Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. she was here, once (July 19, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 19, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-19T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-19T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 22, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 22, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-22T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-22T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Brown Bag: "Cinema of Social Dreamers: Artists and Their Imaginations Return to the Caribbean" (July 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63916 63916-15993697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this talk, Yasmine Espert will discuss her current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the inaugural Brian Leigh Dunnigan Fellowship in the History of Cartography. Her research this year is also supported by the Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Fellowship for 20th Century Art. A PhD candidate in Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, her dissertation research explores how artists of African and Afro-Asian descent map their dreams of the Caribbean.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:54:11 -0400 2019-07-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-22T13:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar Caribbean map
she was here, once (July 23, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-23T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-23T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-24T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875262@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-25T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-26T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, July 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-30T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (July 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-07-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
UROP Summer Research Symposium (July 31, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63907 63907-15985743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program’s culminating event for all students participating in UROP Programs. The event celebrates the partnerships created between students and research mentors, and serves as a conference where students present their summer research and learn about the research fellow students have worked on.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:55:54 -0400 2019-07-31T13:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference / Symposium UROP Summer 19
she was here, once (August 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-08-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-01T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
she was here, once (August 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59501 59501-14875227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 2, 2019 8:00am
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The mobility and displacement of the Black body, from port to holding cell, to ward and out, is a history that is embedded in our communities socially, culturally and geographically. Alluding to feelings of pain, otherness, power and triumph, "she was here, once" features work that illustrates a moment of remembrance and reflection on the women who have roamed these spaces before us.

In summer 2018, artist Nastassja Swift organized a collaborative workshop and public performance in her home city of Richmond, Virginia. Using a range of choreographed movement, sound, and solidarity, eight Black women and girls, wearing large needle felted wool masks, traced the ancestral footprints of the arrival of the Black body in Richmond. The 3.5 mile walk began in Shockoe Bottom (the site of the importation of slaves into Richmond, and one of the largest sources of slave trade in America) and concluded in the Jackson Ward neighborhood (one of the largest Black communities in Richmond).

The multi-layered piece has produced a short film, mini documentary, photography, and performance masks, on display in her solo exhibition, "she was here, once" in Lane Hall.

Lane Hall Gallery is open to the public weekdays from 8am - 4pm. Class visits are encouraged.

Accessibility: Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

Contact Heidi Bennett, IRWG Event Planner (heidiab@umich.edu) with questions about this exhibition.

Cosponsors: Department of Women's Studies, Stamps School of Art & Design, Department of English, Art History, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Center for the Education of Women+

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Exhibition Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:01:51 -0400 2019-08-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-08-02T16:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Exhibition photo of a group of women wearing masks
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (August 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-08-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (August 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T15:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Polish Placement and Proficiency Exam (August 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61809 61809-15188673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Students of any level of Polish language are invited to take the proficiency/placement exam. This is a written exam and any additional oral exams will be scheduled after completion if the written exam.

This can be used to place out of the LSA language requirement and or place students into the appropriate level of Polish language courses.

Sign up here for a seat in the exam: https://goo.gl/forms/NayLj8eTRiQBoTkI3

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Other Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:02:07 -0500 2019-08-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other Modern Languages Building
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-04T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
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
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-05T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Slavic Chocolate Party (September 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63761 63761-15865496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Chocolate is the international language, especially in the Slavic world! Come learn about the Slavic language and regional studies programs offered at U-M and enjoy chocolate and music from Central and Eastern Europe!

All students--from every school, college, and unit--are welcome to meet instructors and other students interested in the Slavic world.

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Reception / Open House Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:06:45 -0400 2019-09-05T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Reception / Open House Slavic Chocolate Welcome 2019
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 6, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-06T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (September 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-09-06T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (September 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-09-06T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T16:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-09T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Fall Kick-Off Meeting (September 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65466 65466-16603593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

The Nineteenth Century Forum would like to invite you to our first meeting of the fall semester! On Monday, September 9, at 4:00pm, in Angell Hall 3154, please join us to:

Check in as a group after the summer & welcome new members
Discuss our visiting professors for the year
Set dates/formats for paper workshops, panels, and other events for the semester

All are welcome!

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Meeting Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:51:25 -0400 2019-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
Franz Kafka in Central European Cultures of Memory (September 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63005 63005-15534805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

The presentation reconstructs the main strains of the reception of Franz Kafka within the historiography of literature in Central Europe and traces them to Central European cultures of memory. The lecture deals both with forgetting and functionalizing Franz Kafka in the memory of literature, as it occurred in Czech and German historiography of literature, as well as the obscuring and the focusing on details concerning his biography, networks, readings and text production during their way from the “storage” to the “functional memory”, as practiced within the paradigm of national historiography of literature. The lecture also focuses particularly on the invention of Franz Kafka as a “Czech” and/or Central European author in the Czechoslovakia of the 1960s and the transnational reinvention of Franz Kafka within the Central European context after 1989.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:54:16 -0400 2019-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion kafka
Collecting and Understanding Early Photographs of the American West (September 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64933 64933-16499239@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Photo historian Keith Davis presents a curator's perspective on some of the key aspects of 19th century photographs of the American West. He will discuss recent research and exhibition projects, the challenges and opportunities of developing a major collection, and matters of aethetics, individual style, and attribution.

Davis is Senior Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Active as a photo historian and curator since 1978, he has published 35 books and catalogues, and curated about 100 exhibitions. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Michigan Photographic Historical Society in memory of Andee Seeger, co-founder and President Emeritus of MiPHS.

The lecture will take place at Ann Arbor City Club, 1830 Washtenaw Avenue

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:13:12 -0400 2019-09-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Wasatch Mountains, Utah (1869) by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Environmental Research Seminar "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings" (September 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65290 65290-16565509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The federal government, states, and utilities administer programs to improve the energy efficiency of low-income homes and affordable multifamily buildings. Investments in measures to save energy, as simple as air sealing and insulation, can also yield a broad range of non-energy benefits. This presentation will present research results that show that weatherization can improve health, home conditions, and social determinants of health. The results are drawn from three separate studies that were conducted nationally, regionally (Midwest and Northeast), and in Knoxville, Tennessee. Three3, Inc. conducts research and educational programming to promote the integration of environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The organization particularly focuses on fostering sustainable futures that: provide equitable benefits to low-income and disadvantaged populations (intra-generational equity); meets ethical obligations to future generations (inter-generational equity); and makes best use of the convergence of human knowledge and technology to meet sustainability goals.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Aug 2019 15:56:22 -0400 2019-09-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T13:00:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Workshop / Seminar 09/10/2019 Bruce Tonn "Health & Household-Related Benefits of Weatherizing Low-Income Homes & Affordable Multifamily Buildings"
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Workshop on Interdisciplinarity (September 12, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65465 65465-16603592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Professor Henderson will meet with graduate students in order to discuss the special challenges of doing interdisciplinary work, from doing research outside one’s field to finding publication venues and audiences.

Professor Henderson's research centers in nineteenth-century British culture. She is particularly interested in exploring formal similarities between literary arts, visual arts, and sciences. Her most recent book, Algebraic Art: Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), traces the influence of mathematical formalism on Victorian literature and visual art. Other recent articles include “The Physics and Poetry of Analogy” (Victorian Studies 56:3, Spring 2014) and “Symbolic Logic and the Logic of Symbolism” (Critical Inquiry 41:1, Autumn 2014).

Professor Henderson received her PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. She was an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan from 1997-2003. Her academic distinctions include the following: Guggenheim Fellow (2012-13), ACLS Fellow (2012-13), Michigan Humanities Award (1999), Bredvold Prize (1996), and Michigan Society of Fellows (1991-1994).

Co-sponsorship for this event is generously provided by the Michigan Society of Fellows, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Institute for the Humanities.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:22:13 -0400 2019-09-12T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar Andrea Henderson
Cultural Formations of the "Alt-Right" (September 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63430 63430-15694217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Please also see link to the final section of the conference, Queer(y)ing the “Alt-Right” on YouTube: https://events.umich.edu/event/65936

Over the past decade, the “alt-right” has moved from what one scholar called the “lunatic fringe” to the centers of power, and helped to infuse an unprecedented level of racism, misogyny, and bigotry into politics, culture, and discourse. Understanding the rise and consolidation of the “alt-right” requires interdisciplinary lenses, from fields such as cultural studies, media studies, feminist studies, and history, and attentiveness to the international rise of populism and ultranationalism.



Agenda:
Hatcher Library Gallery Rm 100
1pm: Introduction (Alex Stern & Johannes von Moltke)

1:30pm: Narratives of the Alt-Right
Danielle Christmas, UNC: From Heritage Politics to Hate: Neo-Confederate Novels & White Genocide
Jessie Daniels, CUNY: 4Chan to FoxNews to the White House: White Supremacy Since 2008
Louie Valencia, Texas State: From Metapolitics to Metahistory: Alt-History and the Crisis of Western Civilization
Johannes von Moltke (U-M), Moderator

3pm: Coffee Break

3:30pm: New Directions for Research
Alice Mishkin (U-M): Where White Nationalism and AntiSemitism meet Zionism
Maximilian Alvarez (U-M): Mix Red & Brown Together & You Get Brown: How Far-Right Ideas Infect the Left Today
Jasmine Ehrhardt (U-M) Stalking in the City: Media Production, Platform, and Women in the Alt-Right”
Alex Stern (U-M), Moderator

5pm: Reception

Angell Hall Auditorium C
6pm: Queer(y)ing the “Alt-Right” on YouTube
Screening: “Jordan Peterson” (ContraPoints YouTube, 2018)
Q&A with Natalie Wynn, creator of Contrapoints

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:34:31 -0400 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T19:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of American Culture Conference / Symposium Poster
Characterization and Combination (September 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65385 65385-16575578@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Professor Henderson's talk will explore the power of combinatorics—a popular subfield of Victorian mathematics—to illuminate the structure of late Victorian characterization, focusing particularly on Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend. It will show that there is a good historical reason why, in the words of a contemporary reviewer, the characters of this novel could be described as “a number of automatons moving about,” “tattooed with various characteristics”: nodes in a social network, they are the literary
embodiment of a conception of personhood as mobile, extrinsically defined, and combinatory. Characters in these novels are not the fundamental units of social meaning that earlier nineteenth-century novelistic protocols would lead us to expect but are instead like atoms in a compound or letters in a word; they form variable combinations with others, and it’s the combinations that matter. Henderson will show that this focus on clusters of people rather than singular individuals has its historical grounding in the logic of late Victorian capitalism, an abstract logic of ramifying networks in which meaning and value inhere less in particular people or things than in their links to other people and things. As we will see, that logic is epitomized in combinatorics, the study of network ramification. Henderson argues that combinatorics is in fact the mathematical subfield of late Victorian capitalism: it both reflects and reinforces a logic of abstraction, combination, and expansion. It is fitting then that Dickens implements this logic in the “character system” of Our Mutual Friend, his great novel on finance capitalism. This novel, as the title suggests, is devoted to understanding persons in terms of networks, which it represents as the ethically suspect framework of finance capitalism.

Professor Henderson's research centers in nineteenth-century British culture. She is particularly interested in exploring formal similarities between literary arts, visual arts, and sciences. Her most recent book, Algebraic Art: Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), traces the influence of mathematical formalism on Victorian literature and visual art. Other recent articles include “The Physics and Poetry of Analogy” (Victorian Studies 56:3, Spring 2014) and “Symbolic Logic and the Logic of Symbolism” (Critical Inquiry 41:1, Autumn 2014).

Professor Henderson received her PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. She was an Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan from 1997-2003. Her academic distinctions include the following: Guggenheim Fellow (2012-13), ACLS Fellow (2012-13), Michigan Humanities Award (1999), Bredvold Prize (1996), and Michigan Society of Fellows (1991-1994).

Co-sponsorship for this event is generously provided by the Michigan Society of Fellows, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:23:04 -0400 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Icosian Game
Gala Mukomolova Poetry Reading and Book Signing (September 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64358 64358-16332357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish, post-Soviet, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian― through a Russian fable.

Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised poet and essayist. She is the author of the chapbook One Above One Below: Positions and Lamentations (YesYes Books 2018). She received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her past residencies include Vermont Studio Center, Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists and The Pink Door. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, PEN American, PANK and elsewhere. She writes articles on astrology for NYLON and is cohost of the podcast Big Dyke Energy.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:16:40 -0400 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Gala.Mukomolova.headshot
Queer(y)ing the “Alt-Right” on YouTube (September 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65936 65936-16676296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

This is the final event for the Cultural Formations of the "Alt-Right" conference: https://events.umich.edu/event/63430

Social media have been key to the recent rise of the “alt-right,” and YouTube has spawned entire networks of “alternative influencers” who peddle misogyny, white supremacy, ethno-nationalism, fascism, and populist messages of hate. How do we counter the spread of this movement, both online and in real life?
One YouTuber has devised a particularly compelling format in which to respond to the “alt-right” where it thrives. On her ContraPoints channel, Natalie Wynn has been creating carefully crafted, intricately staged, persona-multiplying video essays in which she takes on everything from “Incels” to “Redpiling,” embraces the social justice warrior moniker and instructs her viewers on “How to recognize a Fascist.”

Join us for a screening of ContraPoints’ “Jordan Peterson” (2018), followed by a videoconference Q&A with Natalie Wynn herself.

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Film Screening Thu, 29 Aug 2019 09:28:32 -0400 2019-09-12T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T19:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of American Culture Film Screening Poster
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
What's in Your Attic? (September 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64932 64932-16491249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

We would love to see what's in your attic!

Join us for an open house, informal day of sharing and bring in your paper Americana such as maps, letters, journals, books, photographs, and ephemera. Clements staff as well as collector volunteers will be available to share tips about care and storage and to answer questions. (No appraisals will be available at this event.)

Of course, it's not required that you bring in a treasure to share! This is also a rare opportunity to visit the Clements Library on a Sunday to enjoy our exhibits. You can also learn more about the history, collections, and architecture of the Clements in a behind-the-scenes tour at 11:00am or 2:30pm.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:39:18 -0400 2019-09-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Workshop / Seminar What's in Your Attic (2018)
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (September 15, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-09-15T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-15T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (September 15, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 15, 2019 2:30pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-09-15T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-15T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
PSC Brownbag: Postdoc Introductions (September 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66766 66766-16776777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Keeping with tradition, we will welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Arianna Gard, Dr. Heejung Jang, Dr. Sarah Patterson. Each will give a brief description of their professional paths, present a summary of their doctoral work, overview of postdoctoral project and additional research interests, etc.

Please bring your lunch.

Monday, 9/16/2019, 12:00pm

Location: 6050 ISR Thompson St

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:01:57 -0400 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
A CONVERSATION WITH U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JUSTIN AMASH (September 16, 2019 4:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66312 66312-16727893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 4:10pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join the UM Office of the Provost and the Michigan Law School as we commemorate Constitution Day by hosting "A Conversation with U.S. Representative Justin Amash."

The Honorable Justin Amash represents Michigan’s Third District in the 116th United States Congress. He was elected to his first term on November 2, 2010. Justin was
born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received his bachelor’s degree with High Honors in economics from the University of Michigan and his juris doctor from the University of Michigan Law School.

Introduction by Richard Primus, Theodore J. St. Antoine Collegiate Professor of Law

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:34:10 -0400 2019-09-16T16:10:00-04:00 2019-09-16T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Bioethics Discussion: Self (September 17, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52717 52717-12974149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on us by us.

Readings to consider:
1. Borges and I
2. Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood
3. Identity, Self-Awareness, and Self-Deception: Ethical Implications for Leaders and Organizations
4. Individuals are Inadequate: Recognizing the Family-Centeredness of Chinese Bioethics and Chinese Health System

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/031-self/.

Please find yourself over at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:50:29 -0400 2019-09-17T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Self
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Chinese Railroad Workers, The Transcontinental, and the Making of Modern America (September 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63431 63431-15694218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

This year is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad line. At Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad lines celebrated the spanning of the country with iron. Hailed ever since as a signal development in post-Civil War America, the story of the transcontinental is often romanticized and celebrated as a national triumph. Relegated to the margins or even erased altogether from many accounts, Chinese railroad workers were actually central to the effort. Chang’s historical recovery returns these workers to the center of the narrative. His lecture will consider historiography, the methodological challenge of writing history without traditional documentation, and the place of this history in the rise of modern America.


Gordon H. Chang is professor of history, Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, and the Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He studies the histories of America-China relations, U.S. diplomacy, and Asian American history. Among his publications are Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972; Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writing, 1942-1945; Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects; editor with Judy Yung and H.M Lai, Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present; editor with Mark Johnson and Paul Karlstrom, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970; and Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China. He has been a Guggenheim and ACLS Fellow.

He currently co-directs the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford and has published two books this year: The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental (editor with Shelley Fisher Fishkin) and Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:45:05 -0400 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Mary-Claire King, PhD [2019 MaryFran Sowers Memorial Lecture] (September 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63376 63376-16161554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Public Health II
Organized By: Center for Midlife Science

A pre-eminent scholar, Dr. King leads studies to understand the genetic causes of serious human disorders including breast and ovarian cancer and schizophrenia. Her work focuses on disentangling genetic heterogeneity in complex traits, and on discovering rare alleles that cause common disorders. From her ground-breaking doctoral dissertation that transformed evolutionary biology to her formative work proving the existence of a major gene for a complex trait that demonstrated the genetic inheritance of breast cancer, Dr. King has contributed significantly to the advancement of scientific knowledge of genetics. Most recently, her laboratory developed and patented a targeted capture and massively parallel sequencing approach (BROCA) that detects mutations in breast and ovarian cancer genes.

A leading human rights advocate, Dr. King pioneered the development of genomics tools for human rights investigations including use of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequencing to match kidnapped children to possible maternal relatives after the end of Argentinian dictatorship of 1975-1983. Her approach is now used by governmental and United Nations forensic teams worldwide to identify remains of victims of extra-judicial execution and missing soldiers.

Dr. King received her PhD in Genetics from the University of California at Berkeley, and her postdoctoral training at UC San Francisco. A professor at UC Berkeley from 1976-1995, she has been the American Cancer Society Professor of Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington since 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (1994), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999), and the National Academy of Sciences (2005) and is a past President of the American Society of Human Genetics. Among her many honors, she was awarded the Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science (2014), the National Medal of Science (2016) and the Advocacy Award of the American Society of Human Genetics (2018).
A reception, sponsored by UM Precision Health, will immediately follow the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:10:55 -0400 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 Public Health II Center for Midlife Science Lecture / Discussion Mary-Claire King, PhD
Symposium Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Robert L. Kahn (1918-2019) (September 20, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66635 66635-16768007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

We hope you will be able to join us for a symposium on September 20, 2019 celebrating the career and contributions of Robert L. Kahn (March 28, 1918-January 6, 2019), sponsored by the Institute for Social Research and ISR’s Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. The event will highlight the many contributions Bob made over his distinguished career, and provide time for attendees to share their memories of him. You are invited to this day-long symposium on Friday, September 20, 2019 followed by a reception.

Dr. Robert L. Kahn relished the exchange of ideas. He enjoyed designing studies which targeted practical problems, and most of all analyzing and considering how best to apply the findings. He was a strong supporter of young people, junior scientists, women and minority scholars. He was committed to social justice and backed some of the toughest early decisions in the field.

Please join us in celebrating his career and contributions to the field of social science.

Please RSVP for this event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeswFsYb-GZZ3_NrbDRD9TxaGLKOVkFs8AZrJS7t-sRtRTraQ/viewform

Event page: https://spark.adobe.com/page/LWaPYgyyKMWaR/

Speakers:
James House (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Barbara Gutek (University of Arizona, Eller College of Management)
Gretchen Spreitzer (University of Michigan, Ross School of Business)
Robert Sutton (Stanford University)
Toni Antonucci (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Jack Rowe (Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health)
Jerry Bachman (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Trevillore Raghunathan (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Steve Heeringa (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Robert Groves (Provost, Georgetown University)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:14:47 -0400 2019-09-20T08:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Robert Kahn at ISR
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (September 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-09-20T11:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Queer/Cuir Américas Symposium (September 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63432 63432-15694219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

What are the meanings of queer and cuir in Latinx America and the Caribbean? What are the politics of translation and knowledge production in our hemisphere? Join the Cuir Américas Working Group | Grupo de Trabajo Feminista/Queer/Cuir for a bilingual discussion on LGBTQ Latinx, Indigenous, and Afro-diasporic gender, sexuality, and politics, including a panel discussion, keynote address by Ochy Curiel, and reception.

1pm | Welcoming words by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, Women's Studies), Constanza Contreras Ruiz (English), Kerry White (American Culture)


1:15pm | Roundtable on Queer/Cuir Studies in the Américas

Marcia Ochoa, University of California, Santa Cruz
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, University of Miami
Marlene Wayar, Independent Scholar, Argentina
Diego Falconí-Trávez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, American University/College of the Holy Cross
Juliana Martínez, American University.

Moderator
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, University of California, Santa Cruz/Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

3:00 | Break

3:30-5:00pm Keynote lecture
Ochy Curiel, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
“Encuentros y Desencuentros: Between Decolonial Feminism and Cuir/Queer Theory and Practice" (in Spanish).

Drawing on decolonial feminism which brings together and is complicated by the contributions, theories, analyses and practices of the most critical currents in feminism—such as Black feminism, feminist autonomous separatism, lesbian feminism, the feminism of indigenous women and Abya Yala’s indigenous origins—as well as the contributions of the decolonial turn around the historical construction of modernity and coloniality, this presentation seeks to problematize certain cuir/queer positions and analyses which only consider those bodies that are generated by and sexualized within privileged positions in regards to race, class, and geopolitics. At the same time, this paper tries to revive more critical and radical cuir/queer positions that contribute to constructing projects of social transformation and collective emancipation.

Ochy Curiel is professor of Gender Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is an Afro-Dominican feminist, lesbian, anti-racist, and decolonial singer/scholar/activist who has been at the forefront of contemporary Afro-feminist movements throughout Latin America.

5:00-6:00pm Reception

Event is free and open to the public and will be in English and Spanish. Interpretation/translation will not be provided.

Major funding for this event provided by the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) through a Think-Act Tank grant. Additional support provided byBrazil Initiative (LACS), the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), Department of American Culture, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Women's Studies, Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Latina/o Studies Program, the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (ODEI), the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), and the U-M Office of Research (UMOR).

For more information about the symposium please contact Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes at lawrlafo@umich.edu.

For more information about the special issue of GLQ on Queer/Cuir Américas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommensurable, please visit https://cuiramericas.org/

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:34:29 -0400 2019-09-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Latina/o Studies Conference / Symposium Poster
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories (September 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66955 66955-16787747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in her honor. These interdisciplinary scholars build on the foundations of cultural history while also defining and embracing new historical
questions in ways that keep gender, race, sexuality, and cultural practice at the core of their research. This conference will feature papers that centralize the margins of the French empire; foreground interpersonal relationships in the process of artistic, intellectual, and cultural production; and position science as an integral part of politics, culture, and society, including historical practice.

The conference will feature the research of current University of Michigan students working in these areas as well as former students engaging in interdisciplinary historical scholarship on French cultural history. Michigan faculty will chair each session. Dena Goodman, one of the most innovative historians in this field, will provide closing remarks for the conference.

Participants:
Former Michigan Students:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2011)
Steve Auerbach, Georgia College and State University (Michigan B.A., 1991; LSU History
Ph.D., 1999)
Katie Cangany, Notre Dame University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2003)
Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Michigan Musicology Ph.D., 2013
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside (Michigan History Ph.D., 2008
Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University (Michigan Art History Ph.D., 2012)
Robert Kruckeburg, Troy University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia (Michigan History and Women’s Studies Ph.D., 2008)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Michigan History and Anthropology
Ph.D., 2006)
Sean Takats, George Mason University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2007)
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University (Michigan History and Women's Studies Ph.D., 2010)

Current Michigan Students:
Haley Bowen, University of Michigan (Doctoral Student, History)
John Finkelberg, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Courtney Wilder, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, Art History)

Michigan Faculty:
Joshua Cole, History
David Hancock, History
Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Women’s Studies
Bill Paulson, Romance Languages
David Porter, English and Comparative Literature
Susan Siegfried, Art History and Women’s Studies

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:24:28 -0400 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories (September 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66955 66955-16787748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in her honor. These interdisciplinary scholars build on the foundations of cultural history while also defining and embracing new historical
questions in ways that keep gender, race, sexuality, and cultural practice at the core of their research. This conference will feature papers that centralize the margins of the French empire; foreground interpersonal relationships in the process of artistic, intellectual, and cultural production; and position science as an integral part of politics, culture, and society, including historical practice.

The conference will feature the research of current University of Michigan students working in these areas as well as former students engaging in interdisciplinary historical scholarship on French cultural history. Michigan faculty will chair each session. Dena Goodman, one of the most innovative historians in this field, will provide closing remarks for the conference.

Participants:
Former Michigan Students:
Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech University (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2011)
Steve Auerbach, Georgia College and State University (Michigan B.A., 1991; LSU History
Ph.D., 1999)
Katie Cangany, Notre Dame University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Shannon Dawdy, University of Chicago (Michigan History and Anthropology Ph.D., 2003)
Alison DeSimone, University of Missouri-Kansas City (Michigan Musicology Ph.D., 2013
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside (Michigan History Ph.D., 2008
Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University (Michigan Art History Ph.D., 2012)
Robert Kruckeburg, Troy University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2009)
Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia (Michigan History and Women’s Studies Ph.D., 2008)
Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto, Scarborough (Michigan History and Anthropology
Ph.D., 2006)
Sean Takats, George Mason University (Michigan History Ph.D., 2007)
Ying Zhang, Ohio State University (Michigan History and Women's Studies Ph.D., 2010)

Current Michigan Students:
Haley Bowen, University of Michigan (Doctoral Student, History)
John Finkelberg, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, History)
Courtney Wilder, University of Michigan (Doctoral Candidate, Art History)

Michigan Faculty:
Joshua Cole, History
David Hancock, History
Peggy McCracken, Romance Languages and Women’s Studies
Bill Paulson, Romance Languages
David Porter, English and Comparative Literature
Susan Siegfried, Art History and Women’s Studies

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:24:28 -0400 2019-09-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-21T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Conference / Symposium Portrait of Marie-Antoinette of Austria by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty, 1775
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Careers for Humanities PhDs: Publishing (September 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65992 65992-16678395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this workshop, Nick Geller (U-M PhD Classical Studies, 2015) of Yale University Press discusses his own career trajectory, his current position in publishing, how skills acquired as part of a PhD are transferable to positions outside the academy, and how graduate students can tap into academic networking resources related to careers in publishing, editing, and freelance writing.

RSVP Required: https://forms.gle/T5HAoa8xsMJQ8n8o7

About Nick Geller:

Nick Geller, publishing assistant at Yale University Press, manages approximately 100 distributed titles a year from acquisition to publication and serves as the primary liaison to the press’s many museum partners, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Geller also serves as the editorial assistant for The Art Bulletin and is a freelance editor for a variety of academic presses and journals.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:47:37 -0400 2019-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Workshop / Seminar books
High Stakes Culture: The Power of the Pronoun (September 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65996 65996-16678397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Over the past few years, “culture wars” have been ignited across the country. Activists from all points of the political spectrum, even the President of the United States himself, are turning to beloved cultural objects to stake a claim for their differing beliefs in a politically fraught moment.

What is at stake in the ways we understand culture and cultural conflict? High Stakes Culture, a series presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Collaboratory, brings humanities perspectives to bear on current debates.

The Power of the Pronoun:
The current debate over gender-neutral pronouns plays out on college campuses, on social media, and in offices across the country. Why are we thinking about pronouns in new ways? What are the politics and the history of the pronoun? And what do the conversations we are having about them reveal about American culture in this moment?

Come talk to humanities scholars who work on questions like these and others you might have about the power of the pronoun.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:57:33 -0400 2019-09-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Pronouns
Yandong Grand Singers (September 24, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64719 64719-16434925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies present the Yandong Grand Singers at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on September 24, 2019 at 7:30pm. In bright voices and natural harmonies shaped by the unique environment of the area, the Dong people of Guizhou, China sing about nature, romantic love, history and moral values. For the Dong people, Grand Song is an indispensable part of life, just as their saying goes, “rice feeds the body–but songs feed the soul”. The Dong people transmit much of their history, culture and knowledge through songs that accompany them throughout their lives. Choirs of children, young and senior people are formed in every village, representing a crucial symbol of Dong ethnic identity and cultural heritage.

The Yandong Grand Singers is a choir formed by farmers from Yandong Village, specializing in the “Grand Song” of the Dong people - polyphonic music known to the world only in recent decades. The repertoire includes a range of genres such as ballads, children’s songs, songs of greeting and imitative songs that test performers’ virtuosity at mimicking the sounds of animals. Taught by masters to choirs of disciples, Grand Songs are performed formally in the drum-tower, the landmark venue for rituals, entertainment and meetings in a Dong village, or more spontaneously in homes or public places. In 2009, the Dong musical tradition was listed by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage in China. This will mark the group’s first full US tour, having previously appeared at Carnegie Hall China Festival and the International International Festival for Vocal Music in Leipzig, Germany.

CWPS events are free and open to the public. Visit www.lsa.umich.edu/world-performance for more info. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

This event is supported by the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs.

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Performance Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:31:05 -0400 2019-09-24T19:30:00-04:00 2019-09-24T21:00:00-04:00 Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Center for World Performance Studies Performance Yandong Grand Singers
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Meet and Greet with Writer | Producer | Director Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar (September 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66499 66499-16742864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please join us for a free lunch with Professor Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar.
RSVP: https://forms.gle/AK4mhi7KMZG1vxcQ7

Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar is Writer/Producer/Director and Professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. Aminah hails from South Central LA and holds degrees in TV and Directing from USC and UCLA. Her award-winning films, PERSONAL TOUCH and BILALIAN have been featured on PBS and BET. Her other credits include DORSEY, a TV Pilot about colorism in the Black Community (starring: Christy Knowings and Wesley Jonathan) and BedRest (starring: Pratima Anae and Tiffany Haddish), a comedy about a woman trapped on Bed Rest and played on Blip.TV.

*Join us for a screening of Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbar's latest film Muslimah’s Guide to Marriage on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 from 6:00-8:00PM in the Rackham Graduate School Ampitheatre. https://events.umich.edu/event/63433

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:11:23 -0400 2019-09-26T11:30:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Social / Informal Gathering Flyer
AMAS Film Screening: "Muslimah's Guide to Marriage" (September 26, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63433 63433-15694220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Please refer to this link if you may need a reflection room during this event: https://trotter.umich.edu/article/reflection-rooms-campus

Muslimah Muhammad, a twenty-something African-American orthodox Muslim Woman who lives in Inglewood, CA, has seven days and fourteen hours left in her Iddah (Muslim separation) before she will officially be divorced from her cheating husband. Knowing that the divorce would upset her religious father and the local Muslim community, Muslimah works diligently to try to fix her broken marriage before it is too late.


Director's Intro: Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar
https://vimeo.com/250992626

Director's Bio:
Writer/Producer/Director/Professor in the Pan African Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. Aminah is from South Central LA. She holds a B.A. from USC in Cinema TV and an M.F.A. in Directing from UCLA’s Film & TV Department. Aminah participated in IFP/FIND’s Project Involve and IFP/FIND'S Screenwriter’s Lab. Her short, PERSONAL TOUCH, which deals with her mother’s death from breast cancer, won the Liddel Art Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival and screened on PBS. She also wrote and directed DORSEY, a Multi-Camera TV Pilot about colorism in the Black Community (starring: Christy Knowings, Wesley Jonathan, and Wesley Jonathan), which got Aminah a Directing Internship at THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and she was featured on ET. Next, Aminah won the Visionary Award at the Pan African Film Festival for BILALIAN, a feature-length documentary about African-American Muslims in America and in Africa, and received glowing reviews in several publications including “Variety” and was broadcast on BET. After, Aminah co-wrote, produced, and directed the web series BedRest (starring: Pratima Anae and Tiffany Haddish), a comedy about a woman trapped on Bed Rest and played on Blip.TV. Aminah is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment and UTA.


Executive Producer: Donald Bakeer
Donald Bakeer is author of "South Central L.A. CRIPS (1987)", the novel that in tandem with its critically acclaimed film adaptation, "South Central" (Warner Bros. 1992), has been the most powerful artistic combination to combat the 35 year old gang murder epidemic that has now become a culture for many. These two works, and Bakeer'slast novel, The Story of the 1992 L.A. Uprising-"Inhale Gasoline & Gunsmoke!", are critical in his strategy to end the gang wars with art and fight a growing culture of anti-literacy.Bakeer, recently retired after 30 years teaching English in several of South Central L.A.'s toughest schools, is a renowned poet and speaker, a 15-year member and former President of the International Black Writers and Artists who has been one of the most influential voices in South Central L.A. for over 3 decades, now. Known to many as "The Master Poet", Bakeer has performed hundreds of times over the past 30 years in schools, churches, mosques, nightclubs, restaurants, bookstores, and festivals in the area. He is the dedicated father of 9, has mentored many, and taught hundreds of people to be poets.CRIPS and …


Cinematographer: Jerry Henry
Jerry’s visual talents can be seen in such docs as the Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop directed by Banksy, American Revolutionary by director Grace Lee and City of Gold from director Laura Gabbert which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically released theatrically by Sundance/ IFC in March 2016. He recently wrapped up the upcoming four-part HBO docu-series titled The Defiant Ones which will the chronicle the life and work of Dr. Dre. & Jimmy Iovine and Ferguson Rises with director Mobolaji Olambiwannu. He continues to serve as cinematographer for numerous documentaries and documentary for VICELAND, MTV News & Docs, National Geographic. Under his production company Cactus Eyelash, INC, he shoots and produces for clients Ford, Reebok, Nike, Honda, and MasterCard.


Editor: Rachel Pearl

Written by: Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar

Producers:Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar
Kenyatta Bakeer
Dianne Durazo
Julie Durazo

Starring: Ebony Perry, Glenn Plummer, BT Kingsley, Kareem Grimes, and Medina Britt. (Red Carpet Photo Attached)

MGTM Website with Social Media Links:
https://www.muslimahsguidetomarriage.com

Awards and Achievements Received:
Pan-African Film Festival Audience Award - Narrative Feature
Sold Out Screenings at Pan-African Film Festival (202 seat theater)

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Film Screening Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:26:51 -0400 2019-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Film Screening Poster
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses is an interdisciplinary show of works by Cindy Sowers exploring the elusive sources for the ancient figures of the Muses, as well as the appropriation of these figures by different artists through the ages.

Reception for the Artist: September 6, approximately 4:30pm. Refreshments will be served.

Cindy Sowers received her B.A. from Oakland University, her M.A. from University of Michigan in Comparative Literature, and her Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in Comparative Literature. During her Masters program in 1973, she started teaching at the Residential College in the First Year Seminar and French programs. Her dissertation, The Shared Structure of Craft and Song: A Study of Homer’s Narrative Art, revealed passions for narrative and visual analysis comparatively understood that would characterize her teaching thereafter. She participated in an interdisciplinary group composed of Residential College humanities and fine arts faculty who together constructed the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities concentration. Cindy's recent course offerings have included critical approaches to the literature and visual arts of classic modernism, postmodernism, Shakespeare and Rome, the heritage of Greece, the psychoanalytic interpretation of the arts, and many others. She combines analyses of literary texts, visual arts, and philosophy to hone in on the animating spirit of a cultural moment and space. She has presented at the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2006 U-M residency, as part of the RC Faculty Colloquium, for the LSA Comparative Literature and the Colloquium on Critical Theory sponsored by the LSA Department of English Language and Literature, and at the Residential College's 50th Anniversary celebration. She has received the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Rackham Prize twice, the U-M Excellence in Teaching Award, the Matthews Underclass Teaching Award, and is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Cindy retires from her position as a Senior Lecturer and Lecturer IV, having served in the Residential College for 46 years. She has an active art practice, and her work will be displayed in the RC Art Gallery in a fall 2019 exhibition. She also maintains a personal website, cynthiasowers.rc.lsa.umich.edu, where she publishes essays, poetry, and visual artwork.

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Patricia Akhimie Workshop (September 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64715 64715-16430948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Patricia Akhimie (Rutgers University) will present a workshop for graduate students on writing habits.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:15:54 -0400 2019-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Patricia's faculty photo.
Xu Zhimo’s Surprising Journey: An Exploration of My Grandfather’s Life (September 27, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67479 67479-16864378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Biography
Tony S. Hsu is the grandson of Xu Zhimo. He was born in Shanghai shortly after the end of World War II. As a toddler, Hsu and his sisters were raised by his grandmother, Zhang Youyi, while his parents pursued their studies in America.

In the late 1940s, Zhang and her young charges left China amidst national political turmoil and settled in Hong Kong. At age six, Hsu and his sisters emigrated to New York to join their parents and begin a new life in America. Hsu ultimately received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and doctorate in applied physics from Yale University. He has been an executive for several technology companies. Hsu lives with his fashion designer wife, Lily Pao Hsu, and his filmmaker daughter, Alexandra, in Southern California. Chasing the Modern is his first book.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:07:25 -0400 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T14:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Tony Hsu
MEMS Lecture Series. 'It Began with a Picture', or, Inventing Stories to Make Sense of Images in the European Middle Ages. (September 30, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65742 65742-16651985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This paper examines medieval discussions of iconography, what an image represents. It concentrates on what Dale Kinney has called narrative etiologies, that is cases where medieval viewers, provoked by an image they did not understand, invent a story that explains it. My examples include the contested reception of ruler portraits, inquiries into images in churches, and narrative elaborations on hagiographical images. These cases demonstrate that medieval viewers were quite happy to accept Pope Gregory the Great's invitation to read images as the literate read texts. For the art historian, they offer gratifying proof that images may provoke verbal narratives instead of merely depending on them.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Sep 2019 07:58:16 -0400 2019-09-30T16:30:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 Tappan Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Virgin and Child with Pope Paschal I, Santa Maria in Domnica, Rome, c. 820
Community-Based Participatory Research (Panel Discussion) (October 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67624 67624-16907171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Three (3) U-M experts will lead a Panel Discussion on Community-Based Participatory Research, including: Neeraja Aravamudan, PhD (Assoc. Director, Teaching & Research, Ginsberg Center); Barbara Israel, DrPH (Director, Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center); Erica E. Marsh, MD (Director of Community Engagement, MI Institute for Clinical & Health Research). Discussants will share their experiences with creating equitable partnerships between community members and academic researchers, and touch on some of the challenges. There will be time for Q&A too. Please join us for a stimulating discussion, and feel free to bring your lunch.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:09:56 -0400 2019-10-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Community-Based Participatory Research
FellowSpeak: "Being and Acting the Other: Expanding Ethics to Account for Complex Personhood" (October 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66070 66070-16686690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

How can one make sense of individual ethical action when one is partly the other? Based on fieldwork in end-of-life care in Northern Thailand, where many individuals consider themselves to be hybrids of many beings, I will explore the implications of complex personhood for living an ethical life.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:26:20 -0400 2019-10-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-01T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Many Faced God
Bioethics Discussion: Body/Modification (October 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52718 52718-12974150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on change.

Readings to consider:
1. Body Modification: An Introduction
2. Confounding Extremities: Surgery at the Medico-ethical Limits of Self-Modification
3. Should we prevent non-therapeutic mutilation and extreme body modification?
4. Nonmainstream Body Modification- Genital Piercing, Branding, Burning, and Cutting

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/032-body-modification/.

You might find yourself changed by reading the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:51:56 -0400 2019-10-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Body/modification
Health, Nature & Our Built Environment: Change through Radical Collaborations (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67640 67640-16909312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Integrated Health Sciences Core of the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) presents an Environmental Research Seminar featuring John Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, and Director of the JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Spengler has conducted research on personal monitoring, air pollution health effects, indoor air pollution, and a variety of environmental sustainability issues. Several of his investigations have focused on housing design and its effects on ventilation rates, building materials’ selection, energy consumption, and total environmental quality in homes.

Spengler chaired the committee on Harvard Sustainability Principles; and served on Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Taskforce to develop the University’s carbon reduction goals and strategies, as well as Harvard’s Greenhouse Gases Executive Committee. He serves on the National Academies’ Health and Medicine Division “Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine”. Previously he chaired the National Academies’ NRC “Green Schools: Attributes for Health and Learning” committee and the IOM “Effect of Climate Change on Indoor Air Quality and Public Health” committee; and he has served as an advisor to the World Health Organization on indoor air pollution, personal exposure and air pollution epidemiology. He now serves on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Chemistry of Indoor Environments advisory committee.

In 2003, Spengler received a Heinz Award for the Environment; in 2007, the Air & Waste Management Association Lyman Ripperton Environmental Educator Award; in 2008, the Max von Pettenkofer Award for distinguished contributions in indoor air science from the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate’s Academy of Fellows; and in 2015, the ASHRAE Environmental Health Award.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:47:35 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jack Spengler
A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-) Justice: Realistic in the Right Way (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67600 67600-16900790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join the Michigan Law & Ethics Program for our 2019-2020 lecture, "A Critical Theory of Transnational (In-) Justice: Realistic in the Right Way," which will be delivered by Professor Rainer Forst on October 3 at 4:00 PM in Jeffries Hall room 1020.

This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Rainer Forst of Goethe University in Frankfurt will present his work, which develops a critical theory of transnational justice. A German philosopher and political
theorist, Forst was named the “most important political philosopher of his generation” in 2012, when he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:38:13 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (October 4, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-10-04T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T15:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (October 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T17:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
National Book Tour of Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong (October 7, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67249 67249-16829024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 11:30am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

In commemoration of October as Filipino American History Month, join us at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as we host another stop on the National Book Tour of Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong, with co-author and publisher, Gayle Romasanta (from Stockton, California), on Monday, October 7, 2019.

About Journey for Justice:

In 2019-2020, Bridge and Delta Publishing in partnership with the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) and PapaLoDown Agency takes “Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong,” on a 20+ city national book tour. This is the first nonfiction illustrated children’s book about Filipino American history, and the first book ever written about Larry Itliong. The children’s book written by the late historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Ph.D. with Gayle Romasanta and illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of forgotten United Farm Workers (UFW) cofounder, Larry Itliong, his migration to the United States and his lifelong fight for a farmworkers union. The city of Delano, California, was the first stop of the national book tour with events held in Seattle, WA; New York; Washington DC; Anchorage, AK; Santa Ana, CA; Houston, TX; with future stops in Southfield and Ann Arbor, MI; Milwaukee, WI; Chicago, IL; Wapato, WA; Virginia Beach, VA; Irvine, San Diego, Stockton, SF Bay Area, CA; Lancaster and Philadelphia, PA; Honolulu, HI; and more.

