Rampant, Unfettered Narcissism: A Defense
A Talk by Professor Laura Kipnis
Tuesday, January 12
Rackham Amphitheatre
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
|
|
|
Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and former video artist whose work focuses on sexual politics, aesthetics, emotion, acting out, bad behavior, and various other crevices of the American psyche. She is the author of six books, which have been translated into fifteen different
|
|
|
languages; her latest book is entitled Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Slate, Harper’s, Playboy, Bookforum, The New York Times Magazine and The Times Book Review, among others. Kipnis is a professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University where she teaches filmmaking; she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows, the NEA and Yaddo. She has temporarily put aside a short book-in-progress on narcissism to write a short book on campus sexual politics.
This event is sponsored by the Michigan Society of Fellows, the Stamps School of Art & Design, the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, and Women's Studies.
|
|
|
Television Didn't Die, But Broadband Distribution Revolutionized It: A Talk by Professor Amanda Lotz
Thursday, January 21.
North Quad 5450
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
|
|
|
Beginning in the late 1990s, the technology and even mainstream press opined extensively on the coming death of television. A decade later—and a time that found television still very much alive—that theme evolved to instead pronounce the
|
|
|
coming death of cable. Rather than demise, the emergence of broadband-distributed television has both reinvented the medium and revealed how extensively our expectations and understandings of television are based not on the medium of television but on logics developed for its broadcast distribution.
Lotz's talk presents key arguments of her current book project, Being Wired: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All with a focus on understanding what transpired when the long anticipated face off between "new media" and television finally took place in 2010.
|
|
Little Bang Theory Plays Frank Pahl's Original Live Score to the Film Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Thursday, January 21
Peristyle Theater, Toledo Museum of Art
7:00 p.m. -- Free Admission
|
|
|
For Lon Chaney’s 1928 tragic-romance Laugh, Clown, Laugh, composer Frank Pahl has written a brand-new score that will receive its world premiere by Pahl and his band Little Bang Theory performing on toy instruments and Toledo Museum of Art’s historic Skinner organ. In the film, Chaney plays Tito, a travelling circus clown who falls in a big way for the beautiful young Simonetta.
|
|
SAC Speaker Series Presents
A Talk by USC Professor Akira Lippit: "Like a Sleeping Cat (In Roland Barthes's Empire of Sleeping Cats)"
Friday, January 22
Space 2435 North Quad
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
|
|
|
One hundred years after his birth, Roland Barthes remains an eccentric legacy in the fields he engaged: literature, semiotics, photography, and to some extent cinema. How might one understand Barthes’s legacy, his preferred spaces of photography, forms of erotic literature, imagined Japan, political stances, and his cinema?
This presentation considers Barthes one hundred years after his birth, seeking to illuminate the distinct forms of affect that form not only the mood of his writing, but also its mode. What sort of subject does Barthes project in his empires of signs? Who or what forms the subject of his semiotics?
This talk is sponsored by the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures Sheldon Cohn Fund and the Departments of American Culture, English Language and Literature, and Asian Languages and Cultures.
|
|
|
|
Meet Akira Lippit at the Graduate Student Workshop to be held from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the SAC Conference Room (room 6330) North Quad. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by January 15th to Yuki Nakayama (yknkym@umich.edu) if you are interested in attending.
|
|
Screening of Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Helmut Stern Auditorium - UMMA
5:30 p.m. -- Free Admission
|
|
|
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the country. This documentary film provides a new perspective on a country usually associated with only war and genocide. The film is a celebration of the incredible music that came from Cambodia and explores how important it is to Cambodian society both past and present.
This event is organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Sheldon Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the Center for World Performance Studies, and WCBN-FM.
|
|
WOLV TV Ann Arbor Anthem Winter Showcase
Friday, January 15
The Shinola Lounge (301 S. Main Street)
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. -- free admission
|
|
|
|
WOLV-TV's newest show, The Ann Arbor Anthem -- a show whose purpose is to recognize student artists, musicians, and performers in the Ann Arbor community -- is holding its Winter Showcase on Friday, January 15th. This is a free concert open to all U OF M students and will be held at The Shinola Lounge in Ann Arbor with musical performances by Cooper Anstett, Rella, and Tear Soup. WOLV will be covering the event to air for the upcoming semester.
|
|
|
THIS WEEK'S FEATURED PHOTO
|
|
|
|
David Marek poses with a friend on the set of the post-apocalyptic/adventure film, Thaw of the Dead, which Marek hopes to have premiere at festivals by the end of the summer to early fall.
|
|
|
|
|
|
