Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Poetry and Poetics Workshop: A reading group on poetic attention (October 29, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87062 87062-21638555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Poetry & Poetics Workshop on Friday, October 29th at 3pm for a reading group on recent work concerning poetic attention. We'll read selections from Lucy Alford's FORMS OF POETIC ATTENTION (2020) (introduction and ch. 3 "Desire: Attention's Hunger") and Lily Gurton-Wachter's WATCHWORDS (2015) (ch. 3 "Bent Earthwards: Wordsworth's Poetics of the Interval"). For the pre-circulated reading material, please fill out our Google Form: https://forms.gle/9iaSS2r6WNbiuPXP7.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:59:44 -0400 2021-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T16:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies (November 3, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84414 84414-21623900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This event will commemorate the publication of the open access edited volume Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies with a panel discussion on Tobin Siebers' pioneering theories and his legacy in the field of disability studies, including the funding of the new generation of disability studies scholars' manuscripts through the Tobin Siebers Memorial Fund. Moderated by Petra Kuppers, three of the volume editors—Cindy Wu, Josh Kupetz, and Crystal Lie—along with the winner of this year's Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities, panelists will provide diverse insights into deceased U-M Department of English Professor Tobin Siebers' work and its impact. This virtual event is free and open to the public; and will take place on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 3:00-4:30 PM.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:01:33 -0400 2021-11-03T15:00:00-04:00 2021-11-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
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
Timelines, Lifespans, Sonnet Space: Diagrammatic Culture & Poetic Form (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88908 88908-21658899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

We'll be discussing Julia Carlson's recent work on Wordsworth's River Duddon sonnets and time charts, and her experience making additions to her article 'Historical Poetics, Poetics of History: Priestley’s Time Charts and The Visualization of Meter', published earlier this year. The event will take the form of a mini-lecture and Q&A.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:57:55 -0500 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A black and white headshot of Julia Carlson
Critical Conversations: Embodiment (January 27, 2022 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91012 91012-21675441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
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 12:30pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:00.

Link to RSVP:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4U2XWgyopSNN_-1cUIV8iPFjjVtAbw3jXXCpZ2LIlLNS55Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:26:45 -0500 2022-01-27T12:30:00-05:00 2022-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion wooden human model poses on the table
Captioning the Archives: A Conversation with Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan and Photographer Lester Sloan (March 15, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92378 92378-21690683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In this webinar, RC Lecturer and photographer Isaac Wingfield will interview Professor Aisha Sabatini Sloan and her father, photographer Lester Sloan, about the making of their latest co-authored book and how the visual and creative arts, history, and family ties guided their project.

Photographer and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths notes, “In this rich meditation with [Lester Sloan’s] gifted daughter, author Aisha Sabatini Sloan, we find ourselves in a narrative of discovery and revelation. Sloan’s photographs are necessary instruments of history, as is the palpable sensation of love between himself and his daughter.”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:15:05 -0500 2022-03-15T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Webinar Flyer
MFA Virtual Welcome Weekend (March 17, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90535 90535-21671499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Virtual Welcome Weekend for MFA Prospective Students

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Other Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:13:15 -0500 2022-03-17T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Other
MFA Virtual Welcome Weekend (March 18, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90535 90535-21671500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Virtual Welcome Weekend for MFA Prospective Students

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Other Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:13:15 -0500 2022-03-18T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Other
Lecture: Monk's Nausea (March 22, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93137 93137-21700935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This talk explores the feeling of nausea as it arises in Percival Everett’s 1999 novel Erasure. I read Monk’s nausea as the affective expression of the aesthetic problem of a definitionally African American or black American literature. Situating this novel within ongoing contemporary debates on the contours (and existence) of post-soul black culture, I am suggesting that the terms of inclusion may prove less interesting than the frustrations they produce, registered in this case at the levels of novel structure and intimate, bodily queasiness. This is part of an ongoing interest in dizzying states and (hopefully!) the beginning of a contained project on negative affects in contemporary race fiction.

Lauren Michele Jackson is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of the essay collection White Negroes and is currently working on a second book with Amistad Press with assistance as a 2022 National Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 12:50:43 -0500 2022-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Author photo next to cover image of Everett's book "Erasure"
Roundtable on Pedagogy & Undisciplining in the C19 Classroom (March 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93069 93069-21701394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a discussion on pedagogy, led by Ryan Fong of Kalamazoo College. Professor Fong is a founding member of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, "a peer-reviewed digital humanities project that reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens" (undiscipliningvc.org). We will discuss a variety of relevant themes, including teaching diverse texts and authors, and bringing one's own research into the classroom.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:09:17 -0500 2022-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion