Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. AMAS Presents 'Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies' (February 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104053 104053-21808333@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Join us for a roundtable discussion and celebration of the publication of the book 'Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies' with the editors and UM contributors!

Reception to follow at the Hussey room, 2nd floor, Michigan League.

Register for livestreaming here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcO6orDorHNDg227BbYJpfJLiWgkwwC23

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:06:18 -0500 2023-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2023-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Alum Connection with Theo Poling: How Experiences in Film, Publishing, and Activism Led to Pivotal Career Moments (March 8, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104305 104305-21808809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 3:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Theo Poling (they/them or he/him) amassed success in high school by self-publishing and selling their writing on Amazon long before it was popular on TikTok. When it came time to choose a college, the Ann Arbor-raised Theo opted to go out-of-state and study playwriting and screenwriting at the University of Southern California where they published Black Knuckle and Deputy Maltese and Into the Intersticks. As they advanced deeper into the film industry, however, they also began to notice the inequities in the industry, and knew that they could be doing more. This ushered in a defining career moment for Theo which brought them back to U-M as a transfer student. At U-M, Theo continued to excel in writing and publishing, but also developed a new passion too: higher education and mentorship. Theo now returns to LSA to answer questions about how they got started in different industries, when they knew it was time to change course, and how they continue to navigate career growth as a young professional.

About Theo:
Theo Poling graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in Creative Writing & Literature and Arts & Ideas in the Humanities. While at the university, Theo founded the Trans and Gender Nonconforming Arts Review. They are passionate about institutional equity and making sure all students feel seen and heard. In their free time, Theo loves to hike, foster cats, and is hard at work writing novels and television screenplays for production.


You should attend this session if you are:
- Interested in building a career in Creative Arts, DEI, Education, or Film & Media Studies.
- Curious about writing, publishing, querying or pitching for TV
- Thinking about grad school after your undergrad degree

What you’ll gain by attending:
- Ideas for how to go about finding your first job after graduation
- Perspectives on juggling rejection in the writing and creative industries
- Answers to questions on how to get your writing published.

RSVP NOW to be part of the conversation.

The Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the [first floor], places to sit or stand during the event, and accessible parking options nearby. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:02:24 -0500 2023-03-08T15:00:00-05:00 2023-03-08T16:00:00-05:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Theo Poling
27th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (March 10, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105257 105257-21811459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event is OPEN to the public! All are welcome. Registration is NOT required.

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is a conference organized by Graduate students in Complit.

This year’s theme is “INSURGENT RESEARCH: Practice and Theory,” and will spotlight research that aspire to function as *counter-counterinsurgency,* offering models for materially resisting and challenging capitalism, colonialism, militarism, racism, the destruction of the environment, mass incarceration, policing, and so forth.

Our panelists are graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars and researchers, faculty, as well as activists from across the country and beyond.

We are excited to have Dr. Joy James as our keynote speaker for the 27th CLIFF. James is a scholar, author and activist, and the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Their academic work and public engagement address police and prison abolitionism, political imprisonment, radical feminism, and diasporic anti-Black racism.

Join us to learn about scholarship that takes the leap from theory to practice, from discourse to action, from critique to insurgency!

You can find an overview of our schedule below.

Friday, March 10th
Location: Haven Hall, Room 5670, 5th floor

10 am - 10:30 am. Breakfast

10:30 am - 10:45 am. Opening remarks by Frieda Ekotto

10:45 am - 12:15 pm. Panel 1: Counterinstitutional representations
Presenters:
Morinade Stevenson (Grad student, Emory University)
Abigail Cowan (Grad student, Pennsylvania State University)
Basmah Arshad (Grad student, University of Michigan)

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm. Lunch

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 2: Spain, Mexico and Pakistan: lessons from the international insurgent past
Presenters:
Bruno Renero-Hannan (Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, SUNY)
Peter Gelderloos (Movement participant and writer)
Shehryar Qazi (Undergrad student, Cornell University)

2:45 pm - 3 pm. Coffee Break

3 pm - 4:30 pm. Panel 3: Tech-tics and theories of insurgency and counterinsurgency
Presenters:
Mike (Activist)
Max Segal (Undergrad student, University of Pittsburgh)
Samriddhi Agrawal (Grad student, New York University)

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Book signing and reading with Joy James**
**Location: Third Mind Books**
Link to event: https://tinyurl.com/jjbooksigning


Saturday, March 11th
Location: Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor

9:30 - 10 am. Breakfast

**10 am - 11:15 am. Keynote address by Joy James**

11:15 am - 11:25 am. Coffee Break

11:25 am - 12:45 pm. Panel 4: Writing the revolution: theses and rhymes
Presenters:
Tom Nomad (Researcher, Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare)
Cheryl Emerson (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo)

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm. Lunch

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 5: Part I Fugitive pedagogies: human and nonhuman bodies
Presenters:
Raechel Anne Jolie (Researcher, Cleveland Sex Workers Alliance)
Sue McRae (Grad student, University of North Texas)

2:45 pm - 2:55 pm. Coffee Break

2:55 pm - 4 pm. Panel 5: Part II
Fugitive pedagogies: practices from the Undercommons
Presenters:
Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos (Alumn, University of Michigan)
Parker Miles (Grad student, University of Michigan)

4 pm - 5 pm. Closing remarks and reception

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Conversation with Joy James and local activists**
**Location: Bridge Community Café (Ypsilanti)**

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:38:11 -0500 2023-03-10T10:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Event Poster
Placeless Identity, Transgenerational Trauma: A Reading and Conversation with Marina Frenk (March 10, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105668 105668-21812663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 10, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

As part of the German Studies Colloquium, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures invites you to join us for a virtual reading and discussion with author Marina Frenk:

Placeless Identity, Transgenerational Trauma:
A Reading and Conversation with Marina Frenk

Marina Frenk will read from her debut novel ewig her und gar nicht wahr (Berlin 2020). She will be introduced by Ph.D. candidate Lauren Beck, one of Frenk's translators, who organized this event and will lead the discussion.

At the age six, Kira, the protagonist of ewig her und gar nicht wahr, had migrated from Moldova to Germany with her Jewish Russian family. Now in her thirties, Kira lives in Berlin, and yet she does not seem to have truly arrived in Germany or even the present. Violent hallucinations interrupt her otherwise secure life as a mother and teacher. In fragmented scenes of personal and family memory, Kira contextualizes her failing grasp on reality through a tangled web of family traumas and their historical contexts.

Frenk’s autofictional novel asks: what remains of identity after multiple generations of uprootedness? How does one engage with an unknown generational trauma? Is it possible to live outside of national or even familial systems?

In addition to writing, Frenk performs as a musician and actress at the Gorki Theater in Berlin, and she will share some of her musical work as well.

The event organizers invite attendees to participate in English and in German. The readings will be held in German.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:38:11 -0500 2023-03-10T14:00:00-05:00 2023-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Teal poster with white text containing information on the Colloquium Series
27th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (March 11, 2023 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/105257 105257-21811460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 11, 2023 9:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This event is OPEN to the public! All are welcome. Registration is NOT required.

The Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) is a conference organized by Graduate students in Complit.

This year’s theme is “INSURGENT RESEARCH: Practice and Theory,” and will spotlight research that aspire to function as *counter-counterinsurgency,* offering models for materially resisting and challenging capitalism, colonialism, militarism, racism, the destruction of the environment, mass incarceration, policing, and so forth.

Our panelists are graduate and undergraduate students, independent scholars and researchers, faculty, as well as activists from across the country and beyond.

We are excited to have Dr. Joy James as our keynote speaker for the 27th CLIFF. James is a scholar, author and activist, and the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Their academic work and public engagement address police and prison abolitionism, political imprisonment, radical feminism, and diasporic anti-Black racism.

Join us to learn about scholarship that takes the leap from theory to practice, from discourse to action, from critique to insurgency!

You can find an overview of our schedule below.

Friday, March 10th
Location: Haven Hall, Room 5670, 5th floor

10 am - 10:30 am. Breakfast

10:30 am - 10:45 am. Opening remarks by Frieda Ekotto

10:45 am - 12:15 pm. Panel 1: Counterinstitutional representations
Presenters:
Morinade Stevenson (Grad student, Emory University)
Abigail Cowan (Grad student, Pennsylvania State University)
Basmah Arshad (Grad student, University of Michigan)

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm. Lunch

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 2: Spain, Mexico and Pakistan: lessons from the international insurgent past
Presenters:
Bruno Renero-Hannan (Assistant Prof. of Anthropology, SUNY)
Peter Gelderloos (Movement participant and writer)
Shehryar Qazi (Undergrad student, Cornell University)

2:45 pm - 3 pm. Coffee Break

3 pm - 4:30 pm. Panel 3: Tech-tics and theories of insurgency and counterinsurgency
Presenters:
Mike (Activist)
Max Segal (Undergrad student, University of Pittsburgh)
Samriddhi Agrawal (Grad student, New York University)

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Book signing and reading with Joy James**
**Location: Third Mind Books**
Link to event: https://tinyurl.com/jjbooksigning


Saturday, March 11th
Location: Rackham Assembly Hall, 4th floor

9:30 - 10 am. Breakfast

**10 am - 11:15 am. Keynote address by Joy James**

11:15 am - 11:25 am. Coffee Break

11:25 am - 12:45 pm. Panel 4: Writing the revolution: theses and rhymes
Presenters:
Tom Nomad (Researcher, Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare)
Cheryl Emerson (PhD, SUNY at Buffalo)

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm. Lunch

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm. Panel 5: Part I Fugitive pedagogies: human and nonhuman bodies
Presenters:
Raechel Anne Jolie (Researcher, Cleveland Sex Workers Alliance)
Sue McRae (Grad student, University of North Texas)

2:45 pm - 2:55 pm. Coffee Break

2:55 pm - 4 pm. Panel 5: Part II
Fugitive pedagogies: practices from the Undercommons
Presenters:
Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos (Alumn, University of Michigan)
Parker Miles (Grad student, University of Michigan)

4 pm - 5 pm. Closing remarks and reception

**5:30 pm - 7 pm. Conversation with Joy James and local activists**
**Location: Bridge Community Café (Ypsilanti)**

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:38:11 -0500 2023-03-11T09:30:00-05:00 2023-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Comparative Literature Conference / Symposium Event Poster
Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture (2023) (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105259 105259-21811464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Professor Evelyn Alsultany will be delivering the Spring 2023 Betty Ch'Maj Lecture on her new book, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion", that was just published. Join us for this amazing talk and stay for the reception that will follow!

Evelyn Alsultany is an associate professor at the University of Southern California and is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in U.S. media.

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

Register to join remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-6qrDMiE9Uot_-WWsK0yzoR63QaP4tB

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:47:32 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Limits and Possibilities of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity (March 23, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106085 106085-21813696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 23, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)

Join us for a talk and Q&A with Dr. Lamont Hill on "The Limits and Possibilities of Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity.

The event will be livestreamed here: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa032323.html

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:30:53 -0400 2023-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2023-03-23T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
In this Holy Place: Ritual Healing Sites in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/106526 106526-21814407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Part of the Meet the Author Series. In the ancient Mediterranean world, the sick and injured visited sites associated with healing deities in order to be cured. In Palestine, ritual cures were often sought at sites associated with water, and especially at the thermal-mineral springs. This talk will show how evidence from Hammat Gader and Hammat Tiberias indicates that Jews and Christians bathed in these springs alongside devotees of Asclepius, hoping that a divine healer would appear to them in a dream and heal them. Join guest speaker Dr. Megan Nutzman April 3rd at 4:00-5:30pm in Tisch Hall, Room 1014.

Additionally, Dr. Nutzman will be leading a discussion about her book in a different location for a small group of faculty and graduate students at 9:00am. If you are interested please contact Deborah Forger at dkforger@umich.edu to register as space is limited.

*Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late antique Palestine*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:38:08 -0400 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
2023 Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 12, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97249 97249-21794229@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Presentation of the 2023 Hopwood Writing Awards with a lecture presentation by renowned graphic memoirist, Alison Bechdel. Books by Ms. Bechdel will be available for purchase and signing following the ceremony.

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Ceremony / Service Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:41:43 -0400 2023-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 2023-04-12T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service Alison Bechdel sits cross-legged in front of her cartoon art
MFA Faculty Flash Reading (September 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108985 108985-21820682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Come hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from distinguished MFA and English Department faculty members!

This year's readers will include: Karyna McGlynn, Kelly Hoffer, Linda Gregerson, Tung-Hui Hu, Kiley Reid, Aaron Coleman, Gabe Habash, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and more!

This event is free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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Performance Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:19:42 -0400 2023-09-07T17:30:00-04:00 2023-09-07T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Performance MFA Faculty Flash Reading
Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America by Ava Purkiss (September 28, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109486 109486-21822078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall 2239 & Zoom
Organized By: Sessions @ Michigan

*THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. AUDIENCE MAY ATTEND IN PERSON IN 2239 LANE HALL OR VIA ZOOM*

Panelists:
- Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor of American Culture & Women's and Gender Studies
- Jennifer Dominique Jones, Assistant Professor of History & Women's and Gender Studies 
- Megan Sweeney, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor, Departments of English, Afroamerican & African Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel approaches to the fight for full citizenship. In opposition to white-led efforts to restrict their freedom of movement, Black women used various exercises—calisthenics, gymnastics, athletics, and walking—to demonstrate their physical and moral fitness for citizenship. In the first historical study of Black women's exercise, Ava Purkiss reveals that physical activity was not merely a path to self-improvement but also a means to expand notions of Black citizenship. Through this narrative of national belonging, Purkiss explores how exercise enabled Black women to reimagine Black bodies, health, beauty, and recreation in the twentieth century. Fit Citizens places Black women squarely within the history of American physical fitness and sheds light on how African Americans gave new meaning to the concept of exercising citizenship.This event is part of IRWG’s Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights new books by our faculty.

