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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STS Speaker Series. A History of 'Impairment'
DESCRIPTION:“Impairment” is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse\, referring to physical difference\, limitation\, or injury. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment\, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. Yet as this talk will show\, the history of impairment is as bureaucratic and actuarial as it is medical. \n\nPopularized by the American life insurance industry in the early twentieth century\, \"impairment\" indicates rating as well as diagnosis—the attachment of value\, risk\, or financial loss to particular traits. Specifically\, impairment emerged as a form of information for corporate surveillance when life insurance companies joined with the Library Bureau in the 1890s to pool data on “impaired risks” among applicants. \n\nThis talk is drawn from a forthcoming article by Mara Mills and Dan Bouk\, written after years of speculation among the authors that our areas of expertise—the history of disability and technology (Mills) and the history of life insurance (Bouk)—have more than a passing affinity.\n\nBio: Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University and founding co-director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies. She is also a founding editorial board member of Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience. She is recently co-editor of Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality (Oxford 2020)\, Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU 2023)\, and a forthcoming special issue of Osiris on \"Disability and the History of Science\" (2024). Upcoming publications include the NSF-funded edited collection How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press)\, a coauthored book with Jonathan Sterne on time stretching\, and an NEH-funded collaborative research project with Michele Friedner on \"The Global Cochlear Implant.\"\n\nCo-sponsors: Departments of American Culture\; Communication and Media\, Center for Ethics\, Society and Computing\; UM Initiative in Disability Studies
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102183
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Data Curation,Public Policy,Information and Technology,Health Communication
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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DTSTAMP:20231201T182035
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Combinatorics: Heronian friezes
DESCRIPTION:In 2020 Sergey Fomin and Linus Setiabrata introduced an algebraic object called a Heronian frieze that is an analogue of the frieze patterns introduced and studied by Coxeter and Conway in the 1970s inspired by the Euclidean geometry of polygon triangulation.  This survey talk will start with frieze patterns\, discuss classical results about integrality\, and draw connections to cluster algebra theory.  We will build up to Heronian friezes\, including a discussion of the necessary geometric ingredients. We will end with an advertisement for current work on the case in which the polygon lies on a sphere.
UID:115714-21835416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/115714
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20231204T152023
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231204T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Study Abroad Info Session: GCC South Africa - Global STEM Leadership
DESCRIPTION:IMPORTANT NOTE: Participants must be in the LSA Women in Science and Engineering Residence Program (WISE RP)\nGlobal Course Connections (GCCs) offer a unique opportunity to take what students learn on campus at U-M during the winter semester and apply it abroad in a fun and exciting hands-on class taught by a U-M professor during a 3-week\, off-campus field experience that takes place during the following summer.\nJoin your CGIS Advisor to learn more about this GCC opportunity in South Africa\, the application process\, and the courses.\nFriday\, September 15\, 4-5 pm (Info Session)\nFriday\, October 20\, 4-5 pm (Info Session)\nMonday\, December 4\, 4-5 pm (Group Advising)\nApplication Deadline: December 10\, 2023
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/109527
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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