2004 - 2005
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education'
September 12, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Maris Vinovskis, History and Public Policy
Diversity SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Racial Integration as a Compelling Interest'
September 19, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Elizabeth Anderson, Philosophy
Diversity SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Documenting Apartheid: Thirty Years of Reporting on South Africa'
September 20, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Peter Davis, documentary filmmaker, film historian, and author
Documentary and Film SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Limited Fork'
September 26, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Thylias Moss, poet, English
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Desperately Seeking Questions'
October 03, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
William Paulson, Romance Languages
Rethinking the Humanities SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The International Community Faces up to the Rwandan Genocide'
October 10, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
José Kagabo, African Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Mellon Foundation Global Fellow
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Thursday Brown Bag Lecture - Waste and Material Culture: Living with Abandoned Things
October 13, 2004 (12 - 2 PM)
Gay Hawkins, School of Media and Communications, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
CANCELLED Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Republican Experiment: Political Participation in the Americas of the Nineteenth Century'
October 24, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Hilda Sabato, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Lecture - 'Criminal Accounting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Unreal'
October 27, 2004 (4 - 5:30 PM)
Jean Comaroff, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'On the Road with The Vagabonds'
October 31, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Nicholas Delbanco, author, English
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Poetry for the Page, the Stage and the Human Voice'
November 07, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Arnold Weinstein, writer, New York City
Artists-At-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Panel Discussion - Annals of Revolt: 1979
November 12, 2004 (10 - 11:30 AM)
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N Clark St, Chicago
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Piercing Maya’s Veil: Musical Symbols of Illusion and Truth in an Opera about the Buddha'
November 14, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Siglind Bruhn, music researcher
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
CANCELLED Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West'
November 21, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Valerie Traub, English and Women's Studies
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'From Harvey River'
December 05, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Lorna Goodison, poet, English
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Life and Times of a Modernist Tibetan Monk'
December 12, 2004 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Donald Lopez, Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Building on History: Piranesi and Vico'
January 09, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Erika Naginski, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruins of Modernity SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Detroit: Living Concepts for a Fragmented City'
January 23, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Lars Gräbner, Architecture and Urban Planning
Ruins of Modernity SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Turn Within: Self Absorption, the Media, and the Fate of America'
January 30, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Susan J. Douglas, Communication Studies
Documentary and Film SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
The Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture - 'History and Narrative'
February 01, 2005 (4 - 6 PM)
Fredric Jameson, Visiting Jacobson Fellow, Institute for the Humanities
Pendleton Room, Michigan Union, 530 S State St, Ann Arbor
The Marc and Constance Jacobson Discussion - 'History and Narrative'
February 02, 2005 (3 - 6 PM)
Fredric Jameson, with respondents Andreas Schonle, Marjorie Levinson and Geoff Eley. A reception will follow the discussion.
Pendleton Room, Michigan Union, 530 S State St, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Strategic Essentialism? Race, Violence and Sex in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues'
February 06, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Melanie Boyd, Women's Studies and English
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Public Outreach Test 01 - 2005
February 10 - March 31, 2005 (1 - 3 PM)
Public Outreach Test 01 - 2005 description.
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'What is "Classical" about Classical Antiquity'
February 13, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
James I. Porter, Classics and Comparative Literature
Rethinking the Humanities SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Thursday Lecture - 'A Conversation with Adam Zagajewski'
February 16, 2005 (4 - 5:30 PM)
Adam Zagajewski
Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Painter as Activist: Creating Place, Creating Resistance'
February 20, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Janie Paul, Art + Design, Social Work
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Public Outreach Test 1
March 01 - April 01, 2005 (10 PM - 11 AM)
A spring weekend retreat for exploring the humanities and arts in a convivial University of Michigan setting
4th Floor Conference Rooms, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor and the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, 1109 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Risk, and its Place in the Life and Art of Poetry'
March 06, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Carl Phillips, poet, Washington University, St Louis
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'By the Ground and At Dusk: Photographic Remnants of the Soviet Union'
March 13, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Boris Mikhailov, photographer, Ukraine and Berlin
Ruins of Modernity SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'What's "Sacred" About Violence in Colonial America? Some Preliminary Thoughts'
March 20, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Susan Juster, History
Featuring Our Fellows SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'What Is It That Literary Humanists Do?'
March 27, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Ross Chambers, emeritus, Romance Languages
Rethinking the Humanities SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Poetic Embodiment'
April 03, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Linda Gregerson, English
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The World of Romanian Classical Music'
April 10, 2005 (12 - 1:30 PM)
Cornel Taranu, Romanian composer and conductor
Artists-at-Work SeriesOsterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor
