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:20260120T123835 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Temperate forest resilience in a changing world: linking ecological mechanism to management solutions DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Climate change and invasion by nonnative plant species are changing the composition and function of temperate forest ecosystems. This talk will discuss how we can measure resiliency in temperate forests to these two interacting global change factors and how management of these systems might shape their future. UID:137388-21880194@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology & Biology,Ecology,Workshop,evolutionary biology,evolution,environmental,Environment,eeb,Ecosystems,ecosystem,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260205T145330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Once Were Warriors: Colonial Mimesis\, Martial Masculinity\, and Imperial Nostalgia in Amazigh Morocco DESCRIPTION:Amazigh cultural-political activism in North Africa is premised on a rhetoric of resistance for territorial autonomy against imperial invaders from the Roman empire through the Islamic conquest and the French protectorate to contemporary Arab nationalist regimes. Yet\, filtering through this dominant discourse are subaltern scripts that register nostalgia for particular pasts when\, even under colonial tutelage\, Amazigh groups felt recognized and effectively acted as self-determining agents of their own history making. In this paper\, I draw on my research in southeastern Morocco to explore how Amazigh activists narrate the colonial past and memorialize martial masculine resistance and collaboration within it.\n\nPaul A. Silverstein is professor of anthropology at Reed College. He is author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics\, Race\, Nation (Indiana\, 2004) and Postcolonial France: Race\, Islam\, and the Future of the Republic (Pluto\, 2018)\, and co-editor of Bourdieu in Algeria (Nebraska\, 2009)\, among other publications. He has done extensive ethnographic and archival research on Amazigh cultural politics in southeastern Morocco. His translation of Moha Layid’s The Sacrifice of Black Cows—a Moroccan novel set during the nationalist uprising against French colonialism— was recently published by the MLA. He chairs the MERIP Board of Directors.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:142518-21891067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142518 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Multicultural,International,Interdisciplinary,History,Global LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T160050 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LACS Indigenous Studies Lecture Series with Gladys Tzul Tzul (Maya K’iché) DESCRIPTION:LECTURE\n March 12\, 4–5:30 PM\n Design and Transformation in Communal Politics\n \n WORKSHOP\n March 13\, 11:30 AM–1 PM\n The Design of a Celebratory World (conversation in Spanish)\n RSVP is required to attend. Reading materials will be emailed before the workshop. Register: https://myumi.ch/Pk4Jq\n\nGladys Tzul Tzul is a writer and essayist from the Paquí community of Totonicapán\, Guatemala. With a PhD in Sociology\, she is currently a visiting professor at FLACSO Ecuador. She is the author of two books\, *Gobierno comunal indígena y estado guatemalteco: Algunas claves para comprender su tensa relación* and *Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: Mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq'ena*\, as well as several articles translated into English\, French\, and German. In recognition of her work\, she received the 2018 Voltaire Prize from the University of Potsdam\, Germany. The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) also awarded her first place in 2017 for social science research in Central America. Her advocacy work includes serving as an expert witness in the investigation of Berta Cáceres's assassination in Honduras and coordinating the inquiry into the October 4 Massacre\, when the Guatemalan army violently suppressed an uprising of the 48 Indigenous communities of Totonicapán.\n\nCo-Sponsors for this event include the Program in Native American Studies\, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, and the International Institute. UID:146356-21898950@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Workshop,Area Studies,Center For Latin American And Caribbean Studies,Central America,Latin America,Lecture LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4th Floor Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260330T172619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Transfer Information Session DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Recruitment Team for our virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements\, transfer credit\, pre-transfer academic advising\, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.\n\nRegistration is required. Register using link to the right UID:141040-21891678@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141040 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260309T005019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RTG NT: Rational multiplicative cocycles and p-adic theta functions DESCRIPTION:2.1-2.2 of Darmon-Vonk UID:145486-21897401@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145486 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Number Theory LOCATION:East Hall - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260212T151005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T171500 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Steering spin–valley polarizations through phonons and photons DESCRIPTION:Control of spin and valley polarizations opens opportunities for spintronic and quantum information applications. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer an appealing platform to harness such polarizations. TMDs host excitons in valley-shaped regions of their band structure\, featuring well-defined carrier spins and obeying chiral optical selection rules. However\, the technological potential of excitons in TMDs is impeded by rapid spin–valley relaxation.\n\nI will present our theoretical/computational efforts to address and enhance spin–valley polarizations in TMDs through strong coupling to photons. Recognizing that chiral light is a manifestation of photonic spin\, I will show such strong coupling to allow for efficient spin transduction through the formation of \"chiral polaritons\". I will furthermore show how a breaking of chiral symmetry in optical cavities allows valley–spin relaxation to be suppressed in embedded TMDs.\n\nI will also discuss our efforts to unravel how spin–valley relaxation in TMDs is driven by lattice phonons. Towards this goal\, my group has advanced nonadiabatic methodologies that allow delocalized phonon modes and topological effects to be incorporated within a mixed quantum–classical framework. Results for TMDs indicate this approach to enable the modeling of solid-state phonon-driven processes at realistic dimensionalities. UID:138400-21882903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138400 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Science,Physical Chemistry,Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260209T110237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Katz-Newcomb Interview & Reception | Permission to Flourish: Well-Being for High Performers DESCRIPTION:Beginning at 4:30pm\, join us for a reception with light food and soft drinks. Afterwards\, beginning at 5:45pm\, Michigan Medicine Chief Well-Being Officer Elizabeth Harry\, M.D. will hold a special fireside chat with Shigehiro Oishi\, Ph.D. of the University of Chicago. This conversation will focus on what it takes for high performing professionals to flourish in terms of well-being both personally and professionally. This conversation will be recorded and shared later as a podcast. UID:145143-21896718@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145143 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Departmental LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260312T162055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Campus of the Future Student Idea Showcase DESCRIPTION:The Campus of the Future Student Idea Showcase will offer opportunities for students and student-teams to explore questions and provide insight into the student experience within the Campus of the Future framework\, culminating in presenting to University leadership -- including President Grasso & Provost McCauley -- at a COTF Showcase at the end of Winter 2026. The Showcase will highlight a student-led vision for a campus of the future. All finalists selected to present will receive a monetary award for each team member.  Learn more at https://futureoflearning.umich.edu/programs/campus-of-the-future-/ UID:143214-21893550@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143214 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:UMSI Central, 777 N. University Avenue (Above Panera) CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR