UM*Events

Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope (August 17, 2012 8:30am)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:30:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 8:30am
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
Sponsors: University Library
Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/audbon-room/events/translationexhibit

The exhibit "Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope" includes papyri and early printed books illustrating how the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems originally composed in the oral tradition, were first written down, edited, and eventually translated into the main European languages. This journey of transmission and interpretation throughout the centuries ends with the first editions of Alexander Pope’s renderings of the poems. Visitors to the exhibit will hear a series of readings from the poems in the original Greek and in several other languages, including Latin, English, Dutch, and Spanish. The exhibit is part of the LSA Fall 2012 theme semester, Translation.

UM Library Basics-Central Campus (August 17, 2012 9:00am)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:00:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 9:00am
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery Lab, 100
Sponsors: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)
Website: http://teachtech.umich.edu

This workshop will introduce you to the University’s extensive library system so that you can start using library resources immediately, and will provide an introduction to online research using University and other databases. You may attend either the Central Campus or North Campus workshops, but the North Campus workshops will be of most interest to engineering and art and architecture students. All sessions are free, but registration is required.

UM Library Basics–North Campus (August 17, 2012 9:00am)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:00:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 9:00am
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Location: Duderstadt Center (Media Union) - Videoconference Suite, 1180
Sponsors: Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC)
Website: http://teachtech.umich.edu

Flip Your Field: Abstract Art From the Collection (August 17, 2012 10:00am)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:00:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: Museum of Art
Sponsors: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
Website: http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2012-field.php

This is the inaugural exhibition of a new series of exhibitions to be curated by UM faculty. Entitled Flip Your Field, this series asks these guest curators to consider artwork outside their field of specialization from UMMA's renowned collections to challenge their own thinking as well as that of UMMA's audiences. Celeste Brusati, Professor of History of Art, Women's Studies, and Art and Design, an expert in the visual art and culture of the Netherlands from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, has gathered a compelling group of images by such titans of twentieth-century abstraction as Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, and Antonio Tàpies, as well as works by many other unexpected artists. This exhibition is made possible in part by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Judith Turner: The Flatness of Ambiguity (August 17, 2012 10:00am)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:00:00 EST

Judith Turner is a noted American photographer whose subject matter is mostly architecture. Turner's training as a designer allows her to visually understand an architect's intention and to reveal it in compositions that she constructs and edits through her camera work. Her photography can be seen as a metalanguage of architectural intention and as an artistic expression that is inseparable from the representation of the built work. Turner's signature style consists of highly abstract black-and-white compositions that play with the ambiguity of light, shadow, and tonality to heighten the aesthetic character of her subject matter and reveal visual relationships not readily apparent. This exhibition will present approximately forty photographs spanning Turner's three-decade career. This exhibition is made possible in part by Macy's and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

"AMERICA!" (August 17, 2012 11:00am)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:00:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 11:00am
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: Off Campus Location - Work â¢ Detroit
Sponsors: Campus Information Centers
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~info/

Curated by Joe Levickas and sponsored by the School of Art & Design, the exhibit addresses the concept of America as a place, a culture, or a concept. It is presented from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday through Aug. 24 at Work • Detroit, which is located at 3663 Woodward Ave, Detroit.

While the Cat Was Away: the 9th Annual A&D Staff Show (August 17, 2012 12:00pm)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:00:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 12:00pm
Event Type: Exhibition
Location: Off Campus Location - Work â¢ Ann Arbor
Sponsors: Campus Information Centers
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~info/

Closed Sundays and Mondays

While the Cat Was Away: the 9th Annual A&D Staff Show (August 17, 2012 12:00pm)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:00:00 EST

Closed Sundays and Mondays

Stewart Francke (August 17, 2012 8:00pm)

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:00:00 EST

Date: Friday, August 17, 2012
Time: 8:00pm
Event Type: Performance
Location: Off Campus Location - The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI
Sponsors: Michigan Union Ticket Office (MUTO)
Website: https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=32abb5486af0d023c79532d53d93f347&t=tix