Robert Howse, author of Leo Strauss: Man of Peace, reads, and participate in a panel discussion. Panelists include Dr. Mariah Zeisberg and Paul Sunstein.
Howse is is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at New York University Law School, where he serves on the advisory board of the Center for Law and Philosophy. He has taught as a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has previously held positions at U-M and the University of Toronto. His publications include, with Bryan-Paul Frost, the translation of the interpretative essay for Alexandre Kojève’s Outline of a Phenomenology of Right and The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the EU, coedited with Kalypso Nicolaidis, as well as several articles on twentieth-century political thinkers, including Strauss, Kojève, and Schmitt.
Mariah Zeisberg is an Associate Professor in U-M’s Political Science department. She is interested in the challenge that subjectivity, pluralism, and institutionally-rooted conflict pose to liberal ideas about political authority, which she addresses through research specifically on US constitutional practice. Her first book, War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority (Princeton University Press, 2013) won the American Political Science Association’s Richard Neustadt Award for the best book on the U.S. presidency in 2013.
Bryon Quertermous will read from his first novel, Murder Boy. His short stories have appeared in Plots With Guns, Thuglit, and Crime Factory among others, and in the anthologies Hardcore Hardboiled, The Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, and Uncage Me. He was shortlisted for the Debut Dagger Award from the UK Crime Writers Association. He currently lives outside of Detroit with his wife and kids.
Chigozie Obioma reads from his debut novel The Fishermen. Obioma was born in Nigeria. He has lived in Cyprus, Turkey and now the United States where he is a Helen Zell fellow at U-M. A recipient of Hopwood Awards in fiction and poetry, his fiction has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review and Transition. The Fishermen will be published originally in English by ONE/Pushkin Press (UK), Little, Brown (US/Canada), Scribe (Australia/NZ), and in 8 languages beginning Spring 2015.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge.
Reading by this Arizona poet, winner of a Pushcart Prize and a NEA fellowship. “Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency,” says a Huffington Post review. He has a brand new collection, War of the Foxes. Signing.
Each term, Semester in Detroit and the U-M Detroit Center partner to organize community classroom events that are free and open to the public. Detroit community members join together with U-M students, faculty and staff to learn more about Detroit’s past and present. Format varies from traditional panels to poetry readings to trips to jazz and cultural clubs throughout Detroit. Topics of discussion range from Education Reform to the Contemporary Labor Movement to implementing the Detroit Future City Framework. Always dynamic and sometimes quite hot! Free to everyone and always preceded by some yummy food! So check out the dates below and plan to participate this fall!
1/22 – 1967: Part 1 -What Happened and Why – Stephen Ward and David Goldberg, Dan Aldridge
2/5 -A General Gordon Baker Jr. Memorial Panel
Detroit 1967: Part 2 – The Aftermath – Stephen Ward and Dan Aldridge, Maria Guadiana, Roy Levy Williams
2/19 – We Are Here: A multilayered presentation on the roles men and boys of color play in the development and healing of communities – Anita Gonzalez and Antonio Lyons and company
3/12 – Detroit Music Beyond the Motown Sound – Lolita Hernandez and Ozzie Rivera
3/26- Foundations and Detroit “Development” – A Public Evaluation – Craig Regester and Dale Thomson, Shea Howell, Ed Egnatios
4/9- Digging Deeper into Detroit’s Downtown “Boom” – Craig Regester and Ryan Felton
4/16 – Final Reflection – Lolita Hernandez/Craig Regester
Free transportation is provided by the MDetroit Center Connector which departs the Central Campus Transit Center (CCTC) at 5:40pm on Thursdays.
Local young adult fiction writer Lara Zielin and short story writer Margaret Yang discuss how to shape a narrative. For adult and teen (grade 6 & up) fiction and nonfiction writers.
