Fellows
Former Fellow Uwem Akpan Chosen for Oprah's Book Club
The Institute for the Humanities' former Career-in-the-Making Fellow Uwem Akpan, Nigerian Jesuit priest and MFA graduate of the University of Michigan Creative Writing Program, has just been chosen for Oprah's Book Club.
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Barnes & Bones
Artist Richard Barnes, the 2009 Paula and Edwin Sidman Fellow in the Arts, talks with Curator Amanda Krugliak about their work together and the meaning of his exhibition PASTPERFECT/FUTURE TENSE at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.
Watch artist Richard Barnes as he escorts the whale across campus.
Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture
Joan Wallach Scott will discuss "Sexularism: On Gender Equality and Secularization" on November 19, 2009.
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Recently added: "The Funny Part: Political Humor and Its Role in Shaping the Democratic Process" from our winter 2009 conference "Talk Show Democracy."
Events
Book of Iterations
November 16, 2009 - January 22, 2010 (9 AM - 5 PM)
An exhibit by Pippa Skotnes. Reception December 3, 2009, 6:00-8:00pm.Gallery hours M-F 9:00am-5:00pm.
202 S. Thayer St, Ann Arbor, MI
Gallery is Room 1010Being Invited to One’s Own House: Reflections on Culture and Heritage in Techiman, Ghana
November 17, 2009 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Brown Bag Lecture: Remaking Heritage series
Raymond Silverman, History of Art/Center for Afroamerican and African Studies202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor
"Sexularism: On Gender Equality and Secularization"
November 19, 2009 (4 - 6 PM)
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.
Palmer Commons, Forum Hall 100 Washtenaw Avenue Ann Arbor, MI
Interpreting a Colonial Scandal: The Deployment of Communication in Eighteenth-Century French India
December 01, 2009 (12 - 1:30 PM)
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.
202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI
Archive, Museum, and the Safe House of Language
December 03, 2009 (9 AM - 4:30 PM)
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.” The conference derives from an exhibition the institute is mounting by University of Cape Town artist and writer Pippa Skotnes, based on her research in the Lucy Lloyd Archive from the Cape. In that archive, Skotnes discovered a dictionary from 1873 of a now-extinct “Bushmen.” She has constructed a magnificent multi-media exhibition of documentation, sculpture, and text. This conference brings six notable scholars together to address the issue of the colonial archive and museum in ways that challenge the kind, category, and historiographic inheritances of both. The conference will be followed by the opening reception for Skotnes Exhibit “Book of Iterations,” 6:00pm, Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer.
202 S. Thayer, room 2022
