State of Emergency: Community-Theatre Performance in Flint
Andrew Morton, 2011 Arts of Citizenship grantee, recently teamed-up with Kendrick Jones to form a theatre company called Shop Floor Theatre Company: www.shopfloortheatre.com. Their new documentary, State of Emergency, is inspired by MI PA 4 (the Emergency Manager Law) and explores how its implementation and subsequent repeal has impacted the city of Flint. This production will engage ...
Feb. 15 Museum Studies Brownbag: Negotiating the Power of the Polka Dot
Please bring your lunch and join us for a Museum Studies Brown Bag! Speaker: Bradley L. Taylor (Associate Director, Museum Studies Program) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013 Where: Multi-Purpose Room, UM Museum of Art (Room 125) Negotiating the Power of the Polka Dot: Tyree Guyton’s Heidelberg Project and Its Detroit Communities Tyree Guyton’s ...
Professor Martha Jones on the Understanding Race Theme Semester
Martha Jones, U-M faculty member and co-chair of the Understanding Race Theme Semester, published an article on the Huffington Post about the Understanding Race Project. Full article here. (from our home page, click the title of this blog post to view the full-text post. From there you’ll find the link to the Huffington Post article.)
MLA President Offers a Sobering Critique of Graduate Education in the Humanities [linked article]
![MLA President Offers a Sobering Critique of Graduate Education in the Humanities [linked article]](http://artsofcitizenship.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121211_blog_AofC_SeamlessGarmentOfCrisis-670x220.png "MLA President Offers a Sobering Critique of Graduate Education in the Humanities [linked article]")
This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education puts the question of graduate training and preparation for alternative careers at the center of the debate over the future of the humanities. Read the full article here.
Reimagining the Meanings of Service on the Streets of Detroit [linked article]
![Reimagining the Meanings of Service on the Streets of Detroit [linked article]](http://artsofcitizenship.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121211_blog_AofC_Cotera1-670x220.png "Reimagining the Meanings of Service on the Streets of Detroit [linked article]")
This article by Maria Cotera, associate professor of Latino and Women’s Studies, raises important questions concerning public scholarship and addresses several challenges concerning the goals beneficiaries of this work. Read the full article here.
Saving Detroit Neighborhoods from Blight
University of Michigan urban planning professor, Margi Dewar, has helped found a coalition called Detroit Vacant Property Campaign, which gives community organizations the tools to fight blight. This project has received support from the Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society (CARSS). Read more on the CARSS site.
El Museo del Norte: A “Museum without Walls” in Southwest Detroit
What is a “museum without walls”? It is a space—not a place—where a given community, in this case the Latino community in the greater Detroit area, can mark its historical presence through activities normally associated with an established museum. Our museum without walls claims the landscape of the city as its institutional site and the ...
What Doors Does a Ph.D. in History Open? [linked article]
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Is it in the long-term interest of history and other humanities departments to revolutionize the career training they offer to doctoral students? If so, what ideas do you have for how this should be done? Click here to read the full article by L. Maren Wood in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Exhibit Opening November 16, 6-8pm
I am pleased to announce an opening reception for two new exhibitions at the U-M Museum of Natural History on Friday, November 16 from 6-8 p.m. These exhibitions explore issues of race in our community and provide a local counterpoint to a nationally traveling exhibit on race coming to the Museum in early 2013. Congratulations ...
2013 Request for Proposals: Graduate Student Grants in Public Scholarship
Arts of Citizenship supports University of Michigan graduate students in the arts, design, and humanities in carrying out creative and scholarly projects with civic and cultural organizations that address real-world challenges and enhance students’ professional development. Program Description and Goals Arts of Citizenship Graduate Student Grants in Public Scholarship support mutually beneficial partnerships between U-M ...
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