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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Alternative Affinities: Constellations of Kinship and Community
DESCRIPTION:The Kleinfamilie\, or “nuclear family\,” endures as a core structure that helps to define human relations. With roots in the eighteenth century\, the Kleinfamilie provided a social and economic foundation for the rise of the modern nation state. However\, the heterogeneous and multidimensional ways individuals and communities connect with one another today require a broader focus. A more fluid and encompassing term\, “kinship\,” offers a way of seeing and describing those ties that extend beyond the nuclear family and are by nature shifting and\ntemporary.\n\nUsing kinship as a framework\, Heidi Schlipphacke’s book The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century (Bucknell University Press\, 2023) reexamines 18th-century German novels and dramas to uncover alternative affinities that are hidden when exclusively considered through the walled-off Kleinfamilie. Sclipphacke’s investigation belongs to a larger body of recent scholarly work seeking to reconceive of  repurpose the term “kinship.” For example\, Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism (Duke University Press\, 2023) deploys kinship as an analytic category to demonstrate how queer and trans people in postwar and contemporary Germany navigated citizenship\, love\, and public and family life. A broader investigation into kinship\, Adele E. Clarke’s and Donna Harraway’s edited volume\nMaking Kin Not Population: Reconceiving Generations (The University of Chicago Press\, 2018) contemplates questions of reproductive and environmental justice to\nconsider how we establish personal and public connections today. Building on recent interventions like these\, this conference will approach kinship as an interdisciplinary tool for exploring relational networks and the formation of personal and collective identity within–and in opposition to–“Western\,” modern\, white\, heterosexual\, and even anthropocentric norms.\n\nPROGRAM: \n\nFriday\, October 30th\nPalmer Commons\, Great Lakes North\n\n3:00 pm \nKeynote: Heidi Schlipphacke\nTitle: Kinship in Space and Time\n\n4:30 pm\nCoffee and Tea Break\n\n4:45 pm: Panel 1: Loss\, Fracture\, and Memory\n● Henrique Carvalho Pereira\, Der andere Fehl\n● Emma Stratman\, Wer über die Märchen lacht\, war nie in Not: On Obstinacy and the\nFairytale in the Work of Alexander Kluge\n● Nathan Bailey\, Seismic Epiphanies: Utopian Modes of Caring and Nursing in Heinrich\nvon Kleist‘s Das Erdbeben in Chili\nRespondent: Ella Wilhelm\n\n\nSaturday\, October 31st\nPalmer Commons\, Great Lakes North\n\n8:00 am\nBreakfast\n\n8:45 am: Panel 2: Nation and Empire\n● Hannah Edwards\, Kinship and Kingship: Heraklean Affinities and Diplomacy in Ancient\nMacedonia\n● Sam Farmer\, Partisan Places and Anti-Fascism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Family on Film\n● Deborah Pomeranz\, The Klein-Familie on Wheels: Race\, Genre\, and Kinship in Turn of\nthe Century Popular Performance (Deborah Pomeranz)\n● Ibrahim Adissa Owoo\, Orphans of the Empire: Colonial Kinship and Diasporic Belonging\nin La Saison de l’ombre of Léonora Miano\nRespondent: Kristin Dickinson\n\n10:15 am: Coffee and Tea Break\n\n10:30 am: Panel 3: Female Kinship\n● Tamar Gutfeld\, Daughters of 1930: Authority\, Crisis and Kinship in Gilgi eine von uns\n(Keun\, 1931) and Kuhle Wampe (Dudow and Brecht\, 1932)\n● Mathilda Trausch\, Flying Witches: Gossip and Alternative Female Kinship in Helma\nSanders Brahms’ Deutschland\, bleiche Mutter (1980)\n● Maria Zahner\, Mothers and Daughters in the Holocaust: reading Ruth Klüger and\nCordelia Edvardson\nRespondent: Kerstin Barndt\n\n12:00 pm: Lunch\n\n1:00 pm: Panel 4: Kinship in 20th Century Literature\n● Kehinde Sowunmi\, Witnessing the Wall: Narrative Kinship and the Implicated Reader in\nMarlen Haushofer’s Die Wand\n● Ruth Ireti Falaiye\, Kinship and Transatlantic Friendship in Kafka’s Das Urteil\n● Olivia Gilbert\, Lateral Affinities: Sibling Sociality in Robert Musil’s Man Without Qualities\n(1930-1934)\nRespondent: Johannes von Moltke\n\n2:30: Closing Remarks
UID:149285-21906192@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Conference,Ecology,European,European Studies,Free,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Germany,global,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Humanities,In Person,Interdisciplinary,International,Language,LGBT
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Great Lakes North
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DTSTAMP:20260928T153704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Faster and More Fun: American Home Cooking in the 1920s
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room to see historical materials that illustrate women’s changing relationship with food\, cooking\, and technology during the heady decade of the 1920s\, sandwiched between WWI and the Great Depression. This exhibit features materials from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive\, as well as select items from the Art\, Architecture\, and Engineering Special Collections and the Transportation History Collection.\n\nAs America rang in a new decade in the 1920s\, cookbook authors and appliance manufacturers stood ready to offer the newly emancipated and forward-thinking American woman a vision for her future\, a vision that would be scientifically  grounded\, speedy enough to make time for leisure as well as housework\, and guaranteed to bring fun to that most humdrum of chores: planning and preparing meals for a family three times a day\, 365 days a year.
