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• Exploring Humanities Cyberinfrastructure Day 2: Patrik Svensson Lecture, "The Humanistiscope"

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  Speaker: Patrik Svensson
  Date: 05/01/2013; 9:00AM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheater, 915 E. Washington

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• Exploring Humanities Cyberinfrastructure Day 1: Library Lightning Talks

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  Date: 04/30/2013; 10:00AM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, #100

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• Exploring Student/Faculty Research Collaborations in the Humanities and Creative Arts

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  Date: 04/17/2013; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Rackham West Assembly Hall

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• Lynne Avadenka: Of the Making of Many Books There is No End
  2013 Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture

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  Speaker: Lynne Avadenka
  Date: 04/16/2013; 12:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #1022

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• Tehching Hsieh, In Good Faith

  Lecture by Joan Kee. Read More
  Speaker: Joan Kee
  Date: 04/12/2013; 12:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #2022

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• Books/Texts/Fonts/Archives in a Brave New Digital World: A Panel Discussion

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  Date: 04/09/2013; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: Space 2435, North Quad

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• Opening Reception: Language Comes After Artist: The Work of Lynne Avadenka

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  Date: 03/21/2013; 6:00PM to 7:30PM
  Location: Insitutute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• Disability Studies Spring Conference: Autism Speaks Back: Neurodiversity and Disability Studies

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  Date: 03/21/2013; 1:00PM to 4:00PM
  Location: Henderson and Koessler Rooms, Michigan League, 911 N. University

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• Pesha's Journey

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  Date: 03/21/2013 to 05/31/2013; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022, 202 S. Thayer, Ann Arbor

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• Land Marks Press: Lynne Avadenka's Limited Edition Books

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  Date: 03/21/2013 to 05/17/2013; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, upstairs in the Frankel Center, #2000

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• Language Comes After Artist: The Work of Lynne Avadenka

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  Date: 03/21/2013 to 05/17/2013; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Insitutute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• Digital Compositing: From the Alpha Channel to the 2.0 Look, Dirt Style

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  Speaker: Carolyn L. Kane
  Date: 03/20/2013; 2:30PM
  Location: Space 2435, North Quad

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• Author's Forum Presents: American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War, A Conversation with Alan Wald, Howard Brick, and Dina Karageorgos

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  Speaker: Alan Wald, Howard Brick, and Dina Karageorgos
  Date: 03/19/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery

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• UMS on Film: Which Way Home

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  Date: 03/12/2013; 7:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State

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• Author's Forum Presents: How to Be Gay: A Conversation with David Halperin and Valerie Traub

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  Speaker: David Halperin and Valerie Traub
  Date: 03/12/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery

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• The Victorian Souls of Black Folk

  A lecture by Daniel Hack, associate professor of English language and literature and a 2011-12 John Rich Professor at the Institute for the Humanities. Read More
  Speaker: Daniel Hack
  Date: 03/12/2013; 12:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, # 1022

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• Imagined Networks, Affective Connections
  2013 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture

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  Speaker: Wendy Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media:Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
  Date: 02/22/2013; 2:00PM
  Location: 3100 North Quad

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• Branding Water: Markets, Materialities and Value

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  Speaker: Gay Hawkins
  Date: 02/18/2013; 12:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #1022

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• Author's Forum Presents: YaliniDream, V.V. Ganeshananthan, and Sumathy Sivamohan

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  Speaker: Sivamohan Sumathy, YaliniDream, V.V. Ganeshananthan
  Date: 02/13/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery

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• Author's Forum Presents: RACE: Are We So Different?: A Conversation with Yolanda Moses and Lester Monts

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  Date: 02/08/2013; 7:00PM
  Location: Kahn Auditorium, Biomedical Science Research Bldg, 109 Zina Pitcher Place

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• Author's Forum Presents: Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 and Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism: A Conversation with Nadine Naber and Evelyn Alsultany

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  Speaker: Evelyn Alsultany and Nadine Naber
  Date: 02/07/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery

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• Dis/color: Race and Disability

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  Speaker: Mel Chen, Nirmala Erevelles, Jina Kim
  Date: 02/07/2013; 1:00PM to 4:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1022, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony: A Conversation with Daniel Herwitz and Adam Ashforth

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  Speaker: Daniel Herwitz and Adam Ashforth
  Date: 01/30/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery, #100

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• State of Exception
  Of Braceros Fracasados and Other Success Stories: Border Ballads and Laments

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  Speaker: Daniel Ramirez, Assistant Professor of History and American Culture.
  Date: 01/29/2013; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #2022

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• Panel: Martha Graham In Retrospect: Legacies and Innovations

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  Date: 01/25/2013; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, room 100, 913 S. University

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• State of Exception Exhibition: Opening Reception

  Opening reception of State of Exception exhibit with short remarks from students from the field school and informal  Q & A in the gallery. Read More
  Date: 01/24/2013; 5:30PM to 7:30PM
  Location: Insitutute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• State of Exception
  Panel Discussion

  Panel discussion with Stephen Brighton, Kathryn Ferguson, Robin Rieneke, and Jason De León. Read More
  Speaker: Stephen Brighton, Kathryn Ferguson, Robin Rieneke, and Jason De León
  Date: 01/24/2013; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Insitutute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• State of Exception Video

  Video installation about the State of Exception project, including footage shot by Richard Barnes on location along the U.S. Mexico Border and featuring student interviews. Edited by Sharad Patel. Read More
  Date: 01/24/2013 to 02/08/2013; 8:00AM
  Location: 2435 North Quad, 105 S. State (Jan. 24-Feb 8) and at Shapiro Undergraduate Library, first floor video gallery, 919 S. University (Jan. 24 -30 & Feb. 18 - 24).

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• State of Exception Exhibition: Richard Barnes, Jason De León, Amanda Krugliak

  The first major curation of the work of the U-M Anthropology Professor Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration Project. Read More
  Date: 01/24/2013 to 03/12/2013; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Insitutute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• State of Exception
  Student Workshop/panel presentations

  Workshop and round-table presentations featuring Jason De León and students who have participated in the Undocumented Migration Project and Field School. Read More
  Date: 01/23/2013; 5:00PM
  Location: Space 2435 North Quad, 105 S. State St.

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• Author's Forum Presents: The Selvage: A Conversation with Linda Gregerson and Daniel Herwitz

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  Speaker: Linda Gregerson and Daniel Herwitz
  Date: 01/16/2013; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery, #100

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• Meg Sweeney Lecture: The Underground Book Railroad: Reading and Censorship in Women's Prisons

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  Speaker: Meg Sweeney
  Date: 12/11/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• The Author's Forum Presents: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh and Anton Shammas, with Jonathan Freedman

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  Speaker: Amitav Ghosh, Anton Shammas, and Jonathan Freedman
  Date: 12/07/2012; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Gallery in Room 100, Hatcher Graduate Library (Enter from Diag), 913 S. University, Ann Arbor

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• Time, Narrative and Voyeurism in Video Panel Discussion

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  Speaker: Y. David Chung, Osman Khan, Lily Cox-Richard, Amanda Krugliak
  Date: 12/05/2012; 5:30PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Multipurpose Room, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• Jenn Finn Lecture: “‘The authority: whatever he said, it is not right:’ Elite and Non-elite Literary Reaction to Authoritative Regimes in the Ancient World

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  Speaker: Jenn Finn, former Mary I. and David D. Hunting Graduate Student Fellow
  Date: 11/27/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• North Quad Translation Mondays: The Story of Google Translate

  Presentation by Joshua Estelle from Google about the development of “Google Translate.” Read More
  Date: 11/26/2012; 07:00PM to 09:00PM
  Location: 2435 North Quad

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• Author's Forum Presents: In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer's Journey After 9/11

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  Speaker: Kate Brooks & Juan Cole
  Date: 11/14/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Remainders: The Banned Book Project
  Video Exhibition

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  Date: 11/12/2012 to 11/30/2012; 8:00AM
  Location: Shapiro Undergraduate Library, first floor video gallery, 919 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor

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• Remainders: The Banned Book Project
  Opening Reception: Nigel Poor Exhibition: Remainders: god, sex, and animals talking

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  Speaker: Nigel Poor
  Date: 11/08/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1022, Ann Arbor

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• “Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure”

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  Speaker: Neil Fraistat
  Date: 11/08/2012; 3:30PM to 4:15PM
  Location: Rackham Building, 4th Floor, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor

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• Remainders: The Banned Book Project
  Nigel Poor Exhibition: Remainders: god, sex, and animals talking

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  Speaker: Nigel Poor
  Date: 11/08/2012 to 12/21/2012; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

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• Remainders: The Banned Book Project
  Interarts Student Performance

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  Date: 11/07/2012; 6:00PM
  Location: North Quad Gallery

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• Remainders: The Banned Book Project
  "Reworking Reader's Trash" Panel Discussion with Nigel Poor, Christi Merrill, and Patricia Yaeger

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  Speaker: Nigel Poor, Christi Merrill, Patricia Yaeger, and Amanda Krugliak
  Date: 11/06/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 2145 North Quad

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• Remainders: The Banned Book Project
  In Response: The Student Project/Exhibition

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  Date: 11/06/2012 to 12/08/2012; 8:00AM
  Location: 2435 North Quad, 105 S. State, Ann Arbor

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• Sean Silver Lecture: "Early Modern Glass in the History of Cognitive Technology"

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  Speaker: Sean Silver, assistant professor, English; former Helmut F. Stern Professor
  Date: 10/30/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Two-Day Workshop on Disability and Cross-Sensory Translation:
  Blind Field Walk and U-M Museum of Art

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  Speaker: Carmen Papalia, MFA Social Practice, Portland State University
  Date: 10/25/2012; 1:00PM to 4:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1022, Ann Arbor

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• Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers

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  Date: 10/25/2012 to 11/26/2012; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, Osterman Common Room, #1022, 202 S. Thayer, Ann Arbor

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• Two-Day Workshop on Disability and Cross-Sensory Translation:
  Susan Schweik Lecture: "Twice-Described Description: Notes Toward an Ekphrastic Culture"

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  Speaker: Susan Schweik, UC Berkeley
  Date: 10/24/2012; 6:00PM to 9:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1022, Ann Arbor

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• Grupo Krapp Panel Discussion

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  Date: 10/17/2012; 6:00PM to 7:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, Atrium and Osterman Common Room, Ann Arbor, MI

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• David Mitchell Lecture: "The Capacities of Incapacity: Disability and Neoliberal Novels of Embodiment"

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  Speaker: David Mitchell
  Date: 10/09/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: The Chicana por mi Raza Digital Humanities Project

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  Speaker: Maria Cotera & Shana Kimball
  Date: 10/08/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• plant Video Screening and Panel Discussion with Paul Kaiser, Scott Hocking, and Amanda Krugliak

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  Speaker: Paul Kaiser, Scott Hocking, Amanda Krugliak, Sharad Patel, Sarah Nesbitt
  Date: 09/22/2012; 10:00AM to 11:15PM
  Location: Perrien Park, SE corner Chene and Warren, Detroit, MI

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• Canan Tolon Exhibition: Time After Time

  Note: The gallery is open M-F 9am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm, and closed Sunday. Read More
  Date: 09/20/2012 to 10/26/2012; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

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• Gallery Reception for Time After Time

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  Speaker: Canan Tolon
  Date: 09/20/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Panel Discussion Featuring Former Fellows Claire Zimmerman, Amy Kulper, and Keith Mitnick, with Artist Canan Tolon

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  Speaker: Canan Tolon, Amy Kulper, Keith Mitnick, and Claire Zimmerman
  Date: 09/20/2012; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: 2145 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans, A Conversation with Michael Barr & Sheldon Danziger

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  Speaker: Michael Barr & Sheldon Danziger
  Date: 09/19/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Yofi Tirosh Lecture: "The Right to Be Fat"

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  Speaker: Yofi Tirosh
  Date: 09/18/2012; 12:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: The Princess Curse: A Conversation with Merrie Haskell and Ayn Reineke

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  Date: 06/23/2012; 3:15PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• 2012 Spring Seminar
  "Log On to the Humanities: How New Technologies Expand the Humanities and How They Don't"

  Registration is $200 before April 20, $225 after. Click here to register online or call 734.763-4463 to register by phone.

  A block of rooms is reserved under Humanities Spring Seminar at Campus Inn through April 4.

  Click here to view the program.

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  Date: 05/05/2012; 9:00AM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

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• Brown Bag Lecture "How to Read Lolita"

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  Imraan Coovadia, University of Capetown Read More
  Date: 04/10/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: The Institute for Taxi Poetry

  A conversation with Imraan Coovadia and Daniel Herwitz. Read More
  Date: 04/10/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Gallery Reception for Newspaper Diary: Trompe l'Oeil Photographs

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  Date: 04/05/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Newspaper Diary: Trompe l'Oeil Photographs

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  Date: 04/05/2012 to 05/31/2012; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: Breaking and Entering

  A conversation with Eileen Pollack and JoEllen Vinyard. Read More
  Date: 04/04/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Maverick American Music"

  William Bolcom, music Read More
  Date: 04/03/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Ultimate Pictures: Word and Image in the Works of Peter Weiss"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Alan Itkin, comparative literature Read More
  Date: 03/27/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture
  Robert Mankoff: "If You Can't Say Something Nice then Draw It: the Role of Stereotyping in New Yorker Cartoons"

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  Date: 03/22/2012; 5:00PM
  Location: Palmer Commons, Forum Hall (4th floor), 100 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: Fires in the Mind

  A conversation with Kathleen Cushman and Shari Saunders. Read More
  Date: 03/21/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Brown Bag Lecture "American Musical Mavericks and the Quotidian Creativity of Community"

  Mark Clague, music Read More
  Date: 03/20/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Performance "Monologues Marking Time"

  Amanda Krugliak, performance artist and curator Read More
  Date: 03/13/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Dot-com Design: Reflections on Coolness, Usability, and the Versioning of Web History"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Megan Ankerson, communication Read More
  Date: 03/06/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Ancient Roman Ecphrasis: Overturning Theoretical Assumptions"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Basil Dufallo, classical studies and comparative literature Read More
  Date: 02/21/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Joints 4tet for Ensemble video installation

  Video installation by Charles Atlas exploring time-based portraiture, the body, fragmentation, and movement of Merce Cunningham. Note: the gallery is open M-F 9am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Read More
  Date: 02/15/2012 to 03/31/2012; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

  A conversation with Rebecca Scott and Jean Hebrard. Read More
  Date: 02/15/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Gallery reception for Joints 4tet for Ensemble video installation

  Opening reception for Joints 4tet for Ensemble video installation and artist Charles Atlas. Read More
  Date: 02/15/2012; 4:30PM to 6:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Video in Performance and Video as Performance"

  Charles Atlas, video artist Read More
  Date: 02/14/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Film: The Legend of Leigh Bowery

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  Date: 02/13/2012; 7:00PM
  Location: U-M Museum of Art Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Rainy Sea Architecture"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Keith Mitnick, architecture Read More
  Date: 02/07/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• CANCELLED:Brown Bag Lecture "The Mad Women Project: Disability and the Aesthetics of Human Disqualification"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Tobin Siebers, English and art & design Read More
  Date: 01/31/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

  A conversation with Tiya Miles and Kristin Hass. Read More
  Date: 01/18/2012; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Say You're One of Them"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Uwem Akpan Read More
  Date: 01/17/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• 2012 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture: Peter Galison, "Einstein, Clocks, and the Materiality of Time"

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  Date: 01/11/2012; 5:00PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture "Post-Modern Opera: Welcome to the 21st Century"

  Stephen Rush, music Read More
  Date: 01/10/2012; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "Changes in Communication that Derive from New Information Technologies"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Paul Courant, information, public policy, economics Read More
  Date: 12/13/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them

  A conversation with Keith Taylor, Laura Kasischke, and other Ghost Writers: Steve Amick, Nicholas Delbanco, Kelly Fordon, Lolita Hernandez, Eileen Pollack, Elizabeth Schmuhl, and Laura Hulthen Thomas. Read More
  Date: 12/07/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  “Remembering Alberto Ginastera”

  Ken Kiesler, music, and Barbara Nissman Read More
  Date: 12/06/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• 2011 HASTAC International Confernce

  The theme of this fifth-annual HASTAC conference is Digital Scholarly Communication. Read More
  Date: 12/02/2011 to 12/03/2011; 8:00AM to 8:00PM
  Location: University of Michigan North Quad, 105 S. State, Ann Arbor, MI

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• plant 3D video installation

  Premiere of new work exploring the abandoned Packard plant in Detroit created by Paul Kaiser, the 2011 Kidder Resident in the Arts, and the OpenEnded Group. Read More
  Date: 12/01/2011 to 01/10/2012; 12:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Duderstadt Center Gallery, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd (U-M North Campus), Ann Arbor MI

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• Loops 3D video installation

  Three-dimensional digital projection created by Paul Kaiser, the 2011 Kidder Resident in the Arts, and OpenEnded Group based on their collaboration with Merce Cunningham. Read More
  Date: 12/01/2011 to 01/14/2012; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "After the Archive: Scholarship in the Digital Era"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Tara McPherson, University of Southern California Read More
  Date: 11/29/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "Mapping Digital Humanities Today"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Julie Klein, Wayne State University Read More
  Date: 11/15/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Libraries Without Borders

  Patrick Weil, president of Libraries Without Borders, discusses the work of the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to facilitating the growth of libraries in the developing world. Read More
  Date: 11/15/2011; 2:00PM
  Location: Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "'Strange and Unexplainable Fits’: On Network Fevers”

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Tung-Hui Hu, English & screen arts Read More
  Date: 11/08/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: Anatomy of a Disappearance.

  A conversation with Hisham Matar, Anton Shammas, and Khaled Mattawa. Read More
  Date: 11/04/2011; 5:00PM to 6:30PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Author's Forum Presents: The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose

  A Conversation with Laurence Joseph and Laurence Goldstein. Read More
  Date: 11/02/2011; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "The Alchemy of Estrangement"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Alaina Lemon, anthropology Read More
  Date: 11/01/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "Digital, Scholarly Publishing: A Systems View"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Phil Pochoda, library Read More
  Date: 10/25/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• George Lewis: Interactive Trio

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  Date: 10/20/2011; 5:00PM
  Location: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "Improvisation as a Way of Life"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Arnold Davidson, University of Chicago and George Lewis, Columbia University
  
  Note: This event takes place on a Thursday at 5pm. Read More
  Date: 10/19/2011; 5:00PM to 6:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine.

  A conversation with Howard Markel and Daniel Herwitz. Read More
  Date: 10/12/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  “A Creole Family and Its Slaves in Saint-Domingue and Cuba: A Narrative of a Trans-Atlantic Experience”

  Marial Iglesias, visiting fellow, University of Havana Read More
  Date: 10/11/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "Velocity/Growth: Essays and Experiments in the Digital Humanities"

  Featuring the Digital Humanities
  Finn Brunton, information Read More
  Date: 10/04/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Gallery Reception for "Waiting for the Extraordinary"

  Opening reception for exhibit of new work by Mark Dion, immediately following Dion's 5:00 Penny Stamps Lecture at the Michigan Theater. Read More
  Date: 09/29/2011; 6:30PM to 7:30PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• "Waiting for the Extraordinary"

  An original exhibit by artist Mark Dion. Read More
  Date: 09/29/2011 to 11/05/2011; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor

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• Mark Dion Lecture

  School of Art & Design's Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series Read More
  Date: 09/29/2011; 5:10PM to 6:30PM
  Location: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "The Making of Waiting for the Extraordinary"

  Mark Dion, artist, 2011 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts, discusses his new exhibit at U-M Institute for the Humanities gallery. Read More
  Date: 09/27/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  "Technological Enchantment and Literacy in the Digital Age"

  Featuring our Fellows
  Ben Gunsberg, English Read More
  Date: 09/20/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture
  'In the Alpine Laboratory"

  
  Featuring our Fellows
  Amy Catania Kulper, architecture Read More
  Date: 09/13/2011; 12:30PM to 2:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: Act of Grace

  A conversation with Karen Simpson + Robbie Ransom. Read More
  Date: 06/25/2011; 5:00PM to 6:30PM
  Location: North Quad, room 2435, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor

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• 2011 Spring Seminar
  Engaging the Humanities from the Inside, Day 2

  A full-day (Friday evening/Saturday to 1pm) event, our annual spring retreat this year features an intensive study of a poet's process with acclaimed poet and scholar Linda Gregerson. Read More
  Date: 05/21/2011; 9:00AM to 1:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• 2011 Spring Seminar
  Engaging the Humanities from the Inside, Day 1

  A full-day (Friday evening/Saturday to 1pm) event, our annual spring retreat this year features an intensive study of a poet's process with acclaimed poet and scholar Linda Gregerson. Read More
  Date: 05/20/2011; 6:00PM to 9:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Socioeconomic Rights: An Empty Promise?

  A seminar with Dennis Davis, University of Capetown and judge of the High Court of Capetown. Read More
  Date: 04/15/2011; 12:00PM to 1:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #2022

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• Author's Forum Presents: Gloryland: A Conversation with Shelton Johnson and Kristen Hass

  The powerful fictional memoir of a ???buffalo soldier??? who, forty years after Emancipation, finds freedom in Yosemite. Read More
  Date: 04/14/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture
  How Legal Culture Suffocated Transformation: A Case Study from South Africa

  A lecture by Dennis Davis, University of Capetown and judge of the High Court of Capetown. Read More
  Date: 04/14/2011; 5:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, #2022

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• Conversion and Narrative in the Medieval Mediterranean

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows
  Ryan Szpiech, romance languages Read More
  Date: 04/12/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Remembering Java's Islamization: A View from Sri Lanka

  Brown Bag Lecture
  Ronit Ricci, Australian National University, Emerging Scholars Prize Honorable Mention Read More
  Date: 04/07/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 1022

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• Pyongyang

  A multi-media installation of new work by Y. David Chung. Read More
  Date: 04/05/2011 to 05/21/2011; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, Room 1010

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• Pyongyang Opening Reception

  Opening reception for David Chung's multimedia installation of new work. Read More
  Date: 04/05/2011; 5:00PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, Room 1010

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• CANCELLED! History and Memory in the Korean War: Apocalypse, Absence, Amnesia

  THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS. Brown Bag Lecture
  Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Read More
  Date: 04/05/2011; 4:00PM to 5:00PM
  Location: Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad

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• Graphic Sentiment: Image-Texts of 9/11 Terror and Recovery

  Brown Bag Lecture
  Ruby Tapia, Ohio State University Read More
  Date: 03/29/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• School of Theory and Criticism Presents...

  Half-hour lectures by some of the top scholars in the humanities. Read More
  Date: 03/25/2011; 9:00AM to 5:15PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington St

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• Author's Forum Presents: Money Shot

  A conversation with Rae Armantrout and Linda Gregerson. Read More
  Date: 03/22/2011; 4:30PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• RESCHEDULED Brown Bag Lecture by Judge Dennis Davis

  This event has been rescheduled for April 14 & 15. See calendar for details. Read More
  Date: 03/22/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Gallery Reception for "White Nights"

  Artists' reception with a special reading by renowned author Jonathan Lethem. Read More
  Date: 03/16/2011; 5:00PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer St., Room 1010

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• Promiscuous Generation: Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern England

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows
  Ari Friedlander, English Read More
  Date: 03/15/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Author???s Forum Presents Lastingness: The Art of Old Age

  A conversation with Nicholas Delbanco and Keith Taylor Read More
  Date: 03/09/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Remarks about Mahler???s Third Symphony

  Brown Bag Lecture
  Arie Lipsky, music director, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Read More
  Date: 03/08/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture

  In "After the Humanities," cultural critic, author, and Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber looks at the present and the future of the humanities. Read More
  Date: 02/23/2011; 6:00PM to 7:30PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington St

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• The Digital Cafe with Timothy Murray

  Timothy Murray, director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, presents "Digital Decay and the Preservation of Digital Archives." Read More
  Date: 02/18/2011; 3:30PM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, room 1022

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• Author's Forum Presents: Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons

  A Conversation with Megan Sweeney and Mary Heinen. Read More
  Date: 02/16/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• On the Genesis of Creole Languages: Linguistic Variation and the Genetic Origins of the Founding Populations

  Brown Bag Lecture
  Marlyse Baptista, Afroamerican and African studies Read More
  Date: 02/08/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Come Back Africa (1959): From America to Africa and Back Again

  Brown Bag Lecture
  Litheko Modisane, University of Capetown, U-M Presidential Scholar Read More
  Date: 02/01/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Caught in the Act: Spells and Imagery of Erotic Magic in 17th-Century Russia

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows
  Valerie Kivelson, history Read More
  Date: 01/25/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• White Nights

  Three-dimensional, magical scenes of alienation, beauty, and dark humor, both photographed and set inside snow globes. Read More
  Date: 01/24/2011 to 03/16/2011; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, Room 1010

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• Author's Forum Presents: The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

  A Conversation with Jonathan Metzl, Gregory Dalack, and Derek Griffith. Read More
  Date: 01/19/2011; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University Ave., Library Gallery, Room 100

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• Concerning Contemporary African Art: A Critique and Variations on a Theme

  Brown Bag Lecture
  Atta Kwami, College of Art, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana Read More
  Date: 01/18/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• The Government of God and the Economics of Moses: Painting the Exodus in the Age of Reform in Britain

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring Our Fellows
  Chris Coltrin, history of art Read More
  Date: 01/11/2011; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Children as Spoils of War: Displaced Children, Ethnic Cleansing, and International Humanitarianism in Twentieth-Century Europe

  Brown Bag Lecture: 2010 Emergins Scholars Prize Honorable Mention

  Tara Zahra, University of Chicago Read More
  Date: 12/14/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• The Shakespearean Circle: Lawyers, Literary Criticism, and Professional Self-Fashioning in Late Imperial Russia

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Yana Arnold, Slavic languages and literatures Read More
  Date: 12/07/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Indirect Rules: Landscape Legacies of South Africa's Kruger National Park

  A lecture by David Bunn, formerly head of the School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand, now professor at the University of Chicago and independent scholar/activist in South Africa. Read More
  Date: 12/06/2010; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, Osterman Common Room #1022, 202 S. Thayer, Ann Arbor

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• Author's Forum Presents: Being in Pictures: A Conversation with Joanne Leonard and Sidonie Smith

  Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir will appeal to anyone interested in art, photography, or the lives of women. Leonard's experiences as feminist artist, academic, single mom, identical twin, daughter of Alzheimer's patient are the fabric from which her evocative art and heartfelt writing are fashioned. This evening's conversation explores the creative process and the ideas the work inspires. Read More
  Date: 12/01/2010; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Library Gallery, room 100, 913 S. University

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• We Are Exactly What We Seem: Notes on Interpreting a Black Property Rights Movement

  Brown Bag Lecture; 2010 Emerging Scholars Prize Winner

  Nathan Connolly, assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University Read More
  Date: 11/30/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Lives in Slavery and Freedom in the Brazilian World: Why and How Are We Writing Biographies of Slaves?

  What is the goal of writing biographies of slaves? This round-table discussion, chaired my U-M history and law professor Rebecca J. Scott, explores this question among others. Read More
  Date: 11/22/2010; 4:00PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, Osterman Common Room #1022

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• Opening Reception: The View From Below

  Opening reception for the exhibit "The View From Below: Photography, Innovation, and the Lower East Side," with gallery talk by curator Sara Blair. Read More
  Date: 11/18/2010; 4:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

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• Author's Forum Presents: Dakota, or What's a Heaven For: A Conversation with Brenda Marshall and Tom Fricke

  Dakota: Or What's a Heaven For is literary historical fiction set in 1873-1883 in Dakota Territory. A brave and moving epic, it weaves public and historical events into an unexpected love story. Tonight, writer Brenda Marshall and anthropologist Tom Fricke discuss their North Dakota beginnings, writing, inspiration, history, and Marshall's "sprawling tale of desire, ambition, and transformation." Read More
  Date: 11/17/2010; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Library Gallery, room 100, 913 S. University

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• Animals, Mothers, and Medieval France

  Brown Bag Lecture

  Peggy McCracken, French and women's studies Read More
  Date: 11/16/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• The View From Below: Photography and Innovation on the Lower East Side

  This exhibit of some 40 photographs spanning the late nineteenth-century through contemporary times offers unexpected insights into the iconic New York City immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side. Read More
  Date: 11/12/2010 to 12/18/2010; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

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• Trusting Masters, Faithful Captives: Ransom and Credit in the Early-Modern Mediterranean

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Daniel Hershenzon, history Read More
  Date: 11/09/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• ONCE. MORE. Festival
  Closing Celebration

  After Penny Stamps and before ONCE NOW, join us as we celebrate the ONCE Festival exhibits. Read More
  Date: 11/04/2010; 6:30PM to 7:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St

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• ONCE. MORE. Festival
  Penny Stamps Lecture: Laura Kuhn: John Cage's Indeterminacy

  Writer, director, performer, and John Cage collaborator, Laura Kuhn is Director and cofounder of the John Cage Trust, and the John Cage Professor of Performance Art at Bard College. She will perform Cage???s Indeterminacy, a work of antecdotes, each, regardless of length, read precisely in one minute, accompanied by an ???improvised??? electronic score involving certain of Cage???s works manipulated by a DJ/turntableist. This performance features DJ Tadd Mullinix, Ghostly International recording artist. Read More
  Date: 11/04/2010; 5:00PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty

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• ONCE. MORE. Festival
  UMS Presents: ONCE NOW

  A look at more recent works by ONCE composers Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Sarvada. Read More
  Date: 11/04/2010; 8:00PM to 10:00PM
  Location: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, MI

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• ONCE. MORE. Festival
  Symposium

  ONCE composers Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Sarvada reunite to celebrate an extraordinary adventure in American music. Read More
  Date: 11/03/2010; 9:30AM to 4:30PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, MI

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• ONCE.MORE. Festival
  UMS Presents: ONCE THEN

  To celebrate their pioneering contributions to Ann Arbor???s ONCE Festival some 50 years ago, composers Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds and Donald Scarvada will be in attendance for a concert of historic works, selected by the composers themselves. Read More
  Date: 11/02/2010; 8:00PM to 10:00PM
  Location: Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde

  Brown Bag Lecture; Visiting Fellow

  Nancy Perloff, curator of modern and contemporary collections, Getty Research Institute Read More
  Date: 11/02/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Historicizing the History of Chinese Literature

  Brown Bag Lecture

  David Porter, English Read More
  Date: 10/26/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: Adonis: Selected Poems: A Conversation with Adonis & Lawrence Joseph

  Adonis, possibly the Arabic-speaking world's most famous living poet, discusses poetry and more with St. John's University law professor and poet Lawerence Joseph. Read More
  Date: 10/14/2010; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Library Gallery, room 100, 913 S. University

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• A Poetry Reading in Translation

  Brown Bag Lecture

  Adonis, poet Read More
  Date: 10/12/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: Working Words: A Conversation with ML Liebler, Melba Boyd, Kevin Rashid, Keith Taylor, and Lolita Hernandez

  Jobs are at the forefront of the national consciousness, yet there is a dearth of literature written by and for workers. This anthology???of fiction, memoir, poetry, rock lyrics, and astute historical analysis???fills the gap for readers both young and old, as well as students of literature and labor history. Today, a conversation about Working Words with the anthology's editor ML Liebler and Melba Boyd, Kevin Rashid, Keith Taylor, and Lolita Hernandez. Read More
  Date: 10/06/2010; 7:00PM to 8:30PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, room 100

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• Critics in the Internet Age: Why Do They Hate Us?

  Brown Bag Lecture: Visiting Fellows

  Owen Gleiberman, movie critic, Entertainment Weekly Read More
  Date: 10/05/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• The Two Lives of Michel Vincent, a French Colonist in Saint-Domingue (c 1730-1804)

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Jean Hebrard, professeur associ?? at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and a former Norman Freehling Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Humanities Read More
  Date: 09/28/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• The Author???s Forum Presents: Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
  A Conversation with Jonathan Weiner and Elizabeth Barry

  Science writer Jonathan Weiner and U-M Life Sciences Institute Director Elizabeth Barry discuss Weiner???s latest book in context of the fall 2010 LSA theme semester, ???What Makes Life Worth Living???? Read More
  Date: 09/22/2010; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Library Gallery, room 100, 913 S. University

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• Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras

  Brown Bag Lecture

  Deborah Dash Moore, director, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies Read More
  Date: 09/21/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• ONCE. MORE. Festival
  John Cage Installation, ???Lecture on the Weather???

  This multi-media stage work by John Cage, based on the texts of Henry David Thoreau, brings together speech, music, film, lighting, and a weather soundscape to form a softly political piece as relevant today as the year it was written. Read More
  Date: 09/20/2010 to 11/05/2010; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010

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• ONCE. MORE. Festival
  ONCE. MORE. Exhibition

  An installation of visual images and manuscripts from the original ONCE composers Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Roger Reynolds, and Donald Scavarda. Read More
  Date: 09/20/2010 to 11/04/2010; 8:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, Common Room, room 1022

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• Long March in the Temporalization of Time

  Brown Bag Lecture: Visiting Fellow Francois Hartog, director of studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris, and chair of ancient and modern historiography Read More
  Date: 09/14/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: American Salvage, A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell & Lolita Hernandez

  Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell???s American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century. Today, Campbell and Lolita Hernandez discuss work and the inner lives of working-class characters in post-industrial America. Read More
  Date: 05/15/2010; 5:00PM to 6:30PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, room 100

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• Museums in the Academy Part 2: 2010 Spring Seminar

  A town-and-gown affair! Join us as we take a hands-on approach to exploring museum cultures across the university. Read More
  Date: 05/15/2010; 9:00AM to 5:30PM
  Location:  

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• Museums in the Academy Part 1: 2010 Spring Seminar

  A town-and-gown affair! Join us as we take a hands-on approach to exploring museum cultures across the university. Read More
  Date: 05/14/2010; 5:00PM to 9:00PM
  Location:  

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• Oju: Face/Eye/Index/Presence in Yoruba Visual Culture

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  David Doris, history of art Read More
  Date: 04/20/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: A World Without Ice: A Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize-winner and author Henry Pollack & Richard Rood

  A World Without Ice is a book about ice and people ??? the role ice has played in the development of Earth???s landscape, climate, and human civilization, and the reciprocal impact of people on the planet???s ice. Today, U-M???s Henry Pollack and Richard Rood discuss why ice matters, the delicate geological balance between ice and climate, and the pending crisis of a world without ice. Read More
  Date: 04/14/2010; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, room 100

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• God I Miss the Cold War!: Memory, Nostalgia, and Global Disorder since 1989

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Penny Von Eschen, history Read More
  Date: 04/13/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Texts Sacred and Canonical: Their Circulation in Public Culture

  A Symposium to Honor Professor Ralph Williams on the Occasion of His Retirement. Read More
  Date: 04/10/2010; 8:30AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Rackham Amphitheatre ??? Fourth Floor

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• Concentration Camps, Matter of Fashion: Theresienstadt in Nazi Bohemia and Boven Digoel in Colonial Dutch East Indies, 1927-1945

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Rudolf Mrazek, history Read More
  Date: 04/06/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Zora Neale Hurston's Environmental History

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Susan Parrish, English Read More
  Date: 03/30/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• ???Captifs de case??? (House Slaves) in a West African Urban Slaving Society: Questions of Status and Role in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Louis du Senegal

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Ibrahima Thioub; University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal Read More
  Date: 03/16/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Read More
  Date: 03/15/2010; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Tirtza Even, Art & Design: "Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains" Read More
  Date: 03/15/2010; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Opening Reception: Scott Hocking Installation

  Opening reception for Detroit artist Scott Hocking's installation. For more information click here. Read More
  Date: 03/11/2010; 6:00PM to 8:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• Author's Forum Presents: Legacy of a False Promise: A Conversation with Margaret Fuchs Singer, Howard Brick & Nancy Blieden

  Author Margaret Fuchs Singer discusses the historical and psychological impact of the McCarthy years with U-M history professor Howard Brick and Wayne State psychiatry professor Nancy Blieden. Read More
  Date: 03/10/2010; 7:30PM to 9:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, room 100

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• Discussion of various works throughout the Detroit area and current exhibit at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery

  Brown Bag Lecture: Artists at Work

  Scott Hocking, Detroit sculptor and artists. To view the lecture click here Read More
  Date: 03/09/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Scott Hocking Installation

  An installation by Detroit artist Scott Hocking. Read More
  Date: 03/08/2010 to 05/14/2010; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• Between Insults and Interrogation: The Politics of Recognition in the U.S.-controlled POW Camps of the Korean War

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Monica Kim, history Read More
  Date: 02/23/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Arming Black America: Race and Citizenship in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sandford

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Martha S. Jones, history Read More
  Date: 02/16/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Opening Reception: Santu Mofokeng: Chasing Shadows

  Opening reception for South-African photographer Santu Mofokeng's Chasing Shadows. For more info click here. Read More
  Date: 02/11/2010; 4:30PM to 6:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• Author's Forum Presents: Stealing Buddha's Dinner

  A conversation between Bich Minh Nguyen, author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, and U-M English Professor and writer Peter Ho Davies. Read More
  Date: 02/10/2010; 5:30PM to 7:00PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery (room 100)

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• South African Photographer Santu Mofokeng in Conversation with Adam Ashforth

  Brown Bag Lecture: Artists at Work

  Santu Mofokeng, South African artist Read More
  Date: 02/09/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Santu Mofokeng: Chasing Shadows

  Photographs by Santu Mofokeng, one of South Africa's most prominent photographers. Read More
  Date: 02/05/2010 to 02/26/2010; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities, 202 S. Thayer, room #1010

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• Dialectal Variations in Creole Languages: Inheritance From the Past and Hindrance for the Present

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Marlyse Baptista, Linguistics Read More
  Date: 02/02/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Between Talk of the Real and the Fake: Constituting "Spirit Possession" in the Black Atlantic

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Paul Johnson, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies Read More
  Date: 01/26/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: In a Perfect World -When Germs Travel: A Conversation with Laura Kasischke and Howard Markel

  The evening???s conversation explores how a poet and novelist and a medical historian contribute to our understanding of epidemics and the people who confront them. Read More
  Date: 01/20/2010; 7:00PM to 8:30PM
  Location: Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University, Library Gallery (room 100)

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• Censorship of Nineteenth-Century French Political Caricature in European Comparative Perspective

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Bob Goldstein, Center for Russian and East European Studies Read More
  Date: 01/19/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Measure of the Heart: Creative Caregiving

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Mary Ellen Geist, author. Read More
  Date: 01/12/2010; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Shift(s) in(g) the Humanities: The Future of a Futuristic Dissertation

  Brown Bag Lecture: Emerging Scholar series

  Bulbul Tiwari currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Read More
  Date: 12/08/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Author's Forum Presents: Say You???re One of Them: A Conversation with Fr. Uwem Akpan

  A conversation with Fr. Uwem Akpan, a Nigerian priest whose book of short stories Say You're One of Them is a 2009 Oprah Book Club selection. Akpan received his MFA from the University of Michigan in 2006 and is a former Career-in-the-Making Fellow at the U-M Institute for the Humanities. Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Read More
  Date: 12/04/2009; 4:00PM to 5:30PM
  Location: Library Gallery, Room 100, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, 920 N. University, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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• Archive, Museum, and the Safe House of Language

  The University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities explores the issue of the colonial archive in relation to that of the colonial museum in the conference ???Archive, Museum, and the Safe House of Language.??? Read More
  Date: 12/03/2009; 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, room 2022

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• Book of Iterations

  An exhibit by Pippa Skotnes. Gallery hours M-F 9:00am-5:00pm. Read More
  Date: 12/03/2009 to 01/22/2010; 9:00AM to 5:00PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI
  Gallery is Room 1010

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• Interpreting a Colonial Scandal: The Deployment of Communication in Eighteenth-Century French India

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows series

  Danna Agmon is a doctoral student in the Program in Anthropology and History. ??Last year she was??the Mary Ives Hunting and David D. Hunting, Sr., Graduate Student Fellow in the Institute. Read More
  Date: 12/01/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage

  Kelly Askew, Anthropology, CAAS
  "Poetry in Motion: The 100-year History of a Zanzibari Orchestra" Read More
  Date: 11/30/2009; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, Room 1022

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• STASYS EIDRIGEVICIUS: The Earth of Lithuania with the Wind of Warsaw

  Exhibition of works by Stasys EidrigeviciusSeptember 8 - October 17, 2008Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pmSponsors: Copernicus Endowment, CREESInstitute for the HumanitiesSchool of Art and Design Read More
  Date: 11/30/2009; 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities Gallery202 South Thayer St, Room 1010

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Elisha Renne: Contesting Yoruba Religious Heritage in Nigeria Read More
  Date: 11/30/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• "Sexularism: On Gender Equality and Secularization"

  The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture

  Joan Wallach Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Read More
  Date: 11/19/2009; 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM
  Location: Palmer Commons, Forum Hall 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, MI

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• Being Invited to One???s Own House: Reflections on Culture and Heritage in Techiman, Ghana

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series
  Raymond Silverman, History of Art/Center for Afroamerican and African Studies Read More
  Date: 11/17/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor

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• Art in the Public Realm - Find it Ann Arbor

  Brown Bag Lecture: Artists at Work series

  Margaret Parker, Elaine Sims, and Larry Cressman have all been active on the Ann Arbor Public Art Commission, representing the community and the University. Read More
  Date: 11/03/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• To See Feelingly: Violence and Spectatorship in Francis Beaumont???s The Knight of the Burning Pestle

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows series

  Amy Rodgers, English, completed her dissertation on "The Sense of an Audience" in Early Modern England last year. She was the Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Student Fellow in the Institute. Read More
  Date: 10/27/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Human Rights Singular-Plural: Translating Dalit Autobiography from Hindi

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Christi Merrill, a former Faculty Fellow of the Institute, is Associate Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Languages and Cultures. Read More
  Date: 10/13/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Greek Theatre in Modern Dance: An Alternative Archaeology?

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Artemis Leontis is Associate Professor of Modern Greek in the Department of Classical Studies. Read More
  Date: 10/06/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage

  Kelly Askew, Anthropology, CAAS
  "Poetry in Motion: The 100-year History of a Zanzibari Orchestra" Read More
  Date: 09/30/2009; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, Room 1022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage1

  Kelly Askew, Anthropology, CAAS
  "Poetry in Motion: The 100-year History of a Zanzibari Orchestra" Read More
  Date: 09/30/2009; 12:00PM to 1:30PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer, Room 1022

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• ???Catching Stories??? in the Time of AIDS: The Malawi Journals Project

  Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series

  Adam Ashforth is Visiting Associate Professor in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. Read More
  Date: 09/29/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• To Serve God and Wal-Mart: Evangelicals and Extreme Capitalism

  Brown Bag Lecture: Emerging Scholar series

  Bethany Moreton is Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. Read More
  Date: 09/22/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• PAST PERFECT/FUTURE TENSE: AUTHENTICITY AND REPLICATION

  Exhibit of new work by Richard Barnes Opening Reception, September 17, 6:30-8 PM Gallery hours: Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 5 PM Read More
  Date: 09/17/2009 to 10/30/2009; 09:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI
  Gallery is Room 1010

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• 'A Chacun son Public' [To Each his Public]: Performing Politics and Culture in Interwar Algeria

  Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows series

  Joshua Cole is Associate Professor in the Department of History. Read More
  Date: 09/15/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy

  CANCELLED Howard French: "China and the End of the Unipolar Moment" Read More
  Date: 04/14/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows1

  Gayle Rubin: "Sex and the Deindustrialized City: The Future of Queer Worlds" Read More
  Date: 04/09/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy1

  Lawrence Grossberg, "How Can We all be in this Together if We live in Different Realities? or Whatever Happened to Culture and Communication?" Read More
  Date: 04/07/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Free Screening: LIONESS

  LIONESS is a documentary film about the women soldiers attached to all-male combat units in the Iraq war. Read More
  Date: 04/07/2009; 5:45 PM to 7:00 PM
  Location: Michigan Theater Screening Room, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Emerging Scholars1

  Susana Draper, "The Prison, the Mall, and the Archive: Rethinking the Dictatorships at the End of History" Read More
  Date: 03/31/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• TALK SHOW DEMOCRACY, The Funny Part: Political Humor and its Role in Shaping the Democoratic Process

  The Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow program organized this panel of political humorists and scholars, including nationally sydicated cartoonist Patrick Oliphant and New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. Read More
  Date: 03/30/2009; 01:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  Location: Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor

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• TALK SHOW DEMOCRACY: The Media and its Public

  A conference to explore I. American Media and its American Public; II. The Rise of the Celebrity News Genre in the 1950s; III. Voice, Violence and Democracy; IV. South African Media and the State of Things. Also, see March 30: The Funny Part: Political Humor and its Role in Shaping the Democratic Process Read More
  Date: 03/27/2009; 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons !00 Washtenaw Avenue

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Emerging Scholars

  Boris Kment, "Objectivity and the Possibility of Knowledge: A Dilemma in Modern Philosophy" Read More
  Date: 03/24/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture

  Wendy Doniger, ???Including Dogs, Horses, Cows, Dalits, and Women: An Alternative Narrative of the Hindus??? Read More
  Date: 03/24/2009; 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  Location: Forum Hall, Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Avenue

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy1

  Marsha Kinder, "Documenting the Global Cities of Los Angeles and Beijing: Learning about Democracy in Summer Exchange Workshops" Read More
  Date: 03/17/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy

  Robert Mankoff: "If Honesty is the Best Policy, What's Next Best? The Ethos and Ethics of the Political Cartoons of The New Yorker" Read More
  Date: 03/10/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy

  John Darnton: "News Without Newspapers" Read More
  Date: 03/03/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Rm. 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy

  Juan Cole: "What is 'Aljazeera'?" Read More
  Date: 02/17/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Emerging Scholars

  Erica Lehrer: "'Please Respond': Provoking 'Difficult' Encounters in Today's Post-Holocaust Poland" Read More
  Date: 02/12/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows1

  Asli G??r: "From Boston to Bosphorus: Transculturation of New England Protestantism and College Education in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire" Read More
  Date: 02/03/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture; Featuring our Fellows

  Khaled Mattawa, "Poetry Reading from AMORISCO" Read More
  Date: 01/27/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Talk Show Democracy1

  Chris Berry: "Tell It Like It Is: Thinking about Public Space and the Media in China" Read More
  Date: 01/20/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows

  Stephen Melville: "Thing of the Past: On Hegel and Contemporary Art History" Read More
  Date: 01/13/2009; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows1

  Johannes von Moltke: "War-Film-Feeling: On Alexander Kluge" Read More
  Date: 12/09/2008; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Rm 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows1

  Katherine Ibbett: "Novel Feelings: Compassion and Toleration in Early Modern France" Read More
  Date: 12/02/2008; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Rm 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows1

  Yolanda Covington-Ward: "Enacted Theologies: The Role of Embodied Cultural Performance in a Kongo Church" Read More
  Date: 11/11/2008; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture

  Barbara Stafford, "Bit of Behavior/Concepts Prior to Words: The Emotional Intuition of Form: Read More
  Date: 11/06/2008; 04:00 PM to 06:30 PM
  Location: Michigan Room in the Michigan League911 N University Avenue, Ann Arbor

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Featuring our Fellows1

  Philip Deloria: "The Perils and Poetics of Family Memoir" Read More
  Date: 11/04/2008; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage

  Vicente M. Diaz: "When Vessels Collide: The Revitalization of Traditional Canoes and Postcolonial Commemorations in the Pacific Islands" Read More
  Date: 10/28/2008; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage

  Vanessa Agnew, German Studies
  "Reenacting the German Past" Read More
  Date: 10/21/2008; 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022

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• Free Screening: ONCE A WALL, OR RIPPLE REMAINS

  On October 14, at 12 PM, Tirtza Even will discuss this work in a lecture in Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer St. This screening offers the public a chance to experience this multifaceted experimental documentary project in advance. Read More
  Date: 10/10/2008; 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St., Room 1022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: What Happened to ... ?

  Sara L. Forsdyke, Classical Studies
  "What Happened to Ancient Studies?" Read More
  Date: 10/07/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: The Digital Humanities

  Julie Klein Thompson, Humanities, Wayne State University
  "Mapping the Field of the Digital Humanities" Read More
  Date: 09/23/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Location: 202 S. Thayer St, Room 2022

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• Brown Bag Lecture: Complicit??

  Ramon Satyendra, Music Theory
  "Music and Mathematics" Read More
  Date: 09/16/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  Location: Institute for the Humanities
  202 S. Thayer, Room 1022

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