February 18th, 2015

February 19th, 2015

Ross Gay Poetry Reading

Presented by the Helen Zell Visiting Writers Series

Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and grew up just outside of Philadelphia. He is the author of two books of poems, Against Which...

February 20th, 2015

LECTURE: ACHIM MENGES

Material Culture: Rethinking Materialization through Computatio

Achim Menges is a registered architect in Frankfurt and professor at Stuttgart University, where he founded the Institute for Computational...

February 21st, 2015

Korean Cinema NOW

Kundo: Age of the Rampant

The year is 1862. The late Joseon dynasty was a period of social and economic unrest in Korea, and it was also a time of great tyranny. Due...

SMTD@UMMA

Quietest of Whispers

In conjunction with the exhibition HE: The Hergott Shepard Collection, doctoral student composer Evan Ware presents works born of anguish,...

February 22nd, 2015

February 23rd, 2015

Adrian Matejka Q&A

Presented by the Helen Zell Writers' Program

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and attended Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University...

CES Workshop

Riot at a Railway Station: Space, Race, and the Politics of Infrastructure in France

Speaker: Julie Kleinman, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and visiting assistant professor of French, Oberlin College...

February 24th, 2015

Vampire Times

From Local Legends to Global Imaginary

Using the vampire as the emblem of the entire “Eastern” part of Europe, Tomislav Longinovic (University of Wisconsin-Madison) analyzes...