Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Yiddish Leyenkrayz (July 21, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 21, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-21T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (July 28, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 28, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-07-28T12:00:00-04:00 2017-07-28T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (August 4, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 4, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-08-04T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-04T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (August 11, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 11, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-08-11T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-11T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (August 18, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 18, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-08-18T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-18T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (August 25, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-08-25T12:00:00-04:00 2017-08-25T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (September 1, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-8998057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 1, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-09-01T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-01T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-07T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-07T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560445@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-08T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (September 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-09-08T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-08T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-14T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-14T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Performance and American Cultures (September 15, 2017 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43499 43499-9777856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 10:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

How do American studies and performance studies intersect in our research and teaching? What theories, methodologies, fields of evidence, and habits of mind do these fields offer one another? Where and how do performance studies and American studies not mesh well? What problems at their intersection might be unsolvable? How can these fields together produce new knowledge about US cultural history, particularly aobut the histories of race?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:36:35 -0400 2017-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (September 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-09-15T12:00:00-04:00 2017-09-15T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
HWW Predoctoral Summer Workshop Information Session (September 18, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43813 43813-9843867@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M doctoral students Amanda Healy, Jallicia Jolly, and Megan Berkobien will talk about their experiences at the HWW pre-doctoral summer workshop and answer questions from prospective applicants.

About the Predoctoral Summer Workshop: A three-week intensive, residential summer workshop for individuals who are working towards but have not yet received a PhD in a humanities discipline, and who plan to continue their degree programs while also considering careers outside the academy and/or the tenure-track university system. The summer workshop will instruct students in the various ways they can leverage their pre-existing and developing skill sets towards the pursuit of careers in the public humanities and the private sector. Familiarity with the vital connections between academic and public worlds can also enrich traditional scholarly endeavors. Guest speakers will make daily presentations to workshop fellows. Field trips to relevant sites will supplement the instruction that takes place in the workshop.

Humanities Without Walls is a consortium of humanities centers and institutes at 15 major research universities throughout the Midwest and beyond. Based at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the consortium is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This workshop is organized by, and presented in partnership with, the Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF). Guided by one of the leading public humanities organizations in the nation, it encourages humanities doctoral students to think of themselves as agents of the public humanities and showcase opportunities beyond the walls of the academy in an uncertain academic job climate.

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Other Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:52:14 -0400 2017-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2017-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Other 202 S. Thayer
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Mark Dion Redux, panel discussion (September 19, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42130 42130-9560489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Panelists Osman Khan, Sarah Rose Sharp, and Paul Amenta, and moderator Amanda Krugliak, discuss "Waiting for the Extraordinary," a new iteration of Mark Dion’s 2011 U-M installation inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward. This architecturally scaled installation presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers enter the darkened space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it. Waiting for the Extraordinary serves as an archive of the original, as part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York
(TBG 14740)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:54:08 -0400 2017-09-19T12:30:00-04:00 2017-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Image: Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (TBG 14740)
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-21T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Fragments Workshop. Scented Protection: A History of Saffron in Medieval China (September 22, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42749 42749-9653777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2017 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Panelists: Aileen Das (Classical Studies), Amanda Repass (PhD student in History-Anthropology Program), and Paul Freedman (History, Yale).

The flourishing commerce of the Silk-Roads and the vibrant cultural exchange between China and the Western Regions (xiyu) fostered the circulation of diverse substances across the Eurasia continent. Prominent among them were a large number of aromatics of Indian, Persian, or Southeast Asian origin that entered Tang China (618-907) and transformed the landscape of Chinese medical practices. This paper focuses on a particular aromatic, saffron (yujin xiang), which came from northern India and Kashmir. The paper explores the identification of the plant in Chinese sources, various ways through which it was imported into China, and the diverse values it acquired there.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:41:01 -0400 2017-09-22T14:00:00-04:00 2017-09-22T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Xiang fu san
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 25, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
GTC+ Information Session (September 25, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43815 43815-9843869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2017 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Learn about GTC+, which adds to the Graduate Teacher Certificate a particular focus on integrating digital media into college instruction, providing structured opportunities to engage with current scholarly conversations about the ways digital environments shape our thinking and practice as teachers and learners. Like the standard Graduate Teacher Certificate, this program is designed in part to help prepare students for a competitive academic job market. Students who complete the GTC+ will be well equipped to enter and lead conversations not only about effective teaching practices but also about the complex interactions between those practices and new media.

