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CREES hosts prominent performance artist Gluklya for opening of her multimedia exhibit in Weiser Hall
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Events
Mar
31
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
31
Multi
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
8:00 AM
Room 1010
Weiser Hall
Mar
31
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
31
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series.
Hot Stuff (Barang Panas) Film Screening and Director Q&A
Dandhy Laksono (Director) and Cypri Dale (Producer)
5:00 PM
Virtual
Apr
01
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Divine Intimacy, Frustration and the Madness of the City: Changing Transhuman Kinship in China
Robert P. Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Apr
01
Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk. The Social Roots of Authoritarianism
Speaker: Natalia Forrat, Lecturer, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan. Respondent: Erica Frantz, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall