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 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
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 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 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
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM, Dana Building, room 1029
Description:
Anthony Osei-Fosu, African Presidential Scholar and Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Research
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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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 05, 2009
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM, Michigan Theater
Description:
Directed by Park Kwang-hyeon, 133 min (2005)
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 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 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 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
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
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
4:00PM - 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, ...
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 12, 2009
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM, Auditorium A, Angell Hall,
435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Fall 2009 Documentary Film Series: A Decent Factory: Nokia in China
Description:
A film by Thomas Balmès; China, 2005; 79 minutes (Mandarin with English subtitles)
Dec 13, 2009
3:00PM - 5:30PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State.
9s ARF Film Series. Children of the Decree.
Description:
Florin Iepan, director (68 min., 2004). Architecture and Power. Nicolae Margineanu, director (52 min, 1994). For more information, see www.umma.umich.edu. Sponsors: ARF, Inc.; Ager Film; U-M’s UMMA ...
Dec 13, 2009
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S. State.
9s American-Romanian Festival Films.
Description:
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.umic ...
Dec 15, 2009
12:00PM - 1:30PM, 1636 International Institute
CES-EUC End-of-Semester Luncheon.
Description:
Sponsor: CES-EUC.
Dec 15, 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 ...
Dec 15, 2009
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM, 1636 International Institute/SSWB
CES-EUC End-of-Semester Luncheon. "Rethinking European Urbanism for the 21st Century"
Description:
A roundtable discussion. Moderator: Dario Gaggio, CES-EUC director and associate professor of history, U-M. Presenters: Henco Bekkering, professor and chair of Urban Compositions, TU Delft, and Net ...
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