January 20th, 2015

The Components of Reputation

Searching for a Bicentennial Narrative for the University of Michigan

How should we understand the origins of the fine reputation of our University and the very idea of the modern research University?...

The Components of Reputation

Searching for a Bicentennial Narrative for the University of Michigan

How should we understand the origins of the fine reputation of our University and the very idea of the modern research University?...

Yizkor

Yiddish Film Series

Set in a small Volhynian village, “Yizkor dramatizes its theme of fidelity to one's self, one's community and one's...

Islands Meet Borderlands

A Hemispheric Literary Reading

Words traverse our archipelagos and continents with memories, desires and aspirations. Literary and poetic forms serve as sites of encounter...

January 21st, 2015

January 22nd, 2015

Translation at Work

Michigan Conversations on Literary Translation

As part of its ongoing effort to promote translation in all its forms across campus, the Dept. of Comparative Literature presents a series...

13th Annual Pallas Lecture

Andrew R. Casper Assistant Professor of Art History, Miami University

Born in Crete around 1541, there is no doubt about the ethnic origins of the painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as “El...

January 23rd, 2015

Theatre, Nightlife, and Literary Adventure in Nineteenth- Century Beijing

Speakers: Wu Cuncun, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China); Mark Stevenson, Senior Lecturer of Asian Studies, Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia)

The lively world of Beijing opera continues to be a productive source of inspiration for Chinese and foreign literary and cinematic...

January 24th, 2015

January 25th, 2015

January 26th, 2015

Monday Art

Flexibility in time and medium

This is an informal, year-round class in which you decide what to create. You can bring bag lunches (no meat please) and stay or drop in for...