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Upcoming Events
November 12, 2009
6:00PM - 8:00PM, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 1010 Thayer Building
9s Exhibition Opening. REDUX/The Berlin Wall. 1989/2009.
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Photos by Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Civilization and Languages and professor of Near Eastern studies, U-M. Sponsors: IH, Copernicus Endowment, CES-EUC, WCED. The exhibition runs through Dec 11 (M-F, 9 am-5 pm).
November 15, 2009
3:00PM - 4:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
9s Film. The Power of the Powerless.
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The inspirational story of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 - a bloodless achievement comparable to the movements of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. - and the legacy of apathy left behind.
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Cory Taylor, director. Documentary film about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 narrated by Jeremy Irons (78 min., 2009). Free and open to the public. For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: UMMA, CES-EUC, CICS, CREES, IPC, WCED.
November 17, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
9s Film. The Power of the Powerless.
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The inspirational story of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 - a bloodless achievement comparable to the movements of Mahatma Gandhi and martin Luther King Jr. - and the legacy of apathy left behind.
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Cory Taylor, director. Documentary film about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 narrated by Jeremy Irons (78 min., 2009). Free and open to the public. For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: UMMA, CES-EUC, CICS, CREES, IPC, WCED.
November 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
CANCELED CREES Brown Bag Lecture. “Modern Zagreb: City as Open Work.”
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Eve Blau, adjunct professor and director, Master in Architecture Degree Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Sponsors: CREES, CES-EUC.
November 20, 2009
6:00PM - 8:30PM, Video and Performance Studio, Duderstadt Center, 2281 Bonisteel.
9s Project. "Collapsing Borders—Einstürzende Grenzen."
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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.
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A trans-Atlantic live digital audio-video jam session with Markus Guentner (Regensburg, Germany) and nospectacle (Detroit-Ann Arbor, U.S). Sponsors: SAC, CES-EUC, Digital Media Commons, WCED.
December 02, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
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Jessica Fisher, (MA REES/MPP Public Policy) 2009 CRIF Grantee. “The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): A Comprehensive Approach to Security.”
Monica Lopez-Lerma, (PhD Comparative Literature) 2009 Jean Monnet Fellow. “The Forgettings of the Law of Historical Memory.”
Mark Rudolf, (BSE Biomedical Engineering/German minor) 2009 CES-EUC Summer Grantee. “Summer in Saarland: Summer Internship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering.”
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Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences. Sponsors: CES-EUC, CREES.
December 04, 2009
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Henderson Room, Michigan League
9s Conference. “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
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The 20th anniversary of 1989 stimulates reflections on the momentous events from Germany to China that promised change in the world. But the end of other decades—1979 in Iran and Afghanistan, the financial crisis in 1929, and in exemplary ways, 1789 in France—inspire similar commemorative reconsiderations. These and other “nines” include moments of transition and change, possibility and crisis. While the promise of democracy might frame our reflections on 1989, it is not enough to help us appreciate how other radical transformations were conceived or experienced, and indeed, what the iconic “1989” also embodied beyond democracy’s extension. We need to better understand how world-historic events shape the imagination, and how visions of the world and its perceived trajectories can shape the course of events.
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, together with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs addressing the relationship between world-historic events and alternative visions of the world embedded in these times. This series will explore 1989 alongside historical transformations of the many other iconic “nines” of the modern era and the alternative futures they inspired.
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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.
December 09, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Rackham Auditorium
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About his lecture, Andrei Codrescu writes, “I covered the events in Romania in 1989-1990 for NPR and ABC News, and I documented the return to my native country in The Hole in the Flag: an Exile's Story of Return & Revolution (Morrow 1991, Avon 1992). I have returned numerous times since and I started writing in Romanian again, picking up the thread severed at age 19 in 1965. Now, twenty years after the coup, or “revolution” that ended in the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Romania is a different country, a member of the European Union, and an ardent convert to capitalism. My talk will focus on reality and appearances in Romania, and the role of the media, of which I am a part, in shaping the images of the “revolution” and those of the new Romania.”
Andrei Codrescu’s career spans four decades as novelist, poet, journalist, filmmaker, commentator, and educator. His work has been distinguished with numerous awards, including the Peabody Award and the Pushcart Prize. He was MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until 2009, and continues to edit Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Life and Letters, an online journal he founded at LSU in 1983. His most recent book is The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess (Princeton 2009).
“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, along with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs exploring the relationship between world-historic events and the alternative futures they inspired. From the explosion of alternatives in 1919 to the normalization of democratic destinies in 1989, from the crisis of 1929 to the anxieties of 2009, this series will delve into the many iconic “nines” of the modern era.
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Andrei Codrescu, poet, essayist, and novelist. Sponsors: CREES, Avant Garde Interest Group, CES-EUC, Department of English, GLL, International Institute, MFA in Creative Writing Program.
December 10, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB
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“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, along with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs exploring the relationship between world-historic events and the alternative futures they inspired. From the explosion of alternatives in 1919 to the normalization of democratic destinies in 1989, from the crisis of 1929 to the anxieties of 2009, this series will delve into the many iconic “nines” of the modern era.
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Grigore Pop-Eleches, assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Sponsors: CES-EUC, CREES, WCED.
December 13, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State.
9s American-Romanian Festival Films.
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“The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”
In Fall 2009, the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, along with other partnering units at the University of Michigan, will present programs exploring the relationship between world-historic events and the alternative futures they inspired. From the explosion of alternatives in 1919 to the normalization of democratic destinies in 1989, from the crisis of 1929 to the anxieties of 2009, this series will delve into the many iconic “nines” of the modern era.
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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, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: ARF, Inc.; Ager Film; U-M’s UMMA, CES-EUC, CREES.
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