Happening @ Michigan

EIHS Symposium: Practices of Decolonization

What is decolonization? What does it mean and what does it entail? These questions and more have emerged center-stage in recent years with a...

Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement

Jen Shyu | Mentorship, Creativity, and an Artist's Pivot in Times of COVID-19

Free & Open to the public...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Art & the Intersectional Revolution: Gender & Sexuality in the Legacy of the Arab Spring

Sascha Crasnow, Lecturer, Islamic Arts and Culture in the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program; Affiliate Faculty in Arab and Muslim American Studies and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan

The 2020 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "The Arab Spring: 10 Years Later."...

Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement

Javier Cardona Otero | Work-In progress

Registration required: http://myumi.ch/xmX0z...

Reading and Q&A with Author Tea Obreht

Zell Visiting Writers Series

Tea Obreht’s New York Times bestselling novel, Inland, is grounded in true but little-known history of the lawless,...

Craft Lecture: The Mystery of the Story

Tea Obreht, Zell Visiting Writers Series

This craft lecture will center on how every story is actually a mystery, the telling of which is dependent on a pact of exchange between...

Performing the Moment, Performing the Movement

Tiffany Ng | Ringing for Change: Building a Culture of Sonic Care and Activism around U-M's Bell Towers

Registration required: http://myumi.ch/0WV7O...

Reading and Q&A with Author Jenny Zhang

Zell Visiting Writers Series

Jenny Zhang’s debut story collection, Sour Heart, centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in...

Craft Lecture: Bringing Literary Sensibilities to Film and TV

Author Jenny Zhang, Zell Visiting Writers Series

Literature is uniquely suited to express the interior lives of characters, whereas film and television are visual mediums. With writers more...

Reading and Q&A with Author Megha Majumdar

Zell Visiting Writers Series

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, A Burning, follows three unforgettable characters whose lives are entangled in the wake of a...

Reading and Q&A with Poet Patricia Smith

Zell Visiting Writers Series

Patricia Smith's latest book of poetry, Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books, 2017), showcases her mastery of poetic forms—...

Craft Lecture: Writing The Terrifying During Terrifying Times

Patricia Smith, Zell Visiting Writers Series

Patricia Smith's latest book of poetry, Incendiary Art (Triquarterly Books, 2017), showcases her mastery of poetic forms—...

Reading and Q&A with Lauren Groff

Zell Visiting Writers Series

Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and...

Writing on a Tightrope at Night in a High Wind: Inspiration Versus Craft

Craft Lecture by Author Lauren Groff, Zell Vistiing Writers Series

Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and...