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| Current and Upcoming Events for 2008: Brown Bag Series | | January 8, 12 pm, What Happened to …?
1/8/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“What Happened to Music History?”
Louise K. Stein, School of Music, Theatre and Dance
In its 20th-anniversary year, the Institute for the Humanities has organized a series of talks that look back at the intellectual trajectory of various disciplines and at the analytic lenses employed by scholars over the past two decades. Professor of Musicology Louise K. Stein has undertaken to take stock of trends, changes, and the current status of the field of Music History.
She has twice been a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities.
| Featuring our Fellows
1/15/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“Musical Responses to Disaster: The Rushford Flood of 2007”
David Schober, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College – CUNY
“For centuries, artists have been moved by tragedy -- by events both contemporary and historical. When my home town in rural Minnesota was largely destroyed by flooding in August, I could scarcely fathom how quickly everything had changed, especially in a quiet, nurturing community where change typically occurs very slowly. As the town continues its recovery, I am inspired by the extraordinary efforts of its citizens, including my parents, and countless volunteers from elsewhere; I am also beginning to create a compositional response to the incident.”
| Artists at Work
1/22/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“New Adventures in Videodance”
Peter Sparling, Department of Music, Theatre and Dance
Thurnau Professor of Dance Peter Sparling shares recent videodance works culled from his installations, “Allegorica” and “Report from Paris/Aix,” a series of “videocartespostales” made during his fall sabbatical in preparation for a full-evening dance production inspired by Cezanne.
He danced with the Jose Limon Dance Company from 1971-73. From 1973-87, he was a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company; since then he has returned often to perform, coach and teach. As a regisseur of the Martha Graham Trust, he has staged Graham’s works on his own company and on companies all over the world. In 1996-97, he held a Faculty Fellowship in the Institute for the Humanities.
| Featuring our Fellows
1/29/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“Beyond Category: Monsters, Non-Monsters, and the Sacred in Ancient Mesopotamia”
Piotr Michalowski, Near Eastern Studies
Do images of terror translate across the ages? The four thousand year old face of the creature Huwawa, as seen in Spirit into Script, the current exhibition at the Institute for the Humanities, is one of the more enigmatic and haunting images from ancient Mesopotamia. For the Mesopotamians it was something Other, as Huwawa not only came from the East, but was also unique, crossing classificatory boundaries, asocial, with no family or offspring. But the stories about him also reveal other aspects of magic, narrative, and textuality in ancient times.
Piotr Michalowski is George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In 2002-03, he held the Helmut F. Stern Professorship while a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities.
| Artists at Work
2/5/2008; 12:00 - 1:30
(cosponsor: University Musical Society)
“Making Strings Talk: Writing for the Guarneri Quartet”
Derek Bermel, composer, NYC
Derek Bermel will talk about the new piece of music, co-commissioned by the University Musical Society, that he composed for the Guarneri Quartet. It will be premièred on Saturday, February 9, at 8 pm, in Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St, Ann Arbor (for tickets, go to www.ums.org). He will also talk more generally chamber music for strings, sharing a composer’s insight into the inner workings and history of the string quartet.
Derek Bermel earned his DMA from the U-M School of Music in 1997, and is the winner of the 2007 Paul Boylan Award. He comes from New York City, where he is composer-in-residence of the American Composers Orchestra.
| Artists at Work
2/7/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“A Double Quartet”
William Bolcom, Composer, School of Music, Theatre and Dance
Pulitzer-prize-winning composer William Bolcom will talk about his new Double Quartet (2007). Co-commissioned by the University Musical Society, it will be prèmiered at 8 pm, on February 9, in Rackham Auditorium, in a concert featuring the Guarneri String Quartet and the Johannes String Quartet. For tickets, go to www.ums.org.
William Bolcom is Ross Lee Finney Distinguished Professor of Composition in the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America and honored with multiple Grammy Awards for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Bolcom is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas, symphonies and more.
| Featuring our Fellows
2/12/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“Tropes of ‘Home’: The Gender of Globalizing Markets in Chinese Urban Culture”
Haiping Yan, Theatre, Performance Studies and Critical Theory, UCLA
Working through a range of textual, visual and social materials, this talk explores the distinct configurations of the tropes of "home" (jia) in Chinese urban culture and explicates their intricate connotations from a fundamentally transnational perspective. Informed by recent developments in gender studies and shifts in critical theory, this essay attempts to raise some urgent questions not only integral to the on-going scholarly discussions about the tremendous transformations of contemporary Chinese culture and society but also central to the studies of modern Politics of visibility and disappearance, in an era of rapidly unfolding and crisis-ridden globalization.
| Featuring our Fellows
2/19/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
“Telic or Cyclic: Visualizing Patterns in History”
Alison Byrnes, Careers-in-the-Making Fellow
Alison Byrnes completed her M.F.A. at the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2007. During the spring/summer 2007 term, she held the Careers-in-the-Making Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities. She is currently completing her practicum for a Certificate in Museum Studies at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
| Bob Mankoff - “WHAT HAPPENED TO HUMOR? Its History and Future”
3/4/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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3/11/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Featuring our Fellows
| Jim Cogswell - “Thoughts on NOTHING TO SAY”
3/18/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Jim Cogswell, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan
Artists at Work Series
| Kevin K. Gaines - “What Happened to Black Studies?”
4/1/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Kevin K. Gaines (history) directs the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the study of U.S. and African-American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African-American cultural production; and the global dimensions of U.S. struggles over the meaning of citizenship. He is author of the award-winning Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century. In 2006, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
He was been elected president of the American Studies Association for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2008.
Free and open to the public
What Happened to … ?
| Sidonie Smith - “What Happened to Feminism?”
4/8/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Chair of the English Department. Her fields of interest include human rights and personal narrative, women’s autobiography, women’s travel narrative and memory, women’s studies in literature more generally, feminist theory, and postcolonial literatures.
Among her publications are:
A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation
Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women’s Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century
Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe (co-edited with Gisela Brinker-Gabler)
Moving Lives: Women’s Twentieth Century Travel Narratives
Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (with Kay Schaffer).
Free and open to the public
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