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Public Lectures and Discussions
LECTURE SERIES
“The Plays of The Royal Residency”
Mondays, January 6–April 14, 7:00–8:30pm
Auditorium 3, Modern Language Building
With Ralph Williams, U-M Department of English Language and Literature.
No registration required for public observation. U-M students may register
and receive credit.
As part of Ralph Williams’ U-M class “The Plays of The Royal
Residency,” the general public is invited to attend his course throughout
the semester. The texts of the plays—a stage adaptation of Salman
Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shakespeare’s
Coriolanus and The Merry Wives of Windsor—will constitute
the readings for the course.
LECTURE
Tuesday, February 4, 7:00pm
“From Page to Stage: Adapting Salman Rushdie’s
Midnight’s Children.”
Lorch Auditorium, Lorch Hall
611 Tappan Street
Simon Reade, Artistic Co-Director of the Bristol Old Vic, worked with Salman Rushdie on adapting Midnight’s Children to the stage. He will give a lecture Tuesday evening in Lorch Hall Auditorium. Students from Ralph Williams’ class on the Plays of the Royal Residency will attend and the general public is encouraged to come as well. His topic will be “From Page to Stage: Adapting Salman Rushdie’s
Midnight’s Children.”
LECTURE AND LUNCHEON
“Learning Shakespeare”
Sunday, February 16, 12 noon
Alumni Center, Founder’s Room, 200 Fletcher Street (corner of Washington)
$20 for members of AAUM/UMS and $25 for non-members. For reservations,
please call 734-764-0384 or toll free 1-800-847-4764. Tickets must be
purchased in advance.
Join the Alumni Association on Sunday, Feb. 16, for a luncheon and discussion
about Shakespeare, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the three plays
the RSC will perform during its Ann Arbor residency. UMS President Ken
Fischer and U-M professor Ralph Williams will speak. Tickets are available
through the Alumni Association. For more information or to register for
this event, please visit the Alumni
Association's website or call 1-800-847-4764. Tickets must be purchased
in advance.
LECTURE
“Falstaff, the Jolly Knight of Windsor”
Sunday, February 23, 3:00pm
Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-Purpose Room, Basement level
343 S. Fifth Avenue
With Richard LeSueur, Music Specialist, Ann Arbor District Library.
This lecture will examine the creation of a Shakespeare character, Falstaff,
as reimagined by the composer Giuseppe Verdi and his librettist Arrigo
Boito. Although Shakespeare’s Falstaff is an interesting rogue, Verdi
and Boito add other layers on to his personality and his relationship
with friends and neighbors.
For more information about this event, contact the Ann Arbor District
Library at 734-327-4200 or visit their website.
LECTURE SERIES: Knowing South Asia and Midnight’s Children
A year-long speaker series on South Asia incorporating themes that Rushdie
touches upon in Midnight’s Children, such as Hindu-Muslim relations,
identity formation, diasporic ambiguities, democracy, and the state’s
role in mass welfare through a discussion of current affairs. For more
information, please contact the U-M Center for South Asian Studies at
734-764-0352, or visit
the Current Affairs page of their website.
“Focus on India”
Thursday, February 13, 12 noon DATE CHANGED TO APRIL 4, 2003!
William Davidson Institute, Wyly Hall, Room 1731, 724 E. University Ave.
With Ashutosh Varshney, U-M Associate Professor of Political Science
and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies.
This lecture will focus on the impact of economic changes in India since
1991, and the birth of a new, vast middle class.
PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE FOR THIS LECTURE! This event has been rescheduled for Friday, April 4, 2003. For details, please contact the U-M Center for
South Asian Studies by phone at 734-764-0352, or visit
their website.
A UMS collaboration with U-M Center for South Asian Studies, International
Institute, and William Davidson Institute.
“The Forms of Political Morality in Salman
Rushdie’s Work”
Friday, February 7, 2:00pm
School of Social Work Building, Room 2609, 1080 S. University Ave.
With Sadia Abbas, U-M English Language and Literature lecturer.
Salman Rushdie is widely regarded as one of the most innovative writers
of the late 20th century. In recent years there have been many debates
about the politics of his writing style. This talk will interpret Rushdie’s
stylistic habits and techniques in relation to the political ethics of
the vision that underpins and propels them.
A UMS collaboration with U-M Center for South Asian Studies and International
Institute.
Final Wrap-Up Discussion: “Ralph Williams and
The Royal Residency”
Monday, March 17, 7:00pm
Hale Auditorium, U-M Business School
Corner of Tappan and Hill Streets
Offering an opportunity for continued dialogue about The Michigan Residency,
U-M English Professor Ralph Williams will facilitate a community discussion
session on the plays in the Michigan Residency.
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