{ "149541-21906594": { "datetime_modified":"20260824T181519", "datetime_start":"20260911T120000", "datetime_end":"20260911T170000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-09-11", "date_end":"2026-09-11", "time_start":"12:00:00", "time_end":"17:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"Cosmo Whyte: Under the Quiet, Beyond the Eye", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"149541-21906594@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/149541", "building_id":"null", "building_name":"Off Campus Location", "campus_maps_id":"1", "room":"", "location_name":"Stamps Gallery, 201 South Division Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Art"], "website":"https:\/\/stamps.umich.edu\/events\/cosmo-whyte-under-the-quiet-beyond-the-eye", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design", "group_id":"3157", "website":"http:\/\/stamps.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_large_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_large_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "group_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "group_thumb_square":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_thumb_square\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "group_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "group_large_lightbox":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/group_large_lightbox\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_large_crop":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_large_crop\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_list":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_list\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_list_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/event_list_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_grid":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_grid_2x":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_grid_2x\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_feature_large":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_feature_large\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg", "event_feature_thumb":"https:\/\/events.umich.edu\/media\/cache\/resolve\/event_feature_thumb\/media\/attachments\/2026\/08\/event_149541_original-2.jpg" }, "occurrence_count":67, "first_occurrence":21906594 } , "150042-21907901": { "datetime_modified":"20260810T101222", "datetime_start":"20260911T120000", "datetime_end":"20260911T130000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2026-09-11", "date_end":"2026-09-11", "time_start":"12:00:00", "time_end":"13:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Translation as Jungle Warfare: How Zhang Guixing\u2019s novel The Crossing of the Boars Crossed into English", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Translation as Jungle Warfare: How Zhang Guixing\u2019s novel The Crossing of the Boars Crossed into English: Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia", "event_subtitle":"Christopher Rea, University of British Columbia", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "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 Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez 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\u2019s 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\u2019s *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\u2019s 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. 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