UID:150658-21909811@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150658
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culinary History,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20261019T144818
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T161500
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Perspectives on Contemporary Korea | Transpacific Lives in an American Century: Ilhan New as Method
DESCRIPTION:The Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan is proud to host an international conference focused on the life and work of Ilhan New as part of the Center’s Perspectives on Contemporary Korea series. A national hero in Korea and the University of Michigan’s most famous Korean alumnus\, Ilhan New’s remarkable biography is well known. Born in Pyongyang\, New came to the United States at a young age and received primary and secondary education in the Midwest. In Hastings\, Nebraska\, New attended the Korean youth military school established by Park Yong-man in 1909. From Hastings\, New moved to Detroit and then to nearby Ann Arbor to pursue a degree in business and commerce at the University of Michigan. While studying at Michigan New met his future spouse and trailblazing partner Mary Woo. In 1922\, New and a friend from the University of Michigan named Wally Smith launched the brand La Choy and turned a seemingly impossible chance encounter into one of the most spectacular examples of the American Dream at Smith’s grocery in Detroit. New returned to his homeland in 1926 at the age of 31 and established a successful pharmaceutical company named Yuhan yanghaeng. In the final years of the Pacific War\, New once again demonstrated his ability to shape new forms of Asian\, American\, and Asian American agency as a consultant for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS). After liberation in 1945\, New made significant contributions to the rebuilding of South Korea through education\, public health\, and philanthropy.\n\nFar from taking New as an extraordinary individual who led an exceptional life\, the conference will approach New’s biography as a point of entry that opens onto several important avenues for thinking about Korean\, American\, and Asian American histories of the modern era\, as well as a method for interrogating these histories’ complex imbrications with one another. Particular attention will be paid to the lesser known forces that shaped New’s trajectory and the transformative impact of New’s life on these and other historical forces. Using Ilhan New not as case study but as method\, this conference will examine\, among other things\, the global footprint of Midwestern values and religiosity\, the ethnicity of global industry and global nature of ethnic industry\, fighting for a nation that is both singular and plural\, and Korea’s diasporic century.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:153401-21915810@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153401
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,conference,Korea,Korean Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20261028T042138
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T100000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:South Quad / Fletcher (2026-2027) (Housing)
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UID:151431-21913730@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151431
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:South Quad Community Center
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DTSTAMP:20260227T094340
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ 31)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ) to be hosted jointly by the University of Michigan and Oakland University on Oct. 31\, 2026. The conference will be held at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \n\nThe conference theme is “Reimagining Japanese Language Education: Challenges\, Opportunities\, and Transformations\,” seeking to provide opportunities to learn and discuss a rich array of topics\, including pedagogical challenges\, broader curricular challenges\, the survival of individual programs\, and program advocacy.\n\nWe welcome all current and future Japanese language professionals from the Midwest region and beyond across the US and Canada\, as well as various institutions\, including K-16 schools. \n\nDr. Suwako Watanabe\, the department chair and Professor of Japanese at Portland State University and a Board member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\, will be a plenary speaker.   \n\nFor further information or inquiries\, please contact event organizers Akiko Imamura\, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)\, at aimamura@umich.edu\, and Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood\, Ph.D. (Oakland University)\, at kashiwag@oakland.edu
UID:145929-21898108@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145929
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Asian Languages And Cultures,center for japanese studies,conference,Culture,Education,japan,Japanese Studies,Language
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenburg
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