Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. In-Person w/ Idris Robinson: Revolutionary Horizons after the George Floyd Rebellion (December 3, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89387 89387-21662515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us for this in-person conversation with philosopher/ activist Idris Robinson on social movements, resistance, and the George Floyd Uprising on Friday, December 3, 2021 @ 3:30pm in Mason Hall, Room 1449.

In the aftermath of the CHAZ occupation in downtown Seattle, Idris Robinson presented “How It Might Should Be Done”: a public talk intended to survey the horizon of revolutionary potential uncovered by the George Floyd Rebellion during the hot summer of 2020. The revised essay of the same title, published in Ill Will that August, is seen in radical circles as one of the definitive texts of the uprising. In ten putative theses, ranging from identity politics, the current pandemic, to the legacy of black revolt, “How It Might Should” sought to facilitate a more direct and focused discussion regarding the stakes of emancipatory transformation at the very heart of empire. Since the uprising, the crisis has only deepened, presenting new possibilities and dashing others: In this upcoming talk at the University of Michigan, Idris will both reassess and expand upon previous themes, such as a theorization of civil war as stasis, an examination of the abolitionist race-traitor through the lens of a political theology of martyrdom, and the libidinal death-drive suffusing American racial dynamics.

Idris Robinson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. For over a decade, he has written extensively on revolt and crisis in both European and American contexts. In his properly academic research, he works towards cultivating an open and comparative approach that encompasses both contemporary Continental and Anglo-American philosophy, while remaining informed by insights from various pre-modern traditions. He is currently working on a dissertation on ontological realism, logical morphology, and the role of paradigms in the progression of Wittgenstein’s thought.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:49:31 -0500 2021-12-03T15:30:00-05:00 2021-12-03T17:00:00-05:00 Mason Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Idris Robinson Poster
Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (February 18, 2022 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92045 92045-21686405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In this event, a group of scholars will participate in a workshop about the digitization of texts with non-Roman scripts on HathiTrust.

While the HathiTrust Digital Library contains centuries-old digitized volumes in source languages such as Sanskrit and Chinese, along with numerous historically significant translations of these works, it has not yet developed tools for identifying the multiple connections between sources and translated works. This need is especially pronounced when source texts and translations are in non-Roman writing systems, which are difficult to catalogue and especially to render searchable using OCR (optical character recognition).

The seminar is organized by Professsor Christi Merrill (UM Professor of Asian Languages and Comparative Literature), together with Barbara Alvarez (UM Library), Jeremy York (UM School of Information), Michael Furlough (Executive Director, Hathi Trust), and Heather Christenson (Collections, HathiTrust),

Speakers will also include: Sayan Bhattacharyya (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Leigh Billings (UM Library) and Glen Layne-Worthey (HathiTrust Research Center), as well as partners from Google involved with the digitization project.

The February 18th event will also feature lightning talks by researchers and instructors describing their engagements with specific examples in the HathiTrust repository written in non-European languages, and in non-Roman writing systems.

Register for the event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMucuGvqj0qG9W-WOwKFqp41OT6X5P7vAva

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 07 Feb 2022 12:54:37 -0500 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Livestream / Virtual Mellon Sawyer Seminar Poster
Italia/ إيطاليا / Itália: Literary Mediations Across the South (Part 1) (March 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89938 89938-21666533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us for a dialogue on writing in an adopted tongue, negotiating transnational identity, and practices of cultural translations

Amara Lakhous was born in Algeria in 1970. He moved to Italy in 1995. He is the author of five novels, three of which were written in both Arabic and Italian. His best known works are the much acclaimed Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2008), Divorce Islamic Style (2012), Dispute over an Very Italian Piglet (2014). The Prank of the Good Little Virgin in Via Ormea, came out in Italian in 2014 and published in English by Europa Editions in 2016. The latest novel in Arabic Tir al-lil, The Night Bird (2019) was longlisted in the International prize for Arabic Fiction 2021. Lakhous has been awarded, among others, the Flaiano Prize in Italy in 2006 and the Algerians Booksellers Prize in 2008.

