursday
- Immigration, Public Policy and the Skills Debate
Speakers: Professor George Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Professor Gordon Hanson, Professor of Economics & Director, Center on Pacific Economies, School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego.
The event is free and open to the public. No tickets required.
DATE: Thursday, November 19th
TIME: 4:00 - 5:30 PM Service
LOCATION: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Auditorium
Reception to follow in the Great Hall
SPONSOR: Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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- U-M Screen Arts and Cultures Projectorhead Series
24 City by Jia Zhang-ke (2008, 107 minutes)
A masterful new film from Jia Zhang-ke, director of Still Life, 24 City chronicles the dramatic and thunderous fall of a State-owned munitions factory and its conversion into a luxury high-rise apartment complex. Artfully composed, rich in offbeat details, and punctuated with pop songs, 24 City weaves together the stories of three generations of factory workers (some real, some actors—including Joan Chen) into a fascinating oral history of post-revolutionary China and the massive changes transforming the country.
DATE: Thursday, November 19th
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: U-M Museum of Art
For more information, contact srieke@umich.edu
November 20, 2009 - Friday
- 9s Project. Collapsing Borders—Einstürzende Grenzen
This special audio-visual live electronics presentation will feature a North American appearance by Markus Guentner, a German artist known as an innovator of the pop ambient sound, and Detroit-based digital dub stylists nospectacle. The performance at the University of Michigan's Duderstadt Center will include composed and improvised music and video, mixed and sequenced by the artists. The point of focus is to show how art and entertainment technologies play a crucial role in transcending political, cultural, and psychological borders. Guentner is best known for his work on Cologne's Kompakt record label, which released his full-length albums In Moll (2001) and 1981 (2005), and various single tracks on its annual Pop Ambient series. He has a new LP, Doppelgaenger, released this fall by Sending Orbs in the Netherlands. He has produced soundscapes for Ambient Work,a comprehensive workstation for creating cinematic atmospheres for feature films, documentaries, commercials, and new media project applications. He lives in Regensburg. nospectacle is an electronic music, video, and DJ project based in Detroit. The group is made up of Christopher McNamara, Jennifer A. Paull, and Walter Wasacz. They perform original works by McNamara, a founding member of the Windsor-Detroit laptop group Thinkbox, re-shaping the source material into drones, dubs, disembodied voices, subsonic bass immersion, and streaming images. The group performs frequently, most recently at Cranbrook and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). In 2009, nospectacle performed at the Detroit Institute of Arts' Detroit Film Theatre at a multi-media program called Live in Time.
DATE: Friday, 20th
TIME: 6:00 - 8:30 PM
LOCATION: Video and Performance Studio, Duderstadt Center, 2281 Bonisteel
SPONSORS: SAC, CES-EUC, Digital Media Commons, WCED
Contact Information: ces-euc@umich.edu
November 23, 2009 - Monday
- A critical Reading of the Elite/Mass Model to Understand the Structure of the Armenian Diaspora
Sarah Mekdjian, (Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, France)
DATE: Monday, November 23rd
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: International Institute, room 1636
SPONSOR: Armenian Studies Program
December 2, 2009 - Wednesday
- WCEE Student Presentations
Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences.
DATE: day, th
TIME: noon - 1:30 PM
LOCATION: 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
SPONSORS: CES-EUC, CREES
Contact Information: weisercenter@umich.edu or 734.764.0351
December 4, 2009 - Friday
- 9s Conference. "The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789-2009"
Conveners: Dario Gaggio, CES-EUC director; Mary Gallagher, CCS director; Michael D. Kennedy, CREES research associate and Howard R. Swearer Director, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; and Douglas Northrop, CREES director.
DATE: Friday, 4th
TIME: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Henderson Room, Michigan League
SPONSOR:
Contact Information: weisercenter@umich.edu or 734.764.0351
December 7, 2009 - Monday
- Roundtable discussion: Studying the Armenian Diaspora
DATE: Monday, December 7th
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: International Institute, room 1636
SPONSOR: Armenian Studies Program
December 8, 2009 - Tuesday
- LSA Collegiate Chair Inaugural Lecture. Affective Communities: The Contradictions of National and Soviet Identity in the USSR.
Ronald G. Suny, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and professor of history, U-M
DATE: Tuesday, December 8th
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: International Institute, room 1636
SPONSOR: LSA
Contact Information: crees@umich.edu or 734.764.0351
December 9, 2009 - Wednesday
- 9s Politics of Writing Lecture
How to Make a Revolution: A Guide to Romania's Fin-de-Siècle Media Spectacle as Performed by a Dying Regime, a Willing Populace, and the International Press Corps
Andrei Codrescu, poet, essayist, and novelist
DATE: Monday, December 7th
TIME: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
LOCATION: Rackham Auditorium
SPONSORS: CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group, CES-EUC, Department of English, GLL, International Institute, MFA in Creative Writing Program
Contact Information: crees@umich.edu or 734.764.0351
December 10, 2009 - Thursday
- 9s Conversations on Europe/CREES Lecture.
Plus ça change? The Romanian Revolution of 1989 and its Aftermath
Grigore Pop-Eleches, assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
DATE: Thursday, December 10th
TIME: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
LOCATION: International Institute, SSWB
SPONSOR: CES-EUC, CREES, WCED
Contact Information: ces-euc@umich.edu
December 13, 2009 - Sunday
- 9s American-Romanian Festival Films
Children of the Decree. Florin Iepan, director (68 min., 2004)
Architecture and Power. Nicolae Margineanu, director (52 min., 1994). Tickets $5 at the door.
For more information
DATE: Sunday, December 13th
TIME: 3:00 - 5:30 PM
LOCATION: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
SPONSORS: ARF, Inc.; Ager Film; U-M's UMMA, CES-EUC, CREES
Contact Information: crees@umich.edu or 734.764.0351
January 11, 2010 - Monday
- War, Fears of Minorities, and Genocide
Arman Grigoryan, (Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow)
DATE: Monday, January 11th
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: International Institute, room 1636
SPONSOR: Armenian Studies Program
January 25, 2010 - Monday
- Perspectives on the Origin of Armenian Language and Culture
Hrach Martirosyan, (Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, Netherlands/Armenia)
DATE: Monday, January 25th
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: International Institute, room 1636
SPONSOR: Armenian Studies Program
February 3, 2010 - Wednesday
- Understanding the Roles of Academic Preparation, Financial Resources, and Information in the College Enrollment of Underrepresented Students
Dr. Laura Perna, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania
Laura Perna's scholarship uses and integrated theoretical approach and a variety of analytic techniques to understand the ways that public policies, social structures, and individual characteristics separately and together enable and restrict the ability of women, racial/ethnic minorities, and individuals of lower socioeconomic status to obtain the economic, social and political opportunites that are associated with two aspects of higher education: access as a student and employment as a faculty member.
DATE: Wednesday, February 3rd
TIME: 1:30 - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Rackham Graduate School, Assembly Hall
SPONSOR: CEW
April 18, 2010 - Thursday
- Annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration
The Challenges of and Opportunities of Oral Testimonies
lectures by professors Gerard Libaridian and Sidney Bolkosky
DATE: Thursday, April 18th
TIME: 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Bernath Auditorirum of the David W. Adamany Undergraduate Library at Wayne State University
COSPONSOR: Armenian Studies Program
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