Event Types
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Lessons from Toni Morrison: A Conversation
On August 5, 2019, the world lost a giant. Toni Morrison was not...
Q & A: Raquel Salas Rivera
Raquel Salas Rivera is Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, winner of the 2018 Ambroggio Prize, & winner of the Lambda Literary Award for...
Teaching Contemporary Media
Kelly Askew | Colin Gunckel | Tung-Hui Hu | Valentina Montero-Roman | Melanie Yergeau | Anna Watkins-Fisher (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our first panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Department Faculty Meeting with Ann Curzan (English Department)
contact audrawil@umich.edu for details.
Hopwood Awards Ceremony & Reading
Raquel Salas Rivera
Please join us as we celebrate the winners of the 2019-20 Hopwood First- and Second-Year Awards, as well as the winners of six additional...
Rion Amilcar Scott Roundtable Q&A
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), shatters rigid genre lines to...
Denver Publishing Institute - Information Session
Ralph Zerbonia
Ralph Zerbonia, a 2000 graduate of both University of Michigan and the Publishing Institute at the University of Denver, will be on campus...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Rion Amilcar Scott Reading & Book Signing
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Rion Amilcar Scott’s story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), shatters rigid genre lines to...
Transcultural Studies Information Session
The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Join us for an...
How Gardens Feel: The Natural History of Sensation in Spenser and Milton
Lecture by Michael Schoenfeldt
Abstract:...
Hopwood Award Submissions Drop-in Workshop
Before the January 29th deadline for the January Hopwood Awards, come by to finalize your submission!...
CSEAS Event. Book Discussion of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas
Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies , Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, CSEAS outreach coordinator
Monday, January 27, 2020 / 6:00-8:30 pm / 555 Weiser Hall...
Critical Conversations: Rhetoric
Christiane Gruber | Alisse Portnoy | Daniel Valella | Melanie Yergeau | Anne Gere (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Hopwood Award Submissions Drop-in Workshop
Before the January 29th deadline for the January Hopwood Awards, come by to finalize your submission!...
January Deadline: Hopwood Awards!
The deadline is noon, January 29, 2020 for the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards and other creative writing contests. NO LATE...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Ilya Kaminsky Roundtable Q&A
Janey Lack Visiting Writer in Poetry
Ilya Kaminsky’s widely acclaimed parable in poems, Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019), reads like a two-act political drama in which lyric...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Ilya Kaminsky Reading & Book Signing
Janey Lack Visiting Writer in Poetry
Ilya Kaminsky’s widely acclaimed parable in poems, Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019), reads like a two-act political drama in which lyric...
Madeline Miller - a public reading and discussion of "Circe"
Author
A public reading and conversation with Madeline Miller, author of 'Circe' and 'Song of Achilles.'...
FellowSpeak: "Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics in the Absence of Futurity"
Sarah Ensor, Steelcase Faculty Fellow, assistant professor, environment and English language and literature
This talk asks what contemporary environmentalism’s (seemingly necessary) emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable. By reading...
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris
“Tidealectics: Thinking with Submerged Histories, Oceanic Agency, and from the Sea’s Edge.”
Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Teaching Contemporary Narratives of Migration
Sigrid Anderson | Hadji Bakara | Kristin Dickinson | Amal Hassan Fadlalla | Aliyah Khan | Supriya Nair | Joshua Miller (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our second panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Critical Conversations: Futures
Joanna Davis-McElligatt | Laura Finch | Courtney McClellan | Dana Murphy | Peggy McCracken (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
FellowSpeak: "Eco Soma: Speculative Performance Experiments"
Petra Kuppers, Hunting Family Faculty Fellow, professor, English language and literature, women’s studies, art and design, and theater and drama
In her talk, Petra Kuppers will present ecopoetic disability culture work that engages contact zones between human and non-human others. She...
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020
The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor....
Catherine Lacey Roundtable Q&A
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Catherine Lacey’s short story collection, Certain American States (FSG, 2018), portrays Americans tortured by the mundanity of their...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Catherine Lacey Reading & Book Signing
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Catherine Lacey’s short story collection, Certain American States (FSG, 2018), portrays Americans tortured by the mundanity of their...
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020
The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor....
Michigan University-wide Sustainability and Environment (MUSE) Conference 2020
The 4th MUSE Conference will be held February 20-22, 2020 at the UM Rackham building in Ann Arbor....
From the Great Lakes to the Global Water Crisis: Writers on Water
Join us for an evening of poetry and prose dedicated to water in Michigan and beyond....
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
FellowSpeak: "Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration"
Ashley Lucas, Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow, associate professor, theater and drama, English, Residential College, and art and design
Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view, despite the many journalistic and...
Huey Copeland Lecture
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for a public lecture by Huey Copeland (Northwestern). More information forthcoming.
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Grace Lin Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture
Before Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picturebooks, early readers and middle grade novels,...
English Advisory Board Meeting
Annual English Advisory Board Meeting
Teaching 21st-Century Literature
Sumita Chakraborty | Walter Cohen | Peter Ho Davies | Laura Finch | Kyle Frisina | Ben Mangrum (chair)
Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our final panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary...
Critical Conversations: "Health"
Anna Kirkland | Ava Purkiss | Michael Schoenfeldt | Tessa Tinkle | Antoine Traisnel (chair)
"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of...
Jenny Zhang Roundtable Q&A
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
Jenny Zhang Reading & Book Signing
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China...
Jean Feerick Workshop
Jean Feerick (John Carroll University) will present a workshop for graduate students in which we'll considers what role those of us in...
Jean Feerick Lecture
“[R]enew I could not”: Timon of Athens, Principles of Exchange, and Nature’s “conflicting elements”
Jean Feerick (John Carroll University) will deliver a public lecture....
Kathleen Graber Roundtable Q&A
Zell Visiting Writer in Poetry
Kathleen Graber’s poetry collection, The River Twice (Princeton University Press, 2019), is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and...
Hopwood Tea
Weekly tea from 4:00 to 5:30. All welcome. For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.
