Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
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