Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 21, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-21T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Hopwood Tea (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
How to Edit an Essay (March 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62231 62231-15335275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join Sweetland writing consultants in preparing yourself for success at U-M and beyond!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:42:11 -0400 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar flyer
Anthony Marra Reading & Booksigning (March 21, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58276 58276-14452830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Anthony Marra is the author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and New York Times-bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in France and was the first English-language novel to win the Athens Prize for Literature in Greece. Marra received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop before fellowship and teaching at Stanford University.

His work has been honored with the National Magazine Award, the Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2017, Marra was included in Granta’s decennial list of best young American novelists, and won the $50,000 Simpson Prize in 2018, which he will put toward finishing a new novel about exiles in 1940s Hollywood, slated for release in 2019.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:52:28 -0500 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Anthony Marra
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 22, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-22T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Mark Webster Reading Series (March 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59520 59520-14748079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Katarina Bishop and Thea Chacamaty. 

Katarina Bishop is a writer from Alabama. Her favorite things about the South are buttermilk biscuits and chocolate gravy. 

Thea Chacamaty is a writer from California. Her writing is devoted to the coast, the desert, San Francisco, and rock & roll. 

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:24 -0500 2019-03-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 23, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-23T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 24, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-24T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 25, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-25T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 26, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-26T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 27, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-27T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Faculty Author Recognition Celebration (March 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60999 60999-15000026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us to honor faculty who wrote monographs published in 2018. Enjoy refreshments as you chat with authors. Remarks at this annual reception will be by Professor of Engineering David Chesney, with additional brief remarks by LSA Associate Dean Anne Curzan.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:47:18 -0500 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Reception / Open House composite of book titles by faculty
Pizza with Profs (March 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62525 62525-15397103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Come meet our English professors and learn more about Fall 2019 undergraduate English classes.
Speed panel format with Q & A session.
Cottage Inn pizza provided!

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Other Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:27:08 -0400 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Other 2019 pizza w profs
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 28, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-28T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
How to Write Scientifically (March 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62232 62232-15335276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join Sweetland writing consultants in preparing for success at U-M and beyond.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:46:16 -0400 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar flyer
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 29, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-29T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Hub Studio: LinkedIn (March 29, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61758 61758-15179568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Want to get started on creating a LinkedIn account or have one but not sure how to maximize its functions? Stop by the Hub anytime between 3:30 and 5 to work on building your LinkedIn profile and network! Hub staff will be available as you strengthen your profile, explore LinkedIn networking, and learn how to use LinkedIn to search for jobs and internships.

This workshop is intended for LSA undergraduate students; we look forward to seeing you!

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:09:35 -0500 2019-03-29T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Computer work
The Accolades Awards- Nominations open (March 30, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/50294 50294-15088097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 30, 2019 7:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Nominations are now being accepted for The Accolades- Achievement in the Arts Awards!

The student-driven artistic community at the University of Michigan is one of the most vibrant in the nation; there are over two hundred and fifty diverse student arts organizations operating across Michigan's campus. These groups produce innovative and engaging art across all fields and their presence enriches the culture of the University. The Accolades Awards were developed by Arts at Michigan to foster the artistic growth of the student body at the University of Michigan by recognizing the accomplishments of the many extraordinary student arts groups on campus.

Awards are designed to recognize achievements by student organizations in a wide range of categories, including Theatre, Music, Dance, Comedy and Improv, Visual Arts, Literary publications and more. Nominations are open from February 18- March 30, and the entire campus will be encouraged to vote for the most deserving groups in each category online. Then, on Tuesday, April 23rd, the last day of classes, we will announce the winners for this year's Accolades awards through a series of announcements on social media. Winners in each category will receive $100 for their organization, plus other great prizes.

Consider nominating your student org for their work: http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/accolades/

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Other Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:43:33 -0500 2019-03-30T07:00:00-04:00 2019-03-30T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Arts at Michigan Other Accolades Banner
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Meeting (March 31, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58141 58141-14433269@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:37:19 -0400 2019-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting East Quadrangle
Write Togethers (for grad students) (April 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58376 58376-14491993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on papers, theses, and dissertations. These Monday Write Together sessions (from 9am-noon) bring graduate writers into common quiet space to work. Sweetland will offer short presentations on writing and work productivity, distribute writing support and information, and provide coffee, tea, and refreshments.

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:46:28 -0500 2019-04-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
CWPS Faculty Lecture Series (April 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62577 62577-15405816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Queer Spiritual Drifting: Site-Specific Performance and Writing

Tuesday, April 2, 2019
6:00pm
Walgreen Drama Center, Room B207

How can drifting find space on the page? Let’s think together about connections between performance practice and writing, about embodiment and the page, and about widening audiencing procedures for performance. In 2017, Petra Kuppers travelled to Belgium and the Netherlands as part of an Olimpias disability performance exploration of queer spiritual asylum spaces. In this talk, Petra will discuss these performance actions and the resulting publication, a travelogue essay in Performance Research, ‘Queer Spiritual Drifting: Not at home in The Beguinage.’

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

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

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Presentation Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:51:56 -0400 2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for World Performance Studies Presentation Dance Photo
Annual Middle East Poetry Night (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61926 61926-15239150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The Department of Middle East Studies is pleased to announce its fourth annual Poetry Night, with snacks and readings of poetry from across the languages and cultures we study as a community. Students, faculty, and friends are all welcome and encouraged to join the festivities!

Wednesday, April 3, 5:30–7:30 pm
Hussey, Michigan League
911 N University Ave

If you plan to attend this event, please RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/nAz3xosQZH5Nz9Fo2 by March 26.

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Performance Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:18:27 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T19:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Performance poetry
ESPApers: Open Access for Open Science (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62653 62653-15416723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

ESPA is happy to announce a new event series entitled ‘ESPApers’, a Science-Related Current Events Journal Club to foster a healthy and informal discussion. The plan is to hold a monthly journal club-like discussion, through selecting science-related current topics of interest to both scientists and the public, and deconstructing articles and white papers of differing opinions. Finally, we are collaborating with MiSciWriters for these events with the goal of writing a blog post summarizing the discussion of the group each month.

Our first topic will delve into discussing open access publishing of scholarly articles. What are the benefits and responsibilities of researchers to be open and transparent with their research findings to the public? What are the drawbacks, risks and considerations related to moving towards completely open access? We will explore both sides of the debate, using the following short reads to lead the discussion:
Open Access: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - https://bitesizebio.com/34520/open-access-good-bad-ugly/
UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier - https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly
Free Access to Science Research Doesn't Benefit Everyone - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/free-access-to-science-research-doesnt-benefit-everyone/383875/

Please RSVP, we will have coffee and some snacks, please bring your own bagged lunch! Also suggest new topics for future meetings and let us know of your interest in writing a future summary blog post. We look forward to seeing you at the first ESPApers event!

Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/MDgzzZcibg5VSyTV9

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:29:53 -0400 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Lecture / Discussion
Hopwood Tea (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
How to Write a Personal Statement for Grad or Med School (April 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62233 62233-15335277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join Sweetland writing consultants in preparing yourself at U-M and beyond!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:54:41 -0400 2019-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T19:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar flyer
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing Meeting (April 4, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58141 58141-14433270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:37:19 -0400 2019-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting East Quadrangle
BOOK LAUNCH WITH FRIEDA EKOTTO AND CORINE TACHTIRIS (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62542 62542-15399287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at U Michigan. Corine Tachtiris received her PhD in Comparative Literature from U Michigan in 2012 and is Assistant Professor at U-Mass Amherst. Tachtiris will read and discuss her new translation of Ekotto's novel (Rutgers 2019), followed by open dialogue between translator and author.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:58:20 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster
Write Togethers (for grad students) (April 8, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58376 58376-14491994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on papers, theses, and dissertations. These Monday Write Together sessions (from 9am-noon) bring graduate writers into common quiet space to work. Sweetland will offer short presentations on writing and work productivity, distribute writing support and information, and provide coffee, tea, and refreshments.

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:46:28 -0500 2019-04-08T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
Zell Visiting Writers Series: ​Edwidge Danticat, Distinguished Writer In Residence, Prose (April 9, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59546 59546-14750205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

A 2009 MacArthur fellow, Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, and Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, and has written six books for children and young adults, including Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, and Eight Days. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, published in 2017, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:27 -0500 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
ZVWS Presents: Edwidge Danticat (April 9, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58277 58277-14452831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

A 2009 MacArthur fellow, Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, and has written six books for children and young adults, including Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, and Eight Days. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, published in 2017, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:21:29 -0500 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Edwidge Danticat
Hopwood Tea (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52769 52769-13036485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us in the Hopwood Room for tea and conversation. Hopwood Tea is open to all.

For more information on the Hopwood Program, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:58:59 -0400 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Teacup on poetry books
Science Advocacy in Action: Letter Writing (April 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62650 62650-15416718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Join the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy (ESPA) for a discussion and letter writing party on the critical role science plays in equitable federal protections.  

We’ll discuss the current state of science in policymaking, review some of the best ways to get attention for the issues, and then write letters that inform the public and your policymakers about those issues. 
 
When: Thursday, April 11, 5-6:30pm 
Where: Earl Lewis Room in the Rackham Graduate School (915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109) 
What to bring: a laptop and/or notebook and an appetite for science policy and snacks 
Food, drinks, resources and support to write your letters will be provided. 
 
From the proposed rollbacks to the Chemical Facility Safety and air quality rules to inaction on highly fluorinated chemicals (PFAS) at the Environmental Protection Agency, the effects of federal decisions have great bearing on the health and safety of the people of Michigan, particularly
on already overburdened populations. But proactive solutions do exist.  
 
Don’t have time to write a letter?  
Stop by and sign a postcard to your members of Congress and make sure they know their science-loving constituents are counting on them to lead on our health, safety, and environmental protections.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/LcJ3Ei3uCszkvDVR7

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:05:13 -0400 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Workshop / Seminar Event Flyer
Zell Visiting Writers Series: In Conversation with Edwidge Danticat, Distinguished Poet in Residence (April 11, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59547 59547-14750206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

A 2009 MacArthur fellow, Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, and Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, and has written six books for children and young adults, including Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, and Eight Days. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, published in 2017, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage.

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Presentation Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:27 -0500 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
ZVWS Presents: Edwidge Danticat (April 11, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58277 58277-14452832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

A 2009 MacArthur fellow, Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, and has written six books for children and young adults, including Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, and Eight Days. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, published in 2017, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:21:29 -0500 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Edwidge Danticat
Student Poetry Reading (April 11, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62115 62115-15293428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 6:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In celebration of National Poetry Month and student poets at U-M, an informal, open-mic reading featuring U-M undergraduate students reading their original poetry. All undergraduates invited to read their original poetry. Arrive and leave as necessary. Sign up at event or pre-register (encouraged). Details/preregistration: Laura Kasischke, laurakk@umich.edu. All welcome to attend and listen. Refreshments will be served.

With special guest readers from the RC Creative Writing Honors Program.

National Poetry Month each April is the largest literary celebration in the world, with tens of millions of readers, students, K-12 teachers, librarians, booksellers, literary events curators, publishers, bloggers, and, of course, poets marking poetry’s important place in our culture and our lives.

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Other Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:11:21 -0400 2019-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T21:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Other poetry reading
CLIFF Student Creative Reading @ Literati (April 13, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63001 63001-15534801@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In conjunction with the Department of Comparative Literature's 2019 CLIFF Conference, "Cartographies of Silence", join us for a reading of creative writing by graduate students at Literati bookstore.

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Presentation Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:58:54 -0400 2019-04-13T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Presentation CLIFF Creative Reading flyer
Write Togethers (for grad students) (April 15, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58376 58376-14491995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on papers, theses, and dissertations. These Monday Write Together sessions (from 9am-noon) bring graduate writers into common quiet space to work. Sweetland will offer short presentations on writing and work productivity, distribute writing support and information, and provide coffee, tea, and refreshments.

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:46:28 -0500 2019-04-15T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
Coffee and Book Club (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61268 61268-15063352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Organized By: Michigan Earth Science Women's Network

MESWN (Michigan Earth Science Women's Network) is very happy to start a book club aimed at professional development of students from all disciplines. The Book for Winter 2019 is - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck. We will be meeting thrice this semester to discuss a section of the book. Let us share our insights of this awesome book over snacks and coffee.

Please RSVP here : https://goo.gl/forms/qWyT6Vpkfsftqkd83
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/776838996048045/

Meeting 1 : March 15th (Friday), 4:00-5:00 pm : Chapters 1-3
Meeting 2 : April 4th (Thursday), 4:00 - 5:00 pm : Chapters 4-6
Meeting 3 : April 19th (Friday), 4:00 - 5:00 pm : Chapters 6-8

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Well-being Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:00:02 -0500 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower Michigan Earth Science Women's Network Well-being Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
Creative Writing Minors Reading Series (April 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63105 63105-15576712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for an afternoon of stories, poems, cookies and coffee! Support our undergraduate writers! All are welcomed.

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Presentation Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:15:36 -0400 2019-04-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T16:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Presentation Cw minor 2019
Graduate + Undergraduate Hopwood Awards + Lecture (April 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57608 57608-14220076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Please join us as we celebrate the winners of the 2018-19 Hopwood Awards.

Following the announcement of the awards, there will be a lecture from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als and a light reception. Free to attend and open to all!

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Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America.

Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. Als edited the catalogue for the 1994-95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition “Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.” His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014 and winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Non-fiction, discusses various narratives of race and gender. He is author of the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Early Stories of Truman Capote. He is also guest editor for the 2018 Best American Essays (Mariner Books, October 2, 2018). He also wrote Andy Warhol: The Series, a book containing two previously unpublished television scripts for a series on the life of Andy Warhol.

In 1997, the New York Association of Black Journalists awarded Als first prize in both Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was awarded a Guggenheim for creative writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002-03. In 2016, he received Lambda Literary’s Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature, in 2017 Als won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and in 2018 the Langston Hughes Medal.

In 2009, Als worked with the performer Justin Bond on “Cold Water,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and videos by performers, at La MaMa Gallery. In 2010, he co-curated “Self-Consciousness,” at the VeneKlasen/Werner gallery, in Berlin, and published “Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis.” In 2015, he collaborated with the artist Celia Paul to create “Desdemona for Celia by Hilton,” an exhibition for the Metropolitan Opera’s Gallery Met. In 2016, his debut art show “One Man Show: Holly, Candy, Bobbie and the Rest” opened at the Artist’s Institute. In 2017 he curated "Alice Neel, Uptown" at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City.

Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:41:04 -0500 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Photo of Hilton Als (credit Brigitte Lacombe)
CANCELED :: Roundtable and Q&A with Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan (April 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60967 60967-14997739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

****This event has been canceled due to changing travel plans. We hope to see you at the 4/18 Hopwood Awards Ceremony instead (Thursday, April 18, 6:00 PM, Rackham Auditorium).****

Please join us in the Hopwood Room for a discussion between essayists Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. This lunchtime event will be catered; food will be available at 11:30, and the discussion will start at noon.

Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film and pop culture. She studied English Literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was just chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and will be published in 2017. She is currently a Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:07:21 -0400 2019-04-19T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Write Togethers (for grad students) (April 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58376 58376-14491996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Write Together sessions provide structure, space, and time for graduate writers working on papers, theses, and dissertations. These Monday Write Together sessions (from 9am-noon) bring graduate writers into common quiet space to work. Sweetland will offer short presentations on writing and work productivity, distribute writing support and information, and provide coffee, tea, and refreshments.

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Other Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:46:28 -0500 2019-04-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
Study Day Write-In (April 24, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63113 63113-15576721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Peer Writing Center opens its doors on Wednesday, April 24th from 11:30am-3:30pm for the Study Day Write-in. Feel our positive writing vibes in a quiet environment. We'll have study snacks on hand to keep you going along with writing consultants who can help you with anything you are working on.

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Other Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:56:17 -0400 2019-04-24T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-24T15:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Other flyer
Minor in Writing Gateway/Capstone Showcase (April 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60841 60841-14972973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join us in North Quad Space 2435 on Thursday, 4/25 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM for the Gateway/Capstone Showcase! View final projects produced in the Minor in Writing's Gateway and Capstone courses. All are welcome to attend.

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Exhibition Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:24:31 -0500 2019-04-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-25T17:30:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Exhibition North Quad
Absinthe Launch (May 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63188 63188-15587263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us in celebrating the publication of Absinthe: A Journal in World Literature in Translation, Volume 25: Barings // Bearings Contemporary Women's Writing in Catalan, at Literati Bookstore.

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Other Mon, 22 Apr 2019 11:08:37 -0400 2019-05-07T19:00:00-04:00 2019-05-07T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Other "Ping" illustration by Elisa Munso
UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics (May 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58555 58555-14510877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The Art, Ideas, & Politics Book Club is a partnership between UMMA and Literati Bookstore in connection with UMMA's exhibition Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s. Surrounded by the large-scale artworks by Sam Gilliam, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Loving, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books will explore visions and critiques relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period, and include Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (Jan 10), Art on My Mind, Visual Politics by bell hooks (March 14), Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel (May 9), Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (July 11), and How We Get Free, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

The Art, Ideas, & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Other Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:16:23 -0500 2019-05-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-05-09T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
U-M/NAS Town Hall (May 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62945 62945-15520072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: ArtsEngine

The purpose of this town hall will be to discuss the findings and recommendations from the consensus report, The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree, released Spring 2018 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The even will also facilitate discussions about strategies for the creation, evaluation, and sustainability of courses and programs that integrate across disciplines. The report represents a culmination of a two-year study conducted by a committee of National Academies members including scientists, engineers, health professionals, humanists, artists, and industry leaders. The report argues that integrating the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine results in positive learning outcomes that will help students successfully enter the workforce, enrich their lives, and help them become active and informed citizens. Importantly, a range of positive educational outcomes resulted from these methods, including improved written and oral communication skills, teamwork skills, ethical decision-making, critical thinking, and the ability to apply knowledge in real-world settings.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 13:36:17 -0400 2019-05-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-05-28T15:30:00-04:00 Michigan League ArtsEngine Lecture / Discussion
The Eco Book Club and The World to Come (June 2, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63220 63220-15595495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, June 2, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​Literati’s Eco Book Club goes on the road. Join us at UMMA on the occasion of the Museum’s exhibition of The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene. This thought-provoking exhibition grapples with the negative impact of human activity on the planet through the art of more than thirty-five international artists such as Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth. Discussions will be led by Literati’s Eco Book Club facilitator Alison Swan.

Alison Swan’s poems and essays have appeared in many places, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, and the recent award-winning anthologies Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and Here: Women Writing on the Upper Peninsula. Her anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a Michigan Notable Book. A Mesa Refuge alum and a Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership co-winner, Swan teaches literature and writing in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University and lives in Ann Arbor.

Sunday, June 2, 3 p.m. Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore. Join UMMA’s award-winning docents for a tour of The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene at 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 28, 3 p.m. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Preceding the Book Club, join curator Jennifer Friess and Education Outreach Program Coordinator Grace VanderVliet at 2 p.m. for “Cross Pollination," a tour of the environmental themes in three exhibitions at UMMA: The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene; The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq​; and​ Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights.

Participants are welcome to join us for one or both of the Book Club meetings in the UMMA Living Rooms at the entry of the Apse. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.  

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Presentation Fri, 17 May 2019 18:15:28 -0400 2019-06-02T15:00:00-04:00 2019-06-02T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Volunteer at Artscapade! (July 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-07-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics (July 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58556 58556-14510878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA's exploration of abstract art, politics, and identity continues with Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s.  Join UMMA and Literati Bookstore for the Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club which will include texts relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period. Surrounded by the large-scale artworks by Howardena Pindell, John T. Scott, Richard Hunt, Helen Frankenthaler, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books include  (Jan 10),  by Bell Hooks (March 14), , edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

 

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

 

The Art, Ideas, & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Other Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:15:33 -0400 2019-07-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-07-11T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Volunteer at Artscapade! (July 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-07-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-17T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Volunteer at Artscapade! (July 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-07-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-24T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Hopwood Award Submissions Drop-in Workshop (July 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64574 64574-16397017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Before the January 29th deadline for the January Hopwood Awards, come by to finalize your submission!

This is an informal chance to drop in, ask questions about the submissions tool, troubleshoot anything that might go wrong, and learn more about the contest categories and eligibility requirements.

For details on the Hopwood Awards that are open to you, visit
https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood/contests-prizes.html

This event is free and all are welcome. If you have any accessibility questions or requests, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:19:47 -0400 2019-07-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-07-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hopwood Awards Program Class / Instruction The Hopwood Room
The Eco Book Club and The World to Come (July 28, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63222 63222-15595497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, July 28, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

​Literati’s Eco Book Club goes on the road. Join us at UMMA on the occasion of the Museum’s exhibition of The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene. This thought-provoking exhibition grapples with the negative impact of human activity on the planet through the art of more than thirty-five international artists such as Sammy Baloji, Liu Bolin, Dana Levy, Mary Mattingly, Pedro Neves Marques, Gabriel Orozco, Trevor Paglen, and Thomas Struth. Discussions will be led by Literati’s Eco Book Club facilitator Alison Swan.

Sunday, June 2, 3 p.m. Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change by Kathleen Dean Moore. Join UMMA’s award-winning docents for a tour of The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene at 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 28, 3 p.m. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Preceding the Book Club, join curator Jennifer Friess and Education Outreach Program Coordinator Grace VanderVliet at 2 p.m. for “Cross Pollination,” a tour of the environmental themes in three exhibitions at UMMA: The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene; The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq​; and​ Jason DeMarte: Garden of Artificial Delights.

Participants are welcome to join us for one or both of the Book Club meetings in the UMMA Living Rooms at the entry of the Apse. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.

Alison Swan’s poems and essays have appeared in many places, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, and the recent award-winning anthologies Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, and Here: Women Writing on the Upper Peninsula. Her anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a Michigan Notable Book. A Mesa Refuge alum and a Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership co-winner, she teaches literature and writing at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University and lives in Ann Arbor.  

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability. 

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Presentation Tue, 21 May 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-07-28T15:00:00-04:00 2019-07-28T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
Volunteer at Artscapade! (July 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-07-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
U-M Ideas Lab: Informational Webinar on Predicting Human Performance (July 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64096 64096-16147464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Attend this webinar to learn more about the 2019 Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab: Predicting Human Performance.

Experts will:
- present background surrounding the Ideas Lab
- explore the topic in depth
- answer questions live from the audience

Questions may be sent ahead of time to biosciences@umich.edu.
Registration for the webinar: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/e93ed8dbfacf569acde7dc3c8da9331e
On-line attendance- please register yourself and utilize your individual link for the meeting.
In-person attendance- you may register on-line or when you arrive.

About U-M Ideas Lab:
The Biosciences Initiative U-M Ideas Lab is your chance to pursue high-risk, high-reward, creative ideas and solutions to broad biosciences challenges alongside colleagues with diverse areas of expertise. Use this interactive think tank funding opportunity to pursue innovative research while still focusing on your current program and other duties.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:01:40 -0400 2019-07-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-07-31T12:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Biosciences Initiative Workshop / Seminar Ideas Lab Banner
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-08-07T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-07T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Future Faculty Writing Series - Research Statement Workshop (August 13, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65032 65032-16507302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

The event will feature a panel of faculty members who have served on search committees talking about what makes an effective research statement. We have also compiled successful research statements from recently hired faculty, as well as tips for the faculty search process. (Please note: Workshop materials will NOT be provided to anyone who does not attend the workshop).

Panelists: Professor Mark Kushner - ECE, Professor Annalisa Manera - NERS, Professor Benjamin Kuipers - CSE, Professor Seymour Spence - CEE, Professor Jianping Fu - ME, and more TBA!

RSVP is required. Space is limited. Lunch will be provided.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTwBYRki1m5WSbXIm1igCAQmVLD6WQerwL7kUEfnz71ClAFQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

There will also be a writing-accountability group the following Tuesday, August 20th from 9:00-11:00 am in NCRC B10-ACR1, for folks interested in sitting together and incorporating what they learned at the workshop into their own Research Statements (or any other writing they need to work on!). Breakfast will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:40:30 -0400 2019-08-13T11:30:00-04:00 2019-08-13T13:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar Working together to craft research statements
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 14, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-08-14T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-14T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Future Faculty Writing Series - Research Statement Workshop (August 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65032 65032-16507303@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

The event will feature a panel of faculty members who have served on search committees talking about what makes an effective research statement. We have also compiled successful research statements from recently hired faculty, as well as tips for the faculty search process. (Please note: Workshop materials will NOT be provided to anyone who does not attend the workshop).

Panelists: Professor Mark Kushner - ECE, Professor Annalisa Manera - NERS, Professor Benjamin Kuipers - CSE, Professor Seymour Spence - CEE, Professor Jianping Fu - ME, and more TBA!

RSVP is required. Space is limited. Lunch will be provided.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfTwBYRki1m5WSbXIm1igCAQmVLD6WQerwL7kUEfnz71ClAFQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

There will also be a writing-accountability group the following Tuesday, August 20th from 9:00-11:00 am in NCRC B10-ACR1, for folks interested in sitting together and incorporating what they learned at the workshop into their own Research Statements (or any other writing they need to work on!). Breakfast will be served.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:40:30 -0400 2019-08-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-20T11:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Workshop / Seminar Working together to craft research statements
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-08-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-21T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Volunteer at Artscapade! (August 28, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/42847 42847-16274478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Artscapade is at UMMA on Friday, August 30, 7-10pm
Sign up to volunteer today! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/artscapade/

Arts at Michigan and the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) celebrate Welcome Week through Artscapade -- an evening of art-making, live music, dance and poetry, games, and prizes. We're looking for volunteers to help with Artscapade! There are many fun volunteer opportunities for Artscapade. As a volunteer you'll meet new students, explore UMMA, help run fun arts activities, and get a free Artscapade t-shirt! We hope that you will join us to kick off the new year with Arts at Michigan!

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Fair / Festival Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:43:45 -0400 2019-08-28T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-28T10:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Fair / Festival Artscapade at UMMA
Artscapade! (August 30, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/23020 23020-16378895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 30, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan and UMMA celebrate Welcome Week by introducing more than 4,000 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 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:07:38 -0400 2019-08-30T19:00:00-04:00 2019-08-30T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Arts at Michigan Reception / Open House Artscapade Promo
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Writing Successfully at Michigan (September 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64383 64383-16338383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

To help make your writing experiences at the University of Michigan rich and rewarding, the Sweetland Center for Writing provides a variety of writing support programs and opportunities. Learn more about how to receive assistance on papers, essays, and other writing at our Writing Workshop, Peer Writing Centers, and Online Writing Lab (OWL). We'll also introduce you to helpful writing courses and our fun and unconventional new media writing courses. Students with an interest in writing can learn more about our Minor in Writing program, a perfect complement to any major.

International undergraduates are especially encouraged to attend to learn more about writing and English language learning support courses available to multilingual undergraduates at Sweetland.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:54:25 -0400 2019-09-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T11:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering flyer
Writing Successfully at Michigan (September 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64383 64383-16338385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

To help make your writing experiences at the University of Michigan rich and rewarding, the Sweetland Center for Writing provides a variety of writing support programs and opportunities. Learn more about how to receive assistance on papers, essays, and other writing at our Writing Workshop, Peer Writing Centers, and Online Writing Lab (OWL). We'll also introduce you to helpful writing courses and our fun and unconventional new media writing courses. Students with an interest in writing can learn more about our Minor in Writing program, a perfect complement to any major.

International undergraduates are especially encouraged to attend to learn more about writing and English language learning support courses available to multilingual undergraduates at Sweetland.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:54:25 -0400 2019-09-03T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-03T15:00:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Social / Informal Gathering flyer
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-05T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-05T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 6, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-06T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
2nd Annual RC Open House (September 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53119 53119-16388958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Featuring faculty and student-led workshops, meet-and-greets, language fair, open art studios and theater, music jam sessions, film screenings, instrument petting zoo, alumni mingle, garden harvest, and more! There will be a reception for Cindy Sowers's exhibition of visual art in the RC Art Gallery, as well!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:24:11 -0400 2019-09-06T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-06T18:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Reception / Open House Open House Poster
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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

All are welcome!

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Meeting Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:51:25 -0400 2019-09-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-09T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Wallace House Presents McKenzie Funk on Climate Change (September 10, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64630 64630-16397019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Mike & Mary Wallace House
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

The 34th Graham Hovey Lecture

“Seeing Green: The Business and Inequity of Climate Change” with McKenzie Funk

While the issue of climate change rises in importance to the U.S. electorate, players in energy, banking and business are cashing in on the environmental crisis. McKenzie Funk, 2012 Knight-Wallace Fellow, is the author of “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming.” Join him for a critical discussion of drought, rising seas, profiteering, and the hardest truth about climate change: It’s not equally bad for everyone.

Funk writes for Harper’s, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Outside, The New York Times Magazine and the London Review of Books. His 2014 book “Windfall” won a PEN Literary Award and was named a book of the year by The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Salon and Amazon.com. A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist, Funk won the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism for his reporting on the melting Arctic and has received fellowships at the Open Society Foundations and MacDowell Colony for his forthcoming work on data and privacy.

Funk studied philosophy and comparative literature at Swarthmore College and capitalism and the paradigm of endless growth as a 2012 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He speaks five languages and is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he lives with his wife and sons.

The annual Graham Hovey Lecture recognizes a Knight-Wallace journalist whose career exemplifies the benefits of a fellowship at the University of Michigan and whose ensuing work is at the forefront of national conversation. The event is named for the late Graham Hovey, director of the fellowship program from 1980 to 1986 and a distinguished journalist for The New York Times.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:36:20 -0400 2019-09-10T17:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T21:00:00-04:00 Mike & Mary Wallace House Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Wallace House Presents McKenzie Funk on Climate Change
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-12T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
UMMA Book Club: Art, Ideas, & Politics (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58557 58557-14510879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

UMMA's exploration of abstract art, politics, and identity continues with Abstraction, Color, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s.  Join UMMA and Literati Bookstore for the Art, Ideas & Politics Book Club which will include texts relevant to abstract art as well as the immense social changes of the period. Surrounded by the artworks by Howardena Pindell, John T. Scott, Richard Hunt, Helen Frankenthaler, and Louise Nevelson, we will read and discuss bold and critical voices—both fiction and nonfiction—guided by Literati Bookstore's Creative Programs Manager, Gina Balibrera Amyx. Books include  (Jan 10),  by Bell Hooks (March 14), , edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Sept 12).

 

Gina Balibrera Amyx is the Creative Program Manager at Literati Bookstore, and a graduate of Zell MFA Program. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora.

 

The Art, Ideas, & Politics Book Club will meet on the second Thursday of the month, 12-1 p.m. in the exhibition gallery. Pick and choose or come to all of them. Books will be available for sale at Literati Bookstore as well as after book club meetings at UMMA, at a 15% book club discount.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender, School of Social Work, Department of Political Science, and Department of Women's Studies

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Other Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:18:01 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Other Museum of Art
Gala Mukomolova Roundtable Q&A (September 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64360 64360-16332359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

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

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

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:16:28 -0400 2019-09-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Gala.Mukomolova.headshot
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (September 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16541449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-09-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Writers Unlimited (September 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64486 64486-16372915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Participants present their creative essays, short stories, poetry, or novels for constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement from the group. Each participant brings copies from their work to distribute. Comments are recorded on the copies and returned to the reader.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Fridays, from September 13, 2019 through August 30, 2020, except on November 29 and December 27, 2019.

Instructor Jerry Janusz has been a participant in this group for eleven years.

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Class / Instruction Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:29:06 -0400 2019-09-13T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 16, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-16T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
ELI Fall 2019 Workshop Series: Writing Effective Email (September 16, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67147 67147-16805220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever struggled to write important email messages? Have you ever wondered whether your email messages reflect the professional persona you wish to project? Given the importance of email in academic and professional settings, the ability to write effective e-mail messages is an essential skill. In this workshop we will focus on strategies for writing clear, effective and professional email. We will discuss the aspects of email that make it likely to be read, to be easily understood, and to create a good impression. Bring a few samples of your important email messages to analyze.

Sign up here:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4661

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:51:37 -0400 2019-09-16T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar ELI Event Image
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Sign up to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 17, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67347 67347-16839887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll help promote arts events and activities, learn about local arts organizations, meet local artists, and have a small programming budget to organize things like film screenings, craft nights, gallery walks, etc. Learn more about what it means to be an Arts Ambassador at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/ambassadors/

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:56:33 -0400 2019-09-17T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Arts at Michigan Arts Ambassadors Graphic
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Sign up to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 18, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67347 67347-16839888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll help promote arts events and activities, learn about local arts organizations, meet local artists, and have a small programming budget to organize things like film screenings, craft nights, gallery walks, etc. Learn more about what it means to be an Arts Ambassador at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/ambassadors/

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:56:33 -0400 2019-09-18T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T15:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Arts at Michigan Arts Ambassadors Graphic
For Dear Life: Women's Decriminalization and Human Rights in Focus (September 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63251 63251-15601679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

"For Dear Life" (U. Michigan Press, 2019) chronicles feminist and artist Carol Jacobsen’s deep commitment to the causes of justice and human rights. Jacobsen’s tireless work with and for women prisoners is charted in this rich assemblage of images and texts that reveal the collective strategies she and the prisoners have employed to receive justice. The book gives evidence that women’s lawbreaking is often an effort to survive gender-based violence. The faces, letters, and testimonies of dozens of incarcerated women with whom Jacobsen has worked present a visceral yet politicized chorus of voices against the criminal-legal systems that fail us all. Their voices are joined by those of leading feminist scholars in essays that illuminate the arduous methods of dissent that Jacobsen and the others have employed to win freedom for more than a dozen women sentenced to life imprisonment, and to free many more from torturous prison conditions.

This conversation will focus a critical lens on an American criminal-legal regime that imparts racist, gendered, and classist modes of punishment to women lawbreakers.

Book sales provided by University of Michigan Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:18:55 -0400 2019-09-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover "For Dear Life"
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (September 18, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-09-18T18:30:00-04:00 2019-09-18T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Sign up to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67347 67347-16839889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll help promote arts events and activities, learn about local arts organizations, meet local artists, and have a small programming budget to organize things like film screenings, craft nights, gallery walks, etc. Learn more about what it means to be an Arts Ambassador at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/ambassadors/

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:56:33 -0400 2019-09-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Arts at Michigan Arts Ambassadors Graphic
Memoirs and Personal Essays (September 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64623 64623-16396996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This group for those 50 and over meets every week for two hours on Thursdays from September 2019 to June 2020, except for holidays. There are no specific assignments. Each writer strives to find his or her own subject matter and stylistic voice. We read our work aloud and discuss it, making constructive suggestions for improvement. The important thing is to write well enough to interest others and to convey our ideas clearly. Participants are expected to read their work regularly.

Instructor Eleanor Linn has led this writing group since 2014. She is a published author.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:37:28 -0400 2019-09-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Wayetu Moore Roundtable Q&A (September 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64363 64363-16332361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Wayétu Moore’s debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years. It was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed.

Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented readers. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015. Her writing can be found in The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, The Atlantic Magazine and other publications. She has been featured in The Economist Magazine, NPR, NBC, BET and ABC, among others, for her work in advocacy for diversity in children’s literature.

She is a graduate of Howard University, University of Southern California and Columbia University. Moore is a founding faculty member of Randolph College MFA program and a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Syracuse University.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:15:47 -0400 2019-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Wayetu.Moore.headshot
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (September 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16541450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-09-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Wayetu Moore Reading and Book Signing (September 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64361 64361-16332360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Wayétu Moore’s debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years. It was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed.

Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit organization that creates and distributes culturally relevant books for underrepresented readers. Her first bookstore opened in Monrovia, Liberia in 2015. Her writing can be found in The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, The Atlantic Magazine and other publications. She has been featured in The Economist Magazine, NPR, NBC, BET and ABC, among others, for her work in advocacy for diversity in children’s literature.

She is a graduate of Howard University, University of Southern California and Columbia University. Moore is a founding faculty member of Randolph College MFA program and a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Syracuse University.

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:08:13 -0400 2019-09-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-19T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Wayetu.Moore.headshot
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Sign up to be an Arts Ambassador! (September 20, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67347 67347-16839890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Arts at Michigan

Arts at Michigan is for enthusiastic and friendly students who have an interest in the arts that they want to share! Arts Ambassadors are unpaid volunteers who serve as the bridge between the arts and the U-M student body. As an Arts Ambassador you'll help promote arts events and activities, learn about local arts organizations, meet local artists, and have a small programming budget to organize things like film screenings, craft nights, gallery walks, etc. Learn more about what it means to be an Arts Ambassador at http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/ambassadors/

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:56:33 -0400 2019-09-20T14:00:00-04:00 2019-09-20T15:00:00-04:00 Arts at Michigan Social / Informal Gathering Arts at Michigan Arts Ambassadors Graphic
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
ELI Fall 2019 Workshop Series: What is Academic Style? (September 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67148 67148-16805222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Whether you are writing a research article, proposal, conference abstract or dissertation, it is important to pay attention to style. Academic style is not so much a matter of following rules, but more a matter of making choices. Even if you are aware of the stylistic conventions of your field and of academic writing in general, you may also seek ways to more strongly position yourself and create your scholarly identity. In this workshop we will discuss some common features of academic style and how to make effective stylistic choices. Bring a text you are currently working on for analysis.

Sign up here:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4661

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:59:09 -0400 2019-09-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-09-23T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar ELI Event Image
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
BLI Pause, Reflect & Create (September 25, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65895 65895-16668210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Pause, Reflect, and Create is a contemplative gathering of students who come together to create art, explore mindful writing, and to spend time in personal reflection. It provides an opportunity to pause and explore mindfulness through reflective expression.

The space and opportunity are about the individual personal process. Contemplative practices allow us to quiet ourselves, become more mindful and in the moment.

WHAT TO EXPECT A quiet setting dedicated to creative work; art or writing materials befit to the designated medium; inviting directions with the freedom to create your own way.

GUIDELINES No tech, no talking, and respect others' space.

*This is a drop-in event and will take place bi-monthly on the second Wednesday at 9:30 AM and the 4th Wednesday at 2:30 PM.

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Well-being Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:24:45 -0500 2019-09-25T14:30:00-04:00 2019-09-25T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Well-being Pause, Reflect & Create
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (September 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16831224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-09-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
LSWA/LHSP Arts & Literary Journal Release Party (September 25, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67558 67558-16892247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Alice Lloyd Hall
Organized By: Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts

Lloyd Scholars and LSWA/LHSP alum are invited for a night to commemorate the latest edition of our Arts & Literary Journal.

Wed. Sept. 25 @ 8PM

The evening will include readings, art, and refreshments. You'll also have the chance to get a print copy of this edition.

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Performance Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:05:12 -0400 2019-09-25T20:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T21:00:00-04:00 Alice Lloyd Hall Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts Performance Arts & Literary Journal Release Party flyer
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-26T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (September 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-09-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Daughters of Memory: Paintings and Poems on the Nine Muses (September 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65767 65767-16654026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

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

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

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

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Exhibition Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:54:41 -0400 2019-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T17:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition Terpsichore (Daughters of Memory poster)
Memoir Writing (September 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64620 64620-16396994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Participants will learn how to tell the stories of their lives and those of their ancestors. We will meet weekly, and each participant should be prepared to read a story they have written (including the first class).

Instructor Jan Price calls herself a “very amateur memoirist” who has written her story after being motivated by an OLLI class.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Fridays from September 27 through December 13(except on November 29).

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:34:01 -0400 2019-09-27T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-27T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Xu Zhimo’s Surprising Journey: An Exploration of My Grandfather’s Life (September 27, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67479 67479-16864378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 27, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:07:25 -0400 2019-09-27T13:30:00-04:00 2019-09-27T14:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Tony Hsu
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal (October 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66542 66542-16744994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop discusses writing grant proposals for various sponsors, including federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF) and foundation funders.
Topics include:
-Resources at U-M to help you find funding opportunities and develop proposals
-Self-assessment
-Analyzing sponsors
-How the review process works
-How to write various proposals sections
-General writing tips

Email Jill Jividen at jjgoff@umich.edu with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:52:54 -0400 2019-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (October 2, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-10-02T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-02T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Writing Proposals in STEM: Personal and Research Statements (October 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67396 67396-16846593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

This workshop will focus on two important elements of most research proposals in STEM disciplines - the personal statement and research statement. We will consider the criteria that review committees use in evaluating these statements and will critique examples of successful submissions in order to consider what makes for effective content, structure, and language. The workshop will conclude by sharing tips for writing, revising, and editing these statements. Bagels will be provided.

Registration required at https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bNu96MNZ9K3HKpT

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:44:04 -0400 2019-10-03T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T11:30:00-04:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal (October 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66545 66545-16744999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop discusses writing grant proposals for various sponsors, including federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF) and foundation funders.
Topics include:
-Resources at U-M to help you find funding opportunities and develop proposals
-Self-assessment
-Analyzing sponsors
-How the review process works
-How to write various proposals sections
-General writing tips

Email Jill Jividen at jjgoff@umich.edu with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:55:34 -0400 2019-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar
Medical School Student Panel Discussion (October 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65981 65981-16678384@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Science Learning Center

Here is your chance to hear about what life is like for several medical school students and residents. Learn about each of their paths to medicine, experiences in medical school, and things they wished they had known in college. You can also submit your own questions ahead of time using the following link: http://tiny.cc/med-student-panel.

Registration Link: http://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/sessions/medical-school-student-panel-discussion-2/

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:40:54 -0400 2019-10-08T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T19:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Science Learning Center Workshop / Seminar Biological Sciences Building
BLI Pause, Reflect & Create (October 9, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65895 65895-16668211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Pause, Reflect, and Create is a contemplative gathering of students who come together to create art, explore mindful writing, and to spend time in personal reflection. It provides an opportunity to pause and explore mindfulness through reflective expression.

The space and opportunity are about the individual personal process. Contemplative practices allow us to quiet ourselves, become more mindful and in the moment.

WHAT TO EXPECT A quiet setting dedicated to creative work; art or writing materials befit to the designated medium; inviting directions with the freedom to create your own way.

GUIDELINES No tech, no talking, and respect others' space.

*This is a drop-in event and will take place bi-monthly on the second Wednesday at 9:30 AM and the 4th Wednesday at 2:30 PM.

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Well-being Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:24:45 -0500 2019-10-09T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Well-being Pause, Reflect & Create
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (October 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-09T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Environmental Writing from Thoreau to the Present (October 16, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64515 64515-16380904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

We will sample the best and most influential American environmental writing, using as our text Bill McKibben’s excellent "American Earth" (Library of America, 2008). We will discuss what makes the writing successful and also how it reflects evolving conceptions of the natural world and of how we should live with it.
Readings will include selections from Thoreau, John Muir, Also Leopold, Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams, and Barbara Kingsolver among others.
We will read some poetry but mainly nonfiction prose, including examples of recent writing on climate change (handouts). John Knott, instructor, is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, where he regularly taught courses in environmental literature. This Study Group is for those 50 or over and meets Wednesdays, 3:00 –5:00 pm on October 16 – November 20.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:06:42 -0400 2019-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (October 16, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-10-16T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
CM Burroughs Roundtable Q&A (October 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64364 64364-16332364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:17:47 -0400 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation CM.Burroughs.headshot
Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operation History (October 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68420 68420-17080053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Author William H. Garzke Jr. will be present to discuss his newest work, Battleship Bismark: A Design and Operation History, a marine forensics analysis and engineering study of the design, operations, and loss of Germany's greatest battleship.

Biography: Garzke is a 1960 UM NAME graduate who was cited by SNAME as one of the 100 notable naval architects of the twentieth century in 1993. He has written five definitive works on battleships from WWII as well as Titanic Ship, Titanic Disasters, a forensic analysis of what really caused the demise of the Titanic, Britannic and Lusitania.

The department has a copy of the book in room 222 for students to check out if interested.

As always, lunch will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:02:03 -0400 2019-10-18T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Battleship Bismark
ELI Fall 2019 Workshop Series: Writing the PhD Application Statement of Purpose (SOP) (October 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67155 67155-16805228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Are you applying this fall to a PhD program? Are you trying to figure out how to organize and narrow down all that you might write in your Statement of Purpose (SOP)? How does an SOP differ from a Personal Statement? You will receive hands-on practice organizing your own SOP and finding the words to articulate why you are a great match for the program(s) you are applying to. Bring a list of ideas, a draft outline, or a draft SOP to work on during the workshop.

Sign up here:
https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4661

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:21:53 -0400 2019-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar ELI Event Image
BLI Pause, Reflect & Create (October 23, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65895 65895-16668212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Pause, Reflect, and Create is a contemplative gathering of students who come together to create art, explore mindful writing, and to spend time in personal reflection. It provides an opportunity to pause and explore mindfulness through reflective expression.

The space and opportunity are about the individual personal process. Contemplative practices allow us to quiet ourselves, become more mindful and in the moment.

WHAT TO EXPECT A quiet setting dedicated to creative work; art or writing materials befit to the designated medium; inviting directions with the freedom to create your own way.

GUIDELINES No tech, no talking, and respect others' space.

*This is a drop-in event and will take place bi-monthly on the second Wednesday at 9:30 AM and the 4th Wednesday at 2:30 PM.

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Well-being Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:24:45 -0500 2019-10-23T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Well-being Pause, Reflect & Create
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
CCPS Film. Spoor (Pokot) (October 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68578 68578-17103244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik, directors. In Polish with English subtitles (128 min., 2017).

Duszejko, an eccentric retired construction engineer, an astrologist and a vegetarian, lives in a small mountain village on the Czech-Polish border. One day her beloved dogs disappear. A few months later she discovers a dead body of her neighbour, a poacher. The only traces leading to the mysterious death are those of roe deer hooves around the house…

As time goes by, more grisly killings are discovered. The victims, all hunters, belonged to the local elite. The police investigation proves ineffective. Duszejko has her own theory: all murders were committed by wild animals…

Please join us for a free film screening of "Spoor" and Central European treats to celebrate Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.

"Spoor" was adapted from Olga Tokarczuk's novel "Drag Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead." We will give away a limited number of free copies of the book to the first guests through the door.

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Film Screening Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:02:31 -0400 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening Drive Your Plow over the Bones cover
Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability: A Talk from Fables and Futures with George Estreich (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68738 68738-17147126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

George Estreich, author of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (MIT Press), will explore the literary aspects of persuasion, with particular attention to metaphor. What values do these persuasive acts embody? Whose purposes do they serve? And whom do they obscure, dehumanize or erase? The literary content of these persuasive acts suggests a necessary role for writers, literary critics and scholars of disability studies, as we seek to guide the use of new and powerful biotechnologies in human beings. 

George Estreich's writing has appeared in Tin House, the New York Times, Salon, and other publications. He teaches writing at Oregon State University.   Prior to Estreich's talk, the UMMA exhibition Mari Katayama will be open for browsing beginning at 5 p.m. In the exhibition, Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textile.

 

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Center for Japanese Studies, the Japan Business Society of Detroit, the Japan Cultural Development, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and Women's Studies Department. 

This program is organized by the department of English Language and Literature and co-sponsored by UMMA and the department of American Culture. 

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Presentation Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:17:32 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Presentation Museum of Art
What a Diary Confers: Children in the Zambezi Valley (October 24, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68478 68478-17086379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Pamela Reynolds will speak about her book The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-85 (Duke 2019). Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, Reynolds is author of War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State. As U-M Presidential Professor she conducted the 2001-02 Mellon Seminar: Contested Childhood in a Changing Global Order. Following her talk, she is available for further conversation at a reception and book signing held in her honor. Reception RSVP at lizgoode@umich.edu

Free and open to the public

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:18:19 -0400 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Lecture poster
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (October 24, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
FellowSpeak: “'We Sometimes Cut Good Tissue Along with Bad': Economies of Sacrifice and the Korean War in 'One Minute to Zero' and 'Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'” (October 29, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66081 66081-16686707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:29:47 -0400 2019-10-29T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Tae Guk Gi" and "One Minute to Zero" movie posters
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (October 30, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-10-30T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Hopwood Halloween Tea (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68871 68871-17186670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

-Trick or treating noon to 4:00 p.m.
-Spooky (and delicious) treats
-Costume contest
-Book raffle for "Ghost Writers"
-Exquisite Corpses, cooperative ghost stories, and other creepy stuff!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:52:33 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House A spider weaves a web over a teacup near a pumpkin and a copy of Ghost Writers
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (November 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077943@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Xylem Literary Magazine - Open Mic Night (November 6, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68879 68879-17188739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Open to all U-M undergraduates!

Share your writing, music, art and more!

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Presentation Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:24:32 -0400 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Presentation Xylem
Anelise Chen Roundtable Q&A (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64367 64367-16332368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
How To Sell Your Story (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68881 68881-17188740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:27:06 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar Amy Tara Koch
Anelise Chen Reading & Book Signing (November 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64369 64369-16332369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:30:09 -0400 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Anelise.Chen
BLI Leadership Lunch (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68978 68978-17205321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The BLI is delighted to host U-M Alums Randi Olin and Francie Arenson Dickman for the BLI's first Leadership Lunch of the semester. Join us for a glimpse behind the curtain into these two writers' leadership journeys. From starting where you are to building a team, Randi and Francie will explore how what they do—and their creative process—interacts with the BLI leadership habits.
Lunch served.

Randi Olin (B.A., Political Science, 1990) is co-founder and executive editor of Motherwell, an award-winning online parenting publication. Before Motherwell, Randi was the Managing Editor at Brain, Child Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Modern Loss, Brain, Child Magazine, among other publications.

Francie Arenson Dickman is an author, essayist and writing coach. Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Today Parents, Motherwell Magazine, and Grown and Flown, among others, and have served as material for performances at TEDx Chicago, The MOTH and Listen to Your Mother. Her novel, Chuckerman Makes a Movie, winner of multiple awards, was published by SheWrites Press in 2018. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from The George Washington University School of Law. She lives outside of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:37:29 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion Leadership Lunch
Editing for Organization, Flow, and Precision (November 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67808 67808-16952003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Connecting ideas smoothly for readers is one of the primary challenges in editing one’s own writing. When sharing your writing, do you ever worry that your readers will see a list of sentences more than an elegant, logical flow of ideas? Do you receive feedback asking you to develop ideas further, or connect points together? Do you find yourself using the same logical connectors (e.g. however, similarly, as a result) over and over? In this workshop for graduate student writers, we will explore “information bridges” as a means to improve the organization, flow, and precision of documents you compose. We will work with examples from a range of academic disciplines, and provide tools to explore how information bridges tend to be constructed in your own corner of the academic writing world. Please bring something you've drafted, at any stage in your writing process, to try out editing strategies during the workshop.

Pizza will be provided.

Registration required at https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5AvP2jsFhZt71xr

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:45:23 -0400 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar flyer
Literati Bookstore Presents: Andre Aciman (November 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68652 68652-17130519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:59:46 -0400 2019-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T20:15:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Books
GLACE Mass Meeting (November 13, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68801 68801-17153405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Meeting Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:46:56 -0400 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Meeting GLACE Mass Meeting
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (November 13, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Spoken Word Workshop with Telling It Artist-Activists (November 13, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69202 69202-17267160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Asia Johnson and Cozine Welch are Detroit-born artists involved in prison reform and restorative justice. Johnson is a filmmaker working on a documentary about the trauma of the prison pipeline. Welch is a published poet, singer-songwriter and Managing Editor of The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, and co-teacher of the Atonement Project and a course on theatre and incarceration at the Residential College. The breadth of relatable experiences that Johnson and Welch bring to the Telling It youth meets them where they are and provides a space that is judgement and censorship free.

Open to all -- no experience necessary!
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Telling It is an award-winning trauma-informed community-based program designed to support under-served school-aged youth in Washtenaw County. Since 2002, Telling It has established a close collaboration with the University of Michigan’s Residential College through the offering of the Engaged Learning courses, Community Empowerment through the Arts and Advanced Practice in Community Engagement through the Arts. Deb Gordon-Gurfinkel is the lead teacher of both of these courses and the Founding Director of Telling It.

The Telling It internship opportunities provided by these two courses bridges the academic and neighboring communities. Each Telling It site is led by a site leader and a social worker along with a trained support team and visiting artists. As a result of their experience, many U-M students express a desire to continue their commitment to social justice through a career that involves community service.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:59:43 -0500 2019-11-13T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Workshop / Seminar Workshop Flyer
"Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing" (November 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69012 69012-17213803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:05:47 -0400 2019-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Workshop / Seminar “The Empty Sleeve” (1866); engraving by J.C. Buttre from a drawing by A.R. Sawyer
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (November 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Author's Forum Presents: "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (November 18, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66150 66150-16709270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (American culture) and Felix Contreras (host of NPR’s Alt.Latino, https://www.npr.org/people/4607354/felix-contreras) discuss Hoffnung-Garskof's new book "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean." Q & A follows the conversation.

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time, these individuals—including Rafael Serra, a cigar maker, writer, and politician; Sotero Figueroa, a typesetter, editor, and publisher; and Gertrudis Heredia, one of the first women of African descent to study midwifery at the University of Havana—built a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on the projects of racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to the poet and diplomat José Martí’s writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuban Republic.

In Racial Migrations, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presents a vivid portrait of these largely forgotten migrant revolutionaries, weaving together their experiences of migrating while black, their relationships with African American civil rights leaders, and their evolving participation in nationalist political movements. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.

A model of transnational and comparative research, Racial Migrations reveals the complexities of race-making within migrant communities and the power of small groups of immigrants to transform their home societies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:12:04 -0500 2019-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Racial Migrations
MRPCW Public Reading (November 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69273 69273-17277412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

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

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

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

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

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Performance Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:02:16 -0500 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Performance Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (November 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
Writer to Writer w/ Jennifer Proctor (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69099 69099-17244690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 13:33:09 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion Jennifer Proctor
Writing the Other: A Hopwood Teaching Roundtable Special Event (November 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69427 69427-17318594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:54:36 -0500 2019-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Workshop / Seminar Flyer with pencils in multiple colors
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Writing and Drawing Trans Women in Comics (November 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69069 69069-17222107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

We all want to see good representation in media, but how do we make sure the representation we make is, well, good? Join a local award-winning comic artist Emma Jayne - who just so happens to be trans - in learning about the do's and don't's of writing and drawing trans women! These tips will be about comics, but much of this artist's advice can be applied across a variety of mediums. Check out her work in advance at http://emma-jayne-comics.com!

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If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:11:01 -0500 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Spectrum Center Workshop / Seminar Transgender Awareness Week runs from November 18th to the 22nd in 2019. The week will include Transgender Day of Remembrance observance, a keynote speech by Kavi Ade, workshops, a community dinner, and more. A close-up of a rose can be seen in the background of the image.
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (November 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16460990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
The Transition to Graduate Writing (November 25, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67399 67399-16848818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing and build an effective approach to graduate writing. We’ll talk about becoming more strategic readers and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines moving from the practice of asking good questions to the importance of topic construction. We will also talk about the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take. The workshop will conclude by examining our writing routines and finding ways to expand our own writing process to succeed in graduate school. Lunch will be provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:14:49 -0500 2019-11-25T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-25T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Workshop / Seminar flyer
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (November 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-11-25T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (November 25, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-11-25T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-25T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Hopwood Award Submissions Drop-in Workshop (December 2, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64564 64564-16388934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Before the December 4th deadline for the Fall Hopwood Awards, come by to finalize your submission!

This is an informal chance to drop in, ask questions about the submissions tool, troubleshoot anything that might go wrong, and learn more about the contest categories and eligibility requirements.

For details on the Hopwood Awards that are open to you, visit
https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood/contests-prizes.html

This event is free and all are welcome. If you have any accessibility questions or requests, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:43:14 -0400 2019-12-02T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Class / Instruction Hopwood Room with round table and bookcases
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (December 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-12-02T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
Hopwood Award Submissions Drop-in Workshop (December 3, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64565 64565-16388935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Before the December 4th deadline for the Fall Hopwood Awards, come by to finalize your submission!

This is an informal chance to drop in, ask questions about the submissions tool, troubleshoot anything that might go wrong, and learn more about the contest categories and eligibility requirements.

For details on the Hopwood Awards that are open to you, visit
https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood/contests-prizes.html

This event is free and all are welcome. If you have any accessibility questions or requests, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:44:25 -0400 2019-12-03T14:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Class / Instruction Hopwood Room with round table and bookcases
Arthur Sze Reading and Book Signing (December 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64294 64294-16282453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Presentation Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:03:54 -0500 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-03T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Arthur Sze
DECEMBER DEADLINE: Hopwood Awards! (December 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64566 64566-16388937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:05:07 -0400 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Center of the World
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (December 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-12-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (December 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:04:24 -0500 2019-12-05T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Arthur Sze
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (December 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16541453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Arthur Sze: In Conversation (December 5, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64295 64295-16282454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Nov 2019 11:05:09 -0500 2019-12-05T17:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Arthur Sze
Absinthe Reading (December 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64797 64797-16444954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-12-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (December 9, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 9, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-12-09T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
BLI Pause, Reflect & Create (December 11, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65895 65895-16668214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 9:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Pause, Reflect, and Create is a contemplative gathering of students who come together to create art, explore mindful writing, and to spend time in personal reflection. It provides an opportunity to pause and explore mindfulness through reflective expression.

The space and opportunity are about the individual personal process. Contemplative practices allow us to quiet ourselves, become more mindful and in the moment.

WHAT TO EXPECT A quiet setting dedicated to creative work; art or writing materials befit to the designated medium; inviting directions with the freedom to create your own way.

GUIDELINES No tech, no talking, and respect others' space.

*This is a drop-in event and will take place bi-monthly on the second Wednesday at 9:30 AM and the 4th Wednesday at 2:30 PM.

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Well-being Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:24:45 -0500 2019-12-11T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-11T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Well-being Pause, Reflect & Create
Minor in Writing Gateway/Capstone Showcase (December 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69503 69503-17333389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Join us in North Quad Space 2435 on Wenesday, 12/11 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM for the Gateway/Capstone Showcase! View final projects produced in the Minor in Writing's Gateway and Capstone courses. All are welcome to attend.

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Exhibition Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:43:00 -0500 2019-12-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-11T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Exhibition North Quad
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (December 11, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-12-11T18:30:00-05:00 2019-12-11T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Study Day Write-In (December 12, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70099 70099-17530516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 11:30am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Peer Writing Center opens its doors on Thursday, December 12th from 11:30am-3:30pm for the Study Day Write-in. Feel our positive writing vibes in a quiet environment. We'll have study snacks on hand to keep you going along with writing consultants who can help you with anything you are working on.

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Other Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:51:28 -0500 2019-12-12T11:30:00-05:00 2019-12-12T15:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Sweetland Center for Writing Other Shapiro Library
Poetry & Ethnography: Expanding the Narrative (December 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70194 70194-17547062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

December 13, 2019
Writing Workshop 12 - 2 pm
111 West Hall
Public Lecture 4 - 5:30 pm
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery

Please join us for the second event of the
Anthropology & Poetry Speaker and Workshop Series. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

The generative writing workshop will be held in 111 West Hall from 12 - 2:00 pm. Participants are invited to bring their own materials (field notes, interview transcriptions, photos, etc.) to work with during the writing workshop, although this is not required. No prior experience with poetry is necessary. Lunch will be provided.

The public lecture will be held in the Hatcher Gallery from 4:00 - 5:30 pm.
Refreshments will be provided.

Kenzie Allen is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She is currently a lecturer at York University, and an R1-Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow and PhD Candidate in English & Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. Kenzie’s most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues, and she is the founder and managing editor of the Anthropoid collective.

Thank you to our sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Rackham Graduate School, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of American Culture, Native American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Interest Group, Institute for the Humanities, LSA, Poetry & Poetics Workshop, Latina/o Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:45:59 -0500 2019-12-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T14:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Workshop / Seminar Oneida Big Apple Fest
Poetry & Ethnography: Expanding the Narrative (December 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70194 70194-17547063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

December 13, 2019
Writing Workshop 12 - 2 pm
111 West Hall
Public Lecture 4 - 5:30 pm
Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery

Please join us for the second event of the
Anthropology & Poetry Speaker and Workshop Series. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome.

The generative writing workshop will be held in 111 West Hall from 12 - 2:00 pm. Participants are invited to bring their own materials (field notes, interview transcriptions, photos, etc.) to work with during the writing workshop, although this is not required. No prior experience with poetry is necessary. Lunch will be provided.

The public lecture will be held in the Hatcher Gallery from 4:00 - 5:30 pm.
Refreshments will be provided.

Kenzie Allen is a descendant of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. She is currently a lecturer at York University, and an R1-Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow and PhD Candidate in English & Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Her research centers on documentary and visual poetics, literary cartography, and the enactment of Indigenous sovereignties through creative works. Kenzie’s most recent project is a multimodal book of poetry which incorporates intergenerational histories and diasporic movements, Haudenosaunee traditions, and archival materials of the Carlisle Indian Boarding School. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, and her BA in Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poems can be found in Boston Review, Narrative Magazine, Best New Poets, and other venues, and she is the founder and managing editor of the Anthropoid collective.

Thank you to our sponsors: Department of Anthropology, Rackham Graduate School, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of American Culture, Native American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Interest Group, Institute for the Humanities, LSA, Poetry & Poetics Workshop, Latina/o Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:45:59 -0500 2019-12-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-13T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Anthropology Workshop / Seminar Oneida Big Apple Fest
PCAP Community Workshop in Creative Arts (December 16, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69270 69270-17277409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 16, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

All community members 18 and older, particularly those returning home from incarceration, are invited to participate in this free weekly workshop at Miller Manor. While based in theatre, we will also be exploring creative writing, music, and visual arts. No registration or previous art experience required. Join anytime!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:04:20 -0500 2019-12-16T18:00:00-05:00 2019-12-16T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Prison Creative Arts Project, The Workshop / Seminar Instagram - @PerryGrone
Writing Workshop opens for Winter (January 8, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70472 70472-17600687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland's Writing Workshop is a free service that provides one-to-one writing help to all undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan, regardless of background or discipline. Sweetland faculty consultants meet with student writers to help with any stage of the writing process, from initial brainstorming to final revisions. You can get help with understanding assignments, generating ideas, developing arguments, organizing and structuring, using evidence and sources, and clarifying your written expression.

All appointments take place in the Sweetland Center for Writing, 1310 North Quad. More info and links to make an appointment, visit http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/writing-support.html

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Other Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:10:59 -0500 2020-01-08T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other North Quad
Writing Workshop opens for Winter (January 9, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70472 70472-17600688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland's Writing Workshop is a free service that provides one-to-one writing help to all undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan, regardless of background or discipline. Sweetland faculty consultants meet with student writers to help with any stage of the writing process, from initial brainstorming to final revisions. You can get help with understanding assignments, generating ideas, developing arguments, organizing and structuring, using evidence and sources, and clarifying your written expression.

All appointments take place in the Sweetland Center for Writing, 1310 North Quad. More info and links to make an appointment, visit http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/writing-support.html

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Other Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:10:59 -0500 2020-01-09T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other North Quad
Memoirs and Personal Essays (January 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70527 70527-17602866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This group meets every week from September to June, except for holidays. There are no specific assignments. Each writer strives to find his or her own subject matter and stylistic voice. We read our work aloud and discuss it, making constructive suggestions for improvement. The important thing is to write well enough to interest others and to convey our ideas clearly. Participants are expected to read their work regularly. Eleanor Linn has led this writing group since 2014. She is a published author. The Study Group for those 50 and over is held Thursdays January 9 through June 18.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:35:48 -0500 2020-01-09T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-09T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (January 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-01-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Writing Effective Email (January 9, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70422 70422-17594474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever struggled to write important email messages? Have you ever wondered whether your email messages reflect the professional persona you wish to project? Given the importance of email in academic and professional settings, the ability to write effective e-mail messages is an essential skill. In this workshop we will focus on strategies for writing clear, effective and professional email. We will discuss the aspects of email that make it likely to be read, to be easily understood, and to generate the outcome you seek.

Bring a few samples of your important email messages to analyze. Sign up here: https://myumi.ch/51jpp

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:56:20 -0500 2020-01-09T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Writing Workshop opens for Winter (January 10, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70472 70472-17600689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 10, 2020 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland's Writing Workshop is a free service that provides one-to-one writing help to all undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Michigan, regardless of background or discipline. Sweetland faculty consultants meet with student writers to help with any stage of the writing process, from initial brainstorming to final revisions. You can get help with understanding assignments, generating ideas, developing arguments, organizing and structuring, using evidence and sources, and clarifying your written expression.

All appointments take place in the Sweetland Center for Writing, 1310 North Quad. More info and links to make an appointment, visit http://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/undergraduates/writing-support.html

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Other Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:10:59 -0500 2020-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2020-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Sweetland Center for Writing Other North Quad
LSA Bonderman Fellowship Info Session (January 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68404 68404-17077946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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Presentation Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:30:00 -0400 2020-01-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Fellow pictured abroad
Newnan Writing Workshop (January 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71235 71235-17791935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

Should you prepare differently for in-class exam essays and research essays? Yes! Learn about the different expectations that instructors have for these two types of assessment in a workshop at the Newnan Center from 1:00pm-2:00pm on January 15. Email Nick Gupta for more information: ngup@umich.edu

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:46:30 -0500 2020-01-15T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-15T14:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Workshop / Seminar Image of a person writing
CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea (January 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 64843-16662123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.

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

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:02:43 -0400 2020-01-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House Teacup and saucer with books
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print
Writer to Writer Chipotle Fundraiser (January 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71751 71751-17877263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Writer to Writer

Stop by Chipotle on State St. between 4 and 8pm on Monday, January 20 and mention Writer to Writer at the cash register to help us raise funds for our next print publication. Don't forget to have your submissions in by the end of the day! Submit here: https://forms.gle/ZSZKajomS1suDrg69

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Other Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:29:28 -0500 2020-01-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Writer to Writer Other Logo
Poetry Showcase | " Whose Dream Is This?" (January 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70870 70870-17724622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: The Guild Poetry Inc.

From performing for TEDx and the Detroit Pistons to Oxford and the Motown Museum, the award-winning poets of The Guild have assembled their talents to curate a poetry showcase that will be sure to inspire, challenge, and engage audiences of all backgrounds. The performance will feature Michigan-based poets including Justin Gordon, Candace Jackson, Mikhaella Norwood, Mariah Smith, Darius Simpson, Mercedes Pergande, and actor Kate Mendeloff.

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Performance Thu, 02 Jan 2020 10:24:41 -0500 2020-01-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T19:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle The Guild Poetry Inc. Performance Artists of The Guild Poetry
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Q & A: Raquel Salas Rivera (January 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64530 64530-16386893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Raquel Salas Rivera is Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, winner of the 2018 Ambroggio Prize, & winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Free to attend and open to all!

We invite all to join in this event; if you have any accessibility questions or requests about attending, please contact the Hopwood Program Manager at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu or by phone at 764-6296.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 11:36:32 -0500 2020-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Poet Raquel Salas Rivera wearing a floral shirt and hoop earrings
Art Exhibition: The Indexical Print, curated by Andrew Thompson (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70309 70309-17566428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

“...pronouns announce themselves as belonging to a different type of sign: the kind that is termed the index. As distinct from symbols, indexes establish their meaning along the axis of a physical relationship to their referents.”
Krauss, Rosalind, “Notes on the Index” 1977

Notes on the Index was Rosalind Krauss’s attempt to corral some of the divergent, pluralistic themes in contemporary art of the late 1970’s under a unifying identifier: the index. Indexical art was defined as artworks whose physical and aesthetic manifestation was correlated and contingent upon specific conditions of the work’s subject matter or, as more broadly described, ‘the referent’ of the work.

Under the guise of “the index”, the artist’s internal monologue of creative decision-making might follow like: “How big should the work be? As big as that.” “How much should the work cost? As much as this.” “What color should I use? The color of that.” “What shape should it be? It should be shaped like this.”

For this exhibition, The Indexical Print, Krauss’s notion of indexical art is being narrowed towards printmaking and other methods of image replication & reproduction that follow printmaking’s lead. The artists in this exhibition might work a plate, or a digital image, or computer code to conduct the idea of the image into another medium or visual representation to physically manifest their creative labor.

Featured in this exhibition are prints by Jay Fox, Ruth Koelewyn & Lee Marchalonis, 3D printed sculptures by Jason Ferguson, jacquard weaving from Cathryn Amidei, data visualizations by Jeffrey Lancaster and site-specific paintings from Ellen Rutt.

About the Artists:

Cathryn Amidei is a “Textilian” fluent in many forms of textile craft. She has dedicated herself to Jacquard weaving for the past 15+ years and is the studio director at The Jacquard Center in Hendersonville North Carolina. Cathryn holds an MFA in Textiles from Eastern Michigan University and a BFA from the University of Illinois in Anthropology/Russian. She was Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University until 2018, when she resigned to pursue her art, and independence. Cathryn is a member of the Washington Street Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance, video, and sculptural objects. He was raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland and moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and then to the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. Ferguson has exhibited his work internationally including exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and across the US. Ferguson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

Jay Fox is a printmaker, papermaker, and sculptor whose practice is guided by storytelling and objects of importance which take the form of ephemera and memorials. Originally from Morganton, North Carolina, Fox received his BFA in printmaking from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008. In 2014, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print and Narrative Forms. Jay is currently the press manager of the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University after five years of working at Penland School of Craft as the Print, Letterpress, Books, and Paper coordinator.

Ruth Koelewyn's work uses familiar objects and events to reveal how our interactions with them shape ourselves and our context for living. In addition to her solo work, her practice includes both curatorial and collaborative projects. Ruth’s work is regularly exhibited and has been supported by the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Society of North American Goldsmiths, the Mondriaan Foundation, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She studied at Syracuse University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
#skyshapes

Jeffrey Lancaster has done a lot of different things and worn a number of very different hats: chemist, artist, historian, librarian, developer, educator. He’s a curious person with a breadth and depth of interests and experiences, and loves to bring that diversity of thought to bear on new problems, some of his own making and some from other people. He has a BFA from Washington University, an MS from Oxford, and a PhD from Columbia University in chemistry. Lancaster is based in Rutherford, NJ where he freelances as a product developer and educational & business consultant. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fondo, a startup focused on helping young people visualize their paths into the future of work via structured serendipity and exploration.

Lee Marchalonis is a Lecturer in Stamps School of Art & Design and lead printer at Signal Return letterpress shop in Detroit’s Eastern Market. She has a MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she also worked as a letterpress printer at Yee-Haw Industries. She has printed professionally at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California and studied book arts at the University of Iowa. She was a recipient of a year long Stein Scholarship at the Center for Book Arts in New York City in 2013, and her work is in Special Collections libraries throughout the U.S.

Ellen Rutt is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and activist who has a BFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design. She makes bold mixed-media paintings, murals, installations and wearables. Her recent solo show ‘This Must Be The Place” was created in large part through a process of travelling the globe & capturing visual elements or ‘environmental mementos’ through direct tracing of the physical environment, both natural & human-made. Rutt has exhibited her work nationally and most recently completed her second artist residency at Temple Children in Hilo, Hawaii.

About the Curator:

Andrew Thompson is a sculptor and installation artist, educator, curator, and musician based in Southwest Detroit. Thompson grew up in Kansas City, MO and received his BFA in Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Thompson moved from Cowtown to Motown to receive his MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been exhibiting his sculptures and installations throughout Southeast Michigan for over a decade and helps to curate and coordinate shows at a number of venues including as an exhibition committee member with Detroit Artists Market. He is a lecturer in the Stamps School of Art & Design and has taught at a number of other schools, most notably for one year at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH.

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Exhibition Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:02:35 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Exhibition The Indexical Print