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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading\, Q&A\, and Book Signing with Tisa Byrant
DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nTisa Bryant’s writing explores Black women’s subjectivity by remixing rhetorical\, literary\, cinematic and visual arts techniques into original modes of narrative and storytelling.  Her latest book\, *Residual*\, is an assemblage of the interiors of grief\, the home as archive\, and the mystery of mothers\, published by Nightboat Books in 2026. Her first book\, *Unexplained Presence*\, on the mythologies of Black presences in the arts\, was reissued by Wave Books in 2024. In her afterword to *Unexplained Presence*\, renowned critic Margo Jefferson hailed Tisa as a “literary and film auteur\, an auteur of performance on the page\, stage and screen or canvas.” \n\nA Boston native\, Tisa was a member of the Dark Room Collective\, an African-diasporic writing group that hosted a celebrated reading series in Cambridge and Boston.  She is co-editor of the three-volume\, cross-referenced literary journal\, *The Encyclopedia Project*\, and collaborated from 2015-2018 with critic and writer Ernest Hardy on *The Black Book*\, an original talk and film series presented at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Tisa is editor of *Deep West Assembly*\, a monograph of recent works by the award-winning visual artist Cauleen Smith\, forthcoming in 2026 from Astrup Fearnley Museet and Kestner Gesellschaft. She lives in Iowa City\, where she is Associate Professor of English in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa\, and is currently at work on a novel.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email zvwseries@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email zvwseries@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor).\n\nFor Public Parking: The Maynard Street Public Parking Structure (324 Maynard St.\, Ann Arbor) or The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor). All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:150942-21910479@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150942
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,book discussion,book event,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Free,Graduate,Lecture,literary,Literary Arts,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Rackham,Talk,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,UMMA,Undergraduate,Writing,zell visiting writers series
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20261008T135455
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T173000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What is a Classic?
DESCRIPTION:I revisit the perennial question\, \"What is a Classic?\" to consider the emotions and contemporary investments attached to professional classical studies and its popular counterparts. The success of the recent cinematic adaptation of The Odyssey demonstrates the ability of Greek myth and literature to still hold cultural value. But why? What is it about the classical that still compels? In the lecture\, I depart from ideas of intrinsic value or heritage to understand what might be at the foundation of our cultural infatuation. I grapple with value as economic and emotional to understand what the classics are\, where else we might find them across society\, and why it is important to relocate value outside of the academic field of professional classical studies.\n\nThis lecture will be presented by Patrice D. Rankine\, Professor of Classics\, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies\, University of Chicago.\n\nA reception with light appetizers will begin at 5:00 pm\, before the lecture at 5:30 pm.
UID:152943-21914823@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152943
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Free,Lecture
LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room
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