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Jan 23
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series
9:00am, Institute For Social Research
A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am "Discourses of White nationalism & racism today" by Alexandra Stern, Professor & Chair Dept of American Culture, University of Michigan
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Feb 4
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series
9:00am, Institute For Social Research
A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am "Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Feb 13
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series
9:00am, Institute For Social Research
A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am "Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University
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Feb 25
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series
9:00am, Institute For Social Research
A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am "Historical racism & contemporary social structure" by David Cunningham, Professor, Dept of Sociology Hedwig Lee, Professor, Dept of Sociology Geoff Ward, Associate Professor, Dept of African & African American Studies all of Washington University in St. Louis
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Mar 14
Sexual Modernities Conference
12:00pm, Angell Hall
This three-day interdisciplinary conference, featuring invited scholars and graduate student panels, aims to generate collegial scholarly conversation around the intersections of sexuality and modernity. The conference is being organized by the U-M Modernist Studies Workshop. Attendance is free and open to the public. Invited speakers will include: Benjamin Kahan (Lousiana State University), Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania), and Marcia Ochoa (UC Santa Cruz).
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Mar 15
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
9:00am, Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Call for Papers Cartographies of Silence: A Conference for Readers and Writers 23rd Annual CLIFF Conference University of Michigan, Ann Arbor March 15-16, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Professor Irena Klepfisz Extended Submission Deadline: December 21, 2018 It was an old theme even for me:Language cannot do everything– -- Adrienne Rich, “Cartographies of Silence” Silence is not an absence, but is charged with meaning and action. To speak of silence means to speak of a multitude of paradoxes, as well as to enter an exciting avenue for literature, activism and interdisciplinary scholarship. Our conference interrogates what it means to plumb silences in the archive in search of unheard voices, and invites scholars to investigate the meanings of silence as a critical category. In particular, this conference is interested in mapping – across scholarly and creative disciplines – questions of translating silences in the archive, in the text, in the subject, and in activism. What are the possible ways of translating silence when events and experiences resist such translation? What challenges and possibilities does silence offer translators and scholars, who are tasked with making meaning of both the enunciated and the unsaid or untranslatable? How can we engage with knowledge that does not yield itself to current academic frameworks? In what ways can a focus on silence help to transform knowledge itself? We welcome papers that take creative, interdisciplinary, and experimental forms. In addition to academic panels, the conference will include a reading of creative written work. We invite applicants who are submitting a paper proposal to include a written creative piece (3-5 minutes) that they would like to read. Acceptances to the conference will be based on paper proposals. Professor Irena Klepfisz received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in Victorian literature, and later did post-doctoral work in Yiddish at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. In addition to teaching in numerous universities around the country, Klepfisz taught for ten years in the college program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s maximum security prison. Last year, she retired after 22 years of teaching Jewish Women's Studies at Barnard College. Klepfisz immigrated to the U.S. at age 8 and was raised among Yiddish-speaking, Jewish Labor Bundist (socialist) Holocaust survivors in the Bronx, where she attended public schools, a Yiddish shule, and mitlshul. She was an activist during the Second Wave, particularly in the lesbian/feminist movement, and addressed issues of anti-Semitism, Israeli/Palestinian peace, Jewish identity, and veltlekhe yidishkayt/secular Yiddish culture. Klepfisz’s extensive publishing and performance record includes founding and co-editing Conditions magazine, serving as the Yiddish editor of the Jewish feminist Bridges, contributing to Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology, and co-editing The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. She authored two performance pieces commissioned by the Jewish Museum (NY): Bread and Candy: Songs of the Holocaust and Zeyre eygene verter: In their own words (Yiddish women writers). She is the author of A Few Words in the Mother Tongue (poems) and Dreams of an Insomniac (essays), and most recently co-edited The Stars Bear Witness: The Jewish Labor Bund 1897-2017 and Koved zeyer ondenk: Honor to Their Memory (for the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). Some potential themes and areas of study could be: - political silence - voice - sound studies - disability studies - technologies of hearing/recording - amnesia, trauma, and affect - lacunae and absence - resistance and activism - queer Yiddish - black feminisms, Jewish feminisms third world/ women of colour feminisms - liminality, borders, and margins - decolonization - critical race theory - animal studies - post-humanism - alternative epistemologies - intersectionality - LGBTQIA identities - marginal archives - difference - language - translation, including self-translation - poetics of silence - life writing, autobiography, and testimony/testimonio - erasure and institutional forgetting - post-colonialism - untranslatability - queer studies - the politics of location - critical cartography - aesthetics - migration We invite graduate students in Comparative Literature and across the humanities that address the concerns outlined above. Paper proposals of no more than 250 words may be submitted to cliff.complit@umich.edu. Please include a short bio of yourself with the abstract. Grace Hobbs, Genta Nishku, Shalmali Jadhav, Shira Schwartz, Duygu Ergun CLIFF 2019 Conference Organizers Department of Comparative Literature University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
