Meeting:SynSem
2025-02-07 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location - Lorch 473
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.

Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Climate Ledgers: Risk, Cyclone Science and the Commodification of Monsoon
2025-02-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Weiser Hall - Room 555
Attend via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/egVVP

The paper brings together the intertwined histories of maritime insurance, and the technical as well as vernacular representations of maritime storms in the late eighteenth century Indian Ocean. The technical representation of storms became an urgent issue of prediction as well as arbitrating legal questions around liability for Llyods of London and local courts in colonial Bengal. The question of commodification drove both these issues, as the paper shows, for climate and weather disturbance became the object of revenue generation even as the uncertainty attached to it was precisely what drove its commodification. Focusing on the process of double commodification, the paper reveals how the non-corporeal entity of the monsoon was enclosed as a commodity and its risk further priced and thus offloaded through other financial instruments. Ultimately the paper makes a case for historicizing what is too often seen as the more contemporary phenomenon of the financialization of the climate crisis.

Debjani Bhattacharyya holds the Chair for the History of the Anthropocene at the University of Zurich, where she directs the Digital History Lab. She is the author of Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is a non-resident fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania since 2019. Currently she is writing a long history of how marine insurance market’s risk apprehensions shaped weather knowledge and a derivatives market in climate futures in the Indian Ocean Region.

*Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.*

Workshop / Seminar:Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Reconstruction of schemes from their étale topoi, after Carlson, Haine, Wolf
2025-02-07 16:00 - 17:00 | East Hall - 4096
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19920

Meeting:U-M Hip-Hop Community Kickoff Meeting
2025-02-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall
*Hip-Hop Lives Here.* We are calling all Hip-Hop enthusiasts, scholars, and practitioners/ creatives! Join us for the first monthly Hip-Hop Meeting at the University of Michigan and become part of a dynamic community celebrating the past, present, and future of Hip-Hop culture.

Hosted by Professor Gustavo Souza Marques (Musicology), Lecturer Krisilyn Tony Frazier (Dance) and MFA Dance Grad Students,Tim Tsang and Kiana Cook, this event offers the perfect opportunity to network, create, and inspire. Together we'll honor Hip-Hop's powerful legacy and brainstorm ways to collaborate and contribute to its movement right here on campus!

Questions? Email frazierk@umich.edu or gusmao@umich.edu

Film Screening:Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
2025-02-07 16:30 - 19:00 | Angell Hall - Aud B
Come join History of Art 265.001 - Arts and Cultures of Star Wars in watching Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Careers / Jobs:Consumer, Small & Business Banking Information Session
2025-02-07 17:00 - 18:00
We would love to invite you to an exclusive event with Wells Fargo to learn more about our Consumer Small & Business Banking Internship opportunity. A role designed to challenge, inspire, and launch your professional journey in 2025! This is a chance to:
Develop cutting edge skills through an immersive internship experience
The opportunity to work with industry leaders and gain meaning insight through mentorship.
Kickstart your career in a dynamic and innovative environment by building and exposing yourself to the skills in business analysis, product and brand strategy, and data and analytics.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore what's next for you. Join us on Friday February 7th, at 5:00 PM EST and discover how your talents align with our mission.We can't wait to meet you and help you take the first step towards your future!
