Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. This is What I live For: Italian Rapper Amir Issaa Book Launch (February 12, 2024 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117672 117672-21839823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 12, 2024 2:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

Born and raised in Rome, in the neighborhood of Torpignattara, Amir is the son of an Egyptian immigrant father and an Italian mother. He initially approached hip-hop culture in the 1990s, first as a b-boy/breaker, and then as a writer for Roma’s graffiti crew The Riot Vandals. He is among the founders of the legendary Rome Zoo, a group made of Rome’s rap artists such as Colle Der Fomento, Cor Veleno, Flaminio Maphia, Piotta, and many more.

In June 2017, Amir published his first book, *Vivo per questo* (Chiarelettere). An autobiographical novel that has been well-received by Italian literary critics and was praised by Internazionale as one of the best books for young adults in 2017. Now in English translation, Amir will be presenting his book at the University of Michigan. *The English translation is the culmination of a multi-year project undertaken by multiple advanced Italian classes across the US. *

A *free* live performance by Amir will follow the book launch at Wayne State University. For more information see here.

For those interested, there will also be a Zoom workshop hosted by WSU in the morning from 10:30AM -12:10 PM. Please email Giulia Riccò (gricco@umich.edu) for more information.

This event is co-sponsored by: The Consulate of Italy in Detroit, Wayne State University, Michigan State University, and the Language Resource Center at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2024 09:58:12 -0500 2024-02-12T14:30:00-05:00 2024-02-12T15:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Amir Issaa Book Launch Poster
RLL Martin Luther King Jr Annual Lecture: Spain, Race, and the Third Reich: On Carlos Greykey (February 20, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115428 115428-21834660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

In 1941, José Carlos Grey Molay (also known as Carlos Greykey) was one of 4,578 Spaniards who entered Mauthausen, a Nazi work camp in Upper Austria that would come to be known as el campo de los españoles. The Nazis were astounded to encounter Grey Molay amidst the "red Spaniards" who were exiled from Spain. An Afro-Catalan man of Guinean parentage, Grey Molay's presence in the camp, along with representations of him in cultural productions, evince a unique embodiment of contemporary European histories of colonialism, fascism and anti-fascist resistance, and racism. This talk theorizes representations of these intertwined memories with a singular focus on Grey Molay. Indeed, in Multidirectional Memory, Michael Rothberg writes that “there is no shortage of cross-referencing between the legacies of the Holocaust and colonialism, but many of those moments of contact occur in marginalized texts or in marginal moments of well-known texts.” Through readings of references to Grey Molay in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, this paper observes the ways in which Grey-Molay’s story appears in the “marginal moments” of more well-known life narratives by fellow Mauthausen survivors. By centering Grey-Molay’s experience — even as it is filtered through the lens of his white compatriots — this analysis answers Rothberg’s call to constitute the archive “with the help of the change in vision made possible by a new kind of comparative thinking.”

Professor Michelle Murray's research and teaching focus on contemporary Spanish literature and film. Her first book Home Away from Home Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture (UNC Press for North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, 2018) studies representations of immigrant women as domestic workers in contemporary Spain. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Migrant Markets; this book explores migration, political economy, and trafficking in the Southern Mediterranean.

This talk is co-sponsored by: the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, the Department of African and African American Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Program in International Comparative Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:59:31 -0500 2024-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2024-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Poster
2024 Hopwood Awards Ceremony (April 17, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112061 112061-21828388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

All are welcome to celebrate the winners and finalists of the 2024 Hopwood Awards. Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director Kemp Powers will deliver the 2024 Hopwood Lecture.

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Ceremony / Service Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:52:19 -0400 2024-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Ceremony / Service African American screenwriter and director Kemp Powers in a brown shirt
An Evening with Kemp Powers (April 18, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111971 111971-21828077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, playwright, producer and director Kemp Powers will discuss and show clips from his work including One Night in Miami, Soul, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Jim Burnstein, Director of the University of Michigan's Screenwriting Program, will moderate.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:48:50 -0400 2024-04-18T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-18T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion African American screenwriter and playwright Kemp Powers in a brown shirt