April 2011

Galina Bolden (School of Communication, Rutgers University) Friday, April 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This presentation examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent...

Friday, April 29 / 4:00 PM Theater and Dance 1701 and Life Sciences Building 1001 This symposium will examine the role of morality in the visual arts from multiple perspectives, including those of practicing artists, art historians, and museum curators. Operating under the assumption that there are...

Najib Bounahai (Professor of Higher Education, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco) Friday, April 29th / 1:00 PM *please note new time and location* 2017 SSMS The talk is about the interplay between cinema and politics in Morocco over the last ten years. Morocco has initiated several ambitious and...

Ellen Anderson (playwright) Melinda Palacio (poet and novelist) D.J. Palladino (novelist and journalist) Sojourner Kincaid Rolle (poet and playwright) Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four local creative writers will discuss the ways in which notions of place have shaped their work. In “Loving Detroit Like...

Farai "Fafi" Bere (a.k.a 3 Percent) Thursday, April 21 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Bere focuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody...

Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 pm 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building This lecture focused on a certain trajectory in recent works by documentary filmmaker Madhusree Dutta: her preoccupation with the triad city-cinema-publics to...

Tuesday, April 19 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We invite interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a brainstorming meeting for the 2011-2012 IHC series Public Goods. Public Goods will be a year-long program at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center that will explore...

The IHC is now accepting applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2012 Summer Stipend program. To be considered for a Summer Stipend, faculty members must submit all application materials by Wednesday, August 31, 2011.  

Monday, April 18 - Friday, April 22 Old Gym Gallery 479 Artist Desiree D'Alessandro, in collaboration with Raymond Douglas, embraces Old Gym Gallery 479's sports and recreation history in this exhibition that focuses on hybridizing the fields of art and athleticism. Ten student boxers from the local...

Friday - Saturday, April 15 - 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is an interdisciplinary exploration of how form arises from practice. Grammatical, literary, and cultural structures become entrenched over time and with repetition. Ideas and behaviors become increasingly routine, ritualized, automatic, opaque to self-reflection,...

Alessandro Barchiesi (Latin Literature, University of Siena, Arezzo) Friday, April 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM ** PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE** HSSB 4041 This lecture will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural phenomena, volcanic and sulphurous. Professor...

Ronald Mellor (History, UCLA) Monday, April 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ronald J. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman history since 1976. Prof. Mellor’s research centers on ancient religion and Roman historiography. ...

Ido Haar (editor of I Am Carolyn Parker, dir. Jonathan Demme) Friday, April 8, 2011/12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building (SSMS) Reclaiming home in the wake of disaster is the theme of this month’s meeting of the Environmental Media Initiative Research Group (EMIRG). The discussion...

Ido Haar (Documentary Filmmaker) Friday, April 1, 2011 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. For 9 Star Hotel, Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained...