Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. (Counter) Narratives of Migration - Virtual Conference (May 14, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/83999 83999-21619328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 May 2021 13:31:46 -0400 2021-05-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-05-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar CLIFF
Nineteenth Century Forum (NCF) Fall Welcome Event (September 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85970 85970-21630620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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Meeting Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:18:02 -0400 2021-09-08T16:00:00-04:00 2021-09-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Meeting
Translation and Migration: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87136 87136-21639082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:48:38 -0400 2021-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-02T10:30:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Translate-a-Thon
The Clements Bookworm: Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86917 86917-21637563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:29:07 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Jay Platt of Ann Arbor's West Side Book Shop
Ann Arbor Antiquarian Book Fair (October 17, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84874 84874-21625220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 17, 2021 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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

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

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

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

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Fair / Festival Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:52:12 -0400 2021-10-17T11:00:00-04:00 2021-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union William L. Clements Library Fair / Festival Dealers and shoppers fill the Michigan Union ballroom during a past book fair.
Discussion of Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse (October 20, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87870 87870-21647277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 20, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:12:38 -0400 2021-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion The cover of Anahid Nersessian's Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Pass the Mic (October 28, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86244 86244-21632225@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

A virtual open mic for undergraduates from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses to share and celebrate their original prose and poetry.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:05:46 -0400 2021-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2021-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual Microphone with purple background
Hopwood Awards Submissions Virtual Workshop (November 9, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88223 88223-21651475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Learn about the submissions process for the 2022 Hopwood Awards writing contests from Hopwood program staff and former Hopwood winners. Get ready for the January 12th, 2022 contest deadline.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:53:21 -0400 2021-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 2021-11-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Livestream / Virtual A young person wearing a T-shirt, jeans, and socks holds a pen and leans on a table.
Timelines, Lifespans, Sonnet Space: Diagrammatic Culture & Poetic Form (November 18, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88908 88908-21658899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 18, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:57:55 -0500 2021-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion A black and white headshot of Julia Carlson
Hopwood Awards contest deadline for Fall 2021 graduates (December 12, 2021 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89204 89204-21661118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 12, 2021 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Students graduating at the end of the Fall 2021 term should submit their entries for all Hopwood Award contests by December 12. The contest deadline for all other students is noon Eastern time on January 12, 2022.

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Other Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:50:08 -0500 2021-12-12T00:00:00-05:00 2021-12-12T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Other Books by Hopwood winners on a Hopwood Room wing chair
Submissions Deadline for Hopwood Writing Awards (January 12, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84777 84777-21624934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

The submissions deadline for all writing contests administered by the Hopwood Awards Program is precisely noon, Eastern Time on January 12, 2022 except for students graduating in Fall 2021, who should submit by December 12, 2021. No late entries will be accepted. Online submissions only. Contests are open to University of Michigan graduate and undergraduate students at the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses enrolled for a minimum of six (undergraduate) or three (graduate) credits. There is no fee to enter. See https://lsa.umich.edu/hopwood for contest descriptions, submission instructions, and other details.

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Other Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:38:39 -0500 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Hopwood Awards Program Other Image of the Hopwood Room round table and bookcase
The Clements Bookworm: The Varieties of Retail Experience; or, Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91288 91288-21677911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:05:15 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Trade Card for New York Bookseller William W. Swayne, Clements Library.
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 19, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 20, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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CANCELLED: Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Toshi Reagon (March 21, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92061 92061-21686458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Regretfully, the talk between Toshi Reagon and Alexis Pauline Gumbs has been canceled. Please join us for other Octavia Butler Week and Parable Path events this week.

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Toshi Reagon is the 2022 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture. Can't attend in person? Watch the live-stream at https://myumi.ch/y9VNR.

Writer Alexis Pauline Gumbs talks to musician, composer, producer, and activist Toshi Reagon about her opera Parable of the Sower, based on the book by Octavia Butler. Moderated by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.

About Octavia Butler Week:
Octavia Butler was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. With Octavia Butler Week, we aim to explore the work and legacy of this visionary writer. It’s part of a larger series of events that include a community read, a multimedia performance, an open-mic night, and additional events that together comprise Parable Path A2Ypsi.

Culminating Parable Path A2Ypsi is Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s genre-defying musical adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. UMS will present this powerful performance March 25-27, 2022 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Tickets and info at ums.org.

About Toshi Reagon:
Toshi Reagon has been described as “a talented, versatile singer, songwriter and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana—from folk to funk, from blues to rock” by critic/blogger Eva Yaa Asantewaa (InfiniteBody). “She masters each of these genres with vocal strategies that easily spiral and swoop from the expressively sinuous to the hard-charging, a combination of warmth and mischief.”

While her expansive career has landed her comfortably in residence at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House and Madison Square Garden, you can just as easily find Toshi turning out a music festival, intimate venue or local club. Toshi finds home on any musical stage. Toshi has had the pleasure of working with Lenny Kravitz, Lizz Wright, Ani DiFranco, Carl Hancock Rux, Nona Hendryx, Pete Seeger, Chocolate Genius and many other amazing artists, including her favorite collaborator, her mom, Bernice Johnson Reagon.

Yaa Asantewaa writes, “Toshi knows the power of song to focus, unite and mobilize people. If you’ve been lucky enough to be in Toshi’s presence, you know you can’t walk away from her without feeling better about yourself as a human being. She aims for nothing less.”

Toshi has been the recipient of a NYFA award for Music Composition, The Black Lily Music and Film Festival Award for Outstanding Performance. She is a National Women’s History Month Honoree, and is the 2010 recipient of OutMusic’s Heritage Award.

About Alexis Pauline Gumbs:
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all life. She is/they are the author of several books, most recently Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals and the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming Trust, an intergenerational experiential living library of Black LBGTQ brilliance.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:31:43 -0400 2022-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2022-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Reading Octavia Butler: A Panel Discussion (March 22, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92062 92062-21686459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Octavia Butler was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. With Octavia Butler Week, we aim to explore the work and legacy of this visionary writer. It’s part of a larger series of events that include a community read, a multimedia performance, an open-mic night, and additional events that together comprise Parable Path A2Ypsi.

Today's panel will discuss Octavia Butler's enduring influence as a writer, thinker, and creator. Featuring U-M faculty Bénédicte Boisseron (Afroamerican and African studies, Romance languages and literatures), Jeremy Glover (PhD candidate, English), Aliyah Khan (English and Afroamerican and African studies), Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (School of Education), Antoine Traisnel (English and comparative literature).

Culminating Parable Path A2Ypsi is Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon’s genre-defying musical adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Parable of the Sower. UMS will present this powerful performance March 25-27, 2022 at the Power Center in Ann Arbor. Tickets and info at ums.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:55:29 -0500 2022-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places Scavenger Hunt (March 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/92431 92431-21691412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

See all Octavia Butler Week events at https://myumi.ch/n8VAR.

Take a journey with the character’s of Octavia Butler’s novel* Parable of the Sower* and join the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Intern’s Scavenger Hunt! As a part of Octavia Butler Week, Octavia’s Spaces in Community Places is an opportunity for students to engage with the messages in the novel, and a chance to win a prize! All are welcome to participate!

To participate, download the GooseChase app to your phone and enter code QEQM8G. Earn 4000 points in the game and you will win a copy of *Parable of the Sower*!

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Other Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:54:51 -0500 2022-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 Institute for the Humanities Other Octavia Butler Quote
2022 Hopwood Awards Ceremony and Reception (April 6, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84754 84754-21624874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Annual Hopwood Awards Ceremony includes the 2022 Hopwood Lecture by Jia Tolentino. Following the ceremony, Black Stone Bookstore will sell copies of Tolentino's essay collection, Trick Mirror and Jia will sign books. Free and open to the public. This event will also be live-streamed. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters.

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Ceremony / Service Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:40:59 -0400 2022-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Jia Tolentino wearing a black top and jeans. Photo credit: Elena Mudd.
Hopwood Reading: Jia Tolentino (April 7, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89275 89275-21661670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

A reading by Jia Tolentino, the 2022 Hopwood Lecturer. Jia is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror. Copies of Trick Mirror will be available for purchase. The reading is free and open to the public. This event will be in-person and live-streamed; no pre-registration necessary. Log in here: https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

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Performance Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:36:52 -0400 2022-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 2022-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Performance Jia Tolentino wearing a black top and jeans. Photo credit: Elena Mudd.
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."