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U-M and Ukrainian students meet virtually to discuss disinformation and propaganda related to war in Ukraine
Exchange facilitated by WCEE Scholar Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova with home university in Ukraine.
Sudan: In the Eye of the Storm – Conflict, Resilience, and the Path Forward
Symposium recap — scholars, policymakers, and advocates discuss Sudan’s present challenges and future possibilities.
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Events
Mar
25
Multi
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring
Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed;
Goodbye Julia (2023);
Timbuktu (2014);
Four Daughters (2023)
12:00 AM
Virtual
Mar
25
Multi
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
8:00 AM
Gallery, Room 547
Weiser Hall
Mar
25
Multi
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
8:00 AM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
25
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China
Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Mar
25
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Language Education in America 30 Years: Retrospect and Prospect
Hye-Sook Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Mar
26
CREES Noon Lecture. Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Its Afterlives
Kevin Bartig, professor of musicology, Michigan State University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall