Monday, November 19, 2012

Translating Slavery, Translating Freedom panel Nov.28, 4:00-6:00pm


Translating Slavery, Translating Freedom
4:00-6:00pm, Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library
University of Michigan

Presenters will discuss issues related to translation in the contexts of slavery and emancipation.
      
The panel will feature:
Françoise Massardier-Kenney: Translating Slavery
Martha Jones: Emancipation's Many Legalities
Jean M. Hébrard: Translating Freedom in the Atlantic World
Christi Merrill will moderate.

This panel during the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester coincides with the Proclaiming Emancipation exhibit in the Gallery of Hatcher Graduate Library, and will include light refreshments.    

This event is co-sponsored by the U-M Library, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the History Department, the Institute for the Humanities, the International Institute, and the Fall 2012 LSA Translation Theme Semester.

Françoise Massardier-Kenney is Professor of French and Director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University where she teaches in the graduate program in translation. She is the editor of the American Translators Association Scholarly Series, and her publications include Translating Slavery (with Doris Kadish), the monograph Gender in the Fiction of George Sand (2001), a translation of Sand’s Valvèdre (2007) and of Antoine Berman’s Toward a Translation Criticism, and numerous articles on Sand, nineteenth-century women’s writers, slavery and translation. She is the co-editor with Carol Maier of Literature in Translation.

Martha S. Jones is associate professor of history, associate chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and a member of the Law School's Affiliated LSA Faculty, where she is codirector of the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History. Her scholarly interests include the history of race, citizenship, slavery, and the rights of women in the United States and the Atlantic world.  Professor Jones is curator of Proclaiming Emancipation on view at the Hatcher Library, with Clayton Lewis.

Jean M. Hébrard teaches history of colonial and post-colonial societies in the Atlantic World in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris where he is the co-director of the Centre de Recherches sur le Brésil Contemporain. He is also the co-director of the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project at the University of Michigan where he has been a visiting professor each fall since 2008. He recently published a book with Rebecca Scott on the circulation of a Creole family in the Atlantic world before and after the Haitian Revolution (Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation), and edited a book on the history of slavery in Brazil (Brésil: Quatre siècles d’esclavage). 

Christi Merrill is associate professor of South Asian literature and postcolonial theory in the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature, and co-director of the Fall 2012 LSA Theme Semester on Translation. She writes about the theory and practice of translation, including Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession (Fordham University Press, 2009). Her 2010 translation of Chouboli, a two-volume collection of the humorous, oral-based stories of contemporary Rajasthani writer Vijaydan Detha won the 2012 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for translation. She is currently working on issues surrounding human rights literature in translation.

Cuban Book Artist talk Dec 5th, 4-6pm at the Library Gallery



Rolando Estévez, from Matanzas, Cuba has created over 500 handmade artist books, magazines, plaquettes, and catalogs for the independent publishing house, Ediciones Vigía. His books are collected privately and in cultural institutions in Europe and the US, such as the British National Library, the Atlantic Art Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the U.S. Library of Congress, as well as numerous universities in the U.S., Canada and other countries in the Americas. The University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, holds a major collection of these extraordinary books.
Please join us for a retrospective presentation by Estévez as he speaks about his work designing these spectacular books over the last twenty-seven years and the role of being an artist in Cuba today. His presentation will be followed by a reception.
December 5, 2012
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Hatcher Library Gallery

Friday, November 16, 2012

LS&A and University Library Offer Digital Research in the Humanities Course

In Winter 2013, LS&A and the University Library will offer a new two-credit course on advanced research called UC 270-010: Digital Research in the Humanities.

UC 270-010: Digital Research in the Humanities is aimed at upper-level undergraduates interested in gaining expertise in advanced research strategies. Students will be introduced to the conventions of scholarly research within their disciplines by developing research questions, conducting literature reviews, and presenting the results of their research. In this course, the emphasis
will be on understanding disciplinary research processes, finding primary and secondary sources, synthesizing information, and thinking critically about how sources support a scholarly argument. This course will prepare students for conducting research throughout their academic careers. Class meets 10 am - 12 pm, Wednesdays in 1245 NQ. Contact the instructor, Sigrid Anderson Cordell (scordell@umich.edu), for more information.


Friday, November 9, 2012

UMMA Multipurpose Room - Info Sessions



Information Sessions on Teaching and Research at UMMA
Multipurpose Room (Room 125), University of Michigan Museum of Art
November 28, 10:00 - 10:30

UMMA invites faculty and graduate students from across the university to come and learn how to access our collection of nearly 19,000 art objects for teaching and research.

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enabled UMMA to hire two staff members—David Choberka, the Mellon Academic Coordinator, and Anne Drozd, the Mellon Collections Assistant—who can help to connect faculty and graduate students to UMMA’s resources.

We are particularly interested in promoting and assisting innovative use of our collection by instructors who teach in academic units that do not regularly work with art objects and in connecting faculty for creative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching with visual and material culture.

We will also be offering two information sessions next semester.

Please plan on coming.

Sincerely,

David Choberka (dchoberk)                                     
Mellon Academic Coordinator                                 

Anne Drozd (drozda)
Mellon Collections Assistant

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David Choberka
Mellon Academic Coordinator

University of Michigan Museum of Art
+1 734 615 8181 phone
+1 734 764 2540 fax

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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1354
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New Copyright Guide: What can I put in CTools? Ten Copyright Considerations

 by Melissa Levine
 'Can I put this in CTools?'
This is one of the most common questions posed to UM Copyright Office staff. We've come up with a new (short) resource to help faculty and staff with copyright decisions they make in using CTools.  
LibGuide format
or PDF as ©Guide | What Can I Put in CTools? Ten Copyright Considerations (PDF) 
Thanks to Kristina Eden and Jack Bernard for their help with this.  If you have a copyright question that comes up regularly, give us a call to see if we should develop a resoure for you. If have a copyright question, its likely someone else is wondering about the same thing.

Rhizome - for emerging artistic practices that engage technology


The Library has an institutional subscription to Rhizome http://rhizome.org

Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, their website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Their programs, many of which happen online, include commissions, exhibitions, events, discussion, archives and portfolios. They support artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. Their organizational voice draws attention to artists, their work, their perspectives and the complex interrelationships between technology, art and culture.

If you haven't already signed up, you can register here: http://rhizome.org/preferences/register.rhiz