"Virility and Arms: Male Individualism in the Last Round of Israeli-Palestinian Bloodshed"
04/08/2008;
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Journalist Amira Hass will present the 2008 Motorola Lecture at the University of Michigan on Tues., April 8. Entitled "Virility and Arms: Male Individualism in the Last Round of Israeli-Palestinian Bloodshed", the lecture, sponsored by the Women's Studies Department and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall, 915 E. Washington Street, Ann Arbor.
Hass, an award winning author and writer for the daily Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, is the only Israeli Jewish correspondent who lives full time in the West Bank. Deeply knowledgeable about issues of human rights and the current Palestinian situation, she has become one of the leading critics of Israeli policy. Her reporting of events and voicing of opinions that run counter to both official Israeli and Palestinian positions has exposed Hass to verbal attacks and opposition from authorities on both sides of the conflict.
In her relentless quest for truth and justice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hass is the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero Award from the International Press Institute, the Bruno Kriesky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO /Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, and the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund. Hass has published two books, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege and Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land.
CLIFF Film Series 2008
02/08/2008;
6:00PM to 8:00PM
In anticipation of the 12th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum (CLIFF) on "Revenge" this March 29-30, please join us Fridays this winter for showings of your favorite (or should I say our favorite) revenge movies.
The first installment of this mini-film series will take place this Friday, February 8th at 6pm in the MLB Lecture Rm 2. Come see the eighties classic
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Starring Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards
Directed by Jeff Kanew
Discussion to follow, location to be decided by those interested. Then, slake your thirst for revenge again
February 15th: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). Watch Alec Guinness get killed eight times.
March 7th: Unforgiven (1992). Clint Eastwood deconstructs the Old West.
March 14th: The Nightingale's Prayer (1959). A poor servant takes vengeance on her lusty bachelor master in this Egyptian classic.
All of which will no doubt compel you to hear the intriguing panels on various aspects of revenge and its representation in literature, film, history and public space at the conference at the end of March, as well as the keynote address by Michigan Law Professor William Ian Miller. Look for more details about this year's CLIFF soon.
Comparative Literature's Holiday Reception
12/06/2007;
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Celebrate the end of Fall semester and the beginning of the Holiday Season.
GELS: Nicholas Dirks
11/08/2007;
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology & History at Columbia University
GELS: Kay Warren
10/25/2007;
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Charles B. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University
GELS: Wai Chee Dimock
10/18/2007;
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies at Yale University
GELS: Tsitsi Dangarembga
10/11/2007;
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Zimbabwean filmmaker and author of "Nervous Conditions" and its sequel "Book of Not: Stopping the Time"
Tentative - Comparative Literature's Fall Reception 2007
09/05/2007;
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Welcome the new 2007 graduate student cohort and celebrate the beginning of the Fall Term.
FMS Seminar with Elena Herrada. "Reflections from Warriors in the Asymmetric Wars: Endangered Minorities in Academia"
09/01/2007;
04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
Elena Herrada is co chair and founding member of the Committee for the Political Resurrection of Detroit, which focuses on domestic human rights. Ms. Herrada is a member of the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, she has worked at a SEIU local, and was the president of a RWDSU (Retail, Worker, Department Store Union) local. A columnist for the newspaper Michigan Citizen, Elena Herrada is also a longtime advocate for Detroit's Latino Community. She is a member of Latinos Unidos, and, in 2001, Ms Herrada produced a documentary film entitled Los Repatriados: Exiles from the Promised Land, about the depression-era deportation of Mexicans from Michigan. On May 1, 2006 Ms. Herrada founded a new Latino Workers Center in Detroit, the Centro Obrero, whose open doors will, according to Ms. Herrada, "assist immigrant workers in finding their voice and bearing in the Promised Land."
Comparative Literature's Fall Orientation 2007
08/29/2007;
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Orientation for New Graduate Student Cohort 2007
FMS Seminar with David Roediger. "What's Wrong with These Pictures: Race, Narratives of Admission, and the Liberal Self-Representations of Historically White Celleges and Universities"
08/06/2007;
3:00PM to 5:00PM
The presentation will focus on the interpretation of several iconic images used to represent racial inclusion at what the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has tellingly called "historically white collges and universities". All of the images come from schools in the Midwest. The liberal narrative of admission that welcomes students of color to historically white universities comes, at the high price of effacing the exclusionary past and present of such institutions.
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