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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CANCELLED! The Chinese Question: Diasporic Histories and Global Politics of Race with Mae Ngai
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN 2025.\n\nThe Chinese Question is about the origins of Chinese diasporic communities in the West\; the rise of the racist movements and exclusion legislation passed against them\; and the struggles of the Chinese emigrants for respect and equal treatment\, as well as China itself\, in the international community. Chinese exclusion policies across the Anglo-American world showed the importance of domestic racism in the formation of nation-state identities. At another level\, they were also integral to the development of the late nineteenth-century ascent of Great Britain and the U.S. as global economic hegemons\, as creditors and as colonizers\, as nation builders\, and as empire builders. Because China was never formally colonized\, the Western powers imposed unequal treaties and exclusion laws as instruments of colonialism and containment. Exclusion policies were integral dynamics of colonialism and capitalism\; part of a new way of imagining\, organizing\, and governing the world.\n\nMae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History\, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
UID:116788-21837998@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/116788
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lecture,Politics,History
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre, 4th floor
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DTSTAMP:20241006T122016
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241007T160000
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SUMMARY:Meeting:Cluster Algebras and Weaves
DESCRIPTION:Cluster algebras are a class of commutative rings with a special set of generators endowed with a nice combinatorial structure. A traditional problem in the field pertains to rings of regular functions over some algebraic variety: whether they possess a cluster algebra description\, and if so\, how to describe as many clusters as possible. Weaves are a type of diagram first discovered in connection to symplectic geometry.  In this talk\, we will describe braid varieties\, a large class including (open) Richardson varieties\; and we show how to use weaves to describe a large set of clusters in the coordinate rings of these varieties.
UID:127451-21859090@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127451
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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