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Topics of the day:

1. H-ASIA: CFP Conference Historical Dialogue & Accountability, Columbia
Univ, New York, Dec. 11-14, 2012
2. H-ASIA: CFP Minorities, Nations & Cultural Diversity: The Challenge of
Non-Territorial Autonomy", Belfast, NI, 9-10 Nov 2012
3. H-ASIA: CFP for MCLC special issue on political crowdsin contemporary
China
4. H-ASIA: UMMA: September 2012 exhibitions and events

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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:41:10 -0700
From: Frank Conlon <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Conference Historical Dialogue & Accountability,
Columbia Univ, New York, Dec. 11-14, 2012

H-ASIA
August 6, 2012

Call for papers: Conference on Historical Dialogue and Accountability,
Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights,
"Local Memory, Global Ethics, Justice: The Politics of Historical
Dialogue in Contemporary Society", December 11-14, 2012

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Ed. note: The message below contains two different years in the
post, 2013 in the data at the opening and 2012 in the text. A visit
to the website confirms that the event is this December not next year.
Also, the text seems to suggest that a major focus will be on
Guantanamo, which is, well, not very Asian in perspective, but I
suspect a number of Asianist, who might be free at this time would
find a number of significant questions raised that might reflect upon
their own research and teaching. One need only go back to the early
years of H-ASIA logs to revisit the correspondence concerning the
Enola Gay exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution--a controversy
which saw a great number of politicians of all stripes posturing and
fulminating against the SI staff's earnest attempts to provide museum
visitors with perspectives on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The fall out from that dispute appears to have put a damper on the
intellectual independence of the Smithsonian's various museums. And, I
know that most of us can think of glaring examples of this sort of
disconnect between history and accountability in most of the Asian
nations that we study.
FFC
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Conference Location: New York, United States
Conference Date: 2013-12-11 [sic] [2012-12-11]
Date Submitted: 2012-07-30
Announcement ID: 196077

The Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) at
Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights will hold
its first annual conference in New York City, December 11-14, 2012.
Historical dialogue and accountability is a growing field of advocacy
and scholarship that encompasses the efforts in conflict,
post-conflict, and post-dictatorial societies to come to terms with
their pasts. In contesting nationalist myths and identities, in
examining official historical narratives, and opening them to
competing narratives about past violence, historical dialogue seeks to
provide analysis of past violence grounded in empirical research;
acknowledge the victims of past violence and human rights abuses;
challenge and deconstruct national, religious, or ethnic memories of
heroism and/or victimhood; foster shared work between interlocutors of
two or more sides of a conflict; identify and monitor how history is
misused to divide society and perpetuate conflict; enhance public
discussion about the past.

This conference seeks to consider questions relating to these topics,
and the state of the relatively new field of historical dialogue and
its relationship to other discourses such as transitional justice,
memory studies, oral history and historical redress. Little
consideration has been given to the intersections of these discourses,
and how these can be employed as tools in understanding the root
causes of conflict. The conference thus seeks to explore the
possibilities and limits of these concepts and methods, searching for
unexplored connections and elaborating upon how historical analysis
can be employed to resolve long-standing sectarian conflicts.

We seek to explore the genealogy of the discipline of historical
dialogue as well as research emanating from it: how do the memory and
history of past violence evolve over time, and how do they influence a
given society in the present day? What is the relationship of advocacy
to knowledge production and the relationship between history, memory,
and contemporary society? What is the relationship of historical truth
to testimonies in truth commissions, and how do truth commissions
construct historical truth? How can the tensions that exist between
dialogue and accountability be understood, addressed or reconceived?
In what ways can one compare historical narratives in post (identity)
conflict to post authoritarian regimes? What is the role of subjects
such as gender, religion, human being and citizen in understanding
historical narrative, memory, dialogue and accountability? Finally,
the conference seeks to be a space of interaction and the exchange of
ideas between scholars and practitioners who often do not have the
opportunity to collaborate, and we welcome papers that address this
divide or reach across these boundaries.

The conference will be co-hosted by the Guantanamo Public Memory
Project, and will also feature the Guantanamo Public Memory Projects
first traveling exhibit and digital media as a shared international
challenge in historical dialogue.

Proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtable discussions and
digital media presentations will be considered. The deadline for
submission of proposals is August 30, 2012. All proposals should
include a 300-500 word abstract, as well as your name, contact
information and a brief bio. Proposals can be submitted electronically
via the AHDA website, http://hrcolumbia.org/ahda or by e-mailing
ahda@columbia.edu. If you have any questions, please contact the AHDA
program director, Ariella Lang, at ahda@columbia.edu. Limited travel
and lodging funds are available; applications for funding will be made
available upon acceptance of your submission.


Ariella Lang
Institute for the Study of Human Rights
91 Claremont Ave, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10027
Email: ahda@columbia.edu
Visit the website at http://www.hrcolumbia.org/ahda




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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:47:18 -0700
From: Frank Conlon <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Minorities, Nations & Cultural Diversity: The Challenge
of Non-Territorial Autonomy", Belfast, NI, 9-10 Nov 2012

H-ASIA
August 6, 2012

Call for papers: "Minorities, Nations and Cultural Diversity. The
Challenge of Non-Territorial Autonomy", Queen's University, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, 9-10 November 2012

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Ed. note: The organizers have not mentioned Asian examples, but they
are thick on the ground in South, Southeast and East/Central Asia. I
expect not a few of our members might be interested. FFC
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Minorities, Nations and Cultural Diversity. The Challenge of
Non-Territorial Autonomy Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2012-11-09
Date Submitted: 2012-07-24
Announcement ID: 195978

Minorities, Nations and Cultural Diversity. The Challenge of
Non-Territorial Autonomy
9-10 November 2012, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
http://www.conferencepro.eu/nta/

The European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany), jointly
with The School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at
Queens University Belfast, and the Department of Central & Eastern
European Studies, University of Glasgow call upon interested scholars
to participate in a multidisciplinary conference on the challenges of
Non Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in a world of nation-states.

Cultural diversity is the norm in a world of nation-states. A
recurrent problem is how to organise what are in fact, multi-ethnic
and multi-nation states so that majorities and minorities are able to
coexist and effectively participate in the life of the state,
bolstering allegiance without suffering cultural alienation and
without resorting to territorial secession. Multicultural liberal
democracies sincerely champion equality and individual human rights,
but often have considerable difficulties in accommodating culturally
diverse minority communities. Territorial representation is only
possible when minority communities inhabit a compact territorial
space, yet in the majority of cases, minority communities do not
reside compactly, making any territorial representation impossible.
This situation often causes intractable problems for the functioning
of democratic polities, and requiring modalities of non-territorial
autonomy (NTA) as a solution.

The aim of this conference is to examine in theory, empirically and
through the work of legal practitioners, the challenges, and possible
solutions offered by different models of NTA for the effective
participation of minorities in public life. Non-Territorial autonomy
takes variety of different forms, such as Consociationalism and
National Cultural Autonomy, but also forms of representation that
de-territorialises self-determination, as in the case of indigenous
communities, the juridical autonomy as with religious communities, or
in the practice of some models of multiculturalism. We invite
theoretical and comparative papers and case studies on NTA models that
build upon theoretical consideration and/or consider empirical case
studies.

The organising committee would like to welcome papers addressing the
following issues:

* Can NTA serve the goals of European integration? Can such models be
incorporated into the EU minority protection framework?
* Does NTA help resolve protracted territorial conflicts? Examples
include, but are not limited to Bosnia, Kurdistan or Israel/Palestine?
* What are the limits and/or possibilities of implementing NTA models
in liberal democracies?
* Can NTA models rejuvenate multiculturalism?
* Can models of NTA enhance the integration of Diasporas?
* What are the opportunities for Indigenous self-determination within
the NTA framework?
* Can models of NTA help the effective participation of minorities in
post-colonial states? And, can NTA models help eliminate the cultural
residues of colonialism?

This list is not exhaustive.

MODE OF APPLICATION

Applicants should submit a 300 word abstract and a short biographic
statement (max 300 words) indicating institutional affiliation and if
they wish to be considered for the early career subsidy at the website
http://www.conferencepro.eu/nta <
http://www.conferencepro.eu/nta/http://www.conferencepro.eu/nta >

THE DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS IS FRIDAY 21
SEPTEMBER 2012.

The selection committee will confirm the selection of speakers and
make an offer and early career grant to selected candidates by 10
October 2012

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

We aim to attract innovative contributions that develop theoretical
arguments while embedding these in the context of case studies, thus
we particularly welcome early career scholars to apply. For more
information on the conference see

* Please note that the organisers would like to limit the number of
presenters to around 40, presenting in a total of 14 panels in
simultaneous 2 hour slots of two or three panels over the two days of
the conference.
* Plenary speakers will be nominated by early September and their
names will appear in the conference web page.
* An optional conference dinner will take place on Friday 9 November
2012.
* The proceedings of the conference will be published in an edited
volume.

Please note that the conference WILL NOT organise accommodation. The
list of hotels, hostels and Bed & Breakfast within a 1.5km radius of
the University can be found at the conference website.

EARLY CAREER TRAVEL GRANTS

We will be able to offer 400 travel/accommodation grant to between 8
and 10 paper givers to support early career scholars, i.e. doctoral
students within six months of submission and the holders of PhDs,
awarded after September 1 2009. The preference to access grants will
be given to affiliates of institutions outside the EU, although
relevance and innovation of the paper will principally inform the
decision of the selection panel.

If you would like to apply for a travel/accommodation grant, please
state this clearly when submitting your paper proposal.

Questions regarding research on non-territorial autonomy and the remit
of the conference should be addressed to
ntaconference-request@qub.ac.uk<
http://www.conferencepro.eu/nta/mailto:ntaconference-request@qub.ac.uk
> indicating in the heading of your email CONFERENCE REMIT.

If you have any further questions, please email ther same address
putting CONFERENCE APPLICATION and YOUR NAME in the header. Emails not
addressed in this way will be significantly delayed.

We are looking forward hearing from the interested candidates.

Kindest regards,

The organisers


Email: ntaconference-request@qub.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.conferencepro.eu/nta/


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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 20:53:28 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: CFP for MCLC special issue on political crowdsin
contemporary China

H-ASIA
August 5, 2012

CFP for MCLC special issue on political crowds in contemporary China
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From: Anup Grewal [anupgi@gmail.com]

MCLC SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/announcements/crowds.htm

The Dis/Appearance of the Political Crowd in Contemporary China
Guest Edited by Anup Grewal and Tie Xiao

Deadline: January 15, 2013

This special issue considers the question of the cultural imaginary of
collectivity and mass political action in contemporary China, in
comparison to, in light of, and as a departure from its centrality in
much of the early and mid twentieth century.

For most of the twentieth century, the imagery of both actual and
imagined masses in action was central to evoking political discontent,
power, and even subjectivity in different representational forms. Such
imagery appears to be largely missing in contemporary China: either
actively disappeared or relegated to crowds harnessed for state rituals,
stirred up by entertainment, or yoked to a historical past in official
politics and culture; and appearing as oblique and sometimes nostalgic
imagination in the wider cultural realm. Is China witnessing what has
been deemed a global end to the "era of the crowd," in which masses as
literal physical assemblies, when they do appear, are cast in the mold
of anomalies or anachronisms? Or, is there a re-appearance of the lure
of collective action, real and imagined, in new formations of the
"multitude"? How do we consider recent upsurges of mass action in China
today? What/who do they
represent and how are they represented? What possibilities are
generated for political collectivity in the dispersed masses mobilized
by new media networks, or creative expressions evoking stealthy forms of
political nidentification? Do these potentially new forums of collective
mobilization and expression challenge ideas about the necessity of
actual assembly and physical participation in collective action for the
creation of both political subjectivity and large-scale political
communities? What effect do artistic representations, from digital
crowds in film to literary representations of "the people" or identities
of class, sexuality and gender, have for the cultural imagination of the
political power of the masses in contemporary China?

Finally, this special issue aims to tap into urgent questions about the
nexus between aesthetics and politics and the problem of community, not
only in China today but within the contemporary formation of
globalization more generally. In other words, we seek to address
questions of the possibility of non-totalitarian forms of collectivity,
mass action, and their representation, and more generally intervene in
discussions about the global imagination and practice of participatory
politics that has been most compellingly enlivened by the ongoing Arab
revolutions, the Occupy and 99% movements and, within China more
locally, recent social media mobilized actions as well as protests in
Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Wukan.

We welcome papers that address such themes and others through
historical and contemporary perspectives of actual and imagined masses
in China and that take up the question of "representation" in all its
political and aesthetic connotations. Papers may come from a range of
representational and/or media perspectives, including those of film,
photography, publicperformance art, popular television drama,
literature, architecture, advertising, and official state
communications.

The submission deadline is January 15th, 2013. Please adhere to MCLC
STYLE GUIDELINES <http://mclc.osu.edu/jou/mclsubm.htm>. Send electronic
submissions to *both* guest editors, Anup Grewal (anupgi@gmail.com) and
Tie Xiao (tiexiaotie@gmail.com). Send an electronic copy to the MCLC
Editor, Kirk Denton (denton.2@osu.edu), and a paper copy with cover
letter to:

Editor, MCLC
Hagerty Hall 398
The Ohio State University
1775 College Rd.
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1340


Thank you,

Anup Grewal

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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 20:58:46 -0400
From: Linda Dwyer <dwyer@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: H-ASIA: UMMA: September 2012 exhibitions and events

H-ASIA
August 5, 2012

UMMA: September 2012 exhibitions and events
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From: Stephanie Rieke Miller [srieke@umma.umich.edu]

September 2012 exhibitions and events:
New exhibitions Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire and
Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America: The William L. Clements
Library Collection open, exhibition related programs, tours, artmaking,
and the Zell Writers Series gets into full swing!

NEW EXHIBITIONS

Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
September 22, 2012–January 13, 2013
How is it that an American painter came to define the British Empire?
Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776)
depicts the death of James Wolfe, the British commander at the 1759
Battle of Quebec during what in this country is known as the French and
Indian War. In conflating a momentous contemporary event with the genre
of large-scale history painting, West flouted the conventions of
academic painting and the work became one of the most celebrated
paintings in Britain. The artist went on to produce six versions of the
painting, one of which belongs to the William L. Clements Library at the
University of Michigan. Through approximately 40 works from Michigan,
Canadian, and British collections, this ambitious and thematically
focused exhibition will include the Clements canvas as well as other
depictions of James Wolfe and his death on the battlefield. A fully
illustrated catalogue, published by the Museum as part of its new UMMA
Books series, accompanies the exhibition.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F.
McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the
University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice
President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and
THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

Discovering Eighteenth-Century British America: The William L. Clements
Library Collection
September 22, 2012–January 13, 2013
This significant exhibition provides glimpses of British America in the
1700s and is designed to complement the Museum's concurrent exhibition,
Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire, which features the
Clements Library's major painting The Death of General Wolfe. William L.
Clements assembled an outstanding array of primary sources on North
America dating between 1492 and 1800, with a heavy emphasis on early
European exploration and discovery and the eighteenth-century wars for
control of the continent. The exhibition features a mix of rare items
from Mr. Clements's original donation and pieces the Library has
acquired since 1923 to complement and enhance its strength in
eighteenth-century American history.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
August 11–December 30, 2012
The Seoul-based art collaborative, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
(YHCHI) is known for innovative video works that exist at the nexus of
visual art and digital literature. Blurring the boundaries between
media, technologies, and cultural histories, YHCHI has gained
international acclaim for their "net art" productions—mostly
black-and-white videos of quickly flashing capitalized text in a generic
font with synchronized music. This exhibition will present a newly
commissioned piece by UMMA, which will be added to the artists' website,
yhchang.com, as well as an exclusive artists' book published by the
Museum as part of the UMMA Books series.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and
Susan L. Johe Endowment, the University of Michigan Office of the
Provost, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies. Additional generous
support is provided by the Dr. Robert and Janet Miller Fund and the
School of Art and Design's Penny Stamps Speaker Series.

African Art and the Shape of Time
August 18, 2012–February 3, 2013
African Art and the Shape of Time explores how African art gives
material form to diverse concepts of temporality, history, and memory.
African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as
expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the
colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such
conventional views by considering diverse modes for reckoning time and
its philosophical, social, and religious significance. The exhibition
includes 30 works from the University of Michigan Museum of Art,
National Museum of African Art, Fowler Museum at UCLA, as well as
several Detroit area private collections, and is organized around five
themes that explore the multiplicity of time in Africa: The Beginning of
Things, Embodied Time, Moving Through Time, Global Time, and NOW. The
Museum has published a scholarly exhibition catalogue in conjunction
with the exhibition as part of the new UMMA Books series.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of
Michigan Health System and the James L. and Vivian A. Curtis Endowment
Fund. Additional generous support is provided by the CEW Frances and
Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle
August 18–December 9, 2012
Visitors encountering Danish artist Jesper Just's This Nameless
Spectacle will find themselves captivated in stages, as the experience
of viewing it unfolds over time. In this breathtaking installation, as
in much of his work, Just situates the viewer in his signature landscape
of beauty, provocation, and a general uneasiness that is as seductive as
it is ominous. The storyline is at once deceptively simple and
perplexing: a wheelchair-bound protagonist travels through a
neighborhood in the outskirts of Paris to her apartment, while a young
male character appears to follow her. Once home, she is able to leave
her wheelchair but is overcome by a powerful seizure. One of Just's
unique strengths is his ability to engage the viewer in an open-ended,
unresolved narrative in a manner that is more intriguing than
frustrating. It is impossible to parse but equally impossible to
abandon, and this is the essence of Just's gift for hypnotic
storytelling.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the University of
Michigan Office of the Provost.

Flip Your Field: Abstract Art From the Collection
June 9–September 2, 2012
This is the inaugural exhibition of a new series of exhibitions to be
curated by UM faculty. Entitled Flip Your Field, this series asks these
guest curators to consider artwork outside their field of specialization
from UMMA's renowned collections to challenge their own thinking as well
as that of UMMA's audiences. Celeste Brusati, Professor of History of
Art, Women's Studies, and Art and Design, and an expert in the visual
art and culture of the Netherlands from the fifteenth through the
seventeenth centuries, has gathered a compelling group of images by such
titans of twentieth-century abstraction as Lee Bontecou, Helen
Frankenthaler, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, and
Antonio Tàpies, as well as works by many other unexpected artists.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.

Judith Turner: The Flatness of Ambiguity
June 9–September 2, 2012
Judith Turner is a noted American photographer whose subject matter is
mostly architecture. Turner's training as a designer allows her to
visually understand an architect's intention and to reveal it in
compositions that she constructs and edits through her camera work. Her
photography can be seen as a metalanguage of architectural intention and
as an artistic expression that is inseparable from the representation of
the built work. Turner's signature style consists of highly abstract
black-and-white compositions that play with the ambiguity of light,
shadow, and tonality to heighten the aesthetic character of her subject
matter and reveal visual relationships not readily apparent. This
exhibition presents approximately forty works that span Turner's
three-decade career, and is accompanied by a related publication of
photographs by Turner with an introductory essay by UMMA Director Joseph
Rosa.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by Macy's and the
University of Michigan Office of the Provost.

EVENTS

Exhibitions Related Programs

Occasion for Revolution? Benjamin West's Death of General Wolfe
Sunday, September 23, 3 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Benjamin West's 1770 canvas The Death of General Wolfe was one of the
most celebrated paintings in eighteenth-century England. After initially
expressing reservations about West's depiction of the death of Major
General James Wolfe in the 1759 defeat of the French at Québec, Sir
Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy, stated that "I foresee
that this picture will not only become one of the most popular, but
occasion a revolution in art." This talk by curator Carole McNamara will
look at how West's painting figured in the tradition of
eighteenth-century military commemorations, including other depictions
of Wolfe, and examine why it is that West's version became the iconic
portrayal of this important military victory.
Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Joseph F.
McCrindle Foundation, the University of Michigan Health System, the
University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Office of the Vice
President for Research, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, and
THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. & P. Heydon).

Art and Ritual: African Art and the Shape of Our Time
Saturday September 29, 1–4 pm
Multipurpose Room
Instructor: Susan Clinthorne
$28 UMMA and AAAC members and UM students/$35 non-members; lab fee $15,
materials included. Advance registration required by Wednesday,
September 26. Register online at annarborartcenter.org.
The space where the divine and human intersect and intermingle is very
much alive in the ritual arts of Africa. Students will explore works
from the UMMA exhibition African Art and the Shape of Time and produce
mixed media works based on masks, power figures, and dream images as
they explore ways of engaging ritual in the creative process.
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of
Michigan Health System and the James L. and Vivian A. Curtis Endowment
Fund. Additional generous support is provided by the CEW Frances and
Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.


Jazz Series

Pete Siers Organ Trio
Wednesday, September 19, 8 pm
Forum
Pete Siers has an international reputation for his "restless curiosity,
attention to detail, and mastery of many different styles," according to
Mike Stratton, host of the FM 89.7 radio show, The Vinyl Side of
Midnight. Siers has played with jazz luminaries such as Russell Malone,
Mulgrew Miller, Marian McPartland, Lee Konitz, Benny Golson, James
Moody, Kenny Werner, David "Fathead" Newman, Eddie Daniels, Frank
Morgan, Scott Hamilton, Bob Wilber, and Barry Harris. In addition to his
expansive performance career, Siers has played on over fifty recordings,
including Russell Malone's Black Butterfly on Columbia Records. He
recently played Carnegie Hall, has toured Europe several times, and is a
long-time favorite at many jazz parties and festivals across the U.S.
In addition to his performance and recording career, Pete has taught
percussion and jazz drumming for over twenty-five years. For this
evening's performance, Pete will be joined by Duncan MacMillan, playing
the Hammond B3 organ, and by Ralph Tope on guitar.
This monthly series, curated by UM Associate Professor Adam Unsworth,
presents outstanding local artists in an intimate setting and is made
possible by the Doris Sloan Memorial Fund.

** Preceded by UMS on Film: Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
at 6 pm in UMMA's Helmut Stern Auditorium**


Film

UMS on Film: Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense (2010, Lars
Larson, Michael Rivoira, and Peter J. Vogt, 93 min.)
Wednesday, September 19, 6 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Jazz is undergoing changes of monumental magnitude and
importance. Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense is a documentary
film that captures the metamorphosis of jazz by showcasing the words,
music, and spirit of the artists that are paving the way for an
unprecedented musical revolution. The film examines the jazz music scene
today by focusing the spotlight on many current jazz icons, including
Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian
Blade and the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald
Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen, Esperanza Spalding, and Medeski Martin and
Wood. The film also features the legendary predecessors and influences
of today's contemporary jazz stars, including Herbie Hancock, Wayne
Shorter, and Wynton Marsalis.

** Followed by UMMA Jazz Series: Pete Siers Organ Trio in the Forum at
8 pm **

This program is part of the UMS on Film series designed to expand
understanding of the artists and cultures represented on the UMS season
and reveal something of the emotions and ideas behind the creative
process. For more information, please visit http://www.ums.org.

UM Student Programs

Mark Webster Reading Series
Fridays, September 14 and 28, 7 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium
One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a
peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents
emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to
bring your friends—a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and
enlightening Friday evening.


Zell Visiting Writers Series
UMMA is pleased to be the site for the Department of English Program in
Creative Writing Zell Visiting Writers Series, which brings outstanding
writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous
gift from UM alumna Helen Zell ('64). For more information, please see
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa/mfaeve.asp

Carrie Fountain
Janey Lack Poetry Reading
Thursday, September 13, 5:10 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Carrie Fountain's poems have appeared in American Poetry
Review, Crazyhorse, AGNI, and Southwestern American Literature, among
others. Her debut collection, Burn Lake, was a winner of a 2009 National
Poetry Series Award and was published by Penguin in 2010. She lives in
Austin, Texas, and teaches at St. Edward's University.
The author will be available to sign books after the
reading. As always, books will be available for purchase onsite.

Fiona Sampson
Monday, September 17, 5:10 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Fiona Sampson was born in London. After a brief career as a
concert violinist, she studied at Oxford University, where she won the
Newdigate Prize. Her collections of poetry include Folding the Real
(2001); The Distance Between Us (2005); and Common Prayer (2007),
short-listed for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize. She was short-listed for
the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) in 2006. Since 2005, she has
been the editor of Poetry Review and in 2009 she edited the Poetry Book
Society Recommended A Century of Poetry Review. She contributes
regularly to radio and to a number of publications, including The
Guardian, Irish Times, and The Liberal. Fiona Sampson received a
Cholmondeley Award in 2009. Her latest collection of poetry, Rough Music
(2010) was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry
Collection of the Year) and the 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2011 she was
elected a Fellow and a Council Member of the Royal Society of
Literature. She joins the MFA Program in Creative Writing this fall as a
visiting professor of poetry.
The author will be available to sign books after the reading. As
always, books will be available for purchase on site.

Robin Hemley
Thursday, September 20, 5:10 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Robin Hemley is the author of ten books of nonfiction and
fiction and the winner of many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim
Fellowship, The Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago
Tribune, the Story Magazine Humor Prize, an Independent Press Book
Award, two Pushcart Prizes and many others. His fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry has been published in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Japan,
Australia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and elsewhere and he frequently
teaches creative writing workshops around the world. He has been widely
anthologized and has published his work in such places as the New York
Times, The Believer, Huffington Post, Orion, The Wall Street Journal,
Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, and many of the finest literary
magazines in the U.S. The BBC is currently developing a feature film
based on his book Invented Eden that tells the story of a purported
anthropological hoax in the Philippines. His third collection of short
stories, Reply All, is forthcoming in 2012 and his book A Field Guide
for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel was recently
published. He is a Senior Editor of The Iowa Review as well as the
editor of a popular online journal, Defunct, which features short essays
on everything that's had its day. He currently directs the Nonfiction
Writing Program at the University of Iowa and is the founder and
organizer of NonfictioNow, a biennial conference that will convene in
November 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.
The author will be available to sign books after the reading. As
always, books will be available for purchase on site.


Ann Arbor Art Center Workshops

Look Mom! Drawing and Painting for Parents and Children
Saturday, September 22, 1–4 pm
Multipurpose Room
$28 UMMA and AAAC members and UM students/$35 non-members; lab fee $15,
materials included. Advance registration required by Wednesday,
September 19. Register online at annarborartcenter.org.
Guided by an Ann Arbor Art Center Instructor, families will learn how
to talk about what they see and how to create art themselves. In each
workshop, parents and children will explore a different artist,
artifact, or art movement from the permanent collections. All materials
included. Price includes two family members and supplies for one shared
project. No children under five; all children must be accompanied by an
adult.

Drop-in and Draw: Fridays in the Gallery
Fridays, September 28–November 16, 2012, 11:10 am–1 pm
Instructor: Heather Accurso
$10 one-time drop-in fee (cash only), materials included
Pre-register for all 8 classes: $72 UMMA and AAAC members and UM
students / $80 non-members, materials included. Register online at
annarborartcenter.org.
This drop-in gallery class offers an opportunity to be more than an
observer at the Museum. With the guidance of the instructor, learn to
observe the works in the UMMA collections; experiment with proportion,
perspective, line quality, value, composition, and personal style. No
experience necessary; all are welcome!


GALLERY TALKS AND TOURS

Storytime at the Museum
Saturday September 22, 11:15 am
Children ages four to seven are invited to hear a story in the
galleries. Student docents and UMMA staff will bring art to life as they
read stories related to the art on display and invite responses from our
youngest patrons. Each story is followed by a short art activity.
Parents must accompany children. Siblings are welcome to join the group.
Meet at the Information Desk.

Guided Tours

African Art and the Shape of Time
Sundays, September 2, 9, 30, 2 pm
African art is often interpreted in Western analytical frameworks as
expressions of timeless myths and rituals, interrupted only by the
colonial encounter. African Art and the Shape of Time complicates such
conventional views by exploring material forms of diverse concepts of
temporality, history, and memory. Join UMMA Docents as they discuss the
thirty works from UMMA, other museums, and private collections.

Art as Experience
Sundays, September 9, 16, 23, 30, 1 pm
UMMA's award-winning docents will guide visitors to experience art
through active looking at selected highlights of the collections. These
general tours provide a good introduction to the collection and to
strategies for looking at art through lively and engaging conversation.

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Sunday, September 16, 2 pm
Blurring the boundaries between media, technologies, and cultural
histories, the Seoul-based art collaborative YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY
INDUSTRIES has gained international acclaim for their "net art"
productions. Docents will introduce YHCHI's corpus of digital text with
synchronized music focusing on this new piece, commissioned by UMMA,
which will be added to the artists' website, yhchang.com.

Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of Empire
Sunday, September 23, 2 pm
Benjamin West's iconic painting The Death of General Wolfe (1776)
depicts the death of the British commander at the 1759 Battle of Quebec
during what in this country is known as the French and Indian War.
West's painting of a contemporary event in the conventions of an
academic history painting became one of the most celebrated in Britain.
Docents will illuminate this pivotal moment in art history.

Lunchtime Tours
Friday, September 21, 12:15-12:45 pm
Designed specifically for the lunch hour, UMMA staff will offer 30
minutes of conversation about art in the UMMA galleries around fresh and
entertaining themes such as inspiration, love, heroes, and more. Meet at
the Information Desk.


MUSEUM INFORMATION
UMMA, 525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1354
734.764.0395
www.umma.umich.edu
www.facebook.com/ummamuseum
www.twitter.com/ummamuseum
www.youtube.com/ummamuseum

**Please make a note of our academic year hours (September through
April):

Galleries open Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 5 pm; Sunday 12 to 5
pm; closed Mondays. Building open seven days a week, 8 am to 8 pm.
Closed July 4, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.

Admission is free.

Find yourself inside UMMA and the new Maxine and Stuart Frankel and the
Frankel Family Wing.


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