BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260223T143232 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technopolitical Futures DESCRIPTION:A digital world in relentless movement---from artificial intelligence to ubiquitous computing---has been captured and reinvented as a monoculture by Silicon Valley \"big tech\" and venture capital firms. Yet very little is discussed in the public sphere about existing alternatives. Based on long-term field research in the Pacific Rim\, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces and projects that stand as potent\, but often invisible\, alternatives to the dominant tech industry. In what ways have hackers challenged corporate projects of digital development? How do hacker-activist collectives prefigure alternative technological futures through community projects? In this talk\, I will address these questions through the analysis of the hard challenges of collaborative\, autonomous community-making through technical objects conceived by hackers as convivial\, shared technologies.\n\nLuis Felipe R. Murillo is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His work is dedicated to the anthropological study of the \"commons\" in science and technology with a focus on the intersections between moral economies\, political cultures\, and infrastructures of computing. UID:144689-21895694@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144689 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Science LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T091341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Center Panel | Human Rights and LGBTQ Love: Art and Fiction as Resistance DESCRIPTION:Speaker and Panelists: Hala Al-Karib\, Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellow\, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)\; Dr. Frieda Ekotto\, University of Michigan Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Comparative Literature\; B.Caroline Kouassiaman\, Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest\; Jude Dibia\, Nigerian Novelist.\n\nThis interdisciplinary panel will discuss ongoing efforts around the continent of Africa to defend and advocate for LGBTQ+ people and their rights. Speakers will address the role of art and fiction as a tool to celebrate love and resist harmful attitudes and actions towards LGBTQ+ communities. This panel will include speakers from Sudan\, Nigeria\, Côte d'Ivoire\, and Cameroon. This event is free and open to the public and is in-person only.\n \n Co-sponsored by: the African Studies Center\, the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)\, the Spectrum Center\, and the Women's and Gender Studies Department.\n \n Chair:\n \n Hala Al-Karib\, Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellow\, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)\n \n Al-Karib has dedicated her life to the cause of human rights in Africa. Her work is focused on women's rights\, social justice\, and equal citizenship in the Horn of Africa and Eastern Africa (particularly Sudan and South Sudan). Her expertise spans advocacy\, conflict resolution\, research\, capacity building\, policy engagement\, and feminist organizing\, making her a leading voice in fighting for legal reforms and amplifying women’s voices in revolutions and post-war transitions.\n \n Panelists:\n \n B. Caroline Kouassiaman\, Executive Director\, Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest\n \n Caroline (pronouns: she/her) is the Executive Director of Initiative Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (ISDAO)\, an activist-led fund dedicated to strengthening and supporting a West African movement for gender diversity and sexual rights. She joined ISDAO in February 2019. She is a queer\, bilingual (English/French) African feminist of Ivorian and African-American heritage\, and currently calls Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana home(s).\n \n Caroline has 23+ years of diverse professional experiences in philanthropy\, human rights activism\, social justice and education\, and has been in the field of feminist and human rights centered-philanthropy since 2011\, both as a staff member in leading philanthropic organizations\, and as a strategic advisor in other innovative grantmaking initiatives\, including VOICE program\, the ACTIF Fund\, and the Numun Fund. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College (USA)\, a Master of Public Administration degree and a master’s in international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (USA).\n \n Caroline sees herself as a builder\, a connector and a perpetual question-asker.\n \n Frieda Ekotto\, Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and Francophone Studies\n\n As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone literature and in the cinema of West Africa and its diaspora\, Dr. Frieda Ekotto concentrates on contemporary issues of law\, race and LGBTQIA2S+ issues. Her primary research to date has focused on how law serves to repress and mask the pain of disenfranchised subjects\; her intention in this work is to trace what cannot be said in order to address and expose suffering from a variety of angles and cultural intersections and reassess the position and agency of the dispossessed.\n \n Dr. Ekotto is the author of multiple books\, and numerous book chapters as well as many articles in prestigious literary journals. She is currently working on LGBTQIA2S+ issues\, with an emphasis on Sub-Sahara African cultures within Africa as well as in Europe and the Americas. In addition to her academic work\, she is also a creative writer.\n \n Dr. Ekotto received the Nicolàs Guillèn Prize for Philosophical Literature in 2014 and in 2015 she was awarded the Benezet Award for excellence in her field. In 2016\, she was awarded the John H. D’Arms Faculty for Distinguished Graduate Mentoring in the Humanities at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. In 2018\, she was awarded an Honorary Degree at Colorado College. She has produced two documentaries\, Vibrancy of Silence: A Discussion with My Sisters (2017) and Zurura Zurura: A Smile Blooms (2021) as part of the ongoing research on Vibrancy of Silence: Images and Cultural Production of Sub-Saharan African Women. She is the president of the Modern Languages Association (2023-2024) and served as chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies from 2014-2018\, among other leadership roles.\n \n Jude Dibia\, Nigerian Novelist\n\n Jude Dibia is a Nigerian novelist\, short story writer\, and editor whose work is known for its fearless engagement with sexuality\, identity\, class\, and power in contemporary African society. He is the author of Walking with Shadows\, Unbridled\, and Blackbird\, and the co-editor of Love Offers No Safety: Nigeria’s Queer Men Speak. His writing has been widely recognised for opening space for marginalised voices within African literature.\n \n A recipient of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Prose\, Sweden's Natur och Kultur Priz and a finalist for the Nigeria Prize for Literature\, Dibia has also contributed fiction and essays to numerous international anthologies. Now based in Sweden\, he works across writing\, editing\, and cultural advocacy\, bridging African and global literary conversations while mentoring emerging writers and supporting freedom-of-expression initiatives.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:145582-21897551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145582 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lgbtq,women studies,african and afroamerican studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260310T140900 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Entrepreneurship Graduate Certificate Info Session DESCRIPTION:Curious about applying an entrepreneurial mindset to your next step? Join the Center for Entrepreneurship’s Graduate Certificate Learn More virtual info session to see how this flexible credential can add entrepreneurial capability to your discipline and help you stand out.\n\nWhen: March 16\, 2026\, 4-5pm\nWhere: Zoom (link will be sent after registration)\n\nWe’ll cover:\n• What the certificate offers you\n• How you can fit it into your degree plan\, no matter your major\n• Q&A - Ask us Anything\n\nCome with your questions\, leave with inspiration + actionable next steps to build your entrepreneurial toolkit. UID:146422-21899064@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146422 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Cfe,Center For Entrepreneurship,Graduate School,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Business,Welcome to Michigan,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate,Startups,Startup,Networking,Michigan Engineering,Graduate Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260313T102957 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Extreme Superposition: Rogue Waves of Infinite Order\, Universality\, and Anomalous Temporal Decay DESCRIPTION:Focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation serves as a universal model for the amplitude of a wave packet in a general one-dimensional weakly-nonlinear and strongly-dispersive setting that includes water waves and nonlinear optics as special cases. Rogue waves of infinite order are a novel family of solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation that emerge universally in a particular asymptotic regime involving a large-amplitude and near-field limit of a broad class of solutions of the same equation. In this talk\, we will present several recent results on the emergence of these special solutions along with their interesting asymptotic and exact properties. Notably\, these solutions exhibit anomalously slow temporal decay and are connected to the third Painlevé equation. Finally\, we will extend the emergence of rogue waves of infinite order to the first several flows of the AKNS hierarchy—allowing for arbitrarily many simultaneous flows—and report on recent work regarding their space-time asymptotic behavior under a general flow from the hierarchy. UID:143125-21892183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Seminar,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - EH 1866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260307T202415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: Igusa stacks and the cohomology of Shimura varieties DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Igusa stacks are $p$-adic geometric objects\, recently introduced by Mingjia Zhang\, that roughly parametrize ways to $p$-adically uniformize (global) Shimura varieties by local Shimura varieties. In joint work with Patrick Daniels\, Pol van Hoften\, and Mingjia Zhang\, we construct Igusa stacks for all abelian type Shimura data and apply them to the study of $\ell$-adic cohomology of Shimura varieties. I will discuss the geometric ingredients that go into the construction as well as how it naturally fits into Fargues--Scholze's framework of categorical local Langlands UID:143321-21892900@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143321 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260213T100800 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T172000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Public Finance Seminar: Monday\, March 16 DESCRIPTION:-- UID:145438-21897351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145438 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar,Public Finance,Economics LOCATION:North Quad - 4325 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260315T095920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The six vertex model and symmetric polynomials DESCRIPTION:Lattice models from statistical mechanics have become increasingly ubiquitous in algebraic combinatorics. In this talk\, we will discuss the six vertex model and see relations with combinatorial objects like Gelfand-Tsetlin patterns and alternating sign matrices. We will also introduce the Yang-Baxter equation and use it to prove Tokuyama's theorem and build a connection with Schur polynomials. UID:146608-21899346@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260217T114940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Bracelet Making at Baits II DESCRIPTION:Join the Multicultural Lounge Community Assistants for a bracelet-making event! Design your own custom bracelets\, snack on some tasty treats\, and vibe with your peers in a fun\, creative space. UID:145596-21897573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145596 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Crafts,housing,Social LOCATION:Baits House II - Grace Lee Boggs Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR