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DTSTAMP:20260929T202110
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T160000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Barbour/Newberry (2026-2027) (Housing)
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UID:150272-21914677@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150272
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Betsy Barbour Lounge
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DTSTAMP:20260923T145243
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS 2026 Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Minor Cosmopolitanisms: Islam\, Urdu\, and Secularism in Postcolonial India
DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/e73ZQ\n\nThis lecture seeks to build upon Kavita Datla’s work by exploring Urdu as a secular language of Islam. It does so by examining the life and intellectual biography of Syed Abid Husain (1896–1978)\, drawing upon his extensive corpus of works – including translations from German into Urdu\, creative literary writings\, and educational and political activism at Jamia Millia Islamia – to paint a portrait of a nationalist Indian Muslim in colonial and postcolonial India. Moving beyond the framework of nationalist history and adopting a global intellectual history approach\, my lecture aims to expand our geographical and conceptual understanding of ideas by mapping what I call the minor cosmopolitanisms of Husain’s intellectual journeys. I argue that Husain’s engagement with both German majoritarian and minority thought worlds offer valuable insights into the minority not merely as a political category but also as an intellectual and ethical one. Ultimately\, I contend that Husain’s life and writings provide unique insight on both the crises facing democracy and the potential for critical secularism and minority thought in an era dominated by majoritarian nationalism.\n\nDr. Razak Khan is a senior research fellow in global history at the Department of History\, Free University\, Berlin. He is part of the European Research Council funded project “Unfamiliar: Family\, Law\, and Democracy in South Asia.” It looks at the intersection of religion\, gender and sexual minorities\, and family law on the issues of marriage\, adoption\, and inheritance. His monograph *Minority Pasts: Locality\, Emotions\, and Belonging in Rampur* was published by (Oxford University Press\, 2022). He also edited the English translation edition of *The Incomparable Festival* (Penguin Random House India\, 2021) and co-edited *Nodes of Translation: Intellectual History between Modern India and Germany* (De Gruyter\, 2024). His second monograph is an intellectual biography of Syed Abid Husain and will be published by Routledge in 2027.\n\nThe lecture is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Kavita Datla's family and friends.\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n*If 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.*
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150690
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:International,Religion,Politics,islamic studies,Islam,India,History,German,Center For South Asian Studies,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room
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DTSTAMP:20260928T134307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Freedom Dreaming in Chemistry: Using Afrofuturism to Re-Envision STEM
DESCRIPTION:In 2002\, Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley wrote “Freedom Dreams\,” where he began his book asking two questions: “How do we produce a vision that enables us to see beyond our immediate ordeals?” and\, “How do we transcend bitterness and cynicism and embrace love\, hope\, and an all-encompassing dream of freedom\, especially during these rough times?” Being in dialogue with Dr. Kelley\, this presentation “freedom dreams in Chemistry” by exploring the possibilities and outcomes of using Afrofuturism as a framework to anchor STEM research\, teaching\, learning\, and engagement. Implications for conspirators and co-conspirators in the freedom-dreaming movement are discussed.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640
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DTSTAMP:20260915T090618
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a colloquium presented by Kristine Yu (University of Massachusetts Amhearst) in NQ2435 on Friday\, October 2\, 2026\, from 4-5:30 PM!\n\nTitle: The shifting motivation for prosodic constituents\n\nAbstract: The motivation for introducing prosodic constituents into phonological grammar was originally that doing so recognizes generalizations about the otherwise coincidental distribution of disparate phonological patterns. In a systematic literature review bringing together work from intonational phonology\, prosodic phonology\, and the morphosyntax-phonology interface\, we show that the way linguists think about prosodic constituents has in fact drifted away from their original conception. In fact\, converging phonological patterns play a minimal role in motivating prosodic domains. We then consider how far phonetic perspectives on allophony might bring us back to the original conception of prosodic constituents.\n\n[Joint work with Charlotte Kaiser\, Seung Suk Lee\, and Alessa Farinella]
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152179
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Linguistics
LOCATION:North Quad - 2435
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DTSTAMP:20260926T094510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261002T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Topology seminar: Invariants from real Heegaard Floer homology
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Introduced by Guth and Manolescu\, real Heegaard Floer homology is an invariant associated to 3-manifolds equipped with an involution. In this talk\, we will see how under certain assumptions\, the real Heegaard Floer homology groups admit an absolute Z/2 grading. We then specialize to double branched covers of links in S^3\, and the Euler characteristic in this case is the Heegaard Floer analogue of Miyazawa’s degree invariant. Once the signs are fixed\, we show that this quantity can be computed inductively using a skein relation. Furthermore\, we show that it can be expressed in terms of the Alexander polynomial of the link.
UID:149808-21907215@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149808
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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