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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistic Anthropology Colloquium | “Military Chimeras: Iconic Resonance in a Nervous Semiotic System”
DESCRIPTION:The United States Military defines itself as an institution governed by exacting rules and discipline\, dedicated to producing upstanding super-citizens. Yet Pete Hegseth\, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense\, openly rejects the relevance of international law in combat\, asserting that American power is best sustained through unrestrained violence. This talk examines the semiotic and linguistic reverberations in military training and discourse that reveal a persistent tension between the honorable and the transgressive. I argue that this tension forms a semiotic infrastructure with the potential to reinforce the necropolitical strategies Hegseth champions.\n\nJanet McIntosh\, professor of anthropology at Brandeis University\, is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist whose work in Kenya and the U.S. has explored essentialism\, personhood\, religion\, colonialism and race\, right-wing ideologies\, and militarization. Her first book\, “The Edge of Islam: Power\, Personhood\, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast” (Duke University Press\, 2009)\, won the 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion. Her second book\, “Unsettled: Denial and Belonging among White Kenyans” (University of California Press\, 2016)\, received Honorable Mention in the 2018 American Ethnological Society's Senior Book Prize\, and Honorable Mention in the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing. She is the co-editor\, with Norma Mendoza-Denton\, of “Language in the Trump Era: Scandals and Emergencies” (Cambridge University Press 2020). After fieldwork and writing support from the NEH and ACLS\, she is currently finishing a book titled “Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics” (Oxford University Press).
UID:131919-21869416@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131919
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20250121T130750
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Measures on combinatorial objects (Combinatorics Seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Let C be a class of finite relational structures (e.g.\,\ngraphs\, trees\, total orders\, etc.). A \"measure\" on C is a rule\nassigning a number to each object of C such that some identities hold.\nEach measure that exists is something of a miracle\, and leads to a\nvery interesting algebraic object\, namely\, a tensor category. I will\ndescribe some of the known measures\, and discuss some of the many open\nproblems around them. (I won't say much about tensor categories.)
UID:131482-21868593@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131482
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4096
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DTSTAMP:20250203T005002
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Miyaoka-Yau Inequality
DESCRIPTION:The uniformization theorem classifies simply-connected Riemann surfaces into a trichotomy\, which can be described in many ways\, such as Euler characteristic\, existence of special metric\, or ampleness of its canonical bundle. \n\nIn higher dimensions\, uniformization is much more complicated\, and Miyaoka-Yau inequalities is an algebro-geometric approach towards this goal. In particular\, when equality is achieved\, we have an analog of the 1-dimensional situation. \n\nWe will introduce Chern classes of a line bundle\, Kähler-Einstein (KE) metrics\, and sketch a proof of the inequality in the smooth case using KE metrics. Half of the talk will be introducing notions and tools in complex differential geometry.
UID:132228-21870612@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132228
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 2866
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DTSTAMP:20250207T142049
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Round Table Insight Sessions: A series of open discussions with ME students
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to participate in a series of student roundtable discussion\, centering and exploring the experiences of ME students. Students at all levels are welcome to join\, from undergraduate to Masters to PhD. These sessions are meant to bridge gaps in our community and show commitment of mutual support. \nShare Your TruthThis is your platform to express your experiences\, aspirations\, and concerns within our department. Your stories matter\, and we are here to actively listen and learn from each other.\nForge ConnectionsConnect with fellow students who understand your journey. Build supportive networks\, exchange ideas\, and foster a sense of belonging within our community.\nInclusivity in ActionWhile our focus is on amplifying the voices of marginalized students\, we embrace and celebrate the diversity within our community. Allies and friends committed to creating an inclusive environment are warmly encouraged to join us.\nEach session will provide a meal and a ME swag item to all participants. To help us plan times for sessions please fill out the interest form by clicking on the button below. We look forward to connecting with you.
UID:130526-21867253@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130526
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
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DTSTAMP:20250319T095022
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250207T150000
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SUMMARY:Meeting:SynSem
DESCRIPTION: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.
UID:131039-21867625@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131039
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion Group,Semantics,Syntax
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Lorch 473
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DTSTAMP:20250103T094039
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Climate Ledgers: Risk\, Cyclone Science and the Commodification of Monsoon
DESCRIPTION:Attend via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/egVVP\n\nThe 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.\n   \n   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.\n   \n   *Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.*
UID:130327-21865759@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130327
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,India,Asia
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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