A haunting expression of human experience, Right & Left is an intricate shadow dance, moving and flowing in unison on a starkly lit stage. Two dancers express human’s complex, off-kilter relationship to one another, expressing emotions through dance. Gu Jiani, a rising star of Chinese choreography, fuses a contemporary dance language of incredible precision with … Read more
Since 1998, Latvian independent animator Signe Baumane has made 15 controversial animated shorts on the subjects of sex, underage pregnancy, dentists, veterinarians and madness. In 2014, she released her first feature-length animated film, Rocks In My Pockets, an autobiographical work that explores the depression that has haunted three generations of women in her family. Baumane’s … Read more
Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emerita, Princeton University: “Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship in the Wake of Inquisition” Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study; Adjunct Professor of History, Graduate Center, City University of New York: “Civility and Academic Freedom” Natalie Zemon Davis is a social and … Read more
Presented by the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Author of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and the comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel is preoccupied with the overlap of the political and the personal spheres. While Dykes to Watch Out For was an explicitly community-based and politically engaged project, her … Read more
World Premiere screening of Liberty’s Secret, a political satire and girl-meets-girl movie-musical by U-M professor Andy Kirshner (Music, Theatre & Dance; Art & Design), starring Jaclene Wilk and Cara AnnMarie. Long before a reality television star became a presidential nominee, composer Andy Kirshner was thinking about the close relationship between politics and popular entertainment. Fascinated by the similarities between … Read more
Co-presented with the Institute for the Humanities. Contemporary explorations of life writing, capaciously defined, unfold by means of new methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Online platforms have released an unprecedented flood of public writing about the self, and scholars have developed ways to navigate the stream. At the same time, digitizing the auto/biographical record affords scholars … Read more
Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, and science in pre-modern Europe, as well as on contemporary queer and feminist studies. She is the award-winning author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (2009). She has also published articles in GLQ, Radical History Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Osiris, and Wired. Her current … Read more
Heidi Kumao’s solo exhibition, Swallowed Whole: A Visual Journey Through Traumatic Injury and Recovery, will be on display in Lane Hall Gallery at U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Women’s Studies Department, Sept. 1 – Dec. 9, 2016. The exhibition consists of large-scale staged photographs and video, all of which draw upon … Read more
Miranda Griffin specializes in medieval French literature. Her published work includes articles on the medieval lai, the fabliaux and the Vulgate Cycle, and her book, The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle was published by Legenda in 2005. She is now working on a research project on narratives of transformation in medieval French literature. For … Read more
Out of Silence features vignettes written by a diverse set of playwrights, based on real stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign. The play seeks to move beyond political rhetoric and explore the situations, relationships, emotions, and logistics that contextualize the decision to seek abortion care, building a culture of compassion, empathy, and advocacy. This is … Read more
This exhibit is on display through January 29, 2017. Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or … Read more
This Latinx Heritage Month, Bicentennial Speaker and Latinx Studies Program Keynote Presents U-C San Diego Vice Chancellor and Professor of History Natalia Molina. Molina, a fellow wolverine alum, will examine relational racism in the U.S. vis-a-vis racial scripts, and its effects on immigration, gender, sexuality, security, and empire. Moreover, she will speak about the field of … Read more