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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Apologetics: Challenge your thinking (over pizza!) with Ratio Christi Thursdays.
DESCRIPTION:Hi all\,We are excited to invite you to Ratio Christi Meeting this Thursday 10/03 from 6-7 pm! The question for this week is: \"Does Evil Disprove God?\" Our meeting will be held at the Study Center at 611 1/2 E. William St. Ann Arbor. This is a safe space to ask questions about faith and share your ideas - ALL are welcome! There will be pizza! If you are interested in learning more about us\, you can join the Ratio Christi Maize page for updates and discussions: Ratio Christi Maize page. We're also active on Instagram: Ratio Christi Instagram page. We are excited to see you all soon and please feel free to reach out with any questions! Sincerely\,Ratio Christi Team
UID:127112-21858429@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127112
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Brotherless Night Book Reading: V. V. Ganeshananthan
DESCRIPTION:Join American fiction writer\, essayist\, and journalist V. V. \"Sugi\" Ganeshananthan as she reads from her new book \"Brotherless Night.\" Books will be available for purchase by Literati\, and the author will be signing copies after the reading.\n\nJaffna\, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade\, a vicious civil war tears through her home\, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act\, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers\, who\, following years of state discrimination and violence\, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities\, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors\, a Tamil feminist and dissident\, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations\, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever.\n\nV. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and an NPR Book of the Year) and Love Marriage (longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post). Her work has appeared in Granta\, The New York Times\, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, among other publications.\n\nA former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association\, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. The National Endowment for the Arts\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships. She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota\, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub\, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.\n\nThis event has been made possible by Asian\, Pacific Islander American Studies\, the Center for South Asian Studies\, Department of American Culture\, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of English\, the Department of History\, the International Institute\, and the Program in International and Comparative Studies. With the support of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI grant.\n\nPhoto by Sophia Mayrhofer.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125315
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Books,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Library,Storytelling
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Digging Deeper: Thursday Night Lecture Series | Synthesizing Religion\, Politics\, and the Homeric Tradition: The West Sanctuary of Ilion during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from visiting scholar C. Brian Rose\, professor of Mediterranean archaeology and curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum. \n\nThe West Sanctuary at Troy (Ilion) was one of the main religious complexes at the site during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The sanctuary is exceptional due to its rich assemblage of votive objects and integration of the cults of Cybele\, Dardanus\, and the Samothracian Gods. All of these cults are tied to Ilion’s Homeric heritage\, as well as to the Romans\, once they began promoting their Trojan ancestry. This talk provides an overview of the significance of the West Sanctuary and the strategies that we employed in its architectural conservation. The latter subject\, in turn\, is tied to the question of how an archaeologist handles or mishandles the staging of history.\n\nThis event is being presented as part of our Thursday Night Lecture Series\, happening on select months during the academic year. Please join us in the Rackham Amphitheatre (located on the fourth floor of the Rackham Building) for an evening centered on exciting archaeological research and related topics.\n\nIf you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Archaeology,Lecture,Mediterranean,Museum
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre
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