Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. January Deadline: Hopwood Awards! (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64576 64576-16388945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The deadline is noon, January 29, 2020 for the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards and other creative writing contests. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ALLOWED! Please submit well in advance. All submissions take place online. For more information, visit lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Other Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:52:39 -0400 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 Hopwood Awards Program Other Manuscripts in the Hopwood Room
GLACE Mass Meeting (February 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72153 72153-17948626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come learn about GLACE before the February 21 Application Deadline!

GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) is a new, interdisciplinary humanities program held in Northern Michigan during the Spring half-term. UM faculty and other instructors teach four interconnected, two-credit courses: two in English, one in Anthropology, and one in American Culture.

The program takes place at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), a research campus situated on Douglas Lake, amid 10,000 undeveloped acres in Pellston, Michigan. From May 11-June 13, 2020, a small cohort of students will work closely with four faculty exploring such concepts as “place,” “natural history,” and “cultural identity” through an engagement not only with literary and other texts but also, in hands-on ways, with the local landscape and its inhabitants, ecologies, and histories.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:15:36 -0500 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation GLACE poster
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Respite: 12 Anthropocene Fragments (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70058 70058-17505681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This talk draws on work in the environmental humanities to rewrite the Anthropocene as autotheory. Written in a poetic-philosophical mode, “Respite” brings together 12 fragments as autotheoretical forms—autocollage, autothermograph, nested equation, and 9 others—for a self confronted with the unthinkable extinction of all life on earth. Grounded in human and natural archives, “Respite” is framed by Sylvia Wynter’s and Michel Foucault’s theoretical critiques of anthropos (Man). In casting self-writing as an experiment, “Respite” offers a new ethical model for being present to life in its ending.

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of *Foucault’s Strange Eros* (forthcoming 2020); *Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex* (2013); *Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory* (2010); *Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference* (1998); and *Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing* (1992). She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and opinion pieces in mass media venues. With Chicago artist Jennifer Yorke she also created Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/h/Lynne-Huffer-Jennifer-Yorke.html.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:03 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Lynne Huffer
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17851291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension of critical undoing and living and making otherwise. In particular, it draws from her in-progress book At the Sea’s Edge that considers the oceanic not only as an archive of coloniality, and a receptacle and spectacle of planetary ruins, but as a dynamic life force and historical shaper in relation to the forces of racial and extractive capitalism. Thinking with submerged perspectives primarily in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic, Gómez-Barris expands upon Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidealectics as key to understanding how to move within and beyond the colonial anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:21:50 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for lecture
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 14, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17948636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension of critical undoing and living and making otherwise. In particular, it draws from her in-progress book At the Sea’s Edge that considers the oceanic not only as an archive of coloniality, and a receptacle and spectacle of planetary ruins, but as a dynamic life force and historical shaper in relation to the forces of racial and extractive capitalism. Thinking with submerged perspectives primarily in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic, Gómez-Barris expands upon Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidealectics as key to understanding how to move within and beyond the colonial anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:21:50 -0500 2020-02-14T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for lecture
“What is the role of a Center for Jewish Studies at a modern university and how can an Associate Director support this mission?" (February 21, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72975 72975-18120890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

“What is the role of a Center for Jewish Studies at a modern university and how can an Associate Director support this mission?" I will present my vision for the field, elements of my teaching and research experience that have led me to this understanding of Jewish studies, as well as practical ways that I think a center's associate director can actualize this vision. All are welcome, regardless of whether they have any experience with Jewish studies!

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Presentation Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:20:41 -0500 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation
English Honors Program Application Deadline (February 21, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72369 72369-17998149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Becoming a member of the English Department Honors Program means becoming a part of a small, intensely committed group of teachers and students all working toward achieving excellence in the related disciplines of reading, understanding, and writing about texts.

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Other Mon, 03 Feb 2020 10:21:26 -0500 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other Honors App Poster
GLACE Application Deadline (February 21, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72156 72156-17948628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:00pm
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Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) is a new, interdisciplinary humanities program held in Northern Michigan during the Spring half-term. UM faculty and other instructors teach four interconnected, two-credit courses: two in English, one in Anthropology, and one in American Culture.

