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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer Palestinian Film & the Second Intifada
DESCRIPTION:Drew Paul\, Associate Professor of Arabic and Co-Director of Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, presents a talk centered on two short Palestinian films—Chic Point (2003) by Sharif Waked\, and Diary of a Male Whore (2001) by Tawfik Abu Wael)—as examples of a wave of queer films from or about Palestine that emerge during and after the Second Intifada (2000–2005). \n\nThe talk examines visual and narrative characteristics of these films\, including violations of bodily autonomy\, spatial constriction\, flashback and traumatic recall\, and use of shadows and darkness. It then connects these elements to broader trends in Second Intifada filmmaking to argue that queer narratives and experiences offer a compelling visual language for critiquing forms of violence and collective punishment that Israel utilized during the Second Intifada and has continued to deploy\, expand\, and refine in the 20 years since.\n\nThis event is sponsored by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies\, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, the Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\, and the Program in Arab and Muslim American Studies.
UID:144318-21895153@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144318
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Arab And Muslim American Studies,Queer Studies,queer,lgbtq,lecture,film,Arabic,Activism
LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239
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DTSTAMP:20260201T195044
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student combinatorics seminar: q-rational numbers and dimers
DESCRIPTION:I will talk about a q-analogue of rational numbers introduced by Morier-Genoud and Ovsienko. Motivated by combinatorics of classic continued fractions in the context of triangulations and walks on the Farey graph\, they assigned to each rational number r/s a rational function in q\, R(q)/S(q)\, where R(q) and S(q) are coprime polynomials in q with positive integer coefficients. Based on a recent work of Ovsienko\, we will interpret these polynomials in the context of perfect matchings (dimers) on snake graphs. This is a self-contained talk which will include necessary background on dimer models on planar graphs\, such as the dimer lattice and the face polynomial.
UID:144891-21896105@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144891
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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