U.S. News correspondent Ken Walsh, one of the longest-serving White House correspondents in history, discusses his new book about presidential photographers and their power to define an era and make or break a presidential administration. Book sale, signing, and reception.
7 p.m., Ford Library, 1000 Beal. Free. 205-0555.
U-M percussion professor Michael Gould performs his compositions, inspired by recently retired RC instructor Ken Mikolowski’s poems, that revolve around his own experiences with loss, illness, and recovery. With narration by U-M theater professor Malcolm Tulip, and dance accompaniment by the Berlin-based Tangente Dance Company choreographed by U-M dance professor Amy Chavasse. The project title takes its inspiration from the “Dido’s Lament” aria from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Local mezzo-soprano Deanna Relyea opens the program with a performance of the aria, accompanied by cellist Katri Ervamaa.
7 p.m., U-M Residential College Keene Theater, East Quad, 701 East University. Free. 763-0176
Literati is excited to host a discussion of German author Siegfried Kracauer’s novel Georg. We will be joined by the translator Carl Skoggard, publisher Patrick KIley, and Chair of the Department of German Languages and Literature at the University of Michigan, Johannes von Moltke
About Georg:
Best remembered today for his brilliant study of early German cinema, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological Study of the German Film, and for his involvement with the Frankfurt School (he mentored Theodor Adorno), Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) was the editor for cultural affairs at Germany’s leading liberal newspaper, the Frankfurter Zeitung, during the Weimar Republic until its disastrous end.
His novel Georg is a panorama of those years, as seen through the eyes of a rookie reporter working for the fictional Morgenbote (Morning Herald). In a defeated nation seething with extremism right and left, young Georg is looking for something to believe in. For him, the past has become unusable; for nearly everyone he meets, paradise seems just around the corner. But which paradise? Kracauer’s grimly funny novel takes on a confused and dangerous time which may remind us of our own.
Carl Skoggard was trained as a musicologist and for many years served as an editor for the music bibliography Repértoire International de la Littérature Musicale (RILM), New York, where he was responsible for German materials. His translation of Ein Jahr in Arkadien, an 1805 gay fiction by Duke August of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, appeared in 1999 as Year in Arcadia. More recently he was also the staff writer for Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors, an award-winning magazine created by his partner Joseph Holtzman. Over the last decade Skoggard has prepared translations with extensive commentary for the three major autobiographically-oriented writings of the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin. These include Berliner Kindheit um 1900 (Berlin Childhood circa 1900), Berliner Chronik (The ‘Berlin Chronicle’ Notices), and a bilingual edition of Benjamin’s Sonnets, which has made this little-known but important body of poetry available to readers of English for the first time. Skoggard’s latest project, is a translation of Siegfried Kracauer’s Weimar novel Georg. This is a brilliantly cinematic, darkly comic evocation of that troubled era. Skoggard lives in Valatie, New York, with Holtzman and assorted animals.
Patrick Kiley is a UofM Grad (English, ’02) and has served as a research curator and writer for books and exhibitions at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the New York Public Library. In 2014 he opened Publication Studio Hudson, one of several in a network of on-demand book publishers in the Americas and Europe. PS Hudson focuses especially on prose, poetry, artist books and translation. PS Hudson and Patrick have since moved slightly north to Troy, New York.
Johannes von Moltke is the Chair of the German Department at U-M and the author, most recently, of The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America.
*Featured Speaker Marya Hornbacher
*Panel discussion about the present and future of research in bipolar disorder
*Reception
The University of Michigan Psychiatry Department is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. 2 CE Clock Hours for social workers are available for continuing education for this event. Approved provider number for social work: MICEC-0063.
This event is free and open to the public – but pre-registration is required: http://www.prechterprogram.org/lecture/
If you are unable to attend in person, you can join via live webcast at 6:00 p.m. EST on 11/8/2017 using this link: michmed.org/Erapv
The book will be available for purchase at the event. Marya will sign books during the reception.
Sponsored By:
The Bruce C. Abrams Foundation
Holbrook’s Roofing
Kahn Auditorium, A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building, 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Free. kbergman@umich.edu.kbergman@umich.edu http://www.prechterprogram.org/lecture/
How Can the Independent Bookstore Survive and Prosper?
Come to hear how Hilary and Mike Gustafson, owners of Literati Bookstore, are pursuing their vision of success. What motivated them to take on the big box and internet booksellers? What strategies are they exploring to create relationships in our Ann Arbor community? Also check out the best of the comments found on the Literati typewriter!
Bakehouse co-owner Amy Emberling discusses the history of the business and the new cookbook, Zingerman’s Bakehouse: The Cookbook, she co-authored with fellow Bakehouse owner Frank Carollo. Catered lunch includes Zingerman’s bagels, cream cheese, smoked fish, egg salad, rye bread, & Bakehouse desserts. Noon-1:30 p.m.; $10.
As part of Desiree Cooper’s two-day residency at the Residential College, she is be giving a reading, free and open to the public, in Benzinger Library. She will be reading from her new book of stories, Know the Mother.
All adults and teens in grade 6 & up invited to listen to local storyteller Jim Glenn relate odd and unusual tidbits of U.S. history from the late 1700s through the mid-20th century.
7-8:30 p.m., AADL 4th-floor meeting room, 343 S. Fifth Ave. Free. 327-8301.
Professor Chavasse presents research from her travels to the Malta Festival in Poznan, Poland, and to Berlin, Germany where she created a new dance work for Tanz Tangente. In Poznan, the panoply of dance, music and theater events focused on the festival theme– The Balkans Platform, (Platforma Blakany), with the title of “We The People”, analogous to our “not my president” protests. Chavasse will discuss the highly politicized works she witnessed as an audience member, posing questions about gender politics and social inequality and autocracy. She will also discuss the genesis of a new dance created with Tanz Tangente in Berlin, called “Little Monsters,” in which the movement exploration is centered around pulsing, agitation, manipulation and absence.
The Center for World Performance Studies Faculty Lecture Series features our Faculty Fellows and visiting scholars and practitioners in the fields of ethnography and performance. Designed to create an informal and intimate setting for intellectual exchange among students, scholars, and the community, faculty are invited to present their work in an interactive and performative fashion.
If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.
Meijer supermarket company cochairman Hank Meijer discusses his new biography of the Republican senator from Grand Rapids who was instrumental in creating the Marshall Plan, NATO, and the U.N. Book sale, signing, and reception.
7 p.m., Ford Library, 1000 Beal. Free. 205-0555.
