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n June 14, people gathered in Hill Auditorium for a pop-up performance of Mozart’s Requiem in a memorial concert for the victims of the Orlando shooting. One of the attendees commented to a reporter that the music offered a place of solace and refuge, a deeply felt respite from the cacophony of online chatter, the buzz of bits of information, political sound bites, and competing analyses. Requiem aeternam dona ets (Grant them eternal life), it begins; then taps the storm of anger and hopelessness in the Sequentia’s Dies Irae (Day of wrath); and further on whispers promise in the Sanctus (Holy); and sends the audience away with the lifting surety and bodily resonance of Lux aeterna luceat eis (May eternal light shine on them). Musical form. Embodied rhythm. Latin language. Instrumental timbre. Voices in ensemble. The pain and suffering of loss and mourning. The yearning for a resonant survival. The embodied affect of memory. The act of witnessing to an historical event. Such moments capture the irrefutable necessity of the work of the arts and humanities in the world, everyday, always.
This past year the institute presented the Year of Conversions, a year-long inquiry into the histories, politics, aesthetics, and effects of conversions of all kinds. Spurred by our participation in the fifteen-partner collaboration on Early Modern Conversions organized out of McGill University’s Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, we offered the campus and the public a full calendar of exhibitions, talks, conferences, and performances often focused on the early modern period but ranging far beyond that period and across sites of conversion related to the environment, the body, sexuality, and more. In the fall, Rackham Auditorium was filled to standing room only to hear Naomi Klein talk on environmental degradation and climate change from her book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Throughout the year, a succession of exhibitions in our gallery, about which you will read in the report from curator Amanda Krugliak, continued to bring undergraduate students into the institute for gallery talks and bring artists and scholars together for panel presentations on contemporary trends in arts movements and activisms. The Year of Conversions culiminated in the May seminar and annual meeting of the members of the Early Modern Conversions grant project. At one meeting session, members of organized reading groups interviewed colleagues speaking as Augustine, Erasmus, and Spinoza (all authors of the books read). In this way, figures from the early modern period found reanimation on the Michigan campus.
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Farina Mir, Laila Lalami, and Sidonie Smith
In fall 2016 we launch the Year of the Humanities and Public Policy. I’ve long had the idea of developing with colleagues a graduate certificate in the humanities and public policy as another route to providing opportunities for students to engage with a broader public and to advance the work of the humanities in the world. This special focus will provide numerous occasions over the year to explore the place of the arts and humanities in the realms of public policy. Launched at the end of this past year with our collaboration in a five-week series on incarceration titled Humanize the Numbers, the 2016-17 year will place such topics on the table as citizenship, surveillance, education, water, migration, housing, public art, accessibility, human rights, patents, loot and ruin. I am hopeful that the year will energize academic humanists and humanistic social scientists to engage with public policy theorists and practitioners and to translate their scholarship and hard-earned knowledge into publicly facing forms of communication. For, the work we do on understanding such things as memory, ethics, the nature of the public, language and discourse, modes of curation, the politics of representation, constructed space and affective place, all this knowledge is critical to the times, to the future of a vibrant public sphere, to the diversity, inclusiveness and accessibility that ground the values of the country. Just as surely as Mozart’s Requiem is.
Sidonie Smith Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities Professor of English and Women’s Studies Director, Institute for the Humanities
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Alison Cornish, professor, Romance languages and literatures; Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow “Medieval Remediation”
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The phenomenon of what media theorists call remediation is as least as old as the shift from speech to writing, from scroll to codex, and from one language to another. In Dante’s time engagement with literature was being transformed by the use of paper instead of parchment and by widespread translation of Latin texts into local vernaculars. With the adoption of new media comes an awareness of the ephemeral nature of all material supports and of what gets lost (as in translation) in the substitution of one for another. Dante’s considerations of the materiality of the medium of sound—from infernal examples of involuntarily excreted words and human speech metamorphosed into inhuman noise to the musical passages of the Purgatorio and Paradiso—are connected with poignant concerns about the contingent life of the vernacular: inevitably entwined, as it is, in a relentless process of re-mediation. Andreas Gailus, associate professor, Germanic languages and literatures; Helmut F. Stern Fellow “Life Form” The notion of “life” has become a focal point of study and dispute in diverse fields, from political theory to ethics, and from animal studies to aesthetics. Gailus’ work engages these contemporary debates by way of an historical detour. The rich discourse of life in German literature, philosophy, and politics from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, analyzing, in particular, its sustained attention to questions of form and formation, are explored. Part historical study, part philosophical essay, the work seeks to develop a vocabulary that helps us articulate the many lives—biological and biographical, political and psychical, aesthetic and ethical—that we live and are.
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Phoebe Gloeckner, associate professor, art and design; Richard and Lillian A. Ives Fellow “The Return of Maldoror” The aim of this project is to create a hybrid prose/graphic novel based on nearly a decade of experiential research in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and the US-Mexico border region. This span of time included several years where cartel violence made Juarez “the most dangerous city in the world.” Gloeckner is constructing scale models of Anapra, a colonia in the northwestern extreme of Juárez. Jointed handmade dolls populate the highly detailed sets to create hyperreal images, some of which will be animated in an electronic version of the book. Christiane Gruber, associate professor, history of art; Charles P. Brauer Fellow “Gezi Graffiti: Resistance and Visual Culture in Contemporary Turkey” In her book, Gruber explores how individuals experience and perform political dissent and war in a contemporary Middle Eastern context. It focuses in particular on the Turkish Gezi Resistance Movement, which created an array of powerful self-images and creative forms of dissent during Summer 2013. “Gezi Graffiti” is rooted in multiple disciplines, most especially art history, visual culture, media, museum, and memory studies, sociology, and anthropology. It utilizes a range of methodological and theoretical approaches drawn from these various disciplines within the humanities in order to pose a number of critical questions about the dynamic role and power images play in the social, cultural, and political conflicts unfolding in Turkey today.
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Gabrielle Hecht, professor, history; Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow “Toxic Tales from the African Anthropocene” The Anthropocene signals a new epoch in which human activity shapes geophysical processes on a planetary scale. The term’s remarkable resonance has made it a rallying point for interdisciplinarity across the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Yet these conversations easily falter, especially when critics observe that the notion can obscure massive inequalities by attributing the unfolding planetary catastrophes to an undifferentiated “humanity.” How can humanists theorize temporal and spatial scales that hold the planetary and the particular in the same frame? How can they gain purchase on the nexus of waste, toxicity, and violence that forms the core of the Anthropocene? In tackling these questions, Hecht’s new project explores material histories of toxic waste in and beyond Africa. Arvind Mandair, associate professor, Asian languages and cultures; Helmut F. Stern Fellow “Untimely Encounters” This book will explore ways of engaging Western and Indian thought that go beyond conventional techniques of reasoning deployed in comparative philosophy, literature and religion, which often remain entangled in representational logics. The preferred concept for the engagement Mandair pursues is “encounter,” although a more formal name for it might be “disjunctive synthesis”—a term which appears in Deleuze’s early philosophy, but which is very much akin to poetic critiques of self-production that appear in the writings of the medieval Indian poets Mandair is working with. “Disjunctive synthesis” or critique of self-production are therefore modes of encounter. One is essentially philosophical, the other poetic, but each in
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its own way enables the association of two or more series (concepts, cultures, persons, events, etc.) that may have no historical or geographical connection, but which can nevertheless belong together without one being reduced to the other. Mandair sees this project as a form of conceptual experimentation that may be helpful for thinking about spheres of existence that routinely bring into heterological association different languages, traditions, modes of thought, and time-periods (premodern/modern). In this way the book project joins contemporary efforts to rethink the nature of colonial diasporas.
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Farina Mir, associate professor, history; Norman and Jane Katz Fellow “Producing Modern Muslims: Everyday Ethics in Colonial India” This book is a study of Urdu-language akhlaq (ethics) literature published in colonial India, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Akhlaq literature, while essential to Muslim high theological discourse, had also become a popular site for exploring questions of everyday ethics in colonial India. The broader aims for the project are to deepen our understanding of how Muslims developed modern forms of subjectivity that included negotiating the relationship between Islam and the secular. While popular representations of Islam would lead one to believe that secular and Muslin forms of subjectivity are paradoxical, if not antithetical to one another, the history of Islam is modern South Asia (and elsewhere) suggests otherwise. But the relationship between the two—Islam and secularity—and a deep understanding of the constitution and historical development of a subjectivity that could be described as that of a “secular Muslim” still eludes us.
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Mireille Roddier, associate professor, architecture; Steelcase Professor “Tactical Urbanism: The Politics of Interventionist Practices”
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Recent architectural discourse upon shrinking cities and economically disinvested sites is divided between two poles. On one hand is design work that directly addresses the political circumstances of the people and places it engages, and on the other are opportunistic practices that exploit the potential of these “over-looked” and underfunded areas to provide venues for selfreferential creative endeavors. This project examines the schism between “spontaneous interventions” as “design actions for the common good” and “unsolicited architecture” as an independent practice able to recoup the political agency of architectural autonomy. Through an in-depth study of these interventions, their relationship to authorship, dependence upon the aesthetics of blight, capitalization by the curatorial agendas of cultural institutions, and alleged role in urban gentrification, the project seeks ways to relate the immediate circumstances of specific locales to socio-economic trends at large and emergent aesthetic practices. Megan Sweeney, associate professor, English language and literature, Afroamerican and African studies; John Rich Fellow
sections: “Selvedge” and “Salvage.” Evoking the roles that clothing and fabric play in defining the borders of the body and in maintaining the boundaries of the self, “Selvedge” addresses questions such as the following: Why and how do some children turn to self-adornment as a strategy for surviving challenging or traumatic experiences? How does clothing serve as a tool for negotiating complex power dynamics within families? What might some girls’ and women’s engagements with clothing reveal about their efforts to navigate the complicated terrains of embodiment, sexuality, self-care, and pleasure? “Salvage”—evoking nineteenth-century rag-and-bone men’s practice of searching for useful refuse— explores a series of questions related to mending: How does a tool for survival become a life-sustaining passion? What is artistic passion, and how does it differ from addiction? How do creative practices related to fiber and clothing enable individuals to reclaim life-affirming aspects of relationships and histories marked by brokenness and violence? How might such practices—including repurposing, mending, knitting, quilting, curating, and gifting—function as embodied forms of epistemology or metaphors for living? Finally, how might the concept of mending complicate reductive accounts of the therapeutic potential of storytelling and art-making?
“Mendings” Interweaving personal reflection and interviews with a range of artists, “Mendings” explores the roles that clothing, fabric, and fiber arts play in constituting identities, relationships, communities, and histories. Sweeney is particularly interested in the act of mending as a framework for understanding individual and collective efforts to wrest meaning and beauty from legacies of loss and violence. “Mendings” is divided into two
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Andrea Brock, classical art and archaeology; Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow “Environment and Urban Development in the Archaic Forum Boarium in Rome, Italy” This project is aimed at evaluating the role played by environmental threats and human response in Rome during the eight-sixth centuries BCE. This period relates to early processes of urban development in central Italy and the birth of Roman culture. Specifically, this dissertation is focused on the Forum Boarium valley, which not only served as the setting for Rome’s earliest river harbor, but also for one of the first monumental temples built in the city. Despite the region’s prominent position in commercial and ritual life, floodwaters would have devastated any activity in the valley on an annual basis. This daunting environmental challenge led the Romans to pursue early attempts at landscape modification and flood mitigation. By utilizing a combination of archaeological, historical, and environmental data, this project aims to reconstruct the natural environment of Rome’s dynamic river valley and elucidate the human response to environmental stress during the early centuries of urban growth. Michelle Cassidy, history; A. Bartlett Giamatti Scholar “Both the Honor and the Profit: Anishinaabe Warriors, Soldiers, and Veterans from Pontiac’s War through the Civil War” From 1863 to 1865, 136 Anishinaabe men served in Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters. In order to understand why these Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi men fought in the Civil War, this project examines changes in Anishinaabe masculinity, leadership, and status from Pontiac’s War (1763) through the 1890s. Military records, missionary correspondence, and battlefield memoirs suggest that many Anishinaabe soldiers used Christianity, as well as military service, to
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acquire or sustain leadership positions and preserve rights to land. They claimed the rights and responsibilities of male citizenship while also actively preserving their status as Indians and Anishinaabe peoples. This history complicates the binary of black and white racial categories that dominates many discussions of the Civil War and citizenship, while also stressing the diversity of Indian country during a period dominated by Indian removal and reservations.
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Elizabeth Hutton, English and education; James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow “New Reasons for Reading: Progressive Experiments in Cultural and Literary Literacy” This project argues for a refreshed view of the composition-literature divide that structures most post-secondary departments of English in America. Returning to the interwar period, Hutton consolidates a milieu of disciplinarily permeable thinkers who encouraged alternative models for a critically sophisticated higher education in literacy, literature, and the reading of culture. Through the early, transatlantic career of the reading theorist Louise Rosenblatt, an ongoing conversation is charted between her work and Boasian anthropology; interwar French historicism and comparatism; Dewey’s philosophies of education, experience and culture; and I.A. Richards’s experiments in criticism, rhetoric, and psycholinguistics. Hutton poses the question: How might this recovered moment inspire us to rethink our long-held assumptions about how and why literacy and literature ought to be taught at the college level?
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Yanay Israeli, history; Early Modern Conversions Graduate Fellow “Negotiating the Republic: Violence, Propaganda, and Government in Castillian Cities, 1391–1520”
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This project explores the relations between emerging republican discourses, social conflicts and administrative practices in late medieval and early modern Spain. Drawing on extensive archival materials—administrative correspondence, municipal records, petitions, and judicial inquiries and testimonies— Israeli’s work examines how different Spaniards appropriated concepts such as “the common good,” “good government,” and “tyranny” to make various political claims, mobilize collective action, and legitimize forms of violence and authority. Analyzing the political language that informed phenomena such as urban protest and revolt, the growing of central administration, the structuring of public spaces in cities, or the eruption of violence against ethnic and religious minorities, this project proposes the struggles over the meanings of republican concepts as a new perspective from which to examine the history of Spain in a period of significant social and cultural transformations. Lavrentia Karamaniola, anthropology; Marc and Constance Jacobson Graduate Fellow
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“Bucharest Barks: Stray Dogs, Urban Lifestyle Aspirations, and the ‘Non-Civilized’ City” This dissertation shows how Bucharest’s stray dogs are related to post-socialist class formation, to the mechanisms that produce marginalization, and to patterns of urban inhabitance and management. The objectives are to analyze how these domains intersect with discourses about compassion and morality, with ideas of responsible citizenship and animal rights, and with practices relating to the expulsion of marginal populations from the city. Karamaniola works through
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ethnographic and archival data gathered in urban neighborhoods, public and private dog shelters, protests against and for euthanasia, a vet clinic, and two different archives. Semiotic and post-humanist theories to study marginalization are deployed, and the urban environment as an assemblage of humans, animals, and materials is analyzed. The dissertation will show how the study of stray dogs illuminates patterns of social change and continuity, and how people’s urban lifestyle aspirations promotes the understanding of post-socialist class formation, and of political economy change. Katherine Lennard, American culture; Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow “Made in America: Costume, Violence, and the Ku Klux Klan, 1905–1940” In the first half of the twentieth century, millions of men across the United States donned white uniform robes that designated their affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. This organization was dedicated to ensuring the supremacy of “native born,” white, heterosexual, Protestant men, and these garments were strategically created to be visual and material representations of this ideological project. This project is a cultural history of the design and industrial manufacture of these garments in a series of Atlanta fraternal supply factories, as well as the national distribution, use, and maintenance of these garments. I trace these processes through archival research with documents, images, and garments in order to better understand how Klan leaders and members alike dressed up racial violence for twentieth century Americans by using the modern tools of consumer mass culture.
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Shana Melnysyn, anthropology and history; Mary I. and David D. Hunting Family Fellow “Rum & Revenge: Portuguese-Angolan Trade and the Bailundo Revolt of 1902” This project is an anthropological history of an uprising against Portugal, during its colonial invasion of Angola (southwest Africa). In 1902, the Bailundo Kingdom refused to recognize Portuguese authority. Bailundo people began attacking rum traders and plundering commercial goods, and violence spread across the region. The revolt followed a decades-long pattern of continuous anticolonial resistance throughout Angola. European settlers, seeking fortunes in trade, were threatening local people’s lands, possessions, and autonomy with increasing frequency and brutality. Portuguese officials lamented their own ineffectiveness, often admitting that Angolans had legitimate grievances against traders. In this laboratory of unregulated capitalism, traders enforced a twisted version of justice in remote areas where they were sometimes the only face of colonialism, sparking widespread moral anxiety about power and authority. Using oral history interviews and diverse archival sources, this work explores in detail the cultural (mis)understandings and conflicts that marked this time of rapid social change. Sarah Suhadolnik, School of Music; Richard and Lillian A. Ives Graduate Fellow “Navigating Jazz: Music, Place, and New Orleans in the Twentieth Century” A new method of understanding how ideas of and about place intersect with and influence musical life is introduced in this dissertation. Designed to traverse the rich musical terrain of New Orleans jazz over the last century, the project addresses place in music as a form of “navigation,” a creative act of cultural negotiation. A variety of artistic responses to the city are examined in relation to the ongoing cultural construction of prominent New Orleans musical landmarks—specifically
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Congo Square, Basin Street, The French Quarter, and Tremé—tackling New Orleans as a complex intermingling of sound, terrain, worldview, and artistic imagination acting upon popular conceptions of jazz. The approach meshes the work of cultural geography with musicological analysis of works by Wynton Marsalis, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and more to reconceive notions of musical place—often presumed to be static, predictable, and historically fixed—as fluid, dynamic, and continually contested.
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Emily Waples, English language and literature; Mary Fair Croushore Graduate Fellow “Vitiated Nature: Heredity, Environment, and the American Etiological Imagination, 1785-1875” Approaching medicine and literature as mutually imaginative domains, this dissertation examines the preoccupation with physical degeneration and the concomitant promotion of self-care as a civic duty in the nineteenthcentury United States. In particular, it explores how, prior to the rise of genetics and microbiology in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, American domestic and public health literature and contemporary Gothic, abolitionist, and sentimental fiction conceptualized heredity and environment as reciprocally implicated mechanisms of pathological transmission. Considering intersections of disease, race, and sex in nineteenth-century medical and literary texts, it illustrates the ways in which American authors differently theorized the coaction of hereditary and environmental variables in an effort to predict and prevent the declension of the body politic. Ultimately, through an analysis of the prognostic and prophylactic imperatives in the biopolitical discourses of the antebellum era, this project proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the kinds of interpretive and therapeutic practices that continue to inform understandings of health in our own historical moment.
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Marjorie Rubright, 2015-16 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow Marjorie Rubright is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto. She was in-residence during the entire 2015–16 academic year. In addition to her work described below (which was first featured in our online #FellowsFriday series), she gave a lecture titled “’A Conjunction in Time Long Past’: Language and Earth in the Renaissance.”
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Throughout this Year of Conversions at the Institute for the Humanities, I worked on a book-length project, titled A World of Words: Language, Globalization, and the English Renaissance. In it, I trace how stories about the relatedness and distinctiveness of human tongues provided the English-speaking world with a range of models for thinking about “globalization”—a term this project seeks to revivify by directing attention to Renaissance connections between ideas about linguistic evolution and evolutions in the earth’s history, what I characterize as “Renaissance geo-linguistics.” A World of Words argues that Renaissance ideas about language—many of them emerging from the wide influence of the story of the Tower of Babel—powerfully linked ideas about the history of the globe to epistemologies of race and kind in early modern Europe. In its largest strokes, the book shows how many of the ideas that we have come to think of as having an effect on language history (the power of human migration to drive linguistic change, for instance; or, the conjectured causal connection between continental drift and linguistic drift) are themselves notions preconditioned upon stories about language that were both recovered and rewritten during the European Renaissance. As the Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow, my research has been focused on the most literal, material sense of “the globe”: the history of the emerging science of geology in the Renaissance. More than 300 years before
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geologists proposed a scientific theory of continental drift, the Anglo-Dutch philologist and antiquarian Richard Verstegan hypothesized that land masses had long been in motion. From Verstegan’s point of view, the earth around him was telling a continuous story of conversion, one that could be revealed through a close attention to relics, fossils, and etymology alike. To take Verstegan seriously as a celebrated antiquarian of the Renaissance is to grapple with both how and why he moved between geological and etymological forms of evidence as he sought to put forward a new understanding of the racial and ethnic origins of Europeans, one that reached all the way back to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. This year I have also taken part in the multiuniversity “Conversions Project.” In connection with this, I have traced the motifs of transformation and metamorphosis that appear frequently in early modern bi- and polyglot dictionaries, as lexicographers tried to communicate the scale, scope, and agenda of their projects to their readers. Playfully wrestling with the perils and promises of translation, these dictionary-makers turned with remarkable frequency to classical images of metamorphosis—including stories of sexual transformations from the work of Ovid—to give conceptual form to the work their dictionaries were doing, and the place of multivalent and multiple linguistic identities at the center of it. Dictionaries provide us with far more than an archive of language and its history; they also archive the stories through which early modern cultures were imagining the mutability of their own linguistic, cultural, racial, and sexual identities. —Marjorie Rubright, 2015–16 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow
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Author’s Forum
Digital Currents
A series on books and ideas presented in collaboration with the University Library and Ann Arbor Book Festival.
Humanities Scholarship in and about digital environments.
Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960, a conversation with Yeidy Rivero and Ruth Behar A Prehistory of the Cloud, a conversation with Tung-Hui Hu and Megan Sapnar Ankerson Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century, a conversation with Claire Zimmerman and Krisztina Fehervary From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry, a conversation with Aswin Punathambekar and Madhumita Lahiri Vox Popular: The Surprising Life of Language in the Media, a conversation with Robin Queen and Anne Curzan The Cherokee Rose, a conversation with Tiya Miles and Martha Jones Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History, a conversation with Thomas Trautmann and Andrew Shryock The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race and Segregation in Mississippi, a conversation with Stephen Berrey and Angela Dillard The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West, A conversation with Silke-Maria Weineck and Jonathan Freedman The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, a conversation with Steven Mullaney and Douglas Trevor
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U-M Gender & Gaming Symposium 2015 Keynote speakers: • “Avatars for Empowerment: A research trajectory aimed toward reducing social disparity in education through avatar use,” Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University • “Representation Matters: Reframing arguments for diversity in digital games,” Adrienne Shaw, Temple University Survival Strategies for Humanities Researchers: Organizing and Managing Your Research Materials, workshop led by U-M’s Jake Carlson, Sigrid Anderson Cordell, and Justin Schell Beyond Control +F: Text Mining Across the Disciplines Symposium Keynote speakers: • Laura Mandell, Texas A&M • Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers University “Digital Humanities and the Future of Scholarship: Exclusivity, Disruption, and Leading from the Margins,” with Jessse Stommel, Hybrid Pedagogy, and Sean Michael Morris, Hybrid Pedagogy “Transduction and Media Conversion: Line-Letter-Trace,” with Patrick Feaster, Indiana University Bloomington “Big Data Ethics Support Systems,” with Bonnie Tijerina, Data & Society Fellow at the Data & Society Institute in New York City
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Presenting distinguished visitors to enhance the humanities and arts at Michigan. 2015 Marc & Constance Jacobson Lecture Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate”
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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author the bestsellers, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate (2014), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo (2000). She is a contributing editor for Harper’s and reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. Additionally, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso and The New Statesman, among many other publications.
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2016 Jean Yokes Woodhead Lecture Susan Stryker, “Another 1973: Remembering Gay Liberation and Reproductive Freedom Transversally” Susan Stryker is director of the Institute for LGBT Studies and associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona. Her numerous contributions to trans studies as a writer, editor, and filmmaker include the two-volume Transgender Studies Reader, the introductory text Transgender History, the documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, and the new academic journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. 2016 Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture Laila Lalami, “Muslims in America: A Forgotten History” Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She is the author of the novels Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award; Secret Son, which was on the Orange Prize longlist, and The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was on the Man Booker Prize longlist and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, The New York Times, and in many anthologies. She is the recipient of a British Council Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside.
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The Living Room
Ongoing exchange with our fellows past and present.
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“You are a Political Junkie and Felon Who Loves Blenders: Accountability in Algorithmic Media,” former 2014-15 Steelcase Research Professor Christian Sandvig, communication studies and information “Great Lakes Aggregator: Exploring the Creation of Regionally Based Digital Collections for Scholarship in the Humanities,” Paul Conway, information “In Conversation with composer John Luther Adams” “’Coming Aut,’or Disclosing Autism to Doubting Publics,” 2014-15 Charles P. Brauer Fellow Melanie Yergeau, English “‘A conjunction in time long past’: Language and Earth in the Renaissance,” 2015-16 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow Marjorie Rubright, University of Toronto “Metamorphosis Chat: Of Turkish Living Rooms and Transformation,” UMMA discussion with curator Amanda Krugliak; Gottfried Hagen, Turkish and Near Eastern studies; 2015-16 Charles P. Brauer Fellow Christiane Gruber, history of art; Heidi Kumao, art and design; and 2009-10 Helmut F. Stern Professor David Chung, art and design
Live Dancing Archive, dance performance by Jennifer Monson Jennifer Monson is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. “Live Dancing Archive” draws upon more than a decade of Monson’s own dance-based environmental research, particularly her 2002 piece BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration, an eight-week dance project and tour along the Atlantic Flyway from Maine through Cuba to Venezuela. This performance included by a conversation with landscape architect and long term collaborator Elliott Maltby, moderated by Clare Croft. Frank Pahl/The Lovely and the Wretched The Lovely and the Wretched is a sevenpiece ensemble consisting of Abby Alwin, Clem Fortuna, Tim Holmes, Frank Pahl, Mary Riccardi, Terri Sarris and Doug Shimmin. Originally formed to accompany recent Nick Cave performances, the current lineup performed original music written by Frank Pahl, on a combination of symphonic instruments and original instruments built by Pahl. A Picture Screen Stands in Solitude, Paul Dresher and ensemble Amy X Neuberg and Joel Davel, with remarks from Nigel Poor and Steve Rush A musical composition performance by Paul Dresher, Nueberg and Davel, based upon San Quentin inmate Michael Nelson’s essay, originally written for an assignment given by artist Nigel Poor at San Quentin Prison. Forever, a one-woman play by Dael Orlandersmith Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith explores family and heritage in this onewoman play, a semi-autobiographical exploration of the family we are born into and the family we choose. Orlandersmith is an Obie, Guggenheim and PEN Awardwinning playwright and performer. Her writing credits include “Beauty’s Daughter,” “Horsedreams,” and “Yellowman.”
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The Hub Innovative exhibitions and arts programs. The Year of Conversions in the gallery continued to engage students and the community and exemplified the reach of the humanities and the creative voice. In September, iconic San Francisco artist Doug Hall’s expansive video installation Chrysopylae chronicled the daily comings and goings of the Golden Gate Bridge. An immediately recognizable architectural monolith, the bridge and its history suggest a gateway to beginnings and ends, an unfolding, the entry point for upheaval and then reinvention. Artist Sonya Clark’s residency and subsequent exhibition on campus engaged students from the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and the Stamps School of Art and Design. She collected students’ personal stories about their hair, and then incorporated them into her exhibition. Students later remarked that the project allowed them to understand their fellow students in a new way, to know them differently, even though they sat across from one another every day. Clark, best known for her seminal work deconstructing the Confederate flag, created a new vocabulary to talk about identity and race on campus in a language ranging from the political to the poetic. In October, the institute’s nationally recognized exhibition State of Exception was a key installation at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, and was awarded the Latina/o Spirit Award from the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan. A newly expanded version of the installation will open at Parsons School gallery in New York in February 2017. Winter term welcomed Canadian and first nation’s artist Kent Monkman, whose installation inverted historical tropes presented in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape paintings and dioramas. His irreverent,
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subversive, wry and romantic work changed the way we think about cultural identity, gender identity, appropriation, and un-truths as they relate to the displacement of cultures. In April, the Institute in collaboration with Armenian Studies hosted artist Nina Katchadourian, whose six channel video installation Accent Elimination considered the ongoing quandary of where we really come from, who we are. The work, originally shown as part of the Venice Biennale in the Armenian Pavilion, explores the accents of her parents as well as her own, reminding us there are so many layers that comprise our cultural identities, and perhaps in this complexity we find ourselves on common ground. In addition to the gallery’s main exhibition programming, the institute also mounted four pop up exhibitions in the common room, and four living room performances, with themes ranging from animal studies to Polish religious pilgrimages to prison reform. —Amanda Krugliak Curator, Institute for the Humanities Hub Events 2015-16 Chrysopylae, video installation by Doug Hall About the artist: Doug Hall is an internationally known artist who has worked for over 40 years in a wide range of media, including performance, installation, video, and large format photography. In the 1970s he became prominent for his work with the media art collective T. R. Uthco, which, among many other works, created the video and installation The Eternal Frame, a reenactment of the Kennedy assassination. In the late 1980s his interests expanded to include large format photography, which has remained central to his practice. His work has been exhibited in museums in the United States and Europe and is included in numerous collections. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, Hall received the 1995 Rome Prize. He is professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute. www.lsa.umich.e du/humanitie s
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Additional Events: • “Doug Hall: Incidents of Landscape,” artist lecture State of Exception, by Jason De León, Richard Barnes, and Amanda Krugliak; installation at ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI State of Exception debuted at the Institute for the Humanities gallery in 2013. This year, we submitted it in the ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, MI, where it was awarded the Artista Latina prize by the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan. Julie Rae Powers: A Coal Miner’s Daughter Revisited, pop-up exhibition by Julie Rae Powers About the artist: Julie Rae Powers is a photographic artist, born in West Virginia, and grew up in the south. Her practice centers on identity experiences, personal history, and gender/ sexuality politics. Her work has recently been added to the permanent collection of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan and published in Rich Community: An Anthology of Appalachian Photographers by Sapling Grove Press. She is currently entering her last year of the MFA program at The Ohio State University. Additional events: • “Personal Politics: Self-Investigation in Gender, Sexuality, and Family,” artist lecture by Julie Rae Powers Sonya Clark, installation by Sonya Clark About the artist: Since 2006 Sonya Clark has been chair of the Craft and Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Formerly she was Baldwin-Bascom Professor of Creative Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and in 2011 she was awarded their first Mid-career Distinguished Alumni Award. She also holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and
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a BA from Amherst College and in 2015 was awarded and honorary doctorate. She is the recipient of several awards including an ArtPrize Grand Jurors co-prize in 2014, Pollock-Krasner Grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Residency, an 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, a United States Artist Fellowship, and an Art Matters Grant. Her work is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Musées d’Angers in France among others. Her work has been exhibited in over 300 museums and galleries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas and has been favorable reviewed several publications including the Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, and Huffington Post. Additional events: • “Hair to There: Weaving Tales with Textiles,” Penny Stamps Speaker Series lecture by Sonya Clark • Sonya Clark workshop with students Cut-Outs, Ramiro Gomez exhibition at Chicago Humanities Festival Cut-Outs debuted at the Institute for the Humanities gallery in 2015. In 2016 it traveled to Mana Contemporary as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, where Gomez took part in a conversation with CHF Emeritus Artistic Director Lawrence Weschler. The Land of Open Graves: Photographs from the Undocumented Migration Project, pop-up exhibition by Michael Wells and Jason De León. About Michael Wells: Michael Wells has served as the primary photographer for the Undocumented Migration Project since its inception in 2009 and has photographed that project’s ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork in Arizona, New York, Mexico, and Ecuador. A Los Angeles-based photographer, his work focuses on how people engage with
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built and natural environments with a unique eye for the materiality of these spaces. His diverse body of work has been featured in a wide range of media outlets including Architectural Digest, National Geographic, and Textfield. About Jason De León: Jason De León is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a longterm anthropological study of clandestine border crossings between Mexico and the United States. His academic work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including National Public Radio, the New York Times Magazine, Al Jazeera magazine, The Huffington Post, and Vice magazine. In 2013, De León was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Additional events: • “The Land of Open Graves: Photographs from the Undocumented Migration Project,” conversation & book release with Michael Wells and Jason De León Scent of a Beaver, installation by Kent Monkman About the artist: Kent Monkman is well known for his provocative reinterpretations of romantic North American landscapes. He explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Native American experience—in a variety of mediums including painting, film and video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s glamorous diva alterego Miss Chief appears in much of his work as an agent provocateur, trickster, and super-
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natural being who reverses the colonial gaze, upending received notions of history and indigenous people. With Miss Chief at center stage, Monkman has created memorable site-specific performances at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Compton Verney, and most recently at the Denver Art Museum. His award-winning short film and video works have been screened at various national and international festivals, including the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale, and the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Additional events: • Artist talk by Kent Monkman Converging Paths: The Photography of Pawel Figurski, pop-up exhibition Presented in conjunction with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. About the artist: Pawel Figurski is a graduate of the prestigious Lodz film school. He has shot and directed music videos, television serials and documentary films, for which he received several awards, including an Emmy (2005). For almost a decade (2002–2011), he documented Jewish life in Eastern Europe as part of the Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories at Indiana University. Figurski’s photography, in Converging Paths, explores the invisible boundary between the sacred and profane and the people who pass through those spaces, leaving one world to enter another. Additional events: • CREES interview: “Converging Paths: The Artist in Conversation” with U-M professors Jeffrey Beidlinger and Genevieve Zubrzycki with artist Pawel Figurski
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Humanize the Numbers/A Wall in Process: Pop-Up exhibition This wall-in-process represented a snapshot into the year long collaborative project Humanize the Numbers at the University of Michigan. Led by Virginia artist and prison reform activist Mark Strandquist, this campus-wide endeavor aims to link together community partners—prison reformers and advocates, faculty, staff, students, artists, the incarcerated, and their families—in various artistic outputs to foster knowledge and to reveal the human face of the Michigan prison system. Additional events: • Janie Paul, “By The Light of Other Suns: Making Art in Prison” • Ruby Tapia, “Bearing Light and Time: Prison Photography and the Abject Sentimentality of Incarcerated Motherhood” • Heather Thompson, “From Carceral Crisis to Decarceration: Why We Must Humanize the Numbers”
• Richard Meisler, “U-M and Mass Incarceration” • Nigel Poor, “San Quentin Prison Project: Photography Inside” Accent Elimination, installation by Nina Katchadourian About the artist: Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Her video Accent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Her work is found in public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Margulies Collection, and Saatchi Gallery. Additional events: • “Talking Popcorn and Accent Elimination: The Work of Nina Katchadourian,” Armenian Studies Program lecture by Nina Katchadourian
• Mark Strandquist, “Using Art to Disrupt the Criminal Justice System” Humanize the Numbers pop-up exhibition
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Initiatives Contexts for Classics This was our third year of affiliation with Contexts for Classics (CFC), an interdepartmental faculty initiative founded in 2000 that aims to rethink the discipline(s) of classical studies from various critical, historical, and pedagogical perspectives. CFC sponsors several events annually and emphasizes curricular offerings across the university that explore the relationship between antiquity and modernity and interrogate the construction of a classical ideal. Co-sponsors include the College of Literature, Science and the Arts; the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies; the Department of Classical Studies; the Department of Comparative Literature; and the Program in Modern Greek. Humanities Without Walls Humanities Without Walls is an extensive consortium of fifteen humanities institutes in the Midwest and beyond which aims to create new avenues for collaborative research, teaching, and the production of scholarship in the humanities, forging and sustaining areas of inquiry that cannot be created or maintained without cross-institutional cooperation leveraging the strengths of multiple distinctive campuses. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initially awarded $3 million to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to fund the first two years, and the grant was renewed for $4.2 million in 2016 to fund four more years of scholarly collaboration. The grant, led by IPRH Director and Principal Investigator
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Dianne Harris, makes possible two initiatives: one supports the development of summer workshops for pre-doctoral students in the humanities who intend to pursue careers outside the academy; a second initiative funds cross-institutional teams of faculty and graduate students pursuing research that focuses on “The Global Midwest.” Early Modern Conversions Early Modern Conversions (EMC) is a multidisciplinary project with sites for research at universities around the world. U-M is one of the funded sites for primary research. The goal of the project is to rethink early modern Europe as an “age of conversion” and to develop a historical understanding of conversion that will address corporeal, sexual, epistemological, psychological, trans-human, political, and spiritual kinds of transformation. A grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has provided the primary funding for the five-year project, including support for graduate student research. McGill University in Montreal is the home of the project, directed by Professor Paul Yachnin. The institute’s participation in the EMC project was highlighted during our 2015-16 Year of Conversions. Yanay Israelk, PhD candidate inhhistory, served as this year’s Early Modern Conversions graduate student fellow in residence at the institute.
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Ways to Help Us Achieve our Aims We would be glad to talk with you about funding—fully or partially—any of the items below. Name and/or Endow the Art Gallery The institute’s museum-quality gallery has gained national attention for the high quality of its four-five curated shows mounted annually. An endowment to name the gallery and/ or three-four shows would ensure that the institute will continue the tradition of superb exhibitions that showcase the synergies between the work of humanities scholars and creative artists. It will also enable the institute to expand outreach to undergraduate students and the general public and to multiply the sites of curation across campus and in digital environments. Support Digital Humanities Innovation One of the major shifts in how humanists do their work is in the area of digitally assisted research—from the level of multimedia scholarly composition and communication to the mining of big data for the study of large-scale phenomena. The institute aims to be an incubator for the conceptualization and implementation of collaborative projects in and on digital environments. Through this start-up fund, the institute will seed new projects, help facilitate collaborative teams of faculty and students, and prepare teams to seek outside funding. The institute will also use these funds to pilot an undergraduate “digital humanities corps.” Endow a Humanities and Public Policy Post-Doctoral Fellowship The institute would like to provide a one-year fellowship for a humanist working in a public
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policy arena—such as public policy and built environments, the expressive life, education policy, language policy, life-long learning and health, and social media and public policy. The public policy fellow will teach a graduate course in his/her area of expertise and advise graduate students on public policy projects. Underwrite the Humanities in the World Initiative This initiative will fund collaborative projects with scholars and graduate students around the region, the nation, and the world. Support will be used to bring a scholar in the humanities to Michigan from abroad to teach for a semester and to contribute to scholarly initiatives involving transnational collaboration or scholarly initiatives on transnational formations. Funding will also be used to underwrite innovative global conferences/events on humanities contributions to the crucial issues of our times. Build the Institute’s Strategic Fund Gifts to the Strategic Fund will provide unique opportunities to try new initiatives, experiment with new audiences, and infuse the institute with new programming ideas. Possible initiatives may include traveling humanities salons, innovative course development, production of multi-media white papers on public policy issues, and hands-on faculty development in new modes of scholarly communication.
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