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Other Thu, 07 Sep 2017 14:55:33 -0400 2017-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 2017-09-25T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Other 202 S. Thayer
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 26, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
The Shock of the Old: Archives After the Digital Turn (September 26, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42131 42131-9560490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

There can be little doubt that the democratizing impetus of the digital revolution has transformed the practices and publics of our scholarly work, perhaps no more so than in the shifting terrain of archival recovery. Innovations in digital media from portable high quality scanners to smartphones that can produce precision digital recordings have made it easier for scholars to collect, organize and share primary sources from their research in formats that disrupt top-down models of knowledge production. Indeed, “renegade” archives are popping up all over, challenging the control of traditional institutions over the valuation, curation, and access to primary sources. In this presentation, I will discuss how a critical practice of digital scholarship can embrace this moment of disruption to re-imagine knowledge-making as a collaborative effort; one that produces knowledge not only for scholarly communities but also for (and with) a broader public that until now has only rarely come into contact with our scholarly work. How does such collaborative knowledge making demand a shift, both conceptual and practical, in the ecosystem of our scholarship, from the question of what kind of scholarly products we produce (books, articles, exhibitions, collections) to the question of how these products are received (Who are our audiences, where does our work land, whom does it serve?). What role might the university play in either supporting or ultimately re-incorporating the liberatory impulses of these disruptive digital practices?

Maria Cotera, U-M associate professor of American Culture and Women’s Studies, discusses how the critical practice of digital scholarship can re-imagine knowledge-making as a collaborative effort; one that produces knowledge not only for scholarly communities but also for (and with) a broader public that until now has only rarely come into contact with our scholarly work.

Maria Cotera is a scholar of feminist of color genealogies who holds a joint appointment in the Departments of American Culture and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She was the 2014-15 Helmut F. Stern Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:54:13 -0400 2017-09-26T12:30:00-04:00 2017-09-26T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Chican por me raza
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Lives in Limbo: Jewish Refugees in Portugal, 1940-1945 (September 28, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42635 42635-9622479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:15pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Marion Kaplan speaks about the experience of refugees from Nazi Germany in Portugal, the port of last resort once Hitler invaded France. She examines the daily lives and feelings of those trapped in Lisbon for lack of visas and ship tickets but anxious to leave since the Portuguese government did not want them.

Photo: Life saving visa issued by Dr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes in June 19, 1940.
Source: Huddyhuddy - Self-scanned, CC BY-SA 3.0

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:21:35 -0400 2017-09-28T12:15:00-04:00 2017-09-28T13:45:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Life saving visa issued by Dr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes in June 19, 1940 By Huddyhuddy - Self-scanned, CC BY-SA 3.0
Possession, a conversation and reception with artist Jaye Schlesinger (September 28, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42132 42132-9560491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2017 3:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger talks about her exhibition Possession, which evolved in response to her interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:38:19 -0400 2017-09-28T15:00:00-04:00 2017-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Possession
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (September 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2017-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Art & Archive panel discussion with The Hinterlands and Design 99 (October 3, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42133 42133-9560492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

A conversation with Detroit performance-art group The Hinterlands (Liza Bielby and Richard Newman) and Detroit design collective Design 99 (Mitch Cope & Gina Reichert), moderated by Amanda Krugliak and Lucy Cahill. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:25:06 -0400 2017-10-03T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-03T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Alverno Presents/Kat Schleicher Photography: The Radicalization Process
Middle East Studies Student Group Info Session (October 3, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/44838 44838-9989214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Would you like to be part of a community of students interested in Middle East studies? Are you interested in organizing or attending Middle East studies-focused academic, social, and networking events?

The Department of Near Eastern Studies is hosting a meet-up for students who are interested in forming a Middle East studies student group.

Tuesday, October 3, 2017
5:00pm, 1022 South Thayer Building
Dinner will be provided

Come and meet other students with shared interests, and take the first steps towards establishing a new student group! Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/mideaststudies by Friday, September 29.

Questions? Email nes-advising@umich.edu

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Other Wed, 20 Sep 2017 10:24:31 -0400 2017-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Other flyer
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 4, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-04T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 5, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (October 6, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Fragments Workshop. A CONQUEST KOINE: The Oral and Written Transmission of Reports on the Islamic Conquest of Duin (October 6, 2017 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43614 43614-9821485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2017 2:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Commentators: Manan Ahmed (Columbia U) and Matt Mosca (U Washington).

The earliest extant Arabic histories describing the rise of Islam and the Caliphate date to the ninth century, some two centuries after the events they purport to describe. This has prompted a strong tendency towards skepticism among historians of early Islam who suggest that perhaps these histories reveal more about ʿAbbasid-era realities than about conquest- or Umayyad-era events. Accordingly, a number of scholars have turned to non-Arabic sources to corroborate or challenge the data culled from Arabic histories.

This paper questions the use of non-Arabic sources as independent checks on the Arabic. In particular, it examines the accounts of the seventh-century Arab conquest of Armenia and specifically Dabīl/Duin, the Sasanian and caliphal capital of Armenia, to forward suggestions about how we might trace oral transmission of historical reports in multilingual communities of the medieval Near East.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:24:37 -0400 2017-10-06T14:00:00-04:00 2017-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560430@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Omeka in the Classroom (October 9, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42137 42137-9560527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this workshop, Alix Keener, U-M Digital Scholarship Librarian, will introduce how to learn with Omeka in a collaborative setting, including, but not limited to, a college classroom. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web publishing platform for the display of museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:02:56 -0400 2017-10-09T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-10T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 11, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-11T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 12, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (October 13, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-10-13T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-13T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
“Below the Line”? The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures Symposium (October 16, 2017 10:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42667 42667-9622502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2017 10:15am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

What is common to Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Isaac Babel, Joseph Roth, Walter Benjamin, and Ilya Ehrenburg? They were all Jewish writers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, who wrote feuilletons, often side by side with poems, novels, short stories, or philosophical and political works. Does the fact that these prominent Jewish figures wrote feuilletons in Hebrew, Yiddish, German, Russian and Polish makes these feuilletons Jewish? Is feuilleton a Jewish genre? The feuilleton has been a critical genre in the development of modern Jewish cultures but it has been overlooked and undertheorized in both literary and historical studies. This symposium convenes a group of scholars to investigate the feuilleton and its connections to modern Jewish cultures.

Event Schedule:

Welcome: 10:15 am

Reflections on the Feuilleton: 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Chair: Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan)
Liliane Weissberg (University of Pennsylvania), “The Feuilleton and the Possibilities of German-Jewish Authorship and Literature”
Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan), “How to Write Feuilleton in Hebrew? Journalism, Literature, and the Public Sphere”
Naomi Brenner (Ohio State University), “French Priests, Prostitutes and Villains: Translating the Roman-Feuilleton into Hebrew and Yiddish”

Traveling Feuilletons: 1:00 -2:30 pm
Chair: Anita Norich (University of Michigan)
Mikhail Krutikov (University of Michigan), “Vilna under German Military Rule, 1915-1918: Jewish Voices as the Occupiers and the Occupied”
Ofer Dynes (McGill University), “Connecting the Dots: The Heavy Duty of Light Literature in Interwar Poland”
William Runyan (University of Michigan), “Verse of the Moment: The Yiddish Rhymed Feuilleton”

Feuilletonists: 3:00-4:30 pm
Chair: Maya Barzilai (University of Michigan)
Ela Bauer (Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv), “To Observe, to Chat, or to Influence? The Tasks of the Feuilletons According to Nahum Sokolow”
Brian Horowitz (Tulane University), “The Feuilleton and Jabotinsky’s Political Education: What Role Can a Genre Have in the Making of a Political Radical?”
Johannes von Moltke (University of Michigan), “Ex kino lux: Siegfried Kracauer’s Weimar Era Film Criticism in the Frankfurter Zeitung” 

Roundtable Discussion: 4:45-5:45 pm


Photo: Fueilletons by Theodor Herzl, translated into Hebrew by David Frishman (Warsaw, 1911)

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:37:41 -0400 2017-10-16T10:15:00-04:00 2017-10-16T17:45:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Feuilleton Herzl Frishman
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 18, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 19, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Possession, pop-up exhibition by Jaye Schlesinger (October 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42128 42128-9560487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Possession evolved in response to Ann Arbor artist Jaye Schlesinger’s interest in mindfulness and minimalism and the role they play in personal well being. After disposing (selling, recycling, giving away) of everything that no longer served to enrich her life, Schlesinger decided to merge this exercise with her art practice and depicted all of her remaining possessions in small oil paintings, 380 in total. The paintings depict objects of functionality and ones of beauty, eliciting contemplation and conversation about the ‘stuff’ we choose to live with.

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Exhibition Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:35:29 -0400 2017-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Possession
Waiting for the Extraordinary installation by Mark Dion (October 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42127 42127-9560441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

About the installation: As part of the Institute for the Humanities 2017-18 Year of Archives and Futures, and in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial, the Institute for the Humanities presents a new iteration of Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary, which was commissioned and first exhibited here in 2011. Inspired by the academic classifications invented by 19th-century Michigan Chief Justice Augustus B. Woodward, this new, architecturally scaled installation serves as an archive of the original, and presents a single room with thirteen plastic sculptures, each representing one of Woodward’s professorships. As viewers peer into the space and encounter these illuminated objects—reproduced using 3D imaging technology from original objects Dion found in departments and collections across the University of Michigan—they confront questions about the distinction between the rational and subjective in our construction of knowledge, as well as role of the museum and institutions that continue to determine it.

About the artist: Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological, field ecology, and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Mark Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas, and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production.

Image: Mark DION
Waiting for the
Extraordinary
2013
mixed media
96 x 61 x 122
inches; 243.8 x
154.9 x 309.9 cm
Courtesy the artist
and Tanya Bonakdar
Gallery, New York

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Exhibition Thu, 07 Sep 2017 12:53:15 -0400 2017-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Mark DION Waiting for the Extraordinary 2013 mixed media 96 x 61 x 122 inches; 243.8 x 154.9 x 309.9 cm Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (October 20, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-10-20T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
Nursing Clio: Making Archives Public (October 23, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42138 42138-9560528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Nursing Clio is an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project led by Jacqueline Antonovich (PhD Candidate in History) that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine. This roundtable discussion for graduate students and faculty explores the politics and practices of academic blogging; how this national project sits at the intersection of public, collaborative, and digital publishing worlds; and how it connects anti-racist, feminist, and queer archival projects with the public, both within and beyond academia.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:24:35 -0400 2017-10-23T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Nursing Clio
Architects in the Archives: The Research, Design, and Curation of a Bicentennial Exhibition (October 24, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42139 42139-9560529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In April of this year, the Taubman College Gallery on North Campus debuted a student exhibition entitled “Persistent Pasts: The Bicentennial Campus as Archive.” Combining historical research and analysis from the students in Sarah Rovang’s “The Curated Campus” graduate seminar and the output of a design studio taught by Steven Mankouche, “Persistent Pasts” reflected on the University of Michigan’s campus as a repository of memory. As UM celebrates its Bicentennial year, this exhibition asked how past traditions, tensions, and technologies left material or cultural traces on campus space today. By juxtaposing rarely examined aspects of the historical university and radical designs for an unrealized present, “Persistent Pasts” prompted visitors to question entrenched conceptions of what UM should and could be, architecturally and institutionally. This talk revisits the experience of designing and teaching this course as an opportunity to think critically about two principle questions with ramifications for both humanists and architects. First, what particular skills, tools, and techniques do architects bring to both the processes and objects of archival research? And second, what are the implications of teaching a design-build course with a public-facing, museological final project? We will also discuss ongoing efforts to create an afterlife for the exhibition as an immersive digital humanities project, interrogating the possibilities and challenges of translating a predominantly physical exhibition into an exclusively digital setting.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:28:29 -0400 2017-10-24T12:30:00-04:00 2017-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Persistent Pasts
Louis and Helen Padnos Lecture Series: "Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim" (October 24, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42670 42670-9622505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The androgynus is defined by the anonymous majority in Tosefta Bikkurim, chapter 2, as sometimes male, sometimes female, sometimes both and sometimes neither. A minority opinion even goes so far as to claim that the androgynus is sui generis. But does this definition, or even the Tosefta’s attempt at creating a halakhic framework for the androgynus, constitute “providing a means for integrating the androgynus into mainstream culture?” This lecture explores the question, “does the category of androgynus as defined by Tosefta Bikkurim offer us a new look at gender, or does it, once again, confine us to a binary system of male and female?” This will be explored through an examination of the halakhic status of the androgynus, as well as through a literary reading of the text itself.

Image: © Sharon Gershoni

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Sep 2017 10:10:58 -0400 2017-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion © Sharon Gershoni 2014
Archives in Real Time: Here’s to Flint and Off the Record screening and discussion with Kate Levy and Shanna Merola (October 24, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42140 42140-9560530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Screening of Kate Levy’s film “Here’s to Flint” (45 min) and Shanna Merola’s film “Off the Record” (25 min), followed by discussion with the filmmakers.

“Here’s to Flint,” filmed in large part before and during the time the Flint water crisis was first coming to light, provides a behind-the-scenes, grassroots view of the community’s efforts to find, document and expose the truth about the poisoning of their city’s water supply while under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager. Levy, a documentary filmmaker, artist, and media activist, co-directed this film with Curt Guyette, Michigan Investigative Journalist of the Year and ACLU of MI Staff Investigative Journalist.

"Off the Record," presents Merola’s experiences with legal observing during political uprisings across the country, from the deeply embattled struggle for water rights in Detroit and Flint to the frontlines of Ferguson and Standing Rock. Shanna Merola is an artist and photojournalist. In addition she works with the Detroit and Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to provide legal support for activists around the state.

Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures film series inspiring conversations on the relationship between archives and justice and organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

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Film Screening Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:16:53 -0400 2017-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 2017-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Film Screening "Here's to Flint" and "Off the Record"
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (October 27, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2017-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (October 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (October 31, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
Franz Kafka and Max Brod: Trial and Judgments in Israel (October 31, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42672 42672-9622507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Before Franz Kafka died, he asked his friend Max Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Instead, Brod kept the manuscripts with the intention of donating them to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. But his secretary had a different idea. Mark Gelber, leading Israeli scholar of Austro-Jewish literature, will speak on Franz Kafka and the recent sensational Israeli Supreme Court case regarding the legacy of his manuscripts.

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:29:04 -0400 2017-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2017-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Brod and Kafka
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 1, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2017-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 2, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 2, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Guest Lecture: Neal Brostoff, ethnomusicologist (November 2, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46224 46224-10421225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:15pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Featuring Jewish music scholar Neal Brostoff.

This residency series is co-sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and supported in part through the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Meta Weiser EXCEL Fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Oct 2017 12:15:34 -0400 2017-11-02T12:15:00-04:00 2017-11-02T13:45:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
The Birth of Jewish Art Music in St. Petersburg, 1908 (November 2, 2017 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42673 42673-9622508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:15pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Neal Brostoff examines the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music, which was established in 1908, and created an impressive repertory that drew European art music together with Yiddish and Russian folk traditions.

Brostoff will also be giving two concerts while in Ann Arbor:

Thursday, November 2, 7:30 pm
McIntosh Theatre, Moore Building
Works by Schoenfield, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Copland, Weill, Ravel and Bloch. Mr. Brostoff will give a pre-concert talk at 6:45 p.m.

Saturday, November 4, 8:00 pm
Britton Recital Hall, Moore Building
Works by Schiff, Ben-Haim, Krein, Weinberg and Prokofiev. Mr. Brostoff will give a pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m.

Fine more information at concert co-sponsor Chamber Music Michigan's website: http://www.chambermusicmichigan.com/events

Photo: "Society for Yiddish music in Petersburg"
Ephraim Shkliar's Farn Opsheyd, published by the Society for Jewish Folk Music, St. Petersburg, 1910. Credit: The St.Petersburg Score Collection. A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:18:20 -0400 2017-11-02T12:15:00-04:00 2017-11-02T13:45:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Sheet Music
“American Berserk” artist talk and opening reception with Valerie Hegarty (November 2, 2017 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43949 43949-9855237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2017 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:56:29 -0400 2017-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 2017-11-02T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 3, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-03T08:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 3, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-03T09:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Asian Languages and Cultures Info Session (November 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45099 45099-10084364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them.

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations (including China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea) and of disciplines (including literature, film, language, religion, and history) in order develop two vital qualities: a deep local knowledge and a broad global perspective.

The department offers instruction in the cultures of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and in many of the languages of Asia (including Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html. We hope to see you there!

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Other Wed, 11 Oct 2017 10:34:02 -0400 2017-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Flyer
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (November 3, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-11-03T12:00:00-04:00 2017-11-03T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 6, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Digital Pedagogies Lightning Talks and Workshop (November 6, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45428 45428-10175523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Have you been thinking about integrating digital technologies, social media, and/or other kinds of pedagogical initiatives using digital platforms into a new or existing course? Would you like to learn about innovations in classroom projects in a peer-facilitated setting?

In this workshop, doctoral students in the humanities will deliver 8-minute lightning talks on their pedagogical innovations. Participants will also interact with presenters and explore key ideas in break-out sessions after the lightning talks. Register here: https://crlt.umich.edu/events/digital-pedagogies-lightning-talks-and-workshop-0

Participation in the entirety of this workshop can count toward Requirement ‘B2’ of the Graduate Teacher Certificate (GTC) or Requirement ‘G’ of the Graduate Teacher Plus Certificate in Digital Media (GTC+).

Facilitators:
Tazin Daniels (CRLT)
Kush Patel (Institute for the Humanities)

Student Presentations:

"Assigning the Podcast Essay to Amplify Student Voice" by Emily R. Sabo (Linguistics)

This talk is about creating podcasts in the undergraduate classroom. It is especially relevant for teachers who want to either give their students a new way of thinking about writing or inspire them to take more ownership of their own ideas. Resources to be discussed include freesounds.com, ClipGrab software, Audacity, and sample podcasts databases.

"Integrating Student Podcasts with Other Forms of Digital Reflection" by Jana Wilbricht (Communication Studies)

For my Spring 2018 course Indigenous Media — Production, Regulation, and Social Activism, students will create an e-portfolio, reflecting creatively on their thoughts, questions, and learning processes through text, image, video, and sound. Given the focus on media production, students will also create a podcast based on their interviews with Indigenous media producers who will visit our course as guest speakers.

"Speaking with the Dead: Digital Oral History for the Premodern Classroom" by Paula R. Curtis (History)

This presentation will consider how premodern specialists can integrate skills in public scholarship and digital media pedagogies into their undergraduate classrooms by combining “traditional” primary source analyses with innovative content creation through digital publishing platforms such as Scalar.

"Student as Knowledge-Maker: Digital Pedagogy in the Early Modern Classroom" by Amrita Dhar (English)

This talk will explore the use of digital tools and methods towards students' connections with and ownership of challenging historical material. In particular, it will explore the role of transcriptions and digital corpus-creation in a course on early women's writing.

"Where are you from? Combining Maps, Text And Multimedia Content To Make Afro Presence Visible in Argentina" by Marisol Fila (Spanish)

This talk is about integrating maps with narrative text, images and multimedia content in the context of an undergraduate course. I will discuss the use of the platform Story Maps to create a digital project that will serve as the final assignment for a Spanish course about the Afro presence in Argentina.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 01 Nov 2017 09:42:30 -0400 2017-11-06T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar Digital Pedagogies
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 7, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Beyond the Book: How We Know the Exodus Didn't Happen… and How We Know It Did (November 7, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42676 42676-9622509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Exodus from Egypt has been the foundation of Jewish ritual and theology for millennia. There is little to no archaeological evidence to support the canonical tale is more than fiction or myth. While we know the Exodus didn’t happen as narrated, embedded within that narrative are echoes of the break with Egypt that did take place beyond the Bible – experienced and remembered in Ancient Israel long before the authors of the Book of Exodus crafted their tale.

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:40:35 -0400 2017-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dead Sea Scrolls
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 8, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 9, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 9, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 10, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 10, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Scalar in the Classroom (November 10, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43952 43952-9855243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this workshop, Alix Keener and Justin Schell of U-M Library will introduce how to incorporate a range of media (videos, images, full articles, timelines, maps, etc.) in group projects and classroom instruction using Scalar. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that's designed to make it easy for scholars and teachers to create long-form, born-digital scholarship online.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:02:28 -0400 2017-11-10T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar 202 S. Thayer
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (November 10, 2017 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9852273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-11-10T13:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
WORLD LEADERS artist talk & reception (November 10, 2017 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46093 46093-10390017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2017 3:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us as we welcome U-M alumna Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen to discuss her current exhibition WORLD LEADERS.

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in social science and history of art from the University of Michigan. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends,Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:57:21 -0400 2017-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 2017-11-10T16:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion World leaders
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 13, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 14, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Collecting for the Academy: University Museums and the Production of Knowledge (November 14, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43956 43956-9855247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The University of Michigan boasts 20 distinct museums and collections, which contain over twenty-five million zoological specimens, herbarium sheets, ethnographical artifacts, and artworks from around the globe. Despite this staggering wealth of objects, to date there have been few attempts to understand their place in the history of the University and its scientific and disciplinary culture. In this talk, Kerstin Barndt shares new findings about the genesis of the collections in Michigan’s nineteenth century geological surveys and global collection expeditions, and about the role of the U-M museums in Michigan’s state formation.

Drawing comparisons with paradigmatic university museums in the US and in Europe, she concentrates on the life cycle of particular collections and highlights their important role in the disciplinary and historical self-understanding of the university. With some of these collections having subsequently lost this function and now considered missing, Barndt’s work performs a crucial work of historical recovery that shows how academic museums and their displays delineated and contested the distinctions between nature and culture, science and religion. Illustrated with copious examples from the riches of U-M’s collections, this talk outlines the many, complex, and hybrid dimensions of university museums as institutions of research, teaching and public display.

Barndt's research is currently featured in the exhibition "Object Lessons:
Recollecting Museum Histories at Michigan" on view at the U-M Museum of Natural History through December 30, as well as the book, with Carla Sinopoli, "Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge: The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817–2017 ."

Kerstin Barndt is associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures and a 2013-14 Helmut F. Stern fellow at the Institute for the humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:57:39 -0500 2017-11-14T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-14T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion photo by Richard Barnes
Painting for Freedom and the Freedom to Paint: Ben Shahn’s Murals and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (November 14, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/42852 42852-9672377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This illustrated slide lecture considers two sets of completed murals and one proposed mural by Ben Shahn which all explore issues of freedom against the backdrop of the looming European-Jewish refugee crisis of the late 1930s.

Image Copyright: Estate of Ben Shahn. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

If you have a disability that requires a reasonable accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at 734-763-9047 at least two weeks prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Oct 2017 15:03:26 -0400 2017-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Ben Shahn Mural
"Sins Invalid" (November 14, 2017 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43953 43953-9855245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M Professor Petra Kuppers will introduce the film, including a short reading from her new book "Theatre & Disability," followed by the film screening, open discussion, and a book signing.

This 33-minute documentary explores Sins Invalid, a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. The performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body. Conceived and led by disabled people of color, they develop and present cutting-edge work where normative paradigms of "normal" and "sexy" are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities. "Sins Invalid" is as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability, manifesting a new paradigm of disability justice.

Petra Kuppers, U-M professor of English language and literature, women's studies, art, and theater and drama, is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist.

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Film Screening Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:04:51 -0500 2017-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 2017-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Film Screening Sins Invalid
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 15, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Why Study the Middle East? (November 15, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/45997 45997-10344537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Current undergraduate students are invited to a drop-in info session on the Department of Near Eastern Studies' major, minors, and language programs.

Stop by anytime from 12-2pm to speak with an advisor, learn more about the department’s academic programs, and talk about career opportunities for students who study the Middle East. Students who are ready to declare a major or minor with NES will have the opportunity to do so. Lunch will be provided.

Current NES students are also welcome to stop by for lunch and advising, and to learn more about the department’s Winter 2018 course offerings.

The Department of Near Eastern Studies teaches the diverse histories, religions, languages and literatures that originated in a vast region of the world extending from the Nile to the Oxus Rivers, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. Coursework in the department takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to societies, beginning with the emergence of cities and writing in Sumer and Ancient Egypt, to the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and onwards to the Modern Middle East, extending to its transnational and diasporic communities.

The languages taught by the department include Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, and several ancient Near Eastern languages.

Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/nesinfo. We hope to see you there!

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Other Thu, 19 Oct 2017 15:53:22 -0400 2017-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Other flyer
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 16, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 17, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 17, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Yiddish Leyenkrayz (November 17, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/26737 26737-9969031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Jul 2017 07:35:47 -0400 2017-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2017-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Yiddish
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 20, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 21, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-21T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 22, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 23, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 23, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-23T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 23, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 23, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-23T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 24, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-24T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 24, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 24, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-24T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-24T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 27, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 27, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 28, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 28, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
The Design of Environment: Rethinking Architecture at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (1968-1976) (November 28, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/43958 43958-9855248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The notion of “environment” took on a plethora of meanings in the 1960s, encompassing both the natural and the man-made, locating the concept within the complex connections between objects, cities, users, and systems. The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum entered the fray as they reframed their legacy of decorative arts collections through the new paradigm of design. The museum took on the legibility of environment as a key problem in the reshaping of its mission and collections—particularly with respect to architecture. In this presentation, Keslacy explores how the museum resisted the social-scientization of “environment” by highlighting the continuities between architecture and everyday objects, and the agency of the layperson in shaping and interpreting their milieu.

Elizabeth Keslacy is lecturer at the Taubman College and was the 2014-15 A. Bartlett Giamatti Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:55:55 -0400 2017-11-28T12:30:00-05:00 2017-11-28T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 29, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 29, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
WORLD LEADERS pop-up exhibition by Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 30, 2017 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42135 42135-9560526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 8:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

An installation of new work by U-M alumna Chanel Habsburg-Lothringen whose work addresses the American notion of aspiration, mortality, and persona. Part of the Institute for the Humanities’ Year of Archives and Futures organized in celebration of the U-M Bicentennial.

Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen holds an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art. From the University of Michigan, she holds a BA in social science and history of art, and is a graduate of the Residential College. Her previous exhibitions include “Conditions,” ltd los angles, and “Seduced & Abandoned," Boyfriends, Chicago, IL. Her films have been screened at the Detroit Independent Film Festival and Royal Albert Hall. She is the recipient of the Toby Devin Lewis Award and the Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship. She was the co-founder of EMBASSY and has curated projects at Los Angeles Museum of Art, Detroit Design Festival, the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead and Cranbrook Museum of Art.

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Exhibition Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:51:08 -0500 2017-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition World leaders
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (November 30, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2017-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 1, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 4, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Beyond East and West: Space and Simultaneity in Post-Millennial Western Sufi Auto-Biographies (December 4, 2017 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/47042 47042-10776995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Lecture by Professor Marcia Hermansen.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:42:44 -0500 2017-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2017-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Event poster
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 5, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
Karanis: Archives and Futures in an ancient Egyptian town (December 5, 2017 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46946 46946-10703021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

University of Michigan archaeologists excavated over 100 structures in the ancient Egyptian town of Karanis (modern Kom Aushim) between 1924 and 1935. These structures yielded over 60,000 artifacts, 2,500 papyri and 1,100 potsherds with writing. Taken together, this seems to be a wonderful archive to mine for clues about daily life in an ancient town in the first three centuries CE. But is it? This talk will present some of the challenges of dealing with this wealth of material from ancient Karanis, but also point at some of the potentialities of this site through a multi-disciplinary and collaboratory approach.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:49:10 -0500 2017-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 2017-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Karanis
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 6, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 7, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 8, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 | "Seoul in the 1960s" lecture and Artist Q&A (December 8, 2017 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/46848 46848-10656083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2017 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Kicking off an exhibition of photography by Margaret Condon Taylor, the Nam Center, in collaboration with the Institute for Humanities, is pleased to host a conversation with the artist.
The Q&A with the artist will be preceded by a short lecture on Seoul and Korea in the late 60's by Se-Mi Oh, Assistant Professor of Korean History and Visual Culture in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures.

A light lunch will be provided for the first 25 people in attendance.

Margaret Condon Taylor received her B.A. in English from Cornell University and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, she photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs have been selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:07:22 -0500 2017-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2017-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Accidental Photograher: Seoul 1969
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 11, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 12, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 13, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 14, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 15, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 16, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 16, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-16T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-16T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 17, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 17, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-17T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-17T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-18T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 18, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-18T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 19, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-19T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 19, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711259@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-19T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-20T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 20, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-20T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty (December 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 43941-9855236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout her career, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art, addressing topics such as colonization, slavery, Manifest Destiny, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.

The show’s title, American Berserk, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures, which seem imported from a parallel universe, include watermelons that become animated, explode and then decay, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.

Note: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016.

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Exhibition Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:54:19 -0400 2017-12-21T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Valerie Hegarty tongue
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 21, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-21T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (December 22, 2017 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2017 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2017-12-22T09:00:00-05:00 2017-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 2, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-02T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-02T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 3, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-03T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-03T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 4, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-04T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 5, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-05T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 8, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-08T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 9, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-09T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 10, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor
of 72 (January 11, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/47319 47319-10866129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Note: Ebony Patterson Stamps lecture takes place Feb 1, 5pm, at the Michigan Theater, immediately followed at 6pm by artist reception at the Institute for the Humanities.

“What happens when seventy-two men and one woman die and no one knows who they are?” Jamaican artist Ebony Patterson’s of 72—a mixed media work on fabric with digital imagery, embroidery, rhinestones, trimmings, bandanas, and floral appliques—considers the 2010 “Tivoli Incursion” in Kingston, Jamaica. This armed conflict between the Shower Posse drug cartel and Jamaica's military and police took place when security forces began searching for drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, after the United States requested his extradition. The violence killed at least 73 civilians.

"Of 72" will be in conversation with Patterson's more recent work "...And Babies..." created at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. The lush tapestry-like floor piece continues where "Of 72" leaves us and serves to honor both the spirit and the loss of so many black bodies...women, little boys, little girls, even babies, subjected to acts of violence and abuse.

Ebony G. Patterson is a Jamaican artist born in Kingston, Jamaica. She studied at Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. An assistant professor in painting at the University of Kentucky, she has shown her artwork in numerous solo and private exhibitions and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery.

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Exhibition Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:59:34 -0500 2018-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Of 72
An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 (January 12, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 46965-10711283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2018 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years.

Photographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu, Asian Languages and Cultures, and Professor David Chung, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

This exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support.

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Exhibition Tue, 21 Nov 2017 09:39:33 -0500 2018-01-12T09:00:00-05:00 2018-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition Margaret Condon Taylor