David Turnley, RC ’77, Associate Professor, Photography, Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, 1990
Janet Hegman Shier, Lecturer and Head, RC Intensive German Program, RC Academic Advisor and RC Deutsches Theater Alumni
Katherine Mendeloff, Lecturer, RC Drama and Martin Walsh, Lecturer and Program Head, RC Drama
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor discusses his book, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804. Book sale & signing.
6:30-8 p.m., U-M Ross School of Business Robertson Auditorium, 701 E. Tappan. Free; preregistration requested at http://conta.cc/2w7BYr6. abhelber@umich.edu, 764-5864.
We’ll be celebrating our 25th anniversary at the Ann Arbor Library on Thursday, October 19. Robin will be interviewing William Kent Krueger and Julia Keller. We’re very grateful to our loyal customers and to the Ann Arbor District Library for so often being a very generous partner. We’re also grateful to Mr. Krueger and Ms. Keller who have appeared at the store with each of their books.
RC Students talk about and display posters relating to their academic research in RC classes; organized by Catherine Badgley, Assistant Professor and Head, Science, Technology and Society Program
Prison Creative Arts (PCAP) Social Justice Careers Panel followed by reception in the Keene Lobby.
Panel Members: TBA
Cynthia Sowers, Lecturer, RC Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program
Virginia Murphy, Lecturer, RC Social Theory and Practice Program
History and Tour of the East Quad Garden (rain venue: Benzinger Library, 1423 EQ)
NY Times Op-Ed columnist Charles M. Blow will present a keynote presentation on the topic of Donald Trump, arrogance, pride, and American democracy. Blow’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A. The lecture is free and open to the public, and is organized by the Humility in the Age of Self-Promotion Colloquium at the University of Michigan.
Charles M. Blow’s Op-Ed column in The New York Times appears on Thursdays and Mondays. Mr. Blow’s columns tackle hot-button issues such as social justices, racial equality, presidential politics, police violence, gun control, and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Mr. Blow is also a CNN commentator, a Presidential Visiting Professor at Yale, and author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, Fire Shut Up in My Bones. The book won a Lambda Literary Award and the Sperber Prize and made multiple prominent lists of best books published in 2014.
Charles M. Blow’s presentation is sponsored by The Ann Arbor District Library, and by these University of Michigan units: The Center for Engaged Academic Learning, The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Communication Studies, The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, The Department of American Culture, The Department of History, The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, The Ginsberg Center, The Institute for the Humanities, Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, The Office of DEI, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, The Residential College, and Spectrum Center.
