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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STeMS Speaker Series | Ecology Against Empire: Spiders\, Sex\, and Feminist Field Science
DESCRIPTION:Ashton's talk is based on her current book project\, Anti-colonial Arachnology--an examination of the gendered and racialized dynamics of how knowledge is produced about animal mating behavior. She situates an ethnographic study of evolutionary biologists in a “spider lab” within a spatial and political analysis of their fields on Tohono O’odham ancestral territory at the US-México border. Wesner’s broader collaborative research program is guided by the questions: How do practicing biologists uphold and upend heteropatriarchal understandings of sex\, gender\, and violence in their quotidian study of non-human animals? How might life sciences offer openings for feminist analytics of migration and right-relations with occupied lands? \nAshton Wesner is assistant professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society at Colby College\, where she also co-facilitates the Environmental Humanities Faculty Seminar and the Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative. Her research and teaching in STS combines critical history of the natural sciences\, queer and feminist studies\, and Native American and Indigenous studies. She brings these fields together to sharpen our conceptions of US imperialist environmental violence and expand feminist practices in evolutionary and field biology. Ashton received her PhD from the University of California Berkeley in Society & Environment. Her most recent publications can be found in The American Naturalist\, on the history of coloniality\, data\, and power in the natural sciences\, and Women’s Studies\, on the gendered slippages in studies on jumping spider mating behavior and the possibilities for queer modes of attention to disrupt heteropatriarchy in the scientific study of animals. She has additional work in Catalyst: Feminist\, Theory\, Technoscience\; Animal Behavior\; and forthcoming in Oisirs. She is also an Editor for 4SBackchannels\, the digital publication forum for the Society for Social Studies of Science.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132980
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Environment
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20250316T154627
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SUMMARY:Meeting:Student Combinatorics: Cluster Geometry and Ensembles
DESCRIPTION:In their 2003 paper\, Fock and Goncharov described two distinct ways of associating cluster algebras with certain spaces. One is associated with the standard cluster algebra mutation\, and the other with the Y-pattern mutation. They often have a dual relationship with each other. We explore these concepts and mention how they relate to flag moduli spaces.
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CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics
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