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Public lecture by Dr. Sam Alberti, Keeper of Science & Technology, National Museums Scotland, “Darwin and Museums,” Feb 7, 7:30pm, C106 Holmes Hall. Organized by Lyman Briggs College, co-sponsored by Museum Studies.
Lecture by Prof. Susan J. Bandes
Sponsored by Mid-Century Modern Midland
Hard Rain Falling: Japanese Twitterature and the End of the World
This talk examines the history of the Twitter novel in Japan and the use of that form in the immediate aftermath of the triple disasters of March 11, 2011. When the earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima catastrophes struck, telephone connections were disrupted and mainstream media failed to provide the immediate news citizens craved. So many turned to social media for facts streaming from the disasters, while a subset of the population took solace in fiction and poetry posted on those same venues. This talk examines the ways the short, micro, or flash fiction posted on twitter helped readers cope with the trauma, understand the events, and re-imagine possible futures.
Reception to follow.
Jonathan E. Abel is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. His recent work looks at the history of new media in Japan in order to examine the interrelations of representations and reality.
Sponsors and funding support by: Asian Studies Center, Japan Foundation of New York
Hindu Devotional Universalisms in 19th-century Bengal
with Dr. Abhishek Ghosh
Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University
Lecture presented by the Historical Society of Greater Lansing and the Capital Area District Library, Lansing Public Library
“Mid‐Michigan Modern: Lansing Architects and Their Clients”
Susan J. Bandes March 23, 2017, 7 pm
Lansing Public Library
401 South Capitol Avenue
Learn how to install, build, customize, and organize your own digital collections with the Omeka platform.
Find out more at http://digitalhumanities.msu.edu/event/digital-collections-with-omeka/
Register at http://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/3000758
Learn how to tell stories and plot objects over space and time using Neatline.
Learn more at http://digitalhumanities.msu.edu/event/exhibiting-collections-through-time-and-space-with-neatline/
Register at http://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/3000897
Cross-disciplinary artist and Fiber Professor at VCU, Aaron McIntosh mixes textiles, sculpture, drawing, collage, and photography to find intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics. Recently his work has been featured in Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in NY and Man-Made: Contemporary Male Quilters at the CAFMA.
Dr. Gabrielle Vail specializes in Mayan archaeology, epigraphy, and ethno-history. Deciphering indigenous astronomies and cosmologies as seen in pre-Hispanic Mayan texts and textile designs will be the focus of her talk. Vail is based at UNC, Chapel Hill where she is the Program Director for InHerit: Passed to Present in the Research Labs of Archaeology.
This lecture is additionally sponsored by the Abrams Planetarium, the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and the Department of Anthropology.