The program takes place at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), a research campus situated on Douglas Lake, amid 10,000 undeveloped acres in Pellston, Michigan. From May 11-June 13, 2020, a small cohort of students will work closely with four faculty exploring such concepts as “place,” “natural history,” and “cultural identity” through an engagement not only with literary and other texts but also, in hands-on ways, with the local landscape and its inhabitants, ecologies, and histories.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:21:15 -0500 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Department of English Language and Literature Class / Instruction
CANCELLED: English Alumni Career Panel (March 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73349 73349-18206123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The English Undergraduate Studies program is excited to announce this alumni event!

UM English Alums will be talking about how their English degree has enhanced their career trajectory and how students can use the English degree to achieve career success.

We will have alums in the fields of Leadership & Career Development, PR/Media Marketing, Digital Marketing/Advertising, Television Journalism Producing, and Emerging Technology, representing the following companies - Quicken Loans, Interscope Records, Netflix, Google, CBS News, and NetApp.

English Alumni will give brief introductions followed by a question and answer session. There will also be time for networking. Light refreshments will be served.

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:04:35 -0400 2020-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of English Language and Literature Careers / Jobs English Alumni Career Panel
CANCELLED: Teaching 21st-Century Literature (March 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71294 71294-17796184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for our final panel discussion in a winter semester series on teaching contemporary art and culture.

What are the different ways that we can conceptualize 21st-century literary production and how can we share and engage students in those perspectives? The broad goal of this session is to think collectively about the possibilities, challenges, and pleasures of teaching the literature of today (or the last two decades) in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. To that end, each panelist will briefly discuss an object, activity, strategy, or syllabus they have already or want to use in their teaching. These presentations will then be followed by conversation with the audience. We hope you can join us!

Additional support generously provided by the Teaching & Learning RIW

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:03:47 -0400 2020-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Schedule of Sessions for Teaching Contemporary Art & Culture
Policing and Protest 2020 (July 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75046 75046-19183194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Note: The webinar has a Q&A format. We welcome your questions before via email (eihswebinar@umich.edu) and during the webinar via Zoom Q&A. This event will be recorded and available for future viewing online.

***Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qVR5E3VGRG2x_xJ4AK47AA

The killing of George Floyd, in the wake of the horrific and obscene history of the killings of unarmed black people by the police, has focused attention like never before on the systemic anti-black racism of the criminal-legal system in the United States. To be sure, the massive expansion and militarization of policing and incarceration are in some ways of comparatively recent origin. Yet they also have a much deeper origin in, and are inextricably connected to, a longer history of the judicial and extra-judicial violence against black people in the continent. The racist inequities of the criminal-legal system, indeed, are not a bug, but a feature.

Our panel of experts, scholars of the United States at the University of Michigan, will help us explore, beyond the headlines, the reach of the long arm of the carceral state in society as well as the challenges and opportunities that have been thrown up by the contemporary protests against the systemic violence of the state. The stakes for understanding the working of the carceral state are documented by the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement project of the University of Michigan’s Carceral State Project. However, the momentous protests against anti-Black racism as well as the broad public support they have received both within the United States and across the world—the clamor heard round the world—have also created a novel opportunity for implementing and imagining futures beyond a blatantly rigged carceral framework.

Panelists:
• Melissa Burch, Anthropology, University of Michigan
• Matthew Countryman, Afroamerican and African History, American Culture, History, University of Michigan
• Matthew Lassiter, History, Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
• William D. Lopez, Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan

Moderator:
• Mrinalini Sinha, History, University of Michigan

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:07:31 -0400 2020-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 2020-07-28T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Daniel Lobo, "Brionna Taylor" (public domain)
Critical Conversations: #Politics (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76730 76730-19741036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
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 2020-21. 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.

This semester's series will be entirely online -- please RSVP to receive the Zoom link (see "Related Links" for RSVP form).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:37:52 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76628 76628-19733024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dr. Fisher will present on her 2020 book, The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance. Her talk will be followed by open discussion. Attendees must RSVP to receive the Zoom link. Please email emaloul@umich.edu to do so.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:12:08 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Image displays one image of book cover and one of book's author