Takoua Ben Mohamed is originally from Tunisia and in 1999 also moved to Rome with her mother and siblings to join her father. She is part of an emerging wave of Italian graphic journalists who draw upon their ethnic and racial backgrounds to describe contemporary Italian society. Her comics Sotto il Velo (2016) and Woman Story (2018) are multilingual, moving between Italian, Arabic and English and draw from numerous global pop references.

The main language of the event will be Italian with available interpretation to and from English.

To register, visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcO2qrTIvHNPR-bDp3glF0ddFNhNAb4Xd

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Mar 2022 07:08:39 -0500 2022-03-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T13:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
Building Bridges over Walls: Midwestern Translation Networks and Eastern European Literatures (March 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92976 92976-21698653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Visiting speakers: Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern), Yakov Klots (Hunter College), Joanna Trzeciak (Kent State) and Russell Scott Valentino (Indiana)

Local speakers: Herb Eagle (UM Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures), Jindřich Toman (UM Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures), Piotr Westwalewicz (UM Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures)

Since the early 1960s and continuing to this day, if an American is reading a book by a contemporary Central European writer, chances are extremely good that the book was translated and/or published at one of a small handful of universities in the Upper Midwest. Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, and Northwestern, among a few others, have long served conspicuously as conduits for writers living in a kind of historical—and, for much of the twentieth century, political—frontier. It is through these institutions that many such writers have entered the world literary marketplace. Though rarely remarked, this concentration of activity has deep demographic, cultural, and geopolitical roots, tying the middle of one continent to the middle of another and providing a durable link between immigrant communities and their points of origination.

This interdisciplinary seminar retraces the institutional history of midwestern translation networks for Eastern European literature. The day’s activities, which are intended both for our scholarly community and the general public, will include a panel on Ann Arbor’s conspicuous role as a hub of Eastern European literature; an online and in-person exhibit of archival and print materials; an expert panel on tamizdat (banned literature published abroad and often smuggled back into its country of origin); an expert panel on the present and future of globalizing Eastern European and Central Asian literature; and a celebratory reading of poetry in translation.

Program:
10-10:45: "Samizdat from a Basement in Ann Arbor": Piotr Westwalewicz, Herbert Eagle, Jindrich Toman

11-11:45: Presentation of Building Bridges Over Walls Exhibit (doctoral students Azhar Dyussekenova, Samantha Farmer, Katie Kasperian, and Tanya Silverman, Slavic Languages and Literatures, U-M; and Dylan Ogden, Comparative Literature, U-M)

12-1: Tamizdat and the Cold War: Yakov Klots (Hunter College, The Tamizdat Project) and Jessie Labov (Central European University)

2-3: Translation Networks Today: Russell Scott Valentino (Indiana University, Slavica Publishers) and Joanna Trzeciak (Kent State University)

3:15-4:15: "Listening against Silence": A Reading of Literature in Translation with Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern University)

This is an in-person event for U-M students, faculty, and staff only; all sessions will also be livestreamed on Zoom.

Registration for in-person attendance is required. Please RSVP here by March 15: https://forms.gle/8hJFgWfxBFo1oQWA8

To attend via Zoom, register at: https://myumi.ch/9P43d

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:37:47 -0400 2022-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T16:15:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium The Proffers at Ardis Publishing
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
Roundtable on Pedagogy & Undisciplining in the C19 Classroom (March 30, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93069 93069-21701394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a discussion on pedagogy, led by Ryan Fong of Kalamazoo College. Professor Fong is a founding member of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, "a peer-reviewed digital humanities project that reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens" (undiscipliningvc.org). We will discuss a variety of relevant themes, including teaching diverse texts and authors, and bringing one's own research into the classroom.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:09:17 -0500 2022-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion
Critical Conversations: Poetry (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93810 93810-21708371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:41:09 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion "There is always light if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."
Timothy Yu (Wisconsin) and Edgar Garcia (UChicago) on Diaspora, Poetics, Politics (April 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93241 93241-21701930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Poetry and Poetics Workshop

Join us for a conversation between Timothy Yu and Edgar Garcia on diasporic politics and thought in modern and contemporary poetry. We will host two short talks with Q&A to follow.

RSVP here for Zoom link: https://forms.gle/zvT1XV6BWXQsR45J9

Timothy Yu is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has written about Asian identity in modern and contemporary English-language poetry, especially of the avant-garde. His most recent book, Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia (2021) shows how English-language poets in Asian diasporas use “strategies of adaptation” that break free from our models of race, diaspora, and poetics. He has also published a book of poems, 1000 Chinese Silences (Les Figues Press, 2016), which unsettles the orientalism of white modernist U.S. poetry.

Edgar Garcia is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on literary production in the twentieth and twenty first century Americas. Focusing on indigenous, Chicanx, and latinx studies, Garcia studies how race and national identity is configured through aesthetics and semiotics. His 2020 monograph, Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu (University of Chicago Press, 2020) explores the ongoing vitality of such sign systems considered “dead.” An article portion of this book (“Pictography, Law, and Earth: Gerald Vizenor, John Borrows, and Louise Erdrich” in PMLA) was honored for the William Riley Parker Prize from the Modern Language Association. His upcoming book project, “Migrant Lots,” explores the relationship of divination and migration as modes of risk analysis.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:25:12 -0500 2022-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-21T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Poetry and Poetics Workshop Lecture / Discussion
Comparative Literature Graduation and Awards Ceremony (April 29, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94200 94200-21724110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join our annual reception to honor graduating Comparative Literature majors, Translation Studies minors, and Ph.D students, as well as the recipients of our annual First Year Essay Prize and the 2021 Senior Prize in Literary Translation.

Please share with family and friends who would like to attend. Current students and faculty are also invited!

Presentation of students will begin at 4:30 pm, followed by photographs at 5:30 pm. Refreshments will be served. Attire informal. For those observing Ramadan, a reflection room is available in the building.

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

Please direct any questions to complit.info@umich.edu.

Kindly RSVP by Thursday, April 21st. https://forms.gle/vHGyLH4nXrKcNhiZ9

We look forward to celebrating with you!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 18 Apr 2022 13:01:41 -0400 2022-04-29T16:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Reception / Open House Michigan Union
The 26th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) (May 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94977 94977-21788177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

How are our affective encounters with literature, art, and media bound by time, and how are we also—in such encounters—temporally unbound? If literary texts have variously been framed as anticipating, disruptive of, conforming to, producing, inhabiting, and/or responding to axes of time (as “timely,” “untimely,” “ahead of their time,” “nostalgic,” or “avant-garde”), they have likewise been understood as objects of pure fascination, aesthetic experience, and enchantment.

Enchantment, in particular, is frequently understood as an ephemeral experience, unique to the moment of our encounter with the enchanting. We are enchanted by things for brief, passing moments; we sometimes return to a once-enchanting object only to find the glamor it once cast upon us has broken; and at other times, this rediscovery itself—re-encountering a text or encountering it in a new (translated, adapted) form—prompts our re-enchantment.

To mark its 26th anniversary, the University of Michigan Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) organizes a virtual graduate conference that critically and creatively explores the intersection of world literatures, temporalities, and enchantment. We welcomed work that investigates literary and artistic constructions of and responses to notions of temporality and enchantment from aesthetic, historical, industrial, material, technological, speculative, post/colonial, feminist, queer, religious, translational, local and/or global perspectives.
CLIFF 2022 received submissions from graduate students (U-M and beyond) and was open to academic papers from across disciplines that deal with a wide variety of languages and time periods as well as creative and experimental genres.

Michael Allan’s research focuses on debates in world literature, postcolonial studies, literary theory, as well as film and visual culture, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. In both his research and teaching, he bridges textual analysis with social theory, and draws from methods in anthropology, religion, queer theory and area studies. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton 2016, Co-Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book) and of articles in venues such as PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Comparative Literature Studies, Early Popular Visual Culture, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Journal of Arabic Literature. He is also a guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Literature (“Reading Secularism: Religion, Literature, Aesthetics”), and with Elisabetta Benigni, an issue of Philological Encounters (“Lingua Franca: Toward a Philology of the Sea”). He is at work on a second book, Picturing the World: The Global Routes of Early Cinema, 1896-1903, which traces the transnational history of camera operators working for the Lumière Brothers film company.


