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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DISCO Network Presents - How to Survive Techno-Hellscapes: On Crip Wisdom and Critique
DESCRIPTION:Everything is on fire. The supports disabled people need for survival are being decimated. The robots are coming after us\, harvesting our data\, surveilling us\, and determining who is worthy to live. What can we do? How might the wisdom of disability elders and cross-movement organizers equip us for what’s happening and what’s to come? This roundtable brings together disability culture workers\, activists\, writers\, and scholars to think-together about disability futures.\n\nAll are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend. \n\nAdvance registration is recommended. \n\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/G2qgm \n\nMeet the Panelists\n\nBeza Merid is an Assistant Professor of Science\, Technology\, Innovation\, and Racial Justice in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) at Arizona State University. Merid is also the Director of the Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab\, an affiliated faculty member in the ASU College of Health Solutions\, a 2025 Research Affiliate in the DISCO Network\, and a Faculty Research Affiliate in the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center. Situated within the fields of science and technology studies (STS) and critical digital health studies\, his research examines how innovative digital health technologies are used to govern\, foster\, and optimize our capacity for life\, and it considers how this capacity is undermined when these technologies surveil\, racialize\, and otherwise marginalize already-vulnerable patient groups.\n\nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (they/them) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan\, Irish and Ukrainian/Galician/Roma ascent. They are the author or co-editor of ten books\, including The Future Is DIsabled: Prophecies\, Love Notes and Mourning Songs\, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon)\, Tonguebreaker\, and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. A Lambda and Jeanne Córdova Award winner\, five-time Publishing Triangle shortlister and longtime disabled QTBIPOC space maker\, they are currently building Living Altars\, a cultural space by and for disabled QTBIPOC writers.\n\nChrista Teston\, Ph.D. is Professor of English in the Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Literacy program at Ohio State University. Teston mobilizes multiple methods to study how people navigate uncertainty in technoscientific and biomedical contexts. Her first book\, Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty\, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2017 and won two national best book awards. Her second book\, Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care\, was published in 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press and draws on analyses of three case studies about how in/dignities emerge in contemporary caretaking contexts. Teston also directs Ohio State University’s business\, professional\, and technical writing courses and serves as the President of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Society. \n\nThe Cyborg Jillian Weise is a poet\, novelist\, video artist and disability rights activist. Cy is an Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. Cy is the author of The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press\, 2007)\, The Colony (Soft Skull Press\, 2010)\, The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions\, 2013)\, Cyborg Detective (BOA Editions\, 2019)\, and Give It to Alfie Tonight (Red Mare Press\, 2020). During the pandemic\, Cy started Borg 4 Borg Productions with the video play A Kim Deal Party. Her memoir and book of poems are forthcoming from Ecco.\n\nMeet the Moderator\n\nM. Remi Yergeau (they/them/theirs) is an associate professor in Communication and Media Studies. Their scholarly interests include critical disability studies\, rhetoric\, digital studies\, trans and queer studies\, and neurodiversity. Yergeau is an autistic academic. Their knowledge of the autistic internet is informed by the scholarly and the personal: they once ran a neurodiversity blog\, led a student chapter of an autistic-led org\, and coordinated local protests. Their book\, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke UP)\, is a winner of the 2017 Modern Language Association First Book Prize\, the 2019 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Book Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship\, and the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award.\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. ASL interpretation and CART captioning services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form\, please email Cherice Chan at chericec@umich.edu.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136417
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Culture,digital humanities,Digital Media,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,Disability
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20251008T173526
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Sharon Bewick
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary -
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137279
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Ecosystems,Environment,evolutionary biology
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20250905T154728
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Encountering the Supernatural in International Studies Collections
DESCRIPTION:Come explore International Studies materials that feature the supernatural across culture and religion. \n\nAll cultures throughout the world have some beliefs in the supernatural. These translate into use of talismans and amulets\, dance\, trance\, possession\, rituals\, and invocations to seek guidance\, protection\, power\, and blessing\, among other practices. \n\nThis open house will include a selection of books\, films\, and other collection items that document rituals and amulets primarily in South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures\, but will highlight other cultural areas as well. \n\nJoin us (on the 1st floor of Hatcher) for Third Thursdays at the Library\, a themed monthly open house where we share materials from our collections. While you’re here\, pick up a Third Thursday Passport and collect a stamp from each of the Third Thursday Open Houses — Asia Library\, Clark Library\, International Studies\, and Special Collections Research Center — to win a prize!
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138916
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Halloween,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - International Studies Reading Room, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20251009T215808
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry Seminar: Characterizing hierarchically hyperbolic free by cyclic groups
DESCRIPTION:Hierarchical hyperbolicity is a generalization of hyperbolicity that aims to capture key features of not-quite-hyperbolic spaces and groups\, perhaps most notably the mapping class group of a surface. This talk concerns free-by-cyclic groups\, i.e.\, mapping tori of outer automorphisms of finite-rank free groups. The principal result provides the first complete algebraic characterization of when a free-by-cyclic group admits a hierarchically hyperbolic structure by using a transparent condition on intersections between particular maximal subgroups. We describe this as having \"unbranched blocks\" and show that it is equivalent to a host of a priori stronger geometric properties\, such as being quasi-isometric to a finite-dimensional CAT(0) cube complex.\n\nThis represents joint work with Mark Hagen\, Funda Gültepe\, and Pritam Ghosh.\n\nThe talk is intended to be self-contained and accessible to a general topologically- or geometrically-inclined audience. Knowledge of hyperbolic geometry will not be assumed\, although foundational facts will be presented without proof.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138612
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20251016T120051
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20251016T160000
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SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Head of the Charles Regatta
DESCRIPTION:A group of guys will be racing in the HOCR
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140437
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Boston, MA
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