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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins
DESCRIPTION:Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA\, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home\, placemaking\, labor\, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body\, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade\, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley\, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.\nArtist’s bio:\nMichelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas\, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting\, bead weaving\, embroidery\, jewelry\, transparent film installations\, painting\, ceramics\, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story\, re-make\, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx\, Chicanx\, Mexican\, and Texican peoples. \n\nRecently\, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan\, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania)\, Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen\, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas\, TX). 
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122384
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250217T122533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250226T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Brown Bag Seminar | Algebras\, ergodicity\, and the emergence of causality
DESCRIPTION:Given a general many-body quantum system\, how can we diagnose whether a holographic causal structure emerges as its number of degrees of freedom goes to infinity? In this talk\, I will explain which general tools the language of von Neumann algebras provides us with to address this question. In particular\, I will show that a sharp horizon structure emerges in the dual of N=4 SYM theory at finite 't Hooft coupling\, which allows to make sense of causality at nonzero string length in string theory. I will also elaborate on an intriguing interplay between the algebraic results we will encounter and the theory of chaos in classical and quantum dynamical systems.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130851
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:brown bag,Physics,Brown Bag Seminar
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
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DTSTAMP:20250114T162359
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250226T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk. The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't
DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/VGp22\n\nAs the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe\, The Great Retreat makes the controversial argument that what democracies require most are stronger political parties that serve as intermediaries between citizens and governments.\n   \n   Once a centralizing force of the democratic process\, political parties have eroded over the past fifty years. Parties now rank among the most unpopular institutions in society--less trusted than business\, the police\, and the media. Identification with parties has plummeted\, and even those who are loyal to a party report feeling that parties care more about special interests than about regular citizens. What does a \"good\" political party look like? Why do we urgently need them? And how do we get them?\n   \n   The Great Retreat explores the development of political parties as democracy expanded across the West in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on mass parties\, and the ways they served as intermediaries that fostered ties between citizens and governments. While parties have become professionalized and nationalized\, they have lost the robust organizational density that made them effective representatives. After the Cold War\, a neoliberal economic consensus\, changes to campaign finance\, and shifting party priorities weakened the party systems of Western democracies. As Didi Kuo argues\, this erosion of political parties has contributed to the recent crisis of democratic capitalism\, as weak parties have ceded governance to the private sector.\n   \n   For democracy to adapt to a new era of global capitalism\, Kuo makes the case that we need strong intermediaries like mass parties--socially embedded institutions with deep connections to communities and citizens. Parties are essential to long-term democratic stability and economic growth\, while the breakdown of party systems\, on the other hand\, has historically led to democratic collapse. As trust in political parties has plummeted\, The Great Retreat provides a powerful defense of political parties--for without parties\, democratic representation is impossible.\n   \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:131169-21867902@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131169
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:book event
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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