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SUMMARY:Exhibition:CAS Exhibit. Making Armenian Americans - Project Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project
DESCRIPTION:Making Armenian Americans  \nCurators: Michael Pifer (U-M| MES) and Kathryn Babayan (U-M|History)\nProject Save Photograph Archive/Archive Alive Project\n\nMaking Armenian Americans invites viewers into a moment of possibility in the early 20th century\, when Armenians fleeing violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire came to reinvent themselves in the promise of America. Drawn from the archives of Project Save\, these photographs capture different valences of American life\, as experienced\, performed\, and imagined by Armenian immigrants. From naturalization classes to festivals of nations\, from breaking new ground for churches to mundane tableaus of Thanksgiving and Christmas\, this range of photographs offers a glimpse of a community in the making\, one that sought to preserve a memory of its Ottoman past even while anticipating an American future.
UID:143388-21892993@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143388
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Armenian Studies,Exhibition,history,Area Studies
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DTSTAMP:20260203T160925
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CLIFF 2026 - 30th Anniversary Event
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Literature Intra-student and Faculty Forum (CLIFF) has been a cornerstone of the Department of Comparative Literature since 1996. Dedicated to interdisciplinarity and intellectual vigor\, our graduate student-organized conference embodies the values that form the basis of Comparative Literature. In previous years\, CLIFF’s conference-wide themes have inspired graduate students from disciplines across the University—as well as scholars from universities across the country and independent scholars—to share and discuss their work. For the 30th anniversary of CLIFF\, we are dedicated to honoring this long history of the conference while opening possibilities for its future. Our event will feature an opening speech by Comparative Literature Professor Will Stroebel\; three panels organized and presented by graduate students\; and a closing roundtable from organizers and alumni reflecting on CLIFF's past\, present\, and future.\n\nCLIFF 2026 Program\n\nFriday\, February 13\, 2026\nLocation: Rackham Assembly Hall\, 4th floor\n\n8:30 am - 9:00 am	        Breakfast\n\n9:00 am - 10:00 am	        Opening speech by Dr. Will Stroebel (Modern Greek & Comparative Literature) \n			                “Comparative Literature at the Borderscape” \n\n10:00 am - 10:15 am 	Coffee Break\n\n10:15 am - 11:45 am	Panel 1: Historicism\, New and Used\n				        Organizers: James Kiselik & Srimati Ghosal\n				        Respondent: Dr. Will Stroebel \nPresenters:\nOğuz Kayır (Film\, Television\, and Media)\, “Historicizing Otherwise: A Feminist Archive in Contemporary Turkish Art”\nDibyangee Saha (English)\, “The Spatial Turn in Print Archives: Reading IPTA’s Unity from a Distance”\nSrimati Ghosal (Comparative Literature)\, “Aesthetics of Audacity\, Aesthetics of Advertisement: Encountering the Tricontinental in American Archives”\nJames Kiselik (English)\, “Usufructuary Historicism”\n\n11:45 am - 12:45 pm	Lunch\n\n12:45 pm - 2:15 pm 	Panel 2: Media as Mediation\n				        Organizers: Nathan Omprasadham & Sanjana Ramanathan\n                                        Respondent: Dr. Toni Bushner (Digital Studies Institute)\nPresenters:\nAlexa Kelly (English)\, “‘Are We All In Your Story\, Alan?’: Fictionality\, Ludic Form\, and Alan Wake II”\nDora Gao (History)\, “‘Tomorrow Comes’: Learning to Grieve through Clair Obscur: Expedition 33”\nMaryam Khan (English)\, “‘Rot as Memory’: Obsolescence and the Afterlives of Early Net Art”\nNathan Omprasadham (English) & Sanjana Ramanathan (Comparative Literature)\, “‘Tasting Fragments’: the Materiality of Language Loss in Venba”\n\n2:15 pm - 2:30 pm 	Coffee Break\n\n2:30 pm - 4:00 pm 	Panel 3: Within/Beyond the Boundaries of Caribbean Studies\n				Organizers: Jeremy M. Santiago-Rojas & Amanda M. La O Cartaya\n				Respondent: Dr. Supriya Nair (English)\nPresenters:\nAmanda M. La O Cartaya (Comparative Literature)\, “Beneath Structures of Power: Analyzing Jose Marti’s Work Through the Social Suffering Framework”\nJeremy M. Santiago-Rojas (Comparative Literature)\, “Tracing Filipino-Boricua Relations in the Archive”\nJodi Berry (English & Education)\, “Managing Imaginations: Female Castaway Narratives and Educational Exports”\nAnaridia Molina (English)\, “Digital Imaginaries Within and Beyond the Boundaries of Caribbean Literature: In the Same Boats & Visualizing Caribbean Literature”\n\n4:00 pm - 4:15 pm 	Coffee Break\n\n4:15 pm to 5:45 pm	Roundtable with former CLIFF organizers\n\n6:00 pm to 7:30 pm	Reception dinner
UID:143586-21893426@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143586
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Comparative Literature,Humanities,Graduate Students,Graduate and Professional Students,Faculty
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th floor Assembly Hall
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