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The following is a list of History of Art departmental events, events the department is co-sponsoring, and events involving History of Art faculty.  

Victory Parade: Wrestling with the Dead

Leela Corman
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
1:30-3:30 PM
Multi-Purpose Room Off Campus Location
Join us in welcoming artist Leela Corman to the University of Michigan. Acclaimed authro of Unterzakhn (2012) and co-founder of the Sequential Artists Workshop in Gainesville, Leela will present her forthcoming graphic novel, Victory Parade. Set during the Second World War in Brooklyn, New York and at the Allied liberation of Buchenwald, Victory Parade is a graphic novel is about women working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, war refugees, the trauma of witnessing death camps, and... amateur women’s wrestling!

Leela will be involved in three events:

March 27th, 1:30-3:30pm - Workshop
Ann Arbor District Library, Multi-purpose Room

March 27th, 6:00-7:30pm - Signing Session
Vault of Midnight

March 28th, 12-1:30pm - Lecture
3308 Modern Language Building

The event series is cosponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Department of History of Art, the Ann Arbor District Library, and it is hosted by the Department of Germanic Language and Literatures.
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Ann Arbor District Library
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Art, European, History, Humanities, immigration, Interdisciplinary, Jewish Studies, Literature, Women's Studies, Writing
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Transnational Comics Studies, History of Art, Judaic Studies, Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design
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