Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 24, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258500@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Poetry Reading with Jill Bialosky (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65865 65865-16662146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Jill Bialosky was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Bachelor of Arts at Ohio University, a Master of Arts from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of three novels, House Under Snow The Life Room and most recently, The Prize; four volumes of poetry, The End of Desire, Subterranean, a finalist for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Intruder, a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize and The Players. She has published two works of nonfiction, History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for a Books for a Better Life Award and the Ohioiana Book Award in nonfiction and Poetry Will Save Your Life. . She co-edited with Helen Schulman, Wanting a Child. Bialosky’s poems and essays have been published in many magazines, among them Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, Harpers, O, the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry and The Yale Review.

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 two weeks prior to the event whenever possible to allow time to arrange services.

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 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:56:23 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Jill Bialosky
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 25, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 26, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Conference Preview Panel: Portraying Blackness (September 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64738 64738-16438926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies workshop for our first conference preview panel, featuring graduate students who will be presenting at national conferences. Light lunch will be available at 12:30 for all who RSVP (see link on this page).

This panel will feature graduate student presentations on contemporary black artistic production. Our four panelists will each preview short versions of their conference papers followed by discussion. We'll talk about the presentations and reflect on the fields of Black Studies and Contemporary Studies, but we'll also discuss the conference-going process more generally (how to apply and get accepted and what to do when you're there!). We invite all faculty, staff, and graduate students (both experienced conference-goers and those who have never been to one) to join us for this event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:00:21 -0400 2019-09-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
ASC Lecture. Finding the South in the Global South (September 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65086 65086-16515413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

Is there such a thing as ‘world literature from the global south’? Perhaps the strongest conjunction between the theories of the global south and world literature is the interest in the political scope of literature. How can we imagine a literary canon that consolidates or prompts modes of political action, thereby bringing the political imperatives of the south or of regionalism to bear on the global scope of world literature? It sounds like a great deal of detective work. As such, this talk will present the case of uncanny affiliation between detective fiction north and south of the Mediterranean, starting from Sicily and Alexandria going via Paris, Liège and mediaeval Arabia. Whodunit? Everybody. That is what world literature means. But why? That is the imperative of the global south.

This event is made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation though the grant Global Humanities in Egypt and the Global South

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:15:06 -0400 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion hawas_event
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (September 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 27, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Patricia Akhimie Lecture (September 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63852 63852-15939554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:15:44 -0400 2019-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Patricia's faculty photo.
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 28, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-28T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509349@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-29T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (September 30, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (September 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-30T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (October 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (October 2, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Circulating the Avant-Garde: Aesthetic Counter-Publics in the Little Magazines, 1890-1920 (October 3, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64238 64238-16258509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Thanks to advances in color lithography and photo-engraving as well as resurgent interest in small-press publishing, richly illustrated and typeset “little magazines” flourished between 1890 and 1920. The materials collected in this exhibit, all held in the Special Collections Research Center, showcase not only the variety, beauty, and originality of turn-of-the-century print-making, but also new ideas about what a magazine can do: namely, create distinctive communities around avant-garde ideas outside of mainstream channels. The communities imagined in these magazines are sometimes explicitly political or aesthetic, but more often both combine in writers’ and artists’ resistance to mass-market, industrial, bourgeois, and nationalist print cultures.

The magazines in this exhibit are mostly American and British, but many are distinctively cosmopolitan, crossing borders to engage with international movements like socialism, decadence, and modernism in their attempts to create an audience united by aesthetic and political ideals rather than nationality. Although the little magazines’ resistance to mainstream journalism shortened their lifespan and restricted their circulation, their experimental approach has had a lasting impact on our sense of magazines as flexible aesthetic and social media.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 10:42:49 -0400 2019-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Front cover of The Yellow Book, volume 1, April 1894. Special Collections Research Center.
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509354@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-03T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Lecture: The Shadow of Diagnosis: Mental Illness and Black Queer Desire (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63937 63937-16483060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The American Studies Consortium presents a lecture by Prof. GerShun Avilez (Maryland).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:52:53 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-04T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
P&PW Talk / Workshop (October 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67782 67782-16949875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Part of the Poetry & Poetics Workshop roundtable series. Please email Zoey Dorman (zdorman@umich.edu) to receive a copy of the paper. Coffee and bagels will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:08:36 -0400 2019-10-04T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Critical Conversations: Sexualities (October 4, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63107 63107-15576715@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Lunch will be available at 12:30. Presentations begin at 1:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:38:30 -0400 2019-10-04T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509356@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-05T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-05T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-06T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-06T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-07T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (October 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64575 64575-16388944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us for a gallery talk and guided exhibit tour with Instructors Sigrid Cordell, Juli McLoone, and Angie Oehril. The tour for those 50 and over will delve into the history and influence of Daniel Defoe’s "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe", first published in 1719. In the 300 years since its publication, Defoe’s narrative of shipwreck and survival has captured readers’ imaginations, inspiring a multitude of adaptations and spin-offs, and becoming a cultural touchstone. Featuring material from the University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center’s Hubbard Imaginary Voyages Collection, the exhibit explores questions about self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:39:48 -0400 2019-10-08T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T15:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
Special Collections After Hours: Library of the Occult (October 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65043 65043-16509304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Come in from the autumn chill and experience chills of a different kind with the mysterious side of our collections. We'll have everything from books on witchcraft, communing with the dead (necromancy), and demonology to tarot, alchemy, and magic. We might even throw in a little devil worship & secret societies while we're at it!

This event is part of Special Collections After Hours, a monthly open house series sharing highlights from the many books, documents, and artifacts in the Special Collections Research Center. Each event is open to everyone and will offer a new group of themed materials for visitors to explore. Open houses are held on the second Tuesday of each month during the academic year. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:10:44 -0400 2019-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House The oracle of the future (1856) by Robert C. Smith
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
What Does Europe Want Now?: Panel and Reading from MQR's Fall 2019 Special Issue (October 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65908 65908-16670230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Quarterly Review

The Michigan Quarterly Review and the Center for European Studies are hosting a reading from the special Fall 2019 issue of MQR entitled "What Does Europe Want Now?" guest edited by Benjamin Paloff and focused on the 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The event will include readings from the issue by contributors Jeremiah Chamberlin, Eirill Falck, and Stiliana Milkova. The reading will be followed by a panel featuring Benjamin Paloff, Andreas Gailus, and Nataša Kovačević. The evening will be hosted by poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, the journal's editor-in-chief.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:15 -0400 2019-10-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Quarterly Review Lecture / Discussion Copyright Joanna Concejo
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-11T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Homer’s Iliad (October 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64518 64518-16380906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Using Robert Fagles’ translation of the Iliad, we will do a close reading and discussion of the poem. Our main focus will be on Homer’s characters and what they tell us about life, death, and war. We will also spend some time looking at the forms and devices of epic poetry.
Marilyn Scott, instructor, was a lecturer in Classics and Great Books at UM and taught Latin and English at Ann Arbor’s Community High School. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Fridays, 1:00–3:00 pm on October 11 – November 22.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:40:11 -0400 2019-10-11T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Fiction at Literati (October 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68018 68018-16983973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:23:29 -0400 2019-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T21:00:00-04:00 Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-13T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-13T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-14T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Art and Design in the Age of Jane Austen (October 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64600 64600-16394976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will discuss Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, in which she alludes to issues such as the unmarried woman, inherited wealth, abduction, and sexual scandal, as well as the Napoleonic wars. Austen knew that contemporary readers understood the social and political issues of their day and that they could envision the private homes of her protagonists without elaborate descriptions. To enrich your appreciation of Austen, the course for those 50 and over will meet Tuesdays, 3-4:30 p.m. from October 15 through November 12. Instructor Mary Lindner will address social mores, neoclassical architecture, interior design, and clothing. Many of them can be seen in recent BBC videos, parts of which we will watch as we cover the novel’s rich background.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:32:30 -0400 2019-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
13th Annual Prechter Lecture featuring Pete Earley (October 15, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64741 64741-16442904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

› Keynote speaker Pete Earley, author of CRAZY
› Panel discussion about:
*mental health care in the justice system
*the present & future of research in bipolar disorder
› Reception -- Book signing during the reception with books available for purchase.

› This is a FREE event, but we ask that you pre-register via this link: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/prechter-program/events/201910/13th-annual-prechter-lecture-featuring-pete-earley


Praise for Pete Earley's book:

“Parents of the mentally ill should find solace and food for thought in [this book’s] pages.”
- Publishers Weekly

“Explores the mind-boggling mess that America’s mental health system has become and champions the case for reform.”
- Rocky Mountain News

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:55:05 -0400 2019-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T21:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion author Pete Earley
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Responding to Women Rowing North with Poetry (October 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64634 64634-16402984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age is the subtitle to Mary Pipher’s book. Using the sections of the book as a guide we will explore our own lives with poetry and stories. Class members will bring poetry to share and prepare to share with their comments for each class.
Week 1: The Worn Body – Intensity and Poignancy
Week 2: Loneliness/Solitude - Self-awareness
Week 3: Friends – Grand/Parenting
Week 4: Authenticity/ Self-Acceptance – Flourishing
Abby Wilson, instructor, is a retired clergy who loves to play with ideas and share in life’s dance. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30 am on October 16 - November 6.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 26 Jul 2019 08:08:30 -0400 2019-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
CM Burroughs Roundtable Q&A (October 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64364 64364-16332364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

CM Burroughs’ book of poems, The Vital System (Tupelo Press), illuminates what she calls "the protective capability of violence.” In the words of renowned French feminist scholar Hélène Cixous: “Burroughs delves into the ultra-sensitive roots of being; where sufferings and desires take shape, she gathers each breath as yet unheard and leads it to speech.”

Burroughs is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Cave Canem Foundation. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations.

Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015. Her second book, Master Suffering, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2020.

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 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:59:52 -0400 2019-10-17T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion CM.Burroughs.headshot
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16541451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
CM Burroughs Poetry Reading & Book Signing (October 17, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64366 64366-16332365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

CM Burroughs’ book of poems, The Vital System (Tupelo Press), illuminates what she calls "the protective capability of violence.” In the words of renowned French feminist scholar Hélène Cixous: “Burroughs delves into the ultra-sensitive roots of being; where sufferings and desires take shape, she gathers each breath as yet unheard and leads it to speech.”

Burroughs is an Associate Professor of Poetry at Columbia College Chicago. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Cave Canem Foundation. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry in response to art installations.

Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including Poetry, Callaloo, jubilat, Ploughshares, VOLT, and Best American Experimental Writing 2015. Her second book, Master Suffering, will be published by Tupelo Press in 2020.

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 Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:17:47 -0400 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation CM.Burroughs.headshot
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-23T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
P&PW Ecopoetics Reading Group (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67784 67784-16949878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Part of the Poetry & Poetics Workshop roundtable series. For the pre-circulated reading material—“Intimacy: The Poetics of Thick Time,” the first chapter of David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)—please contact Zoey Dorman (zdorman@umich.edu) or Talin Tahajian (taltahaj@umich.edu). We’ll also provide you with Farrier’s introduction, “Life Enfolded in Deep Time.” Coffee and bagels will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:15:03 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
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
John Le Carre´ and the Cold War on Film – Part I (October 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64652 64652-16410950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Our series of detective mystery films continues with the spy genre. We’ll screen four film adaptations of John LeCarré’s literate spy thrillers from the Cold War period, featuring his hero George Smiley. Part 1 will feature two films from his early Cold War adventures this fall, including The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Part 2 will be offered as a separate study group in the Spring with 2 more adaptations from his so-called Quest for Karla. George Ferrell’s, instructor, previous groups have examined Agatha Christie, Detective Fiction and the Sense of Place, and the Wrong Man in film. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Fridays, 1:00-4:30 pm on October 25 - November 8.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 27 Jul 2019 08:02:37 -0400 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509377@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-27T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-29T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
African American Literature and Culture Now: Symposium (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60739 60739-14961639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Held over two days, the symposium features a keynote lecture, "The End of Black Studies," from Stephen Best (Berkeley), three panels comprised of guest speakers and Michigan respondents, a writing workshop for graduate students and postdocs, and a concluding roundtable focused on teaching. Over the course of the symposium, conversations will range across a number of vital topics including: nation/diaspora; political activism; historicity; gender/sexuality; and cross-media cultural production.

In addition to keynote speaker Stephen Best, the symposium's guest speakers are Margo Crawford (UPenn), Madhu Dubey (UIC), Erica Edwards (Rutgers), Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt), Kevin Quashie (Brown), and Courtney Thorsson (Oregon).

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:30:57 -0400 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Poster for AALCN symposium
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
African American Literature and Culture Now: Symposium (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60739 60739-14961640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Held over two days, the symposium features a keynote lecture, "The End of Black Studies," from Stephen Best (Berkeley), three panels comprised of guest speakers and Michigan respondents, a writing workshop for graduate students and postdocs, and a concluding roundtable focused on teaching. Over the course of the symposium, conversations will range across a number of vital topics including: nation/diaspora; political activism; historicity; gender/sexuality; and cross-media cultural production.

In addition to keynote speaker Stephen Best, the symposium's guest speakers are Margo Crawford (UPenn), Madhu Dubey (UIC), Erica Edwards (Rutgers), Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt), Kevin Quashie (Brown), and Courtney Thorsson (Oregon).

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:30:57 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Poster for AALCN symposium
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
CSAS Lecture Series | World Literature, the Global South and Indian Ocean Worlds (November 1, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65095 65095-16517507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

World Literature has emerged as a vital field in twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies, one that reflects on the place and function of literatures in our global era. Straddling the established fields of English and Comparative literatures, area studies, postcolonial studies and globalization studies, world literature urges new approaches across a comparative, multi-scalar, translational and inter-cultural space-time continuum; a continuum that poses a serious challenge to a one-world and totalizing model of literary production in our capitalist era. In this regard, both the ‘oceanic’ and the global south have emerged as powerful analytical frames. Oceans straddle traditional boundaries of nations, races, languages, literatures and cultures. The millennial-long history of the Indian Ocean, in particular, encompasses scales of contact that radically transform our grasp of the history of global capitalism entwining Euro-American and Afro-Asian worlds. This talk will focus on the resonance of Indian Ocean worlds to imagining the Global South as a cartographic frame in the post-Cold War era, and argue that the idea of world literature is unthinkable without this longue durée perspective.

Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She works in the areas of world literature, postcolonial studies, the global Anglophone novel, Indian caste and dalit studies, Indian Ocean literary worlds, war and human rights, and technologies of violence. Her books include This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke 2016), Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge 2005), Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual (ed. 2007) and Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality (ed.2007). She is currently working on two projects: a two-volume Cambridge History of World Literature (forthcoming 2020), and a monograph provisionally called Catastrophic Form: Drones, Toxins, Climate. Debjani is the General Editor of a new CUP book series, Cambridge Studies in World Literature and serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Institute for World Literature (IWL), the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), and the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (University of the Bologna). She has held visiting positions & fellowships at the University of Chicago (2010), University of Oxford (2012), University of Cambridge (2013), and University of Wisconsin Madison (2015).

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:08:24 -0400 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Debjani Ganguly
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (November 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

The Webster Reading Series, which remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster, presents two second-year MFA student readers (one poet and one fiction writer) from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Each reader is introduced by a fellow poet or fiction writer.

Webster Readings are free and open to the public and are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting.

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 two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

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 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-03T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-03T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-05T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
CGIS Romance Language Open Advising: Spring, Summer, & Fall 2020 (November 5, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64889 64889-16485064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS will be hosting an open-advising event for Spring, Summer, & Fall 2020 Romance Languages programs. Whether students are interested in studying French, Italian, or Spanish, CGIS offers intermediate & advanced programs, and faculty-led programs to help you satisfy LSA Language requirements. Advisors and Peer Advisors will be available to discuss programs that allow you to take French 230/232, Italian 230, and Spanish 230/232.

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 12:54:22 -0400 2019-11-05T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T12:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Critical Conversations: Dissertation Showcase (November 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63108 63108-15576716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Lunch will be available at 12:30. Presentations begin at 1:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:29:29 -0400 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68795 68795-17153398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The Philippines is an underrepresented area in the study of Global Hispanism. Despite the awareness about the links between this Southeast Asian archipelago and regions readily identified as Hispanic, attempts to ‘world’ Filipino Hispanism are sparse, if not invisible. What happens instead is a reiteration of a historical narrative that presents Spain as a backward imperial power in opposition to the liberating colonial project of the US, which ruled the archipelago from 1898. This plays out in Hispanofilipino literature. This presentation will reflect on the question of worlding in Hispanofilipino literature and will examine translation as an alternative tool for engaging with the allures and discontents of a literature produced under the colonial condition and circulated in an intensely multilingual space.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:21:13 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Anelise Chen Roundtable Q&A (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64367 64367-16332368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Anelise Chen is the author of So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press 2017), an experimental novel that blends elements of sportswriting, memoir, and self-help. A finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, the novel challenges modes of contemporary mythmaking and the validity and usefulness of our current narratives of success.

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.

Chen’s essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, such as the NY Times, New Republic, Village Voice, and BOMB Magazine. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, Banff Centre, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and she is currently a 2019-2020 Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

Chen is currently at work on a hybrid memoir, Clam Down (One World Random House), based on her mollusk column for the Paris Review. Bringing to mind Helen MacDonald, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, Chen transforms the ordinary clam into an unlikely metaphor for deep self-examination—how the specific shells we build for ourselves reflect our experiences of grief, assimilation, and connection.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:44:25 -0400 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Anelise.Chen.headshot
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-17186672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Anelise Chen Reading & Book Signing (November 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64369 64369-16332369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Anelise Chen is the author of So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press 2017), an experimental novel that blends elements of sportswriting, memoir, and self-help. A finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, the novel challenges modes of contemporary mythmaking and the validity and usefulness of our current narratives of success.

Chen’s essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, such as the NY Times, New Republic, Village Voice, and BOMB Magazine. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, Banff Centre, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and she is currently a 2019-2020 Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

Chen is currently at work on a hybrid memoir, Clam Down (One World Random House), based on her mollusk column for the Paris Review. Bringing to mind Helen MacDonald, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, Chen transforms the ordinary clam into an unlikely metaphor for deep self-examination—how the specific shells we build for ourselves reflect our experiences of grief, assimilation, and connection.

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 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:30:09 -0400 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Anelise.Chen
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
P&PW Workshop with Sumita Chakraborty (November 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67783 67783-16949877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Part of the Poetry & Poetics Workshop roundtable series. Please email Zoey Dorman (zdorman@umich.edu) to receive a copy of the paper. Coffee and bagels will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:11:46 -0400 2019-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
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)
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
The Premodern Colloquium. Mythical Allegory and Divine Illumination in Giles of Viterbo's Commentary on the Sentences of Petrus Lombardus (November 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66892 66892-16785533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous operation. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles and dissertation chapters.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:45:31 -0400 2019-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509393@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-11T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Unruly Figures, Vernacular Idioms: Politics of Sexuality in India (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68964 68964-17203245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This talk reflects on the key interventions of Navaneetha Mokkil’s recently published book Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala. Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures are produced in the public imagination and how these figures are accessed and deployed by marginalized sexual subjects, primarily the sex worker and the lesbian, as they stage their own fractured journeys of resistance in the post-1990s context of globalization. She argues that such intermedial and intertextual cultural traffic is the basis of a vernacular politics of sexuality.

By assembling and analyzing a Malayalam language archive, Mokkil demonstrates how vernacular formations of the politics of sexuality cannot be contained within scripts of visibility, rights, and recognition. Her explorations captures the need to revise politics in favor not of a set path but of one that holds within it different possibilities. Mourning and loss, failure, and rewriting are integral to such itinerant political topographies. This talk explores how we have to tactically reinvent categories of analysis so that we can engage with the unstable horizons of the
political.

Navaneetha Mokkil is an Assistant Professor at Center for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her areas of research and teaching include feminist politics in India, print and visual culture, and public formations of sexuality. She completed her PhD in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2010. She is the author of Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala (2019, Seattle: University of Washington Press) and co- editor of Thinking Women: A Feminist Reader (2019, Kolkata: Stree Samya Publishers).

The events are generously sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies; the Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CSRI) of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender; the Department of English Language & Literature; and, the Department of Women's Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:52:34 -0500 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Unruly Figures, Vernacular Idioms: Politics of Sexuality in India
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
GLACE Mass Meeting (November 13, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68801 68801-17153405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) announces its fall mass meeting!

GLACE (Great Lakes Arts, Cultures, and Environments) is an experiential humanities program held at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) worth 8 credits. During the program, UM faculty and other instructors teach four interconnected courses on topics ranging from indigenous culture and language to creative writing to ecological cartography and place-making.

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Meeting Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:46:56 -0400 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting GLACE Mass Meeting
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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)
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (November 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

The Webster Reading Series, which remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster, presents two second-year MFA student readers (one poet and one fiction writer) from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Each reader is introduced by a fellow poet or fiction writer.

Webster Readings are free and open to the public and are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting.

