Event Types
Location
AMAS Lecture: "SyrianamericanA: A Nation-State of Mind"
Omar Offendum
From the jasmine tree-lined courtyards of Nizar Qabbani's Damascene homes to the flooded riverbanks of Langston Hughes' Harlem Renaissance...
Keywords for Latina/o Studies
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (U-M), Sheila Contreras (MSU), María E. Cotera (U-M), Theresa Delgadillo (OSU), Ramón Rivera-Servera (Northwestern), and Alexandra Minna Stern (U-M)
Keywords for Latina/o Studies (New York University Press, 2017) is a transformative volume that includes 63 short keyword essays by 65...
How Black is American Film History?: A Scholarship and Pedagogy Mini-Conference
Guest speakers include Cara Caddoo (Indiana University), Miriam Petty (Northwestern University), and Nicholas Sammond (University of Toronto).
The event investigates the formation of the American film industry from its origins into the 1940s and beyond, paying special attention to...
Michigan Meeting Fall Symposium: Life with/in Digital Objects
Andre Brock (Georgia Tech), Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (HyphenLabs), Lionel Robert (U-M School of Information), Sophia Brueckner (U-M Art and Design)
Schedule of Events for Friday, 10/26...
Mothering Across Borders and the Children Left Behind: Zimbabwean and Mexican Immigrant Female Domestic Workers in Johannesburg, South Africa and San Diego, United States
Lorena Muñoz, Assistant Professor Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies, University of Minnesota
This comparative study, illustrates how motherhood materializes through the often emotionally-heavy choices that female immigrants make as...
Brent Hayes Edwards Lecture
Sweet Willie Rollbar’s Orientation: Film Screening and Lecture
Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia) will present his digital restoration, from the original 16mm reels, of the legendary short film Sweet Willie...
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought IV: On Literature
Public lecture with Jonathan Culler (Cornell) and Yopie Prins (Michigan)
The Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory Workshop is proud to have Jonathan Culler (Cornell) and Yopie Prins (Michigan) present two talks...
The Post-Structuralist Turn?
A Seminar with Jonathan Culler (Cornell)
Jonathan Culler will meet with graduate students and faculty to discuss this recent paper on post-structuralism. RSVP. Light refreshments...
AMAS and CMENAS Event. Islamophobia Working Group Meeting
The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our...
Screening and Discussion of "GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II"
Lisa Ades, Filmmaker
GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II tells the story of the 550,000 Jewish American men and women who fought in World War II. In their...
Elizabeth DeLoughrey Workshop
"Interdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene"...
Elizabeth DeLoughrey Lecture
“Towards a Critical Ocean Studies for the Anthropocene”...
Poetry Reading: "Diary of a Daughter in Diaspora"
Bayan Founas
Bayan Founas is an educator and youth mentor in Detroit. She graduated from the university of Michigan in 2014 with a Women's Studies degree...
Critical Conversations -- Memory
Naomi André | Sara Blair | Angela Dillard | Kristin Hass
Please join us for a conversation about Memory and Contemporary Studies...
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Development"
Susan Najita / William Glover / Perrin Selcer
During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around...
Critical Conversations -- Feminisms
Adela Pinch | Cathy Sanok | Xiomara Santamarina | Ruby Tapia
Please join us for a transhistorical conversation about Feminisms....
AMAS and CMENAS Event. Islamophobia Working Group Meeting
The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our...
Telling Stories About Male Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Cherry Smiley
Grounded in feminist and Indigenous ways of knowing and focusing on film and images, this presentation will examine historical and...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
Sexual Modernities Conference
Benjamin Kahan, Heather Love, and Marcia Ochoa
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly...
AMAS Film Screening: "Muslimah's Guide to Marriage" (time/location TBD)
Professor Amina Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar
Short Synopsis of the Film: Muslimah Muhammad, a twenty-something African-American orthodox Muslim Woman who lives in Inglewood, CA, has...
