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Scotti Parrish (Chair)
Evan Chambers | Jatin Dua | Lihong Liu | Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Critical Conversations is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgaXsJpsoFskyQRtatZk-Uy6nF8_hqhIzE2vTknHmo-r0sjg/viewform
"The oldest human technology"
Evan Chambers is a professor of composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and served as chair of the Department of Composition for a number of years. Chambers graduated with highest honors from the U-M, where he received a DMA and MM in composition. Chambers is known for his intense vocal performances of his own works, and is also an Irish-traditional fiddler.
"Rerouted: Making and unmaking lines at sea"
Jatin Dua is an associate professor of Anthropology. He also directs the Oceans Lab at the University of Michigan dedicated to collaborative and multimodal ways of engaging oceans as anthropological interlocutors. His research explores maritime mobility, and its perils and possibilities, focusing on processes and projects of governance, law, and economy across the global ocean. He is the editor of the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History.
"The Force of Water"
Lihong Liu is the Sally Michaelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures and an Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Her research focuses on Chinese arts and the visual and material cultures of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Liu is currently working on projects related to the arts of the Ming dynasty in relation to riverine environments, atmospheric visuality in Chinese painting, and the material culture of transparency and metamorphosis.
"Mary Tyler Moore on the Moon"
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She is the winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award, the 1913 Open Prose Contest, the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, the Jean Córdova prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Awards for Bisexual Nonfiction, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Evan Chambers | Jatin Dua | Lihong Liu | Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Critical Conversations is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScgaXsJpsoFskyQRtatZk-Uy6nF8_hqhIzE2vTknHmo-r0sjg/viewform
"The oldest human technology"
Evan Chambers is a professor of composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and served as chair of the Department of Composition for a number of years. Chambers graduated with highest honors from the U-M, where he received a DMA and MM in composition. Chambers is known for his intense vocal performances of his own works, and is also an Irish-traditional fiddler.
"Rerouted: Making and unmaking lines at sea"
Jatin Dua is an associate professor of Anthropology. He also directs the Oceans Lab at the University of Michigan dedicated to collaborative and multimodal ways of engaging oceans as anthropological interlocutors. His research explores maritime mobility, and its perils and possibilities, focusing on processes and projects of governance, law, and economy across the global ocean. He is the editor of the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History.
"The Force of Water"
Lihong Liu is the Sally Michaelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures and an Assistant Professor in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Her research focuses on Chinese arts and the visual and material cultures of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Liu is currently working on projects related to the arts of the Ming dynasty in relation to riverine environments, atmospheric visuality in Chinese painting, and the material culture of transparency and metamorphosis.
"Mary Tyler Moore on the Moon"
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She is the winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award, the 1913 Open Prose Contest, the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, the Jean Córdova prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Awards for Bisexual Nonfiction, the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan.
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