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awards, including the 2008 Lucelia Award, Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY. Dion gave a brown bag lecture, “The Making of Waiting for the Extraordinary,” a Penny W. Stamps lecture in collaboration with the U-M School of Art & Design, and he met with many undergraduate classes. His work is part of our ongoing interest in art which reflects on the institutions of the museum and the university as an ensemble, and does so through installation. See also In the Gallery, p. 20. Peter Galison gave the 2012 Marc & Constance Jacobson Lecture, “Einstein, Clocks, and the Materiality of Time.” Galison is a leading historian of science whose research explores the interaction of experimentation, instrumentation, and theory in physics. An author, film producer, and MacArthur Award-winner, he is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. Galison was brought in relation to the University Musical Society’s Renegade Series, specifically its remounting of Einstein on the Beach. Jean M. Hébrard has worked for many years on the cultural history of south-west Europe focusing on the history of writing. He participated in the large-scale enquiries on the history of reading and writing carried out in France in the 1980s and the 1990s and published numerous articles and books in this field. Recently he has extended his research area to the colonial world of Iberian and French Empires (particularly Brazil and SaintDomingue). Professeur associé at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales , Paris, and visiting professor at the University of Michigan, he is a member of the Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Contemporain and of the Centre International de Recherche sur les Esclavages. Hébrard, along with co-author Rebecca Scott, participated in the Author’s Forum around their recent book Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation. See also p. 7. Photos opposite Uwem Akpan
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Reception for Mark Dion’s Waiting for the Extraordinary
Marial Iglesias Utset, visiting fellow, worked as a professor of philosophy and history at the University of Havana for the past 25 years. Her book Las Metáforas del Cambio en la Vida Cotidiana, a history of everyday life in Cuba during the US military occupation, has received several prizes, including the Clarence H. Haring Prize awarded by the American Historical Association. The book has been recently translated into English and published by the University of North Carolina Press under the title A Cultural History of Cuba during the US Occupation, 1898-1902. For her current research project, “A Creole Family and Its Slaves in Saint-Domingue and Cuba: A Narrative of a Trans-Atlantic Experience,” a narration of the Atlantic travels of a single family and its slaves that links the lives of Europeans born on the French Atlantic coast, people from west-central Africa, and Caribbean Creoles, she has been awarded a long-term fellowship from the John Carter Brown Library. Utset gave the brown bag lecture “Law in Slavery and Freedom.” She was brought as part of the institute’s ongoing relationship with the historical and legal project the Law in Slavery and Freedom. Paul Kaiser was the 2011 Kidder Resident in the Arts. With his OpenEnded Group, Shelley Eshkar and Marc Downie, he has pioneered approaches to digital art combining non-photorealistic 3D rendering, body movement through motion-capture and other means, and artworks directed or assisted by artificial intelligence. The OpenEnded Group’s 3D digital projection Loops was exhibited in the Institute for the Humanities gallery and their institute-commissioned installation plant premiered in the Duderstadt Center Gallery on North Campus, both as part of the institute’s Year of Digital Humanities. See also In the Gallery, p. 20 Julie Thompson Klein, Mellon Visiting Fellow in the Digital Humanities, is professor of humanities in the English department at Wayne State University. She is co-editor of the University of Michigan Press series digitalhumanities@digitalculturebooks, and her book Mapping Digital Humanities is forthcoming from U-M Press. Klein also serves on the execu-
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