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Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World
The Art of Ruth Leonela Buentello
Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Careers for Humanities PhDs: Publishing
Nick Geller, Yale University Press
In this workshop, Nick Geller (U-M PhD Classical Studies, 2015) of Yale University Press discusses his own career trajectory, his current...
High Stakes Culture: The Power of the Pronoun
Angela Dillard, Scott Larson, Robin Queen
Over the past few years, “culture wars” have been ignited across the country. Activists from all points of the political spectrum, even...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Author's Forum Presents: "Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins"
A Conversation with Artemis Leontis and Yopie Prins
Artemis Leontis (modern Greek and comparative literature) and Yopie Prins (English and comparative literature) discuss Leontis's new...
Ibrahim Mahama: Failures Promises
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Ibrahim Mahama is a Ghanaian artist who considers the ways in which capital and labor are expressed in common materials through large-scale...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
FellowSpeak: "Being and Acting the Other: Expanding Ethics to Account for Complex Personhood"
Scott Stonington, Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow, assistant professor, anthropology and clinical lecturer, internal medicine
How can one make sense of individual ethical action when one is partly the other? Based on fieldwork in end-of-life care in Northern...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Germanic Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference
Embodying Vision/Envisioning Embodiment
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19TH (Rackham East Conference Room):...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
FellowSpeak: “'He’d be a good rhymer': Polish Hip-Hop and the Legacy of Romanticism"
Alena Aniskiewicz, Institute for the Humanities Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Alena Aniskiewicz gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A....
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
“‘In the Future, Robots will Speak Chickasaw’: Indigenous Language Futurism and the Temporalities of Language Reclamation”
Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture by Jenny L. Davis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The revitalization or reclamation of Indigenous and endangered languages is often driven or shaped by what Debenport (2015) calls ‘hopeful...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
FellowSpeak: “'We Sometimes Cut Good Tissue Along with Bad': Economies of Sacrifice and the Korean War in 'One Minute to Zero' and 'Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'”
Daniel Y. Kim, Institute for the Humanities Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow
Daniel Kim, associate professor of English and American studies at Brown University and 2019 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow at the...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
Author's Forum Presents: "Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity"
A Conversation with Ellen Muehlberger and Deborah Dash Moore
Ellen Muehlberger (history, classical studies, Middle East studies) and Deborah Dash Moore (Judaic studies, history) discuss...
Yo Tengo Nombre
An Exhibition by Ruth Leonela Buentello, Efroymson Emerging Artist in Residence
This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant...
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
Exhibition by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a...
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World
The Art of Tylonn J. Sawyer
Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series...
Author's Forum Presents: "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean"
A Conversation with Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof and Felix Contreras
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (American culture) and Felix Contreras (host of NPR’s Alt.Latino,...
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
Exhibition by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a...
FellowSpeak: “Real and Imagined: Animating the Spaces Between Us”
Heidi Kumao, 2019-20 Hunting Family Faculty Fellow; professor, art and design
Heidi Kumao gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A....
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
Exhibition by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a...
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
Exhibition by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a...
Opening Reception & Conversation with the Artist
Artist Tylonn J. Sawyer and Amanda Krugliak, Institute for the Humanities curator
Join us for conversation with Tylonn J. Sawyer and curator Amanda Krugliak, followed by reception....
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
Exhibition by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a...
WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1
Exhibition by Tylonn J. Sawyer
Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art, Sawyer exposes truths, while covering others to gain a...
Bio
The Institute for the Humanities is a center for innovative, collaborative study in the humanities and arts. Each year we provide fellowships for Michigan faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars who work on interdisciplinary projects. We also offer a wide array of public and scholarly events, including weekly talks, public lectures, conferences, art exhibits, and performances.
