2008-03-28
4:00pm A lecture by Edward Watts - Food: light refreshments
Location: 3222 Angell Hall
"Then Sometimes He Goes Off":
The Indian Hater in Antebellum American Writing
A lecture by:
Edward Watts
Professor of English, Michigan State University
Friday, March 28th
4:00 p.m.
3222 Angell Hall
Edward Watts, Professor of English at Michigan State University, is the author most recently of In This Remote Country: The French Frontier in the American Imagination, 1780-1860, and co-editor of Messy Beginnings: Postcolonial Early American Studies and The First West: A Collection of American Frontier Writing. His talk will examine the antebellum literary appropriation of the figure of the Indian Hater--the young, white frontiersman who, witnessing the death of a family member, embarks on a mission of personal and then racial vengeance.
Copies of Professor Watts's talk and a selection of his essays are available in the resources section of the USists CTools site.
Please join us for exciting conversation and light refreshments.
The Indian Hater in Antebellum American Writing
A lecture by:
Edward Watts
Professor of English, Michigan State University
Friday, March 28th
4:00 p.m.
3222 Angell Hall
Edward Watts, Professor of English at Michigan State University, is the author most recently of In This Remote Country: The French Frontier in the American Imagination, 1780-1860, and co-editor of Messy Beginnings: Postcolonial Early American Studies and The First West: A Collection of American Frontier Writing. His talk will examine the antebellum literary appropriation of the figure of the Indian Hater--the young, white frontiersman who, witnessing the death of a family member, embarks on a mission of personal and then racial vengeance.
Copies of Professor Watts's talk and a selection of his essays are available in the resources section of the USists CTools site.
Please join us for exciting conversation and light refreshments.
5:00pm Islam in South Asia in Practice - Food: Food after the event
Location: 1636 SSWB
Scholarly Lecture Series: Barbara Metcalf -"Reflections on "Islam in South Asia in Practice: Is there a story to tell?"
Friday, March 28, 5pm–6:30pm
Room 1636 International Institute/SSWB
U-M Professor of History Barbara Metcalf offers a discussion as part of the CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Islamic Studies Initiative (ISI). Abstract: As editor of a volume forthcoming from Princeton University Press (in a series whose general editor is Don Lopez), I want to reflect on some 33 translations/excerpts of primary sources that comprise the volume. These sources challenge any easy account of distinctive Indic “synthesis” or relentless “Islamization,” to describe the everyday practices of worship, devotion, guidance, learning, and belonging of Muslims in South Asia. But they also make it possible to avoid a hopeless post-colonial conclusion that there is nothing but fragments, and thus to posit some central themes that are evident in the texts. Examples in the lecture include excerpts from the chapters of Michigan-based contributors.
Friday, March 28, 5pm–6:30pm
Room 1636 International Institute/SSWB
U-M Professor of History Barbara Metcalf offers a discussion as part of the CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Islamic Studies Initiative (ISI). Abstract: As editor of a volume forthcoming from Princeton University Press (in a series whose general editor is Don Lopez), I want to reflect on some 33 translations/excerpts of primary sources that comprise the volume. These sources challenge any easy account of distinctive Indic “synthesis” or relentless “Islamization,” to describe the everyday practices of worship, devotion, guidance, learning, and belonging of Muslims in South Asia. But they also make it possible to avoid a hopeless post-colonial conclusion that there is nothing but fragments, and thus to posit some central themes that are evident in the texts. Examples in the lecture include excerpts from the chapters of Michigan-based contributors.
3:00pm Distinguished Innovator Seminar - Food: Reeption following the event
Location: Chrysler Auditorium
Distinguished Innovator Seminar Series
03/28/08 - 3:00PM to 4:00PM in Chrysler Auditorium
03/28/08 - 3:00PM to 4:00PM in Chrysler Auditorium
12:30pm Pizza Lunch for Students - Food: Pizza
Location: Michigan League Kalamazoo Room
Pizza Lunch for Students - Michigan League Kalamazoo Room
11:30am Boundless Activism: Former Student Leaders Discuss - Food: Lunch provided
Location: 4448 East Hall
Boundless Activism: Former Student Leaders Discuss Their Continued
Commitment to Social Change
Friday, March 28, 2008; 11:30 – 1:00
4448 East Hall
Special Guests:
Dana McAllister, Magellan Communications, Former member of Latino Task
Force
Melissa Pope, Triangle Foundation, Former member of Native American
Student Association
Marita Etcubañez, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, Former
Minority Peer Advisor
Lunch provided. This event is FREE and open to ALL students!
Commitment to Social Change
Friday, March 28, 2008; 11:30 – 1:00
4448 East Hall
Special Guests:
Dana McAllister, Magellan Communications, Former member of Latino Task
Force
Melissa Pope, Triangle Foundation, Former member of Native American
Student Association
Marita Etcubañez, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, Former
Minority Peer Advisor
Lunch provided. This event is FREE and open to ALL students!
2008-03-27
4:00pm Violence and Nationalism - Food: Food
Location: Tisch 1014
The Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
Presents:
The Thursday Series
Lecture
with
Robert Donia
Independent Scholar
“Feasting at the Pity Party:
Violence and Nationalism in
Post-Yugoslav Southeastern Europe”
Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies
Thursday, March 27th
4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch 1014
Nationalism in Southeast Europe is distinguished by narratives that place perpetual persecution and self-pity at the center
of each nation’s historical experience. Departing from the view that violence consists solely of episodes
of physical conflict, Donia argues that victim-centered narratives have aided elites in sustaining group
solidarity through a broad spectrum of on-going political, rhetorical, architectural, and cultural engagements
that symbolically prefigure or memorialize physical violence.
Such pervasive violent engagements are likely to present continuing obstacles to the
Euro-Atlantic integration of newly independent Balkan lands.
Presents:
The Thursday Series
Lecture
with
Robert Donia
Independent Scholar
“Feasting at the Pity Party:
Violence and Nationalism in
Post-Yugoslav Southeastern Europe”
Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies
Thursday, March 27th
4:00–6:00 pm
Tisch 1014
Nationalism in Southeast Europe is distinguished by narratives that place perpetual persecution and self-pity at the center
of each nation’s historical experience. Departing from the view that violence consists solely of episodes
of physical conflict, Donia argues that victim-centered narratives have aided elites in sustaining group
solidarity through a broad spectrum of on-going political, rhetorical, architectural, and cultural engagements
that symbolically prefigure or memorialize physical violence.
Such pervasive violent engagements are likely to present continuing obstacles to the
Euro-Atlantic integration of newly independent Balkan lands.
6:30pm Experience the reality of homelessness - Food: Dinner
Location: Memorial Christian Church (730 Tappan Ave. - Corner of Hill & Tappan)
Join us for ICPJ's monthly "Dinner & a Movie" THIS Thursday, March 27th at 6:30pm to view the moving documentary:
Experience the reality of homelessness through the eyes of those who are living it.
Location: Memorial Christian Church (730 Tappan Ave. - Corner of Hill & Tappan)
Sponsored by the Hunger Task Force at the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (www.icpj.net)
See you there!
Experience the reality of homelessness through the eyes of those who are living it.
Location: Memorial Christian Church (730 Tappan Ave. - Corner of Hill & Tappan)
Sponsored by the Hunger Task Force at the Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice (www.icpj.net)
See you there!
7:00pm The Future of Food - Food: Organic pizza
Location: Room 1024 Dana Building
The Future of Food
Thursday, March 27th
7:00 PM
Room 1024 Dana Building
This film takes an in-depth look at into the controversy over genetically modified foods.
Learn more at the film's website: http://www.thefutureoffood.com/
FREE organic pizza from Silvio's will be served!
Please forward widely!
Maddie
www.sitemaker.umich.edu/mstar
P.S. MSTAR will be collecting plastic bags (marked with a #2 or #4) to recycle on the Diag tomorrow and Thursday from 10am to 1pm for Earth Week! Bring your plastic bags and get a FREE reusable shopping bag!
Thursday, March 27th
7:00 PM
Room 1024 Dana Building
This film takes an in-depth look at into the controversy over genetically modified foods.
Learn more at the film's website: http://www.thefutureoffood.com/
FREE organic pizza from Silvio's will be served!
Please forward widely!
Maddie
www.sitemaker.umich.edu/mstar
P.S. MSTAR will be collecting plastic bags (marked with a #2 or #4) to recycle on the Diag tomorrow and Thursday from 10am to 1pm for Earth Week! Bring your plastic bags and get a FREE reusable shopping bag!