Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Magic in Mame-Loshn: Translating Harry Potter into Yiddish (March 1, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79545 79545-20375058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 1, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Harry Potter series is the most-translated book series of all time, having appeared in languages as various as Tamil, Ancient Greek, and Hawaiian. In this talk, Viswanath will be talking about the journey and challenge of translating Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone into Yiddish. Along the way, he will address questions and topics such as: Is Harry Potter particularly difficult to translate? What does it mean to translate something into a Jewish language? Who is reading Harry Potter in Yiddish? The book can be ordered online [harrypotter.olniansky.com], and a recording of the first chapter is available on Youtube [youtube.com/watch?v=6_fB0ZsjpgE].

Advance Registration Required: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/8716061622069/WN_go1LSrJ4SrecwpRr2wFNGw

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:55:28 -0500 2021-03-01T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-01T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Yiddish Harry Potter Cover
A Taste of Frontier Medicine: The Kumys Cure in Sergei Aksakov’s Eastern Frontier Trilogy (March 4, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81936 81936-20990916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

"A Taste of Frontier Medicine” considers Sergei Aksakov’s extensive, mid-nineteenth-century memoirs through the lens of a “frontier family narrative,” a genre perhaps more familiar in the American literary setting. While Aksakov’s work has received critical attention for its memoiristic content and attention to nature, the geohistorical specificity of the trilogy’s setting has been overlooked. This is surprising given the recent interest in understanding Russian colonial and imperial experience. A Family Chronicle (1856) and Childhood Years (1856) are not books in which the action could take place anywhere or in some generic pastoral or provincial space. Rather, they are about a specific place – Orenburgskii krai (Bashkiria) – that was a borderland, frontier, and contact zone from the time of its inclusion within Russian imperial space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries into Aksakov’s lifetime. In “A Taste of Frontier Medicine,” I explore some of the ways in which the eastern Russian border with “Asia” broadly understood frames Aksakov’s work, as well as how these texts make claims about Russian identity as something defined by and in the “hybrid,” Eurasian sphere of the border zone. Discussion will center on two episodes that articulate a critical aspect of Aksakov’s frontier imaginary: the narrator’s mother’s taking of a “kumys cure.” The “kumys cure” serves as a revitalizing moment that establishes “nomadic,” “Asiatic” elements of the frontier as a crucial antidote to both a perceived excess of civilization and, counter-intuitively, to the potential dangers of the frontier zone itself.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:45:06 -0500 2021-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar A Taste of Frontier Medicine
Reading and Q&A with Mat Johnson (March 11, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79476 79476-20335630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Mat Johnson has explored the complexities of American racial identity through satire, historical fiction, and graphic novels. Drawing on his experiences as the son of a Black mother and an Irish-American father, Johnson offers readers and audiences a nuanced, challenging view on what it means to be a person of color in America throughout history and today.

Since the publication of his first novel, *Drop*, in 2000, Johnson has established a reputation as a forward-thinking writer with a unique, imaginative perspective on American social norms, which he explores through characters that toe the line between outlandish and instantly recognizable. His follow-up novel, the gentrification satire *Hunting In Harlem*, was highly acclaimed and received the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Novel of the Year.

Johnson’s satirical novel,* Pym*, a brilliant reimagining of a famously enigmatic Edgar Allen Poe story, was named one of the best books of the year by *The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Seattle Times, the Houston Chronicle*, and more. *Loving Day*, his 2016 novel, is a hilarious yet moving story about race, family, and opposites bound in love. Hailed as “Exceptional…To say that *Loving Day* is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales,” by *the Los Angeles Times*, *Loving Day* was a *New York Times* Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by *the San Francisco Chronicle*, NPR, *Men’s Journal*, and more. Both *Pym* and *Loving Day* (one of *The New York Times’* 100 Notable Books of 2015) are popular choices for common reading experiences across campuses nationwide. Johnson has also brought his sensibility to comics and graphic novels, most notably in *Incognegro*, which combines graphic storytelling, noir mystery, and meticulously-researched history to explore issues of passing in a segregated society and America’s history of lynching.

In lectures that explore race, identity, and the writing process, Johnson unravels the themes that run through his work with humor, scholarship, and insight. He has received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was the first person to be named a James Baldwin Fellow. Johnson is a professor at University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program and English Department.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:55:41 -0500 2021-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mat Johnson
Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest (March 12, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77488 77488-21034701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Seminar coordinator: Marlon James Sales (U-M Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies)

Although Filipino migration has historically converged in other places across the US, it is in the Midwest, particularly at the University of Michigan, where some of the most extensive archival sources on this Southeast Asian nation can be found. These sources are generally used to examine US imperialism in Asia-Pacific, often glossing over the fact that the American period in the Philippines also led to the flourishing of Filipino literature in Spanish as a nationalist response. In this second installment of our Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminars, we shall analyze the archive as a site of translation and historical memory as a multilingual construct, focusing specifically on Hispanofilipino texts in the libraries of the University of Michigan and the broader Midwest. Translation here means two things. Since Spanish has never been spoken widely in the Philippines despite three centuries of colonial rule, translation may refer to the rendering of texts in another language supposedly understood by a majority of local readers. But given the limitations in how archival data is stored in the Philippines, translation may also refer to the movement of the archival sources themselves, whether physically or digitally, thus reclaiming them as objects of cultural memory. How has translation contributed to a monolingualized commemoration of multilingual pasts? What are the stakes of reconstructing a nation’s history through texts written in colonial languages? In which ways can translation help in recuperating a peripheral literary tradition in Spanish?

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:44:47 -0500 2021-03-12T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation and Memory: Hispanofilipino Literature and the Archive in the US Midwest
Craft Lecture: Race, Identity, and the Creative Process (March 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79477 79477-20335631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Mat Johnson has explored the complexities of American racial identity through satire, historical fiction, and graphic novels. Drawing on his experiences as the son of a Black mother and an Irish-American father, Johnson offers readers and audiences a nuanced, challenging view on what it means to be a person of color in America throughout history and today.

Since the publication of his first novel, *Drop*, in 2000, Johnson has established a reputation as a forward-thinking writer with a unique, imaginative perspective on American social norms, which he explores through characters that toe the line between outlandish and instantly recognizable. His follow-up novel, the gentrification satire *Hunting In Harlem*, was highly acclaimed and received the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Novel of the Year.

Johnson’s satirical novel,* Pym*, a brilliant reimagining of a famously enigmatic Edgar Allen Poe story, was named one of the best books of the year by *The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Seattle Times, the Houston Chronicle*, and more. *Loving Day*, his 2016 novel, is a hilarious yet moving story about race, family, and opposites bound in love. Hailed as “Exceptional…To say that *Loving Day* is a book about race is like saying Moby-Dick is a book about whales,” by *the Los Angeles Times*, *Loving Day* was a *New York Times* Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by *the San Francisco Chronicle*, NPR, *Men’s Journal*, and more. Both *Pym* and *Loving Day* (one of *The New York Times’* 100 Notable Books of 2015) are popular choices for common reading experiences across campuses nationwide. Johnson has also brought his sensibility to comics and graphic novels, most notably in *Incognegro*, which combines graphic storytelling, noir mystery, and meticulously-researched history to explore issues of passing in a segregated society and America’s history of lynching.

In lectures that explore race, identity, and the writing process, Johnson unravels the themes that run through his work with humor, scholarship, and insight. He has received the Dos Passos Prize for Literature and was the first person to be named a James Baldwin Fellow. Johnson is a professor at University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program and English Department.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:59:38 -0500 2021-03-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mat Johnson
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 1: Orientalism and the Erasure of Arab Women Poets (March 12, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81553 81553-20925407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Orientalism and the Erasure of Arab Women Poets: Reinscribing Gender in Medieval Adab Culture

Arabic manuscripts in world archives transmit the speeches and poetry of women from pre-Islamic times to the modern era, citing at least 400 named women. Gendered eloquence (Balāghāt al-Nisāʾ) was a widely recognized category of verbal art in adab-humanities, from the ninth century onward. Thousands of texts document a Shahrazadian (logo-centric) counter-culture resistant to ossified patriarchal authority in pre-Islamic and medieval Arabo-Islamic societies. Over the past five centuries, though, oriental studies has taken little notice of the phenomenon and modern print sources have hardly done justice to the legacy of women’s verbal art. Western scholarship has in effect muted Arab women poets for centuries, with the attendant risks of permanent extinction of an intangible world heritage. How and why did this erasure happen? This talk shifts frame between the contemporary and the premodern, between the ghosts of orientalist scholarship and the legacy of premodern Arab women demanding to be heard and remembered once again.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:00:39 -0500 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Bayad-oud-wine
Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit (March 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82095 82095-21034702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In the afternoon, the public is invited to a book talk between Harold Augenbraum, editor, translator, and former executive director of the National Book Foundation, and award-winning author Gina Apostol. The conversation will revolve around Augenbraum’s translations of the novels Noli me tángere and El filibusterismo by Philippine national hero José Rizal, and Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, which won the 2010 Philippine National Book Award and has recently been republished in the US. Apostol is also the author of Insurrecto, which has been included in the list of the ten best books for 2018 by the magazine Publishers Weekly.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L50hQhumR_GoQ45jVwQPtA

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:41:02 -0500 2021-03-12T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Translation/Transnation: Translation as a Critical Practice for Writing a Nation in Transit
2021 Doris Sloan Memorial Program Chitra Ganesh: On Utopia and Dissent (March 12, 2021 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80790 80790-20793301@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

Chitra Ganesh (b. 1975, Brooklyn, NY) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. For the past 20 years, Ganesh's drawing-based practice has shed light on narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature and art. Ganesh’s installations, comics, animation, sculpture, and mixed media works on paper often take historical and mythic texts as inspiration and points of departure to complicate received ideas of iconic female forms. Her studies in literature, semiotics, and social theory have been critical to a steady engagement with narrative and deconstruction that animates her work. Her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia, with solo exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1, The Warhol Museum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Brooklyn Museum, Rubin Museum, Kitchen, and most recently, A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask, the 4th Annual QUEERPOWER Facade Commission at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York City. (currently on view through October 2021). 

Her work Sultana’s Dream was recently acquired by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and will be featured in the upcoming exhibition Oh, honey… A queer reading of the collection in fall 2021. Learn more about Sultana’s Dream in UMMA’s online presentation of the exhibition. 

Her work has also been exhibited in group exhibitions across the United States, including at The Walker Art Center, MN; The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Queens Museum of Art, NY; The Asia Society, NY; The Bronx  Museum, NY, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, LA, among others. Ganesh’s work has also been widely exhibited across Europe and Asia, including at the Hayward Gallery, London, Saatchi Museum, London; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain; the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden; Kunstalle Exnergrasse, Vienna, Arthotek Kunstverein, Göttingen; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; the Gwangju Contemporary Arts Centre, Korea; Parasite, Hong Kong, the Bhau Daji Lad and Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai; Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and the Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; The Kochi-Muzuris Biennale, India, & the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh among others.

Ganesh's works are held in prominent public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum, among others. She has received numerous awards, including  the New York Foundation for the Arts; Art Matters Foundation; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, Pollock Krasner Foundation, and most recently the Anonymous was a Woman Award in 2020. She received her B.A. from Brown University and her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Lead support for Oh, honey...A queer reading of the collection is provided by Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.  

The 2021 Doris Sloan Memorial Program is presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Established through the generosity of Dr. Herbert Sloan, this annual program honors one of the Museum’s most ardent friends and supporters, Doris Sloan, a long-time UMMA docent.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:15:49 -0500 2021-03-12T20:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T21:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Paths to Publication (March 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82582 82582-21124023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

In March 2014, RC Creative Writing majors Allison Epstein and Jon Michael Darga were publishing that year's issue of the RC Review, putting the final touches on their novel manuscripts in their tutorials, and looking forward to celebrating their RC graduation. Now Allison is celebrating the release of her first novel, A Tip for the Hangman, and Jon is representing authors as an agent with Aevitas Creative Management. Join Allison and Jon as they team up again to talk about the path to publication from the author's and the agent's perspective, and how they made the leap from creative writing majors to professionals in the writing industry.

Tuesday, March 16, 7:00 p.m.
Join the event at http://myumi.ch/GkKKb

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:57:41 -0500 2021-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
The Clements Bookworm: "What We're Reading Now" (March 19, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82187 82187-21050554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 19, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Panelists Dick Marsh, Sara Quashnie, and Paul Erickson revisit the theme of our first Bookworm in March 2020, discussing “what we’re reading now.”

Register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*Panelists and featured guests discuss history topics in this webinar series. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session.*

*Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:11:52 -0500 2021-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-19T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
Meet Author Patricia Majher (March 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82636 82636-21147757@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

What do you know about the rich history of female lighthouse keepers on the Great Lakes? Celebrate Women's History Month with us by learning about some of the women who kept those lighthouses running, defying the gender expectations of their time to serve the sailing communities on Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior, as well as on the Detroit River!

Patricia Majher is author of "Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U.S. Lighthouse Service," the former editor of Michigan History magazine, and a museum professional. She will share the stories of some of these lighthouse keepers and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live.

"Ladies of the Lights" will be on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of March. Just visit press.umich.edu and use the discount code "UMGL12MAJHER" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Mar 2021 09:35:28 -0500 2021-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-23T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Ladies of the Lights" in front of a lighthouse photo
Representations of the Natural World from the Age of Sail: Mark Catesby, Sydney Parkinson, and John James Audubon (March 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79978 79978-20523448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In 1712, Botanist Mark Catesby traveled to Virginia collecting seeds and specimens, beginning a decades-long journey towards publication of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
(1731-1743).
In 1768, botanical draughtsman Sydney Parkinson joined Captain Cook's voyage to the Islands of Tahiti, in the employment of naturalist Joseph Banks. Although he died on the voyage, plates made from his sketches were preserved in the British Museum.
In 1819, businessman John James Audubon was bankrupted by a national financial crisis and set out on an expedition down the Mississippi River to pursue his dream of documenting America's avian life, ultimately leading to The Birds of America (1827-1838).
This study group led by Juli McLoone will meet Wednesday March 24.
Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:37:34 -0500 2021-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
From Rufio to Zuko and The Debut: Actor Dante Basco (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83129 83129-21282826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Have you been binge-watching Avatar the Last Airbender during quarantine? Meet the voice of Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation, actor Dante Basco, as he discusses his career, Filipino Americans in film, his memoir, and his new film, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers. Dante Basco is an award-winning American film, television, and voice actor who has appeared in over 30 films, and over 65 television shows, web series, and video games. He is best known for his roles as Rufio, the leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s film Hook; as Prince Zuko in Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender; as Jake Long in Disney Channel’s American Dragon: Jake Long, and as Spin Kick from Carmen Sandiego. He starred as the lead actor alongside his three brothers and sister in the independent film, The Debut, the first Filipino American film to be released in American theatres nationwide. In 2019, the independent press, Not a Cult, published Basco’s book, From Rufio to Zuko, a memoir detailing his life as a working class actor of Filipino heritage. Basco was born and raised in California in a Filipino American family of performing artists. He continues acting, writing and performing spoken word poetry, and streaming on Instagram and Twitch. The new feature film he directed, The Fabulous Filipino Brothers, had its world premiere at the SXSW Festival in March 2021:www.fabfilipinobros.com

Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin in conjunction with the ASIANPAM/AMCULT 353/HISTORY 454: Asians in American Film and Television course.

Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, in commemoration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Register for this free, virtual event here: http://tinyurl.com/FromRufiotoZuko

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:56:56 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Dante Basco
NCF talks followed by Q&A (March 24, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82547 82547-21116100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

The Nineteenth-Century Forum would like to invite you to two talks followed by a Q&A with: 
Sober Postdoctoral Fellow, Ross Martin and Graduate Candidate, Srdjan Cvjeticanin

‘On Emerson’s Revolutionary Ecstasies: Cardiovascular Exuberance and Anti-Slavery Thinking’ presented by Ross Martin 

Since Richard Poirier began undoing the notion that Ralph Waldo Emerson proposes a mode of individualism that is stable and resists releasing itself into the world beyond it, some influential readers—from Stanley Cavell, to George Kateb, to Sharon Cameron, to Branka Arsić—have furthered Poirier’s account, reintroducing us to an Emerson who regards life as open and overflowing. Benefiting from the exuberant thinking of Margaret Fuller and Georges Bataille (read alongside Emerson), my talk elaborates on the Emersonian scholarship of recent decades to discuss overabundance from a cardiovascular standpoint as a surging tide that rushes through concentric expansions, and so the scientific impetus for Emerson’s anti-slavery thinking. Augmenting Emerson’s scientific abolitionism with archival evidence, I further investigate his study of Emanuel Swedenborg—the Enlightenment scientist turned mystic—whose lost hematology dissolves anatomical boundaries so that the inward intensity of individuality must release itself and transfigure. Briefly reconstructing Emerson’s Swedenborgianism, my talk uncovers a vision of ontological fecundity unfurled over his career that merges Swedenborg with an emerging strain of American radicalism exemplified by the Haitian Revolution. Finally, I turn to Toussaint Louverture who for Emerson represents the heart’s emancipatory powers, thus situating revolutionary change in an overactive heartbeat at the center of a momentous movement. With Louverture, Emerson at last identifies the dawning of a new age, an upheaval in residual experience through an utmost ecstasy.

‘A nothing tormented by a nothing’ presented by Srdjan Cvjeticanin

In "The Mast-Head," the thirty-fifth chapter of Moby Dick, Ishmael makes the following assertion: "For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the cracking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber." The ensuing chapter, "The Quarter-Deck," proves him right. With a rousing speech, Ahab seduces his entire crew into abandoning their material interests and risking their lives in order to seek revenge against a whale, a whale on whose white hump he piled "the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." No sooner than Ahab stops to take a breath, the Pequod's decks erupt into a deafening chant of  "Death to Moby Dick." The capture is immediate. It happens so quickly and with such ease that Ahab confesses surprise. Why was it so simple, so effortless to convince the entire crew to follow a madman into madness? The second chapter of my dissertation, "A nothing tormented by a nothing," investigates the answer to this question. It does this by first conceptualizing the historico-philosophical conditions animated in Moby Dick and then constructing the theory of the subject operative in Melville's works (esp. Moby Dick, Pierre, Bartleby). After this, I turn to Moby Dick and the "Whiteness of the Whale," by way of which I establish the crucial difference between Ishmael and Ahab, and propose an answer for why Ishmael alone survives. I conclude by constructing the political theory I understand to be embedded in Melville's fictions and arguing for the political function of aesthetics. My talk covers the first part of this chapter.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Mar 2021 12:23:30 -0400 2021-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville
Reading and Q&A with Kathleen Graber (March 25, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79478 79478-20335632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Kathleen Graber’s poetry collection, *The River Twice* (Princeton University Press, 2019), is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. She presents a fluid world in which so much―including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself―seems protean.

Graber is also the author of two previous books of poetry, *Correspondence* and *The Eternal City*, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:05:45 -0500 2021-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kathleen Graber
Craft Lecture: The Art of Association (March 26, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79479 79479-20335633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 26, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Using the assemblages of Joseph Cornell as visual analogs, this talk/generative workshop will consider the ways in which sample poems seemingly shift from subject to subject while still maintaining a sense of coherence.

Kathleen Graber’s poetry collection, *The River Twice* (Princeton University Press, 2019), is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. She presents a fluid world in which so much―including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself―seems protean.

Graber is also the author of two previous books of poetry, *Correspondence* and *The Eternal City*, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:09:34 -0500 2021-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2021-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kathleen Graber
Letters to a Young Brown Girl Poetry Reading & Book Discussion (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83149 83149-21282827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2020). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017). She is also the author of the chapbooks Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008) Cherry (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008), and For the City that Nearly Broke Me (Aztlán Libre Press, 2012).

Her work is published or forthcoming in Arroyo Literary Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, As/Us, Boxcar Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chain, Eleven Eleven, Entropy, Fairy Tale Review, Fourteen Hills, Hambone, Kartika Review, Lantern Review, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Origins Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics, among others. An Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, educator, and poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.

https://barbarajanereyes.com/

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:55:59 -0400 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Workshop / Seminar Letters to a Young Brown Girl
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 2: Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy (March 29, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81552 81552-20925406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 29, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy in Early Modern Isfahan

In seventeenth-century Isfahan, the authorship of anthologies was a male prerogative. This talk wonders about women who have been excluded from the act of writing their own anthology to consider gendered literacy and female friendship through an anthology collected in the library of the Urdubadi family of bureaucrats and poets. The decisive role of a female family member, the Urdubadi widow, whose pilgrimage to Mecca is recorded in this anthology, divulges her love for a female companion who was forced to leave Isfahan due to rumors circulating about their friendship. How are we to interpret this inclusion? Reading this family history as an archive, we will see how anthologies document social and affective bonds with kin and with friends, acts that make the city legible for us and for themselves.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:36:19 -0500 2021-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual Urdubadi Majmua, Tehran University Library
MEMS Graduate Student Showcase 2 (March 30, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82866 82866-21203454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Humans and Monsters in Early Medieval Literature

Monsters function as social markers of the feasible and plausible. In dissonance to mainstream social constructs, they make people uncomfortable and help them project their fears and anxieties. My work seeks to understand the permanence and fluidity of monstrosity in its physical and psychological perceptions and representations in early medieval literature, taking as samples Beowulf, the Wonders of the East, and the Aberdeen Bestiary.

I argue that while monstrosity is inherent to the monstrous individual, it might have been perceived as permanent but also as changing. For instance, dragons, whose monstrosity is embedded in their physicality and inextricable from it, bear their monstrosity permanently; however, Beowulf, the hero, bears a fluid monstrosity since he displays chivalrous traits when not in combat while assuming a monstrous nature when acquiring colossal – non-human – strength to overpower Grendel. Through this fluctuation, I try to understand the relationship between humans and monsters, and also the capacity of humans to harbor monstrosity.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:27:18 -0500 2021-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Aberdeen Bestiary f68v_2
CREES Noon Lecture. Literature in Albania from Communism to the Present (March 31, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80972 80972-20824905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Under the communist regime (1944-91), Albanian literature followed two separate and antithetical paths: on the one hand, writers turned to socialist realism for official literature that supported the state’s propaganda, while on the other authors writing in prisons or labor camps joined an underground literature of opposition to Enver Hoxha’s regime. Subject to harsh censorship and persecution, some oppositional writers managed to escape Albanian Communism, going into exile to publish books critical of the regime. Those who remained in Albania were silenced until the collapse of the regime.

Coming from three different generations, the authors on this panel share their experiences of the totalitarian regime and its aftermath, and reflect on the role of literature in Albanian society: how does literature represent and transfigure experiences of violence and oppression? What is the place of exile in national literature? What is the role of literature in the memory culture of a post-communist society? What, indeed, is the status of literature in contemporary Albania?

Lisandri Kola is an author, scholar, and translator. He taught Albanian Literature of Exile at the University of Michigan (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures), and Albanian Modern Literature, History of Albanian Sonnet, Translation Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Tirana. Kola is the author of many books, among them *A Poem of Love* (Albanian-English-Serbian), *Flutrat vdesin në maj/Butterflies Die in May*, *Sonete/Sonnets*, and *Saga e nji dite/Saga of a Day,* among many others. He has translated into Albanian language, Longinus, Alda Merini, Fernando Pessoa, Luigi Pirandello, Saint Anthony of Padua, and has in progress Rime of Guido Cavalcanti. Selected poetry and prose of L. Kola are translated into Montenegrin, English, German, and French languages. He was awarded the Albanian National Prize Át Zef Pllumi in poetry (2014). Lisandri Kola obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Tirana in 2014. See his poetry at http://www.kens.al/revista/kolonakens/a_poem_of_love.pdf

Luljeta Lleshanaku is an Albanian poet. She studied Albanian philology & literature at the University of Tirana, and later she graduated with a MFA from Warren Wilson College, USA. She attended The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1999 and was awarded a writer’s fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2008-09). She is the author of nine poetry collections in her language and fourteen other collections published in translation in other languages. Five of her books in translation are published in English. Her last poetry collection in English is *Negative Space*, published by New Directions in the USA and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK, was a winner of the English PEN award, a finalist for the GRIFFIN International Poetry Prize 2019 in Canada, and a finalist for PEN America 2019. She has worked as journalist, TV author, university lecturer, and a historical researcher. See her poetry at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/luljeta-lleshanaku

Primo Shllaku was born in Shkodra, a town in the north of Albania of great cultural primacy, which lasted until the time the communist regime was set up. His father was a theater director and uncle a prominent translator of ancient Greek and Latin. Shllaku studied Albanian language and literature at the State University of Tirana. For several years he taught in different schools and different levels of school in Tirana as well as in different villages. Beginning in the late 1980s he taught at the University of Shkodra. Later he taught Albanian and French in Greece as well as Albanian at the University of Belgrade. In 2010 he received a doctorate in literary sciences, after which he has been teaching a History of Esthetical Doctrines at the University of Fine Arts in Tirana. See his poetry at http://www.albanianliterature.net/authors/modern/shllaku/shllaku_poetry.html

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/wlGA7

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. 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 Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:36:40 -0400 2021-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion CREES Albanian Literature
EIHS Lecture: In Defense of Damascus: A Tradition in Words (April 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79652 79652-20438370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This is a portrayal of Damascus that is based on a continuous tradition of local representations of the city that began in the twelfth century and continued uninterrupted into the modern period. While comparing this textual tradition to its European counterpart of painted landscapes and exploring its relentless, subjective, and defensive nature, Professor Sajdi will offer a historical cartography of Damascus that is both critical of and faithful to this local practice of “cityscapes” in words.

Dana Sajdi (PhD, Columbia University 2002) is associate professor of Middle Eastern History at Boston College. She is the author of The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (2013, Turkish and Arabic translations in 2018); editor of Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century (2008, in Turkish 2014). She is the recipient of several fellowships including MIT-Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:08:18 -0500 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Dana Sajdi
Reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar (April 1, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83156 83156-21282858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

The Arab & Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan (AMAS), Hikayat, the Spectrum Center, and Arab Heritage Month (AHM) are partnering to host a reading and Q&A with Zeyn Joukhadar! Zeyn will be reading from his new book Thirty Names of Night & answering your questions!

Visit http://www.zeynjoukhadar.com to learn more about Zeyn's work.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:37:31 -0400 2021-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion AMAS, HIKAYAT & ANAM PRESENT
Sexual Citizens Authors Q&A (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83278 83278-21330362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Engage with SAPAC's CORE (Consent, Outreach, and Relationship Education) Program in a Q&A with Dr. Jennifer S. Hirsch and Dr. Shamus Khan, the authors of Sexual Citizens, a book that discusses the social dynamics contributing to sexual assault on college campus through an intensive study conducted at Columbia University.

Join us on Friday, April 2nd at 12 pm!

Register here: tinyurl.com/pexcr5e6

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Well-being Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:17:59 -0400 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Well-being Sexual Citizens Authors Q and A presented by SAPAC's Consent, Outreach, and Relationship Education Program
Homer’s Odyssey (April 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79946 79946-20517553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Using Robert Fagles’ translation of the Odyssey (required), we will do a close reading and discussion of the poem. We will get to know Odysseus, “that man of many ways” (as war hero; as master of disguise; as teller of tales; as skilled craftsman; and, finally, as husband and father).

Instructor Marilyn Scott was a lecturer in Classics and Great Books at UM and taught Latin and English at Ann Arbor’s Community High School.

The study group will meet Mondays from April 5 through May 17. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:12:19 -0500 2021-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Olli Study Groups
Storytelling for Social Justice (April 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82050 82050-21012685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Storytelling — listening to the stories of others and sharing one’s own stories — builds a foundation for human interaction. Telling others how we got here and why we care about an issue builds connection, allows us to share our values, and creates meaning. The art of public narrative is used in all aspects of social work practice — from helping our clients rewrite the stories they tell themselves, to helping communities and groups galvanize social change, to helping policy makers and politicians tell a “story of self” while creating a “story of us.” Join us for a discussion featuring Aaron Foley, former chief storyteller for the City of Detroit and current professor of journalism at New York University; Eric Thomas, current chief storyteller for the City of Detroit; and Jessica Care Moore, Detroit poet, activist and author.
RSVP for Zoom Link
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W210

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:47:23 -0500 2021-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Storytelling for Social Justice
Indian Literature Series (April 8, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83559 83559-21426681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan

SPICMACAY at University of Michigan is proud to organise the Literature Series, where we will organise discussions of various works of literature in classical & modern Indic languages, led by a language expert.

Our first discussion is on Silappatikāram, one of the five great Epics of Tamil literature, facilitated by Prof. Vidya Mohan, faculty for Tamil language, University of Michigan.

Date: 8-Apr-2021 (Thursday)
Time: 6pm to 7pm EDT
Language: English
No. of participants: 25 participants
Please sign-up on this link: https://forms.gle/WEkKQ7gA9VSjKfyJ6

Note: This event is only for UMich students, alumni & staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 May 2021 13:16:47 -0400 2021-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 2021-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location SPICMACAY at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Discussion on Silappatikāram - The Tamil Epic
Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy Book Talk with Editors (April 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83151 83151-21282830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for a conversation with Asian American Studies Professors, Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State University) and Dr. Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (University of California, Davis), about their book Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (Rutgers University Press, 2019). Moderated by Prof. Emily P. Lawsin (University of Michigan)

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power-holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/fight-the-tower/9781978806368

Bios:
Dr. Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde is an associate professor of Asian American Studies and the founding director of the New Viet Nam Studies Initiative at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora, co-founder of the social justice movement, Fight the Tower, and co-editor of Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy.

Dr. Wei Ming Dariotis is a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is co-editor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, and co-author of the definition of critical mixed race studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:57:58 -0400 2021-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-12T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Fight the Tower
The Beauty of Your Face (April 12, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82538 82538-21116089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 12, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Novelist Sahar Mustafa to read from and discuss her novel The Beauty of Your Face, W. W. Norton, 2020. The novel has been assigned in some AMAS courses and will be the April selection for the Muslim Student Association book club.
The workshop will be open to the public.

Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, an inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her first novel The Beauty of Your Face was named a 2020 Notable Book and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review. She writes and teaches outside of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:19:30 -0500 2021-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion The Beauty of Your Face
2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar (April 13, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82892 82892-21211375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This seminar will provide an opportunity for students to learn from Dr. Davidson in a smaller setting and ask questions about issues related to colonialism, museum collecting, and the Bible.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcuCsqDgvGdAwbZXvzSl20icACdwirItc


Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that desperately rely upon material remains to bring the Bible to life. These archives have been central to Biblical Studies and the maintenance of the Bible as a product of imperial modernity. The Bible as a text and archive plays a critical role in the production and maintenance of the narratives of racial capitalism, a central aspect of Western modernity. By examining the language and ephemera of contemporary readers, who have been racialized by imperial logics that produce Bible translations and narrativize objects in archives, this presentation situates the geography of contemporary racialized readers as the site from which to develop an archive of the Bible. Local geographies, both the specific geography of the context of the Bible and the geography of a modern reader, are seen as productive challenges to the universalizing myths of modernity. Greater attention to contextual languages and experiences offer opportunities to unmask the cultural and geographical boundedness of stories, objects, and lives that form the core deposit of the Bible.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Mar 2021 13:59:36 -0500 2021-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-13T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 2021 David Noel Freedman Seminar
Ziibimijwang Farm: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty (April 14, 2021 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83685 83685-21454208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

Guest Speaker: Joe Van Alstine - Chair of the Board of Directors, Ziibimijwang, Inc.

Discussants (from the UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum):
David Michener - Curator
Jeremy Moghtadar - Campus Farm Program Manager

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DFmTFvx2S62udpTJsgDvqA

Ziibimijwang Farm is helping restore food sovereignty for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and other communities throughout the northern Great Lakes region.

What opportunities and benefits are there for Native American Tribes and Communities in operating a sustainable, community-based farm? What are the challenges associated with this approach and how can they be successfully managed? How can collaboration with tribal and non-tribal institutions, such as the University of Michigan's Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum, help promote Ziibimijwang’s mission?

Please join us as Joe Van Alstine will discuss ways in which Ziibimijwang is working to provide a reliable food source for tribal community members independent of the larger food system, encourage healthy eating, and enhance people’s knowledge of how to raise their own food.

Sponsors:
UM College of Literature, Sciences, and the Arts
UM Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum
UM Office of Research
UM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
UM Museum Studies Program
UM Department of American Culture
UM Native American Studies Program
UM Office of Government Relations
Native American and Indigenous Studies Interdisciplinary Group

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:16:20 -0400 2021-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80657 80657-20769635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that desperately rely upon material remains to bring the Bible to life. These archives have been central to Biblical Studies and the maintenance of the Bible as a product of imperial modernity. The Bible as a text and archive plays a critical role in the production and maintenance of the narratives of racial capitalism, a central aspect of Western modernity. By examining the language and ephemera of contemporary readers, who have been racialized by imperial logics that produce Bible translations and narrativize objects in archives, this presentation situates the geography of contemporary racialized readers as the site from which to develop an archive of the Bible. Local geographies, both the specific geography of the context of the Bible and the geography of a modern reader, are seen as productive challenges to the universalizing myths of modernity. Greater attention to contextual languages and experiences offer opportunities to unmask the cultural and geographical boundedness of stories, objects, and lives that form the core deposit of the Bible.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d4hdv79nRRO1MpB0zbNDCQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:25:37 -0500 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual 2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture
2021 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Hopwood Lecture (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75561 75561-19521135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Awards Ceremony for the Hopwood Awards and related contests, including the First- and Second-Year, Undergraduate, and Graduate Hopwood Awards; The Academy of American Poets Prizes; The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize, The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry; The Jeffrey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry; The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award; The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship; The Marjorie Rapaport Award in Poetry; The Andrea Beauchamp Prize; The Frank and Gail Beaver Scriptwriting Prize; The Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing; The Helen J. Daniels Prize; The Geoffrey James Gosling Prize; The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award; The Robert F. Haugh Prize; The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing; The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting; The Meader Family Award; The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Dramatic Writing; The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prize in Fiction; The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize; The John Wager Prize; The Stanley S. Schwartz Prize; The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award; The Cora Duncan Award in Fiction; The Peter Phillip Pratt Award in Fiction; The Keith Taylor Excellence in Poetry Award; and the David Porter Award for Excellence in Journalism.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:34:30 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Author Kiese Laymon, an African American man with a shaved head wearing a black zippered shirt.
2021 Hopwood Awards Virtual Ceremony and Lecture (April 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83503 83503-21393428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Presentation of the 2021 Hopwood Awards and other creative writing contests managed by the Hopwood Awards Program. Kiese Laymon, an award-winning memoirist and fiction writer, will deliver the Hopwood Lecture. This event will feature live captioning.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:01:05 -0400 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Flyer featuring photo of Hopwood Lecturer Kiese Laymon
Residential College Creative Writing Honors Thesis Virtual Reading (April 14, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83598 83598-21436488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for an evening of poetry and fiction as RC Creative Writing Honors students read from their thesis projects. The presenters are: Sydney Bentley, Kaleb Brown, Sebastien Butler, Danielle Falling, Kennedi Killips, Holly Price, Brenna Ringwelski, Jeremy Ritz, Andrew Warrick, and Hayley Yu. This event is presented by the Residential College Creative Writing and Literature Program, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this 2020-2021 school year

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 09 Apr 2021 10:38:03 -0400 2021-04-14T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Residential College Livestream / Virtual Event Flyer
Reading and Q&A with Kiese Laymon (April 15, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79480 79480-20335634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, *Heavy: An American Memoir*, won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by *The New York Times*. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. *Heavy* was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction and the Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction. It was named a best book of 2018 by *the New York Times*, *Publishers Weekly*, NPR, *Broadly*, Buzzfeed, *The Washington Post*, and *Entertainment Weekly*.

Three essays from Laymon’s newly reissued book of essays, *How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America*, were selected for inclusion in the Best American series and *The Atlantic’s* best essays. Laymon’s debut novel, *Long Division*, which will be reissued in 2021, was honored with the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was shortlisted for a number of other awards, including The Believer Book Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Fiction Award.

Laymon is a Contributing Editor at *Vanity Fair* and *Oxford American*. He has written for *the New York Times*, *Esquire*, VSB, *ESPN The Magazine*, *Paris Review*, NPR, *Colorlines*, *The Los Angeles Times*, *The Guardian*, *Ebony*, *Guernica*, *Fader*, *Travel & Leisure*, Lit Hub, and many others. A graduate of Oberlin College, he holds an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University. He is the Hubert H. McAlexander Chair of English at the University of Mississippi, and recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon is at work on several new projects, including the long poem, Good God, the horror novel, *And So On*, the children’s book, *City Summer, Country Summer* and the film Heavy: An American Memoir. He is the founder of The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative, a program aimed at getting Mississippi kids and their parents, more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email rmanery@umich.edu and asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:19:55 -0500 2021-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Kiese Laymon
The Past, Present, and Future of Christianity in Science Fiction (April 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83208 83208-21312499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Science fiction has engaged with religious ideas and topics throughout its history. It also has unique ways of approaching a religion such as Christianity with its strong historical focus. On the one hand, time travel technology means that one can visit the first century to look for Jesus or attempt to witness the resurrection. On the other hand, stories of humanity’s distant future among the stars allows reflection on where our past and present trajectories might take our religious traditions. Stories set in the very near future also provide opportunities to explore possible reactions to new technologies or alien encounters. This presentation will provide a survey of treatments of these topics as we consider how the history of science fiction provides insights on the history of Christianity.

Join us on Thursday, April 15 from 7-8:30pm EDT.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QyDBm-8uRV67pLu8EDIfKA

*Co-sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the UM Department of Middle East Studies*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:19:43 -0400 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual The Past, Present, and Future of Christianity in Science Fiction
MEMS Faculty Showcase. Early Islamic World 3: Monsters and Humans in Medieval Persian Epic (April 16, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81578 81578-20933516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How to Tame a Dragon: Monstrous Bodies and the Ontology of Evil in the Poems of Īrānshāh ibn Abi'l-khayr

Whether externally manifested by demons, or internalized as the human flaws of greed, hatred, and hubris, the nature of evil is a driving question in Iranian mythology and epic, particularly in Firdawsī's famous Shāh-nāma (w. 1010). In dialogue with that work, I will take up the far less well-known example of Īrānshāh b. Abi'l-khayr (fl. ca. 1100), who composed two epics set in the world of the Shāh-nāma that questions the ontology of evil through its treatment of human and monstrous bodies. The Bahman-nāma begins with a prince's desire to avenge the death of his father, an ostensibly admirable goal that soon devolves into an obsessive quest to eradicate every trace of Rustam's semi-demonic family from the earth. The (anti-)hero of the Kōsh-nāma, in contrast, is a hideous demon who commits unspeakable acts for thousands of lines, only to turn over a new leaf at the end of the poem. By following the transformation of these two protagonists, Īrānshāh offers two portraits of evil that complicate questions raised by Firdawsī: what is the line that separates hero and monster? Can evil deeds ever be redeemed, and is the fight against evil necessarily good?

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:28:24 -0400 2021-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Livestream / Virtual British Library OR 4615. f. 3v
AT HOME WITH LITERATI: MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW SPRING ISSUE LAUNCH (April 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83466 83466-21383601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Literati Bookstore is pleased to welcome contributors to the Michigan Quarterly Review's Spring 2021 Issue to celebrate its release.

Note: we are now hosting on Zoom webinars. You will be prompted to enter a first name and email upon joining. You may then see a window reading "waiting for host to start webinar," but sit tight--you will be admitted as soon as we begin broadcasting live! You will be able to submit questions using the Q&A feature.

Enjoying At Home with Literati? Donate $5 to sustain our programming here.

RISË KEVALSHAR COLLINS studies creative writing at Boise State University, where she has also served on the editorial staff of Idaho Review.
She earned a BFA in Drama at Carnegie-Mellon University, and an MSW, with emphasis in political and clinical social work, at University of Houston.
Risë was a member of the original Broadway production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf by Notzake Shange. Rise’s play, Incandescent Tones, has been produced Off-Broadway and in repertory theatre. Her essays have appeared in Idaho Statesman, The Blue Review, Boise Weekly, Arbiter, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction was selected as a finalist for North American Review’s Terry Tempest Williams Prize. Recently, Risë was interviewed by Marcia Franklin and featured on the Idaho Public Television online series “The 180.”

DUJIE TAHAT is a Filipino-Jordanian immigrant living in Washington State. They are the author of Here I Am O My God, selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, and Salat, winner of the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry Award. Their poems have been published in Poetry, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Along with Luther Hughes and Gabrielle Bates, they cohost The Poet Salon.

ANNELL LÓPEZ is a Dominican immigrant. A Tin House Scholarship Finalist, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction,
Hobart, New Orleans Review, Cagibi, and elsewhere. Annell is an Assistant Fiction Editor for New Orleans Review. She is working on a collection of short
stories. Follow her: @annellthebookbabe on Instagram and @AnnellLopez2 on Twitter.

YUN WEI received her MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College and studied at Georgetown University and London School of Economics. Her awards include the Geneva Literary Prizes and Himan Brown Poetry Fellowship. Her poetry and fiction appear in Shenandoah, Summerset Review, Poetry Northwest, Wigleaf, Word Riot, and other journals. She works in global health in Switzerland, where she relies on chocolate and tears to survive mountain sports. Find her at pomegranateway.blogspot.com

YASMEEN ALKISHAWI is a Palestinian-Venezuelan American Muslim. She holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida. Her
work is forthcoming in Indiana Review, The Florida Review, and Peregrine.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:49:00 -0400 2021-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Livestream / Virtual
The 20th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in Medical Humanities (April 19, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83733 83733-21483492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

The Center for the History of Medicine and the Department of English Language and Literature are pleased to announce the 20th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.

This year's lecture will feature Professor Deborah Blum, Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Blum is a Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist, columnist and author of six books, most recently, The Poison Squad, a 2018 New York Times Notable Book, and the subject of a 2020 PBS documentary.

Blum will deliver her lecture, "Science Journalism Under the Microscope: From COVID to Climate Change," where she will explores the sometimes mysterious (to others) ways that journalists pick stories, balance evidence, find sources, and spin their tales, using examples from some of the most important stories of the last decade to illustrate good choices and bad, mistakes and successes, to make some essential and insightful points about the profession.

Blum won the Pulitzer in 1992 for a series on primate research that became her first book, The Monkey Wars. She has since focused on key moments in the history of science with books including Love at Goon Park (2002), Ghost Hunters (2006), the New York Times bestseller, The Poisoner’s Handbook (2010). A co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers (2006), she is now under contract with Oxford University Press as a co-editor of a forthcoming guide to science journalism. She has worked as a science columnist for The New York Times, a blogger for Wired, and has written for other publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Mother Jones. She was the Helen Firstbrook Franklin professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 15 years before being selected as the fourth director of the Knight Science Journalism Program in 2015. Shortly later, she launched the online science magazine, Undark, which now numbers a readership in the millions and has won numerous national awards, including the George K. Polk Award.

Blum is a former president of the National Association of Science Writers, was a member of the governing board of the World Federation of Science Writers, and currently serves on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and on advisory boards of Chemical & Engineering News, The Scientist and the MIT Museum. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a lifetime associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her work in science communication.

Please join us for this engaging presentation from one of the nation’s premiere science journalists!

Monday, April 19, 2021
3:00 - 4:00 pm

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/s/95201112797

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:00:10 -0400 2021-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for the History of Medicine Livestream / Virtual Science Journalism Under the Microscope: From Covid to Climate Control
A Reading and Discussion of Inherited Disorders with author Adam Sachs (April 19, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83780 83780-21508901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Author Event — Infantile Masculinities:: Inheriting East and Central European Disorders

https://tinyurl.com/AdamSachsAuthorVisit

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:16:21 -0400 2021-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion A Reading and Discussion of Inherited Disorders with author Adam Sachs
CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS SYMPOSIUM (April 27, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83848 83848-21553910@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

CLASSICAL RECEPTIONS SYMPOSIUM

2-5pm, April 27, 2021

With U Michigan faculty and graduate students and guest speaker
Dr. Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond


Co-sponsored by Contexts for Classics,

Topics in Classical Intersectionalities Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop,
and the Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan


Please register in advance for the symposium using Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdeGuqj0vGddk351AJz8-GaZASRLp5EJr


Schedule for Tuesday, April 27


2-2:45 pm
Opening Remarks: Disciplinarity and Knotty Problems

Patrice Rankine, Dean and Professor of Classical Studies, U. Richmond

In graduate school, my classmates and I joked about--and were impressed with--those students of the classics who seemed fully absorbed in some minute issue apart from this time and place, such as the use of particles in Thucydides. Without relegating philology to a mindset of escapism, we wondered simultaneously 1) what might motivate the full immersion in another place and time, and whether that was even possible; and 2) what it was about us that was unable to disentangle identity from the matter at hand, the text, the image, or even the word. Both directions 1) and 2) represent the knotty problems of our discipline of classics, its construction, its vaunt, and perhaps its rehabilitation in the present historical moment, should we choose the honest confrontation evident in the papers aligned at this symposium.


2:45 - 3:30 pm
Panel 1: Poetics of Classical Reception
Panel Chair: Professor Yopie Prins (Professor of Comparative Literature)

1. Fernando Gorab Leme (PhD student, Classical Studies):
“If Clodia Despised Catullus, you can very well, Dionysus, despise Ariadne”

2. Tomi Drucker (PhD student, Comparative Literature)
“Io’s Signature: The Writing of the Body as Deconstruction of the Logocentric Speech in Ovid’s Io”

3. Lena Grimm (PhD student, Comparative Literature)
“Visuality and Embodiment in Anja Utler’s ‘sibyl--a poem in eight syllables’”


3:30 - 4:30 pm
Panel 2: Pedagogies of Classical Reception
Panel Chair: Ian Fielding (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies)

1. Sherman Clark (UM Professor of Law):
“A Lawyer’s Odyssey and an Apology for Law”

2. Sara Yeager (PhD student, Classical Studies):
“Jerome’s Curriculum Vitae and the Departmental Division”

3. Grace Zanotti (PhD student, Comparative Literature):
“dissertation conclusion final FINAL.docx: Finding Use for Greek Tragedy”

4. Amanda Kubic (PhD student, Comparative Literature):
“Teaching Antigone in Ferguson and Carrie Mae Weems’ Past Tense -
Pedagogical Dilemmas, Questions, and Insights”


4:30 - 5 pm

Concluding Discussion: “Classics for All?”
Moderator: Professor Ian Moyer (Professor of History)

Concluding remarks and discussion with Dr. Rankine of his essay, “Classics for All? Liberal Education and the Matter of Black Lives” (from Classicisms in the Black Atlantic, ed. Ian Moyer, Adam Lecznar, Heidi Morse).


For a link to Dr. Rankine's precirculated essay "Classics for All?" please go to the Contexts for Classics website:
https://lsa.umich.edu/contextsforclassics/news-events/all-news/search-news/dr--patrice-rankine-joins-annual-classical-receptions-symposium-.html

For questions related to the symposium, please contact William Soergel (wsoergel@umich.edu).

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:56:43 -0400 2021-04-27T14:00:00-04:00 2021-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Livestream / Virtual Dr. Rankine
"Cultural Mediation as Humor in Selected African Fiction" (May 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83935 83935-21619167@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Dr. Adwoa Opoku-Agyemang received her PhD from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature. Her research currently centres on humour and laughter in African literatures. She finds primary material in many traditional sources, and has started exploring less-conventional ones. Adwoa also works for the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. She is interested in translation studies and has taught classes in French and in English.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:27:20 -0400 2021-05-05T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-05T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion
Medieval English Poetry (May 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79947 79947-21251095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course will explore a sampling of medieval poems about a variety of topics. We will read mostly short lyric poems, but one class will be dedicated to a longer chivalric romance. Our class sessions will be based in discussion about the poems, many of which are anonymously written. We will read the poems in modern English, with the original Middle English on hand.

Readings will be pre-circulated each session. No previous experience with Middle English or poetry is required.

Instructor Margo Kolenda- Mason is a PhD Candidate in English at UM, where she studies medieval and renaissance literature.

The study group will meet Fridays from May 7 through June 11. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:18:47 -0500 2021-05-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-07T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Olli Study Groups
Nineteenth Century Forum Final Meeting (May 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83611 83611-21438451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

All are welcome to our final meeting of the 2020-21 academic year! Come to meet our incoming graduate student coordinators, Ellie Reese, Emma Soberano, and Dana Moss. We will celebrate the end of a challenging year and brainstorm exciting new ideas for next year. Email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) or Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Meeting Wed, 07 Apr 2021 12:46:32 -0400 2021-05-12T15:00:00-04:00 2021-05-12T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting Turn the page.
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-14T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
(Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Keynote Speaker: Hadji Bakara (U-M English Language and Literature and the Donia Human Rights Center)

Join us on Friday and Saturday, May 14-15, for the annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF). The conference will be held on Zoom.
This Year's CLIFF investigates the visibility, narratives, and media of migration. We will explore circulation in a variety of forms—bodies, ideas, and material goods—through its manifestations in the arts, critical theory, and new media.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
*The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan* (May 25, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84017 84017-21619594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The Persianate Studies Workshop is pleased to announce the virtual Book Launch and discussion of Kathryn Babayan’s new book, *The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan *(Stanford University Press, 2021). The book is available for purchase during the event for a publisher’s discount (20% off).

The book launch with discussion from Çiğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğaziçi Universitesi) and Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University) will be held on Tuesday, May 25, from 1:00-2:30 pm EDT. You may register for the event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zt5vPV6lTK2ht8By3P_7cQ

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 May 2021 13:45:00 -0400 2021-05-25T13:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan
Meet the Authors: Passion for Peonies (May 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83987 83987-21619299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Celebrate spring with the University of Michigan Press Great Lakes author event for May, co-hosted by the Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum! We will be joined by David Michener and Robert Grese, editors of the book "Passion for Peonies: Celebrating the Culture and Conservation of Nichols Arboretum's Beloved Flower." Richly illustrated with hundreds of striking color photos, "Passion for Peonies" collects short essays that celebrate the story of the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden as well as the rich social history of peony gardening that it is an integral part of.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube for anyone who cannot attend live.

About the Authors:
David Michener has curated the peony garden at the University of Michigan’s Nichols Arboretum since 1990. He is co-author (with Carol A. Adelman) of "Peony: The Best Varieties for Your Garden."

Robert Grese is Emeritus Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan as well as former Director of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum.

"Passion for Peonies" will be on sale for $13 and free shipping during the month of May. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/11492511/passion_for_peonies and use the discount code "UMGL13PEONY" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 May 2021 09:07:24 -0400 2021-05-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-05-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Passion for Peonies over an image of peonies
Virtual Family Art Studio: Kusudama (June 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84061 84061-21619782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ehzg2zu940354d93.

In this special program for Ann Arbor Japan Week, join College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alum Maiya Yu for a tutorial on making Japanese kusudama — paper models typically created by sewing or gluing together multiple identical origami units. While you learn about the kusudama process with Maiya, you will also have the opportunity to explore some of the artwork in UMMA's collection with Student Programs Assistant Emily Considine. This event is open for all ages, though each project will increase in difficulty. Projects later in the program may require a level of dexterity difficult for small children to achieve on their own.

Materials We highly encourage you to have your paper prepared ahead of time. 

You will need:
2 sets of 6 squares of paper (recommend 6 inch squares) (12 squares total) 1 set of 12 squares of paper (recommend 4 inch squares) (60 squares total) 12 sets of 6 squares of paper (recommend 3 inch squares) (72 squares total) A glue stick or other relatively fast drying glue or glue dots (or make your own glue at home)
You can cut your own paper following these tips or you can buy pre-cut paper. This multi-pack has enough paper for at least 8 participants in all of the recommended sizes.

Recommended paper types:
Printer paper Magazine paper Origami paper Notebook paper
We do not recommend:
Cardstock Construction paper Cardboard

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.  

Ann Arbor Japan Week is organized by the U-M Center for Japanese Studies. For information about the full line up of activities, please visit the CJS website.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:15:18 -0400 2021-06-17T11:00:00-04:00 2021-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Workshop / Seminar Museum of Art
Meet the Author: Justice and Faith - The Frank Murphy Story (June 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84172 84172-21620648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join us for an event celebrating the newest book from the University of Michigan Press Great Lakes, "Justice and Faith: The Frank Murphy Story." Author Greg Zipes will be with us to discuss Frank Murphy, a Michigan Man who was unafraid to speak truth to power. Born in 1890, Frank Murphy grew up in a small town on the shores of Lake Huron and rose to become Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, and finally a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. One of the most important politicians in Michigan’s history, Murphy was known for his passionate defense of the common man, earning him the pun “tempering justice with Murphy.” There will be a Q&A.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube for anyone who cannot attend live.

About the Author:
Greg Zipes is an attorney and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Studies at New York University.

"Justice and Faith" will be on sale for $20 and free shipping during the month of June. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/11782460/justice_and_faith and use the discount code "UMGL20ZIPES" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:48:29 -0400 2021-06-29T19:00:00-04:00 2021-06-29T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Justice and Faith"
Virtual Family Art Studio: Blind Contour: From the Studio to Cafe Sketches (July 24, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84392 84392-21623782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, July 24, 2021 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=uhlrs88ab&oeidk=a07ei7q0ilw8ef8ed5b.

At its core, drawing is hand-eye coordination. From Pablo Picasso to Georgia O'Keeffe, artists of all stripes practice quick figure drawings to warm up and keep their eyes sharp. Blind-contour, continuous line figure drawing is a warm-up technique that, once learned, is a versatile addition to any artist's repertoire. Blind-contour, figure drawing stresses paying close attention to one's surroundings while also remaining free and loose. Get a beginner's introduction to figure drawing with Literature, Science, and the Arts junior Elizabeth Yoon.

Materials:
4-6 sheets of 24" x 48" paper (or newspaper or 4 pieces of printer paper taped together) Regular Markers or Sharpies (or if using newspaper, metallic markers) A large sketching board, easel, flat table, or other flat surface

Family Art Studio is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement. 

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Other Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:15:23 -0400 2021-07-24T11:00:00-04:00 2021-07-24T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Meet the Author: Michigan Legends (August 25, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84937 84937-21625311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Join us for a summer author event celebrating the treasure trove of folktales, legends, and lore developed in Michigan! Sheryl James, author of "Michigan Legends: Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State" will discuss the stories of the legendary people, events, and places from Michigan’s real and imaginary past and how they are part of the state’s rich cultural heritage. The discussion will include a Q&A for attendees.

This event will be in Zoom webinar and streamed to Facebook Live. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube for anyone who cannot attend live.

About the Author:
Sheryl James is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist who has written for the Detroit Free Press and the St. Petersburg Times. She is the author of “The Life and Wisdom of Gwen Frostic.”

"Michigan Legends" will be on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of August. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/4566827/michigan_legends and use the discount code "UMGL12LEGEND" when you check out.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:11:01 -0400 2021-08-25T19:00:00-04:00 2021-08-25T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of "Michigan Legends" and text Meet the Author: Sheryl James, Wednesday 08.25.21
Artscapade! (August 28, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84654 84654-21624391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, August 28, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing students to the wide array of possibilities for arts participation on campus at an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes.

Also, we're looking for volunteers for this event-- help us make it happen (and get a free Artscapade t-shirt in the process!): http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

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Reception / Open House Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:17:58 -0400 2021-08-28T18:00:00-04:00 2021-08-28T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Reception / Open House Artscapade poster graphic
Nineteenth Century Forum (NCF) Fall Welcome Event (September 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85970 85970-21630620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

NCF invites you to our first meeting of the fall semester, a virtual welcome back event which will take place via Zoom.

Join us on Wednesday, September 8th, at 4pm to
check in as a group after the summer and welcome new members
discuss events for the year
read some autumnal nineteenth century poetry!

For a link to our Zoom event, please send an email to Emma Soberano (soberano@umich.edu), Dana Moss (danamoss@umich.edu), or Elizabeth Reese (eareese@umich.edu).
Similarly, email us if you cannot make it but would like to contribute to the discussion.

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Meeting Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:18:02 -0400 2021-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
Critical Conversations: Networks (September 13, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85263 85263-21626091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2021-22. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Presentations begin at 12:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 1:30.

Link to RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8W1s63cSXMojy4fEOWZV186TaSF3zF4pTXEN_Z9MDYFqijg/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Sep 2021 11:41:21 -0400 2021-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Networks
Science Success Series | The Gifts of Imperfection: Guideposts for Wholehearted Living (September 14, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85312 85312-21626215@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Has the fear of falling short of perfection prevented you from putting yourself out there, trying something new, or sharing your ideas? Come join this session to learn about how to cultivate wholehearted living practices through the work of Dr. Brene’ Brown’s book “The Gifts of Imperfection: Guideposts for Wholehearted Living”. This workshop will introduce you to daily actions you can take to let go of the things that hold you back and allow you to cultivate behaviors that support living wholeheartedly.

Register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/wlBNv

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:25:25 -0400 2021-09-14T15:30:00-04:00 2021-09-14T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar The Gifts of Imperfection Book Cover
A Nineteenth-Century Indian Intertext and the Problem of Modern History (September 17, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85631 85631-21627820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 17, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This talk will focus on the Persian work Yadgar-e Bahaduri, an encyclopedic account of time and space completed in Lucknow in 1834 that encompasses information coming from Indian, Islamic, and European sources. This work belongs to a class of Indian texts, written circa 1750-1850, whose forms and contents invite reformulating global intellectual history before the establishment of European discursive hegemony. I suggest that thinking with this work helps to generate new ways to appreciate the past as a diversified field of imagination and contestation, in the nineteenth century as well as in our present time.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:39:59 -0400 2021-09-17T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion An image of an old Indian building with multiple arched doorways on multiple levels facing inward toward a courtyard.
CCPS Lecture. Translating Pan Tadeusz: A Conversation with Bill Johnston (September 22, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86159 86159-21631749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interactive talk will offer a practitioner’s reflections on the making of a new translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 narrative poem *Pan Tadeusz*, widely referred to as “Poland’s national epic.” We’ll talk about the challenges presented, and the questions posed, by this particular act of translation, including those of imagined and actual readership; the role of aesthetic pleasure in the reading experience; and translation as trespass.

Bill Johnston’s rhyming verse translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s epic poem *Pan Tadeusz* (Archipelago Books, 2018) won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry and the 2019 AATSEEL Translation Prize. Johnston’s other awards include the Found in Translation Award for Tomasz Różycki’s mock epic poem *Twelve Stations* (Zephyr Press, 2015), as well as the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, both for Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel *Stone Upon Stone* (Archipelago Books, 2010). He has also translated the work of Julia Fiedorczuk, Tadeusz Różewicz, Magdalena Tulli, Andrzej Stasiuk, and Jerzy Pilch, among others. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (twice), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 he was awarded the Transatlantyk Prize for contributions to the promotion of Polish literature abroad. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/pdYVe

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:15:09 -0400 2021-09-22T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Livestream / Virtual Pan Tadeusz book cover
Virgil's AENEID (September 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85521 85521-21626811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will read and discuss this famous Roman epic poem (Robert Fagles’ translation, Penguin Classics), which has been a key part of the Western canon for centuries. In addition, we will read and/or watch later interpretations of the hero Aeneas and his ill-fated love affair with Queen Dido.

Study group leader, Marilyn Scott, has led many OLLI study groups and has taught the Aeneid in Latin.

This study group will meet on Wednesdays for seven weeks beginning on September 22. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:35:02 -0400 2021-09-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-09-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Groups
Reading and Q&A with Brian Teare (September 23, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84014 84014-21619583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Critically acclaimed poet Brian Teare writes from the intersection of environmental thought, queer experience, and disability. His most recent book, *Doomstead Days*, offers a series of walking meditations on our complicity with the climate crisis, poems that document the interdependence of human and environmental health by using fieldwork and archival research to situate embodiment and chronic illness within bioregional and industrial histories. As *the New York Times* noted, “Teare’s voices let us weigh the insoluble questions of how to live as an ethical being in the face of violence and environmental collapse.” *Doomstead Days* won the 2020 Four Quartets Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards.

A 2020 Guggenheim fellow, Teare is the author of five previous books, including *Companion Grasses* and *The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven*. His honors include the Brittingham Prize and Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the MacDowell Colony. Teare has a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama, an MFA from Indiana University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He taught creative writing in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade before moving to Philadelphia, where he taught at Temple University. Now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:57:18 -0400 2021-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brian Teare
Craft Lecture: Writing Climate Crisis (September 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84016 84016-21619584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


This craft lecture will lay out just a few of the craft problems that face those of us who write about climate crisis – including dramatic shifts in scale, data-heavy research, polemic, anthropocentric melodrama, and the risk of abstracting a crisis global in scale. It will also propose some ways to address and counter these craft problems – which are also conceptual issues with serious political implications – without over-simplifying or ignoring the consequences of each solution.

Critically acclaimed poet Brian Teare writes from the intersection of environmental thought, queer experience, and disability. His most recent book, *Doomstead Days*, offers a series of walking meditations on our complicity with the climate crisis, poems that document the interdependence of human and environmental health by using fieldwork and archival research to situate embodiment and chronic illness within bioregional and industrial histories. As *the New York Times* noted, “Teare’s voices let us weigh the insoluble questions of how to live as an ethical being in the face of violence and environmental collapse.” *Doomstead Days* won the 2020 Four Quartets Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards.

A 2020 Guggenheim fellow, Teare is the author of five previous books, including *Companion Grasses* and *The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven*. His honors include the Brittingham Prize and Lambda Literary and Publishing Triangle Awards, as well as fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the MacDowell Colony. Teare has a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Alabama, an MFA from Indiana University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He taught creative writing in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a decade before moving to Philadelphia, where he taught at Temple University. Now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia, he lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:56:13 -0400 2021-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brian Teare
Enactments of Queer of Color Critique (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87145 87145-21639092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

The Global Theories of Critique (GTC) workshop this year revolves around the practice of un-disciplining knowledge. Each speaker will open up the session with the body of theory and/or practice they strive to un-discipline and challenge in their work. Followed by a round-table discussion of the speakers’ work that the participants will read beforehand. All meetings are on Zoom, and open to the public.

Our first event will be reading the recent work of Prof. Chandan Reddy on the topic of "Enactments of Queer of Color Critique." Prof. Reddy is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality and the Department of Comparative History of Ideas, at the University of Washington. His research interests lie in Asian American Studies, Global Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality, Critical Race Theory and Globalization Studies, where he explores the themes of gender, sexuality and race focusing on specific problems and issues relevant to these areas of study. He is the author of Freedom with Violence Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Duke UP, 2011).

Please register for this webinar here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuf-ysqjIuH9fk9gdtJs_QlduyWWvHmpzA

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:17:50 -0400 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Lecture / Discussion
Webster Reading Series (September 24, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2021-09-24T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
The Premodern Colloquium. Anti-Aljamiado: Transliterating Arabic in the Antialcoranes (September 26, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85742 85742-21628584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 26, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

After the forced conversion of the Muslims in Castile in 1502 and in Aragon in 1526, numerous Christian writers made use of Arabic and Islamic texts as part of a missionizing effort to instruct and acculturate the new Morisco population. Texts by the convert known as Juan Andrés (Confusión o confutación de la secta mahomética y del Alcorán, 1515), Juan Martín de Figuerola (Lumbre de la fe contra la secta machomética, not published, finished 1518), Bishop of Barcelona Martín García (Sermones, 1520), Erasmist writer Bernardo Pérez de Chinchón (Antialcorano, 1532), and the Avilan priest Lope de Obregón (Confutación del alcorán y secta mahometana, sacado de sus proprios libros, y de la vida del mesmo Mahoma, 1555) form part of a group of missionizing texts that can be called “Anti-Qurʾāns,” on the basis of Pérez de Chinchón’s title. Such texts present an inversion of the language and practices of the Moriscos. They do not use Aljamiado (Castilian text written in Arabic letters and sometimes blended with Arabic text), employed to express and support Morisco identity, but rather “anti-Aljamiado” (Arabic text written in Latin letters, blended with Castilian text), employed to undermine that identity and encourage conversion and assimilation. This chapter analyzes this phenomenon in the context of Arabic knowledge and use in early sixteenth-century Iberia, arguing that the use of “anti-Aljamiado” was not simply an accident of transliteration or typesetting, but was part of a deliberate strategy by Christian preachers and writers to support their own authority in arguing against Islam.

Ryan Szpiech is Associate Professor of Spanish and Judaic Studies, and Director of the Center for Middle East and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, where he teaches and writes about translation, conversion, and religious interaction in medieval and early modern Iberia. He is the author of Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic (Pennsylvania, 2013), which won the La Corónica Book Award (2015); editor of Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean (Fordham, 2015) and of a special issue of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2011) on “Gender and Genre in Medieval Sepharad”; and co-editor of Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond (Brill, 2018) and Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures (Brill, 2019). In 2019, he completed a 25-minute documentary about the history of King Alfonso X, entitled “The Birth of Spanish in 3D” (https://birth-of-spanish.rll.lsa.umich.edu/). Since 2013, he has been editor-in-chief of the journal Medieval Encounters.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Sep 2021 13:09:19 -0400 2021-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Gustav Doré, illustration of Cide Hamete Benengeli, 1863
Animal Psychology and the Venereal Unconscious: A Graduate Student Workshop (September 27, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86235 86235-21632206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 27, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

LIZ MCNEILL:
Materializing Interspecies Communication: Clever Hans and the Sprachkrise's [Language Crisis'] Animal Psychologists (1904-15)

In the fall of 1904, experimental psychologists in Berlin debunked the “equine savant” Clever Hans, who had become famous that summer for his supposed ability to read, write, and do arithmetic. For most readers of German news media, what eventually became known as “observer-expectancy effect” sated their curiosity. But for many, questions remained, questions which centered on Hans’ perception of human embodied communication acts which humans, themselves, could not perceive. Such a mode of animal communication below articulated human language is the focus of this chapter. For the philosopher of language Fritz Mauthner, dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, and fiction writer Franz Kafka—whose works form the critical heart of this chapter—Hans was more than a horse who could produce German-language sentences through a highly mediated, complexly (im)material and embodied interspecies alphabet system. Hans and the horses who followed in his hoof-steps revealed the limits of scientific materialism, ultimately calling for an approach to studying animal psychology which did not begin and end with measuring head and eye movements. What, they wondered, does Hans have to say? Can we ever know?

BASSAM SIDIKI:
Venerealisms: Inter-Imperial Social Hygiene and the Anti-Marriage Plot

This chapter is a literary and cultural history of the “tropification” of venereal disease in the inter-imperial context of the early twentieth century. It argues that the colonial brothel—a rhetorical space bringing together first-wave liberal feminism, anxieties about alleged international prostitution networks deemed the “white slave trade,” and the transatlantic movement for social hygiene—is a powerful fugitive presence in canonical and popular Anglo-American novels published in the mid-1920s: E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924), W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil (1925), and Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith (1925). It argues further that these novels channeled the anxiety about the possible degeneration of white imperial women into sex workers by juxtaposing doomed heterosexual marriage or courtship plots with tropical epidemics like plague and cholera. These texts therefore repress what I call a “venereal unconscious:” their representations of nonvenereal infectious diseases signify the unmentionable venereal ones, and the latter are in turn constructed as especially prevalent among colonized tropical populations.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:17:57 -0400 2021-09-27T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-27T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Workshop / Seminar "Hans at the typewriter: His gaze forward is unimpeded by the blinders," in Karl Krall, Thinking Animals: Contributions to the Science of the Animal Soul Based on My Own Experiments [Denkende Tiere: Beiträge zur Tierseelenkunde auf Grund eigener Versuche] (Leipzig: F. Engelmann, 1912), 371.
Reading and Q&A with Paisley Rekdal (September 30, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84021 84021-21619598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, *The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee*; the hybrid photo-text memoir, *Intimate*; and five books of poetry: *A Crash of Rhinos*; *Six Girls Without Pants*; *The Invention of the Kaleidoscope*; *Animal Eye*, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and *Imaginary Vessels*, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, *The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam*. A new collection of poems, *Nightingale*, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's *The Metamorphoses*, was published spring 2019. *Appropriate: A Provocation*, which examines cultural appropriation, was published by W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.

Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in *The New York Times Magazine*, *American Poetry Review*, *The Kenyon Review*, *Poetry*, *The New Republic*, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others.

Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:58:27 -0400 2021-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paisley Rekdal
Craft Lecture on "Re-Framing Appropriation: Reading, Writing and Depicting Race in Contemporary Poetry" (October 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84022 84022-21619599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, *The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee*; the hybrid photo-text memoir, *Intimate*; and five books of poetry: *A Crash of Rhinos*; *Six Girls Without Pants*; *The Invention of the Kaleidoscope*; *Animal Eye*, a finalist for the 2013 Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and *Imaginary Vessels*, finalist for the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State Book Award. Her newest work of nonfiction is a book-length essay, *The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam*. A new collection of poems, *Nightingale*, which re-writes many of the myths in Ovid's *The Metamorphoses*, was published spring 2019. *Appropriate: A Provocation*, which examines cultural appropriation, was published by W.W. Norton in Feb. 2021. She is the guest editor for Best American Poetry 2020.

Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pushcart Prizes (2009, 2013), Narrative's Poetry Prize, the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and various state arts council awards. Her poems and essays have appeared in *The New York Times Magazine*, *American Poetry Review*, *The Kenyon Review*, *Poetry*, *The New Republic*, Tin House, the Best American Poetry series (2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019), and on National Public Radio, among others.

Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah's Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets' Poets Laureate Fellowship.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:54:58 -0400 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paisley Rekdal
Translation and Migration: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87136 87136-21639082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us from 3-4:30 pm via zoom on October 1, 2021 for a virtual conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio about translation and migration in her debut book of creative non-fiction, The Undocumented Americans.

To kick off the tenth annual Translate-a-thon at the University of Michigan, Professor William Stroebel will sit down and talk with Villavicencio about the roles, methods, and uses of translation lurking behind and inside the pages of her book: translation between languages, translation between dialects and registers, translation between spoken and written media, translation between genres of translation like interpretation in legal or journalistic settings and literary translation, along with her current attempts to translate the book into Spanish.

Her book breaks many things. It breaks boundaries between genres, mixing the rhythms of rock and the cadences of hip hop and the political anger of punk and the slow contemplation of lyric poetry into the burning advocacy of its prose reportage (along with a little dose of magical realism to boot). The book also breaks the mold of representation traditionally deployed by advocates and allies, who elevate the gifted DREAMers of DACA into poster children above a faceless, nameless mass of day-laborers, cleaners, construction workers, factory hands, deliverymen, dish washers and dog walkers.

These are the ones who take center stage in her book, and tell their stories as beautifully imperfect, hardworking, weird, and “just people,” sorting through the trauma of an oppressive system built and sustained by their exploitation and terrorization and invisibility. Villavicencio breaks through this invisibility and the taboos of representation and in doing so she calls upon its readers to break the system: “it’s time to fuck some shit up.” But amidst the great praise that this finalist for the National Book Award has won, very little has been said about another thing that her avant-gardism breaks: conventions of translation.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Language Resource Center at the University of Michigan, with support from the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Presentation Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:41:25 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Presentation Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 1, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 5:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-01T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T18:00:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
Translation for the Community: Translating Begins (October 2, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87139 87139-21639085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 2, 2021 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

We invite community members of all ages and languages to participate in the annual Translate-a-Thon at the University of Michigan on October 1-2, 2021.

A Translate-a-Thon is a short, intense, community-driven translation marathon, where volunteers interested in translation come together to translate materials for the benefit of our local, national, and international community.

Coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, our Translate-a-thon also promotes a sense of community among translators. We welcome current students and alums, faculty and staff, teachers and students from local high schools, prospective transfer students, professional translators and other interested parties.

This year we are celebrating ten years of the Translate-a-Thon, with a special theme on translation and migration. We kick off the weekend at 3pm on October 1 with a Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, author of The Undocumented Americans. We will highlight translation projects for Freedom House Detroit, to support their mission of outreach to asylum seekers.

A range of other community translation projects will also be available to work on over the weekend, remotely or in person. Check out our Translation Gallery with more information for volunteers to translate work on projects in many languages!

We also welcome colleagues from other colleges and universities who would like to observe our activities in order to learn about organizing similar events at their own institutions. To follow up, we will host a workshop on “How to Run a Translate-a-Thon” (for further details contact complit.info@umich.edu).

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-02T10:30:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
THE GROUND BREAKING: Uncovering the Tulsa Massacre (October 5, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85311 85311-21626213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

The Tulsa race massacre of 1921 was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, a prospering African American community, later known as Black Wall Street, was looted and burned to the ground by a white mob. More than 1000 African American homes and businesses were destroyed, while the death count remains unknown to this very day. Not only did no white person spend a day in prison for the murders, arson, and theft of May 31st/June 1st, 1921, but for more that fifty years the history of the massacre was actively suppressed. Scott Ellsworth will bring to life this American tragedy, and the challenges it poses for all of us today.

Scott Ellsworth has taught in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at UM for fourteen years. An award winning writer and historian, he has researched and written about the Tulsa massacre over the course of more than four and half decades. His latest book on the massacre, THE GROUND BREAKING: An American City and Its Search for Justice, has been praised by the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. "This book should be essential reading," wrote Harvard law professor Kenneth Mack, "for anyone interested in an honest grappling with our racial past and with the task of moving forward."

Please Register for this event on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/88l7G
This is a Hybrid event

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:54:20 -0400 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall LSA Honors Program Workshop / Seminar The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice
Exploring Some of Shakespeare’s Plays (October 6, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85535 85535-21626825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This study session will be a mini survey of Shakespeare’s canon. We will use Titus Andronicus, Much Ado about Nothing and The Winter’s Tale to frame the discussion. These selections offer a view of his early, middle and late plays with an examination of the history, tragedy, comedy and romance categories. Both novices and scholars of Shakespeare will be able to enjoy his works more than before our discussions.

Our study group leader, Robert Lamphear, still teaches Shakespeare at Gulf Coast State College in Florida after retiring from colligate education in English and Humanities in Michigan.

This study group will meet on Wednesdays for four weeks beginning on October 6. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:51:17 -0400 2021-10-06T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Reading and Q&A with Kate Milliken (October 7, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84023 84023-21619600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Kate Milliken’s collection of stories, *If I'd Known You Were Coming*, won the Iowa Award for Short Fiction in 2013. Her debut novel, *Kept Animals*, published by Scribner Books, centers on a real-life wildfire in Topanga Canyon, California, in 1993, which Kate experienced firsthand. Heralded as “an event-packed novel of class, desire, coming-of-age and familial disintegration,” by Janet Fitch in *the New York Times Book Review* and named one of the best LGBTQ books of 2020 by O, the Oprah Magazine, *Kept Animals* was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.

Kate was born into a theatre family, her mother a playwright, her father an aspiring actor and director. After her parent’s divorce, Kate bounced between the glamour of 1980s Hollywood and a subsistent, working class home in Chicago. No matter where she was, the conversation was always about storytelling: from mythology, to character motivations in John Cassavetes’s films. As a junior in high school, Kate wrote an essay about her recovery from an eating disorder, her family’s struggle with substance abuse, and the inherent void created by fame. That essay won her acceptance to an experimental five-year undergraduate program, enabling her to leave high school and a troubled home life early, and cemented her belief in the power of storytelling.

A graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars, Kate’s writing has been published in numerous literary magazines, anthologized, and supported by fellowships from Yaddo, Tin House, and the Vermont Studio Center. Informed by her early awareness of economic inequities, addiction, and her experience of growing up queer in an era of overt homophobia, Kate’s work aims to explore character dualities and the power of our appetites: from true hunger to our most unwieldy desires.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 11:18:16 -0400 2021-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kate Milliken
Craft Lecture: On Empathy, Plot, and Self-Preservation (October 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84024 84024-21619601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Kate Milliken’s collection of stories, *If I'd Known You Were Coming*, won the Iowa Award for Short Fiction in 2013. Her debut novel, *Kept Animals*, published by Scribner Books, centers on a real-life wildfire in Topanga Canyon, California, in 1993, which Kate experienced firsthand. Heralded as “an event-packed novel of class, desire, coming-of-age and familial disintegration,” by Janet Fitch in *the New York Times Book Review* and named one of the best LGBTQ books of 2020 by O, the Oprah Magazine, *Kept Animals* was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.

Kate was born into a theatre family, her mother a playwright, her father an aspiring actor and director. After her parent’s divorce, Kate bounced between the glamour of 1980s Hollywood and a subsistent, working class home in Chicago. No matter where she was, the conversation was always about storytelling: from mythology, to character motivations in John Cassavetes’s films. As a junior in high school, Kate wrote an essay about her recovery from an eating disorder, her family’s struggle with substance abuse, and the inherent void created by fame. That essay won her acceptance to an experimental five-year undergraduate program, enabling her to leave high school and a troubled home life early, and cemented her belief in the power of storytelling.

A graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars, Kate’s writing has been published in numerous literary magazines, anthologized, and supported by fellowships from Yaddo, Tin House, and the Vermont Studio Center. Informed by her early awareness of economic inequities, addiction, and her experience of growing up queer in an era of overt homophobia, Kate’s work aims to explore character dualities and the power of our appetites: from true hunger to our most unwieldy desires.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:53:58 -0400 2021-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kate Milliken
Webster Reading Series (October 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2021-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop (October 9, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87645 87645-21644656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2021 Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, hosted by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor! The workshop is free and open to all, and participants can attend either in person or via Zoom.

To register for the workshop, please visit:
https://greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/2021/09/26/workshop-2021.html

Saturday, Oct. 9

Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Reading with Islamicate theories of love and rhetoric (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Jeson Ng, “Mathal and Majāz as Method in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān”
10:00–10:45 / Allison Kanner-Botan, “Desire and Askēsis: Sexuality, Animality, and the Figure of Majnūn in Medieval Islam”

Making Mughal literary culture (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:45 / Nathan LM Tabor, “Association, Conduct, and Style During Delhi’s Roaring 1720s”
11:45–12:30 / Justin Smolin, “Krishna the Magician”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

Engaging the Arabic literary tradition and its interpreters (2:00–3:30) 2:00–2:45 / Jennifer Tobkin, “Khālid al-Kātib: Abū Tammām’s Political, Literary, and Romantic Foil”
2:45–3:30 / Samer Ali, “Whiteness and Orientalism: Race, Methodology, and the Problem of Nonwhite Poetry”

Sunday, Oct. 10
Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Rethinking adab (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Shounak Ghosh, “Early Modern Diplomacy: Practices and Cultures in the Persianate World, 1489–1722”
10:00–10:45 / Pia Maria Malik, “Reading Sufi Prescriptions and Descriptions: Adab as Ritual Emulation and Performative Action”

Function and form in the early modern Persian panegyric (11:00–12:30) 11:00–11:45 / Shaahin Pishbin, “To Praise, Remember, and Connect: Writing Poems about Poets in Early Modern Persian Literary Culture”
11:45–12:30 / Paul Losensky, “The Shrine Keeper’s Lament: A Manqabat for Imam Rezā by Qodsi Mashhadi”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

(De)constructing masculinities in Persian narrative poems (2:00–2:45)
2:00–2:45 / Amanda Caterina Leong, “Rethinking Female Javanmardi: Nizami’s Haft Paykar as a ‘Mirror for Princesses’ ”

Wrap-up (3:00–4:00)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:18:37 -0400 2021-10-09T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Workshop / Seminar GLAS Workshop Poster
Photography Exhibit: Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund (October 9, 2021 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88036 88036-21648640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 9, 2021 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion to launch the exhibit, Visualizing Translation: Homeland and Heimat in Detroit and Dortmund (on view October- November 2021 at the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library).

The panel will engage artists Theon Delgado Sr. (Southwest Detroit) and Peyman Azhari (Cologne, Germany) in conversation about their work. The discussion will be moderated by Kristin Dickinson (UM Department of German) and Alan Chin (Columbia Journalism School, photographer, and co-founder of Facing Change: Documenting Detroit)

The exhibit showcases photographs from Delgado’s collection 3 Miles Thru Southwest, which highlights the diversity of Detroit’s vibrant Mexicantown. These will be displayed alongside images from Azhari’s Heimat 132, which documents residents of 132 different nationalities living in the northern district of Dortmund. Shedding light on each neighborhood’s histories of migration, the exhibit offers an intimate look at immigrant-owned businesses; multilingual signage; and striking images of graffiti, street art, and other forms of visual creative expression.

At the center of the exhibit is a series of portraits accompanied by brief narratives of home and migration, which visitors may listen to in English, Spanish, or German via QR codes. In addition to detailing the complex and often perilous routes that brought many residents to southwest Detroit and northern Dortmund, these narratives also grapple with two key terms: Heimat and homeland. Taken together, these photographs and narratives prompt us to consider the many meanings of home and homeland from a multilingual perspective.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the U-M Institute for the Humanities, the Ann Arbor District Library, and the 2021-22 Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Sites of Translation in the Multilingual Midwest.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:32:57 -0400 2021-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 2021-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Livestream / Virtual Poster
Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop (October 10, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87645 87645-21644657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 10, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the 2021 Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, hosted by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor! The workshop is free and open to all, and participants can attend either in person or via Zoom.

To register for the workshop, please visit:
https://greatlakesadiban.github.io/workshop/2021/09/26/workshop-2021.html

Saturday, Oct. 9

Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Reading with Islamicate theories of love and rhetoric (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Jeson Ng, “Mathal and Majāz as Method in Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān”
10:00–10:45 / Allison Kanner-Botan, “Desire and Askēsis: Sexuality, Animality, and the Figure of Majnūn in Medieval Islam”

Making Mughal literary culture (11:00–12:30)
11:00–11:45 / Nathan LM Tabor, “Association, Conduct, and Style During Delhi’s Roaring 1720s”
11:45–12:30 / Justin Smolin, “Krishna the Magician”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

Engaging the Arabic literary tradition and its interpreters (2:00–3:30) 2:00–2:45 / Jennifer Tobkin, “Khālid al-Kātib: Abū Tammām’s Political, Literary, and Romantic Foil”
2:45–3:30 / Samer Ali, “Whiteness and Orientalism: Race, Methodology, and the Problem of Nonwhite Poetry”

Sunday, Oct. 10
Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

Rethinking adab (9:15–10:45)
9:15–10:00 / Shounak Ghosh, “Early Modern Diplomacy: Practices and Cultures in the Persianate World, 1489–1722”
10:00–10:45 / Pia Maria Malik, “Reading Sufi Prescriptions and Descriptions: Adab as Ritual Emulation and Performative Action”

Function and form in the early modern Persian panegyric (11:00–12:30) 11:00–11:45 / Shaahin Pishbin, “To Praise, Remember, and Connect: Writing Poems about Poets in Early Modern Persian Literary Culture”
11:45–12:30 / Paul Losensky, “The Shrine Keeper’s Lament: A Manqabat for Imam Rezā by Qodsi Mashhadi”

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

(De)constructing masculinities in Persian narrative poems (2:00–2:45)
2:00–2:45 / Amanda Caterina Leong, “Rethinking Female Javanmardi: Nizami’s Haft Paykar as a ‘Mirror for Princesses’ ”

Wrap-up (3:00–4:00)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:18:37 -0400 2021-10-10T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Workshop / Seminar GLAS Workshop Poster
Science Success Series | Ace Your Courses: Metacognition is Key! (October 12, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85316 85316-21626219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Have you ever found yourself putting forth a great deal of effort into your courses, but not feeling like you are actually learning or are left unsatisfied with your grade? This workshop, based on the work of Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, will enable you to analyze your current learning strategies, understand exactly what changes you need to implement to earn an A in your courses, identify concrete strategies to use during the remainder of your semester, and become a more efficient learner.

Register on Sessions: https://myumi.ch/VPrbE

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:35:07 -0400 2021-10-12T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-12T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Teach Yourself How to Learn Book Cover
Reading and Q&A with Mark Powell (October 14, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84025 84025-21619602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Powell is the author of seven novels, including *Small Treasons* (Gallery/Simon & Schuster 2017), and *Lioness*, forthcoming in 2022. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and twice from the Fulbright Foundation to Slovakia and Romania. He has written about southern music and culture for *The Oxford American*, the war in Ukraine for *The Daily Beast*, and his dog for *Garden & Gun*. In 2009, he received the Chaffin Award for Contributions to Appalachian Literature. At present, he is under contract for a graphic novel about Russian malign influence in the US election, and working on a novel about the prison system in Florida.

Powell has degrees from Yale Divinity School, the University of South Carolina, and the Citadel. He taught at Stetson University in Florida for eight years, where he directed and co-founded their Low-Residency MFA and ran a prison writing program at Lawtey Correctional Institute. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Appalachian State University. He lives in the mountains of western North Carolina with his wife, children, and dog.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 11:19:11 -0400 2021-10-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mark Powell
Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights (October 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86424 86424-21634283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This program will be webcast on the main Penny Stamps Series page and at dptv.org/pennystamps. You can also watch the talks and join the conversation on the Penny Stamps Series Facebook page.

New York based artist, writer and scholar Coco Fusco presents a virtual talk entitled The Rights to Have Rights. In this talk, Fusco will present research on Cuban artists confronting the state, and work dealing with repressed histories of the revolutionary era in Cuba. This talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by U-M Professor Larry La Fountain-Stokes (American Culture, Latino/a Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures and Women and Genders Studies).

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Arts Award, a 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship, a 2018 Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, a 2016 Greenfield Prize, a 2014 Cintas Fellowship, a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco's performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York. She is a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.

Fusco is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015). She is also the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003). She contributes regularly to The New York Review of Books and numerous art publications.

Fusco received her B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University (1982), her M.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University (1985) and her Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture from Middlesex University (2007).

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.    

This program is organized by the Center for World Performance Studies and presented in partnership with the U-M Arts Initiative and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series with support from UMMA.

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Other Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:16:23 -0400 2021-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 2021-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Craft Lecture: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Writing Violence (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84026 84026-21619604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Whether it is a lever (Colson Whitehead) or a carpenter’s hammer (Flannery O’Connor), violence is as prevalent in serious fiction as it is in the world. As writers, we can’t ignore such. So how do we engage with violence, how (and when) do we depict it? And what are the ethical responsibilities and consequences of writing about violence in an already violent world? There are, of course, no definitive answers. Instead of answers, we’ll look at examples from a number of writers, among them Jesmyn Ward, J.M. Coetzee, Carmen Maria Machado, and Don DeLillo.

Powell is the author of seven novels, including *Small Treasons* (Gallery/Simon & Schuster 2017), and *Lioness*, forthcoming in 2022. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Breadloaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and twice from the Fulbright Foundation to Slovakia and Romania. He has written about southern music and culture for *The Oxford American*, the war in Ukraine for *The Daily Beast*, and his dog for *Garden & Gun*. In 2009, he received the Chaffin Award for Contributions to Appalachian Literature. At present, he is under contract for a graphic novel about Russian malign influence in the US election, and working on a novel about the prison system in Florida.

Powell has degrees from Yale Divinity School, the University of South Carolina, and the Citadel. He taught at Stetson University in Florida for eight years, where he directed and co-founded their Low-Residency MFA and ran a prison writing program at Lawtey Correctional Institute. Currently, he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Appalachian State University. He lives in the mountains of western North Carolina with his wife, children, and dog.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:53:02 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mark Powell
The Clements Bookworm: Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86917 86917-21637563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Livestream discussion with Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair organizers Jay Platt and Garrett Scott. They will discuss the history of the AAABF as well as share tips on how to make the most of attending book fairs while forging new friendships and expanding or beginning a collection.

Register for the link to join at myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists and featured guests discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Inspired by the traditional Clements Library researcher tea time, we invite you to pull up a chair at our [virtual] table. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

This episode of the Bookworm is generously sponsored by Jean and Robert Julier.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:29:07 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Jay Platt of Ann Arbor's West Side Book Shop
GTC: History’s Undead: Benjamin, Marx and the Tradition of the Oppressed (October 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88038 88038-21648641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

Undisciplined // Global Theories of Critique 2021-22

The Global Theories of Critique workshop meetings this year revolves around the practice of un-disciplining knowledge. Each speaker will open up the session with the body of theory and/or practice they strive to un-discipline in their work. Followed by a roundtable discussion of the speakers’ work that the workshop participants will read beforehand.

All meetings will be on Zoom. Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrduirrD4sG9Fl9T6fZEAVerNzOHPH2NAR

Sami Khatib’s work spans the fields of Aesthetic Theory, Critical Theory, Media Theory and Cultural Studies with a special focus on the thought of Walter Benjamin. His area of competence is in 19th and 20th century Continental Philosophy with an emphasis on early Frankfurt School, Kant, German Idealism, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and post-Structuralism. He holds an M.A. degree in Media Studies and Philosophy (2004) and a Ph.D. degree in Media Studies (2013) from Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). He is author of a book on Walter Benjamin (Marburg: Tectum, 2013); an English translation, titled “'Teleology without End.' Walter Benjamin’s Dislocation of the Messianic,” is forthcoming. After finishing his appointment as an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Arts and Humanities at the American University of Beirut (2015/16), he joined the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at AUB as a Whittlesey Visiting Assistant Professor. Prior to his appointments at AUB, he taught Cultural and Media Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2012, he was awarded a residency fellowship from the interdisciplinary Jan van Eyck Academie, a post-academic institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory, based in Maastricht (NL).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:57:57 -0400 2021-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-16T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of History Lecture / Discussion
Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair (October 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84874 84874-21625220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Returning in 2021 for its 45th year, the Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair will be held at the Michigan Union on the campus of the University of Michigan on Sunday, October 17, 2021. Admission to the book fair is $5 at the door (cash only), benefitting the U-M William L. Clements Library.

The Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair brings together booksellers and dealers from across America, all handling a wide range of old and rare books, Americana, children’s books, autographs and manuscripts, maps, prints, ephemera, photography, fine press material and more.

See real books. See real people. See a real book fair. October 17, 2021.

*The University requires that guests comply with masking and social distancing policies, and complete the ResponsiBLUE health screen before entering any building on campus.*

For more information, visit http://www.AnnArborBookFair.com

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Fair / Festival Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:52:12 -0400 2021-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union William L. Clements Library Fair / Festival Dealers and shoppers fill the Michigan Union ballroom during a past book fair.
A Brief Literary History of Romance Novels (October 18, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85542 85542-21626833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Although romance novels have long been derided as “bodice-rippers” and “chick lit,” the genre is having a big cultural moment right now, thanks in part to the smash success of Netflix’s “Bridgerton”, adapted from Julia Quinn’s book series. What’s more, some critics have even begun to argue that romance novels are an actually important feminist genre.

How did we reach this point? How did romance novels develop into the genre we recognize today? At each meeting, we’ll discuss a notable romance novel and explore its contribution to the genre as a whole. No prior experience with the subject is necessary.

Molly Keran is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, where she studies genre and popular literature.

This study group will meet on Mondays for ten weeks beginning on October 18. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:55:08 -0400 2021-10-18T15:30:00-04:00 2021-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Discussion of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (October 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87870 87870-21647277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

A roundtable discussion of Anahid Nersessian’s "Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse," written last year in the midst of the pandemic. We will look specifically at the book’s introduction and chapter on “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” both of which will be pre-circulated. Nersessian will also talk with us about how the project weaves together personal memoir and public-facing scholarship.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:12:38 -0400 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion The cover of Anahid Nersessian's Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Shakespeare's “Tempest” Over Time (October 21, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85540 85540-21626830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The first play to appear in Shakespeare's Folio, but thought to be one of his final plays written. "The Tempest" has become a touchstone in Shakespeare Studies for discussions about genre, authorship, feminism, and postcolonial theory. Yet, not long after its first performances, Shakespeare's play vanished from the stage, appearing only in adapted forms for the next 170 years.

Each meeting, we'll discuss an iteration of "The Tempest," beginning with Shakespeare's play up through Margaret Atwood's 2016 novel "Hag-Seed" in order to consider how approaches to the play have shifted over time.

Instructor Becky Hixon, is a PhD Candidate in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan where she studies Shakespeare, adaptation, and gender and sexuality studies.

This study group will meet on Thursdays (excluding Thanksgiving) for eight weeks beginning on October 21. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:57:25 -0400 2021-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2021-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Reading and Q&A with Douglas Kearney (October 21, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84027 84027-21619605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


The dynamic Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and librettist who has published six books that bridge thematic concerns such as politics, African-American culture, masks, the Trickster figure, and contemporary music. His most recent book, *Sho* (Wave Books, 2021), aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks.

Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular strategies, while examining histories and current events through the lyric, brand new dances, and other performances.

Kearney is also the author of *Buck Studies* (Fence Books, 2016), which was awarded the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, and the silver medal for the California Book Award in Poetry. BOMB says *Buck Studies* “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic, personal and historical.” Kearney describes the non-traditional layout of his poems as “performative typography.” On the relationship between his poetry and politics, he notes: “For me, the political is a part of how I see the world. My art making doesn’t begin without realizing who I am and what it means for me to be writing a poem and not doing something else.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity, *Mess and Mess* (Noemi Press, 2015), is a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection. In it, Kearney writes, “If my writing makes a mess of things, it’s not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb.” *Patter* (Red Hen Press, 2014), Kearney’s third poetry collection, examines miscarriage, infertility, and parenthood. The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009) is a National Poetry Series selection, which “flows from a consideration of urban speech, negro spontaneity and book learning.” *Someone Took They Tongues* (Subito Press, 2016) collects several of Kearney’s libretti, including one written in a counterfeit Afro-diasporic language. He was the guest editor for *the 2015 Best American Experimental Writing*.

Kearney has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, and was named a Notable New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America, He has been awarded fellowships from Cave Canem and The Rauschenberg Foundation. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including *Poetry*, *Iowa Review*, *Boston Review*, and *Indiana Review*, and anthologies, including *Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky*, *Best American Poetry*, *Best American Experimental Writing*, and *What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Poets in America*.

Raised in Altadena, CA, he lives with his family a little west of Minneapolis, MN and teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 11:20:11 -0400 2021-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Douglas Kearney
The Wandering Palestinian: A Conversation with Writer & Activist Dr. Anan Ameri (October 21, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86411 86411-21634187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Dr. Anan Ameri is an activist, scholar, author, and founding director of the Arab American National Museum (AANM) and the Palestine Aid Society of America. She is also the co-founder of many progressive political and cultural coalitions in the US. For over four decades, Ameri has advocated for social justice and for immigrants’ rightful place in the US. She is the author of many books and articles.

Anan Ameri was born in 1944 in Damascus Syria to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother. She grew up in Amman, Jordan. She received her B.A. in sociology at the University of Jordan, Amman; her M.A. in sociology at Cairo University in Egypt; and her Ph.D. in sociology at Wayne State University in Detroit.

Dr. Ameri is the recipient of numerous local and national awards in recognition of her work within the Arab American community as well as society at large including 2006 Michiganian of the Year, and 2020 Arab American of the Year. In 2016, she was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.

Ameri has served as acting director of the Institute for Jerusalem Studies in Jerusalem; visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies; the founding director and national president of the Palestine Aid Society of America, and the Founding Director of the Arab American National Museum. Prior to immigrating to the US in 1974, she worked as a program producer at Jordanian Television and a researcher at the Palestine Research Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Anan Ameri is the author of numerous books and articles including the two-volume memoir The Scent of Jasmine: Coming of Age in Jerusalem and Damascus (2017, Interlink Publishing) and The Wondering Palestinian, (2020, BHC Press)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:51:05 -0400 2021-10-21T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Dr. Anan Ameri
Craft Lecture: Experiments with Ekphrastic Strategies (October 22, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84028 84028-21619606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Ekphrasis is a mode in which poets write in response to works of art in other media. Etymologically rooted in the concept of “description,” ekphrasis allows us to look more closely at the artwork; but what are other approaches besides observations of the work at hand? This generative workshop focuses on mutating the ekprastic into new compositional and conceptual approaches.

The dynamic Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and librettist who has published six books that bridge thematic concerns such as politics, African-American culture, masks, the Trickster figure, and contemporary music. His most recent book, *Sho* (Wave Books, 2021), aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks.

Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular strategies, while examining histories and current events through the lyric, brand new dances, and other performances.

Kearney is also the author of *Buck Studies* (Fence Books, 2016), which was awarded the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, and the silver medal for the California Book Award in Poetry. BOMB says *Buck Studies* “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic, personal and historical.” Kearney describes the non-traditional layout of his poems as “performative typography.” On the relationship between his poetry and politics, he notes: “For me, the political is a part of how I see the world. My art making doesn’t begin without realizing who I am and what it means for me to be writing a poem and not doing something else.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity, *Mess and Mess* (Noemi Press, 2015), is a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection. In it, Kearney writes, “If my writing makes a mess of things, it’s not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb.” *Patter* (Red Hen Press, 2014), Kearney’s third poetry collection, examines miscarriage, infertility, and parenthood. The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009) is a National Poetry Series selection, which “flows from a consideration of urban speech, negro spontaneity and book learning.” *Someone Took They Tongues* (Subito Press, 2016) collects several of Kearney’s libretti, including one written in a counterfeit Afro-diasporic language. He was the guest editor for *the 2015 Best American Experimental Writing*.

Kearney has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, and was named a Notable New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America, He has been awarded fellowships from Cave Canem and The Rauschenberg Foundation. His work has appeared in a number of journals, including *Poetry*, *Iowa Review*, *Boston Review*, and *Indiana Review*, and anthologies, including *Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky*, *Best American Poetry*, *Best American Experimental Writing*, and *What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Poets in America*.

Raised in Altadena, CA, he lives with his family a little west of Minneapolis, MN and teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:52:00 -0400 2021-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Douglas Kearney
Critical Conversations: Incarceration (October 22, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85268 85268-21650834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2021-22. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience. Presentations begin at 12:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 1:30.

In this iteration, faculty from English L&L, Theatre & Drama, and Women's & Gender Studies will share their research on critical prison studies, women's convictions, prison-related and social change theatre, history of policing and the criminal-legal system, and more!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Oct 2021 23:20:50 -0400 2021-10-22T12:30:00-04:00 2021-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Incarceration
King Lear: Shakespeare's Apocalyptic Drama (October 22, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85533 85533-21626824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This course will provide a deep dive into William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Structurally, we will split a reading of the play over the five weeks we meet: each week we will begin by reading one act of the play and then spend the rest of our session in discussion (no outside reading is therefore 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. As we will discuss, there are significant textual variations in editions of the play; please purchase the Norton Critical Edition (edited by Grace Ioppolo, 2008).

Our study group instructor, Margo Kolenda-Mason, is a PhD Candidate in the English Language and Literature Department at UM, where she studies medieval and renaissance literature.

This study group will meet on Fridays for five weeks beginning on October 22. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:59:39 -0400 2021-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
LRCCS 60th Anniversary Author Series | Reading *The Fortunes* (October 26, 2021 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86988 86988-21637991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Register HERE to receive your viewing link via Zoom:
https://myumi.ch/yKegj

The Center’s 60th anniversary programming will feature author Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, as he offers a reading from The Fortunes, a novel that recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational story through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this work captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:25:38 -0400 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Livestream / Virtual Peter Ho Davies, U-M Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature
Slavic Colloquium — Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin (Slavic PhD students) (October 28, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88625 88625-21656213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Slouching Towards Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Writing the Crimean War
with Sara Ruiz and Valentin Rasputin and the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life with Michael Martin:

This presentation features Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin, Ph.D. students in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Sara will argue that Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories enact a performance of a war story that is purposefully contradictory and deeply ambivalent in regards to the societal function and meaning of an individual soldier’s wartime experience. Michael examines how Valentin Rasputin’s body of work is centrally concerned with the place of Siberia in Russian cultural and political life. While his later output paints a Russo-centric image of the region, his early works betray a much less stable notion of local belonging rooted in a personal, rather than cultural, connection. This colloquium is organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Kindly RSVP to receive the Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96120613090?pwd=RXN6K29QY3VqdDVld2F4ODdGMFY1Zz09.
Questions? Please contact Tricia Kalosa (triciak@umich.edu)
For more information, visit our website at https://lsa.umich.edu/slavic

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Presentation Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:30:17 -0400 2021-10-28T18:30:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation Colloquium with Sara Ruiz and Michael Martin
Webster Reading Series (October 29, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 29, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2021-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-29T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
Coming to America: Translating Arabic Fiction in the Age of Global Liberation (November 11, 2021 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88348 88348-21653427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join Comparative Literature as we welcome Nancy Roberts, free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor on November 11th, 2021 @ 4:30pm in room 4310 of the Modern Languages Building.

Translators of literary works perform numerous functions simultaneously in relation to both a written work and its author. These functions include the linguistic, the cultural, the socio-political and the personal. Varied though they are, these functions might be summed up in the words “partner” and “mouthpiece.” After a brief detour into how her life trajectory led her to the field of Arabic-English translation, Nancy Roberts will relate her attempts to serve as “partner” and “mouthpiece” in the process of translating works originating in Palestine (Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Time of White Horses [زمن الخيول البيضاء], Lanterns of the King of Galilee [قناديل ملك الجليل] and Gaza Weddings [أعراس آمنة], and Ahlam Bsharat’s Codename: Butterfly [اسمي الحركي فراشة]) and Libya (Najwa Bin Shatwan’s, The Slave Yards [زرايب العبيد], and Ibrahim al-Koni’s The Night Will Have Its Say [كلمة الليل في حق النهار]).

Nancy Roberts is a free-lance Arabic-to-English translator and editor with experience in the areas of modern Arabic literature, politics and education; international development; Arab women’s economic and political empowerment; Islamic jurisprudence and theology; Islamist thought and movements; and interreligious dialogue. Literary translations include works by Ghada Samman, Ahlem Mostaghanemi, Naguib Mahjouz, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ibrahim al-Koni, Salman al-Farsi, Laila Al Johani, and Haji Jabir, among others. Her translation of Ghada Samman’s Beirut ’75 won the 1994 Arkansas Arabic Translation Award; her rendition of Salwa Bakr's The Man From Bashmour (Cairo: AUC Press, 2007) was awarded a commendation in the 2008 Saif Ghobash-Banipal Prize for Translation, while her English translations of Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Gaza Weddings (Cairo: Hoopoe Press, 2017), Lanterns of the King of Galilee (AUC Press, 2015) and Time of White Horses (Cairo: Hoopoe Reprint, 2016) won her the 2018 Sheikh Hamad Prize for Translation and International Understanding. She is based in Wheaton, Illinois.

This event will be held IN PERSON.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Oct 2021 12:45:08 -0400 2021-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Nancy Roberts
Reading and Q&A with Andrea Lee (November 11, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84032 84032-21619615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Andrea Lee is a American writer whose books often deal with themes of expatriate life, clashing cultures, and nuances of identity, particularly among Black Americans. She is most recently the author of *Red Island House*, a novel set in the tropical African island nation of Madagascar. She is also the author of the story collection *Interesting Women*, the novels *Lost Hearts in Italy* and *Sarah Phillips*, and the National Book Award–nominated memoir *Russian Journal*. A former staff writer for *The New Yorker*, she has written for *The New York Times Magazine*, *Vogue*, *W*, and *The New York Times Book Review*. She grew up in Philadelphia, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University, and subsequently moved to Europe, where she presently lives with her family in Turin, Italy.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 11:21:12 -0400 2021-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Andrea Lee
Craft Lecture: Writing Across Worlds (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84033 84033-21619616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3154). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Andrea Lee's work, like her life, has always been shaped by themes of otherness, of foreignness, by the ongoing conflict generated by attempts to define insider and outsider. Her craft lecture will address the question: How, in a period of unprecedented overlap and collision between cultures--and the anxiety sparked by this phenomenon--does a writer find the creative equilibrium to examine this eternal theme with insight and respect?

Andrea Lee is a American writer whose books often deal with themes of expatriate life, clashing cultures, and nuances of identity, particularly among Black Americans. She is most recently the author of *Red Island House*, a novel set in the tropical African island nation of Madagascar. She is also the author of the story collection *Interesting Women*, the novels *Lost Hearts in Italy* and *Sarah Phillips*, and the National Book Award–nominated memoir *Russian Journal*. A former staff writer for *The New Yorker*, she has written for *The New York Times Magazine*, *Vogue*, *W*, and *The New York Times Book Review*. She grew up in Philadelphia, received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard University, and subsequently moved to Europe, where she presently lives with her family in Turin, Italy.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 31 Aug 2021 09:50:16 -0400 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Andrea Lee
New England Literature Program (NELP) Mass Meeting (November 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89049 89049-21660331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

Aric Knuth, Director, NELP

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Rally / Mass Meeting Mon, 08 Nov 2021 16:45:23 -0500 2021-11-16T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-16T21:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Rally / Mass Meeting NELP 2022
A/PIA Opportunity Fair (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89262 89262-21661611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

In-person or through Zoom
Join us on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, from 7-8:30pm EST for A/PIA Opportunity Fair!
Learn about A/PIA Studies courses being offered in the Winter 2022 semester and hear from organizations doing advocacy and activist-oriented work in the A/PIA community all while enjoying dinner from Earthen Jar.
Join us in person at the Yuri Kochiyama Lounge in South Quad (600 E. Madison) or tune in via Zoom at tinyurl.com/APIAOppFair.
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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:30:05 -0500 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T20:30:00-05:00 South Quad Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Social / Informal Gathering APIA Opportunity Fair 2021
Meet the Author: Isadore's Secret (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88673 88673-21656595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

Do you enjoy true crime? Join us on November 17 to learn about the Michigan Notable Book “Isadore’s Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town.” Author Mardi Link wrote a gripping account of the mysterious disappearance of a young nun in a northern Michigan town and the national controversy that followed when she turned up dead and buried in the church basement. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

About the Author:
Mardi Link is a journalist; a former police reporter; and the author of several books, including two other true crime books, When Evil Came to Good Hart and Wicked Takes the Witness Stand: A Tale of Murder and Twisted Deceit in Northern Michigan.

"Isadore’s Secret" is on sale for $12 and free shipping during the month of November. Just visit https://www.press.umich.edu/1481044/isadores_secret and use the discount code "UMGL12SECRET" when you check out.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:23:05 -0400 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Isadore's Secret over fall leaves with text "Meet the Author: Mardi Link, Wednesday, Nov 17th at 7:00 PM"
Brendan Goff Book Event: Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88959 88959-21659311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Debates over the rise and fall of US empire continue to pervade headlines as well as academia. More recently, many scholars have come to recognize the history of capitalism as its own field of inquiry. In his book, Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism (HUP, 2021), Brendan Goff seeks to bring these two timely and evolving fields together through a close examination of the origins, growth, and expansion of Rotary clubs throughout the world during the first half of the twentieth century. When placed within the pre-war context of local and regional forms of boosterism, transnational business and social networks, civic and managerial discourses, and racialized and gendered forms of economic citizenship, local Rotary clubs proved to be anything but local, serving instead as nodal points for internationalist ambitions from towns and cities to nations and empires, from small businessmen to multi-national corporations.

That thousands of independent clubs operated worldwide through Rotary International, their administrative core based in Chicago, rather than through any formal arrangement with the US government, the US military, or its foreign policy elites proved invaluable in maintaining a strategic distance from the state. At the same time, what Goff calls Rotary’s civic internationalism promoted an idealized form of small-town, Main Street values that helped re-brand corporate capitalism as the central driver of progressive change in the world by mid- century. In this manner, Rotary International—a non-governmental organization—helped stabilize and advance both US national interests as well as US-based corporations and industries in a period of rapid global ascendancy.

Brendan Goff received his PhD in history at the University of Michigan in 2008. Before moving to New College of Florida in 2011 as a Visiting Assistant Professor, Dr. Goff held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan and was a lecturer in the Great Books Program at the University of Michigan. From 2014 to 2021, Dr. Goff also served as Assistant Professor at New College of Florida. Before entering the PhD program at Michigan, Dr. Goff worked as a freelance English teacher in Madrid, at a major bank in New York City, and in the Government and Community Affairs Division at the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, DC. He also studied philosophy at the University of Glasgow as an Ambassadorial Scholar with Rotary International and attended seminary shortly after graduating from Hamilton College. Dr. Goff’s book, Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism, was published by Harvard University Press in July of 2021.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:35:29 -0400 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism
Timelines, Lifespans, Sonnet Space: Diagrammatic Culture & Poetic Form (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88908 88908-21658899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:57:55 -0500 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A black and white headshot of Julia Carlson
NAHM presents: Firekeeper's Daughter, Author Presentation with Angeline Boulley (November 19, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88521 88521-21654672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Come join us as we engage with Angeline Boulley, author for the #1 NYT Bestseller novel, Firekeeper's Daughter.

This event will provide a free book and meal pickup available at the Michigan Union for those that register.

Angeline Boulley is an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller.

Register here!:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMocOmurz4pGtPqbX0aurjqQNkuiMUNZETZ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:46:03 -0500 2021-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Presentation Event Description
John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Novel and Film (November 30, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85544 85544-21626834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

For this class instructor, Mary Engelhardt, will facilitate a discussion of John Steinbeck’s novel and John Ford’s 1940 film adaptation, with ample time to process both what we read and what we see. Considered to be Steinbeck’s masterpiece, The “Grapes of Wrath” is a story of human unity and love, confirming the need for cooperation rather than individualism during hard times.

Please secure and read the entire 455-page novel. First published in 1939, the novel takes place during America’s Great Depression, which lasted from the Stock Market Crash of October 1929 until the beginning of World War II. During this time, a long period of drought and high winds impacted large parts of the American Midwest, creating what was called the Dust Bowl. Many people in the lower Midwest moved elsewhere, hoping to find fertile land on which to make a living.

The novel was #12 on the list of the 100 most-loved books in PBS’s The Great American Read.

Instructor, Mary Engelhardt has a BS degree in elementary education with a minor in Language and Literature from Eastern Michigan University. She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Degree from Oakland University. Steinbeck is Mary’s favorite author.

This study group will meet on Tuesday, November 30 and Wednesday, December 1. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:44:34 -0400 2021-11-30T13:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
Beinecke Scholarship Program (December 1, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87134 87134-21639079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

Register here: https://myumi.ch/O4eKQ

The Beinecke Scholarship Program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships, and research grants. Scholars must utilize all of the funding within five years of completion of undergraduate studies.

Learn more: https://lsa.umich.edu/onsf/scholarships/united-states/beinecke-scholarship-program.html

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:56:37 -0400 2021-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 2021-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Livestream / Virtual Photos of the ASME Code and Standard book for installing and manufacturing elevators.
Critical Conversations: Reimaginings (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85269 85269-21626127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2021-22. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience. Presentations begin at 12:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 1:30.

In this iteration, faculty from English L&L, History, Romance L&L, and Women's & Gender Studies will share their research on global modernities, comparative Marxisms and philosophies, transformations of sexualities, and more!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:20:01 -0400 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Reimaginings
Webster Reading Series (December 3, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2021-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
Complex Systems Presents the Annual Nobel Symposium (December 10, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89502 89502-21664099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 10, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

CLICK TO SEE RECORDINGS OF THE TALKS: https://lsa.umich.edu/cscs/news-events/all-events/event-recordings.html

Registration not required. Free and open to the public. This will be a virtual symposium. This popular annual event features UM faculty experts in each of the six prize fields. Each will present for approximately 25 minutes and then will take some questions. There is a scheduled lunch break. Come to one talk, come to them all.

SCHEDULE
10:00 AM Opening remarks, Marisa Eisenberg, Interim Director of Complex Systems
10:05 AM Physics, Mark Newman, LSA Complex Systems & Physics AND Richard Rood, Engineering & SEAS
10:55 AM Chemistry, Corey Stephenson, LSA Chemistry
11:30 AM Physiology or Medicine, Shawn Xu, Michigan Medicine Molecular and Integrative Physiology & Life Sciences Institute AND Rui Xiao, University of Florida, Center for Smell and Taste (special guest and Michigan Alumni)

12:05 PM Lunch break

1:00 PM Economics: Tanya Rosenblat, School of Information and LSA Economics
1:35 PM Literature: Gaurav Desai, LSA English Language and Literature
*This talk is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center (ii.umich.edu/asc)*
2:10 PM Peace: Lynette Clemetson, Wallace House (Knight-Wallace Fellowships) AND Ron Suny, LSA History & Political Science
3:00 PM Closing remarks

For information on prize winners, please click the Nobel Prize winners link below. Other information on the Nobel Prizes can be found on the website nobelprize.org

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:25:28 -0500 2021-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-10T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium Symposium Poster
The Clements Bookworm: Readings that have influenced Clements Staff (December 17, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89709 89709-21665069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 17, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Join us as Clements Library staff highlight books and articles that shaped their professional approaches to primary sources from early American history. Panelists and their readings of choice are: Jayne Ptolemy ("Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History" by Sarah Knott), Paul Erickson ("Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville" by David S. Reynolds) and Claire Danna ("Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service" by Devin Leonard).

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR.

The Clements Bookworm is a monthly webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics, while live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.

This episode is generously sponsored by Karolyn Tiefenbach.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:08:44 -0500 2021-12-17T10:00:00-05:00 2021-12-17T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Bookshelves at the Clements Library
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 17, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 17, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-17T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-17T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
LHS Collaboratory (January 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89940 89940-21666535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

This presentation will explore how Big Data Science and Informatics research can overcome deficiencies within the electronic health record and optimize real world data collection. We will discuss examples of how standardized nomenclature integrated into clinical workflow can enable statistical AI methods to advance clinical decision support and improve outcome models. Our successes in radiation oncology come from single multi-institutional, multi-national and multi-professional society collaboration.

Presenters:
Charles Mayo, PhD
Professor
Director of Radiation Oncology Informatics and Analytics
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan Medical School

Michelle Mierzwa, MD
Associate Professor
Associate Chair of Clinical Research
Co-Chair of Head and Neck Clinical Trials
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Michigan Medical School

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:56:37 -0500 2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-18T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 19, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-19T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-19T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 20, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 20, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
The Premodern Colloquium. Manuscript to Print in England: Reconsidering the Divide (January 23, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90097 90097-21667836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 23, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

My talk is taken from the conclusion to my current book project, entitled Scribes and Readers: The Middle English Book, 1350-1500. In this book, I examine the surviving manuscripts of four popular Middle English verse texts: The Prick of Conscience, Piers Plowman, and John Lydgate's "Dietary" and "Stans puer ad mensam." Based on my analyses of the 199 manuscripts surviving from these poems, I argue that Middle English literary culture was a local affair--that is, manuscripts were produced in numerous sorts of institutional settings, often by scribes from the nearby area, making books for nearby readers. As a result of this diversity of sites of book production, we find an often bewildering variety among Middle English manuscripts. But what unites the books in the hands of most English readers in the period of 1350-1500 is that they came from within the cultural milieu/orbit of the readers themselves.

In this presentation, I look at how the advent of print brings about a sharp break in such practices of book production and in the relationship between readers and their books. In manuscript culture, I argue, books were bespoke artefacts. Print turns the book into a commodity, centralizing its production and moving it outside the immediate world of readers. In this presentation, I will thus revisit long-standing debates about whether the printing press marks a revolution or an evolution in book production. Returning to the ideas of Ann Arbor's own Elizabeth Eisenstein, I argue that we have been too quick to dismiss the revolutionary effects of the printing press.

