Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
Complex Systems presents: A Nobel Symposium 2019 (December 10, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69228 69228-17269240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Eight scholars discuss the work, impact, and personality of the Laureates of this year's SEVEN! Nobel Prizes. (Snacks and coffee will be provided throughout the afternoon)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – STUDENTS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND - TALKS ARE GEARED TO A GENERAL AUDIENCE - COME TO ONE, COME TO ALL

SCHEDULE:
1:00-1:05pm INTRODUCTION
1:05-1:40pm CHEMISTRY
1:40-2:15pm PHYSICS
2:15-2:20pm 5 minute snack/coffee break
2:20-2:55pm MEDICINE
2:55-3:35pm ECONOMIC SCIENCES
3:35-4:15pm PEACE PRIZE
4:15-4:20pm 5 minute snack/coffee break
4:20-4:55pm LITERATURE 2018
4:55-5:30pm LITERATURE 2019


1:05 PM CHEMISTRY – Wei Lu, Director, ABCD Battery Research Center and Professor, Mechanical Engineering will discuss the Chemistry prize shared by: John Goodenough (b. Germany, University of Texas (Austin)); M. Stanley Whittingham (b. UK, Binghamton University, State University of New York); and Akira Yoshino (b. Japan, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo) in recognition of their work "for the development of lithium-ion batteries”

1:40 PM PHYSICS - Fred Adams, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, will discuss the Physics prize shared by James Peebles (b. Canada, Princeton) “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”
and Michel Mayor (b. Switzerland, U. of Geneva), Didier Queloz (b. Switzerland U. of Geneva & Cambridge) for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”

2:20 PM MEDICINE - Yatrik Shah, Professor, Molecular and Integrative Physiology & Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology will discuss the Medicine prize shared by William G. Kaelin Jr. (b. USA, Harvard Medical School &, Howard Hughes Medical Institute); Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe (b. UK, Oxford; Francis Crick Institute) and Gregg L. Semenza (b. USA, Johns Hopkins University) “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

2:55 PM ECONOMIC SCIENCES - Dean Yang, Professor Economics, Public Policy; Pop. Studies Center, will discuss the Economics prize shared by Abhijit Banerjee (b. Inida, MIT); Esther Duflo (b. FRANCE, MIT); and Michael Kremer (b. USA (NY), Harvard) “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”

3:35 PM PEACE - Laura Nyantung Beny - Professor of Law, Associate Director of African Studies Center, UM, will discuss the award to Abiy Ahmed Ali (b. Ethiopia, Prime Minister FDRE) who received the prize “for promoting peace and reconciliation”.

4:20 PM LITERATURE 2018 – Benjamin Paloff, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures & of Comparative Literature will discuss the award of the delayed 2018 Literature prize - Olga Tokarczuk (b. POLAND, Author) "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."

4:55 PM LITERATURE 2019 - Johannes von Moltke, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures & Professor of Film, Television and Media together with Teresa Kovacs, Professor of Germanic Studies, Indiana University will discuss laureate Peter Handke (b. POLAND, Author) who was awarded the prize "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience"

Each presentation will be 30 minutes followed by a Q & A.

Illustrations of Nobel Peace Prize Winners reprinted with permission of the illustration artist Niklas Elmehed. Copyright Nobel Media.

Organizer: Robert Deegan

Questions? Call 734-763-3301 or email cscs@umich.edu

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:58:48 -0500 2019-12-10T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Conference / Symposium Nobel Symposium 2019
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 11:30am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
Writing Migration Through the Body (January 13, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69615 69615-17368331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 13, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Workshop
11:30am - 1:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Lecture
4:30pm - 6:00pm
RLL Commons (4th floor), Modern Languages Building

Migration is embodied movement, and the effects of migration are felt bodily. Bodies also populate creative art and fiction responses to contemporary migration and provide an interpretative key for how we might think about the transnational experience of mobility. In this talk Dr. Bond will present her 2018 monograph "Writing Migration through the Body," which draws on a range of texts and visual art that link Italy to other sites of migration and diaspora. It argues that the individual bodies that move in contemporary migration flows are the primary agents through which the transcultural passages of images, emotions, ideas, memories – and also histories and possible futures – are enacted.

Emma Bond is Reader (Associate Professor) in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews, UK. She has published widely on border and migration literature ("Writing Migration through the Body," 2018; "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative," 2015), and on Trieste and psychoanalysis ("Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini," 2012; "Freud and Italian Culture," 2009). Emma is founding co-Editor of the ‘Transnational Italian Cultures’ book series (Liverpool University Press) and founding section Editor for Comparative Literature for "Modern Languages Open." Her current book project is on "Re-Collecting Empire: Transnational Modes of Collecting, Curating and Display." Emma has held fellowships at the School of Advanced Study, London; Bogliasco Foundation, and the Wolfsonian-FIU. She was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of Languages and Literatures in 2019.

For interested graduate students: Please RSVP to Giulia Ricco (gricco@umich.edu) for a lunch workshop (January 13th, 11:30-1:00) with Dr. Emma Bond dedicated to rewriting colonial history from a female perspective, looking at works by Igiaba Scego, Nadifa Mohamed and Maaza Mengiste.

This is event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Women's Studies Department, Center for European Studies, Program in International & Comparative Studies, and the LSA Dean's Office.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:30 -0500 2020-01-13T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-13T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Writing Migration Through the Body
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Respite: 12 Anthropocene Fragments (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70058 70058-17505681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This talk draws on work in the environmental humanities to rewrite the Anthropocene as autotheory. Written in a poetic-philosophical mode, “Respite” brings together 12 fragments as autotheoretical forms—autocollage, autothermograph, nested equation, and 9 others—for a self confronted with the unthinkable extinction of all life on earth. Grounded in human and natural archives, “Respite” is framed by Sylvia Wynter’s and Michel Foucault’s theoretical critiques of anthropos (Man). In casting self-writing as an experiment, “Respite” offers a new ethical model for being present to life in its ending.

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of *Foucault’s Strange Eros* (forthcoming 2020); *Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex* (2013); *Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory* (2010); *Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference* (1998); and *Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing* (1992). She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and opinion pieces in mass media venues. With Chicago artist Jennifer Yorke she also created Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/h/Lynne-Huffer-Jennifer-Yorke.html.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:03 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Lynne Huffer
Biopolitics or Deconstruction (February 20, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72352 72352-17998134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s *La vie la mort* and the question of life.

With presentations from:
Claudio Aguayo • Matias Beverinotti • Maddalena Cerrato • Katie Chenoweth • Justin Joque • Juan Leal • Armando Mastrogiovanni • Eliza Mizrahi • Alberto Moreiras • Michael Naas • Adam Rosenthal • Rodrigo Therezo • Antoine Traisnel • Teresa Vilaros • Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott • Michela Russo • Alejo Stark • Francesco Vitale • Gareth Williams • David Wills

Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of American Culture, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science,
Department of Classical Studies, Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor, LSA Dean's Office, UMOR Small Grant for Conference,
Rackham Dean’s Strategic Initiative Funding, Humanities Institute Mini Grant for Public Humanities.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:47:53 -0500 2020-02-20T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Biopolitics or Deconstruction
Biopolitics or Deconstruction (February 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72352 72352-17998135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us at our upcoming conference - Biopolitics or Deconstruction: Derrida’s *La vie la mort* and the question of life.

With presentations from:
Claudio Aguayo • Matias Beverinotti • Maddalena Cerrato • Katie Chenoweth • Justin Joque • Juan Leal • Armando Mastrogiovanni • Eliza Mizrahi • Alberto Moreiras • Michael Naas • Adam Rosenthal • Rodrigo Therezo • Antoine Traisnel • Teresa Vilaros • Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott • Michela Russo • Alejo Stark • Francesco Vitale • Gareth Williams • David Wills

Sponsored by: Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of American Culture, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science,
Department of Classical Studies, Professor Cristina Moreiras-Menor, LSA Dean's Office, UMOR Small Grant for Conference,
Rackham Dean’s Strategic Initiative Funding, Humanities Institute Mini Grant for Public Humanities.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:47:53 -0500 2020-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Biopolitics or Deconstruction
CANCELLED: Comparative Literature Graduation Reception (May 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63953 63953-16035408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The Comparative Literature department is hosting its annual graduation reception for Comp Lit faculty, Comp Lit affiliated faculty, graduate students, graduating undergraduates (Majors and Minors), and their families.

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Reception / Open House Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:35:36 -0400 2020-05-01T16:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Reception / Open House Michigan Union
Looking at Naturalist Fiction and the I-Novel Transnationally (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77827 77827-19933616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

After the naturalist approach to writing fiction crystallized in France in the 1860s, writers around the world embraced it. By the 1920s this kind of realistic fiction could be found from the Americas to East Asia, including the Japanese version known as the I-novel. Far from a story of influence, a close look at naturalist novels and stories written in different parts of the world shows writers departing from metropolitan models as they confronted new social conditions.

Christopher Hill is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. With a background in comparative literature, he writes frequently on literature and intellectual history from a transnational or global perspective. His first book, National History and the World of Nations (Duke University Press, 2009), was on the impact of nationalism on historical writing in late nineteenth-century Japan, France, and the United States. He has just published Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form (Northwestern University Press, 2020), on the global history of naturalist fiction. He is currently writing about postwar Japanese writers' responses to the decolonization of Africa and Asia.

Discussant: Christi Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XkNE5-uSRSBcB9uuBkggw

The University of Michigan Library has Professor's Hill's book, Figures of the World The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form, available in E-book format at: https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/018261248

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:13:15 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Book Cover