Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. SAANference 2023: Beyond Borders (February 10, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104176 104176-21808559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 10, 2023 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The South Asian Awareness Network is proud to present our annual social justice conference Beyond Borders: Confronting Division and Forging Unity. Our theme this year aims to empower our attendees to confront oppressive borders as they exist socially and politically, cultivating meaningful solidarity in the South Asian diaspora and beyond.

This year, our keynote address will take place on February 10th at 6:30pm. Refreshments will be served. The next day on February 11th at 12:00pm, registration and lunch buffet will begin in Angell Hall Auditorium C + D. At registration, you will be assigned to one of two tracks, each with three workshops. If you are one of the first 100 attendees to show up at registration, you will receive a free tote bag as well as preference for which track you would like to be assigned to. Later that night, we will be hosting a formal where you can show up in your South Asian cultural attire for refreshments, music, and lots of dancing!

Follow us on Instagram (@um_saan) as we count down until conference! Please reach out to saan@umich.edu with any questions.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:25:29 -0500 2023-02-10T18:30:00-05:00 2023-02-10T21:00:00-05:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium SAANference 2023 flyer
SAANference 2023: Beyond Borders (February 11, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104176 104176-21808560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 11, 2023 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

The South Asian Awareness Network is proud to present our annual social justice conference Beyond Borders: Confronting Division and Forging Unity. Our theme this year aims to empower our attendees to confront oppressive borders as they exist socially and politically, cultivating meaningful solidarity in the South Asian diaspora and beyond.

This year, our keynote address will take place on February 10th at 6:30pm. Refreshments will be served. The next day on February 11th at 12:00pm, registration and lunch buffet will begin in Angell Hall Auditorium C + D. At registration, you will be assigned to one of two tracks, each with three workshops. If you are one of the first 100 attendees to show up at registration, you will receive a free tote bag as well as preference for which track you would like to be assigned to. Later that night, we will be hosting a formal where you can show up in your South Asian cultural attire for refreshments, music, and lots of dancing!

Follow us on Instagram (@um_saan) as we count down until conference! Please reach out to saan@umich.edu with any questions.

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:25:29 -0500 2023-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2023-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Conference / Symposium SAANference 2023 flyer
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
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
Kurdish Women's Prison Writings Crossing Borders: Translation As Feminist Solidarity (March 15, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104615 104615-21809730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics is a one-of-a-kind collection of prison writings from twenty-two Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political grounds. In the book, the authors reflect on their personal and collective struggles against heteropatriarchal and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey, as well as the radical feminist principles and practices through which they transformed the political structures and state offices in which they operated. Demonstrating Kurdish women's ceaseless political determination and refusal to be silenced - even when behind bars - the book ultimately hopes to inspire women living under even the most unjust conditions to engage in collective resistance.

The English translation of The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics, published in November 2022, was collectively undertaken by a group of twenty-six volunteer translators. So very much like the original text, the translation itself has been a product of feminist solidarity. In this panel, five members of the translation team get together to discuss the book and its English translation as part of the larger Kurdish women's movement.

Register to receive the Zoom link: https://myumi.ch/8e4dg
*This event takes place at 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST)*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:41:46 -0500 2023-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2023-03-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion The book cover for "THE PURPLE COLOR OF KURDISH POLITICS; Women Politicians Write from Prison; Edited by Gultan Kisanak; TRANSLATION COORDINATED BY RUKEN ISIK, EMEK ERGUN AND JANET BIEHL" is displayed in the center of the image. The bottom of the image reads "Kurdish Women's Prison Writings Crossing Borders: Translation As Feminist Solidarity".
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
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
Hopwood Banned Books Tea (October 5, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112064 112064-21828392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome to join us for coffee, tea, and light refreshments as we celebrate and defend the reading of banned and challenged books.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:26:50 -0400 2023-10-05T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Flyer with image of caution tape over bookshelves
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 Ross Gay (December 7, 2023 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/108961 108961-21820653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 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.

Ross Gay is interested in joy.

Ross Gay wants to understand joy.

Ross Gay is curious about joy.

Ross Gay studies joy.

Something like that.
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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: *Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding*, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and *Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude*, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays, *The Book of Delights*, was released in 2019 and was a *New York Times *bestseller. His new collection of essays, *Inciting Joy*, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022.

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 12:31:05 -0400 2023-12-07T17:30:00-05:00 2023-12-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ross Gay
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
Absinthe 29: Translating Jewish Multilingualism (January 26, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116802 116802-21838015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 26, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The 29th Volume of Absinthe - a literary journal published by UM Comparative Literature - titled "Translating Jewish Multilingualism," contains translations of literary works written by Jewish authors in 7 languages. It was edited by Maya Barzilai and Marina Mayorski, and contains translations by Frankel faculty and students (Devi Mays, Ruth Tsoffar, Denisa Glacova). This event will feature readings by authors and translators including Jessica Kirzane, Rita Kogan, Denisa Glacova, Yardenne Greenspan, and Nesi Altaras.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Jan 2024 15:21:39 -0500 2024-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2024-01-26T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Absinthe 29 Event Flyer
Hopwood Celebration Tea and English Faculty Reading (February 1, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118220 118220-21840666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 1, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Join us to hear four English Department faculty (two poets, one fiction writer, and one creative nonfiction writer) read from their latest work. Coffee, tea, and light refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:05:46 -0500 2024-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2024-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Social / Informal Gathering Flyer with teacup
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