Art Spiegelman has helped bring comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative MAUS- which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. MAUS II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, formal complexity, and controversial content. His presentation will take his audience on a chronological tour of the evolution of comics while explaining the value of this medium and why it should not be ignored.
Free. 734.615.8503.
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.
Literati is proud to partner with the Clements Library and the Detroit School to host author and professor Tiya Miles for a lecture on her latest book Dawn of Detroit at the Rackham Amphitheater.
About Dawn of Detroit:
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest’s iconic city: Detroit.
In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree—both native and African American—in the frontier outpost of Detroit, a place wildly remote yet at the center of national and international conflict. Skillfully assembling fragments of a distant historical record, Miles introduces new historical figures and unearths struggles that remained hidden from view until now. The result is fascinating history, little explored and eloquently told, of the limits of freedom in early America, one that adds new layers of complexity to the story of a place that exerts a strong fascination in the media and among public intellectuals, artists, and activists.
A book that opens the door on a completely hidden past, The Dawn of Detroit is a powerful and elegantly written history, one that completely changes our understanding of slavery’s American legacy.
Tiya Miles is the recipient of a 2011 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and is a professor at the University of Michigan in the departments of American culture, Afro-American and African studies, history, women’s studies, and in the Native American Studies Program. She lives in Ann Arbor.
Join us in welcoming Z Nicolazzo (pronouns: ze/hir) to campus. Ze will join us for Transgender Awareness Week on Monday, November 13th. Ze is an assistant professor in the Adult and Higher Education program, and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, both at Northern Illinois University. Hir research focuses on mapping gender across college contexts, with a particular emphasis on affirmative and resilience-based research alongside trans* students. Ze recently published a book titled Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion.
Co-sponsored with Women’s Studies, U-M Libraries, Counseling and Psychological Services, Center for the Education of Women, the Residential College, Center for the Study of Higher and Post-secondary Education, Michigan Community Scholars Program, Institute for Research on Gender and Women, Institute for the Humanities, School of Social Work TBLG Matters and Housing Diversity and Inclusion.
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.
The Driftwood Shrine author, John Gendo Wolff, will discuss poetry by Americans like Emily Dickinson, and William Carlos Williams, highlighting the influence of Zen in their work. 45 minute duration, followed by Q&A.
https://www.driftwoodshrine.com
John Gendo Wolff, Sensei, is a Zen priest and teacher in the White Plains Asanga. He is the Dharma heir of Susan Myoyu Andersen, Roshi, and the Spiritual Director of the Great Wave Zen Sangha in Northern Michigan. He is a college professor of writing and literature with numerous publications of poetry and essays, and also a graduate of Huron High School in Ann Arbor.
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room., 114 South Main Street. Free. (734) 276-5979. Chris@wuigglemylegs.comhttps://www.driftwoodshrine.com
Postponed from September. This civil rights icon and Georgia congressman is joined by writer Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell to discuss March, the graphic novel trilogy Lewis wrote with their help. It chronicles Lewis’s role in the civil rights movement, and the final book recently won the National Book Award.
7 p.m., Hill Auditorium. Free. 668-8463.
Literati is thrilled to partner with Current Magazine for an evening of Poetry and Fiction!
Come celebrate the submissions and winners of Current Magazine’s Poetry and Fiction contest.
Meet Current’s editor and contributors, and hear readings from the winners. Special guests Molly Raynor and Anthony Zick will be reading their work as well. If time permits there will be an open mic at the end.
