Celebrating Artist Sam Karres and his Sketchbooks

Detail from The Fiddler by Sam Karres, 1993
Reception

Join us for a public exhibit and reception to honor urban expressionist painter Sam Karres who recently donated sketchbooks, dating from 1975-1996, to the University of Michigan Library. The collection will support the study of both Greek America and Detroit.

The Martian's Daughter: a reading and discussion with Marina von Neumann Whitman

Book cover: The Martian's Daughter
Lecture

Marina Whitman’s father, John von Neumann, the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century, was a key figure in the Manhattan Project; the inventor of game theory; the pioneer developer of the modern stored-program electronic computer; and an adviser to the top echelons of the American military establishment. 

Francis Kelsey: Honorary Papyrologist

Lecture

The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology presents Francis Kelsey: Honorary Papyrologist, a public lecture by John Griffiths Pedley, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Greek, and Arthur Verhoogt, Acting Archivist of the Papyrology Collection. A reception will follow at the Kelsey Museum.

Translating Homer: from Papyri to Alexander Pope

Exhibit
August 9th - October 7th, 2012

This exhibit, a collaboration between the Special Collections Library and the Papyrology Library, includes papyri and early printed books illustrating how the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems originally composed in the oral tradition, were first written down, edited, and eventually translated into the main European languages.

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