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In addition to events related to the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (RLL), RLL at the University of Michigan likes to keep up with happenings in the Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit area. Below is a listing of upcoming events.
Events for February 2012
Events for March 2012Events for April 2012Ongoing Events
4, Saturday
Milonga Picante: UM Michigan Argentine Tango Club
Tango dancing to music spun by a DJ. Note: People not affiliated with the U-M must arrive before 9 p.m. $10 (members, $5).
8pm-midnight, Michigan League Vandenberg Room
Spanish Storytimes at Ann Arbor District Library
Native Spanish speakers tell stories and lead songs in Spanish for preschoolers through 5th graders. For more information please call (734) 327-8301.
1-1:30pm, FREE, AADL Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower (between Stone School & Packard)
7, Tuesday
Spanish Readers Group at Nicola's Books
All invited to join a discussion, in Spanish, of Los Enamoramientos, Spanish novelist Javier Marias’s tale of a woman who discovers disturbing truths about a married couple after the husband’s murder. For more information, please call (734) 662-0600.
6:45pm, FREE, Nicola’s, 2513 Jackson, Westgate shopping center
9-10, Thursday-Friday
18th Annual Charles F. Fraker Conference
“Caring, Protecting, Policing: Unveiling the Rhetoric of the Guardian”
Keynote Speakers: Jacques Lezra, Thurs Feb 9 @ 6pm; Alberto Moreiras, Fri Feb 10 @ 6pm
Also Fri Feb 10: Workshop w/ Jacques Lezra and Alberto Moreiras @ 9am. Readings: By Lezra "Three Women, Three Bombs" from Wild Materialism; by Moreiras "Hyperneoliberalism. A Biopolitical Apotrope" and "Cujusdam nigri & scabiosi Brasiliani. Ranciere and Derrida." Registration required. To register click here. Sponsors: American Culture, Anthropology, Art History, Center for European Studies, Comparative Literature, Comprehensive Studies, English, History, Institute for the Humanities, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Philosophy, Rackham Graduate School, Rackham Student Government, Romance Languages & Literatures, Screen Arts and Cultures. For the entire schedule, click here.
4th Fl Assembly Hall, Rackham Graduate School
14, Tuesday
Documentary: The Witches of Gambaga (Ghana/UK, 2010) by Yaba Badoe
Part of the "Women Visualizing Africa" film series. The Witches of Gambaga is the 2010 winner of “Best Documentary” at the Black International Film Festival and the 2nd prize winner for best documentary at the 2011 FESPACO. This documentary deals with a community of women outlawed from society. Accused of witchcraft, they decide to talk about their condition as victims of a wide range of horrendous abuses, which many women are subjected to in the African context. French w/ English subtitles. Showing is FREE and open to the public. Q & A with filmmaker follows the showing. This series is sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), the Department of Comparative Literature (Year of Anachronism), African Studies Center, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute (II), Institute for Research on Women and Gender ((IRWG), Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL), Center of Education on Women(CEW), Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS), Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).
4pm, 2435 North Quad, 105 South State Street
16, Thursday
Talk: Indigenous Languages in Contemporary Latin America: Nahuatl
Presented by RLL graduate students Martin Vega and Brian Whitener. This event is part of the "Language: the Human Quintessence" theme semester. Talk is focused on Nahuatl, an indigenous language originally spoken by the Aztecs and spoken mainly in Central Mexico.
4pm, 2435 North Quad, 105 South State Street
18, Saturday
Milonga Picante: UM Michigan Argentine Tango Club
Tango dancing to music spun by a DJ. Note: People not affiliated with the U-M must arrive before 9 p.m. $10 (members, $5).
8pm-midnight, Michigan League Vandenberg Room
Spanish Storytimes at Ann Arbor District Library
Native Spanish speakers tell stories and lead songs in Spanish for preschoolers through 5th graders. For more information please call (734) 327-8301.
1-1:30pm, FREE, AADL Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower (between Stone School & Packard)
25, Saturday
Spanish Storytimes at Ann Arbor District Library
Native Spanish speakers tell stories and lead songs in Spanish for preschoolers through 5th graders. For more information please call (734) 327-8301.
1-1:30pm, FREE, AADL Malletts Creek Branch, 3090 E. Eisenhower (between Stone School & Packard)
27, Mon (Feb) - 2, Fri (March)
Winter break. No classes. RLL Main Office remains open
6, Tuesday
Documentary: Cuba: An African Odyssey (France/Egypt, 2008) directed by Jihan El-Tahri
Part of the "Women Visualizing Africa" film series. In this documentary, El-Tahri returns to the unforgotten and untold story of the intense relationship between Cuba and the continent of Africa. This revealing, award-winning documentary adds to our understanding of the Cold War through its least-known context: Africa. From 1961 to 1991, the Dark Continent was a battleground for four different competing interests. From Che Guevara’s efforts in the Congo to the triumphant battle at Cuito Cuanavale, Cuba: An African Odyssey tells the story of those internationalists who won their battles but ultimately lost the War. French w/ English subtitles. Showing is FREE and open to the public. Q & A with filmmaker follows showing. This series is sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), the Department of Comparative Literature (Year of Anachronism), African Studies Center, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute (II), Institute for Research on Women and Gender ((IRWG), Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL), Center of Education on Women(CEW), Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS), Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).
4pm, 2435 North Quad, 105 South State
9, Friday
Movie: The Conquest (France, 2011)
Directed by Xavier Durringer. "The day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (a tour-de-force performance by Denis Podalydes) has shut himself away at home. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia (Florence Pernel), to no avail. The previous five years start to unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s unstoppable ascent to power, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs – in other words, politics as usual." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 9, 10, and 11.
7pm & 9:30pm (Fri & Sat); 2pm & 4:30pm (Sun), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
10, Saturday
Movie: L'Atalante (France, 1934)
Directed by Jean Vigo. "L'Atalante might be the most eloquently primal love story ever put on film - the only feature-length movie directed by Jean Vigo, who died as he completed filming at the age of 29." For more information please visit the DIA website.
4pm, DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
Movie: The Conquest (France, 2011)
Directed by Xavier Durringer. "The day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (a tour-de-force performance by Denis Podalydes) has shut himself away at home. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia (Florence Pernel), to no avail. The previous five years start to unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s unstoppable ascent to power, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs – in other words, politics as usual." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 9, 10, and 11.
7pm & 9:30pm (Fri & Sat); 2pm & 4:30pm (Sun), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
11, Sunday
Movie: The Conquest (France, 2011)
Directed by Xavier Durringer. "The day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (a tour-de-force performance by Denis Podalydes) has shut himself away at home. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia (Florence Pernel), to no avail. The previous five years start to unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s unstoppable ascent to power, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs – in other words, politics as usual." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 9, 10, and 11.
7pm & 9:30pm (Fri & Sat); 2pm & 4:30pm (Sun), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
12, Monday
Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL) Information Session for Undergraduates
Opportunity for students to meet faculty, learn more about the Department and resources. Opportunities to declare a concentration or minor. Prizes will be offered. Refreshments will be served.
4-5pm, Forum Hall, Palmer Commons
15, Thursday
Event: Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe
"Language and National Identity in Europe"
Presented by Diego Marani (European Commission). Diego Marani is novelist, translator, and newspaper columnist; senior linguist and policy officer at the Directorate General for Interpretation, European Commission. Sponsors: University of Michigan’s Center for European Studies and Department of Linguistics. Part of LSA Theme Semester, “Language: the Human Quintessence.” Free and open to the public. For more information, contact CES at ces-euc@umich.edu or 734.647.2743
4 pm, 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
23, Friday
Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)
Directed by Frederick Wiseman. "A sequel of sorts to La Danse, his extraordinary 2009 portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, the 39th feature by non-fiction master Frederick Wiseman takes us behind and in front of the scenes at another storied Paris cultural institution: the Crazy Horse erotic cabaret, now in its 60th year of continuous operation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1.
7pm (Fri March 23 & Sat March 24); 2pm (Sun March 25), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
24, Saturday
Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)
Directed by Frederick Wiseman. "A sequel of sorts to La Danse, his extraordinary 2009 portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, the 39th feature by non-fiction master Frederick Wiseman takes us behind and in front of the scenes at another storied Paris cultural institution: the Crazy Horse erotic cabaret, now in its 60th year of continuous operation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1.
7pm (Fri March 23 & Sat March 24); 2pm (Sun March 25), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
25, Sunday
Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)
Directed by Frederick Wiseman. "A sequel of sorts to La Danse, his extraordinary 2009 portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, the 39th feature by non-fiction master Frederick Wiseman takes us behind and in front of the scenes at another storied Paris cultural institution: the Crazy Horse erotic cabaret, now in its 60th year of continuous operation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1.
7pm (Fri March 23 & Sat March 24); 2pm (Sun March 25), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
29, Thursday
30th Hayward Keniston Lecture
Presented by Professor Roberto Esposito, Italian political philosopher (Italian Institute for the Human Sciences, Naples). A reception immediately follows the lecture. Professor Esposito teaches contemporary philosophy at the Italian Institute for the Human Sciences in Naples and is known for his work on biopolitics and political theory. His most famous books, Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Stanford University Press, 2009) and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) have both been translated to English by Professor Timothy Campbell (Cornell University). 4pm, Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons, 100 Washtenaw Avenue
30, Friday
Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)
Directed by Frederick Wiseman. "A sequel of sorts to La Danse, his extraordinary 2009 portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, the 39th feature by non-fiction master Frederick Wiseman takes us behind and in front of the scenes at another storied Paris cultural institution: the Crazy Horse erotic cabaret, now in its 60th year of continuous operation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1.
7pm (Fri March 23 & Sat March 24); 2pm (Sun March 25), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
31, Saturday
Movie: Harvest (France, 1937)
Directed by Marcel Pagnol. "Legendary French actor Fernandel is an itinerant tinker who decides to “sell” his mistress – a down-on-her-luck cabaret singer played by Orane Demazis – to a wild, hermit-like hunter, the sole resident of his now-abandoned town. The tale of how this unlikely couple find themselves at one with the land – planting wheat, establishing a home, creating a child – is the core of one of the most lyrically poetic dramas in the history of the French cinema." For more information visit the DIA website.
4pm, DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)
Directed by Frederick Wiseman. "A sequel of sorts to La Danse, his extraordinary 2009 portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, the 39th feature by non-fiction master Frederick Wiseman takes us behind and in front of the scenes at another storied Paris cultural institution: the Crazy Horse erotic cabaret, now in its 60th year of continuous operation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1.
7pm (Fri March 23 & Sat March 24); 2pm (Sun March 25), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
1, Sunday
Movie: Crazy Horse (USA/France, 2011)
Directed by Frederick Wiseman. "A sequel of sorts to La Danse, his extraordinary 2009 portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, the 39th feature by non-fiction master Frederick Wiseman takes us behind and in front of the scenes at another storied Paris cultural institution: the Crazy Horse erotic cabaret, now in its 60th year of continuous operation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings March 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1.
7pm (Fri March 23 & Sat March 24); 2pm (Sun March 25), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
6, Friday
Movie: The Salt of Life (Italy, 2011)
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio. "In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life – but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 6,7,8,13,14, and 15.
7pm (Fri April 6 & Sat April 7); 2pm (Sun April 8), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
7, Saturday
Movie: The Salt of Life (Italy, 2011)
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio. "In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life – but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 6,7,8,13,14, and 15.
7pm (Fri April 6 & Sat April 7); 2pm (Sun April 8), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
8, Sunday
Movie: The Salt of Life (Italy, 2011)
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio. "In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life – but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 6,7,8,13,14, and 15.
7pm (Fri April 6 & Sat April 7); 2pm (Sun April 8), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
10, Tuesday
Double Feature
Documentary: La femme invisible (The Invisible Woman) (Franco-Cameroonian, 2009)
Film: Calypso at Dirty Jim’s (Franco-Cameroonian, 2010)
Both films were directed by Pascale Obolo. La femme invisible is a six-minute poetic tale about how African women are invisible in the city of Paris. Calypso is the soul of Trinidad. For the past three centuries, Calypso storytellers have been the “Chantwell” of the Creole world. While improvising and resisting any kind of censorship, the calypsonians tell stories of slavery, freedom, war and everyday life through their poetry. Calypso emphasizes love, along with a high dose of humor and sex. With captivating melodies and timeless hits, their rhythms free the bodies of the audience who sing with them the joy and drama of the journey of these Caribbean nations. Calypso at Dirty Jim’s tells the story of with a gathering of this generation of artists in the heart of the Calypso City and on stage at the infamous ‘Dirty Jim’s Swizzle Club’ in Trinidad. Showing is FREE and open to the public. Q &A with filmmaker follows the showing. This series is sponsored by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), the Department of Comparative Literature (Year of Anachronism), African Studies Center, Institute for the Humanities, International Institute (II), Institute for Research on Women and Gender ((IRWG), Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (RLL), Center of Education on Women(CEW), Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS), Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).
4pm, 2435 North Quad, 105 South Street
13, Friday
Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. "Four desperate men, stranded without money or hope in a desolate town in Central America, are offered $2,000 each to drive trucks filled with nitroglycerine over 300 miles of rocky, pitted, decrepit mountain roads in order to put out a raging oil-well fire. Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear is one of the great movie thrillers – and one of the most nerve-wracking." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22.
7pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 2pm (Sun April 15); 9:30pm (Fri April 20 & Sat April 21); 4:30pm (Sun April 22), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
Movie: The Salt of Life (Italy, 2011)
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio. "In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life – but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 6,7,8,13,14, and 15.
10pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 5pm (Sun April 15), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
14, Saturday
Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. "Four desperate men, stranded without money or hope in a desolate town in Central America, are offered $2,000 each to drive trucks filled with nitroglycerine over 300 miles of rocky, pitted, decrepit mountain roads in order to put out a raging oil-well fire. Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear is one of the great movie thrillers – and one of the most nerve-wracking." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22.
7pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 2pm (Sun April 15); 9:30pm (Fri April 20 & Sat April 21); 4:30pm (Sun April 22), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
15, Sunday
Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. "Four desperate men, stranded without money or hope in a desolate town in Central America, are offered $2,000 each to drive trucks filled with nitroglycerine over 300 miles of rocky, pitted, decrepit mountain roads in order to put out a raging oil-well fire. Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear is one of the great movie thrillers – and one of the most nerve-wracking." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22.
7pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 2pm (Sun April 15); 9:30pm (Fri April 20 & Sat April 21); 4:30pm (Sun April 22), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
17, Tuesday
Winter 2012 classes end
19-26, Thurs-Thurs
Winter 2012 final exams
20, Friday
Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. "Four desperate men, stranded without money or hope in a desolate town in Central America, are offered $2,000 each to drive trucks filled with nitroglycerine over 300 miles of rocky, pitted, decrepit mountain roads in order to put out a raging oil-well fire. Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear is one of the great movie thrillers – and one of the most nerve-wracking." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22.
7pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 2pm (Sun April 15); 9:30pm (Fri April 20 & Sat April 21); 4:30pm (Sun April 22), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
21, Saturday
Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. "Four desperate men, stranded without money or hope in a desolate town in Central America, are offered $2,000 each to drive trucks filled with nitroglycerine over 300 miles of rocky, pitted, decrepit mountain roads in order to put out a raging oil-well fire. Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear is one of the great movie thrillers – and one of the most nerve-wracking." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22.
7pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 2pm (Sun April 15); 9:30pm (Fri April 20 & Sat April 21); 4:30pm (Sun April 22), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
22, Sunday
Movie: The Wages of Fear (France, 1953)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. "Four desperate men, stranded without money or hope in a desolate town in Central America, are offered $2,000 each to drive trucks filled with nitroglycerine over 300 miles of rocky, pitted, decrepit mountain roads in order to put out a raging oil-well fire. Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear is one of the great movie thrillers – and one of the most nerve-wracking." For more information please visit the DIA website. Showings April 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22.
7pm (Fri April 13 & Sat April 14); 2pm (Sun April 15); 9:30pm (Fri April 20 & Sat April 21); 4:30pm (Sun April 22), DIA Theater, 5200 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI 48202
27, Friday
RLL Spring Reception for Graduating Concentrators
Annual event to celebrate and recognize RLL's outstanding graduating undergraduates. Light refreshments will be served.
3-5pm, location: TBA
Ongoing Events
Friday September 23 - Friday December 23, 2011
Exhibit: Narrative and Image: Visualizing the Mediterranean World
An exhibition of maps, images and texts drawn primarily from the Map and Special Collections Libraries that illustrate the interconnections of geography, history and literature of the Mediterranean. For hours, see www.lib.umich.edu/events. Sponsor: Hatcher Graduate Library
Audubon Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library, 913 S. University
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