BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250826T131103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Carl Phillips DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters25\n\nCarl Phillips’s latest book of poems is *Scattered Snows\, to the North* (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2024). His *Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020* (Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, 2022) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, the *Los Angeles Times Book* Award\, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry\, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books\, most recently *My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing* (Yale University Press\, 2022). He lives on Cape Cod\, in Massachusetts.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@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 every floor of the Union. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@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). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:136923-21879335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136923 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Poetry,Literary,Michigan Union,Writing,Carl Phillips,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Culture,Free,Graduate LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson ABCDE CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250819T160905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250905T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CSAS Graduate Student Conference | New Directions in South Asia: From Nostalgia to New Politics DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W6drV\n\nThis conference will bring together graduate students at the University of Michigan from all disciplines\, featuring panelists discussing papers on the theme of “New Directions\,” rethinking key ideas in scholarship pertaining to South Asia. In the last decade\, South Asia has witnessed the contours of democracy change\, the economic center of gravity shift eastwards\, and an unprecedented influx of climate and political refugees. Reflecting on recent global events\, how can we meaningfully situate South Asia in the world?\n \n OPENING REMARKS (10:00 AM – 10:15 AM)\n \n PANEL 1 (10:15 AM – 11:45 AM): Literary Critique in Context\n Aditya Bhattacharya (doctoral student in Asian Languages and Cultures)\, Sarvadamana Bharata in the *Mahābhārata* and the *Abhijñānaśākuntala*: The Puru Prince in the Changing Politics of Legitimacy\n Shreya Dutta (doctoral student in History)\, Navigating the Unfamiliar? Rethinking Babu Satires in Late Nineteenth-Century Bengal\n Gurkirat Singh Sekhon (doctoral student in English and Women's and Gender Studies)\, Is the *Post-* in Postsecularism the *Post-* in Postcritique?\n \n CATERED LUNCH (11:45 AM – 1:00 PM)\n \n PANEL 2 (1:00 PM – 2:30 PM): Networks of Prints and Visual\n Nathan Omprasadham (doctoral student in English Language and Literature)\, The Editor as Nexus: Sri Lankan Literary Networks and the Politics of Patronage in Post-war London\n Srimati Ghosal (doctoral student in Comparative Literature)\, Magazine Manifestoes: The Formation of Third-world Literary Aesthetics through the Magazine Format\n Arighna Gupta (Ph.D. candidate in History)\, Visualizing Rebels and Collectives in Early-colonial Company Paintings\, 1780–1840\n \n COFFEE BREAK 1 (2:30 PM –2:45 PM)\n \n PANEL 3 (2:45 PM – 4:15 PM): Political and Legal Lives of South Asia\n Avina Kohli (doctoral student in Asian Languages and Cultures)\, State Publicity and Pedagogy in Postcolonial India\n Vishesh Chander Guru (doctoral student in Anthropology)\, Troubling Crime: Insanity\, Law\, and Reason in (Post)colonial India\n Saifullah Nasar (Ph.D. candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology)\, title TBA\n \n COFFEE BREAK 2 (4:15 PM – 4:30 PM)\n \n KEYNOTE ADDRESS (4:30 PM – 6:00 PM): Documentation as Political Practice: From Contemporary Nostalgia for the Left to the New Evidentiary Politics in 1970s South India\n \n Five decades ago\, the Andhra Pradesh Radical Students Union launched the Go to Villages Campaign\, in which groups of university students were sent to rural Dalit settlements\, where they were tasked with documenting the conditions of life and labor. In that same decade\, anthropologists and sociologists like Clifford Geertz and Joseph Gusfield fundamentally transformed the social sciences by newly centering attention to writing. This talk asks why Telugu South India similarly saw the emergence of new socio-political writing and documentation practices in the 1970s\, highlighting four examples: the Jana Natya Mandali’s (People’s Theatre Troupe) new documentary song-story compositions\; AP State Harijan Conference reports\; documentation produced by the RSU’s “Go to Villages Campaign”\; and the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee’s introduction of regular “fact-finding missions.”\n \n Lisa Mitchell is Professor of anthropology & history in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of *Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections* (Duke University Press 2023\; Permanent Black 2023) and *Language\, Emotion\, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue* (Indiana University Press 2009\; Permanent Black 2010)\, which received the Edward Cameron Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Wenner-Gren Foundation\, Fulbright\, European Research Council\, American Institute for Indian Studies\, and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.\n\n If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at tinagrif@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:137460-21880305@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137460 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Democracy,international institute,political science,sociology,Anthropology,Asian Languages And Cultures,Climate Change,conference LOCATION:Tisch Hall - Room 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR