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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Sustainability Coffee Chats: Free coffee and good conversation!
DESCRIPTION:The Student Sustainability Coalition will be hosting our coffee chats throughout the semester and we want you to join us!  Passionate about sustainability?--water conservation\, AI\, carbon neutrality\, transportation\, ANYTHING!--come chat with us\, share your passion(s) and interests\, all while helping contribute to a more sustainable University of Michigan! Not to mention: WE WILL BUY YOUR DRINK!\n\nFind us at: \nMaizes Cafe every Friday from 3-4p
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138091
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,Climate Change,Discussion,Food,food and the environment,Free,Free Food,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Social,Social Impact,Student Org,Sustainability,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Michigan League - Maizie's Cafe
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DTSTAMP:20261110T232108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T150000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Transdisciplinary Fellows (2026-2027) (Housing)
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149272
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Faculty Dining Room
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DTSTAMP:20260908T140120
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Indians and Cowboys: Race\, Caste\, and Catholic Missionary Priests from India in Rural America
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/Mpp95\n\nOver the past four decades\, the U.S. has become increasingly dependent on international priests to help run Catholic parishes\, schools\, hospitals\, missions\, and more. 90% of dioceses in the U.S. today rely on foreign born priests. Many of these priests are from India and they come on the R-1 temporary religious worker visa - a lesser researched visa category in South Asian diaspora studies that does not require a salary\, only compensation. Thomas' research shows that 64%+ of missionary priests from India come from dominant caste backgrounds.  Based on chapters from my forthcoming book on Indian Catholic priests in Eastern Montana and Western North Dakota\, in this talk I discuss caste\, remittances\, and the intricacies of the R-1 religious worker visa.  \n\nSonja Thomas is a professor of women’s gender and sexuality studies at Colby College.  Her research focuses on gender\, race\, caste\, and Christianity in India and the U.S. She is the author of *Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity\, Gender\, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India*. Her second book\, *Indians and Cowboys\, on Catholic priests from India in rural America*\, is forthcoming from University of Washington Press. She is an associate editor of *South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies*\, is a member of Waterville Maine's K-12 Social Justice and Equity group\, and is an appointed commissioner with Maine’s Permanent Commission on Racial\, Indigenous\, and Tribal Populations.\n\nIf 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/151111
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,India,Religion,Religious Studies,South Asia,South Asian Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20261110T232109
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Grad Student & Post-Doc Social Events
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153623
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:WISE Office, 3236 Undergraduate Science Building
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DTSTAMP:20261028T143839
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T180000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Humanities Opportunity Fair
DESCRIPTION:Do you know all that the humanities has to offer? Well\, come find out at the Humanities Opportunity Fair! Meet fellow Michigan students who live and breathe the humanities through internships\, research\, classes\, student organizations\, and so much more! Come to the fair\, stay for the refreshments\, and leave with new ways to turn your interests into experiences!\n\nInterested in tabling at this event? Fill out this form by Sunday\, October 25: https://forms.gle/GtwVTqrsy9odjwPS7.
UID:153704-21916217@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153704
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Festival,Humanities,Undergraduate
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Lobby & Osterman Common Room
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DTSTAMP:20261029T094914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a colloquium presented by Adrienne Tsikewa (University of California Riverside) in North Quad 2435 on Friday\, November 13\, 2026\, from 4-5:30 PM!\n\nTitle: “It could be a stepping stone”: Zunglish and language ideologies\n\nAbstract: Language mixing is a prevailing linguistic practice under conditions of language contact that has been extensively analyzed and theorized by linguists (e.g. Muysken 2000\, Bullock & Toribio 2009\, Hickey 2010). When one of the languages in contact is English\, language mixing results in a variety that “liberally blends elements from English and from one or more local languages” (Schneider 2016: 341). These hybrid English varieties are a global phenomenon and are often referred to by lexical blends that combine English and the local language or community name (e.g. Spanglish\, Chinglish\, Singlish). Due to the stigma frequently associated with hybrid English (Lambert 2018\, Schneider 2016)\, connotations associated with these terms are predominantly negative\, aligning with prevalent language purism ideologies or deficit-based language ideologies of language mixing as poor or broken English. Awareness and understanding of such language ideologies is critical to Native American language contexts\, as without this knowledge “scholars and researchers-both Native and non-Native-cannot hope to understand Native American languages and the ways speakers use them\, change them\, and renew them.”(Kroskrity & Field 2009:10)\n\nIn this talk\, I present one part of my larger dissertation study on bilingual language practices and ideologies in Zuni Pueblo\, New Mexico. My analysis focuses on language ideologies towards Zunglish\, or language mixing involving Zuni and English\, expressed during interviews with adult participants of various ages and with various levels of ability in the Zuni language. I show that some of the participants express ideologies of deficiency and language purism toward Zunglish\, while others view language mixing as a necessity and as a reflection of hon a:wan A:shiwi ‘our Zuni people’ living in two worlds. I conclude by reflecting on how these ideologies can hinder community members\, in particular younger generations\, from speaking Zuni and how valuing rather than disparaging bilingual practices is essential to creating the conditions for A:shiwi who wish to gain confidence in using the language.\n\nReferences:\nBullock\, Barbara E.\, and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio\, eds. 2009. The Cambridge\nhandbook of linguistic code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\n\nHickey\, Raymond\, ed. 2010. The handbook of language contact. Oxford:\nWiley-Blackwell.\n\nKroskrity\, Paul V. and Margaret C. Field.2009.Native American language ideologies:\nBeliefs\, practices and struggles in Indian Country. Tucson\, AZ: University of Arizona\nPress.\n\nLambert\, James. 2018. A multitude of “lishes”: The nomenclature of hybridity. English\nWorld-Wide 39(1): 1-33.\n\nMuysken\, Pieter. 2000. Bilingual speech: A typology of code-mixing. Cambridge\, UK\nand New York: Cambridge University Press.\n\nSchneider\, Edgar W. 2016. Hybrid Englishes: An exploratory survey. World Englishes\n35(3): 339-354. doi:10.1111/weng.12204
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154080
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium
LOCATION:North Quad - 2435
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DTSTAMP:20261109T095010
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T160000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Math for AI Safety: Toy Models of Superposition
DESCRIPTION:This semester\, our reading group will focus on Interpretability Theory. \n\nFor this week\, we are reading Toy Models of Superposition\, Sections 1\, 2\, 3(optional)\, 4\, and 8. \nhttps://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html\nThe paper studies how neural networks can represent more features than they have dimensions by storing multiple features in overlapping directions — a phenomenon called superposition. This has a number of implications. In particular\, there is a trade off between the benefit of representing more concepts and interference between features. This seminar will start with a 10 minute summary lecture followed by group discussions.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154664
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
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