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WATCH: Roger Lipsey’s speech at UN honoring Dag Hammarskjöld

by Shaun Manning April 22, 2013

Video of the United Nations’ tribute to Dag Hammarskjöld, marking sixty years since his inauguration at the organization’s second Secretary General, is now online at the UN’s website. Roger Lipsey, author of the recently-published Hammarskjöld biography from the University of Michigan Press, was a featured speaker at the event. “I still ask myself how best to characterize Dag Hammarskjöld,” Lipsey began. “How to characterize him in a way that encourages us, not just to celebrate him in the distance as a lofty lost figure, but as a working example—close, inspiring. He was a sign of what is possible, but from time to [...]

Roger Lipsey to speak on Hammarskjöld’s legacy at UN

by Shaun Manning April 9, 2013

Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary General of the United Nations, will be honored with a symposium Wednesday at the UN to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of his taking office. Roger Lipsey, author of the highly-praised biography Hammarskjöld: A Life, will speak at the event and take part in a panel discussion. Serving as Secretary General from 1953 until his death in plane crash while en route to negotiate a ceasefire in the Congo Crisis, Hammarskjöld made efforts to improve ties between Israel and its Arab neighbors, journeyed to China to negotiate the release of captured American pilots, and helped to diffuse [...]

Hemenway continues to be a leading voice on gun violence

by Shaun Manning April 3, 2013

David Hemenway, author of the 2007 book Private Guns, Public Health, will speak next week at a symposium held by Massachusetts State Senator Katherine Clark discussing gun violence. Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary, Dr. Hemenway’s book has been regularly cited for its statistical data on the effects of guns in a community and the author himself has been sought for his views on responsible policy. Following the announcement that legislation before the Senate would not include an assault weapons ban, Dr. Hemenway participated in a roundtable discussion on Al Jazeera English, where fellow panelist Adam Winkler of the [...]

THIS WEEK: Animal Acts Performance Festival, a prelude to new UMP title

by Shaun Manning March 20, 2013

University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Media Center Video Studio plays host to Animal Acts: Beasts of the Northern Wild Performance Festival and Symposium March 21-23, with presenters including Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes, editors of the forthcoming University of Michigan Press title Animal Acts: Performing Species, which is set to debut in December. The symposium, organized by Hughes, promises a host of presenters “provoking and performing, in dialogue with faculty, students and staff, as well as the general guests.” Chaudhuri and Hughes’ book will be the first anthology of animal-related performance pieces, marking a significant contribution to the lively field of Animal [...]

Lammy Spotlight: “Acts of Gaiety”

by Phillip Witteveen March 13, 2013

Sara Warner’s Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure is our second finalist in the running for the 25th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Competing in the LGBT studies category, Acts of Gaiety reexamines the history of lesbian and feminist history, focusing on a central joie de vivre where it manifests itself in the theater and political agenda of the LGBT community. Beginning with the Valerie Solanas’ emergence from early lesbian-feminist activism in the mid 1960s, Warner follows the spirit of performance that sustains the gay rights movement all the way to the present day, with modern artists such as Diane DiMassa (creator of [...]

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