This event will be presented in-person and include a raffle for in-person attendees to win a free copy of the book!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:35:20 -0400 2023-09-28T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T17:20:00-04:00 Lane Hall 2239 & Zoom Sessions @ Michigan Lecture / Discussion Book cover for Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women's Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America by Ava Purkiss
Promise That You Will Sing About Me: Craft Lessons That I’ve Learned From Hip-Hop Songs (October 6, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108980 108980-21820678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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 The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222)). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a public school teacher in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the *Sewanee Review* and *Granta.* He was also named a fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His debut short story collection was published by Scribner in August 2022.

Set in a Harlem high rise, *Stories from the Tenants Downstair*s is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it.

Like Gloria Naylor’s *The Women of Brewster Place* and Lin Manuel Miranda’s *In the Heights,* Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience.

Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend’s release from prison jeopardizes the life he’s been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe’s and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can’t seem to escape the building’s gravitational pull. We root for these characters and more as they weave in and out of each other’s lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and blaze new paths forward for themselves and the people they love.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@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 kimjulie@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 Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:27:33 -0400 2023-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Sidik Fofana
The Punctum & the Phosphorus, the Torque & the Haunt: In Search of The Poem (or Story) We Can't Shake Off - EVENT CANCELED (October 20, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108981 108981-21820679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED

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 The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

We will examine a selection of poems and other literary artworks (from the dead and the living), on the lookout for the ‘punctum’ and the ‘phosphorus’, the 'torque' and the 'haunt'—considering together the words, phrases, musical moves and formal choices that make the work viscerally felt and indelible, impossible to forget or shrug off.
The lenses and touchstones of our discussion will be the punctum vs. studium concept, formulated by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida, and the William Carlos Williams quote from In the American Grain:
It has been my wish to draw from every source one thing,
the strange phosphorus of the life. . .

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@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 kimjulie@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 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:35:46 -0400 2023-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion photo credit: Sven Wiederholt
Extraordinary Women in the Balkans: a lecture (October 24, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112879 112879-21829703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Elizabeth Gowing worked in primary education and in education policy in the UK before moving to Kosovo in 2006. She is co-founder of charitable NGO The Ideas Partnership which empowers and supports people in need in Kosovo in the fields of education, health and social welfare. She is also the owner of the Sapune social enterprise, offering employment to village and minority community women and support to the education of their children, and promoting Kosovo's traditional craft of filigree in eco-friendly products.
Elizabeth is the author of five travel books, of which four are about Kosovo and the Balkans. Her most recent book, written together with Robert Wilton, is No Man's Lands: 8 extraordinary women in Balkan history. Elizabeth also translates from Albanian.

Robert Wilton was Private Secretary to the UK Secretary of State for Defence, advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo in the period before the country's independence and head of an international human rights mission in Albania, and has lived and worked in the Balkans for most of the last fifteen years. He also writes on the history and culture of the region, and translates Albanian poetry. He's co-founder of The Ideas Partnership charity, working with marginalized Balkan communities.
The first of his Comptrollerate-General literary historical thrillers won the inaugural Historical Writers Association/Goldsboro Crown for best debut novel. There have been four in the series, all critically-acclaimed. His Gentleman Adventurer novels are a series of historical entertainments exploring the seedier aspects of espionage and mystery in the years before the First World War.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:06:49 -0400 2023-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality by Erin A. Cech - Book Panel (October 25, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108819 108819-21820435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Probing the ominous side of career advice to "follow your passion," this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and race; and it suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work.

Grounding her investigation in the paradoxical tensions between capitalism's demand for ideal workers and our cultural expectations for self-expression, sociologist Erin A. Cech draws on interviews that follow students from college into the workforce, surveys of US workers, and experimental data to explain why the passion principle is such an attractive, if deceptive, career decision-making mantra, particularly for the college educated.

This event is part of IRWG’s Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights new books by our faculty. This event will be presented in-person and include a raffle for in-person attendees to win a free copy of the book!

If you plan to join via Zoom, please register: https://myumi.ch/Gkrbb

Panelists:
*Erin Cech*, Associate Professor, Departments of Sociology and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), University of Michigan

*Megan Killian*, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan

*Harmony Reppond*, Associate Professor of Social Psychology, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:28:15 -0400 2023-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T17:20:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion The left of the image includes the UM IRWG logo and says "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality by Erin A. Cech, October 25, 2023, 4:00 - 5:30 PM ET, 2239 Lane Hall and Zoom". The right side of the image contains the book cover with text "The Trouble with Passion" and a black-and-white sandglass with a shattered heart in the upper chamber and a money symbol in the lower chamber against a blue background.
Contexts for Classics Work in Progress Series (November 17, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114849 114849-21833693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Contexts for Classics Work in Progress Series
Workshop presentation and discussion

THE EVA ARCHIVES
Artemis Leontis: “The Divided, Long-Hidden Papers of Eva Palmer Sikelianos”
Eleni Sikelianos: “Delphic Ancestral”

Artemis Leontis is the Cavafy Chair of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Michigan. She will reflect on ongoing archival work related to her book, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins (2019).

Eleni Sikelianos is a poet and writer of hybrid forms who teaches Literary Arts at Brown University. She will read and discuss a script about her great-grandmother Eva, who directed performances of Greek tragedy in 1927 and 1930 at Delphi in Greece.

This workshop is free and open to the public, co-sponsored by Contexts for Classics, the Modern Greek Program, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:57:57 -0500 2023-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T13:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Event Poster
Reading and Q&A with Christina Sharpe (January 11, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108963 108963-21820655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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 are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg.

Sharpe is the author of *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects* (Duke 2010) and *In the Wake: On Blackness and Being* (Duke 2016).* In the Wake* was named by the *Guardian* and *The Walrus* as one of the best books of 2016 and was a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Her third book *Ordinary Notes* was published in April 2023 by Knopf (Canada), FSG (USA), and Daunt (UK).

“The abacus of her eyelids,” her critical introduction to *Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand* was published in August 2022. She is currently working on three books: *Black. Still. Life.* (Duke 2025), *What Could a Vessel Be?* (FSG/Knopf 2025), and *To Have Been to the End of the World: 25 Essays on Art.*

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure 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 kimjulie@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 Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:00:19 -0500 2024-01-11T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-11T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Christina Sharpe
Reading and Q&A with Karen Solie (January 25, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108964 108964-21820656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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 are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Karen Solie was born in Moose Jaw and grew up in rural southwest Saskatchewan, Canada. After working as a reporter for three years for *The Lethbridge Herald*, she earned an MA in English at the University of Victoria. She is the author of five collections of poetry. *Short Haul Engine* (Brick Books, 2001) won the Dorothy Livesay Award, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. *Modern and Normal *(Brick Books, 2005) was shortlisted for the Trillium Poetry Prize. *Pigeon* (Anansi, 2009) won the Trillium Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. *The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out* (Anansi, FSG, 2014) was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. *The Caiplie Caves* (Anansi, Picador, 2019; FSG, 2020) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize. *The Living Option*, a volume of selected poems published in the UK by Bloodaxe Books in 2013, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Karen's poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Europe, and Australia and translated into eight languages. She is the recipient of the Latner Poetry Prize, the Canada Council Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for an artist in mid-career, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has taught for writing programs and universities across Canada and in the UK, was the 2021 Jack McClelland Writer in Residence for Massey College at the University of Toronto, and the 2022 Holloway Visiting Poet for the University of California at Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer in creative writing with the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure 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 kimjulie@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 Jul 2023 11:40:08 -0400 2024-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 2024-01-25T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Karen Solie
Reading and Q&A with Halle Butler (February 1, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108965 108965-21820657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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 are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure 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 kimjulie@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 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:22:06 -0400 2024-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 2024-02-01T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Halle Butler
Craft Lecture with Fiction Author Halle Butler (February 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109762 109762-21822791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): http://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters23

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 The Robert Hayden Conference Room, Angell Hall #3222). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot. Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.

Halle Butler is a writer living in Chicago. She has co-written screenplays, including *Neighborhood Food Drive *(2017). Her first novel, *Jillian*, was called the “feel-bad book of the year” by the *Chicago Tribune*. She was recently included in *Granta's* 2017 list of Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel,* The New Me*, is forthcoming from Penguin Books.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@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 kimjulie@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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Presentation Thu, 03 Aug 2023 16:24:04 -0400 2024-02-02T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Halle Butler