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8 o'clock Tuesday September 25th at Buffalo Wild Wings!!!



Come out and learn about ENSPIRED, network, chill with friends, meet some new ones and of course.........
get your GRUB on!!


First 200 Wings are FREE!!

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The Friday Workshop

Friday, September 21st
Seminar with Dominick LaCapra
“Towards a Critique of Violence”


** Those interested in pre-circulated reading material
should contact eihs@umich.edu **

12:00-2:00pm
1014 Tisch Hall
Lunch served

The next globalization study will take place on Thursday, September 20
at 7:30 PM. As we have done for past studies, we will try to stake out
a room in the Halle library on Eastern's campus, probably on the second
floor.

The readings for this study deal with Bolivia. They are all available
online; the first article was published in the July/August 2006 issue
of Against the Current; the last two are in the current, July/August
2007 issue.

Bolivia: Evo Morales' First 100 Days
Jeffery R. Webber
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/225

Bolivia: Transition on Hold
Jeffery R. Webber
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/577

Coca and Conflict in Bolivia
Benjamin Dangl
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/578

Global Information Flows and Chinese Responses to Tragic News Events
Speaker: Vanessa Fong
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Date: 9/18/2007
Time: 12 noon
Site: 1636 School of Social Work Building, 1080 S. University

In this presentation, Professor Fong will examine how Chinese citizens in China and abroad used discourses of Chinese backwardness to make sense of tragic news events while simultaneously trying to avoid becoming identified with that backwardness. She focuses on various interpretations of NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the 2003 global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and explore how Chinese citizens negotiated between their own ambivalent national loyalties and the contradictory local, unofficial, national, and international narratives in which these events were embedded. These negotiations suggest that global information flows are creating a transnational panopticon that increasingly enables neoliberal governmentality to operate on transnational levels.

Vanessa Fong is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.

Black Arts Council's

Mass Meeting

Place: School of Music, Room 2058

Date: Saturday Sept 15th, 2007

Time: 11am-12pm

*Refreshments will be served*

Come mingle and see what we are all about.

The Metropolitan History Workshop presents a public lecture:

Landscapes of Knowledge: History and the High-Tech Suburb,from the
Bay Area to Bangalore

Margaret Pugh O'Mara
Assistant Professor of History
University of Washington

Friday, Sept. 14, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Angell Hall, Room G115

Margaret O'Mara is the author of Cities of Knowledge: Cold War
Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton,
2005). Her lecture is drawn from a new book project that examines
the places where knowledge is produced -- university campuses,
research parks, high-tech districts -- as visible and valuable parts
of the metropolitan landscape. Comparing high-tech suburbs in the
US, China, and India, the talk will consider the evolution of these
distinctive urban forms and their wider political and economic
significance, from the early twentieth century to the age of outsourcing.

Singin' in the Streets: Critique, Entertainment, and Utopia in 1950s Bombay Cinema

Manishita Dass, University of Michigan



Friday, September 14th, 5 pm

Room 1636 of the School of Social Work/International Institute Building



- A reception to follow.

The volunteer event scheduled for Thursday, September 13, is an
opportunity to see a different aspect of American life than what you are
exposed to at U-M.

Here are the details:

We are looking for volunteers to prepare and serve food at the Delonis
Homeless Shelter this Thursday, September 13.

You can find out more about the shelter at
http://www.annarborshelter.org/index.cfm

We need four or five people for each shift. Shift One is from 2:30 to about
6:30 p.m., and Shift Two is from 4:30 to around 8:30 p.m. We will meet at the
Ecumenical Center and International Residence on Church Street, and drive to
the Delonis Center (downtown). Afterwards, we will come back to ECIR for dinner
and discussion.

For a map to ECIR, please see http://www.ecir.org/about/location.php.

In your reply, please include:

* Shift preference (first or second)

* Your phone number

* Whether you have a car and could help with transportation

Questions? Email Steve Kime at steve_mark_kime@hotmail.com

All Noon Lectures are on Thursdays at 12 noon
School of Social Work Building, Room 1636 (1080 S. University, Ann Arbor)
Lectures are free and open to the public

CJS's Noon Lecture Series is sponsored in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.


FALL 2007 SCHEDULE

September 13th
Kunié Sugiura, "Shadow & Ephemera"

Abstract: Photograms are interesting for their open process and experimental nature. But, gradually through experience with them, the esthetics of Japan comes through them. The outline of flowers is attractive and easy to recognize, moreover, they represent the ephemeral qualities of flowers. The same is true when looking at living creatures such as cats, frogs, and fish. Their fragility and their dependence on us is a warning to us. Life is short. We must pay attention to it, not waste it, and enjoy every day.

Kunié Sugiura (BFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago) is an artist who chooses the medium of the photogram to preserve the shadows of flowers, creatures, and living beings. Born in Nagoya, Japan, Ms. Sugiura resides in New York.

(Co-sponsored by the UMMA and the Japan Foundation.)

Screening:"Saacha," "Naata"
Date: Wednesday September 12
Time: 7-10pm
Location: School of Social Work, Room 2609

Details: Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar,, Centre for Media and
Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,India, present two
short films (discussion to follow).