Presented By: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester
An Evening with Colson Whitehead
Symposium 1817: Nation Building in the Old Northwest and the Making of the University of Michigan
NOTE: This event has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 12, 7:00 PM, at Mendelssohn Theatre.
Colson Whitehead will read from his 2016 National Book Award winning novel, The Underground Railroad, set in the period of the university’s founding. The novel links American slavery to the dispossession of Native peoples and illuminates the concerns that Professors Michael Witgen and Tiya Miles will probe in their component of Symposium 1817, "The Political Economy of Plunder," which takes place at 4:00 pm the next day in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100).
Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow reading. Book sales provided by Literati Bookstore.
This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by: Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of American Culture, Department of Comparative Literature, Helen Zell Writers' Program, Institute for the Humanities, Joseph A. Labadie Collection, LSA Honors Program, Native American Studies, Residential College, University Library, and Department of Women's Studies.
Photo by Madeline Whitehead.
Colson Whitehead will read from his 2016 National Book Award winning novel, The Underground Railroad, set in the period of the university’s founding. The novel links American slavery to the dispossession of Native peoples and illuminates the concerns that Professors Michael Witgen and Tiya Miles will probe in their component of Symposium 1817, "The Political Economy of Plunder," which takes place at 4:00 pm the next day in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100).
Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow reading. Book sales provided by Literati Bookstore.
This LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by: Department of History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of American Culture, Department of Comparative Literature, Helen Zell Writers' Program, Institute for the Humanities, Joseph A. Labadie Collection, LSA Honors Program, Native American Studies, Residential College, University Library, and Department of Women's Studies.
Photo by Madeline Whitehead.
Co-Sponsored By
- The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Residential College
- Comparative Literature
- Institute for the Humanities
- Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
- University Library
- Women's and Gender Studies Department
- Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
- Department of American Culture
- LSA Honors Program
- University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program
- Department of History
- Bicentennial Office
- Native American Studies
- African American Studies
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