EVENTS
November 2009 Events
Sep 08, 2009
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Special Collections Library, 7th Floor, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 920 N. University
Library Exhibit. “Back in the USSR: Ann Arbor’s Ardis Publishing and Russian Literature.”
Description:
This exhibit highlights University Library's acquisition of the archives of Ardis Press, the renowned publishing house for Soviet and Russian literature founded in Ann Arbor by U-M Professor Carl P ...
Nov 03, 2009
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Piata Victoriei, Timisoara, Romania
Description:
Installation of an inflatable monument commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Romanian revolution; workshop and lecture for the architecture students of Timisoara Polytechnic University. Anca Tr ...
Nov 06, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM, 1636 SSWB/International Institute
Peranakan Chinese Music in Singapore
Description:
Lee Tong Soon
Department of Music, Emory University
Nov 06, 2009
04:00PM - 06:00PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University Ave.
Television, Participatory Culture, and Politics: The Case of "Indian Idol"
Description:
CSAS Speaker Series Lecture by Aswin Punathambekar, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
Nov 06, 2009
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM, Askwith Auditorium, Lorch Hall, 611 Tappan Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
CJS Free Film ~ TOKYO DRIFTER (Tokyo Nagaremono)
Description:
Directed by Seijun Suzuki; 1966; 83 min.; DVD; In Japanese with English subtitles.
Nov 06, 2009
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, Clements Library (909 South University Ave, across the street from the Law School)
Description:
LACS, IRWG, and UMS present an Artist Interview: "Who is Gal Costa?" The Who Is…? Series will explore the meteoric rise of Gal Costa, one of the artists central to the Tropicalismo movement in Br ...
Nov 07, 2009
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Hill Auditorium
In concert! Gal Costa and Romero Lubambo.
Description:
The great Brazilian female vocalist Gal Costa makes her area debut as part of UMS’s ongoing exploration of the superstars of Brazilian music, which has brought Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Mil ...
Nov 07, 2009
8:00PM - 10:00PM, Museum Apse, UMMA, 525 S. State.
UMMA Concert. "Musique à moi."
Description:
Featuring works by Debussy. Performed by SMTD faculty, students, and alumni. Part of UMMA’s "Lens of Impressionism" project. For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: UMMA, SMTD, CES- ...
Nov 09, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 1022 Thayer Building.
Description:
Pavel Lion (Psoy), songwriter, singer, performer, and philologist. Sponsors: Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, CREES, WCED.
Nov 09, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Room 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
Warfare in the Ancient Near East
Description:
Speaker: Mark Schwartz, Grand Valley State University, Anthropology Department
CMENAS Fall 2009 Colloquium theme: War and Warfare in the Middle/Near East: Past and Present.
The region of the ...
Nov 09, 2009
10:00AM - 5:45PM, Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union
Translating Testimony: Negotiating Rights Across Languages
Description:
The University of Michigan Department of Comparative Literature's YEAR OF TRANSLATION presents:
TRANSLATING TESTIMONY: NEGOTIATING RIGHTS ACROSS LANGUAGES
Monday, November 9, 2009
Kuenzel Room ...
Nov 10, 2009
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM, 1636 SSWB (International Institute)
MUTUM (EDU) - Brazil (Global Lens Film Series)
Description:
This film contains mild language.
This film will be shown at both 2:30 PM and 4:00 PM.
Nov 10, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building,
1080 South University
Description:
Lucille Chia, Associate Professor of History, University of California at Riverside
Nov 11, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 4pm, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636, School of Social Work Building
Description:
Shin Dong Kim, Professor, School of Communication, Hallym University
Nov 12, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 1014 Tisch Hall
Professor Maria Elena Martinez Presents
Description:
León y Gama’s Treatise on Skin Color and the Enlightened Creole “Science” of Race in Eighteenth Century New Spain
Nov 12, 2009
12:00PM - 01:00PM, Room 1636, School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University, Ann Arbor
Description:
Free and Open to the Public.
Nov 12, 2009
6:30 PM - 5:30 PM, University of Michigan Business School
Description:
Over the course of two days, the 12th and 13th of November, 2009 we will have three VIP speakers and five faculty moderated one hour panels, each of which are described below.
Opening Keynote: S ...
Nov 12, 2009
6:00PM - 8:00PM, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 1010 Thayer Building
9s Exhibition Opening. REDUX/The Berlin Wall. 1989/2009.
Description:
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, ...
Nov 13, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM, 1636 SSWB/International Institute
Explaining the 2009 Parliamentary and Presidential Votes in Indonesia
Description:
R. William Liddle
Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University
Nov 13, 2009
04:00PM - 06:00PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University Ave.
Terminal Present: Making Art From Either Side of the Margin in the 21st Century
Description:
CSAS Speaker Series Lecture by Kanishka Raja
Nov 13, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 1644 SSWB (International Institute)
Democracy in Latin America Panel Discussion
Description:
Professors Alejandro Velasco, New York University, David Smilde, University of Georgia, Miriam Kornblith, Jose Molina, Universidad del Zulia will be participating in a panel discussion, chaired by ...