“Journey for Justice is a significant children’s book about a legendary pioneer in the farmworkers movement. This was the last book that FANHS National Scholar and Trustee Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, wrote before she passed away suddenly on Aug. 10, 2018. We are committed to carry on Dawn’s legacy so that people of all ages can learn more about Filipina/o American history. We support this book and strongly encourage everyone to read it and discuss it with their children, community, and educators,” shares University of Michigan Prof. Emily P. Lawsin, FANHS National Vice President.

Currently, Filipino Americans are the largest Asian American group in 10 of the 13 western states, the second largest Asian American population in the nation, and is the oldest Asian population in the nation, with hardly any mention of their contributions to U.S. history in school textbooks. This book will be the first out of a planned series of four books about Filipino American historical figures for students of all ages, from 10 and up. A free teacher’s curriculum guide created by Pin@y Educational Partnerships is available at www.bridgedelta.com.

Bridge and Delta Publisher and Owner Gayle Romasanta and the Filipino American community celebrate and aim to further Dr. Dawn Mabalon’s work to spread Filipino American history, especially “Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong,” Mabalon’s last book. Romasanta says, “She made history accessible and was a revered community activist. She not only was a scholar, but her work touched the Filipino

American community on a national scale. She not only saved the remaining Filipino neighborhood Little Manila buildings in her hometown of Stockton and named the area ‘Historic Little Manila,’ she traveled the country speaking and connecting with the community and spreading her wealth of knowledge about American history, Filipino American food history, and more. She was the leading Filipino American historian before her untimely passing.”

The Journey for Justice National Book Tour in Michigan will include a community visit to Paaralang Pilipino Language and Cultural School, which is housed in the Philippine American Community Center of Michigan, in Southfield, and a book signing reception and guest lectures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (in WOMENSTD 151/AMCULT/ASIANPAM 102: Women’s Studies First Year Seminar on Food and Gender in Asian American Communities, and in AMCULT/ASIANPAM 310: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies [Race & Ethnicity-Social Sciences] class on the Filipino American Experience).

While the Journey for Justice book celebrates Larry Itliong and the history of the Delano Grape Strike, it also highlights Dr. Dawn Mabalon’s life work as the co-founder of Little Manila Rising (formerly the Little Manila Foundation), Filipino American National Historical Society National Scholar and Trustee, a San Francisco State University professor, and author of multiple books including “Little Manila Is In the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California” (Duke University Press, 2013).

Sponsors (Partial List)
University of Michigan (* = pending confirmation):
• UM Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies
• UM Department of American Culture
• UM Department of Women’s Studies*
• UM Filipino American Students Association Local Community Sponsors:
• FANHS Michigan Chapter
• Filipino Youth Initiative
• Paaralang Pilipino Language and Cultural School
• Philippine American Community Center of Michigan
• FILAMCCO National Sponsors:
• Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)
• Carlos Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at UC Davis
• Pin@y Educational Partnerships
• Little Manila Rising
• PapaLoDown Agency
• Bridge + Delta Publishing

For a Media Kit, see: http://tinyurl.com/MediaKitJFJ
For a Curriculum Guide, Book Orders and additional information visit www.bridgedelta.com For Event Questions, Email: FANHS.VP@gmail.com

www.fanhs-national.org www.paccm.org

#JourneyForJustice #LarryItliong#DawnMabalonIsInTheHeart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:59:49 -0400 2019-10-07T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Gayle Romasanta
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Libraries and Mobilities (October 7, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65705 65705-16629968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

We make many assumptions about libraries such as they are fixed spaces, fairly secure and often large buildings. There are private libraries that are smaller and could simply occupy a single floor or room. But a definite space comes to mind, not immediately mobility of the books between at least two places. However we think of these spaces we seldom figure mobility or movement into our thinking about libraries, archives or collections. Perhaps with the recent rise of online book shopping we might begin to rethink things and reflect on how books travel (from depository to buyer, at least). But books have always travelled. All forms of “shipping” have been used to carry them long before the modern courier companies. Yet the circulation of the material book is not a subject of much thinking or research it would seem. And with the transport books, they also disappear, parts or volumes go missing, they find new homes, and they might reappear in surprising places. Sometimes the transfer is simply an act of theft or a by-product of conquest. In this talk I look at episodes in the book history of Northwest Africa that points to a long tradition of book buying and selling and lending over vast spaces. Nomadism is part of the fabric of this region and this included scholars and books.

Shamil Jeppie is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is the founder of the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project and was previously director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma) both at the University of Cape Town. He has published on various aspects of the history of Timbuktu, and on South African history.

The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise:If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: -- Jessica H. Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:57:32 -0400 2019-10-07T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Second Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture: "Beyond the Decolonial Turn: The Imaginary as Will to Feel" (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66334 66334-16727913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of American Culture

As a deconstructive tool, does the decolonial necessarily expose colonial powers, structures, laws, and institutions? What are the flaws of a decolonial theory that regards a materialist perspective while occluding the spirit of the mind and body? It is as if the method and the theory exist in parallel universes, never to touch or entice each other but instead battle in a false binary. And yet, we cannot have theory without method; we cannot have a materialist, grounded “real” critique without the affective body, without the people who feel, who touch, who experience and imagine other ways of being. The imagination, after all, is the door to creativity, to other ways of being and knowing. Overall, the real without the imaginary lacks vision and affirms a two- dimensional, uninspired ontology and epistemology. I’m posing the “will to feel” as a mode that reasserts the imaginary within the decolonial. Ultimately, can the “will to feel” transform us and the toxic world we inhabit in the 21st century?

There will be a light reception following the lecture.

Dr. Emma Pérez earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2017, she joined the University of Arizona as a Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center and a Professor in the Department of Gender/Women’s Studies. Pérez has published fiction, essays and the history monograph, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History (1999). Her novels include, Gulf Dreams (1996); Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory (2009), which earned the Isherwood Writing Grant (2009) and 2nd place in Historical Fiction from International Latino Books (2010). Her most recent novel, Electra’s Complex (2016) is a mystery set in an east coast college. She continues to research and write about LGBT Chicanx/Latinx through a queer of color lens.

ATTN: There will also be a private brunch with Emma Pérez for Graduate Students. RSVP required: https://forms.gle/5fNfoMHzPhEFzUH98

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:27:26 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Photo
Wallace House Presents “Held Hostage: Ensuring the Safe Return of Americans Held Captive Abroad” (October 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66390 66390-16734116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Each year, it’s estimated that hundreds of American journalists, humanitarian aid workers, business people and tourists are taken captive by foreign governments, terrorist groups and criminal organizations. How can we better understand U.S. hostage policy and the risks and challenges of bringing our fellow Americans home? Join us for a discussion on negotiating with hostile actors, growing threats to journalists and aid workers both at home and abroad, and the safety measures they should undertake.

Panelists:

Diane Foley is the mother of five children, including American freelance conflict journalist James W. Foley. She founded the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation in September 2014, less than a month after his public execution. Diane is currently serving as the President and Executive Director of JWFLF. Since 2014, she has led JWFLF efforts to fund the start of Hostage US and the international Alliance for a Culture of Safety. In 2015, she actively participated in the National Counterterrorism Center hostage review which culminated in the Presidential Policy Directive-30. This directive re-organized U.S. efforts on behalf of Americans taken hostage abroad into an interagency Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs and a White House Hostage Response Group. Previously, Diane worked first as a community health nurse and then as a family nurse practitioner for 18 years. She received both her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom,” was published in November 2014.

Moderator:

Margaux Ewen is the executive director of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, a non-profit organization founded after the brutal 2014 murder of James Foley, an American freelance journalist, while he was held captive by ISIS in Syria. The foundation’s mission is to advocate for the freedom of all Americans held hostage or unjustly detained abroad and promote the safety of journalists worldwide. Prior to joining the Foley Foundation, Margaux was North America director for Reporters Without Borders. She has a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry and advocating for media rights and has two law degrees from the Sorbonne in France and from The George Washington University in the U.S.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:19:40 -0400 2019-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Wallace House Presents “Held Hostage: Ensuring the Safe Return of Americans Held Captive Abroad”
“Every Sector is Public Health Sector": Building Capacity to Address Environmental Health Inequities (October 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68017 68017-16983971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Dr. Sampson will discuss three examples of capacity-building to build and translate evidence, including:
1) a youth environmental health academy in Dearborn, MI;
2) a health impact assessment for the Gordie Howe International Bridge at the Detroit-Windsor border;
3) her work with APHA to convene environmental health and justice leaders—all to advance evidence-based policies that address environmental health inequities.

Natalie Sampson is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at UM-Dearborn, where she teaches courses in environmental health, health promotion, and community organizing. Grounded primarily in Southeast Michigan, she studies transportation and land use planning, green stormwater infrastructure, vacant land reuse, and climate change planning efforts, particularly their implications for health. She applies participatory research approaches with diverse partners using a broad methodological toolkit, including photovoice, concept mapping, and health impact assessment. In 2017, Sampson received the American Public Health Association (APHA)’s Rebecca Head Award, which recognizes “an outstanding emerging leader from the environmental field working at the nexus of science, policy, and environmental justice.”

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T12:50:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Oct 8 Natalie Sampson Seminar
CWPS Faculty Lecture | Nachiket Chanchani (October 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67913 67913-16966887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
6:00pm-7:30pm
East Quad Keene Theater
Free & Open to the public

Drawing on archival research and fieldwork, this talk will explore how B.K.S.Iyengar, (1918-2014) widely acclaimed as a man instrumental in bringing postural yoga to the West, came to understand yoga as an art and see himself as an artist.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:23:20 -0400 2019-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo credit: ©RIMYI Archives, Pune.
Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65608 65608-16621811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

At Qubbet el-Hawa, the elite necropolis associated with the trading town of Elephantine (near Aswan), a series of inscribed tombs were dug during the reign of Pepi II for the officials who led Egyptian expeditions far to the south and the west into present-day Sudan. Among these inscribed tombs, three were extensively inscribed on their facade: Harkhuf, Pepinakht-Heqaib I, and Sabni son of Mekhu (c.2250-2200 BCE). From Qubbet el-Hawa, the place farthest away from the capital Memphis, these inscribed facades project multiples lines of connectivity with the Memphite center, and thus the king. The facades address the passerby, not only through the hieroglyphically inscribed words (which would have been legible only by the very few), but also through their overall visual and monumental quality, as well as through elements in their inscriptional layout. In this presentation, Prof. Stauder-Porchet will be focusing on Harkhuf’s facade in particular, discussing its poetic form (including in visual terms), its verbal and visual rhetoric, and how it makes for visual encounters with the beholder.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:03:40 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Verbal and Visual Rhetoric in 3rd Millennium BCE Egypt
Latinx & Muslim in America (October 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67741 67741-16926552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

In honor of Latinx Heritage History Month, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program has invited Dr. Harold D. Morales to give a lecture based on his book, Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority, which is the first complete academic study on Latinx Muslims in the United States.

Dinner will be served!

Dr. Harold D. Morales is an Associate Professor in the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Morgan State University where he teaches courses in religious studies and philosophy of religion. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California Riverside and his B.A. in Philosophy from California State University Fullerton. His research focuses on the intersections between race and religion and between lived and mediated religion. He uses these critical lenses to engage Latinx religions in general and Latino Muslim groups in particular. He is the author of Latino and Muslim in America: Race, Religion, and the Making of a New Minority (2018). His work with Latino Muslim communities spans ten years of media analysis and ethnographic research in California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York and New Jersey.

"Latino and Muslim in America examines how so called "minority groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition in the U.S.A. The U.S. is currently poised to become the first nation whose collective minorities will outnumber the dominant population, and Latinos play no small role inthis world changing demographic shift. Even as many people view Latinos and Muslims as growing threats, Latino Muslims celebrate their intersecting identities both in their daily lives and in their mediated representations online.In this book, Harold Morales follows the lives of several Latino Muslim leaders from the 1970's to the present, and their efforts to organize and unify nationally in order to solidify the new identity group's place within the public sphere. Based on four years of ethnography, media analysis andhistorical research, Morales demonstrates how the phenomenon of Latinos converting to Islam emerges from distinctive immigration patterns and laws, urban spaces, and new media technologies that have increasingly brought Latinos and Muslims in to contact with one another. He explains this growingcommunity as part of the mass exodus out of the Catholic Church, the digitization of religion, and the growth of Islam. Latino and Muslim in America explores the racialization of religion, the framing of religious conversion experiences, the dissemination of post-colonial histories, and thedevelopment of Latino Muslim networks, to show that the categories of race, religion, and media are becoming inextricably entwined."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:22:55 -0400 2019-10-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T21:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Craig Dionne Workshop (October 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64628 64628-16397016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University) will present a workshop for graduate students.

For this workshop, Dionne would like to frame Renaissance rhetorical theory in broader history of evolutionary psychology and ethology. More specifically, in terms of reading early modern English literature, how does Renaissance humanism’s rote literacies--the notebook method, the use of double-translation, the range of practices associated with this institutionalized learning theater—figure in this story of human cognition and adaptation? That is, how might we
read Tudor humanism in the context of co-evolved cognition? How might these training exercises form a kind of selection pressure that taps into the distinguishing feature of the homo adapted brain, the way we can memorize habituated routines within an unseen storehouse that allows for the brain to work offline?

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:38:51 -0400 2019-10-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar broadside of a monkey wearing a ruff and inviting the reader to look into the mirror it is holding
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
Craig Dionne Lecture (October 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64602 64602-16394979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Craig Dionne (Eastern Michigan University) will deliver a public lecture.

Abstract: This paper examines Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the context of posthuman theory, specifically the nonhuman turn to cognitive science and evolutionary science (adapted brain). For socio-biologists and linguists, recursion is considered a fundamental mechanism of human language, a sequence formula that requires it's output as a component of it's first step, hence the analogy of sourdough yeast (you need sourdough to make sourdough). Hamlet’s conceit of habitual memory--Osric’s “yeasty collection”--calls attention to the regenerative performative elements of his own memory work. If humans figure in the deep history of evolution as exhibiting a plasticity that enables us to adapt to many environments with different selection pressures, then it is because our capacity for self-reflection has enabled us to charge our habitual memory to work toward an endless set of adaptive goals across a range of environments.
Renaissance humanism seems, from this perspective, not so much the birth of the human, as the return of a set of co-evolved cognitive attributes released through rote literacy practices. Bearing witness to the deep history of the species within the early modern, Hamlet’s posthuman ontology intimates the serendipity of contingency and the unbound nature of plasticity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:38:09 -0400 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion broadside of a monkey wearing a ruff and inviting the reader to look into the mirror it is holding
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
"Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler's Many Worlds" (October 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67555 67555-16892240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Friday, October 11th, 3308 MLB, 2-4pm

H.G. Adler (1910 - 1988) lived at the center of his times and on their margin. A survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps, he chronicled his experience and the loss of others in two dozen books of seminal history, modernist fiction, formally intricate poems, and insightful essays. Yet, despite close friendship with Leo Baeck, Elias Canetti, and Heinrich Böll, he remained a writer's writer, largely unknown and neglected. Thus, unlike with better known figures, the story of his life must be told through the times in which he lived, as well as how the same lived through him. On the publication of H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, biographer and translator Peter Filkins discusses the intersection of biography and history in shaping the story of Adler's life and work.

Peter Filkins is an award-winning poet and translator. His authorized biography H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds appears in 2019 from Oxford University Press, and he has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the DAAD, and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and also teaches translation at Bard College.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:56:34 -0400 2019-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Peter Filkins
Dismantling Casteism & Racism: Symposium (October 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63434 63434-15694221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Please note registering for this event is now closed.

The Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies (A/PIA) Program at the University of Michigan & the Ambedkar Association of North America have co-organized a symposium to address the theme “Dismantling Casteism and Racism.” The symposium will examine the contemporary and historical intersections between anti-racist and anti-caste struggles in South Asia and the U.S.

Vandenberg Room
Michigan League, 911 N. University, Ann Arbor
Light lunch will be provided
Saturday: October 12, 2019

Featured Speakers
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, Ph.D. is an award-winning scholar, political theorist, and one of the most prominent anti-caste activists and intellectuals in India. He is currently the director of the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at Maulana Azad National Urdu University. Prof. Shepherd’s most recent publications include Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times (with co-writer Durgabai Vyam, 2007) and a memoir titled From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual (2019).

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a U.S.-based filmmaker, transmedia artist, and Dalit rights activist. She is the founder of Equality Labs, an organization that uses community research, socially engaged art, and technology to end the oppression of caste apartheid, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. In 2015, Soundararajan was was a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation fellow, during which time she helped curate #DalitWomenFight, a transmedia project and activist movement.

Ronald E. Hall, Ph.D. is Professor of Social Work at Michigan State University. His research specializations includes a focus on intraracial racism, colorism, caste, and mental health. His publications include The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans (edited), and The Scientific Fallacy and Political Misuse of the Concept of Race.

Ankita Nikalje is a Doctoral Student in the Counseling Psychology program at the College of Education at Purdue. Her research focuses on the continued psychological impacts of colonization in South Asian populations, and seeks to understand how historical oppression and current experiences of racism impact mental and physical health.

Gaurav Pathania, Ph.D. is a sociologist and currently teaches at The George Washington University at Washington DC. His current project explores Dalits and Black activism in the US. In 2018, he published his first book, The University as a Site of Resistance: Identity and Student Politics" with Oxford University Press.


Panel Moderator
Manan Desai, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies and the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He also serves on the academic council of the South Asian American Digital Archive.


Co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, Center for South Asian Studies, Barger Leadership Program, Department of History, Department of English Language & Literature, and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Community sponsorship from Periyar Ambedkar Study Circle, Association for India’s Development, and American Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:40:33 -0400 2019-10-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
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
Vedanta Discourse (October 14, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68069 68069-16994910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 6:15pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle

We welcome you to attend Vedanta Discourse by Swami Yogatmananda, Minister in Charge, Vedanta Society of Providence, RI.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 05 Oct 2019 12:50:45 -0400 2019-10-14T18:15:00-04:00 2019-10-14T19:45:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Vedanta Study Circle Lecture / Discussion October 14, 2019 talk by Swami Yogatmananda
Celtic Crossing: A Literary Exploration of Spirituality and Religion in the Terminally Ill (October 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67824 67824-16958321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Len Mattano, speaks on his new book Tuesday, October 15th at 7:00 p.m. at the Ann Arbor District Library, 343 South 5th Avenue, Multi Purpose Room

RSVP by October 9th to lkoivupl@med.umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:32:53 -0400 2019-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Against Hungry Listening (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67620 67620-16907165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

What are the ways in which settler colonial and Indigenous ontologies structure perception, and listening in particular? This presentation provides an overview of forms of extractive or “hungry” perception, and alternatives to these that emerge from Indigenous sensory engagement. The range of such listening practices are necessarily multiple and dependent upon the specificities of Indigenous and settler epistemes at play, it is nonetheless possible to discern historical patterns of “civilizing” the attention of Indigenous people, and ongoing settler listening practices oriented toward the instrumentalization Indigenous knowledge. In contrast, forms of Indigenous listening resurgence refuse the anthropocentrism of listening, and instead proceed from intersubjective experience between listeners and song-life.

Dylan Robinson is a xwélméxw artist and writer (Stó:lō Nation, Sqwa), and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His current work focuses on the re-connection of Indigenous songs with communities who were prohibited by law to sing them as part of Canada’s Indian Act from 1882-1951. Robinson’s previous publications include the edited volumes Music and Modernity Among Indigenous Peoples of North America (2018); Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2016); and Opera Indigene (2011). His monograph, Hungry Listening, is forthcoming with Minnesota University Press in early 2020. Additionally, Robinson is curator of the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts in Kingston, and along with Candice Hopkins, is curator of the internationally touring exhibition Soundings featuring “scores for decolonial action” by Indigenous artists.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:49:53 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo
Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral's ANDARES (October 17, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67466 67466-16857940@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the Public
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

Seating is limited, and advance reservations are recommended
ONLINE: https://cwps-makuyeika-andares.eventbrite.com
PHONE: 734.936.2777

Center for World Performance Studies presents Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral, founded by U-M alumnus Héctor Flores Komatsu, for a one week artist residency that will include class visits, workshops and two performances of their devised-work Andares. This piece chronicles the lives of indigenous youth in México, and the realities that they face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Performances of the piece will take place in the Newman Studio at Walgreen Drama Center on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at 8pm.

Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral is a theatre ensemble dedicated to creating original works about the narratives and theatricalities of Mexico’s indigenous people, touching with keen, artistic sensibility themes of great social, cultural, and human value. Meaning “wayfarer” in the language of the Wixarika people, Makuyeika was formed after an extensive search across the country’s indigenous communities, a project undertaken by Flores Komatsu as an inaugural recipient of The Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship.

Andares is a theatre creation about the lives of indigenous youth in México, devised collectively through personal anecdotes, ancestral myths, as well as traditional music and art forms. The play shines light on a range of realities — land usurpation, widespread violence, ancestral duties, community resistance, — that indigenous people face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Meaning “pathways,” Andares is a genuine, eye-opening, and intimate close-up on Mexico’s most remote corners and the extraordinary stories of its humble, everyday inhabitants.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; LSA Department of American Culture; LSA Latina/o Studies; LSA Native American Studies; LSA Residential College; SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; SMTD EXCEL; and SMTD Department of Theatre & Drama.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Performance Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:32:36 -0400 2019-10-17T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T22:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Performance ANDARES
TRANSLATION IN A MOBILE WORLD: On language, justice and social cohesion (October 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67392 67392-16846427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Friday, October 18, 2019
3 pm in 2435 North Quad
Free and open to the public

Globalization, migration, sustainable development are some of the key issues in today’s world and they appear as recurring keywords in cultural debates. The role played by languages in all of these areas, however, is often underestimated, with little attention paid to how translation and interpreting can support social cohesion and social justice in increasingly multilingual communities. Drawing on the experience of working with different constituencies, from migrant artists in the US and Australia to health specialists in Namibia and Zambia, this talk will draw attention to translation as a constitutive practice of our everyday lives and to translation awareness as a vital "citizenship skill."

Loredana Polezzi is Professor of Translation Studies in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, and President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS). Her work focuses on how geographical and social mobilities are connected to the theories and practices of translation, self-translation and multilingualism. With Rita Wilson, she is co-editor of leading international journal The Translator.

This event kicks off the annual Translate-a-thon on October 18-19 coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature. For more information on Translate-a-thon 2019, and to register, see http://myumi.ch/J2V8B

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:54:17 -0400 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Speaker
Makuyeika Colectivo Teatral's ANDARES (October 18, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67466 67466-16857941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Free & Open to the Public
Performed in Spanish with English subtitles

Seating is limited, and advance reservations are recommended
ONLINE: https://cwps-makuyeika-andares.eventbrite.com
PHONE: 734.936.2777

Center for World Performance Studies presents Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral, founded by U-M alumnus Héctor Flores Komatsu, for a one week artist residency that will include class visits, workshops and two performances of their devised-work Andares. This piece chronicles the lives of indigenous youth in México, and the realities that they face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Performances of the piece will take place in the Newman Studio at Walgreen Drama Center on Thursday, October 17 and Friday, October 18 at 8pm.

Makuyeika: Colectivo Teatral is a theatre ensemble dedicated to creating original works about the narratives and theatricalities of Mexico’s indigenous people, touching with keen, artistic sensibility themes of great social, cultural, and human value. Meaning “wayfarer” in the language of the Wixarika people, Makuyeika was formed after an extensive search across the country’s indigenous communities, a project undertaken by Flores Komatsu as an inaugural recipient of The Julie Taymor World Theatre Fellowship.

Andares is a theatre creation about the lives of indigenous youth in México, devised collectively through personal anecdotes, ancestral myths, as well as traditional music and art forms. The play shines light on a range of realities — land usurpation, widespread violence, ancestral duties, community resistance, — that indigenous people face at the crossroads of modern life and tradition. Meaning “pathways,” Andares is a genuine, eye-opening, and intimate close-up on Mexico’s most remote corners and the extraordinary stories of its humble, everyday inhabitants.

Co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies; LSA Department of American Culture; LSA Latina/o Studies; LSA Native American Studies; LSA Residential College; SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; SMTD EXCEL; and SMTD Department of Theatre & Drama.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Performance Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:32:36 -0400 2019-10-18T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T22:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Performance ANDARES
GLASS: Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies Conference (October 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68375 68375-17071646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

If you are interested in Sound Studies, including the relationship of sounds and images, please join us at the GLASS conference. 
Pre-registration is requested here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJg5eFh0YCriClzJ29VU0mzN2DGx-uXqgbLfIIHF-Kw-DxhQ/viewform
Non-registrants are welcome to enjoy our presentations, Saturday from 9:15 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.

Schedule is as follows:

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast

9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Displaced & Bounded Sound (Ola Mohammad, Jennifer Hsieh, Júlia Irion Martins, Jana Wilbricht)

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Archival Transmutation & Transposition (Jacques Vest, Melody Miller, Kathryn Wataha)

12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Unheard (of) Archives (Elisabeth Fertig, Megan Pounds,Tyler Whitney, Jacob Smith)

2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Hidden in the Mix (Chris McNamara, Jessica Getman, Hugh Graham, Sam McCracken)

4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. - Coffee Break

4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Special GLASS Salon: Paul Catanese, Hybrid Media Artist (Century of Progress / Sleep)

5:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. - Roundtable: Moving into Sound/Discussing Directions (Jeremy Morris, Jennifer Proctor, Amy Skjerseth, Neil Verma)

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:12:49 -0400 2019-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Department of Film, Television, and Media Conference / Symposium poster
Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control: Tracing the development of early career research on racial health inequities (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68117 68117-17011958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Racial inequities in health have been documented and described in the public health literature for decades, yet these inequities have remained or even increased. In order to move forward, we must understand the role of cultural and structural racism upon which these inequities are built. Cultural racism shapes our society's structure and ultimately shapes the answers to the questions: "Whose life counts? Who is worthy of a healthy life?" In this presentation, Dr. Hicken will discuss the interwoven nature of both career trajectory, as a former PSC predoctoral trainee, and the development of her science on cultural and structural racism and health inequities. Specifically, she will outline her theory on racism and health and describe her collaborative data project designed to empirically examine this theory.

BIO:
Dr. Margaret Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the UM RacismLab, an interdisciplinary research collected designed to facilitate the career progression of scholar who study cultural and structural racism. She is also director of the Landscapes of Racism Dispossession and Control data project, supported with funding from NIDDK, NIMHD, and NIA, to examine the ways in which historical and contemporary forms of racial control have resulted in contemporary health inequities.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:05:11 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hicken
FellowSpeak: “'He’d be a good rhymer': Polish Hip-Hop and the Legacy of Romanticism" (October 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66073 66073-16686695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Alena Aniskiewicz gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In 2012, the Polish rapper Doniu told *The New York Times*, “If Mickiewicz was alive today; he’d be a good rhymer.” Identifying Adam Mickiewicz—a nineteenth-century Romantic poet—as a precursor to the “rhymers” of contemporary hip-hop, Doniu’s assertion speaks to Polish hip-hop communities’ efforts to locate the international genre within national cultural traditions. This talk will examine the Romantic legacies of “freestyling” and politically engaged lyrics as they are referenced and performed in the work of Polish hip-hop artist Peja and his group Slums Attack. Capitalizing on the resonance between national and genre ideals of authenticity and speaking to and for marginalized communities, Peja positions himself as heir to the Romantic poets whose work has shaped ideas of Polishness for two hundred years. In so doing, he performs a vision a Poland that remains defined by its national past, even as it embraces a modern global music.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:27:03 -0400 2019-10-22T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Hip-hop at a record store.
“The Unvarnished Truth” (October 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67563 67563-16892252@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

This presentation will explore the American story through the lens of the African American experience as displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — a museum regarded as exhibiting one of the most authoritative and trustworthy representations of this experience and a site of racial healing.

