November 16th, 2014

Crash Course Convention

Miscellania's Second-Annual Convention

Join us this weekend, November 16th, from 1-5pm for a FREE action-packed afternoon trying out anything from juggling to meditation to...

November 17th, 2014

African Studies in the Digital Age

Joining Theory and Empiricism in the Remaking of the African Humanities

The seven-day workshop will open a wide-ranging conversation between African Studies scholars and digital humanities scholars around issues...

CES Symposium

Crusade, Jihad, and the Multi-sectarian State

A symposium on the history, present state and future of religious violence in the Christian and Muslim context. It will focus on one...

November 18th, 2014

African Studies in the Digital Age

Joining Theory and Empiricism in the Remaking of the African Humanities

The seven-day workshop will open a wide-ranging conversation between African Studies scholars and digital humanities scholars around issues...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series

Pollution, Institution and Street Protest in Urban China

Speaker: Yang Zhong, Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee; Distinguished Changjiang Scholar, School of International and...

Uncle Moses

Yiddish Film Series

When poverty and persecution compel his Polish landsmen to leave their shtetl, "Uncle" Moses, the crude and lusty former butcher,...

November 19th, 2014

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...

CJS Film Series

Princess Mononoke

Before it ever arrived in the U.S., this epic, animated 1997 fantasy had already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever...

November 20th, 2014

MUSIC AND IMAGE IN FILM

Dr. Ira Konigsberg, Professor Emeritus of Film and English U-M

Films were never silent.  From the start they spoke to us with music.  When the “talkies” began music remained a significant part of...

Demonic Soundscapes

Sound and Community in Ming Court Plays on Erlang and Nacha

This talk investigates several plays in the Ming court repertoire on the demons Erlang and Nezha, and explores how sensations of sound,...

EEB Thursday Seminar Series

Genome dynamics and the evolution of germline/soma distinctions across the (eukaryotic) tree of life, presented by Laura Katz, Smith College

In contrast to the typified view of genomes as fixed within species, we find considerable evidence for genome dynamics (e.g. cyclical...

Beyond the Senses:

The Magical, the Mystical, and the Numinous in Museums

This presentation will explore the experiences of museum visitors beyond the traditional five senses and focus on the spiritual or emotional...

All Campus Gathering for Cru

For anyone pursuing faith -- a way to connect with Cru at U-M on a larger scale

Wherever you’re at on your spiritual journey (skeptical, exploring, a committed Christian, or anywhere else), we want to be a place for...

November 21st, 2014

November 22nd, 2014