1. Masterpieces of Polish Cinema
Mondays at 7 pm. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St.
Sep 8 The Last Day of Summer (Ostatni dzien´ lata). Tadeusz Konwicki, director (62 min., 1958).
Innocent Sorcerers (Niewinni czarodzieje). Andrzej Wajda, director (88 min., 1960).
Sep 15 Night Train (Pociag). Jerzy Kawalerowicz, director (98 min., 1959).
Sep 22 A Short Film about Killing (Krótki film o zabijaniu). Krzysztof Kies´lowski, director (86 min., 1987).
Sep 29 Jump (Salto). Tadeusz Konwicki, director (105 min., 1965).
Oct 6 The Illumination (Iluminacja). Krzysztof Zanussi, director (91 min., 1972).
Oct 13 The Saragossa Manuscript (Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie). Wojciech Has, director (183 min., 1964).
Oct 20 Pharoah (Faraon). Jerzy Kawalerowicz, director (180 min., 1965).
Oct 27 Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów). Jerzy Kawalerowicz, director (110 min., 1960).
Nov 3 Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament). Andrzej Wajda, director (103 min., 1958).
Nov 10 The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod Klepsydra). Wojciech Has, director (124 min., 1973).
Nov 17 Austeria. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, director (107 min., 1982).
Nov 24 Black Cross (Krzyz˙acy). Aleksander Ford, director (173 min., 1960).
Dec 1 The Promised Land (Ziemia Obiecana). Andrzej Wajda, director (170 min., 1974).
Dec 8 Man of Iron (Człowiek z z˙elaza). Andrzej Wajda, director (153 min., 1981).
Films in Polish with English subtitles. For full details and ticket information, visit michtheater.org/polish-cinema.
Sponsors: CPPS, Michigan Theater.
Central Asia Film Series
Sundays at 4 pm. Rackham Amphitheatre.
Sep 21 The Light Thief (Svet-Ake). Aktan Arym Kubat, director. In Kyrgyz with English subtitles (80 min., 2010).
Oct 19 Tulpan. Sergei Dvortsevoy, director. In Kazakh with English subtitles (100 min., 2008).
Nov 16 Angel on the Right (Farishtai kitfi rost). Djamshed Usmonov, director. In Tajik with English subtitles
(90 min., 2002).
Free and open to the public. Sponsors: ISP, CREES.
ACRONYM KEY:
ASP - Armenian Studies Program
CES - Center for European Studies
CMENAS - Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies
CPPS - Copernicus Program in Polish Studies
CREES - Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
CWPS - Center for World Performance Studies
FCJS - Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ISP - Islamic Studies Program
STAMPS - Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
WCED - Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
Audio and video recordings of programs organized by WCEE affiliates are available on our
websites; videos are available on YouTube.
Photos this side (top): Ashes and Diamonds; Siege of Acre; (bottom, clockwise from left):
Robert Crawford; Katherine Verdery; “Vote aye or die,” by Flickr user duncan c; “Pussy Riot
Members at Guelman Gallery,” by Flickr user Jay.
Reverse (cover, clockwise from top): “Pussy Riot Superheroes Freeze Flashmob,” by
Flickr user Eyes on Rights Humanitarian Photography; President Bujar Nishani; Potsdam’s
Synagogue after Kristallnacht, 1938, courtesy of the Potsdam Museum; (inside): Hungarian
bus station, by Krisztina Fehérváry; “State of the Nation,” by Flickr user Dauvit Alexander.
Design: MC 140284
SEPTEMBER
Mon, Sep 15, 4-5:30 pm
ISP Lecture
“Arab Influences on European Musical Traditions during the Era of the Crusades.” Dwight
Reynolds, professor of religious studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sponsors:
ISP, Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Wed, Sep 17, 6:30-8 pm
ASP Lecture
“An Armenian American Artist—Back to the Front.” Eric Bogosian, Manoogian Simone
Foundation Fellow, ASP; and Artist in Residence, Institute for the Humanities, U-M.
Sponsor: ASP. Helmut Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art, 525 S. State.
Thu, Sep 18, 4-5:30 pm
ISP Lecture
“An Iranian Metamorphosis.” Mana Neyestani, cartoonist and illustrator.
Sponsor: ISP.