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Presentation Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:30:37 -0400 2019-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Museum Studies Program Presentation William S. Pretzer, Senior Curator of History, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
“‘In the Future, Robots will Speak Chickasaw’: Indigenous Language Futurism and the Temporalities of Language Reclamation” (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66069 66069-16686689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The revitalization or reclamation of Indigenous and endangered languages is often driven or shaped by what Debenport (2015) calls ‘hopeful nostalgia,’ where if “read through the lens of nostalgia, language revitalization can be seen as both a symptom and a cure, a way to diagnose the amount of cultural loss and a way to reinstate what has gone missing, what has been taken, and what is seen to be vital to the health of the community." By definition then, language reclamation looks to the past in order to understand the present and to imagine radical linguistic futures. While the past is often privileged in discussions of language revitalization as an anchor of authenticity and cultural continuity, present day language use in revitalization contexts also utilizes comics, gaming, memes, and other creative and technological domains that position Native American languages as always simultaneously ‘once and future,’ quondam and futurus. In this talk, I consider the role of these Indigenous linguistic and cultural temporalities in understanding Indigenous language activism with particular interest in linguistic futurisms, or the imagining of Indigenous languages in Indigenous perspectives of the future.

Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she is the director of the Native American and Indigenous Languages (NAIL) Lab and an affiliate faculty of American Indian Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies. She is the 2019-2021 Chancellor's Fellow of Indigenous Research & Ethics, and serves as the UIUC campus NAGPRA officer.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:37:06 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Nittak fokhama Tali’ hattakat chikashanompala’chi! ‘In the future, robots will speak Chickasaw,’" Labaachi’ Noah Hinson
Torn Asunder: Faith, Higher Education, Politics and the Davidson family during the Civil War (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65587 65587-16619785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Davidson family of Indianapolis is a near perfect microcosm of the United States during Civil War. With roots in the South, but living in the North the family's ties to religious, education, and political leaders and institutions cast new light on the loyalties Americans felt towards their region, nation and the institution of slavery.

Central to the story is Preston Davidson, a Hoosier by birth, who fought for the Confederacy alongside his Virginian cousins. On the other side, stands his brother Dorman, who fought to preserve the Union. How these two ended up on opposing sides of the greatest conflict in American history is the story of how familial expectations, faith, higher educational opportunities, and political loyalties all played into the struggle over if the nation would be divided or united and whether or not slavery would flourish or be abolished.

A native Hoosier, Jason S. Lantzer holds a BA, MA, and PhD all from Indiana University. His research and writing interests center on the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American History. His book, "Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War" was published in 2017. Dr. Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Dr. Jason S. Lantzer
The Aryans (Mo Asumang, 2014) (October 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68189 68189-17026796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Filmmaker Mo Asumang will join us for a screening of her award-winning 2014 documentary film Die Arier (The Aryans), in which she confronts racist groups and individuals in face-to-face interviews. Billed as a “personal journey into the madness of racism,” this film is a must-see exploration of contemporary racism in Germany and the United States. This screening is cosponsored by Alamanya: Transnational German Studies Workshop.

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Film Screening Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:45:00 -0400 2019-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Film Screening The Aryans
Black Women's Gaming Practices as Intersectional Counterpublics (October 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64249 64249-16266503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

"I am unable to detangle, in any analytic or actual way, my gender, race, or sexuality from the vitriol and symbolic violence levied upon me after the discovery of my physical identities in digital spaces." Misogynoir, a core facet of Black feminist discourse and an integral part of intersectionality, acknowledges that Black women’s experiences inside the matrix of domination is echoed by the many ways that Black women are dehumanized in popular culture. Misogynoir also expands the scope of examination and provides an inclusive focus on not just anti-Blackness and White supremacy, but also intraracially, in exploring how Black masculinity and Black patriarchy contribute to the objectification of Black women. To gain a sense of the interracial and intraracial experiences of Black women in gaming, this talk will interrogate ethnographic observations and interviews with Black women and other women of color in online gaming communities. While these examples highlight the continued devaluation of women in public spaces, my observational narratives weave together a simultaneous engagement with being a Black woman while online, while gaming, and while consuming mediated content about Black women in “the real world.” This transmediated engagement illustrates intersectional tech,
exploring the entanglements of visual, textual, and oral engagements of the Black body in both the digital and physical realms.


Kishonna Gray is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Previously, she served as an MLK Scholar and Assistant Professor at MIT in the Women & Gender Studies Program as well as a Faculty Visitor at the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research (Cambridge).

Her work broadly intersects identity and digital media with a particular focus on video games and gaming culture. By examining game context and culture in her most recent book, Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live, examines the reality of women and people of color in one of the largest gaming communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:37:59 -0400 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion kishonna
A/PIA Studies Fall Social (October 24, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67845 67845-16960477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for dinner, mingle with friends and faculty, and learn about the A/PIA Studies program!

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Reception / Open House Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:09:37 -0400 2019-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Reception / Open House Flyer
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (October 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-15808594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
The Premodern Colloquium. Calvary in Kitzingen: Dragging Your Cross through Eighteenth-Century Franconia (October 27, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66418 66418-16734217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This paper represents the first substantial study of the image of the Kreuzschlepper (cross-dragger), a monumental roadside sculpture of Christ carrying his instrument of martyrdom to Mount Calvary only found in the cultural region of Franconia and first introduced to these lands at the end of the seventeenth century.

For more information, please email willette@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:07:33 -0400 2019-10-27T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Phronesis and Materialism (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67963 67963-16975352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

It is a commonplace to turn to Book 6 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to find out what the ancient Greeks thought about practical judgment or phronesis. There is good reason for this: Aristotle’s is the lengthiest account of phronesis. We regularly fail to note, however, the importance of phronesis in epicureanism. He will explore how Epicurus’s conception of phronesis differs from Aristotle’s. He will also indicate how Epicurus’s conception influences political discourse in early modernity in materialists such as Machiavelli and Spinoza. Finally, he will indicate how the exclusion of Epicurus’s conception of phronesis in early twentieth century, for instance by Heidegger, resulted in the invention of a politics beyond instrumentality and calculation as a way of repressing the materialism of practical judgment.

Dimitris Vardoulakis is the deputy chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy (2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter (2016), Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (2018), and Authority and Utility: On Spinoza’s Epicureanism (forthcoming in 2020). He is the director of “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society,” and the co-editor of the book series “Incitements” (Edinburgh University Press).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:46:59 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Speaker
FellowSpeak: “'We Sometimes Cut Good Tissue Along with Bad': Economies of Sacrifice and the Korean War in 'One Minute to Zero' and 'Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'” (October 29, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66081 66081-16686707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Daniel Kim, associate professor of English and American studies at Brown University and 2019 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In this talk Kim examines two cinematic representations of the Korean War as a way of comparing how US and South Korean nationalist narratives attempt to justify the staggering loss of civilian life that took place during the conflict. At the dramatic center of *One Minute to Zero*, a Hollywood film from 1952, is a massacre of refugees. Kim contextualizes this depiction within the framework of what he terms Military Humanitarianism, an ideology that emerged in the United States during this period to frame its interventions as benevolent. Somewhat surprisingly this film openly foregrounds how US forces, in the course of saving Korean civilians from the menace of Communism, will also have to kill them. *Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War*, a South Korean blockbuster that appeared in 2004, similarly casts a spotlight on the atrocities that were inflicted upon civilians, though in this case by South Korean military and paramilitary forces. Both films sentimentally embed their viewers in an ethos of sacrifice, an affectively saturated biopolitical calculus, in which such deaths emerge as a tragic but ultimately necessary price for securing the nation’s future. Overall, this talk elaborates a transnational mode of analyzing such works that maintains a contrapuntal awareness of how critiques of the dominant narratives in one nationalist tradition might reinforce those in another and vice versa.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:29:47 -0400 2019-10-29T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Tae Guk Gi" and "One Minute to Zero" movie posters
Bioethics Discussion: Fear (October 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52720 52720-12974152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion of our deepest darkest depths.

Readings to consider:
1. Fear
2. A Method for Evaluating the Ethics of Fear Appeals
3. Does fear of retaliation deter requests for ethics consultation?
4. The Two Faces of Fear: A History of Hard-Hitting Public Health Campaigns Against Tobacco and AIDS
5. Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/034-fear/.

Please also don't be afraid to check out the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:38 -0400 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Fear
Post-Show Discussion of Sense and Sensibility (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68659 68659-17130526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Those of us who were able to attend the UM Theatre & Drama Department's production of Sense and Sensibility (a play adapted by Kate Hamill based on the novel by Jane Austen) earlier this month are planning to get together to discuss our reactions to the show (which was amazing!) and think through some larger questions about performance and adaptation.

We're meeting on Wednesday, October 30 from 1:30-2:30pm in 3184 Angell Hall. A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) to RSVP if you'd like to join us. Even if you didn't get a chance to see the show, all are welcome to the discussion! Come to listen, eat, and hang out :)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:53:02 -0400 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Sense and Sensibility playbill
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
CMENAS Event. Beyond Faith-based Humanitarianism: What Everyday Responses to Iraqi and Syrian Displacement Tell Us About Encountering Difference (October 31, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68475 68475-17086376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Drawing on research conducted with Iraqi refugees in Damascus and Syrian refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border, Dr. Zaman considers how displaced people re-imagine understandings of religious traditions to produce a distinctive geography of belonging. In so doing, a window opens for us to reflect on what decolonial readings of refuge and the sacred can offer.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:46:01 -0400 2019-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion poster_image
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-16629892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68948 68948-17197051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In the midst of Red and Black, one of Stendhal's characters makes a declaration, which can serve as an emblem of the 19th century: “All prudence must be renounced! This century was born to overwhelm everything! We are marching into chaos.” Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century, endeavors to contribute to our understanding of this era, through the work of Profs. Tilottama Rajan and Lucy Hartley, who will present two papers: “Elements of Life: Organizing the Work of John Hunter,” and “Poverty, Progress, and Practicable Socialism: Henrietta Barnett, 1851-1936,” respectively.
For more information, please visit our website: https://ccctworkshop.wordpress.com/ ; or email us at: srdjan@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:37:24 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Slavic FLAS Information Session (November 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67113 67113-16803013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in combination with area studies or international aspects of professional studies. The priority is to encourage the study of less commonly taught modern languages. FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Michigan International Institute and its area studies centers and are awarded competitively through annual fellowship competitions.

There are three different types of FLAS Fellowships: Graduate Academic Year FLAS, Undergraduate Academic Year FLAS, and Summer FLAS. Each type of award has slightly different sets of rules and application procedures. Join us to learn about best application practices and understandings.

Eligible Slavic languages include:

Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian

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Other Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:02:49 -0400 2019-11-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Other flas
Winter Course Fair (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68923 68923-17197023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of History

It's time to learn about the 70+ courses offered this Winter term by the U-M History Department! Come to the course fair to:

* Meet professors
* Learn about majors and minors
* Chat with other U-M History students

Located by the Haven Hall Posting Wall.
Wednesday, November 6 from 4-5:30 pm.

There will be free donuts and apple cider!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:41:37 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of History Fair / Festival Course Fair
Liberty in North Korea l Creating LiNKs: Humanity Behind Another World (November 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68938 68938-17197040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Liberty in North Korea

*****This event is FREE! *******
We want diverse perspectives to be available to all ♥

Liberty in North Korea at the University of Michigan is excited to invite two North Korean advocacy fellows from the LiNK HQ, Jeongyol Ri and Ilhyeok Kim, come to campus on November 6th, 2019!

Join us as they reflect on their first-hand experiences as North Korean escapees, and their adjustment after relocation.

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Jeongyol Ri was born in 1998, and spent his childhood in Pyongsong. Math was his most notable passion— by the time he was in elementary school, he had already in mastered a middle school math curriculum. He later went on to represent the the North Korean team for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Over the course of four competitions, he had obtained a four silver medals. His success led the North Korean government to offer him a job, but he did not want to work for the regime. The Hong Kong IMO was Jeongyol’s last chance to defect while abroad; he was only 18 years old. While the rest of his team was packing for the return home, he snuck out and sought asylum at the South Korean consulate. In 2016 Jeongyol resettled in South Korea and in 2019 started Seoul National University.

Ilhyeok Kim was born in 1995 in Saetbyeol when the famine had just begun. As a result of the famine, his father became a broker who helped defectors in South Korea send money to relatives still in North Korea. When Ilhyeok was 12, his father was caught and imprisoned, but was eventually released for owning a Chinese cell phone. From that day onward, the government kept a close eye on his family. Despite the repercussions they would face if they escaped, they bravely decided to flee. In 2011 they arrived in South Korea. Ilhyeok aspires to work for the United Nations one day.

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Presentation Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:24 -0400 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T21:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Liberty in North Korea Presentation Creating LiNKs: Humanity Behind Another World
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (November 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Dispossessing Detroit: How the Law Takes Property (November 9, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69002 69002-17211735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

The goals of this Symposium are to provide historical and political context for current issues of property dispossession and to consider how governments, private industry, and private citizens can together seek reform. We are excited to bring together voices from law, policy, city government, community organizations, and more to engage the audience on this critical topic! Whether your interests are in tax foreclosure, bankruptcy, or Detroit's story of dispossession, we hope you will join us.

Please RSVP at https://dispossessingdetroitsymposium.com/rsvp-comment/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:03:58 -0400 2019-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium Hutchins Hall
Literati Bookstore Presents: Andre Aciman (November 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68652 68652-17130519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement

Literati Bookstore is excited to welcome bestselling author André Aciman to Rackham Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan in support of the follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Find Me. The program will feature a conversation with writer Zahir Janmohamed and an audience Q&A. A book signing will follow. Ticketed, but free student tickets are available.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:59:46 -0400 2019-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T20:15:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Books
Dispossessing Detroit: How the Law Takes Property (November 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69002 69002-17211736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

The goals of this Symposium are to provide historical and political context for current issues of property dispossession and to consider how governments, private industry, and private citizens can together seek reform. We are excited to bring together voices from law, policy, city government, community organizations, and more to engage the audience on this critical topic! Whether your interests are in tax foreclosure, bankruptcy, or Detroit's story of dispossession, we hope you will join us.

Please RSVP at https://dispossessingdetroitsymposium.com/rsvp-comment/

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:03:58 -0400 2019-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Law School Conference / Symposium
UROP Intro to Qualitative Research Workshop (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67112 67112-16803011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP students taking this workshop will learn about the basics of qualitative research, including:
· What is qualitative research?
· Why use qualitative methods?
· Differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
· Typical Steps in qualitative research projects
· How qualitative data is generated, stored, analyzed, and shared

By the end of the workshop, you will understand the purposes for using qualitative methods, the typical stages in qualitative projects, and be better prepared to ask questions of your research mentors. We will also share further resources for investigating particular qualitative methods, and qualitative data analysis tools.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:58:08 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar UROP Qualitative Workshop QR Registration Code
CWPS Faculty Lecture | Xiaodong Hottman-Wei (November 12, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68820 68820-17155494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
6:00pm-7:30pm
East Quad Benzinger Library
Free & Open to the public

Professor Hottman-Wei, Director of the U-M Residential College's Chinese Music Ensemble, presents a rare opportunity to hear the bowed stringed instrument considered a symbol of the Mongolian nation. She will also discuss the numerous cultural contexts in which the Morin Khurr is played.

The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:52:18 -0400 2019-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Xiaodong
Bioethics Discussion: Body/Politics (November 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52721 52721-12974153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on government.

Readings to consider:
1. Bioethics as Politics
2. ‘Fat Ethics’: The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics
3. HB 481
4. A Man, Burning: Communicative Suffering and the Ethics of Images

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/035-body-politics/.

Be it resolved that the policy of this group is to read the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:51 -0400 2019-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Body/politics
Engaging with the Public: Approaches and Concerns for Public Scholars (November 14, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67156 67156-16805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk will discuss various ways scholars in the Humanities can engage with the public. Themes addressed will include differences between public outreach vs. engagement, engaging with digital history as part of a research profile and equity/inclusion mission, and incorporating technology in the classroom to encourage civic engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:41:34 -0400 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Colophon_portrait_from_the_Khamsa_of_Nizami
"Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing" (November 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69012 69012-17213803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

We will be workshopping Jean Franzino's article draft, entitled "Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing." This paper considers how texts written or sold by disabled Civil War veterans for their economic support intervened in representational struggles over disability in the postbellum United States. Mendicant texts draw upon but revise the treatment of disability in other popular culture representations of “empty sleeves” and in U.S. pension law. As they challenge both the assumption of the sentimental reintegration of the wounded veteran into the individual and national family and the conception of disability as a neatly administrable category, they offer instead a different vision: that of disability as a dynamic phenomenon whose full meaning is only determined by interpersonal relationships. At the same time, the fact that a number of narrators chose to stretch or evade the truth in their narratives points to what David Serlin has termed “hierarchies of disability,” wherein the cultural inclusion of some forms of disability merely tightens the criteria of “worthiness” for all disabled people. An understudied but fraught genre of disability life writing before the twentieth century, Civil War mendicant texts raise questions about the relationship between disability and narrative, the character of Civil War writing, and the stakes of truthfulness in life writing by marginalized subjects.

To RSVP and receive a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please email Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu).

This event is co-sponsored by the Disability Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop (RIW) group.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:05:47 -0400 2019-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar “The Empty Sleeve” (1866); engraving by J.C. Buttre from a drawing by A.R. Sawyer
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68097 68097-17009828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Established in Fall 2017, the Department of Film, Television, and Media’s speaker series creates a space for film and media scholars and artists/practitioners to engage in dialogues about past and contemporary topics that influence media industries, audiences, and society at large. This particular conversation will center on documentary filmmaking practices in domestic and international settings and the association of documentary with political and social causes. The participants are documentary director Rayka Zehtabchi (winner of the 2018 Oscar for Best Documentary Short--PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE) and Assistant Professor Joshua Glick, who writes about documentary (and who, in 2018, published LOS ANGELES DOCUMENTARY AND THE PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC HISTORY, 1958-1977).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:55:09 -0400 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Poster
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (November 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (November 15, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-16629893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T12:30:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Spirituality and Healthcare: Lessons from Fred (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68542 68542-17096949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
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Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion and the Department of Internal Medicine present Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, Acting Director, Senior Research Scholar, Andre Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Georgetown Univeristy

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:47:19 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
ASC Event. Mellon Workshop: Historical and Contemporary Expressions of Populism in Africa and Beyond (November 17, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68026 68026-16986086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

Populism has re-emerged across the globe, displaying multiple, left and right leaning variants and provoking complex engagements with the limits of liberal democracy. There is a new generation of populists on the African stage, offering contradictory and often disturbing visions regarding Africa’s future. Some, including Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, have re- imagined concepts and policies linked historically to theories on the left, while others, such as David Bahati and the anti-gay campaigners of Uganda, have advanced a deeply conservative and reactionary religiosity. These new forms of populism that are being expressed across the political spectrum invite careful analysis of the continuities and ruptures in African politics from the 20th to the 21st centuries, as well as the ways in which ideas and movements travel across national boundaries. Several contemporary populist movements are historically rooted in older movements on the continent, and those histories provide linguistic markers and affective registers for contemporary encounters. Yet the current brands of populism are also distinctive in their own right, rather than simply being a re- packaging and reiteration of national liberation. As in the 1950s and 60s—the era of decolonization— when newly independent African states were sometimes confronted with populist movements that challenged their technocratic and nationalist frames, the failures of postcolonial developmental projects have provoked contestations today. Moreover, in the 1970s, African dictators drew on new media— radio and television in particular—to define for their audiences new modes of political and cultural belonging. Social media today is different from that period in reach and in tone, but it has made possible the creation of new spaces and organisational forms for politics. For example, aided by social media, social movements, especially queer and feminist organisations, have escalated in intensity and appeal over the past several decades, and these also shape the contours of populism. Their aspirations and objectives significantly inform populist rhetoric, either acting as subjects of its many demands, or as the objects of derision.

This workshop will reflect on the cultural and political registers and infrastructures of populism in Africa (and elsewhere). What circumstances invite (some) people to see themselves as an oppressed majority? What work do authenticité and other nativist agendas do to clarify identities and marginalize minorities? What is the relationship between African forms of liberal democracy, and development in particular, and populism? Are populist movements opening up spaces for new forms of gendered political performances? Finally, what lessons can be learned from the past as African, American, and European democracies together confront a renewed wave of nativist enthusiasm?

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:43:51 -0500 2019-11-17T08:30:00-05:00 2019-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
ASC Event. Mellon Workshop: Historical and Contemporary Expressions of Populism in Africa and Beyond (November 18, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68026 68026-16986087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

Populism has re-emerged across the globe, displaying multiple, left and right leaning variants and provoking complex engagements with the limits of liberal democracy. There is a new generation of populists on the African stage, offering contradictory and often disturbing visions regarding Africa’s future. Some, including Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, have re- imagined concepts and policies linked historically to theories on the left, while others, such as David Bahati and the anti-gay campaigners of Uganda, have advanced a deeply conservative and reactionary religiosity. These new forms of populism that are being expressed across the political spectrum invite careful analysis of the continuities and ruptures in African politics from the 20th to the 21st centuries, as well as the ways in which ideas and movements travel across national boundaries. Several contemporary populist movements are historically rooted in older movements on the continent, and those histories provide linguistic markers and affective registers for contemporary encounters. Yet the current brands of populism are also distinctive in their own right, rather than simply being a re- packaging and reiteration of national liberation. As in the 1950s and 60s—the era of decolonization— when newly independent African states were sometimes confronted with populist movements that challenged their technocratic and nationalist frames, the failures of postcolonial developmental projects have provoked contestations today. Moreover, in the 1970s, African dictators drew on new media— radio and television in particular—to define for their audiences new modes of political and cultural belonging. Social media today is different from that period in reach and in tone, but it has made possible the creation of new spaces and organisational forms for politics. For example, aided by social media, social movements, especially queer and feminist organisations, have escalated in intensity and appeal over the past several decades, and these also shape the contours of populism. Their aspirations and objectives significantly inform populist rhetoric, either acting as subjects of its many demands, or as the objects of derision.

This workshop will reflect on the cultural and political registers and infrastructures of populism in Africa (and elsewhere). What circumstances invite (some) people to see themselves as an oppressed majority? What work do authenticité and other nativist agendas do to clarify identities and marginalize minorities? What is the relationship between African forms of liberal democracy, and development in particular, and populism? Are populist movements opening up spaces for new forms of gendered political performances? Finally, what lessons can be learned from the past as African, American, and European democracies together confront a renewed wave of nativist enthusiasm?

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:43:51 -0500 2019-11-18T08:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
ASC Event. Mellon Workshop: Historical and Contemporary Expressions of Populism in Africa and Beyond (November 19, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68026 68026-16986088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

Populism has re-emerged across the globe, displaying multiple, left and right leaning variants and provoking complex engagements with the limits of liberal democracy. There is a new generation of populists on the African stage, offering contradictory and often disturbing visions regarding Africa’s future. Some, including Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, have re- imagined concepts and policies linked historically to theories on the left, while others, such as David Bahati and the anti-gay campaigners of Uganda, have advanced a deeply conservative and reactionary religiosity. These new forms of populism that are being expressed across the political spectrum invite careful analysis of the continuities and ruptures in African politics from the 20th to the 21st centuries, as well as the ways in which ideas and movements travel across national boundaries. Several contemporary populist movements are historically rooted in older movements on the continent, and those histories provide linguistic markers and affective registers for contemporary encounters. Yet the current brands of populism are also distinctive in their own right, rather than simply being a re- packaging and reiteration of national liberation. As in the 1950s and 60s—the era of decolonization— when newly independent African states were sometimes confronted with populist movements that challenged their technocratic and nationalist frames, the failures of postcolonial developmental projects have provoked contestations today. Moreover, in the 1970s, African dictators drew on new media— radio and television in particular—to define for their audiences new modes of political and cultural belonging. Social media today is different from that period in reach and in tone, but it has made possible the creation of new spaces and organisational forms for politics. For example, aided by social media, social movements, especially queer and feminist organisations, have escalated in intensity and appeal over the past several decades, and these also shape the contours of populism. Their aspirations and objectives significantly inform populist rhetoric, either acting as subjects of its many demands, or as the objects of derision.

This workshop will reflect on the cultural and political registers and infrastructures of populism in Africa (and elsewhere). What circumstances invite (some) people to see themselves as an oppressed majority? What work do authenticité and other nativist agendas do to clarify identities and marginalize minorities? What is the relationship between African forms of liberal democracy, and development in particular, and populism? Are populist movements opening up spaces for new forms of gendered political performances? Finally, what lessons can be learned from the past as African, American, and European democracies together confront a renewed wave of nativist enthusiasm?

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:43:51 -0500 2019-11-19T08:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
FellowSpeak: “Real and Imagined: Animating the Spaces Between Us” (November 19, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66148 66148-16709266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Heidi Kumao gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

The power of animation and figurative (robotic, mechanical) art lies in their accessibility to the general public. Animation and tabletop puppet tableaus are viewed as approachable, non-threatening art forms associated with children. Audiences are often more receptive to content delivered in these forms, and this expectation provides artists with the perfect foil to communicate politically relevant, psychologically complex, and feminist narratives. This talk will focus on creative art projects that translate the intangible cognitive processes underlying ordinary human interactions into accessible and poetic visual narratives. These robotic and mechanical sculptures, experimental animations, and installations give physical form to emotion, memory, and relationship dynamics while challenging viewers to rethink the vocabulary used to tell these personal stories. The use of hybrid media art forms and a research-based art practice are integral to the art process that will also be discussed.

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Meeting Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:25:36 -0400 2019-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Meeting Installation view of “Egress”. Mixed media: 6 min video projected onto stack of books, media player, media file, speakers.
Writer to Writer w/ Jennifer Proctor (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69099 69099-17244690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Center for Writing's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

This month Writer to Writer welcomes Jennifer Proctor. Jennifer Proctor is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Screen Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and co-founder and director of the inclusive teaching initiative EDIT Media (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Teaching Media). She is a filmmaker and media artist whose internationally recognized, award-winning found footage work examines the history of experimental film, Hollywood tropes, and the representation of women in cinema. Her recent work, in particular, seeks to blur boundaries between avant-garde film practices and the scholarly video essay. Her 2018 film "Nothing a Little Soap and Water Can't Fix," which examines the bathtub as a feminized domestic space, won the Cutters Archival Film Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Top Grit at the Indie Grits Film Festival, and Best Experimental Film at the St. Francis College Women's Film Festival, in addition to screening at more than forty film festivals around the world. Her recent video, "Am I Pretty?" appropriates the voices of tween girls from YouTube videos to explore the development of self-image and self-esteem in the modern era. In addition to screening at film festivals, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, "Am I Pretty?" appears in a special issue on audiography in [in]Transition: The Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies.

Writer to Writer takes place at the Literati bookstore (124 E. Washington) on Tuesday, November 19th from 7-8pm. These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:33:09 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Jennifer Proctor
ASC Event. Mellon Workshop: Historical and Contemporary Expressions of Populism in Africa and Beyond (November 20, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68026 68026-16986089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: African Studies Center

Populism has re-emerged across the globe, displaying multiple, left and right leaning variants and provoking complex engagements with the limits of liberal democracy. There is a new generation of populists on the African stage, offering contradictory and often disturbing visions regarding Africa’s future. Some, including Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa, have re- imagined concepts and policies linked historically to theories on the left, while others, such as David Bahati and the anti-gay campaigners of Uganda, have advanced a deeply conservative and reactionary religiosity. These new forms of populism that are being expressed across the political spectrum invite careful analysis of the continuities and ruptures in African politics from the 20th to the 21st centuries, as well as the ways in which ideas and movements travel across national boundaries. Several contemporary populist movements are historically rooted in older movements on the continent, and those histories provide linguistic markers and affective registers for contemporary encounters. Yet the current brands of populism are also distinctive in their own right, rather than simply being a re- packaging and reiteration of national liberation. As in the 1950s and 60s—the era of decolonization— when newly independent African states were sometimes confronted with populist movements that challenged their technocratic and nationalist frames, the failures of postcolonial developmental projects have provoked contestations today. Moreover, in the 1970s, African dictators drew on new media— radio and television in particular—to define for their audiences new modes of political and cultural belonging. Social media today is different from that period in reach and in tone, but it has made possible the creation of new spaces and organisational forms for politics. For example, aided by social media, social movements, especially queer and feminist organisations, have escalated in intensity and appeal over the past several decades, and these also shape the contours of populism. Their aspirations and objectives significantly inform populist rhetoric, either acting as subjects of its many demands, or as the objects of derision.

This workshop will reflect on the cultural and political registers and infrastructures of populism in Africa (and elsewhere). What circumstances invite (some) people to see themselves as an oppressed majority? What work do authenticité and other nativist agendas do to clarify identities and marginalize minorities? What is the relationship between African forms of liberal democracy, and development in particular, and populism? Are populist movements opening up spaces for new forms of gendered political performances? Finally, what lessons can be learned from the past as African, American, and European democracies together confront a renewed wave of nativist enthusiasm?

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:43:51 -0500 2019-11-20T08:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) African Studies Center Conference / Symposium Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Publics, Humanities, and Public Humanities (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67562 67562-16892251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Re-translating Manners: Russification of the Eighteenth-Century French Courtesy Books

Maria Neklyudova is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies and Social Communication, School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA):

Books on good manners and proper etiquette easily travel through time and space and during the last decades managed to adapt to digital reality much better than other types of writing. Although the origins of this phenomenon can be traced to the Renaissance (and beyond), the real flourishing of courtesy treatises started in the 18th century, partially due to the spread of French language and manners throughout European courts. Their sheer number is staggering, yet we still know very little not only about their audience but also about their authors or compilers. With some notable exceptions, such as Baldassare Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano and Baltasar Gracián’s Oráculo, even less attention is paid to their translations. But if we take much less famous treatises, the fact is that most of them were translated at least into one – and more often into several – European languages. For example, many books of Abbé de Bellegarde, a prolific distributor of advice, were rendered into English, German, Portuguese, Polish and Russian. When we compare these translations with the originals (the “originality” of the originals is another problem to be dealt with), it becomes obvious that not all advice was “translatable” either because of political implications or because of linguistic difficulties (the absence of relevant vocabulary in the target language). This paper is part of a research project that attempts to trace the network of translations of the 17th and the 18th century’s courtesy books. It will focus on English and Russian translations of Jacques de Callières’ and Abbé de Bellegarde’s treatises.


National Peculiarity of Boredom: English spleen, French l’ennui, Russian khandra.

Natalia Mazur is Professor of History of Art and Provost, European University at St. Petersburg:

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, many European philosophers, theologians, physicians and writers agreed that boredom was the main malady of their time. However, the nature and the causes of boredom were explained differently in different countries. The English considered spleen, or the “English malady,” a serious disease often leading to suicide: people afflicted by spleen looked for medical help. The French saw the roots of l’ennui in human psychology or in the structure of the society: one could escape l’ennui through religion or revolution. The protagonists of the best Russian novels – from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin to Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov – were looking for a remedy against boredom. What has happened to boredom in the last two centuries, what do we call it today, and how can the history of emotions help us escape it?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:44:12 -0500 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Slavic Symposium: Publics, Humanities, and Public Humanities
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Public Humanities in Russia: What Do Graduate Students Do after They Graduate? (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67585 67585-16898654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

In Russia, like everywhere, graduate students are not free from anxiety about their future career. Did I make the right choice by investing years into studying an obscure subject that few people are interested in? Am I really good at it? Will I get an academic job? And what else can you do with a Ph. D. in the humanities today? And if I get an academic job, will it pay enough for me to survive – and if not, how can I complement my income using my skills and knowledge?

Two distinguished scholars from top Russian graduate schools will tell us about exciting careers and opportunities that their graduate students have created for themselves. They include creating archive collections, developing web-based education projects, starting theater and ballet companies, advising city administration and many other endeavors. This event is specifically addressed to graduate students in the humanities who are thinking about expanding their professional horizon beyond academia

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:08:49 -0400 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Slavic Symposium: Publics, Humanities, & Public Humanities
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (November 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-11-22T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Bioethics Discussion: Cities (November 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52722 52722-12974154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our new environment.

Readings to consider:
1. Health and Urban Living
2. Urban Bioethics: Adapting Bioethics to the Urban Context
3. The Experience of Living in Cities
4. From the Urban to the Civic: The Moral Possibilities of the City

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/036-cities/.

When roaming the city, please consider roaming the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:53:17 -0400 2019-11-26T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Cities
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (December 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

The Bonderman Fellowship offers 4 graduating University of Michigan LSA (Literature, Science and the Arts) seniors $20,000 to travel the world. They must travel to at least 6 countries in 2 regions over the course of 8 months and are expected to immerse themselves in independent and enriching explorations.

Come to a Bonderman information session to learn more about the fellowship and how to apply! Pizza will be provided!

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Arthur Sze Roundtable Q&A (December 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64293 64293-16332363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor who recently won the National Book Award. He has published ten books of poetry, including Sight Lines, Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, and Archipelago, all from Copper Canyon Press. He has also published The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese and edited Chinese Writers on Writing. A bilingual Chinese/English selected poems, Pig’s Heaven Inn, was published in Beijing, and he has also collaborated with sculptor Susan York to create a book and installation, The Unfolding Center.

Known for his difficult, meticulous poems, Sze’s work has been described as the “intersection of Taoist contemplation, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation” by the critic John Tritica. The poet Dana Levin described Sze as “a poet of what I would call Deep Noticing, a strong lineage in American poetry… Dispassionate presentation of ‘the thing itself’ is its prevailing attribute, yet Sze’s attention is capacious; it’s attracted to paradox; it takes facing opponents and seats them side by side.” In addition, K. Michel, a Dutch poet writing for Poetry International says, “Sze’s work is characterized by its unusual combination of images and ideas, and by the surprising way in which he makes connections between diverse aspects of the world. In his poetry he combines images from urban life and nature, ideas from modern astronomy and Chinese philosophy as well as anecdotes from rural and industrial America. In this way, he creates texts that capture and reflect the complexity of reality.”

Sze’s many awards include The Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. From 2012-2017, he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and, in 2017, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:04:24 -0500 2019-12-05T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze: In Conversation (December 5, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64295 64295-16282454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor who recently won the National Book Award. He has published ten books of poetry, including Sight Lines, Compass Rose, The Ginkgo Light, Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, and Archipelago, all from Copper Canyon Press. He has also published The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese and edited Chinese Writers on Writing. A bilingual Chinese/English selected poems, Pig’s Heaven Inn, was published in Beijing, and he has also collaborated with sculptor Susan York to create a book and installation, The Unfolding Center.

Known for his difficult, meticulous poems, Sze’s work has been described as the “intersection of Taoist contemplation, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation” by the critic John Tritica. The poet Dana Levin described Sze as “a poet of what I would call Deep Noticing, a strong lineage in American poetry… Dispassionate presentation of ‘the thing itself’ is its prevailing attribute, yet Sze’s attention is capacious; it’s attracted to paradox; it takes facing opponents and seats them side by side.” In addition, K. Michel, a Dutch poet writing for Poetry International says, “Sze’s work is characterized by its unusual combination of images and ideas, and by the surprising way in which he makes connections between diverse aspects of the world. In his poetry he combines images from urban life and nature, ideas from modern astronomy and Chinese philosophy as well as anecdotes from rural and industrial America. In this way, he creates texts that capture and reflect the complexity of reality.”

Sze’s many awards include The Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. From 2012-2017, he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and, in 2017, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:05:09 -0500 2019-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Arthur Sze
Monuments and Public Art: A Public Conversation with Paul Farber (Monument Lab), Tina Olsen (UMMA), Srimoyee Mitra (Stamps Gallery) and Kristin Hass (Dept. of American Culture) (December 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69699 69699-17384706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project, the U-M Center for World Performance Studies presents project co-founder and book co-editor​ Dr. Paul M. Farber​ to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today.

Please note this event takes place at the U-M Hatcher Library Gallery at 913 S. University Avenue in Ann Arbor.  

Paul M. Farber​ is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of ​A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall ​(University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of ​Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia​ (Temple University Press, 2019), a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments.

Kristin Ann Hass​ is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall,​ a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and ​Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,​ an exploration of public memorial practices, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book, ​Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously​, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington, DC and beyond. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of ​Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life​, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Christina Olsen​ is the Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives, including ​Shine a Light​, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland, Oregon; ​Object Stories​, an installation, audience, participation, and outreach initiative in 2010; ​WALLS​, a student art loan program at Williams College, and ​Accession Number,​ an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; curator of ​Art Access​, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Srimoyee Mitra​ is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation, migration, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as ​Time Out Mumbai​ and ​Art India Magazine​. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto, where her curatorial projects included ​Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue​ at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. In 2011, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program.

This program is organized by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design; and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

For more information, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:16:56 -0500 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Public Conversation: Monuments & Public Art (December 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69573 69573-17366253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Thursday, December 5
7:00pm-8:30pm
Hatcher Library Gallery | 913 S. University Avenue
Free & Open to the public

In celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project, CWPS presents project co-founder and book co-editor Dr. Paul M. Farber to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today.

Paul M. Farber is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia (Temple University Press, 2019), a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments.

Kristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, a study of militarism, race, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, an exploration of public memorial practices, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book, Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington, DC and beyond. She lectures, teaches, and writes about nationalism, memory, publics, memorialization, militarization, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.

Christina Olsen is the Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives, including Shine a Light, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland, Oregon; Object Stories, an installation, audience, participation, and outreach initiative in 2010; WALLS, a student art loan program at Williams College, and Accession Number, an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; curator of Art Access, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Srimoyee Mitra is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation, migration, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as Time Out Mumbai and Art India Magazine. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto, where her curatorial projects included Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford. In 2011, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program.

This is event is co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art, Stamps Gallery at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and University of Michigan Museum of Art.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Nov 2019 10:11:42 -0500 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T20:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Monument Lab Poster
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (December 6, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-12-06T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (December 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-16629894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-12-06T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T12:30:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty and the Bamboo Ceiling: Barriers to Leadership and Implications for Leadership Development (December 6, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68921 68921-17197021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Racial stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders limit their access to leadership positions in higher education. Using a national sample of college and university faculty at 2 and 4-year institutions, Dean Lee explores the reality and implications of the bamboo ceiling for Asian American faculty and staff.

Co-Sponsors: U-M Asian Pacific Islander Desi/American Staff Association and INDIGO, the LSA Asian/Asian American Faculty Alliance

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:46:33 -0500 2019-12-06T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-06T16:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 9, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-09T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
"Getting to Zero: Religious Leaders as Trusted Messengers for Eliminating HIV/AIDS" (December 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69288 69288-17299771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Library
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion present A. Oveta Fuller, PhD., Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Nov 2019 08:48:12 -0500 2019-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T13:00:00-05:00 Taubman Library The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 10, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-10T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 10, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-10T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
Bioethics Discussion: Antinatalism (December 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52723 52723-12974156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the end to our means.

Readings to consider:
1. The Last Messiah
2. Why It Is Better Never to Come into Existence
3. Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti-Natalism
4. The Ethics of Procreation and Adoption

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/037-antinatalism/.

Tell your descendants to consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-12-10T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Antinatalism
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 11, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-11T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 11, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-11T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 12, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-12T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 12, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-12T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
Brown Bag: "The Radical Visual Rhetoric of Early Abolition" (December 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68700 68700-17138821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Dr. Phillip Troutman will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Reese Fellowship in the Print Culture of the Americas. Dr. Troutman is a 2018-2019 Smithsonian Senior Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Writing and of History at the George Washington University. He is working on a book, drawing on visual theory, rhetoric, history, and art history to provide the first assessment of the American Anti-Slavery Society's visual program of periodicals, pamphlets, prints, and books in the 1830s, their formative decade. In contrast to other scholars of anti-slavery images, he argues that the AASS's visual rhetoric in the 1830s was innovative, specific, and radical, especially in its depiction of the subjectivity and agency of African Americans.

Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:37:19 -0400 2019-12-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "The Anti-Slavery Record," February 1836, courtesy American Antiquarian Society
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 13, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-13T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 13, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-13T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (December 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-12-13T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Special Tour: The Directors of the William L. Clements Library, 1923-2019 (December 13, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69817 69817-17431804@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 1:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

This special tour of the Clements Library will introduce our Directors since 1923 and the ways in which their leadership shaped the growth and development of the library and its collections. The tour will include discussion of materials displayed in the current exhibit "A History of Collecting at the Clements Library, 1903-2019."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:54:13 -0500 2019-12-13T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Clements Collecting History Exhibit case
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 14, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-14T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-14T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 14, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-14T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-14T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 15, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 15, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-15T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 15, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 15, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-15T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-15T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 16, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-16T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 16, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-16T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 17, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-17T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 17, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-17T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-17T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 18, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-18T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 18, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-18T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-18T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 19, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 19, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-19T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-19T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 19, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 19, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-19T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-19T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 20, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 20, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-20T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-20T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 20, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 20, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-20T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-20T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (December 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"The Best of the West" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018), drawing upon Reese's 2017 book "The Best of the West" for its descriptions of the titles on display.

The books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 "Noticia de la California" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 "The Ute War." In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources, in Spanish, French, English, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives, 19th-century overland narratives, prints and views of Native Americans, color-plate books, gold and silver mining reports, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-12-20T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-20T16:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (December 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-16629895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-12-20T11:00:00-05:00 2019-12-20T12:30:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 21, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 21, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-21T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-21T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 21, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 21, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-21T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-21T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 22, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 22, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-22T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-22T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 22, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 22, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-22T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-22T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 23, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 23, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-23T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-23T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 23, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 23, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-23T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-23T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 24, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-24T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-24T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 24, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-24T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-24T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 25, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-25T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-25T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 25, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-25T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-25T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 26, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 26, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-26T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-26T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 26, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 26, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-26T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-26T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic
UROP - Sophomore Applications Open (December 27, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70105 70105-17532662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 27, 2019 7:00am
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP is now accepting sophomore applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. Are you interested in conducting undergraduate research? Apply today at: myumi.ch/bvxZ8 for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:53:55 -0400 2019-12-27T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-27T23:59:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Sophomore Application
UROP Summer Research Fellowship Deadline Extended (December 27, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70080 70080-17507904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 27, 2019 7:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Extended Deadline Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 at 5pm
Apply today at: http://myumi.ch/lxmbp

UROP sponsors several summer research opportunities designed for University of Michigan undergraduate students seeking an intense research experience in traditional laboratory settings and in the community. These fellowships provide students with the chance to undertake and complete individual research projects; learn firsthand about the life of an academic researcher; think about academic and post graduate careers; and develop strong mentor relationships.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:17:33 -0500 2019-12-27T07:00:00-05:00 2019-12-27T23:59:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs UROP Summer Application Graphic