Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Nineteenth Century Forum Final Meeting (May 12, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83611 83611-21438451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:57:18 -0400 2021-09-23T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-23T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brian Teare
Craft Lecture: Writing Climate Crisis (September 24, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84016 84016-21619584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:56:13 -0400 2021-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2021-09-24T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brian Teare
Enactments of Queer of Color Critique (September 24, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87145 87145-21639092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of History

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:58:27 -0400 2021-09-30T17:30:00-04:00 2021-09-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paisley Rekdal
Craft Lecture on "Re-Framing Appropriation: Reading, Writing and Depicting Race in Contemporary Poetry" (October 1, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84022 84022-21619599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:54:58 -0400 2021-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-01T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Paisley Rekdal
Translation and Migration: A Virtual Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (October 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87136 87136-21639082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:18:16 -0400 2021-10-07T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kate Milliken
Craft Lecture: On Empathy, Plot, and Self-Preservation (October 8, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84024 84024-21619601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:53:58 -0400 2021-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-08T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kate Milliken
Webster Reading Series (October 8, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 8, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, Oct. 9

Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

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

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

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

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

Sunday, Oct. 10
Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

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

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

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

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

Wrap-up (3:00–4:00)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday, Oct. 9

Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

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

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

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

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

Sunday, Oct. 10
Breakfast (8:30–9:15)

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

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

Lunch break (12:30–2:00)

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

Wrap-up (3:00–4:00)

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

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

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

Email ScienceSuccessSeries@umich.edu with any questions.

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:19:11 -0400 2021-10-14T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mark Powell
Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights (October 14, 2021 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86424 86424-21634283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:53:02 -0400 2021-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Mark Powell
The Clements Bookworm: Book Fairs 101: the hunt and the hype (October 15, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86917 86917-21637563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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

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

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

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

Undisciplined // Global Theories of Critique 2021-22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:20:11 -0400 2021-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 2021-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Douglas Kearney
The Wandering Palestinian: A Conversation with Writer & Activist Dr. Anan Ameri (October 21, 2021 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86411 86411-21634187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 21, 2021 6:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:52:00 -0400 2021-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Douglas Kearney
Critical Conversations: Incarceration (October 22, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85268 85268-21650834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 22, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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

This course will provide a deep dive into William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Structurally, we will split a reading of the play over the five weeks we meet: each week we will begin by reading one act of the play and then spend the rest of our session in discussion (no outside reading is therefore required).

Active participation will be encouraged, but if you are more of a listener, then you can still join in on the discussion at the end without taking on an “acting” role. As we will discuss, there are significant textual variations in editions of the play; please purchase the Norton Critical Edition (edited by Grace Ioppolo, 2008).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This event will be held IN PERSON.

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

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

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


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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:21:12 -0400 2021-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2021-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Andrea Lee
Craft Lecture: Writing Across Worlds (November 12, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84033 84033-21619616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 12, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Aug 2021 09:50:16 -0400 2021-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2021-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Andrea Lee
New England Literature Program (NELP) Mass Meeting (November 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89049 89049-21660331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

Aric Knuth, Director, NELP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:05 PM Lunch break

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

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

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

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

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

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

This episode is generously sponsored by Karolyn Tiefenbach.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:32:59 -0500 2022-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2022-01-27T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion David Haynes
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (January 27, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:19:11 -0500 2022-01-28T10:00:00-05:00 2022-01-28T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion David Haynes
Webster Reading Series (January 28, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 28, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:29:17 -0500 2022-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 2022-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brenda Shaughnessy
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 3, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:31:38 -0500 2022-02-04T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-04T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Brenda Shaughnessy
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668876@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:35:23 -0500 2022-02-10T17:30:00-05:00 2022-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jakob Guanzon
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:47:53 -0500 2022-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jakob Guanzon
Webster Reading Series (February 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:45:02 -0500 2022-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2022-02-17T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Carmen Maria Machado
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (February 17, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:46:55 -0500 2022-02-18T10:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Carmen Maria Machado
The Clements Bookworm: The Varieties of Retail Experience; or, Buying Books in Nineteenth-Century America (February 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/91288 91288-21677911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 7, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-07T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 8, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-08T12:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T12:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
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
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 9, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 10, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Webster Reading Series (March 11, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2022-03-11T19:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
2022 David Noel Freedman Lecture (March 14, 2022 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89955 89955-21666666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 4:15pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The biblical book of Lamentations is a brief but powerful work of ancient poetry that responds to the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylonians in the sixth century BCE. It includes the character of Daughter Zion, a feminized personification of Jerusalem who is subjected to sexual violence. While the Bible contains many stories of raped women, Daughter Zion is almost alone among female victims in having a ‘voice” in the text. As a result, there is a pronounced tendency to treat her as an ideal and praiseworthy victim/survivor. However, this representation is both problematic and contradicted by her own speeches. In response, this talk describes Daughter Zion as a “gritty” survivor with a fuzzy, messy, and icky survival story. This survival story comes into focus when read together with other survivor texts, including Jennifer Patterson’s Queering Sexual Violence, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, and Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House. Together, these texts form a “survivor archive” that changes the way we encounter biblical and nonbiblical sexual violence.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:22:10 -0500 2022-03-14T16:15:00-04:00 2022-03-14T17:45:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 15, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21704489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-15T09:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 16, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Reading and Q&A with Ada Limon (March 17, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89088 89088-21660465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


Ada Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including *The Carrying*, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, *Bright Dead Things*, was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:54:42 -0500 2022-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 2022-03-17T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ada Limon
QTPOC Book Club (March 17, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92816 92816-21696293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: oSTEM

QTPOC Book Club is a new initiative by oSTEM and MESA to elevate the voices of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). We meet every Thursday, 9-10pm at Mason Hall room 3460.

This month, we'll be reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzladúa was a lesbian and Chicana scholar, activist, and author. Her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera is considered to be important work of literature in queer theory, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and gender studies. Sign up for our QTPOC book club to receive a FREE copy of Borderlands/La Frontera: https://tinyurl.com/oSTEMBorderlands

NOTE: Our first meeting has been postponed to Thursday, March 17th, 9-10pm.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, contact us at ostem-board@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:30:10 -0500 2022-03-17T21:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T22:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall oSTEM Meeting QTPOC Book Club Flyer
Craft Lecture: Building a Manuscript (March 18, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89089 89089-21660466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


This craft talk will discuss the putting together of a poetry manuscript and the ways that you can both consider the reader and stay true to your own poetic desire. We’ll talk about ordering, revising, titles, and how to make something that feels true to yourself and your artistic integrity.

Ada Limón, a current Guggenheim fellow, is the author of five poetry collections, including *The Carrying*, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book, *Bright Dead Things*, was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program and lives in Lexington, Kentucky.


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:56:14 -0500 2022-03-18T10:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ada Limon
Winter 2022 MEMS Lecture. Arcadia Brasiliensis: Landscape and Colonial Dislocation in the Poetry of Cláudio Manuel da Costa (March 18, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92049 92049-21686409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The publication of the Orbas of the Brazilian Cláudio Manuel da Costa in 1769 is recognized as the beginning of a period in Brazilian colonial literature termed ‘Arcadianism.’ The literature of this period displays the initial formulations of Brazilian national identity, anticipating its independence in 1822 and negotiated by means of a neoclassical armature.

My lecture will consider formulations of space and landscape in the work of Cláudio Manuel da Costa, whose poetry, centered around the Greco-Roman bucolic Arcadia, reconciles the experience of inhabiting a landscape altered by colonialist intervention with the idyllic projection of the European literature which serves as his literary antecedent. Such a formulation encapsulates the tension between real and imagined spaces that characterizes European geographical thinking after the so-called ‘discovery’ of the Americas, which fundamentally altered the European world view.

The literature that emerged from the era of Iberian discovery and exploration would shape its colonial spaces in its own imagination through reliance on literary formulations of space coined in the literatures of Greco-Roman antiquity. This Eurocentric narrative is disrupted by literatures produced by the inhabitants of this New World, shaping the world that was their center in contradistinction to its image in European literatures.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:27:51 -0500 2022-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Orbas Title Page
Webster Reading Series (March 18, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86291 86291-21632601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

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

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

SCHEDULE OF READERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Performance Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:27:45 -0500 2022-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance .
The Premodern Colloquium. An Ottoman Encyclopedist as Public Intellectual: Katib Chelebi (1609-1657) (March 20, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90124 90124-21668030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 20, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

In the middle of the seventeenth century, a lower-level bureaucrat in the Ottoman fiscal administration, with a wide-ranging but irregular education, set out single-handedly to create a set of encyclopedic works that were designed to make all useful knowledge of mankind accessible to his contemporaries. The geographical part of this enterprise was recently translated into English: An Ottoman Cosmography: Translation of Cihānnümā, ed. Gottfried Hagen and Robert Dankoff (Brill, 2021). Now, for a new publication on his place in intellectual history, I will use it to raise old and new questions about the practices of knowledge production and organization, as I discuss this work and its companions in a new culture of knowledge that sought to remedy the troubles of the Ottoman Empire by prioritizing empirical validity, accessibility, and applicability over moral and spiritual edification.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 03 Jan 2022 09:34:35 -0500 2022-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar R.1624-45a
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 21, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668882@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
‘An Issue of Mercy’: Exploring the Life and Writing of Phillis Wheatley Peters Through Documents and Poetry (March 21, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93026 93026-21699127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Poet, essayist, and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers will discuss the research and practice that led to her award-winning book of poetry The Age of Phillis (2020). This collection is based upon fifteen years of research on the life and times of Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), a formerly enslaved person who was the first African American woman to publish a book. Professor Jeffers will discuss the connections between archival research and creative practice, and on the ways that early Americanist scholarship can benefit from engagement with contemporary poetry. The Age of Phillis won the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Literary Work: Poetry, was long-listed for the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry, and was a finalist for both the 2021 PEN/Volcker Award and the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. The Age of Phillis was also chosen as the “common read” for the Society of Early Americanists’ conference for the academic year of 2020-2021.

A Randolph G. Adams Lecture presented by the William L. Clements Library in partnership with the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Residential College, Department of English Language and Literature, and Department of History.
Please register at myumi.ch/QeMVk.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:19:49 -0400 2022-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Age of Phillis
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.)
LHS Collaboratory (March 22, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90095 90095-21667763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1: PCORNet and the PaTH subnetwork

Kathleen McTigue, MD, MPH, MS

In this talk, Kathleen McTigue describes the vision of PCORNet, its organization, and its value to the field of clinical research. PCORNet is divided into regional subnetworks one of which is PaTH. The organization of PaTH along with its priories will be discussed.

Presentation 2: UM’s site within PCORNet/PaTH

David Williams, PhD

The University of Michigan is an institutional member of PaTH/PCORNet.
In this talk, David Williams describes the organization and processes of the UM site within PCORNet/PaTH, studies in which UM participates, and resources for UM investigators interested in participating in PCORNet studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:38:45 -0500 2022-03-22T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
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
Art & Afrofuturism Virtual Panel (March 23, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92063 92063-21686460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

Register to get the Zoom link at https://myumi.ch/n81Qe.

An exploration of Afrofuturism in a variety of art forms, including music, literature, film, video, and the visual arts. Featuring Naomi Andre, Tananarive Due, John Jennings, and Susana Morris. Moderated by Christopher Audain.

This is the second in a series of annual Art and Activism lectures as part of High Stakes Art, a project designed to enhance exhibitions and programming at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. High Stakes Art is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the U-M Arts Initiative.

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 the presenters:
Naomi Andre is a professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She received her BA from Barnard College and MA and PhD from Harvard University. Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race in the US, Europe, and South Africa. Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, women composers, and teaching opera in prisons. Her book, *Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement* won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society. Her earlier books include Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006) and Blackness in Opera (2012, co-edited collection). She has edited and contributed to clusters of articles in African Studies and the Journal of the Society for American Music. She is the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Seattle Opera and a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN).

Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary *Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror*. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of "The Twilight Zone" on CBS All Access. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include *Ghost Summer: Stories*, *My Soul to Keep*, and *The Good House*. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored *Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights*. She is married to author Steven Barnes, with whom she collaborates on screenplays. They live with their son, Jason, and two cats.

John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and all-around champion of Black culture. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. His research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop, Afrofuturism and politics, Visual Literacy, Horror, and the EthnoGothic, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection* The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art *(Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is co-founder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at the Ohio State University.

