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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student DGT: Symbolic Dynamics\, Geodesic Coding\, and Resonances
DESCRIPTION:I will discuss how to set up symbolic coding system to represent geodesics on a given hyperbolic surface. Furthermore\, I will explain how the \"spine\" of a surface can be used to construct a particularly good dynamical coding\, and how this coding relates dynamics on a surface to dynamics on a metric graph. This relation will be applied to analyze surface properties such as the critical exponent.
UID:133061-21872329@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133061
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 2866
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DTSTAMP:20250115T181710
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dr. Loren Kajikawa\, “Rapping Republicans: Hip Hop and the Multiracial Right\"
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, rapper Eminem has been vocal about his political allegiances. In 2017\, just months after Donald Trump took office\, Eminem appeared in a BET “Cypher\,” a freestyle rap session where emcees show off their skills\, and used the entirety of his allotted time to accuse President Trump of being a cowardly racist who represented an immediate threat to the American people. Less than three months ago\, Eminem took the stage again\, this time at a Detroit rally in support of Kamala Harris. He once again called out Trump as a threat to the country and introduced former president Barack Obama\, who began his speech by rapping lyrics from one of Eminem’s most famous songs\, “Lose Yourself.” Despite Eminem’s stated support for Democratic candidates and his rejection of Trump\, the white rapper also has been claimed by Republican politicians including Marco Rubio and Vivek Ramaswamy. In fact\, early in his career\, Eminem branded himself as a politically incorrect provocateur who\, as the title to one of his first songs put it\, “Just Don’t Give a Fuck.” By emphasizing contradictions in whiteness\, particularly with respect to class\, Eminem’s early commercial recordings\, along with his semi-autobiographical 2002 film *8 Mile*\, cast him as an angry underdog. Thus\, despite his recent efforts to position himself firmly in opposition to Donald Trump\, much of Eminem’s early work aligns well with the cultural logic of conservative grievance politics. This lecture explores these contradictions and examines how Eminem can be claimed by politicians on both sides of the aisle. Why was Eminem’s music and legacy open to being adopted by both Democrats and Republicans during the 2024 presidential campaign? How do Barack Obama and Vivek Ramaswamy\, both of whom chose to rap the opening lines of “Lose Yourself” at different campaign events\, draw on hip hop history to bolster their respective positions? What does Eminem’s relevance twenty-five years after his mainstream debut tell us about hip hop’s political evolution? And\, finally\, what can hip hop teach us about recent trends in electoral politics that have seen more people of color\, especially young men\, identifying with the GOP?\n\nGUEST SPEAKER BIO\n\nLOREN KAJIKAWA is Associate Professor and Chair of the music program at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. His main area of research and teaching is American music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, with special attention to the dynamics of race and politics. Kajikawa’s writings have appeared in *American Music*\, *Black Music Research Journal*\, *ECHO: a music-centered journal*\, *Journal of the Society for American Music*\, and *Popular Music and Society*\, among others. His book *Sounding Race in Rap Songs* (University of California Press\, 2015) explores the relationship between rap music’s backing tracks and racial representation. In addition to his publications\, Kajikawa is a former Editor-in-Chief of the *Journal of the Society for American Music* (Vol. 12-13) and he currently serves as co-editor of “Tracking Pop\,” the University of Michigan Press’s series of books about popular music.\n\n*This program is organized by the Department of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music\, Theatre & Dance.*\n
UID:131250-21868035@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131250
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,Social Impact,Scholarship,Research,North Campus,Music,Lecture,Interdisciplinary,Free,Media
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
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DTSTAMP:20250303T063215
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T170000
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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Engineering Your Future With Caterpillar
DESCRIPTION:One of the best things about a career at Caterpillar Inc. is the opportunity for growth &amp\; development. Join Eric Reiners\, Senior Autonomy Technology Strategist\, and Beth Hinchee\, Director of Emissions Global Regulatory Affairs for a virtual presentation on how you can advance your engineering career with Caterpillar. 
UID:132500-21871049@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132500
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DTSTAMP:20250131T090611
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T170000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ukrainian Resilience and Reflection in Times of War with Oksana Maksymchuk
DESCRIPTION:Renowned Ukrainian Poet Oksana Maksymchuk will read from her recently published Still City: Diary of an Invasion (Pittsburg UP/Carcanet\, 2024)\, a work capturing the anticipation of invasion and its emotional aftermath. As one of the leading translators of Ukrainian poetry into English\, Maksymchuk will\, in conversation with Alex Averbuch\, discuss the translator's role\, and explore how her own poetry\, along with the works she translates\, both bears witness and confronts the harsh realities of war.
UID:132003-21869644@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132003
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:literature,Crees,Weiser Center For Europe And Eurasia,Ukrainian,Talk,Slavic Studies,Slavic Featured,poetry,Slavic
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010
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DTSTAMP:20250225T115638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T171500
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book
DESCRIPTION:In 1866\, Malinda Russell published \"A Domestic Cook Book\" in Paw Paw\, Michigan. As the oldest known cookbook by an African American woman\, this slim volume is a landmark in American culinary history. The only known copy resides in the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive in the U-M Library’s Special Collections Research Center. Join us for a reception and panel discussion celebrating a new edition released by the University of Michigan Press. The reception will begin at 5:15pm\, with the conversation to follow at 5:45pm.\n\nPanelists:\n* Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities\, Pomona College\n* Jessica Kenyatta Walker\, Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Assistant Professor of American Culture\, University of Michigan\n\nSponsored by the U-M Library (Special Collections Research Center and MPublishing) and the Ann Arbor District Library.
UID:130939-21867418@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130939
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Free,Library,African American
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Meeting Room
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DTSTAMP:20250227T172041
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250227T173000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ES\, WOCATA\, and dije Collaborations
DESCRIPTION:Women of Color and the Academic (WOCATA) and the dije Office collaborate on some events for the Marsal community to advance diversity\, inclusion\, justice\, and equity. 
UID:131995-21869619@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131995
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:SEB 4212
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