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SUMMARY:Presentation:Innovation Insights: A Research Talk with William Bork
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Academic Innovation invites you to an exciting Innovation Insights Research Talk featuring William Bork\, researcher and former K-12 educator in the United States\, Taiwan\, and Mexico. \n\nLarge-scale studies investigating the academic outcomes of immigrant learners\, like the PISA assessment\, can tell us a lot about certain experiences but often only focus on data related to students’ destination countries. In this talk\, Bork details that while destination country data is useful\, incorporating more origin country characteristics could provide a more complete picture of the immigrant student experience and explain variations in academic achievement.\n\nA Zoom link will be provided upon registration. We hope to see you there!\n\n*Innovation Insights*\n\nThe Center for Academic Innovation brings together people who want to transform education\, share knowledge\, and increase learner success by hosting inspiring talks\, collaborative problem-solving workshops\, and discussions on the latest in educational research and practice. The Innovation Insights series features a diverse lineup of topics\, delivered by leaders in academia and private industry\, united by the common goals of delivering insights into how to further academic innovation and build the future of education.\n\n*About William Bork*\n\nWilliam Nicholas Bork Rodriguez is a researcher and former K-12 educator within the USA\, Taiwan\, and Mexico. William uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods to study international education\, teacher professional practice\, and more.
UID:114159-21832420@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/114159
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Academic Innovation,Education
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20231110T181727
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SUMMARY:Performance:Julie Zhu & Tiffany Ng\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Julie Zhu\, President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, and University Carillonist Tiffany Ng perform on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Earplugs are available from the carillonist upon request. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/
UID:115132-21834082@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/115132
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Faculty,Free,In Person,Music,Talk
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower
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DTSTAMP:20231023T213501
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Performative Typography and the Threat of Metaphorical Identity in the Poetry of Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a work-in-progress workshop featuring Kelly Hoffer\, Helen Zell Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry. You can sign up to receive Kelly's draft and RSVP for lunch here: https://forms.gle/LECbaJrEQJkivQsG8\n\nKelly will present her chapter\, \"Performative Typography and the Threat of Metaphorical Identity in the Poetry of Douglas Kearney.\" Abstract: Metaphors move\, or\, etymologically\, “carry over.” At the level of the poetic line\, the metaphor is the consummate change-maker. Metaphor is always staving off its dismissal as a mere decorative rhetorical figure\, but modern critics and philosophers have affirmed its force. Nietzsche argues that metaphors constitute our notion of “truth”\; Lakoff thinks of metaphor as a mechanism essential to language and conceptualizing the world\; and Sontag concludes it is a force that both intervenes in\, and is shaped by\, societal attitudes. Despite this\, recently metaphor has come under attack by poet Douglas Kearney as a figure that resists\, rather than inducing\, change. In his book of poetics Optic Subwoof (2022)\, Kearney argues the metaphorical relation promises false equivalency\, substituting one form of suffering for another. As such\, metaphors offer the reader a narcissistic reflection rather than a true encounter with difference. This article considers Kearney’s resistance to metaphor in the context of debates about the (im)potency of the aestheticization of suffering (Sontag) and humanistic empathy (Hartman) as engines for social change. It then turns to analyze Kearney’s own poems in light of his stated poetics. Does his visual poetry avoid the metaphor he is so suspicious of? If this poetry isn’t doing metaphor\, what is it doing? And why might his form of visual poetics\, or what Kearney calls “performative typography” be the structure he chooses as his intervention in today’s experimental poetic field?
UID:113532-21831127@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/113532
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Department,Poetry
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3241
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