CLIFF 2022 Schedule

May 20, Friday

10:00 - 11:15 EST Panel 1: Fictions of Magic
Respondent: Cameron Cross

Himani Wadhwa, “Res(crip)ting the Gaze: Envisioning Disability through the Lens of Magical Realism”
Janine Hsiao Sobers, “‘The Terrifying Card of Faith:’ Decolonial Syncretism and the Enchanted Worldview in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World”
Lee Czerw, “The Tyrant as Witch in Early Modern German Tragedy”


11:30 - 12:45 EST Panel 2: Metamorphoses
Respondent: Supriya Nair

Anthony Revelle, “Where’s the Meat Gone? Empty Skins in the Kitchen & The Sartorial Body of the Werewolf”
Daniela Crespo-Miró, “[Trans]mogrifying the Body [Politic]: Queer Embodiment and Puerto Rican Self-Making in Raquel Salas Rivera’s ‘notas sobre las temporadas/notes on the seasons’”
Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, “A Talking Parrot’s Tales of Enchantment and Ethics”


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


14 - 15:15 EST Panel 3: The Poetic
Respondent: Aaron Coleman

Tom Abi Samra, “Circumstantial Poetics: ‘Epigrams’ in the Travelogues of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143 AH/1731 AD)”
Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein, “‘The voice / of a drop falling’: N.H. Pritchard and the Temporalization of the Page”
Marianna Hagler, “How to Be Completely Living: Lyn Hejinian’s Gertrude Stein”


15: 30 - 16:45 EST Graduate Student Event (TBD)





May 21, Saturday

10 - 11:15 EST Panel 4: Reception & Representation
Respondent: Will Stroebel

Chandrica Barua, "Anachronistic Attachments: Out of Time Blackness and Brownness in Bridgerton"
Katherine Ponds, “Tragic Enchantment: Rethinking Adrienne Kennedy’s Electra”
Alexander K. Sell, “Re-enchanting the Void: Ontological Slippages between Weird Fiction and Fantasy”


11:30 - 12:45 EST Panel 5: Nostalgias & Utopias
Respondent: Caryl Flinn

Qingyi Zeng, “The Poetics of Elsewhere in Jia Zhangke’s 24 City”
Júlia Irion Martins, “All Trad is Cope: Nostalgic Futures + American Empire in ‘Retvrn’ Twitter”
‘Gbenga Adeoba, “‘Back there Calendar was useless’: Ishion Hutchinson’s Ambivalent Temporalities”


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


14 - 15:15 EST Panel 6: Imagined Americas
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

Blythe Lewis, “‘My life is a withered tree’: Empire, Ships, and Deforestation in Georgian Drama”
Ben Larsen, “Disenchanting the Banjo: Temporal Reclamation through Spatial Practice”
Ziyang Li, “The Enchanting Gold that Overflows: Gold Rush, Ecology, and Asian American Identity in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills is Gold”


15: 30 - 16:45 EST Keynote Lecture

Michael Allan, “Picturing Enchantment: Archival Looks and Cinematic Worlds”



To register:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lde6rqjsiH9NHt-OeH3YRJWmJ94KSeNkL

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 May 2022 11:06:50 -0400 2022-05-20T10:00:00-04:00 2022-05-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Livestream / Virtual Poster of the event.
The 26th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) (May 21, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94977 94977-21788178@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 21, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

How are our affective encounters with literature, art, and media bound by time, and how are we also—in such encounters—temporally unbound? If literary texts have variously been framed as anticipating, disruptive of, conforming to, producing, inhabiting, and/or responding to axes of time (as “timely,” “untimely,” “ahead of their time,” “nostalgic,” or “avant-garde”), they have likewise been understood as objects of pure fascination, aesthetic experience, and enchantment.

Enchantment, in particular, is frequently understood as an ephemeral experience, unique to the moment of our encounter with the enchanting. We are enchanted by things for brief, passing moments; we sometimes return to a once-enchanting object only to find the glamor it once cast upon us has broken; and at other times, this rediscovery itself—re-encountering a text or encountering it in a new (translated, adapted) form—prompts our re-enchantment.

To mark its 26th anniversary, the University of Michigan Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) organizes a virtual graduate conference that critically and creatively explores the intersection of world literatures, temporalities, and enchantment. We welcomed work that investigates literary and artistic constructions of and responses to notions of temporality and enchantment from aesthetic, historical, industrial, material, technological, speculative, post/colonial, feminist, queer, religious, translational, local and/or global perspectives.
CLIFF 2022 received submissions from graduate students (U-M and beyond) and was open to academic papers from across disciplines that deal with a wide variety of languages and time periods as well as creative and experimental genres.

Michael Allan’s research focuses on debates in world literature, postcolonial studies, literary theory, as well as film and visual culture, primarily in Africa and the Middle East. In both his research and teaching, he bridges textual analysis with social theory, and draws from methods in anthropology, religion, queer theory and area studies. He is the author of In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton 2016, Co-Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book) and of articles in venues such as PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, Comparative Literature Studies, Early Popular Visual Culture, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Journal of Arabic Literature. He is also a guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Literature (“Reading Secularism: Religion, Literature, Aesthetics”), and with Elisabetta Benigni, an issue of Philological Encounters (“Lingua Franca: Toward a Philology of the Sea”). He is at work on a second book, Picturing the World: The Global Routes of Early Cinema, 1896-1903, which traces the transnational history of camera operators working for the Lumière Brothers film company.


CLIFF 2022 Schedule

May 20, Friday

10:00 - 11:15 EST Panel 1: Fictions of Magic
Respondent: Cameron Cross

Himani Wadhwa, “Res(crip)ting the Gaze: Envisioning Disability through the Lens of Magical Realism”
Janine Hsiao Sobers, “‘The Terrifying Card of Faith:’ Decolonial Syncretism and the Enchanted Worldview in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World”
Lee Czerw, “The Tyrant as Witch in Early Modern German Tragedy”


11:30 - 12:45 EST Panel 2: Metamorphoses
Respondent: Supriya Nair

Anthony Revelle, “Where’s the Meat Gone? Empty Skins in the Kitchen & The Sartorial Body of the Werewolf”
Daniela Crespo-Miró, “[Trans]mogrifying the Body [Politic]: Queer Embodiment and Puerto Rican Self-Making in Raquel Salas Rivera’s ‘notas sobre las temporadas/notes on the seasons’”
Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, “A Talking Parrot’s Tales of Enchantment and Ethics”


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


14 - 15:15 EST Panel 3: The Poetic
Respondent: Aaron Coleman

Tom Abi Samra, “Circumstantial Poetics: ‘Epigrams’ in the Travelogues of ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (d. 1143 AH/1731 AD)”
Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein, “‘The voice / of a drop falling’: N.H. Pritchard and the Temporalization of the Page”
Marianna Hagler, “How to Be Completely Living: Lyn Hejinian’s Gertrude Stein”


15: 30 - 16:45 EST Graduate Student Event (TBD)





May 21, Saturday

10 - 11:15 EST Panel 4: Reception & Representation
Respondent: Will Stroebel

Chandrica Barua, "Anachronistic Attachments: Out of Time Blackness and Brownness in Bridgerton"
Katherine Ponds, “Tragic Enchantment: Rethinking Adrienne Kennedy’s Electra”
Alexander K. Sell, “Re-enchanting the Void: Ontological Slippages between Weird Fiction and Fantasy”


11:30 - 12:45 EST Panel 5: Nostalgias & Utopias
Respondent: Caryl Flinn

Qingyi Zeng, “The Poetics of Elsewhere in Jia Zhangke’s 24 City”
Júlia Irion Martins, “All Trad is Cope: Nostalgic Futures + American Empire in ‘Retvrn’ Twitter”
‘Gbenga Adeoba, “‘Back there Calendar was useless’: Ishion Hutchinson’s Ambivalent Temporalities”


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


14 - 15:15 EST Panel 6: Imagined Americas
Respondent: Antoine Traisnel

Blythe Lewis, “‘My life is a withered tree’: Empire, Ships, and Deforestation in Georgian Drama”
Ben Larsen, “Disenchanting the Banjo: Temporal Reclamation through Spatial Practice”
Ziyang Li, “The Enchanting Gold that Overflows: Gold Rush, Ecology, and Asian American Identity in C Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills is Gold”


15: 30 - 16:45 EST Keynote Lecture

Michael Allan, “Picturing Enchantment: Archival Looks and Cinematic Worlds”



To register:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lde6rqjsiH9NHt-OeH3YRJWmJ94KSeNkL

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 10 May 2022 11:06:50 -0400 2022-05-21T10:00:00-04:00 2022-05-21T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Livestream / Virtual Poster of the event.
Critical Conversations: Prospectus Showcase (September 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97381 97381-21794516@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Critical Conversations is a monthly lunchtime series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session will feature four to five panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.

We see these sessions as an important hub for rigorous and collaborative thinking, giving our Michigan community the chance to share and learn about each other's work on a monthly basis. Now more than ever, our community is in need of the encouragement and inspiration we find in one another’s work, and we see Critical Conversations as a crucial opportunity to connect with colleagues and ideas in our disconnected circumstances. We hope you will join us in Fall 2022!

For the first time, Critical Conversations is hosting a Prospectus Showcase to celebrate the research journeys and commitments of graduate students in the English department who are at that stage.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:11:41 -0400 2022-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion A scholar sharpening his quill in his study
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series (September 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96941 96941-21793600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose scholarship is contributing to much-needed conversations on the global dimension of race, racism, and their impacts. Through these events, we seek to help broaden the aperture through which the academic community considers these themes, encouraging an understanding of a dynamic and interconnected set of systems, practices and material effects.

September 20th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Virtual conversation with University of Pennsylvania scholar and president of the Middle East Studies Association, Eve Troutt Powell and Tennessee State University scholar, Keisha Brown. A cultural historian, Professor Troutt Powell’s scholarship has focused the history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on slavery in the Nile Valley and in the former Ottoman Empire. Professor Brown’s work has focused on modern China and the negotiation of Sino-Blackness; her research interests broadly include ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory and social and cultural history in East Asia.
Register here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

October 4th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Roundtable featuring U-M faculty whose scholarship takes up the question of race and racism according to a transnational lens. The areas of focus represented among the participants include: the construction of blackness in the Francophone world; race, gender and Islam; the role of race and racialization as a tool of biopower in Mexico; and race and representation in US classrooms, literature and media. This event will be in-person at Kuenzel Room in the Michigan League, with a hybrid stream option.
Register for streaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

November 1st 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Pedagogy Workshop. The groups will function as both an opportunity to reflect on the provocations raised during previous two events, dissect our assumptions about race on the global stage, and exchange ideas and best practices for teaching the same. The aim is to create a constructive and productive dialogue which will ideally produce a series of “best practices'' for teaching race and racism from a comparative, global standpoint. This event will be in-person at the Vandenberg Room in the League, with a hybrid stream option on Zoom. Register for streaming here:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckduqtrjsuE9xTanfVcbmqesT3ENeGLkJo


Co-sponsored by: Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, NCID, CMENAS, Middle East Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and LACS.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0400 2022-09-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Poster of the events.
Nineteenth Century Forum Welcome Back Event (September 22, 2022 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/98234 98234-21795761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 22, 2022 4:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Join the NCF for our first meeting of the year! Welcome new members, meet up with old friends and colleagues, and learn about our planned programming for the 22-23 year!
This event will be hybrid. We will meet in-person in Angell Hall Room 3241, and will have Zoom set up for virtual attendees.
Snacks will be provided for those who attend in-person.

Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95422923438

Meeting ID: 954 2292 3438
Passcode: 832247

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Meeting Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:27:47 -0400 2022-09-22T16:30:00-04:00 2022-09-22T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
What I Talk about when I Talk about Palestine (September 26, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97463 97463-21794613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the early waves of immigration to the Americas, and more than seven decades after the Nakba of 48, generations of Palestinians have grown up in a variety of different contexts within Israel-Palestine and the world at large. This ongoing scattered state has led to the proliferation of Palestinian culture as it is simultaneously growing in multiple directions, depending on geographical, political, and lingual contextualization. The Palestinian story no longer exists exclusively in Arabic. A new generation of Palestinian and Palestinian-descended writers and artists from both Latin and North America, Scandinavia, and Europe at large, as well as Israel-Palestine are bringing stories of their heritage and the Palestinian nation into a variety of languages such Spanish, Italian, English, Danish, and Hebrew—among so many other languages.

In this talk, Maurice Ebileeni explores how the Palestinian homeland is being imagined in multiple languages from a variety of positions both locally and globally and wishes to discuss unsettling questions about this current situation. He also invites us to look to the future to speculate about how a Palestinian nation might still house the notion of home for an increasingly diverse Palestinian population.

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Maurice Ebileeni is a member of faculty in the English department at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of Nonsense and Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World, and his work on Palestinian literature and culture has appeared in Comparative Literature, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions, and Hebrew-language Ot, among others.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:21:09 -0400 2022-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2022-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Maurice Ebileeni
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series (October 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96941 96941-21793601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Comparative Literature

“Race and Racism, Comparatively” is a series of three conversations highlighting the work of scholars both in and beyond U-M whose scholarship is contributing to much-needed conversations on the global dimension of race, racism, and their impacts. Through these events, we seek to help broaden the aperture through which the academic community considers these themes, encouraging an understanding of a dynamic and interconnected set of systems, practices and material effects.

September 20th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Virtual conversation with University of Pennsylvania scholar and president of the Middle East Studies Association, Eve Troutt Powell and Tennessee State University scholar, Keisha Brown. A cultural historian, Professor Troutt Powell’s scholarship has focused the history of the modern Middle East with a particular emphasis on slavery in the Nile Valley and in the former Ottoman Empire. Professor Brown’s work has focused on modern China and the negotiation of Sino-Blackness; her research interests broadly include ethnic and race studies, postcolonial theory and social and cultural history in East Asia.
Register here:
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

October 4th 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Roundtable featuring U-M faculty whose scholarship takes up the question of race and racism according to a transnational lens. The areas of focus represented among the participants include: the construction of blackness in the Francophone world; race, gender and Islam; the role of race and racialization as a tool of biopower in Mexico; and race and representation in US classrooms, literature and media. This event will be in-person at Kuenzel Room in the Michigan League, with a hybrid stream option.
Register for streaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ce6GMDBUSPyNH94U9LQBDg

November 1st 2022 @ 4:00 PM: Pedagogy Workshop. The groups will function as both an opportunity to reflect on the provocations raised during previous two events, dissect our assumptions about race on the global stage, and exchange ideas and best practices for teaching the same. The aim is to create a constructive and productive dialogue which will ideally produce a series of “best practices'' for teaching race and racism from a comparative, global standpoint. This event will be in-person at the Vandenberg Room in the League, with a hybrid stream option on Zoom. Register for streaming here:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckduqtrjsuE9xTanfVcbmqesT3ENeGLkJo


Co-sponsored by: Comparative Literature, Romance Languages and Literatures, NCID, CMENAS, Middle East Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, and LACS.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0400 2022-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-04T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Poster of the events.
Thomas Couture's The Romans of the Decadence and the Unmooring of Rome's Decline (October 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99326 99326-21797886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Contexts for Classics steering committee is pleased to announce a new series of seminars in which faculty and students will present work in progress on classical reception topics for discussion by the CfC community. The first of these presentations will be given by Basil Dufallo (U–M, Classical Studies): 'Thomas Couture's The Romans of the Decadence and the Unmooring of Rome's Decline'. Please join us in the Classics Library (2175 Angell) from 12–1pm on Friday, October 7 to hear more about Basil's work. Attendees will also have the option of joining remotely, via Zoom.

Please fill out the following Google Form to RSVP to the event. Those who RSVP indicating remote attendance will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Attendees can also indicate whether or not they would like to receive a pre-circulated paper. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeQqeC_MeTh2YPdv0OnhCVD1q99qFLtadpqBRkqKMBIeBMUA/viewform

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:08:22 -0400 2022-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image - "The Romans in their Decadence" by Thomas Couture
Comp Lit Colloquium (October 21, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96264 96264-21792191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 21, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2022-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall