Fall 2009-Winter 2010

Upcoming events

Monday February 8, 2010
28th Keniston Lecture
Lecture given by Professor Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University. A reception will follow this lecture in the Assembly Hall of Rackham Graduate School.
3pm, Rackham Graduate School Amphitheatre

Thursday April 22-Sunday April 25, 2010
Annual American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference. Four-day conference with speakers from around the U.S. and Canada. Times and Venues TBD. For more information, please contact Professor Alison Cornish (acorn@umich.edu).

Past events

Thursday October 22, 2009
Poetry reading by Dolores Dorantes and Laura Solorzano. For more information please contact Brian Whitener (bwhiten@umich.edu).
7:30pm, Residential College Library

Event: Alexander Penetrated and Undone:  Queer Orientations in the Old English ’Letter of Alexander to Aristotle'
A workshop with Professor Eileen Joy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Reading selections for the workshop available from Terre Fisher (telf@umich.edu). Eileen Joy is associate professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Her current research project is on the Anglo-Latin and Old English Lives of Saint Guthlac and the queer erotics of unsettled inter-subjectivities.
4pm, 4th Fl RLL Commons, Modern Languages Bldg. (middle hallway)

Monday October 5, 2009
Two-Part Special Event: Introducing Eloisa Cartonera
The Eloisa Cartonera is a non-profit community-based publishing cooperative located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded in 2003, the Cartonera publishes low-cost, avant-garde works by writers from throughout Latin America. María Soledad Gómez and Norberto Santiago Vega of the Eloisa Cartonera (Cooperativa de Trabajo Gráfico, Editorial y de Reciclado) present to the public, meet with students, and faculty, and hold a workshop. For more information, please contact Professor Juli Highfill (highfill@umich.edu). Sponsors include RLL, LACS, Hatcher Graduate Library, LSA, MESA, and Rackham Graduate School.
Hands-on Workshop, FREE, 10a-12pm, Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery
To sign up for the workshop, please contact April Caldwell (apcaldwe@umich.edu).
Talk, FREE, 4pm, Hatcher Graduate Library. Washington Cucurto (founder) and Maria Soledad Gómez of Eloisa Cartonera will talk about their experiences as "cartoner" publishers and about the movement they started, where they are now, and their hopes for the future. Light refreshments will be served.

Thursday October 1, 2009
Conference: Conferral of the Encomienda de Número de la Orden de Isabel la Católica on Professor Frank P. Casa
This day conference is to honor retiring RLL faculty Frank Casa, professor of Spanish. Various speakers will present. A special presentation of the honor will be presented to Professor Casa by the Consul of Spain (Chicago) Ambassador Javier Rupérez at 5pm. An invitation only reception will be held after the event in the 4th Fl Assembly Hall, Rackham Graduate School. For more information, please contact Professor Enrique Garcia
(enriqueg@umich.edu).
10am-5pm, Hussey Room, Michigan League

Wednesday September 30, 2009
Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture: William Paulson
Dean Terry McDonald will honor Professor William Paulson on his appointment to the Edward Lorraine Walter Collegiate Professorship in Romance Languages and Literatures. For more information on this event, please contact Anne Hart (annehart@umich.edu), LSA Development. A public reception will follow this lecture.
4:10pm, Alumni Center Founders Room

Thursday September 24, 2009
Lecture: The Dangers of Judaism in Medieval Poetry, Painting, and Politics
Presented by Professor David Nirenberg, University of Chicago. Nirenberg is the author of the highly acclaimed Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1996), which studies social interaction between Jews, Christians, and Muslims within the context of Spain and France, in order to understand the role of violence in shaping the possibilities for coexistence. He is currently working on two book projects: one focused on the transformation of religious identities in Spain between the mass conversions of 1391 and the establishment of the Inquisition, the other on the functions of Jews and Judaism as figures of thought, from ancient Egypt to the present. This event is sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, the Department of History, the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Rackham Graduate Schoool. For more information, please contact Professor Ryan Szpiech (szpiech@umich.edu).
4pm, 1014 Tisch Hall

Wednesday September 16, 2009
Lecture: The Creolization of Theory
Presented by Professor Françoise Lionnet, UCLA. Lionnet is professor of French, Francophone Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lecture description: There has been much debate as to whether the notion of creolization, a historical process that is specific to particular locales and particular historical moments in the world, can be put to general use.  While arguing against the easy universalization of the concept, the goal of this paper is to bring into productive conversation theoretical approaches that might enable us to move past recent statements about the "death" of theory. I focus on some aspects of French theory and its translation to and depoliticization in the US academy, on ethnic studies and area studies in order to stress the creolized nature of our epistemologies and the becoming-minor of "theory." This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature.A reception follows this lecture.
4pm, 4th FL Commons, Modern Languages Bldg.

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