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Events for Brown Bag Series - 2008
January 8, 12 pm, What Happened to …?
1/8/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Louise K. Stein, School of Music, Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan
“What Happened to Music History?”

Featuring our Fellows
1/15/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

David Schober, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY
“Musical Responses to Disaster: The Rushford Flood of 2007”

Artists at Work
1/22/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Peter Sparling, Department of Music, Theatre and Dance , University of Michigan
“New Adventures in Videodance”

Featuring our Fellows
1/29/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Piotr Michalowski, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
“Beyond Category: Monsters, Non-Monsters, and the Sacred in Ancient Mesopotamia”

Artists at Work
2/5/2008; 12:00 - 1:30

(cosponsor: University Musical Society)
Derek Bermel, composer, New York City
“Making Strings Talk: Writing for the Guarneri Quartet”

Artists at Work
2/7/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

William Bolcom, Composer, School of Music, Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan
“A Double Quartet”

Featuring our Fellows
2/12/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Haiping Yan, Theatre, Performance Studies and Critical Theory, UCLA
“Tropes of ‘Home’: The Gender of Globalizing Markets in Chinese Urban Culture”

Featuring our Fellows
2/19/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Alison Byrnes, Careers-in-the-Making Fellow
“Telic or Cyclic: Visualizing Patterns in History”

Bob Mankoff - “What Happened to Humor? Its History and Future”
3/4/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and president of the Cartoon Bank
What Happened to … ?

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Nasr Abu-Zayd - “Is the Humanist Hermeneutic Approach to the Qur’an Possible?”
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 & 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, director of the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
What Happened to … ?

Sidonie Smith - “What Happened to Feminism?”
4/8/2008; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Sidonie Smith, Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies; Chair, English, University of Michigan
What Happened to... ?