Nov 13, 2009
07:30PM - 12:00PM,
RACE AND RECONCILIATION: A Community-Based Conversation on Race
Description:
Nontombi Naomi Tutu
Remarks Friday, November 13, 7:30 pm, Rackham Auditorium; Saturday, November 14, 7:30 pm, film screening and panel discussion; Sunday, November 15, 10:00 am service at 1st C ...
Nov 14, 2009
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM, Auditorium A, Angell Hall,
435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fall 2009 Documentary Film Series: Please Vote for Me
Description:
A film by Weijun Chen; 2007; 52 minutes (Mandarin and English with English subtitles)
Nov 15, 2009
3:00PM - 4:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
9s Film. The Power of the Powerless.
Description:
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. Spon ...
Nov 16, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Room 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
The Muslim Conquest of Byzantine North Africa in the Seventh Century
Description:
Speaker: Walter E. Kaegi, University of Chicago, Department of History
CMENAS Fall 2009 Colloquium theme: War and Warfare in the Middle/Near East: Past and Present.
The region of the Middle/ ...
Nov 16, 2009
5:00PM - 6:00PM, 269 Dennison, 500 Church Street
Muslim Americans in Greater Detroit and the Challenges of the Millenium
Description:
Speaker: Dawud Walid, Director, Council on American Islamic Relations, Michigan.
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Middle Easter and North African Studies, the Islamic Studies Initiative, Arab Americ ...
Nov 17, 2009
12:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building,
1080 South University
Description:
Wang Zheng, U-M Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and History
Nov 17, 2009
07:00PM - 05:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, Lower Level, UM Museum of Art
Challenging Museum Sustainability
Description:
Governance, Community Participation and the Fickle Political Climate in Southern Luzon (Philippines) Towns
Ana Maria Theresa P. Labrador
Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
Nov 17, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
9s Film. The Power of the Powerless.
Description:
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. Spon ...
Nov 17, 2009
8:00PM - 10:00PM, Hill Auditorium.
9s Concert. Berliner Philharmoniker.
Description:
Simon Rattle, musical director. For ticket information, call 734.764.2538 or see www.ums.org. Sponsor: UMS.
Nov 17, 2009
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 1636 SSWB (International Institute)
POSSIBLE LIVES - Argentina (Global Lens Film Series)
Description:
This film contains nudity, sexual content and adult themes.
This film will be shown at both 2:30 PM and 4:00 PM.
Nov 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.”
Description:
Eve Blau, adjunct professor and director, Master in Architecture Degree Programs, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Sponsors: CREES, CES-EUC.
Nov 18, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 4pm, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636, School of Social Work Building
Description:
Deborah Solomon, Joint post-doctoral fellow, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies and the Korea Institute, Harvard University
Nov 19, 2009
4:00PM - 5:00PM, Educational Conference Center, Room 1840, School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University
Coffee Futures & Reading the Residues: Fortune Telling Cafes in Istanbul
Description:
Speakers: Zeynep Devrism Gursel, University of Michigan & Zeynep K. Korkman, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California-Santa Barabara
Nov 19, 2009
12:00PM - 01:00PM, Room 1636, School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University, Ann Arbor
Description:
Free and Open to the Public.
Nov 19, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Room 2009 Museums Building
Expressions of Status in the prehispanic Philippines
Description:
Dr. Grace Barretto-Tesoro
University of the Philippines
Nov 20, 2009
6:00PM - 8:30PM, Video and Performance Studio, Duderstadt Center, 2281 Bonisteel.
9s Project. "Collapsing Borders—Einstürzende Grenzen."
Description:
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.
Nov 20, 2009
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University Avenue
Description:
Leela Fernandes
Rutgers University
This lecture is part of the Theme Year on State, Space, and Citizenship: Indian Cities in the Global Era, sponsored by the Trehan I ...
Nov 20, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, 1644 SSWB (International Institute)
Peronist Argentina Reconsidered: New Evidence on Peron's Foreign Economic Policy
Description:
Professor Claudia Kedar will give a talk about Peron, the US and the IMF/World Bank entitled "Peronist Argentina Reconsidered: New Evidence on Peron's foreign economic policy". Professor Kedar is ...
Nov 23, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Room 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
Description:
Speaker: Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan, Department of Near Eastern Studies
CMENAS Fall 2009 Colloquium theme: War and Warfare in the Middle/Near East: Past and Present.
The region ...
Nov 24, 2009
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Film. Song from the Southern Seas.
Description:
Marat Sarulu, director. A darkly comic feud is ignited when a Russian man suspects that his son is the result of an affair between his wife and a Kazakh neighbor. Russian with English subtitles (80 ...
Nov 24, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building,
1080 South University
Description:
Lara R. Kusnetzky,
Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Center at the City University of New York
Nov 30, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Room 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
Mugged by Reality: Obama and the Arab-Israel Dispute
Description:
Speaker: Ambassador Mel Levitsky (retired), University of Michigan, Public Policy
CMENAS Fall 2009 Colloquium theme: War and Warfare in the Middle/Near East: Past and Present.
The region of ...
Nov 30, 2009
04:00PM - 06:00PM,
African Development Human Security (ADHS)
Description:
Anthony Osei-Fosu, UMAPS scholar
Dec 01, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building,
1080 South University
CCS 2009 Noon Lecture Series: "Caochangdi : Beijing Inside Out"
Description:
Mary Ann Ray, Taubman Centennial Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan
Dec 01, 2009
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM, 1636 SSWB (International Institute)
MY TIME WILL COME - Ecuador (Global Lens Film Series)
Description:
This film contains violence, brief nudity, sexual situations and themes relating to death.
This film will be shown at both 2:30 PM and 4:00 PM.
Dec 02, 2009
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 4pm, 1080 S. University, Suite 1636, School of Social Work Building
Description:
Heonik Kwon, Reader in Anthropology, London School of Economics.
Dec 02, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Michigan Union Kuenzel Room
Global Human Rights and Local Politics: Cross-National Trends and Minority Social Movements in Japan
Description:
Kiyo Tsutsui is the 2009-2010 CICS Human Rights Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at U-M.
Dec 02, 2009
12:00PM - 1:30PM, 1636 International Institute
Description:
Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences. Sponsors: CES-EUC, CREES.
Dec 02, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University
Description:
Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship experiences. Sponsors: CES-EUC, CREES.
Dec 03, 2009
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, University of Michigan (TBA)
Puerto Rican & American Perspectives on the Cultural Turn: A Symposium on the Writing of History
Description:
Graduate students from the University of Michigan and the University of Puerto Rico have taken the initiative to orgranize the conference to build on a similar conference that was held at the Unive ...
Dec 03, 2009
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, 6:00pm: Reception in 4th floor Rackham Assembly Hall
7:00pm: Talk in 4th floor Rackham Amphitheater
CCS Special Presentation: "China as a Eurasian Subcontinent: Perspectives on the Past and Future"
Description:
James A. Millward
Associate Professor of History, Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Dec 03, 2009
12:00PM - 01:00PM, Room 1636, School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University, Ann Arbor
"Sitting Pretty: Portrait Photography and Gender in Meiji Japan," Karen Fraser - CJS Noon Lecture
Description:
Free and Open to the Public.
Dec 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”
Description:
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, Bro ...
Dec 04, 2009
04:00PM - 06:00PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 South University Ave.
Friction on the Edge of Contemporary Bombay Cinema
Description:
CSAS Speaker Series Lecture by filmmaker Ranjani Mazumdar
Dec 05, 2009
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM, Auditorium A, Angell Hall,
435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fall 2009 Documentary Film Series: To Tell the Truth: The Liu Binyan Story
Description:
A film by Meggie Miao; China, 2006, 59 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles)
Dec 05, 2009
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, Michigan Theater
Description:
Directed by Park Kwang-hyeon, 133 min (2005)
Dec 07, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Room 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
The Rise of the Middle East in the Time of the Crusades
Description:
Speaker: Stefan Heidemann, Visiting Professor, Islamic Artistic & Material Culture, Bard College
CMENAS Fall 2009 Colloquium theme: War and Warfare in the Middle/Near East: Past and Present.
...
Dec 07, 2009
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State
Zell Visiting Writer Series - Piotr Sommer Poetry Reading
Description:
Poetry reading by Piotr Sommer, Polish poet. The sponsors
of the Zell Visiting Writers Series are the Department
of English Language and Literature, the Office of the Provost of the University ...
Dec 08, 2009
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM, 1636 SSWB/International Institute
Description:
Global Lens Film Series
Dec 08, 2009
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM, 1636 SSWB/International Institute
Description:
Global Lens Film Series
Dec 08, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM, Room 1636 School of Social Work Building,
1080 South University
CCS 2009 Noon Lecture Series: "Visualizing the State in Early Modern England and China"
Description:
Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan;
Former Director of the U-M Center for Chinese Studies
Dec 08, 2009
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Rackham Amphitheatre
Description:
Ronald G. Suny, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and professor of history, U-M. Sponsor: LSA.
Dec 09, 2009
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Rackham Auditorium
Description:
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.
Dec 10, 2009
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 1644 SSWB (International Institute)
Bernardo Vega - Contemporary Dominican-Haitian Relations
Description:
Bernardo Vega was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic in 1938 and attended school in his country and in England. He graduated as an economist from the Wharton School of Finance of the University o ...
Dec 10, 2009
4:00PM - 5:30PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB
Description:
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, ...
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