Events
The Institute offers many kinds of events, most free and open to the public. Our weekly Brown Bag lectures cover a wide-range of topics in the humanities and the arts. They are delivered by scholars, artists and public intellectuals from many fields, from either UM or other institutions. We also organize major conferences (funded by private donation and the Mellon Foundation) and, once a year, a leading scholar is invited to give our prestigious Mark and Constance Jacobson Lecture. Our museum quality gallery allows us to mount four or more exhibitions every year, often in concert with other units of the University. Exhibition is always connected to lecture, seminar, conference and the like, allowing us to integrate the arts and the humanities. Our profile of public outreach includes our longstanding Spring Seminars and partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival. Our goal is to bring the humanities and arts to the wider public through having these events live a second life in our on-line video library. And you will find many of our Brown Bag, conferences and conversations with our Fellows highlighted and archived throughout this site.
Upcoming 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
Shift(s) in(g) the Humanities: The Future of a Futuristic Dissertation
December 08, 2009 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Brown Bag Lecture: Emerging Scholar series
Bulbul Tiwari currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University.
202 S. Thayer St., Room 2022 Ann Arbor, MI
