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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet\, Beyond the Eye
DESCRIPTION:\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\n\nStamps Gallery kicks off the fall 2026 semester with an ambitious mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artist Cosmo Whyte. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Whyte completed a BFA from Bennington College and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. He is currently a faculty member at the School of the Arts and Architecture\, UCLA.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two central concerns that animate Whyte’s artistic practice: the archive\, both personal and public\, as a site of disturbance\; and migration as a lived experience of refuge\, refusal\, and reinvention. In Whyte’s work\, the archive is never static or neutral. Rather\, it is a contested space where official histories encounter memory\, inheritance\, and the fragments of stories carried across generations. His practice moves within this charged interstitial terrain\, between what has been recorded and what has been remembered\, between institutional knowledge and embodied experience. Whyte invites the viewer to consider the fluidity of geographic borders and layered cultural identities that have persisted despite societal unrest caused by racial and socio-economic hierarchies across generations. In an era of intensified border politics and renewed debates over national identity\, Whyte’s work offers a timely meditation on memory\, movement\, and belonging.\n\nPresented with support from the U-M Institute for Humanities\, the U-M LSA Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, and the U-M Library.
UID:149541-21906594@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260810T101222
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Translation as Jungle Warfare: How Zhang Guixing’s novel The Crossing of the Boars Crossed into English
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/E7rRM\n\nMalaysian-Taiwanese novelist Chang Kuei-hsing (b. 1956\, publishes as Zhang Guixing) has spent\ndecades doing for tropical Asia what Gabriel García Márquez did for Latin America: enchanting\na land with a violent history. Set in wartime Sarawak\, *The Crossing of the Boars* (Ye zhu du he\,\n2018\, rev. 2024)\, released in English this year\, dazzles with a wartime mystery enmeshed in an\necological fantasia: ghostly colonists mating like guppies\, macaques mirroring Japanese war\ncriminals\, bomber storks\, ominous urinating porcupines\, wildfire-igniting squirrels\, monstrous\nquagmires\, vengeful flying she-vampires\, and herd upon herd of insatiable bearded pigs.\n\nChristopher Rea discusses how he and Julie M. Wang rendered this award-winning novel into\nEnglish\, including the process of researching a historical epic whose architectonic sentences\nteem with flora and fauna found only in Borneo. In doing so\, he offers answers to a more\ngeneral question: When faced with a challenging text\, how can a translator get out alive?\n\nChristopher Rea is professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia.\nHis book-length translations from Chinese into English include *China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories\nand Farces by Xu Zhuodai* (Cornell\, open access)\, *The Book of Swindles and More Swindles from\nthe Late Ming* (both with Bruce Rusk\, Columbia)\, *Humans\, Beasts\, and Ghosts by Qian Zhongshu*\n(Columbia)\, and Zhang Guixing’s *The Crossing of the Boars: A Novel* (with Julie M. Wang\,\nColumbia\, 2026). He is also the founding director and lead translator of the Chinese Film\nClassics Project\, the world’s largest free online collection of early Chinese films with English\nsubtitles.\n\nhttps://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-crossing-of-the-boars/9780231217668/\n\nhttps://asia.ubc.ca/profile/christopher-rea/\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150042
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Books,center for chinese studies,center for southeast asian studies,China,Ecology,Languages,Literature
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
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