Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Haunted Michigan (October 27, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88251 88251-21651845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Find a spot around the virtual campfire and listen as paranormal expert Tim Woolworth shares some of his most spooktacular stories from his experience as a Michigan-based ghost hunter. Time has over twenty years of experience in paranormal studies and is internationally known for his work with instrumental trans-communications.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/91209645686

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:36:09 -0400 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual Haunted 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
Virtual English Internship Showcase (November 9, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88754 88754-21657345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Learn where an internship can take you and what these companies have to offer!

Participating companies include: MLive, Cherry Lake Publishing, Ecology Center, FSG Publishing, 826 Michigan, and others!

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:41:54 -0400 2021-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual Internship Showcase Nov 2021
Symposium on Translation and the Making of Arab American Community (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88791 88791-21657766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please save the date for a one-day symposium on Friday, November 12, 2021, exploring how various modes of translation contribute to the making of Arab American communities in the Midwest.

10:00 am – 5:30 pm (hybrid)
Join us in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the Michigan Room of the Michigan League
or virtually through Zoom
For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program (AMAS), the Department of Middle East Studies (MES), and the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest. Co-organized by Khaled Mattawa and Graham Liddell, the symposium features three panels that reflect on different forms of translation in Arab American communities in the Midwest. The event culminates a reading by Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail.

The symposium will be held on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, with the option to attend by remote access.

This event is free and open to the public. For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

PANEL 1: Translation for Community Needs

This discussion will focus on the translation and interpretation services that are crucial for maintaining wellness and facilitating civic engagement and personal development among Limited English Proficiency (LEP) communities in Michigan, particularly Arab Americans. Moderated by Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine (professor at UM-Dearborn), the panel includes Karen Phillippi (director of the Office of Global Michigan), Anisa Sahoubah (director of ACCESS’s Youth and Education department), and Bilal Hammoud (chair of the Language Access Task Force for the State of Michigan).

PANEL 2: Arab American Media

This panel will center on the ways that Midwest Arab-American communities past and present have represented themselves in media. Moderated by Graham Liddell (Ph.D. candidate, U Michigan), the panel includes Ali Harb (reporter for Al Jazeera English), Hany Bawardi (professor at UM-Dearborn), William Youmans (professor at the George Washington University), and Lana Barkawi (Executive and Artistic Director of Mizna).

PANEL 3: Living in Translation

Our final panel will feature a conversation between three prominent Arab-American authors and translators about the aesthetics and politics of Arabic–English translation, within and beyond the realm of literature. Moderated by Nancy R. Roberts (translator of Arabic fiction), the panel includes Khaled Mattawa (poet, translator, and professor at U Michigan), Fady Joudah (poet, physician, and translator), and Dunya Mikhail (poet and lecturer at Oakland University).

Reading by Dunya Mikhail
The symposium will culminate in a reading by Iraqi-American poet, Dunya Mikhail.

For registration visit tinyurl.com/TranslatingArabic

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan and the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:48:27 -0500 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Conference / Symposium Translating Arabic
New England Literature Program (NELP) Mass Meeting (November 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89049 89049-21660331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

After having to cancel NELP in 2020, it was so good to be back in the woods with our students last spring—and they were just thrilled to have the experience of living and learning (and climbing mountains!) together in such an intimate setting after a year of online classes. We're not yet sure what NELP 2022 will look like exactly, but we learned in 2021 how to do the program with modifications allowing us to accommodate a variety of circumstances, and so our planning for this spring is running at full steam—though we anticipate minimal changes to the program in 2022.

If you’d like to learn more about NELP, please join us for the Mass Meeting, where the previous year’s NELP participants come out to describe the program to those who might be interested in applying; they do a much better job than a flyer or the website can of painting a picture of what life at NELP is like, and it’s by far the most helpful way for prospective students to figure out whether the program is right for them. And if you can’t make it for the November Mass Meeting, we’ll have a smaller Informational Meeting in December.

Aric Knuth, Director, NELP

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:45:23 -0500 2021-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting NELP 2022
English Undergraduate Creative Writing Program Q&A (November 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89263 89263-21661612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Do you have questions about the Creative Writing Minor?
The Creative Writing Sub-concentration?
Creative writing classes in general?

Undergraduate Creative Writing Director Cody Walker—assisted by two current creative writing students—would love to try to answer them!

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:37:05 -0500 2021-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Livestream / Virtual CW 2021
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
English Language and Literature PhD Welcome Weekend Event - Virtual Event (March 24, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90538 90538-21671502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Virtual Welcome Weekend Event for PhD Prospective Students

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Other Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:16:50 -0500 2022-03-24T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Other
English Language and Literature PhD Welcome Weekend Event - Virtual Event (March 25, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90538 90538-21671503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Virtual Welcome Weekend Event for PhD Prospective Students

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Other Thu, 06 Jan 2022 10:16:50 -0500 2022-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Other
Jewels to the Free: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Volume 14 (March 27, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91904 91904-21683733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 27, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Hear selections from the 14th edition of the *Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing*, read by family and friends of contributing authors. Books will be for sale following the reading along with a special performance by PCAP’s Out of the Blue Choir.

PCAP’s *Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing* seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan's incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers —writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

Presented with support from Jackson Social Welfare Fund of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation, U-M Department of English Language and Literature, and the Michigan Humanities Council.

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Exhibition Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:26:12 -0500 2022-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 2022-03-27T14:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Exhibition Untitled, Dutch, 2019
2022 English Department Honors Symposium (April 29, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88254 88254-21651848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Class of 2022 English Honors Students and Creative Writing Sub-concentrators will read excerpts from their theses.

For guests who can not attend in person, live stream at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94477595192

Masks must be worn in auditoriums as they are considered classroom spaces.

Department Contact: Karena Huff, kmhuff@umich.edu

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Ceremony / Service Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:57:38 -0400 2022-04-29T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Ceremony / Service 2022 English Honors Symposium
Graduate English New Student Orientation (August 25, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/96226 96226-21792146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 25, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Graduate English New Student Orientation Event for Incoming MFA and PhD Students.

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Other Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:54:40 -0400 2022-08-25T10:00:00-04:00 2022-08-25T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other