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October 2008 Events

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October 07, 2008
04:30 PM - 06:00 PM, 3308 Modern Languages Building.

Slavic Department Lecture. "The Woman Writer in the Serbian Cultural Space of Post-Communist Transition."

Description:
Tatjana Rosic, assistant professor, Singidunum University, Belgrade. Sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Center for European Studies-European Union Center, and an academic exchange project supported by the Ministry for Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia, "Academic exchange between universities in North America and Serbia – series of lectures and workshops given by Serbian nationals in Serbia and North America." Project of the NGO ProConcept, Belgrade, Serbia, and a group of Serbian nationals at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.


October 08, 2008
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM, Annenberg Auditorium, Ford School of Public Policy.

International Policy Center Lecture. "Europe, Russia and Energy Security."

Description:
Jan Machacek, award winning investigative journalist, Czech Republic. Sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Ford School of Public Policy, CES-EUC, CREES.


October 11, 2008
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM, The Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center.

School of Music Concert. The Sonata Obsession Concert No. 13 - Sonata Eroica

Description:
Nozomi Marusawa, Piano; Noel McRobbie, Piano; Aya Yamamoto, Piano; Steven Whiting, Lecturer. Sonata in C major, Op. 53 ("Waldstein") I. Allegro con brio II. Introduzione: Adagio molto III. Rondo: Allegretto moderato; Prestissimo. (Nozomi Marusawa); Sonata in F major, Op. 54 I. In Tempo d'un Menuetto II. Allegretto. (Noel McRobbie); Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata") I. Allegro assai II. Andante con moto III. Allegro ma non troppo. (Aya Yamamoto).


October 12, 2008
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, The Stamps Auditorium, Walgreen Drama Center.

School of Music Concert. Beethoven: The Sonata Obsession Concert No. 14 - To A Fare-Thee-Well

Description:
Margaret Yi, Piano; Darina Molkina, Piano; Heeseung Jang, Piano; Steven Whiting, Lecturer. Sonata in F-sharp major, Op. 78 I. Adagio cantabile; Allegro ma non troppo II. Allegro vivace. (Margaret Yi); Sonatina in G major, Op. 79 I. Presto alla tedesca II. Andante III. Vivace. (Darina Molkina); Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 81a ("Les Adieux") I. Das Lebewohl: Adagio; Allegro II. Abwesenheit: Andante espressivo III. Das Wiedersehn: Vivacissimamente. (Heeseung Jang).


October 15, 2008
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB.

CES-EUC Luncheon. "The French Presidency of the European Union: Accomplishments and Challenges."

Description:
Jean-Baptiste de Boissiere, Consul General of France in Chicago.


October 15, 2008
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, Rackham Amphitheatre

The Forsyth Lecture on Medieval Art. "After the Fourth Crusade: Byzantine Relics and Reliquaries in France."

Description:
Jannic Durand, Curator in the Département des Objets d’art at the Musée du Louvre.


October 16, 2008
08:00 PM - 09:30 PM, Kessler Room, Michigan League.

Annual De Vries-VanderKooy Memorial Lecture. "Myth & Reality about the German Occupation of the Netherlands: Then and Now."

Description:
Dr. David Barnouw, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam. Sponsored by the Dutch Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and CES.


October 16, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/ SSWB.

Conversations on Europe. "Political Institutions of the EU."

Description:
George Tsebelis, Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, U-M.


October 16, 2008
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Graduate Student Conference. "Examining the Avant Garde."

Description:
Conference will explore the meaning, origins, and afterlife of the avant garde, as well as its epistemological and critical potential.


October 24, 2008
08:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Rackham Auditorium.

UMS Concert - Beethoven Sonata Project Concert 5. András Schiff, piano.

Description:
Sponsored by the University Musical Society.


October 30, 2008
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB.

Conversations on Europe. "Mediterranean Entrepreneurial Diaspora Networks during the Long Nineteenth Century."

Description:
Gelina Harlaftis, associate professor, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu. Sponsored by CES-EUC and the Modern Greek Program.