Michael Johnston completed his BA in English at John Carroll University in 2000, his M.Litt. in Mediaeval English at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) in 2002, and his Ph.D. at Ohio State in 2007. His first book, Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England, appeared with Oxford University Press in 2014. He has also edited three collections of essays: a special volume on teaching the history of the book for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (vol. 19.1, Spring 2012); with Susanna Fein, Robert Thornton and His Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts (York Medieval Press, 2014); and with Michael Van Dussen, The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:08:04 -0500 2022-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2022-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Prof. Michael Johnston
"Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes," by Elizabeth Lesser: A Book Study (January 24, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90067 90067-21667698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 10:00am
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Join us for a lively discussion of the book "Cassandra Speaks: When Women Tell the Stories, the Human Story Changes" by Elizabeth Lesser. Part one explores the myths and stories that are in the DNA of our culture. Part two looks at women and power and redefines what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And part three offers "A Toolbox for Inner Strength."
Written in a fun and delightful way, Lesser points out many truths about how out of balance the United States is, and also believes in humanity's potential to rise to the challenges of our times. Women must be a big part of this. Instructors Bernadette Beach and Sigrid Hermon will meet Mondays beginning January 24 through February 21.
Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:34:04 -0500 2022-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-24T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
DSI Book Talk with Anna Watkins Fisher & Kris Cohen (January 25, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90651 90651-21672073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Safety Orange first emerged in the 1950s as a bureaucratic color standard in technical manuals and federal regulations in the United States. Today it is most visible in the contexts of terror, pandemic, and environmental alarm systems; traffic control; work safety; and mass incarceration. In recent decades, the color has become ubiquitous in American public life—a marker of the extreme poles of state oversight and abandonment, of capitalist excess and dereliction. Its unprecedented saturation encodes the tracking of those bodies, neighborhoods, and infrastructures judged as worthy of care—and those deemed dangerous and expendable. This talk takes up Safety Orange as an interpretive key for theorizing the uneven distribution of safety and care in twenty-first-century U.S. public life and for pondering what the color tells us about neoliberalism’s intensifying impact often hiding in plain sight in ordinary and commonplace phenomena.

Anna Watkins Fisher, author of Safety Orange (Minnesota, Dec 2021), Digital Studies Institute faculty member, and Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, is a cultural and media theorist whose research spans the fields of digital studies, performance studies, visual culture, environmental humanities, and critical theory. Her first book, The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance (Duke University Press, 2020), explores what artistic resistance looks like in the 21st century when disruption and dissent can be easily co-opted and commodified. Her essays have appeared in such venues as Journal of Visual Culture, Social Text, Discourse, WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly), MIRAJ, and TDR/The Drama Review. She is the co-editor with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun of the 2nd edition of New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader (Routledge, 2015). She's also a founding member of the digital research collective Precarity Lab; the collective's manifesto, Technoprecarious, was published by Goldsmiths/MIT Press in 2020. She co-leads the Critical Futures Project, a research collective based at the University of Michigan that explores theoretical approaches for addressing the new urgency of climate change under digital and racial capitalism.

Respondent Kris Cohen is an associate professor of Art History and Humanities at Reed College. He works on the relationship between art, economy, and media technologies, focusing especially on the aesthetics of collective life. His first book, Never Alone, Except for Now: Networked Life between Populations and Publics (Duke University Press, 2017), looks at the art of Thomson & Craighead, Sharon Hayes, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, artists who straddle the border between image culture and network culture, between a logic of spectacle and a logic of networks. His second book manuscript, The Human in Bits, is a study of how and why artists working out a non-representational politics of Blackness have engaged a history of the pixel and the raster of the graphical computer screen or graphic user interface (GUI), expanding that history beyond the confines of a liberal, post-racial politics that sought to recuperate whiteness as a part of a multicultural national social matrix.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:59:07 -0500 2022-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 2022-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Livestream / Virtual safety
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 26, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 26, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-26T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-26T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Reading and Q&A with David Haynes (January 27, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89076 89076-21660453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

This event will be VIRTUAL ONLY. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


David Haynes is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. He is an emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he directed the creative writing program for ten years. Since 1996 he has taught regularly in MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has also taught writing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Hamline University, at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, and at the Writers’ Garret in Dallas. He has received a fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and several of his short stories have been read and recorded for the National Public Radio series “Selected Shorts.” His seventh and most recently novel is *A Star in the Face of the Sky*. He is also the author of a series for children called “The West Seventh Wildcats.” His upcoming book is a collection, *Martha's Daughter: A Novella and Stories*.

David spent fifteen years as a K-12 teacher in urban schools, mostly teaching middle grades in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He worked on numerous school reform efforts, including developing the influential Saturn School of Tomorrow, where he served as Associate Teacher for Humanities. He has been involved in the work of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, coordinating efforts of the nation's finest educators to develop standards in the fields of social studies, vocational education, early childhood education and for teachers of students whose first language is not English.

David Haynes co-founded and serves as the Board Chair for Kimbilio, a community of writers and scholars committed to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora and their stories.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 11 Jan 2022 19:32:59 -0500 2022-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion David Haynes
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Craft Lecture on "Writing Across Boundaries of Race, Culture, and Class: Considerations, Cautionary Tales, and Advice" (January 28, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89077 89077-21660454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

This event will be VIRTUAL ONLY. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


In this discussion-oriented craft lecture, we’ll discuss the pleasures and pitfalls in exploring the lives of characters whose identities differ significantly from our own. A primary text will be Allan Gurganus novella “Blessed Assurance.”

David Haynes is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. He is an emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he directed the creative writing program for ten years. Since 1996 he has taught regularly in MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and has also taught writing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Hamline University, at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, and at the Writers’ Garret in Dallas. He has received a fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and several of his short stories have been read and recorded for the National Public Radio series “Selected Shorts.” His seventh and most recently novel is *A Star in the Face of the Sky*. He is also the author of a series for children called “The West Seventh Wildcats.” His upcoming book is a collection, *Martha's Daughter: A Novella and Stories*.

David spent fifteen years as a K-12 teacher in urban schools, mostly teaching middle grades in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He worked on numerous school reform efforts, including developing the influential Saturn School of Tomorrow, where he served as Associate Teacher for Humanities. He has been involved in the work of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, coordinating efforts of the nation's finest educators to develop standards in the fields of social studies, vocational education, early childhood education and for teachers of students whose first language is not English.

David Haynes co-founded and serves as the Board Chair for Kimbilio, a community of writers and scholars committed to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora and their stories.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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 Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:19:11 -0500 2022-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion David Haynes
Webster Reading Series (January 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2022-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-31T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 1, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 2, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Reading and Q&A with Brenda Shaughnessy (February 3, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89078 89078-21660455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

This event will be VIRTUAL ONLY. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of five poetry collections, most recently *The Octopus Museum* (Knopf 2019), which was a *New York Times* 2019 Notable Book. 2012’s *Our Andromeda* was a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. She received a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her second book, *Human Dark with Sugar*, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008. Her poems have appeared in *Best American Poetry*, *The Nation*, *The New Yorker*, *Paris Review*, and elsewhere. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark and lives with her family in Verona, NJ. She is currently working on new poems for a sixth collection, as well as the poetry/libretto for the opera Sensorium Ex, a work in collaboration with composer Paola Prestini, commissioned by Atlanta Opera and Beth Morrison Projects for 2023-24 Atlanta and NYC premieres.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 11 Jan 2022 19:29:17 -0500 2022-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 2022-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brenda Shaughnessy
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 3, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Craft Lecture on "What is Voice?: Notes on Sounding Like Yourself" (February 4, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89081 89081-21674278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 4, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

This event will be VIRTUAL ONLY. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


You’ve immersed in flow, process, forms, revision, workshop—you know what you want to say, but how do you sound? Do you have a “signature” or a tone? A ‘tude? A range? How can a piece of writing “sound like” its author? This craft talk is meant to inspire, and challenge those writers working on their first manuscripts.

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of five poetry collections, most recently *The Octopus Museum* (Knopf 2019), which was a *New York Times* 2019 Notable Book. 2012’s *Our Andromeda* was a finalist for the Griffin International Prize, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Prize. She received a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her second book, *Human Dark with Sugar*, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008. Her poems have appeared in *Best American Poetry*, *The Nation*, *The New Yorker*, *Paris Review*, and elsewhere. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark and lives with her family in Verona, NJ. She is currently working on new poems for a sixth collection, as well as the poetry/libretto for the opera Sensorium Ex, a work in collaboration with composer Paola Prestini, commissioned by Atlanta Opera and Beth Morrison Projects for 2023-24 Atlanta and NYC premieres.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 11 Jan 2022 19:31:38 -0500 2022-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brenda Shaughnessy
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
MLK Event — The Wayland Rudd Collection: Exploring Racial Imaginaries in Soviet Visual Culture (February 7, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90496 90496-21671197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Scholar, artist, and writer Yevgeniy Fiks presents an archive of Soviet media images of Africans and African Americans — from propaganda posters to postage stamps — mainly related to African liberation movements and civil rights struggles. The project is named after Wayland Rudd (1900-1952), a Black American actor who moved to the Soviet Union in 1932. Fiks brings together post-colonial and post-Soviet perspectives, mapping the complicated and often contradictory intersection of race and Communism in the Soviet context, exposing the interweaving of internationalism, solidarity, humanism, and Communist ideals with practices of othering and exoticization. The Wayland Rudd Collection focuses on the Soviet Union’s critique of systemic racism in the US.
Yevgeniy Fiks was born in Moscow in 1972 and has lived and worked in New York since 1994. As a “post-Soviet artist,” his works build on research into Cold War narratives to explore the dialectic between Communism and “the West.”

Please Register in Advance at: https://tinyurl.com/49bn7zcu

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Presentation Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:46:09 -0500 2022-02-07T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Presentation The Wayland Rudd Collection
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Reading and Q&A with Jakob Guanzon (February 10, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89082 89082-21660459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Jakob Guanzon is the author of *Abundance* (Graywolf, 2021), which the New York Times called, “relentless... what Abundance captures is how mundane poverty is, and how psychologically punishing.”

His short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and have appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Juked, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere. Before he moved to New York to attend Columbia University’s School of the Arts, he lived in Madrid, Spain, where he taught, translated, and began publishing prose. He lives in Harlem.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 09 Nov 2021 09:35:23 -0500 2022-02-10T17:30:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jakob Guanzon
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Craft Lecture: "The Axis of Irony" (February 11, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89084 89084-21660461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3222). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


In this craft lecture, we’ll first briefly discuss the theories of humor and the history of comedy to foreground our core task: how to employ varying degrees of irony in our writing to most effectively hook readers and manage (if not outright manipulate) their expectations and reactions.

To this end, we’ll analyze the go-to tricks of contemporary writers by charting a diverse array of works on the axis of irony—a cartesian plane mapping authorial distance against on-page voice—to assess the comedic, emotional, and narrative impacts of various literary techniques. Students will be invited to pinpoint the modes that they prefer to both write in and read, then how to further hone their craft in order to provoke and illicit their desired response from readers.

Jakob Guanzon is the author of *Abundance* (Graywolf, 2021), which the New York Times called, “relentless... what Abundance captures is how mundane poverty is, and how psychologically punishing.”

His short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and have appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Juked, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere. Before he moved to New York to attend Columbia University’s School of the Arts, he lived in Madrid, Spain, where he taught, translated, and began publishing prose. He lives in Harlem.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 09 Nov 2021 09:47:53 -0500 2022-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jakob Guanzon
Webster Reading Series (February 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. MFA second-year students in fiction and poetry, each introduced by a peer, will share a sample of their work. Friends, family, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom via this login link: https://tinyurl.com/WebsterSeries

This series is organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. For questions or accommodation needs, contact co-hosts Jen Galvao (jgalvao@umich.edu) or Uri Kumbhat (urvik@umich.edu).

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

*September 24th:* David Joez Villaverde (poetry) and Matthew Del Busto (poetry)

*October 8th:* Richard Stock (fiction), Dasha Sikmashvili (fiction), and Olivia Brown (poetry)

*October 29th: *Bridgette Brados (poetry) and Thomas Boos (fiction)

*November 12th: *Molly Gott (fiction) and Chloe Alberta (fiction)-- DUE TO A COVID RISK, THE NOV. 12TH EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED SOON.

*December 3rd:* Caroline Harper New (poetry) and Julie Cadman-Kim (fiction)

*January 28th:* Abigail McFee (poetry) and Eva Warrick (fiction)

*February 11th:* Robert Laidler (poetry) and Afarin Allabakhshizadeh (fiction)

*March 11th:* Mollie Traver (fiction) and Austin Farrell (poetry)

*March 18th: *Urvi Kumbhat (fiction) and Jennifer Galvão (fiction)

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2022-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-16T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Reading and Q&A with Carmen Maria Machado (February 17, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89086 89086-21660463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir *In the Dream House* and the award-winning short story collection *Her Body and Other Parties*. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the *New York Times* listed *Her Body and Other Parties* as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the *New Yorker*, *the New York Times*, *Granta*, *Vogue*, This American Life, *Harper’s Bazaar*, Tin House, *McSweeney's Quarterly Concern*, *The Believer*, *Guernica*, *Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy*, *Best American Nonrequired Reading*, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 09 Nov 2021 09:45:02 -0500 2022-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2022-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Carmen Maria Machado
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Craft Lecture: Stories That Stand Still (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89087 89087-21660464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in Angell Hall #3222). Seats at the in-person events are capacity-limited and offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kotziers@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.


In this craft talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and time. Stories discussed will include Angela Carter’s “The Fall-River Axe Murders,” Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers,” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” Nancy Hale’s “The Earliest Dreams,” and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “The Future Looks Good.”

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir *In the Dream House* and the award-winning short story collection *Her Body and Other Parties*. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. In 2018, the *New York Times* listed *Her Body and Other Parties* as a member of "The New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."

Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the *New Yorker*, *the New York Times*, *Granta*, *Vogue*, This American Life, *Harper’s Bazaar*, Tin House, *McSweeney's Quarterly Concern*, *The Believer*, *Guernica*, *Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy*, *Best American Nonrequired Reading*, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.


For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kotziers@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 at in-person events are available upon request; please email kotziers@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, 09 Nov 2021 09:46:55 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Carmen Maria Machado
The Clements Bookworm: The Varieties of Retail Experience; or, Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91288 91288-21677911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Few retail sectors have been as thoroughly transformed by the revolution in online commerce as the retail bookstore. The retail storefront dedicated primarily to the sale of printed books (new or used) has become a vanishing breed. Or so we are told. But how did readers in the past buy things to read? What sorts of retail outlets sold reading material? And what did it *feel* like to shop there? Clements Library Director Paul Erickson will draw on printed, manuscript, and visual sources to shed light on the various settings for the retail traffic in print in the 19th-century northern United States.

Please register at http://myumi.ch/gjgzR

*The Clements Bookworm is a webinar series in which panelists discuss history topics. Recommended books, articles, and other resources are provided in each session. Live attendees are encouraged to post comments and questions, respond to polls, and add to our conversation and camaraderie.*

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:05:15 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Trade Card for New York Bookseller William W. Swayne, Clements Library.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-23T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Meet the Author: Idlewild (February 23, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91472 91472-21679945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Press

What do you know about Idlewild, an African American resort community founded in western Michigan in 1912? Join us on Wednesday, February 23rd for a discussion on “Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town” by Ronald J. Stephens. The book looks at the rapid rise and decline of this pivotal landmark in African American and leisure history, as well as how it intersects with race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historical preservation in the US. There will be a Q&A for attendees.

This event will take place in Facebook Live and Zoom webinar. A recording will be posted on Facebook and YouTube.

About the Author:
Dr. Ronald J. Stephens is Professor of African American Studies at Purdue University. A leading Idlewild scholar, he has contributed to numerous programs on the resort, including Ted Talbert's award-winning documentary Idlewild: A Place in the Sun, an edition of Tony Brown’s Journal, and an NPR production.

"Idlewild" will be on sale for $18 and free shipping during the month of February. Visit https://www.press.umich.edu/7131374/idlewild and use the discount code "UMGL18IDLE" when you check out. Michigan residents can also read the ebook for free on ReadMichigan.org

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:19:57 -0500 2022-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Press Livestream / Virtual Cover of Idlewild to the left of the text "Meet the Author: Ronald J. Stephens"
LHS Collaboratory (February 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90079 90079-21667713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

The session will describe the landscape history, current status, and future of federated health data networks that are used to support a Learning Health System. Dr. Brown will describe the creation, infrastructure, operation, and uses of several networks from the perspective of a network coordinating center. Dr. Harris will describe insights from participating in multiple networks as a network partner, including infrastructure, governance, and operational lessons learned.

Presenters:
Jeffrey Brown, PhD
Dr. Brown is the inventor of PopMedNet, an open-source software platform that facilitates creation and operation of distributed health data networks.

Marcelline Harris, Ph.D., RN, FACMI
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership
University of Michigan School of Nursing

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 29 Jan 2022 11:26:41 -0500 2022-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 24, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Every Wednesday beginning June 1st through August 3rd @ noon
First Step Sessions will be taking place during the spring & summer! Beginning Wednesday, June 1st through Wednesday, August 3rd, CGIS will be holding weekly First Step Sessions. 

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more! 

Attending a First Step session will no longer be a required component of the CGIS application process.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO