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SUMMARY:Meeting:SynSem
DESCRIPTION:The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM\, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU\, MSU\, Oakland University\, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131039
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Syntax,Semantics,Discussion Group
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lorch 473
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DTSTAMP:20250113T153508
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250124T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Annual Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Elephants and Ecology - Expanding the Parameters of Trautmann’s Land Ethic
DESCRIPTION:*A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection*\n\n*“Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument of scholarship and sound judgment.”—Maxwell Carter\, Wall Street Journal*\n\nAttend via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/3QbbD\n\nWhy are there no elephants in China? And\, by way of contrast\, why have there been and continue to be large numbers of elephants in the Indian subcontinent across its geography and throughout its recorded history? Why are these two largest countries of Asia so different in their attitudes towards the elephant? These questions are addressed in Thomas Trautmann’s groundbreaking masterpiece Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History. Trautmann introduces the concept of ‘land ethic’ in his explanation of the divergent ecological histories of the two countries. Olivelle's paper is a small contribution to furthering our understanding of the Indian land ethic\, expanding on Trautmann’s definition focused on the Indian war elephant and the establishment of elephant forests. The paper presents four further facets of the land ethic: economic\, recreational\, religious\, and aesthetic.\n   \n   Patrick Olivelle was the chair of Religious Studies at Indiana University\, Bloomington\, and of Asian Studies at the University of Texas\, where he is currently Professor Emeritus. He also was the past President of the American Oriental Society and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago in 2016 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. His recent book Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King was included in The New Yorker’s The Best Books of 2024.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130324
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:China,Natural Sciences,Ecology,Asia
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20250115T102018
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GEOMETRY  SEMINAR:  Curve graphs and totally geodesic subvarieties of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces
DESCRIPTION:Given a surface\, the associated curve graph has vertices corresponding to certain isotopy classes of curves on the surface\, and edges for disjoint curves. Starting with work of Masur and Minsky in the late 1990s\, curve graphs became a central tool for understanding objects in low dimensional topology and geometry. Since then\, their influence has reached far beyond what might have been anticipated. Part of the talk will be an expository account of this remarkable story.\n\nMuch more recently\, non-trivial examples of totally geodesic subvarieties of moduli spaces have been discovered\, in work of McMullen-Mukamel-Wright and Eskin-McMullen-Mukamel-Wright. Part of the talk will be an expository account of this story and its connections to dynamics.\n\nThe talk will conclude with new joint work with Francisco Arana-Herrera showing that the geometry of totally geodesic subvarieties can be understood using curve graphs\, and that this is closely intertwined with the remarkably rigid structure of these varieties witnessed by the boundary in the Deligne-Mumford compactification.
UID:131198-21867946@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131198
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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