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DTSTAMP:20250812T174710
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar:  On ribbons that defy Gauss's Theorema Egregium: Why some molecules (and other structures) change shape as they grow
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Ribbons are elastic bodies that are thin and narrow. Many ribbons in nature\, from seed pods to molecular assemblies\, have non-trivial internal geometry\, making them incompatible with Euclidean space. In many cases\, this results in shape transitions between narrow and wide ribbons with the same internal geometry.  In this talk\, I will show how to model these bodies mathematically\, discuss the various phenomena they exhibit (and how they are related to the Gauss–Codazzi equations from surface theory)\, and present some recent rigorous results via Gamma convergence (+ open questions).  There will be pictures\, there will be theorems\, and hopefully a live experiment.  Based on joint work with Sharon\, Siéfert and Levin (modelling and experiments) and Mora (mathematics).\n\nContact:  Ian Tobasco
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135815
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
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DTSTAMP:20251114T142041
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Autotheory Lab\, meeting #3
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141464
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Angell 3241
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DTSTAMP:20250828T123027
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology presents its fall 2025 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series\, “Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism\,” with Assistant Professor Alyssa Paredes:\n\n“Existential crises hang over the producers of the world’s food. Many of these challenges are self-inflicted. In the banana-growing regions of the Southern Philippines\, which produce fruit for export to Japanese markets\, plantations unleash pesticide drift\, food waste\, water effluent\, and fungal pathogens into the surroundings. The plantocratic elite systematically shirks responsibility for these excesses\, using legal contracts\, scientific conventions\, and standards of trade to frame them as “external” to their supply chains. However\, plantation management is regularly proven wrong in its assumption that the things they try to push downstream will not double back to haunt them. Everyday actors on the plantations’ peripheries transform the devices designed to work against them into openings for intervention. Their efforts implore critical scholars of the environment and of global economies to take seriously the possibility that Big Ag’s increasingly frequent failures to reproduce itself are more than just minor inconveniences to business-as-usual. In this series of lectures\, I trace the afterlives of the externalities that commodity production obscures\, disguises\, or otherwise erases from its ambit of accountability. In so doing\, I offer an ethnographic model for turning the commodity studies model\, inherited from generations of anthropologists\, inside-out.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in 411 West Hall. They are free and open to the public. \n\nFriday\, Sept. 12\nElses and Externalities: The Un/Making of Plantation Capitalism \n\nFriday\, Oct. 10\nRejects: Food Cosmetic Standards and the Geopolitics of Waste\n\nFriday\, Nov. 14\nEffluent: Living Downstream of Yourself on the Mindanao River\n\nFriday\, Dec. 5\nForce Majeure: The See-Through Plantation\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nIf you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALYSSA PAREDES\nAlyssa Paredes is an environmental and economic anthropologist with research interests at the intersection of industrial agriculture\, transnational supply chains\, and social mobilization between the Southern Philippines and Japan. Her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “Bananapocalypse: An Ethnography of the Commodity for the 21st Century\,” is under contract with the University of California Press. Additionally\, her work appears in journals in anthropology\, history\, geography\, food studies\, and Asian studies. She is also co-editor of “Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food” (University of Hawaii Press 2025). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135598
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Southeast Asia,History,Environment,Ecology,Archaeology
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20251027T164847
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Borer Lecture: \"Mapping Your Next Exercise Bout: The Dynamic Multiomic Response to Acute Exercise\"
DESCRIPTION:Charles Burant\, MD\, PhD\, professor of internal medicine\, nutritional sciences\, and molecular & integrative physiology\; director of the Taubman Medical Research Institute\; and director of the Michigan Metabolomics Core at the University of Michigan\, will deliver this year’s Katarina T. Borer Lecture in Exercise Endocrinology and Metabolism. His talk is titled\, \"Mapping Your Next Exercise Bout: The Dynamic Multiomic Response to Acute Exercise.\"\n\nThis event is part of the annual Katarina T. Borer Lectureship in Exercise Endocrinology and Metabolism\, generously supported by Professor Emerita Katarina Borer and Dr. Paul Wenger.\n\nReception to follow.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/140381
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,#Exercise Endocrinology,Research,Metabolism,Medicine,Kinesiology,Biosciences,Free
LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building - 2600 (2nd floor)
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DTSTAMP:20251113T203013
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 3
DESCRIPTION:The lecture discusses how communist regimes in the Soviet Union\, Yugoslavia\, and Bulgaria sought to reshape Muslim communities through gendered interventions. Based on my forthcoming book\, it explores policies that targeted Muslim clothing\, religious practices\, and identities\, revealing how Muslim populations resisted\, complied\, and adapted to authoritarian ideas of modernity.\n\nThe Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan is proud to launch a new lecture series spotlighting the rich multicultural and multilingual traditions of the regions we study and teach.\n\nThe series challenges the field’s longstanding Slavic-centric focus by highlighting historically understudied communities that\, by default—as seen in the very term “Slavic studies” as a common synonym for Eastern European regional studies—have too often been overlooked or excluded. Distinguished scholars will present on these cultures’ histories\, languages\, and artistic contributions.\n\nThis is a hybrid event\, please register here: https://myumi.ch/rAxPn
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141313
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Crees,Discussion,Eastern Europe,Slavic,Talk
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308
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DTSTAMP:20251031T111959
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Department Colloquium: Verónica Gómez Sánchez (UC Berkeley)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Rational Introjection \n\nAbstract: Michael Strevens coined the term ‘introjection’ for the kind of psychological process that\, in humans\, is normally responsible for the acquisition of new conceptual mental representations. This talk will work toward a theory of the (epistemic) rationality constraints that govern introjection. I will first argue that the discredited ‘definitional’ theory of introjection is a better rational theory of introjection than is usually supposed\, and that it is not superseded by recent Quinean approaches (e.g.\, Carey\, Margolis\, Strevens).  I will then propose a variant of the definitional theory\, the ‘referential theory’\, that avoids the main problem for the definitional approach. I end by considering why referential introjection may be a more successful cognitive strategy than non-referential definitional introjection. \n\nAbout Professor Gómez Sánchez:\nVerónica Gómez Sánchez is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. Her main research interests are in the metaphysics of science and philosophy of cognitive science. The overarching goal of her current research is to understand how the properties and laws of the special sciences (especially cognitive science) fit into the physical world. She has a special interest in the nature of mental representation and its role in scientific explanation. Verónica got her PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University and my BA from Universidad de los Andes. Before coming to Berkeley\, she was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141001
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
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