Hollywood Insider: Oscar Winner Jon Cohen on Working in Hollywood's Special Effects Industry
Talk
April, 2013 Events
April, 2013 Events
Cruel Nirvanas: Outsiders and Ethnopoetics
Thomas Hawk, All That Love All Those Mistakes,
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Reading
Jerome Rothenberg reads from A Cruel Nirvana, which is a collection of his previously published poetry. Join us for a little poetry...and pizza!
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century
Esther Simpson, Tips,
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Lecture
In her book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century Dr. Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race.
Mark Frauenfelder on Making Makers
Lecture
Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine and co-founder of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing, will present a short and colorful history of making things, and then launch into the amazing new tools, technologies, and social changes that are driving an all-ages maker movement.
Books/Texts/Fonts/Archives in a Brave New Digital World
By A Thread, Land Marks Press, 2006
Panel Discussion
What is the future of books, texts, fonts and archives in this brave new digital world? This panel discussion includes Institute for the Humanitites Visiting Artist Lynne Avadenka, Paul Conway from the School of Information, Cathleen A.
Lynne Avadenka: Of the Making of Many Books There is No End
By A Thread, Land Marks Press, 2006
Lecture
Renowned artist and printmaker Lynne Avadenka discusses how the philosophical and physical presence of the book has influenced her art: as a printer of limited edition artist’s books and as an artist working in a variety of media.
The Race Card Project Reception
Reception
Join NPR's Michele Norris at a reception celebrating both The Race Card Project digital display appearing on the screens in Bert's Study Lounge and The Race Card Project
The Race Card Project on the Diag
Open House
Stop by the Diag to view a display of cards submitted by U-M students, faculty and staff as part of The Race Card Project.
From Lost to Found: The Miller-Stokes Book Manuscript and its Implications for Democratic Theory
Adam Baker, Did You?,
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Lecture
Christopher Achen, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Princeton University, gives the 2013 Miller Converse Lecture.
Emergent Research: Improving Data Discovery and Reuse
Panel Discussion
Staff from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) discuss their work in encouraging open access to data and closer links between publications and data, collaborative data curation, and improving data discovery and reuse.