Susana M. Morris is a scholar of Black Feminism, Black Digital Media, and Afrofuturism. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University and has previously taught at Spelman College and Auburn University. She is the author of *Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature* (UVA Press 2014), co-editor, with Brittney C. Cooper and Robin M. Boylorn, of the anthology, *The Crunk Feminist Collection* (Feminist Press 2017) and co-editor, with Kinitra D. Brooks and Linda Addison, of *Sycorax’s Daughters* (Cedar Grove 2017), a short story collection of horror written by Black women. Morris is also series editor, along with Kinitra D. Brooks, of the book series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative, published at The Ohio State University Press. She is currently at work on her latest book project, which explores Black women’s relationships to Afrofuturism and feminism.

Christopher Audain is managing director of the U-M Arts Initiative.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:56:07 -0500 2022-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Octavia Butler Quote
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 23, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Listen In: Big(ger) Ideas in Co-Curation and Equitable Engagement of Cultural Heritage Through Art with Dr. Tonya M. Matthews (March 24, 2022 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89311 89311-21661916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Click here to register: http://umma.umich.edu/plan-your-visit.

A public keynote presentation from Dr. Tonya Matthews, President and CEO of International African American Museum, will ask curators and other listeners to grapple with an increasing call for bolder conversations in the curation of African American cultural heritage. 

Dr. Tonya Matthews, President and CEO of International African American Museum, will ask us to grapple with increasing expectation for bolder conversations in curation of African American cultural heritage – particularly in considerations of descendants and living history. Is centering stewardship of enslaved African Americans’ craftwork at predominantly white institutions cultural appropriation or long-overdue acknowledgement? What are potential triggers of curating a community’s culture from outside of that geography? Is there any cross-learning in working with donors and working with descendants? Matthews will share learnings and current conversation surrounding the creation of the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina as context for being on the frontlines of grappling with the intersection of historical and living history.

The event is free and open to the public. It will also be available via livestream.

Sign up to receive a reminder: Click here

This talk is presented in preparation for Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, an upcoming traveling exhibition focused on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South and the contemporary artists who have responded to it. The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. After debuting in New York City, the exhibition will travel to Boston, followed by UMMA in Fall 2023, before the fourth and final venue, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Dr. Tonya M. Matthews is Chief Executive Officer of the International African American Museum (IAAM) at the historically sacred site of Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, SC. As a champion of authentic, empathetic storytelling of American history, IAAM is one of the nation’s newest platforms for the disruption of institutionalized racism as America continues the walk toward “a more perfect union.”  A thought-leader in inclusive frameworks, social entrepreneurship, and education, Matthews has written articles and book chapters across these varied subjects. She is founder of The STEMinista Project, a movement to engage girls in their future with STEM careers. Matthews is also a poet and is included in 100 Best African-American Poems (2010) edited by Nikki Giovanni. Matthews received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and her B.S.E. in engineering from Duke University, alongside a certificate in African/African-American Studies. 

About the exhibition: Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 9, 2022 – February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 6, 2023 – July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (August 26, 2023 – January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (February 16, 2024 – May 12, 2024)

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina is an exhibition focused on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South and the contemporary artists who have responded to it. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition is a groundbreaking presentation of approximately 60 ceramic objects from Edgefield, South Carolina, a center of ceramic production in the decades before the Civil War. Considered through the lens of recent scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, diaspora, material culture, and African American studies, these 19th-century wares testify to the artistic ambitions, lived experiences, and material knowledge of enslaved peoples and the realities of slavery in the industrial context.  

Hear Me Now offers a novel view of an underrepresented aspect of American enslavement, foregrounding objects made by enslaved potters and bringing this important history to larger audiences. Additionally, it aspires to link past to present, in part by including the work of leading contemporary Black artists who have responded to the Edgefield story, such as Simone Leigh and Woody De Othello, among others.

Adrienne Spinozzi, Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts in the American Wing at The Met, Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas at the MFA, and Jason Young, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan are co-curating this project. They are advised and supported by a national board of artists and scholars who offer invaluable input and perspectives, throughout both the planning and development process.  

This program is organized in partnership with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the U-M Department of History with support from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the U-M Arts Initiative.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:16:17 -0400 2022-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2022-03-24T19:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
QTPOC Book Club (March 24, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92816 92816-21696294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: oSTEM

QTPOC Book Club is a new initiative by oSTEM and MESA to elevate the voices of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). We meet every Thursday, 9-10pm at Mason Hall room 3460.

This month, we'll be reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzladúa was a lesbian and Chicana scholar, activist, and author. Her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera is considered to be important work of literature in queer theory, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and gender studies. Sign up for our QTPOC book club to receive a FREE copy of Borderlands/La Frontera: https://tinyurl.com/oSTEMBorderlands

NOTE: Our first meeting has been postponed to Thursday, March 17th, 9-10pm.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, contact us at ostem-board@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:30:10 -0500 2022-03-24T21:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T22:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall oSTEM Meeting QTPOC Book Club Flyer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
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
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (March 30, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-03-30T18:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Reading and Q&A with Rick Barot (March 31, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89091 89091-21660468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


Rick Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: *The Darker Fall* (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. In 2020, Barot received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The New Republic*, *Ploughshares*, *Tin House*, *The Kenyon Review*, *Virginia Quarterly Review*, *The New Yorker*, and T*he Threepenny Review*. His work has been included in many anthologies, including *The Best American Poetry* 2012, 2016, and 2020.

Barot lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. His fourth book of poems, *The Galleons*, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. *The Galleons* was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. Also in 2020, his chapbook *During the Pandemic* was published by Albion Books.


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Mar 2022 08:58:56 -0400 2022-03-31T17:30:00-04:00 2022-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rick Barot
QTPOC Book Club (March 31, 2022 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92816 92816-21696295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 9:00pm
Location: Mason Hall
Organized By: oSTEM

QTPOC Book Club is a new initiative by oSTEM and MESA to elevate the voices of QTPOC (queer and trans people of color). We meet every Thursday, 9-10pm at Mason Hall room 3460.

This month, we'll be reading Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Gloria Anzladúa was a lesbian and Chicana scholar, activist, and author. Her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera is considered to be important work of literature in queer theory, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and gender studies. Sign up for our QTPOC book club to receive a FREE copy of Borderlands/La Frontera: https://tinyurl.com/oSTEMBorderlands

NOTE: Our first meeting has been postponed to Thursday, March 17th, 9-10pm.

If you have any questions/comments/concerns, contact us at ostem-board@umich.edu

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Meeting Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:30:10 -0500 2022-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T22:00:00-04:00 Mason Hall oSTEM Meeting QTPOC Book Club Flyer
Craft Lecture: The Face of the Beloved (April 1, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89092 89092-21660469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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


The poet and critic Allen Grossman once claimed that the roots of poetry are in the poet’s desire to preserve the face of the beloved. Taking Grossman’s notion as a first principle, this craft talk explores the ways that art is substantiated by the elements that inform Grossman’s notion of the writer’s work: love and pain, earthbound chaos and timeless transcendence, erasure and recovery.

Rick Barot was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and attended Wesleyan University and The Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: *The Darker Fall* (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord (2015), which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and received the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. In 2020, Barot received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

His poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The New Republic*, *Ploughshares*, *Tin House*, *The Kenyon Review*, *Virginia Quarterly Review*, *The New Yorker*, and T*he Threepenny Review*. His work has been included in many anthologies, including *The Best American Poetry* 2012, 2016, and 2020.

Barot lives in Tacoma, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop, the low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University. His fourth book of poems, *The Galleons*, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. *The Galleons* was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. Also in 2020, his chapbook *During the Pandemic* was published by Albion Books.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Nov 2021 10:09:27 -0500 2022-04-01T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Rick Barot
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 4, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Italia/ إيطاليا / Itália: Literary Mediations Across the South (Part 2) (April 6, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89939 89939-21666534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Join us for a conversation with award winning Italian author Igiaba Scego and her Brazilian-Portuguese translator, Francesca Cricelli about the representation of Blackness in non-Anglophone literature.

Igiaba Scego is a prominent Italian writer and journalist of Somali heritage, whose work focuses on migration and intercultural dialogue. Her novels have been translated in multiple languages, and the latest American translation of *Beyond Babylon* by Aaron Robertson was shortlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award.

Francesca Cricelli is a poet, translator, and teacher. She was born in Brazil to a family of Italian immigrants, and grew up in Malaysia, India, Spain, Italy, and Mexico. She has worked extensively on Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Brazilian production, including his unpublished love letters to Bruna Bianco which she translated and collected in an anthology published by Italian publishing house Mondadori. We will highlight, in particular, the circulation and mediation of expressions of Black experience across the Atlantic, reconnecting Africa, Europe and the Americas in new ways.

Languages: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish with available interpretation to and from English.

For more information email: gricco@umich.edu

To register for this event, visit: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcuiqrjwuG9ZKH7fcHizeUACAx-9UrOi1

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:27:08 -0400 2022-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T14:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster
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.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674658@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
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.
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CREES Noon Lecture. Central Asia in World Literature: A Conversation with Hamid Ismailov (April 13, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94128 94128-21722038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This hybrid event will be presented in person in 555 Weiser Hall and via Zoom. Zoom registration is here: https://myumi.ch/qAQkZ

Uzbek-British writer and journalist Hamid Ismailov’s work spans the end of the Soviet period and the entry of the former Soviet republics into a globalized, post-Cold War world. In this talk, Ismailov will speak about these themes in his own work, which tracks Central Asia’s role in a changing global political and literary scene. The talk will also touch on Central Asia’s place in Soviet and post-Soviet literature, as well as on the multilingual nature of Ismailov’s writing, which spans Uzbek, Russian, and English.

Born in 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed “unacceptable democratic tendencies.” He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he worked with the BBC World Service for 25 years. His works are banned in Uzbekistan. He is the author of numerous novels in Russian and Uzbek. Several of his Russian-original novels have been published in English translation, including The Railway, The Dead Lake, which was long listed for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and The Underground. The Devils’ Dance is the first of his Uzbek novels to appear in English, and the translation by Donald Rayfield and John Farndon won the 2019 ERBD Literature Prize. The Devils’ Dance forms a trilogy alongside Of Strangers and Bees and Ismailov’s new novel, Manaschi.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:34:41 -0400 2022-04-13T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Hamid Ismailov, journalist and writer
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2022 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21674659@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-13T18:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Literary Toilet Papers of Japan and Beyond (April 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89362 89362-21662352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please note: Due to updated guidance from the university in regards to the COVID policy, this lecture will be only in a webinar format. Please register here to attend: https://myumi.ch/pZZ1r

This talk will examine the history and significance of toilet paper as both a medium and theme of literary production. While the main focus of the talk will be Japan, it will also regard the topic in a broader context beyond Japan's literary and cultural tradition.

Linda Galvane is the 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. She received her PhD in Japanese literature from Stanford University (2021) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Osaka University (2015). Her research focuses on representations of excrement in modern and contemporary Japanese literature.

This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:28:43 -0500 2022-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Literary Toilet Papers of Japan and Beyond
The Clements Bookworm: “Legends and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier" Author Conversation (April 15, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94201 94201-21724111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this episode of the Bookworm, University of Michigan Professor Gregory Dowd joins us to discuss his book *Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier* (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016). Rumor—spread by colonists and Native Americans alike—ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past—a kind of fragmentary archival record—he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries.

This episode is generously sponsored by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.

Please register at 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. 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, 30 Mar 2022 15:24:26 -0400 2022-04-15T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location William L. Clements Library Livestream / Virtual Groundless
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 18, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74423 74423-21668886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

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

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

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

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:33:20 -0400 2022-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual PHOTO
Pan-African Pulp: A Commission by Meleko Mokgosi (May 1, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64426 64426-16348358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, May 1, 2022 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

In Pan-African Pulp, Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi explores the history of Pan-Africanism, the global movement to unite ethnic groups of sub-Saharan African descent. His Vertical Gallery installation, which inaugurates a new biennial commission program at UMMA, features large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s, a mural examining the complexity of blackness, posters from Pan-African movements from around the world, including those founded in Detroit and Africa in the 1960s, and stories from Setswana literature. Pan-African Pulp vividly connects to Detroit’s deep history of activism, where organizations such as Black Nation of Islam, The Republic of New Afrika, Shrine of the Black Madonna (Black Christian Nationalism), Pan-African Congress, and United Negro Improvement Association were founded. The renewed urgency for diversity and civil rights in Detroit, and the country as a whole, heightens the relevance of Mokgosi’s project and reveals the deep connections between these historical movements and those developing today.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
 

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Exhibition Sun, 01 May 2022 18:15:20 -0400 2022-05-01T09:00:00-04:00 2022-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Meleko Mokgosi, Pan-African Pulp, 2019. Courtesy the artist. © Meleko Mokgosi. Photography: Patrick Young and Jeri Hollister