Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Critical Conversations: Diaspora (November 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85264 85264-21626093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2021-22. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Presentations begin at 12:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 1:30.

Link to RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7m7dcOVG3_TONGp2dNwQbQDlNdII8estAl09YAOAsX9O2Sw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 06:31:00 -0400 2021-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Diaspora
Timothy Yu (Wisconsin) and Edgar Garcia (UChicago) on Diaspora, Poetics, Politics (April 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93241 93241-21701930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poetry and Poetics Workshop

Join us for a conversation between Timothy Yu and Edgar Garcia on diasporic politics and thought in modern and contemporary poetry. We will host two short talks with Q&A to follow.

RSVP here for Zoom link: https://forms.gle/zvT1XV6BWXQsR45J9

Timothy Yu is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has written about Asian identity in modern and contemporary English-language poetry, especially of the avant-garde. His most recent book, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia (2021) shows how English-language poets in Asian diasporas use “strategies of adaptation” that break free from our models of race, diaspora, and poetics. He has also published a book of poems, 1000 Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press, 2016), which unsettles the orientalism of white modernist U.S. poetry.

Edgar Garcia is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on literary production in the twentieth and twenty first century Americas. Focusing on indigenous, Chicanx, and latinx studies, Garcia studies how race and national identity is configured through aesthetics and semiotics. His 2020 monograph, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020) explores the ongoing vitality of such sign systems considered “dead.” An article portion of this book (“Pictography, Law, and Earth: Gerald Vizenor, John Borrows, and Louise Erdrich” in PMLA) was honored for the William Riley Parker Prize from the Modern Language Association. His upcoming book project, “Migrant Lots,” explores the relationship of divination and migration as modes of risk analysis.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:25:12 -0500 2022-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-21T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poetry and Poetics Workshop Lecture / Discussion
Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and Japanese American Incarceration (September 22, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97160 97160-21794080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Shirley Ann Higuchi, JD, Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF), is the daughter of former incarcerees, Dr. William I. Higuchi and the late Setsuko Saito Higuchi. She will discuss her book Setsuko’s Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration, which chronicles her mother’s story alongside many other Heart Mountain characters.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:05:28 -0400 2022-09-22T18:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster of the event.
From Havana to Chapel Hill: A Latina's Search for Home (October 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100021 100021-21799000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

In this presentation, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor and Michigan alumna Rosa Perelmuter takes us on a journey through the questions of identity and belonging with which she has wrestled since she was born in Cuba to Eastern European Jewish immigrants.
Exiled in the U.S. at age 13 as a product of the Peter Pan Airlift, she reflects on the outsider status that first manifested itself in Cuba and the various shapes it took in Miami, Boston, Ann Arbor, and finally North Carolina.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:35:18 -0400 2022-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 2022-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster