Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. MEMS Fall Kick-off (September 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65055 65055-16509316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

MEMS community members are invited to meet and catch up after the summer break. Presentations will feature our Summer Research Award recipients.

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Other Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:57:59 -0400 2019-09-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Other Gathering in a garden
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (September 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16831224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

New, experienced, and future teachers of creative writing are invited to join an ongoing conversation about the art and craft of teaching creative writing. As a group, we will ask and answer questions, share resources and experiences, and try out exercises. Hopwood Teaching Roundtables are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all those interested in the teaching of creative writing are welcome to join the conversation.

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

*Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and an M.A. in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. She is the co-editor of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016).*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Department Meeting (Department of English) (September 27, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66001 66001-16926541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Tenured Faculty Only

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Meeting Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:39:33 -0400 2019-09-27T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T14:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Patricia Akhimie Lecture (September 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63852 63852-15939554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University) will deliver a public lecture.

Abstract: In The Merchant of Venice, the multiple meanings of “quality” triangulate a new mode of social differentiation, locating racialism at the nexus of ideas about shared ability, shared nature, and shared belief or rank. The concept of relative “quality” is used to distinguish between groups on the basis of attributes that are inherent or inherited, and those that are learned, providing a reasoning for existing inequalities of access and opportunity. The Merchant of Venice features competing vocabularies of valuation as measured by worldly wealth, moral worth, and good conduct. The contradictions inherent in the overlapping models for measuring relative value in the play reveal an underlying ideology of racial differentiation, a belief in the existence of innate differences between groups.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:15:44 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Patricia's faculty photo.
The University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS) welcomes: (October 7, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67125 67125-16803027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Starting from the two activist campsites set up in Seoul, one by the coalition of disability organizations and the other by the Supporters for the Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry, Kim explores a history of occupational health movements and their intersections with disability rights movements in South Korea. Against the bureaucratic technology of rating the degree of disability and harm, necro-activism emerges in the form of persistent involvements of dead bodies, mourning, and other-than-human presence, making claims for justice as an ongoing practice of everyday life and afterlife.

Pronouns: She/Her

Eunjung Kim is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Disability Studies at Syracuse University. Her book, *Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Korea* (Duke University Press) received Alison Piepmeier Award from the National Women's Studies Association and the James B. Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.

Accessibility for Angell Hall: Accessible entrance through adjacent buildings, or the North-West corner ground-floor entrance of Angell Hall. From the North-West entrance, the elevators are down the hall on the left and right sides. The event is on the third floor in room 3222. Men’s and women’s restrooms are located on the third floor near the elevators. A gender-neutral restroom is located on the fifth floor around the corner from the elevator.

Communication access real-time translation (CART) is provided for this event.

For more information, please contact Melanie Yergeau at myergeau@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:17:10 -0400 2019-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

New, experienced, and future teachers of creative writing are invited to join an ongoing conversation about the art and craft of teaching creative writing. As a group, we will ask and answer questions, share resources and experiences, and try out exercises. Hopwood Teaching Roundtables are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all those interested in the teaching of creative writing are welcome to join the conversation.

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

*Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and an M.A. in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. She is the co-editor of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016).*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Horror & Enchantment (October 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65467 65467-16603594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe. Change – perhaps most radically projected as “conversion” – is at once an exhilarating and menacing prospect. When meanings are destabilised and predictabilities lost, experiences of opportunity and of awe jostle with feelings of anxiety and insignificance. Even love casts its shadows, turning what is intimate and familiar into the province of comfort but also dread. Revered ancestors become ghosts, dear neighbours witches. There is desire in absence, monster in treasure, chaos in awe.

A distinguished, international selection of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences gathers in Ann Arbor to explore the entwinement of horror and enchantment – amidst the intrusions and disturbances that characterised the medieval and early modern worlds – in an array of the post-colonial settings and cultural imaginations they helped to set in motion – and in a recognition of the fact that to investigate the coincidence of horror and enchantment in the past is also to inquire into ourselves, and into the volatilities and predicaments of our own times and places.

convened by:
Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Featuring:
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard
Clifton Crais, Emory
Harry Garuba, Capetown
Helen Hills, York (UK)
Megan Holmes, Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane
Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Malpas, Tasmania
Kenneth Mills, Michigan
Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania
Katrina B. Olds, San Francisco
Helmut Puff, Michigan
Ato Quayson, Stanford
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Dale Shuger, Tulane
Zeb Tortorici, New York

Free and open to the public

Guests must register in order to gain access to pre-circulated papers. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOSnnYd5CRZdCbI39lAKXMaJthptUwtttXDrsiocOZbyh5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link


Conference Schedule:

Friday, 11 October – 1014 Tisch Hall
Introductory Remarks
9-9:15

Session 1. Dark Detections
9:20-9:40
Dale Shuger, Tulane. This Early Modern Spanish Life: Podcasts from the Archives

Clifton Crais, Emory. Into the Dark: Nightmares of World History

9:40-9:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
9:50-10:10: discussion

Session 2. Matter and Form in Motion
10:10-10:40
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins. Exceptional Matter and the Enchantment of the Frame: Traces, Translations, and a Techne for Ecologies of Devotion

Megan Holmes, Michigan. Enchanted Figuration and Performative Artifice in the Making and Unmaking of Demons in Early Modern European Painting

Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania. Enchantment and the Columbian Exchange

10:40-10:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
10:50-11:10: discussion

Break
11:10-11:20

Session 3. Enlightening Shadows
11:20-11:50
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst. Between Horror and Enchantment in an Eighteenth-Century Mining Manual from Spanish America

Katrina Olds, San Francisco. The Picaresque Enlightenment – A Preliminary Précis

11:50-12:00 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:00-12:20: discussion

Session 4. Summoned from Storystores
12:20-12:40
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard. Monsters of the Sky and Other Notable Things: Portugal and the Satisfaction of the Wise

Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan. “Creature-Feeling”: Religion, Apparatus, and the Laboratory of the Human

Kris Lane, Tulane. Tales of Potosí Revisited: Horror, Enchantment, and the Origins of Andean Gothic


12:40-12:50 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:50-1:10: discussion

2:30-3:20 A group visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a brief presentation by Megan Holmes on a work in the collection that resonates with the symposium's theme


Session 5. Fable, Fashion and Fate
3:30-3:50
Helen Hills, York (UK). Colonial Materiality: Silver's Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation
Zeb Tortorici, New York. Fabricated Fictions of Morality: The “Oral Pear” and Popular Perceptions of the Inquisition

3:50-4:00 RIW discussant TBA
4:00-4:20: discussion


Saturday, 12 October – 1014 Tisch Hall

Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:05

Session 6. Damage and Deferral
10:05-10:35
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College. Three Dismemberments

Helmut Puff, Michigan. Waiting in the Antechamber

Harry Garuba, Capetown. Horror and Enchantment in the Postcolony: Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and the Disfiguring of Metaphor

10:35-10:45 RIW discussant TBA, Michigan
10:45- 11:00: discussion

Coffee Break

Session 8. Roundtable
11:10-12:00
Josiah Blackmore, Clifton Crais, Anne Lester, Sylvia Sellers-García, Dale Shuger

11:30-12:00 Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:27:19 -0400 2019-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:20:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium H&E
Fiction at Literati (October 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68018 68018-16983973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Author and former director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at The University of Michigan visits as part of our ongoing Fiction at Literati Series, in support of her new novel The Professor of Immortality. Eileen will be in-conversation with local author Natalie Bakopoulos. A book signing will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:23:29 -0400 2019-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T21:00:00-04:00 Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Horror & Enchantment (October 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65467 65467-17035289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are fascinated by what we fear. Misery appalls and magnetises. Creation means possibility but also beckons dissolution and catastrophe. Change – perhaps most radically projected as “conversion” – is at once an exhilarating and menacing prospect. When meanings are destabilised and predictabilities lost, experiences of opportunity and of awe jostle with feelings of anxiety and insignificance. Even love casts its shadows, turning what is intimate and familiar into the province of comfort but also dread. Revered ancestors become ghosts, dear neighbours witches. There is desire in absence, monster in treasure, chaos in awe.

A distinguished, international selection of scholars from across the humanities and social sciences gathers in Ann Arbor to explore the entwinement of horror and enchantment – amidst the intrusions and disturbances that characterised the medieval and early modern worlds – in an array of the post-colonial settings and cultural imaginations they helped to set in motion – and in a recognition of the fact that to investigate the coincidence of horror and enchantment in the past is also to inquire into ourselves, and into the volatilities and predicaments of our own times and places.

convened by:
Kenneth Mills, University of Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane University
Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Featuring:
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard
Clifton Crais, Emory
Harry Garuba, Capetown
Helen Hills, York (UK)
Megan Holmes, Michigan
Kris Lane, Tulane
Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins
Jeff Malpas, Tasmania
Kenneth Mills, Michigan
Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania
Katrina B. Olds, San Francisco
Helmut Puff, Michigan
Ato Quayson, Stanford
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College
Dale Shuger, Tulane
Zeb Tortorici, New York

Free and open to the public

Guests must register in order to gain access to pre-circulated papers. Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOSnnYd5CRZdCbI39lAKXMaJthptUwtttXDrsiocOZbyh5RQ/viewform?usp=sf_link


Conference Schedule:

Friday, 11 October – 1014 Tisch Hall
Introductory Remarks
9-9:15

Session 1. Dark Detections
9:20-9:40
Dale Shuger, Tulane. This Early Modern Spanish Life: Podcasts from the Archives

Clifton Crais, Emory. Into the Dark: Nightmares of World History

9:40-9:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
9:50-10:10: discussion

Session 2. Matter and Form in Motion
10:10-10:40
Anne Lester, Johns Hopkins. Exceptional Matter and the Enchantment of the Frame: Traces, Translations, and a Techne for Ecologies of Devotion

Megan Holmes, Michigan. Enchanted Figuration and Performative Artifice in the Making and Unmaking of Demons in Early Modern European Painting

Marcy Norton, Pennsylvania. Enchantment and the Columbian Exchange

10:40-10:50 Hayley Bowman, Michigan
10:50-11:10: discussion

Break
11:10-11:20

Session 3. Enlightening Shadows
11:20-11:50
Heidi Victoria Scott, Massachusetts, Amherst. Between Horror and Enchantment in an Eighteenth-Century Mining Manual from Spanish America

Katrina Olds, San Francisco. The Picaresque Enlightenment – A Preliminary Précis

11:50-12:00 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:00-12:20: discussion

Session 4. Summoned from Storystores
12:20-12:40
Josiah Blackmore, Harvard. Monsters of the Sky and Other Notable Things: Portugal and the Satisfaction of the Wise

Paul Christopher Johnson, Michigan. “Creature-Feeling”: Religion, Apparatus, and the Laboratory of the Human

Kris Lane, Tulane. Tales of Potosí Revisited: Horror, Enchantment, and the Origins of Andean Gothic


12:40-12:50 Richard Hoffman Reinhardt, Michigan
12:50-1:10: discussion

2:30-3:20 A group visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art for a brief presentation by Megan Holmes on a work in the collection that resonates with the symposium's theme


Session 5. Fable, Fashion and Fate
3:30-3:50
Helen Hills, York (UK). Colonial Materiality: Silver's Alchemy of Trauma and Salvation
Zeb Tortorici, New York. Fabricated Fictions of Morality: The “Oral Pear” and Popular Perceptions of the Inquisition

3:50-4:00 RIW discussant TBA
4:00-4:20: discussion


Saturday, 12 October – 1014 Tisch Hall

Introductory Remarks
10:00-10:05

Session 6. Damage and Deferral
10:05-10:35
Sylvia Sellers-García, Boston College. Three Dismemberments

Helmut Puff, Michigan. Waiting in the Antechamber

Harry Garuba, Capetown. Horror and Enchantment in the Postcolony: Wole Soyinka’s Madmen and Specialists and the Disfiguring of Metaphor

10:35-10:45 RIW discussant TBA, Michigan
10:45- 11:00: discussion

Coffee Break

Session 8. Roundtable
11:10-12:00
Josiah Blackmore, Clifton Crais, Anne Lester, Sylvia Sellers-García, Dale Shuger

11:30-12:00 Discussion

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:27:19 -0400 2019-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium H&E
Department Meeting (Department of English) (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66001 66001-16678410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Tenured Faculty Only

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Meeting Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:39:33 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting Haven Hall
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

New, experienced, and future teachers of creative writing are invited to join an ongoing conversation about the art and craft of teaching creative writing. As a group, we will ask and answer questions, share resources and experiences, and try out exercises. Hopwood Teaching Roundtables are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all those interested in the teaching of creative writing are welcome to join the conversation.

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

*Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and an M.A. in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. She is the co-editor of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016).*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability: A Talk from Fables and Futures (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67283 67283-16831255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In this talk, award-winning poet and memoirist George Estreich will draw from his new book, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (MIT Press, 2019).

From Francis Galton's “Essays in Eugenics” to the announcement of the first gene-edited babies, the dream of human improvement has been entwined with persuasion. Looking at contemporary and historical examples, from the famous allegorical drawing of the “Eugenics Tree” to Chinese scientist He Jiankui's YouTube announcement of gene-edited twins, Estreich will explore the literary aspects of persuasion, with particular attention to metaphor. What values do these persuasive acts embody? Whose purposes do they serve? And whom do they obscure, dehumanize or erase? The literary content of these persuasive acts suggests a necessary role for writers, literary critics and scholars of disability studies, as we seek to guide the use of new and powerful biotechnologies in human beings.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:57:21 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion All News All Events Search Events Helen Zell Writers Program Events Mark Websters Reading Series Helen Zell Visiting Writers Series Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability
Heberle Lecture (Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University) (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67740 67740-16926551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Saidiya Hartman is a scholar of African American literature and cultural history whose works explore the afterlife of slavery in modern American society and bear witness to lives, traumas, and fleeting moments of beauty that historical archives have omitted or obscured. She weaves findings from her meticulous historical research into narratives that retrieve from oblivion stories of nameless and sparsely documented historical actors, such as female captives on slave ships and the inhabitants of slums at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:37:07 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

New, experienced, and future teachers of creative writing are invited to join an ongoing conversation about the art and craft of teaching creative writing. As a group, we will ask and answer questions, share resources and experiences, and try out exercises. Hopwood Teaching Roundtables are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all those interested in the teaching of creative writing are welcome to join the conversation.

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

*Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and an M.A. in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. She is the co-editor of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016).*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Pizza with Profs! (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68883 68883-17188743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come meet our English professors and learn more about Winter 2020 undergraduate English classes.

Speed panel format with Q & A session.
Cottage Inn pizza provided!

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:05:22 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Social / Informal Gathering Pizza w Profs
How To Sell Your Story (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68881 68881-17188740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Journalist, author, and television personality, Amy Tara Koch (UM English '89), will discuss how to craft a pitch, the importance of nailing a headline, and tips on how to communicate with editors. Essential intel for aspiring journalists!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:27:06 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Amy Tara Koch
English Internship Showcase (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69121 69121-17250797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

sponsored by the Undergraduate English Dept.

Come learn about internships being offered by offered by these employers:

UMBS
M Library
Michigan News
Michigan Quarterly Review
Michigan Development Internship Program
Tall Ships America
Hayden McNeil
FLOW
826 Michigan
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Ecology Center

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:54:15 -0500 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Careers / Jobs internships
Cosmic Realism (November 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69111 69111-17244701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This writing workshop will feature a pre-circulated article in-progress by Professor Kate Marshall (ND). Abstract below:

“Cosmic Realism”

In this chapter, I focus on how scale and perspective interact with materialist fantasies in contemporary realist fiction and in the larger cultural debates surrounding it. By attending to forms of diffuse narrative sentience moving through the novel, I discuss two kinds of narrative reach for radical exteriority, exemplified in texts by Marilynne Robinson and Teju Cole. These frustrated attempts at nonhuman narration either attempt to locate consciousness in wildly distant objects and materials, or are eliminative, trying to imagine a world or narrative outside of consciousness or human knowledge. I situate both attempts in a history of realist theory that has had much more room for nonhuman narrative than our most recent engagements with it have remembered.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:00:54 -0500 2019-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T11:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar simply books.
Job Talk (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Reading the Romantics (November 19, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68715 68715-17140908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Please join us for our Fall 2019 reading series called Reading the Romantics.

We will meet on November 19th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3241 to discuss a chapter from Julia S. Carlson’s *Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth's Poetry in Fields of Print* (2016), called "'Points Have We All of Us Within Our Souls, / Where All Stand Single': Poetic Autobiography and National Cartography." This chapter comes from the first half of Carlson's book which examines how Wordsworth's blank verse was shaped in the context of a burgeoning cartographic culture. Her goal is to show that print encodings of land and language were not separate phenomena but were actually entwined aspects of a "diagrammatic turn" in British culture during the Enlightenment period. This chapter gets into exciting topics like Wordsworth's encounter with the Ordnance surveyors on the mountains of Black Comb in the Lake District in 1811, the appearance of contoured maps at the Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition of 1851, and Parliamentary debates in the 1850s about contouring versus hachuring on Ordnance maps. 

We will meet again on December 5th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3154 to discuss the first chapter from Tilottama Rajan's *Romantic Narratives: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft* (2010), called “The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley’s Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastor.”

A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please kindly RSVP to Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials.

All are welcome to attend one or both events in the reading series.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:35:35 -0400 2019-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A poster for Reading the Romantics with an image of William Blake's 'Newton'
NELP Mass Meeting (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68884 68884-17188746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Info session | slideshow | testimonials from last year's Nelpers.

Learn more at: lsa.umich.edu/nelp

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:18:39 -0400 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T21:00:00-05:00 Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting NELP
Job Talk (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301841@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Job Talk (November 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Job Talk (December 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

New, experienced, and future teachers of creative writing are invited to join an ongoing conversation about the art and craft of teaching creative writing. As a group, we will ask and answer questions, share resources and experiences, and try out exercises. Hopwood Teaching Roundtables are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all those interested in the teaching of creative writing are welcome to join the conversation.

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

*Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and an M.A. in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. She is the co-editor of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016).*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Job Talk (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion East Quadrangle
Reading the Romantics (December 5, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68722 68722-17140909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Please join us for the second discussion of our Fall 2016 reading series called Reading the Romantics.

We will meet on December 5th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3154 to discuss the first chapter from Tilottama Rajan's *Romantic Narratives: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft* (2010), called “The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley’s Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastor.”

The chapter focuses on Shelley’s Alastor and some of the Wordsworth poems that influenced it — mostly the Lucy poems and The Ruined Cottage — in order to further Rajan’s larger claim about a Romantic ’narrativity’ that is, for her, separate from the novelistic, chronological plot structure (although not always excluded from it) and characterized by a certain openness, “worklessness,” and a “constant process of unmaking” that allows Shelley and other Romantic authors to oscillate between poetry and prose.

A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please kindly RSVP to Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials.

All are welcome to attend one or both events in the reading series.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:47:05 -0400 2019-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A poster for Reading the Romantics with an image of William Blake's 'Newton'
Job Talk (December 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-12-09T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T17:30:00-05:00 Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Job Talk (Collegiate Fellow) (January 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70302 70302-17564376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:17:03 -0500 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
William (Buzz) Alexander Memorial (January 19, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68913 68913-17194951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 19, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dear Friends and Colleagues

A memorial service for William Buzz Alexander will be held on Sunday, January 19, 2020 (which falls on the MLK Day long weekend) at the Michigan Union's Rogel Ballroom. There will be an hour of socializing from 1:00 - 2:00, followed by the service at 2:00, with time afterward for more socializing until 6:00, for those who would like to stay.

Please RSVP by December 1, 2019

Contact: Janie Paul, janiep@umich.edu

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Other Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:33:36 -0400 2020-01-19T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-19T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of English Language and Literature Other Buzz
Medieval Lunch. Anglo-Saxon Time as an Enclosure. (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71373 71373-17819289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. Presenters typically speak for approximately 30 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:31:43 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
English Creative Writing Sub Con Application Deadline (February 7, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72141 72141-17946457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

English majors who wish to specialize in the writing of fiction or poetry may, in the winter term of their junior year, apply to the Creative Writing Sub-concentration, which is an optional path to a B.A. degree in English. Students in the program take two upper-level creative writing workshops (English 323/324 and English 423/424), meet together weekly throughout their senior year, and, in their last term, compile a major manuscript of fiction or poetry while working closely with the creative writing faculty in a tutorial reserved for sub-concentrators (English 428); this program is small and selective.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:47:29 -0500 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Class / Instruction Sub con app deadline
English Summer Journalism Internship Showcase (February 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72684 72684-18046521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Join the English Undergraduate Studies Office on Tuesday, February 11 @ 4pm for the English Summer Journalism Internship Showcase!

Local and regional partners will be available to talk about the summer internships they are offering!

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Presentation Sat, 08 Feb 2020 21:24:41 -0500 2020-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation English Summer Journalism Internship Showcase
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
Teaching Contemporary Narratives of Migration (February 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71293 71293-17796183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

The broad goal of this session is to think collectively about the possibilities, challenges, and pleasures of teaching contemporary narratives of migration 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 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:10:46 -0500 2020-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Schedule of Sessions for Teaching Contemporary Art & Culture
Xylem Open Mic (February 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72548 72548-18015963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Presented by Xylem Literary Magazine

Do you like poetry, prose or music? Come share your work or hear others perform!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:11:10 -0500 2020-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Social / Informal Gathering xylem
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
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
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (March 12, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T21:00:00-04:00 Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (March 19, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (March 26, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
CANCELED - Pizza with Profs! (April 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71051 71051-17768678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come meet our English professors and learn more about Fall 2020 undergraduate English classes.

Speed panel format with Q & A session
Cottage Inn pizza provided!

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:56:14 -0400 2020-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Social / Informal Gathering pizza 2020
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (April 2, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-02T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
[FREE- NOW ONLINE!]Great Lakes Theme Semester Presents: #LakeEffects Film Series (April 9, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73624 73624-18272034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

Hosted by Michigan Sea Grant and co-sponsored by Great Lakes Now, this completely free series will have a different theme each night: Journeys, Shipwrecks, Invaders, Hazards, Detroit Public TV Night.

Join us every Thursday for the next five weeks now on Zoom! Join us virtually for an hour and a half screening followed by a brief Q&A with filmmakers, participants, and local experts. We hope to see you there!
https://zoom.us/j/380790681

March 12: Journeys
The Big Five Dive
Crossing Lake Huron

March 19: Shipwrecks
Project Shiphunt
November Requiem

March 26: Invaders
Making Waves

April 2: Hazards
Great Lakes, Bad Lines
The Forever Chemicals

April 9: Detroit Public TV Night
Selections from Great Lakes Now

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:33:59 -0500 2020-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2020-04-09T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Great Lakes Theme Semester Livestream / Virtual U-M LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, Lake Effects, with topographical map of Michigan
CANCELLED "The Many Lives of John Donne: Criticism as Creative History.." (April 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73182 73182-18155742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

contact Prof. Anne Gere argere@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:32:42 -0400 2020-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
CANCELED: Manuscript Workshop (April 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68638 68638-17128435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This workshop will be rescheduled for a later date TBD

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Meeting Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:35:56 -0400 2020-04-24T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting
Going Viral: Epidemics and Media in the Age of Print (June 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74917 74917-19073311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The turn of the sixteenth century was a time when the rapid expansion of print media forged communities of readers eager to learn about the epidemics of the day, such as the plague, syphilis, and the English Sweating Sickness. Not unlike today, anxieties about the rapid spread of diseases coincided with anxieties about the rapid spread of harmful information.

Christopher Hutchinson (University of Mississippi) and Helmut Puff (University of Michigan) will engage in a one hour conversation about the nexus of epidemics and media (c. 1500).

This remote event is presented in webinar format via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_54AFMMcwRAK_wbuCSZs32Q

We welcome your questions during this live event!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:57:28 -0400 2020-06-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-06-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Durer Syphilitic Man Broadsheet
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)