Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The 26th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) (May 20, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/94977 94977-21788177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 20, 2022 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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

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


CLIFF 2022 Schedule

May 20, Friday

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

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


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

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


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


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

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


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





May 21, Saturday

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

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


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

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


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


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

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


15: 30 - 16:45 EST Keynote Lecture

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



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

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

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

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

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

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


CLIFF 2022 Schedule

May 20, Friday

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

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


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

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


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


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

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


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





May 21, Saturday

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

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


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

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


12:45 - 14 EST Lunch


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

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


15: 30 - 16:45 EST Keynote Lecture

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Meeting ID: 954 2292 3438
Passcode: 832247

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2022-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2022-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (October 28, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100813 100813-21800383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 28, 2022 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:

NOVEMBER 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!

December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.

For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library

Register here for the December 7 Panel (whether you are attending in person or virtually): https://forms.gle/zs4tpJXNWYv5zGUY9

December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/

Register here for the December 8 Game Night: https://forms.gle/1ZqBXMvMs3Ke98LH7

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Recreational / Games Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:40 -0500 2022-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2022-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Comparative Literature Recreational / Games Event Poster
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (October 31, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 31, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2022-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Race and Racism, Comparatively: A Fall 2022 Series (November 1, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96941 96941-21793602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

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

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

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

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


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

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0400 2022-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Workshop / Seminar Poster of the events.
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (November 2, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798761@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-11-02T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-02T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (November 4, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 4, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-11-04T16:00:00-04:00 2022-11-04T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series, Fall 2022 (November 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99824 99824-21798763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Classical Studies

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. The Jerome Lectures are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. Scheduled for Fall 2022, in the forty-ninth year of the lecture series, Amy Richlin, Distinguished Research Professor of Classics at UCLA will be delivering four lectures on the theme of "Dirty Words: The Selective Survival of Latin Erotica."

Amy Richlin works on Roman society and culture, especially women’s history, Roman comedy and satire, and the history of sexuality. Her most recent book, Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy, won the Goodwin Award from the Society for Classical Studies. Her Jerome Lectures spring from her career-long fascination with the simultaneous radical difference and deep continuities between ancient and modern sex/gender systems.

All lectures will take place in a hybrid format at 4:00 PM. In person: on the 2nd Floor of the Michigan League. Virtually: live-streamed via LSA ITS


- Monday, October 31st - How Pederasty Got Lost

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa103122.html

Summary: after a brief history of how the history of ancient sexuality started to be written in the 1970s, this lecture presents an overview of pederastic texts in classical Latin and the co-implication of Roman pederasty with slavery. This continues into “retrosexuality” as writers in the 100s CE produce poetry that is explicitly grounded in earlier poetry. Then three main questions: how did this discourse survive the transformation of Western Europe into Christendom? What does this discourse tell about the transformation of the ancient sex/gender system? Why is it important to us?

Further reading: Boswell, John. 1980. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


- Wednesday, November 2nd - Sidonius Apollinaris in Visigothic Gaul: Love Among the Ruins

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110222.html

Summary: this lecture focuses on a great transitional figure of the 400s CE. A super-rich aristocrat who lived in an enormous villa in southern Gaul, Sidonius survived the Visigothic takeover and became bishop of Clermont. In his voluminous poems and letters he attests to his fear that traditional Latin literature will disappear, producing an account in which pederastic love is visible as an erasure – although Sidonius does turn a queer eye on the Visigoth Theodoric.

Further reading: Kelly, Gavin, and Joop van Waarden, eds. 2020. The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.


- Friday, November 4th - Jerome’s Captive Slave-Woman and the Latin Canon

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110422.html

Summary: one of the main reasons classical Latin survived is that Church fathers like St. Jerome could not bear to abandon the curriculum they were trained in. But in the Middle Ages Jerome’s reading list meant different things to the monks that copied texts over and to those who set Church policy on sexual behavior. Now pederasty was a sin, although the heaviest blame fell, surprisingly, on the youngest boys. Yet the 1100s saw the rise of several monkish poets who wrote pederastic poetry. After a late-medieval backlash, the Italian Renaissance found teachers editing even the Carmina Priapea as a project with their students.

Further reading: Elliott, Dyan. 2020. The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Gaisser, Julia Haig. 1993. Catullus and his Renaissance Readers. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Karras, Ruth Mazo. 2006. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. New York: Routledge.


- Monday, November 7th - Curriculum Reform and Expurgation in the 1700s and 1800s

Livestream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/lsa110722.html

Summary: grammar schools in the 1600s, following the tradition stretching back to Jerome, taught mainly Greek and Latin, including satire (often unexpurgated). An editor of the X-rated Greek pederastic poet Strato in 1764 claims that all students have access to Catullus, Martial, Petronius, and the Priapea. Yet this aspect of education troubled the puritanical, who not unreasonably asked why Christian schools should be teaching about sins and gods. A survey of schoolbooks and curricula shows that conflicting systems continued to coexist. Today we are more likely to teach Catullus and Petronius to undergraduates than the Victorians were; should we teach them whole?

Further reading: Watson, Foster. 1908. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:38:57 -0400 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion cover image, Saint Jerome in a Woman's Dress
Peter Gelderloos and StopCampGrayling on Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (November 7, 2022 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100819 100819-21800388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 7, 2022 5:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Global warming, climate change, the ecological crisis. Tipping points, extinction events. Conservation, green fascism. Carbon footprint, carbon offsets, carbon capture, neocolonialism. How we talk about the disaster is strongly related to how we respond to it, and how we understand it. Is it a countdown to an impending future event, a danger we are beginning to see the early signs of, or a catastrophe that has been ongoing for at least 500 years? The answer to these questions, and the language we use to pose the questions, can determine whether we consider a proposed response to the problem as compelling or completely absurd, whether a delusional half-measure or an exaggerated non-sequitur. The fact that, faced with the same problem, people lack a common language and reach such polarized viewpoints, has become a structural part of the problem itself.

Peter Gelderloos, author of The Solutions Are Already Here, will discuss how centrist approaches like conservation and carbon capture, and even approaches considered progressive like the Green New Deal, are responses to the needs of the current political and economic system rather than responses to the actual crisis that is unfolding. Moreover, there is strong evidence that our current system of government and capitalism is inherently and integrally ecocidal, that under any political program it would lead to broadly similar results as regards the ability of our planet to support life. As a result, standard approaches to dealing with the disaster will ignore or suppress the kinds of movements and solutions that are our greatest hope. This event will tie this analysis with exactly these kinds of movements, groups that offer a strategic horizon for facing our intersecting and most pressing challenges.

Peter will be joined by local activists from StopCampGrayling, a new initiative campaigning against the proposal to grant 162,000 acres of public lands, water, and forests to Michigan’s National Guard, a proposal threatening to destroy precious habitats, poison water sources, and increase militarization, all while expanding the army base at Grayling to twice the size of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:37:36 -0400 2022-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 2022-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
1922-2022: A Century of Border Making and Refugeehood (November 9, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100809 100809-21800376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for a virtual webinar-roundtable discussion on the special issue of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (JMGS):

1922-2022: A Century of Border Making and Refugeehood

with JMGS co-editor Johanna Hanink (Brown University)
JMGS guest editors Kristina Gedgaudaitė (University of Amsterdam)
and Will Stroebel (University of Michigan)

authors: Kalliopi Amygdalou, Emine Çiğdem Asrav, Aslı Iğsız, Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, Graham Liddell, Evi Papada, Erol Saglam, Ioannis Tsekouras, Lina Venturas

and facilitator and MGSA Vice President Artemis Leontis (University of Michigan)

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RaP9tRaAT--SQG_abQkReg

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:18:17 -0400 2022-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2022-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Livestream / Virtual Event Poster
Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (November 11, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100813 100813-21800380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 11, 2022 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:

NOVEMBER 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!

December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.

For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library

Register here for the December 7 Panel (whether you are attending in person or virtually): https://forms.gle/zs4tpJXNWYv5zGUY9

December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/

Register here for the December 8 Game Night: https://forms.gle/1ZqBXMvMs3Ke98LH7

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Recreational / Games Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:40 -0500 2022-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 Comparative Literature Recreational / Games Event Poster
Comp Lit Colloquium (November 18, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96264 96264-21792192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 18, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2022-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 2022-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (December 7, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100813 100813-21800381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:

NOVEMBER 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!

December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.

For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library

Register here for the December 7 Panel (whether you are attending in person or virtually): https://forms.gle/zs4tpJXNWYv5zGUY9

December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/

Register here for the December 8 Game Night: https://forms.gle/1ZqBXMvMs3Ke98LH7

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Recreational / Games Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:40 -0500 2022-12-07T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-07T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Recreational / Games Event Poster
Building Translation Networks in the Midwest with HathiTrust (December 8, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/100813 100813-21800382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 8, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us for our Fall 2022 Hybrid Events:

NOVEMBER 11
2:00-3:00 PM
Language Resource Center, 1500 North Quad
Game Drop! Learn to play the educational game Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition that fosters discovery of fun finds across languages in the digital library. The first hour (2-3 PM) members of the development team will introduce the game to players in person at the LRC and online and they will stay until 5PM to answer questions and cheer you on! There will be snacks and drinks and opportunities to meet other players and form teams to compete in the Multilingual Midwest Challenge! Rules of the challenge will be announced at the Game Drop and prizes will be awarded on Dec. 8, Game Night!

December 7
4:00-5:30 PM & 6:30-8 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Invited speakers Carolyn Shread, Nathan Langston, Christopher Warren and Rini Bhattacharya Mehta will discuss their own experiences working on projects of translation and/or digital networks in the arts and humanities (such as Telephone Game and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon), as the Translation Networks team members consider possibilities for future development.

For more information on the December 7 Panel, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-7-2022-gaming-multilingual-works-in-the-digital-library

Register here for the December 7 Panel (whether you are attending in person or virtually): https://forms.gle/zs4tpJXNWYv5zGUY9

December 8
4:00-5:30 PM
Space 2435, North Quad
Game Night with South Asian Studies faculty! Prizes awarded for the Multilingual Midwest Challenge!

For more information on the December 8 Game Night, see the Translation Networks page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/translationnetworks/december-8-2022-game-night-amp-multilingual-midwest-challenge/

Register here for the December 8 Game Night: https://forms.gle/1ZqBXMvMs3Ke98LH7

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Recreational / Games Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:38:40 -0500 2022-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 2022-12-08T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Recreational / Games Event Poster
Absinthe 28 Publication Launch and Reading (December 9, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/101897 101897-21802813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 9, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Absinthe: World Literature in Translation is proud to announce the upcoming release of its 28th issue, Orphaned of Light: Translating Arab and Arabophone Migration (Fall 2022).

The issue is co-sponsored by the U-M Department of Middle East Studies and will be officially released at the University of Michigan on December 9, 2022 at an event featuring readings by contributors.

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Presentation Tue, 06 Dec 2022 14:22:52 -0500 2022-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 2022-12-09T15:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Comparative Literature Presentation Absinthe 28 cover
Comp Lit Colloquium (January 27, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96264 96264-21792193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 27, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2023-01-27T14:00:00-05:00 2023-01-27T15:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Comp Lit Colloquium (February 17, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96264 96264-21792194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 17, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2023-02-17T14:00:00-05:00 2023-02-17T15:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Ann Arbor's First Orthodox Priest (February 20, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104727 104727-21810022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 20, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Classical Studies

Who was the first Orthodox Priest of Ann Arbor, and what can we learn from his life story today? This talk will follow the twists and turns in the life of Father Agathangelos, the first Greek-Orthodox priest to serve the spiritual needs of Ann Arbor nearly a century ago, and reflect on its broader meanings for Greek Orthodoxy in America.

Father Agathangelos was born and raised in Ottoman Cappadocia (central Anatolia) at the end of the nineteenth century, but his life was upended with the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923 (whose centennial we honor this year). The Exchange was at the time an unprecedented act of ethnic cleansing: The Republic of Turkey stripped nearly one and a half million indigenous Anatolian Christians of their citizenship and uprooted them to Greece, which in turn stripped Greek citizenship from nearly half a million indigenous Muslims of Greece and uprooted them to Turkey. This Compulsory Exchange upended the lives of nearly two million souls and set an international precedent for partition and forced population movements in later decades.

This talk will follow the refugee life and migrations of Father Agathangelos -- who, in addition to being a priest, was also a poet, a novelist, and an iconographer -- through his artwork and the traces he left behind. His first and only fluent language was Turkish, which he wrote in the Greek alphabet, known as "Karamanlidika Turkish." His poetry and his art reflect the rich cultural confluence of Anatolia before the Exchange, and it was this culture that he carried with him into refugeehood and his later migration to the United States. What can his life tell us about the enumenical breadth and cultural riches of Greek Orthodoxy in America? You are all warmly invited to join in this lecture and to share your own perspectives in an open-forum Q&A afterward.

William Stroebel is an Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature in the departments of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on recovering the refugee literatures displaced by the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923. The lecture will be accompanied with refreshments and a reception after the Q&A.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:57:31 -0500 2023-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2023-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion St. Nicholas Icon
Blackness in Translation (February 22, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104446 104446-21809064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In this virtual panel and discussion, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez (Michigan State University) and Ryan James Kernan (Rutgers University) will share their groundbreaking research on the literary and cultural translation of Blackness before engaging in a discussion moderated by Aaron Coleman, U-M’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies.
Dr. Figueroa-Vásquez’s and Dr. Kernan’s transnational and Afrodiasporic scholarship transforms our understanding of Blackness at regional, national, and international scales. Their reframing of Afrolatinx and Black USAmerican literature and culture shines new light on the international and Afrodiasporic dimensions of poets like the U.S. Midwest’s Langston Hughes while envisioning new modes of Afrodiasporic community through digital and archival innovation.

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4e4ivczuQE-mB5VOEw-wnw

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:28:26 -0500 2023-02-22T16:30:00-05:00 2023-02-22T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
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
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
A Storm Was Coming (March 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105367 105367-21811615@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This is a two-part event:

A Storm was Coming:
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Monday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
at Palmer Commons Forum Hall

Workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MLB Commons, 4th Floor

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Film Screening Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:39:14 -0500 2023-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening A Storm Was Coming Poster
A Storm Was Coming (March 14, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105367 105367-21811616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This is a two-part event:

A Storm was Coming:
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Monday, March 13, 2023 | 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
at Palmer Commons Forum Hall

Workshop with Director Javier Fernández Vázquez
Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
MLB Commons, 4th Floor

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Film Screening Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:39:14 -0500 2023-03-14T13:00:00-04:00 2023-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening A Storm Was Coming Poster
Ada's Room: Realms in Translation (March 31, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/105879 105879-21813191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

*Please note--Location change as of March 29*

Sharon Dodua Otoo is a bestselling author, activist, curator, and publicist. Her debut German-language short story, Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin [Herr Gröttrup Sits Down] was awarded the 2016 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the highest accolade for German-language short fiction. Born in London, England, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, Otoo has lived and worked most of her adult life in Germany. Although Otoo publishes extensively in both English and German, her recent work, including her first novel, the 2021 Adas Raum [Ada’s Room], were written in German. Merging Afrofuturism with German Realism and highlighting the inheritance of radical Black transnational feminist thought in contemporary Berlin-based activism, Otoo has quickly developed a reputation as one of the most exciting and influential voices in Germany today.

As a special session of its Colloquium Series, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures is excited to welcome Sharon Dodua Otoo to celebrate the English-language publication of Ada’s Room in conversation with her translator, Dr. Jon Cho-Polizzi, 2022 LSA Collegiate Fellow and Assistant Professor of German.

Please pre-register for this event using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLSegojPbh-DxawTvxVIvdspsG1npr7CFUnQ5ap21cguxw4pLGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

This event has been made possible with generous co-sponsorship from the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of English, and the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Alamanya: Transnational German Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:47:14 -0400 2023-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion (c) Ralf Steinberger
Comp Lit Colloquium (March 31, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96264 96264-21792195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 31, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2023-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 2023-03-31T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
The Right to not Gestate (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107220 107220-21815636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This week, we will be hosting Sophie Lewis for a workshop (on Thursday) and a lecture (on Friday).

Thursday, April 6 Workshop: 4PM will be held at Canterbury House (721 E Huron St)

**LOCATION CHANGE**
Friday, April 7 Lecture: 5PM at the Wesley Foundation | 602 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI (entry at the tower door on the corner of State and Huron)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:55:10 -0400 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Poster
Critical Conversations: Intimacies (April 7, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/103948 103948-21808143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

We see these sessions as an important hub for rigorous and collaborative thinking, giving our Michigan community the chance to share and learn about each other's work on a monthly basis. Now more than ever, our community is in need of the encouragement and inspiration we find in one another’s work, and we see Critical Conversations as a crucial opportunity to connect with colleagues and ideas in our disconnected circumstances. We hope you will join us in Winter 2023!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:05:49 -0500 2023-04-07T11:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion graphic images of two figures facing away from one another
The Right to not Gestate (April 7, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107220 107220-21815637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 7, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

This week, we will be hosting Sophie Lewis for a workshop (on Thursday) and a lecture (on Friday).

Thursday, April 6 Workshop: 4PM will be held at Canterbury House (721 E Huron St)

**LOCATION CHANGE**
Friday, April 7 Lecture: 5PM at the Wesley Foundation | 602 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI (entry at the tower door on the corner of State and Huron)

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 07 Apr 2023 10:55:10 -0400 2023-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Romance Languages & Literatures Workshop / Seminar Poster
Italian Film Festival USA - Metro Detroit (April 8, 2023 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107031 107031-21815173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 8, 2023 5:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

@ 5:00 PM : Nevia by Nunzia de Stefano (2019)
Nevia is seventeen-too old to live where she does, and grown up before she's even had the chance to be a child. Tiny and naive, but stubborn, she and her younger sister Enza are being raised by their grandmother Nanà and aunt Lucia in a container park in Ponticelli.
Cast: Virginia Apicella, Pietra Montecorvino, Rosi Franzese, Pietro Ragusa, Franca Abategiovanni, Simone Borelli, Lola Bello, Gianfranco Gallo.
Awards: Lizzani Award (Nunzia De Stefano): Venice Film Festival; Best Breakthrough Actress (Virginia Apicella): Golden Globes, Italy; Nominated Best Film: Venice Film Festival; Best New Director (Nunzia De Stefano): Nastro d'argento.
More info here: https://italianfilmfests.org/nevia.html

@ 7:30 PM: L'immensità by Emanuele Crialese (2022)
Rome, 1970s: Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage is over: they don't love each other anymore, but they can't let go. It is the children who keep them together, on whom Clara pours all her desire for freedom. Adriana, the eldest, has just turned 12 and is the most attentive witness of Clara's moods and the growing tensions between her parents. Adriana rejects her name, her identity, and wants to convince everyone that she is a boy. Her obstinacy of hers brings the already fragile family balance to breaking point. While the children wait for a sign to guide them, whether it's a voice from above or a song on TV, everything around and inside them changes.
Cast: Penelope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni, Maria Chiara Goretti, Penelope Nieto Conti, Alvia Reale, India Santella, Mariangela Granelli, Valentina Cenni, Elena Arvigo, Carlo Gallo, Laura Nardi, Rita De Donato, Filippo Pucillo, Aurora Quattrocchi.
Awards: Nominated Best Film, Queer Lion (Emanuele Crialese): Venice Film Festival.
More info here: https://italianfilmfests.org/immensita.html

*Free and open to the public*
For more info: detroit@italianfilmfests.org
Web: http://italianfilmfests.org/detroit.html
Event sponsored by Michigan Arts&Culture Council; Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM) | U-M LSA; Romance Languages and Literatures | U-M LSA; LGBT+ History Month Italia

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Film Screening Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:05:23 -0400 2023-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2023-04-08T22:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Romance Languages & Literatures Film Screening "Crialese narrates the desire to be authentic." - IL GIORNALE
Comp Lit Colloquium (April 21, 2023 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/96264 96264-21792196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 21, 2023 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Details available on the CL events calendar

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:26:09 -0400 2023-04-21T14:00:00-04:00 2023-04-21T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Hamtramck Harmony: A Multilingual Poetry Reading (April 30, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107426 107426-21816004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 30, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Please join us on Sunday, April 30th, at the bookstore co-op Book Suey, for the last Mellon Sawyer Seminar event of the year, Hamtramck Harmony: A Multilingual Poetry Reading!

Featuring music and readings in: Arabic, Bangla, English, Macedonian, Hmong, Polish, Shona and Ndebele, Ukrainian, Dutch.

Reception catered by local restaurants will follow the readings.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hamtramck-harmony-tickets-613413084047

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:59:40 -0400 2023-04-30T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-30T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Event Poster