The Author's Forum Presents: Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, Contemporary Michigan Literature
Date:
December 7, 2011
Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke will discuss their book
Videos
Edward Goldberg - “Jews and Magic in Renaissance Florence.”
Date:
November 21, 2011
Running Time:
30:46
Edward Goldberg talks about his latest book,
The Internet Economy: Globalization in the Information Age
Date:
November 3, 2011
Running Time:
70:00
How has the invention of the Internet changed the face of the international economy in our increasingly globalized world? Kathleen DeBoer, Deputy Head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Washington Center makes a special visit to Ann Arbor as part of the OECD at Michigan Ambassador Program. Dr.
The Lives of the Partisans in the Lipiczanska Forest
Date:
November 15, 2011
Running Time:
90:28
Miriam Brysk, a current Ann Arbor resident and the only child allowed into the partisans in the Lipiczanska forest during WWII, will speak on The Lives of the Partisans in the Lipiczanska Forest. Several of her paintings of Holocaust art will be on display.
In December 1942, Russian partisans rescued Miriam’s family from the ghetto and brought them to the Lipiczanska forest. In early 1943, a partisan hospital was established in a remote part of the forest, staffed by Jewish doctors and nurses, with Miram’s father as chief of staff. They were liberated in the summer of 1944.
The Author's Forum Presents: Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel
Date:
November 4, 2011
Running Time:
83:03
This conversation between Hisham Matar, Anton Shammas and Khaled Mattawa is about Hisham Matar's latest novel about a lost father, Anatomy of a Disappearance. Matar's ow
Author's Forum Presents: "The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose"
Date:
November 2, 2011
Running Time:
87:56
Author's Forum, the University of Michigan Press, and the Special Collections Library present The Game Changed: Essays and Other Prose; A Conversation with Lawrence Joseph and Lau
Freedom Rider: A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr.
Date:
October 27, 2011
Running Time:
82:29
Featured in the documentary Freedom Riders, The Rev. Dr.
User Generated Copyright, with Molly Van Houweling
Date:
October 27, 2011
Running Time:
60:33
U.C.
Poles and Jews During WWII: Beyond Martyrology
Date:
October 25, 2011
Running Time:
79:03
Brian Porter-Szucs, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan, speaks on Poles and Jews During WWII: Beyond Martyrology.
This program is sponsored by the University of Michigan Library and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.
SHARP Insights: How Title IX Changed the Game, with Carol Hutchins
Date:
October 24, 2011
Running Time:
76:38
With 1,232 career wins, Carol Hutchins is the all-time winningest coach in any sport at Michigan and is currently fifth among NCAA coaches from all divisions. She recently completed her 27th season as head softball coach at the University of Michigan, where she has molded the Wolverines into one of the elite programs in college softball.