Thu, Sep 18, 5-6:30 pm
Penny Stamps/WCED
Lecture
“Punk Prayer.” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, members of Pussy Riot/Zona
Prava. Sponsors: STAMPS, WCED, CREES. Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty.
Tue, Sep 23, 4-5:30 pm
EUR WCED Lecture
“Local Shocks: The Far Right in the 2014 European Elections.” Cas Mudde, associate
professor of international affairs, University of Georgia. Sponsors: WCED, CES.
Wed, Sep 24, 12-1:30 pm
MC CREES Noon
Lecture
“Natural Materials and the Matter of Nation in Hungarian Home Decorating.”
Krisztina Fehérváry, associate professor of anthropology, U-M. Sponsor: CREES.
Mon, Sep 29, 4-6 pm
WCED Lecture
"Albania: Emerging Democracy towards the European Union." Bujar Nishani, President of
Albania. Sponsors: WCED, CES, CREES. Rackham Auditorium.
Tue, Sep 30, 7:30 pm
Wallenberg
Lecture
Agnes Heller, professor emeritus of philosophy and political science, The New School;
Holocaust survivor; Hungarian democracy activist. Sponsor: Wallenberg Endowment.
Rackham Auditorium.
OCTOBER
Tue, Oct 7, 4-5:30
EUR WCED Lecture
“Bank Bailouts and Structural Power in the UK and US.” Pepper Culpepper, professor of
political science, European University Institute. Sponsors: WCED, CES.
Wed, Oct 8, 12-1:30 pm
MC CREES Noon Lecture
“Enlightened Memory? On Remembering the Jewish Past in Contemporary Germany and
Poland.” Michael Meng, assistant professor of history, Clemson University. Sponsors:
CREES, CES, CPPS, FCJS.
Wed, Oct 15, 4-5:30 pm
ASP Lecture
“The Ever-Wandering Stranger: Community Formation and Cosmopolitan Poetics in Middle
Armenian Literature.” Michael Pifer, Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow,
U-M. Sponsor: ASP.
Tue, Oct 21, 4-5:30 pm
CREES Lecture
“An Anthropology of Romania’s Secret Police.” Katherine Verdery, Julien J. Studley
Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City
University of New York. Sponsors: CREES, CES, Department of Anthropology, WCED.
Tue, Oct 21, 8 pm
Concert
Graz˙yna Augus´cik, jazz vocalist. For ticket information, see kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Sponsors: CPPS, CWPS. Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. 4th.
Wed, Oct 22, 4-6 pm
Lecture
“Jewish Poland: A Materialized Settlement and a Metaphysical Landscape in Jewish
Legends.” Haya Bar-Itzhak, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Scholar, University of Haifa.
Sponsors: FCJS, CPPS. 2022 Thayer Building.
Thu, Oct 23, 4-5:30 pm
Lecture
“The Status of Christians and Christianity in the Contemporary Middle East.” Mary-
Jane Deeb, chief of African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress. Sponsors:
CMENAS, ISP.
Scottish Poetry and Referendum Mini-Series
Robert Crawford, professor of modern Scottish literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry,
University of St Andrews.
Mon, Oct 27, 4-5:30 pm
Lecture
“Was T. S. Eliot Ever Young?” 3222 Angell Hall.
Tue, Oct 28, 4-5:30 pm
EUR Conversations on
Europe
“Rewriting Scotland and the United Kingdom.”
Wed, Oct 29, 4-5:30 pm
Poetry Reading
“From Simonides to Body Bags: Poetry, the Classics, and the Contemporary.” Space 2435
North Quad.
Sponsors: CES, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, Department of History, Global Scholars
Program, Helen Zell Writers’ Program, WCED.
Wed, Oct 29, 12-1:30 pm
CREES Noon Lecture
“Ethnic Intermarriage and the ‘Soviet People’ in Central Asia.” Adrienne Edgar, associate
professor of history, University of California, Santa Barbara. Sponsor: CREES.
Wed, Oct 29, 7-9 pm
Film and Discussion
The Last Klezmer: Leopold Kozlowski, His Life and His Music. Followed by Q&A with
Yale Strom, director. In Yiddish, English, and Polish with English subtitles (85 min., 1994).
Sponsors: FCJS, CPPS. Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art, 525 S. State.