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 two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

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 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-18T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Reading The Merchant of Venice in 2019 (November 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64519 64519-16380909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Over the course of five weeks, we will read through and discuss one of William Shakespeare’s more controversial plays: The Merchant of Venice. Each session we will read out loud one act of the play, and then spend the rest of the session discussing the text and contexts. No outside reading will be required.
Active participation will be encouraged, but if you are more of a listener, then you can still join in on the discussion at the end without taking on an “acting” role. Any modern edition of the text is fine (and a free version can be found online through Project Gutenberg). Margo Kolenda-Mason, instructor, is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Language and Literature Department at UM, where she studies medieval and renaissance literature. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Mondays, 3:30–5:00 pm on November 18 – December 16.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:53:08 -0400 2019-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
MRPCW Public Reading (November 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69273 69273-17277412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Come join the Prison Creative Art Project's (PCAP’s) Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (MRPCW) and our wonderful hosts, 734 Brewing Company, for an evening of poetry and prose highlighting the best of our last 11 years of publication!

Open to the public (18+), this event will highlight current and past contributing writers of the MRPCW as well as Editorial Committee members reading their favorite pieces from our extraordinary authors!

With volumes available for purchase, you can be both moved in the moment and for years to come as you hear the words of our authors delivered through their own and our collective voices. We look forward to seeing you there!

Many thanks to our journal sponsors: Jackson Social Welfare Fund of First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor and the Department of English Language & Literature.

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Performance Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:02:16 -0500 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-19T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Reading the Romantics (November 19, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68715 68715-17140908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:35:35 -0400 2019-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A poster for Reading the Romantics with an image of William Blake's 'Newton'
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Critical Conversations: Ecologies (November 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63109 63109-15576717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Lunch will be available at 12:30. Presentations begin at 1:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:39:06 -0400 2019-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Writing the Other: A Hopwood Teaching Roundtable Special Event (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69427 69427-17318594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Writing across identity difference is always a fraught endeavor. Yet many of us want to encourage our students to try it with thoughtfulness and care. In this workshop we'll share our classroom experiences with setting up guidelines and expectations. Our goal is to emerge from the workshop with a few models for introducing young writers to the seriousness of writing from the perspective of someone different from themselves. Please come with your anecdotes, ideas, and questions!

Rachel Ann Girty, Zell Fellow, served on the English Department Diversity Committee while she earned her MFA and co-created the Graduate Diversity Allies Initiatives. This year she works as Student Leadership Coordinator for the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts and mentors undergraduates through the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives.

Hopwood Teaching Roundtable events are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all are welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:54:36 -0500 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Flyer with pencils in multiple colors
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
CJS Noon Lecture Series | On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65013 65013-16501312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Murakami Haruki is exceptional in many ways, among them the extent of the popularity his works have achieved in translations around the world, and the persistence with which critics have framed this very popularity as an index of his failure to be “Japanese” enough. This talk will use Murakami as a case study to propose a shift in the way we understand the structure of literature as a global phenomenon and the position of writers in it, and to try and bridge the gap that has emerged between the values implicit in discussions of literature as a global phenomenon and those that often govern the teaching of literature in American contexts.

Michael Emmerich is Professor of Japanese literature at UCLA and Director of the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. His books include The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature; Tentekomai: bungaku wa hi kurete michi tōshi; Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers; and New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Stories in Japanese.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:21:14 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature
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
Prof. Petra Kuppers "Writing Aware" Q&A on Representing Disability (November 21, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65680 65680-16629890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist, a community artist, and a Professor of English, Women's Studies, Theatre and Dance, and Art and Design at the University of Michigan.

Prof. Kuppers uses somatic speculative writing and performance practice to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures, and she grounds herself and her work in site-specific performance and disability culture methods. She has written academic books on disability arts, somatic poetics, and medicine and performance. Her Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape (2011) explores arts-based research methods, and her Studying Disability Arts and Culture: An Introduction (2014) is full of practical exercises for classrooms and studios. Her creative books include the poetry collection PearlStitch (2016) and the queer/crip speculative short story collection Ice Bar (2018). She is a recipient of the American Society for Theatre Research’s best dance/theatre book award, and the National Women’s Caucus for the Arts’ Award for Arts and Activism.

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 whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

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 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:45:26 -0400 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T15:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Petra
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-22T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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)
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-23T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-24T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-24T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 26, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-26T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-27T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-28T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 29, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 29, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-29T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 30, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 30, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-30T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509413@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-01T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-02T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 3, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-03T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Arthur Sze Reading and Book Signing (December 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64294 64294-16282453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 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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Presentation Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:03:54 -0500 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Arthur Sze
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
DECEMBER DEADLINE: Hopwood Awards! (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64566 64566-16388937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The deadline is noon, December 4, 2019 for the First and Second Year Hopwood Awards and other creative writing contests. NO LATE SUBMISSIONS ALLOWED! Please submit well in advance. All submissions take place online. For more information, visit lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

(Please note: if you are graduating in December you may submit work to the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards contests for which you are eligible, but your deadline is December 4th instead of January 29th.)

~~Brief summary of December 4, 2019 deadline contests~~

* Hopwood First and Second Year Contests are open to first- and second-year students (with further eligibility requirements detailed at above link). Genres included in these contests are poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.

* Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship is open to students with demonstrable financial need (recipients must receive University of Michigan financial aid, along with other eligibility requirements listed at the link above). Genres included are drama, screenplay, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.

* There are a number of Single Poem Contests with the December deadline: The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry, The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Award, The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, The Michael R. Gutterman Award, and The Academy of American Poets Awards. These contests each recognize a single poem, but have separate entry requirements. Please read each page carefully.

* The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize recognizes long poems or poetic sequences and is open to all University of Michigan students (with further eligibility requirements at the link above).

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Other Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:59:24 -0400 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 Hopwood Awards Program Other Manuscripts in the Hopwood Room
Author's Forum Presents: "The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time" (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66151 66151-16711316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

June Howard (English, American culture, women's studies) and Joshua Miller (English, Judaic studies) discuss Howard's latest book, followed by Q & A.

*Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time* is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this study explores how regional writing shapes ways of imagining not only the neighborhood or the province, but also the nation, and ultimately the world. Its key premise is that thinking about place always entails imagining time. It analyzes how concepts crystallize across disciplines and in everyday discourse and proposes ways of revising American literary history and close readings of particular authors' work. It demonstrates, for example, the importance of the figure of the school-teacher and the one-room schoolhouse in local color and subsequent place-focused writing. Such representations embody the contested relation in modernity between localities and the knowledge they produce, and books that carry metropolitan and cosmopolitan learning. The volume discusses fiction from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including works by Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Gaines, Wendell Berry, and Ursula LeGuin as well as romance novels and regional mysteries.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:05:07 -0400 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Center of the World
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
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 5, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Reading the Romantics (December 5, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68722 68722-17140909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:47:05 -0400 2019-12-05T12:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A poster for Reading the Romantics with an image of William Blake's 'Newton'
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
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (December 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16541453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

For any questions or to share accommodations needs, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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)
Absinthe Reading (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64797 64797-16444954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation, Issue 26: VIBRATE! Resounding the Frequencies of Africana in Translation.

Please join us in celebrating this new publication with a reading on Friday, December 6, 2019 in 3222 Angell Hall.

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Other Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:24:52 -0500 2019-12-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comparative Literature Other Absinthe. VIBRATE! Resounding the Frequencies of Africana in Translation
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (December 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

The Webster Reading Series, which remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster, presents two second-year MFA student readers (one poet and one fiction writer) from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Each reader is introduced by a fellow poet or fiction writer.

Webster Readings are free and open to the public and are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting.

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 two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

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 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-12-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-07T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
The Premodern Colloquium. Guillaume Postel's De la Republique des Turcs (1560): An Encounter with the Other (December 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66893 66893-16785534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Premodern Colloquium is a faculty and graduate-student discussion group, now in its forty-first year of continuous operation. We meet four times each term on Sunday afternoons to discuss work in progress presented by local and visiting scholars, usually book chapters, articles and dissertation chapters.

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:45:01 -0400 2019-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-08T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 9, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-09T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-10T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Special Collections After Hours: Dissecting the Human Body in the Renaissance (December 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65052 65052-16509312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The visual representation of human anatomy in the Renaissance was the fruit of an extraordinary partnership between physicians and artists. You are all invited to explore a great variety of early printed books containing illustrations of the human body that reflect the science of dissection as well as the latest artistic theories. The display will include richly illustrated treatises by well-known authors such as Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius.

This event is part of Special Collections After Hours, a monthly open house series sharing highlights from the many books, documents, and artifacts in the Special Collections Research Center. Each event is open to everyone and will offer a new group of themed materials for visitors to explore. Open houses are held on the second Tuesday of each month during the academic year. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:20:14 -0400 2019-12-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House Copper-plate engraving of a "muscle man" from Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564). De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Basel: Johannes Oporinus, 1543).
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 11, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
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)
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-14T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-15T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (December 16, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist, hyper-masculine, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency, otherness, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.

This novel of shipwreck, survival, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Yet, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions, translations, adaptations, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.

Content Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-12-16T09:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library