Thu,Oct30,11:50am-12:50pm
International Law
Workshop/Conversations
on Europe
“Anti-Terrorism Efforts and the Rule of Law—A European Perspective.” Hon. Allen Rosas,
judge, Court of Justice of the European Union. Sponsors: Center for International and
Comparative Law, CES. 1020 South Hall, 701 S. State.
Thu, Oct 30, 4-6 pm
Human Rights Initiative
Distinguished Lecture
Michael Ignatieff, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Harvard Kennedy School of
Government. Sponsors: International Institute, Program in International and Comparative
Studies, WCED. Forum Hall, Palmer Commons.
NOVEMBER
Wed, Nov 5, 12-1:30 pm
WCEE Student
Presentations
Graduate and undergraduate student presentations on summer research and internship
experiences. Sponsors: CES, CREES, WCED.
Thu, Nov 6, 5 pm
Penny Stamps
Distinguished Speaker
“People I Know.” Inta Ruka, Latvian photographer. Sponsors: STAMPS, CREES, WCED.
Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty.
Fri-Sun, Nov 7-9
21st Ann Arbor Polish Film
Festival
For times and locations, see annarborpolonia.org/filmfestival/. Sponsors: Polish Cultural
Fund - Ann Arbor, CPPS, others.
Tue, Nov 11, 4-5:30
WCED Lecture
“Empire Strikes Back: The Dissolution of the USSR and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.”
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University.
Sponsors: WCED, CREES.
Wed, Nov 12, 12-1:30 pm
MC CREES Noon Lecture
“From Gentry Estates to Urban Apartments: Temporality and Domesticity at Russia’s Fin de
Siècle.” Rebecca Friedman, associate professor of history, Florida International University.
Sponsor: CREES.
Wed, Nov 12, 8 pm
Concert
The Wacław Zimpel Quartet. For ticket information, see kerrytownconcerthouse.com.
Sponsors: CPPS, CWPS. Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N. 4th.
Thu, Nov 13, 3-5 pm
CES Workshop
“Toward a Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean.” Edmund Burke III,
professor emeritus and research professor of history, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sponsors: CES, CMENAS, Mediterranean Topographies Interdisciplinary Workshop. 1644
International Institute/SSWB.
Mon, Nov 17, 9 am-4 pm
CES Symposium
“Crusade, Jihad, and the Multi-sectarian State.” Speakers: Asma Afsaruddin, chair and
professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures, and adjunct professor of religious
studies, Indiana University; Christopher MacEvitt, associate professor of religion,
Dartmouth College; Stuart A. Wright, professor of sociology and chair, Department of
Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice, Lamar University. Organizer: Karla Mallette,
CES director, U-M. Sponsors: CES, CMENAS, ISP, WCED. Rackham East Conference Room.
Wed, Nov 19, 4-5:30 pm
ASP Lecture
“The Legacy of Time, The Time of Bequest: Armenian Afterlives in a Kurdish Diyarbakir.” Serap
Ruken Sengul, Manoogian Simone Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, U-M. Sponsor: ASP.
Tue, Nov 25, 4-5:30 pm
WCED Lecture
“Ukraine after Ukrainian Winter and Russian Spring: The Issue of Regionalism
Reconsidered.” Yaroslav Hrytsak, professor of history, Ukrainian Catholic University and
Lviv National University; director, Institute for Historical Research, Lviv National University.
Sponsors: WCED, CREES.
DECEMBER
Wed, Dec 3, 12-1:30 pm
CREES Noon Lecture
“Pluralism from Below: Negotiating Religious Diversity in Catholic Poland.” Agnieszka
Pasieka, assistant professor of anthropology, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of
Sciences. Sponsors: CREES, CPPS, WCED.
All events are in 1636 International Institute/SSWB, 1080 S. University, unless otherwise noted.
ii.umich.edu/wcee
Tel: 734.764.0351
Fax: 734.763.4765
Email: weisercenter@umich.edu
For more information about programs and activities of
Weiser Center affiliates, please see our websites:
Center for European Studies
ii.umich.edu/ces
Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
ii.umich.edu/crees
Copernicus Program in Polish Studies
ii.umich.edu/crees/polishstudies
Islamic Studies Program
ii.umich.edu/isp
Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
ii.umich.edu/wced
Associated Program:
Armenian Studies Program
ii.umich.edu/asp
