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DTSTAMP:20260924T140812
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T143000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Three Martini Lunch: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Chronicling the story of literary agents in the United States from the 1950s to today\, Laura McGrath uncovers their critical role in the making of American literature in *Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of Contemporary American Literature*. From the famed three-martini lunch to the Frankfurt Book Fair\, *Middlemen* takes readers behind the scenes to show how agents influence what we read. Weaving together original archival research\, data analysis\, and interviews with scores of agents and other publishing professionals\, *Middlemen* demonstrates that agents—eighty percent of whom are in fact women—are much more than “middlemen.” As intermediaries between author and publisher\, agents act as advocates\, matchmakers\, negotiators\, and tastemakers\, and they must balance artistic values with the commercial imperatives of publishing conglomerates.\n\nLaura B. McGrath is writer\, literary historian\, and data scientist. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Temple University and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple\, she was the Associate Director of the Literary Lab at Stanford University. A former Kennedy Fellow with the Smithsonian Institute of American History\, her work has been supported by the NEH\, the Mellon Foundation\, ACLS\, and the Big Ten. \n\nLaura has written on books\, publishing history\, and data for *The Atlantic*\, *The Nation*\, the *Los Angeles Review of Books*\, and *Public Books*. Her book\, *Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction* (Princeton University Press)\, draws on a range of methods- data analysis\, close reading\, literary ethnography- to reveal the literary agent's centrality in the development of American literature\, post-1945.
UID:152430-21913724@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152430
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,Author,English Language And Literature,Literary Arts,Media,Writing
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
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DTSTAMP:20260920T131748
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar:  Spectral theory of soliton gases for integrable equations and related problems
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Soliton gases for integrable systems is a rapidly developing new area in the theory of nonlinear waves. The spectral theory of soliton gases is concerned about macroscopic characteristics of large soliton ensembles. We go briefly over the history of the subject\, such as V. Zakharov’s (1971) expression of the average velocity of a trial soliton in a (diluted) gas and the idea of the thermodynamic limit of wavenumbers and frequencies of finite gap solutions of G. El (2003). We then discuss some recent results and open problems\, as well as some methods of potential theory and algebraic geometry that appear to be relevant for soliton gases.\n\nContact:  Peter Miller
UID:148877-21905039@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148877
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1084
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260916T151809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Chow Vanishing and Motives of Cluster Varieties
DESCRIPTION:Progress over the last decade has shown that the cohomologies of full rank\, locally acyclic cluster varieties enjoy remarkable combinatorial structures. Crucial in this program has been the observation that these cohomology groups are\, in certain Hodge theoretic senses\, about as simple as possible. In this talk we will discuss a motivic lift of this observation. In particular we establish that the Voevodsky motives of really full rank sink-recurrent cluster varieties are mixed Tate and split over Q (strengthening results of Lam and Speyer)\, and we prove that their integral Chow groups are all trivial.
UID:149753-21907057@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149753
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20260828T082708
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T160000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:LSA Campus Tours for Transfer Students
DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors for a central campus tour and to learn all about the transfer student experience. As transfer students\, the Ambassadors understand the questions you have and designed a tour with the needs of transfer students in mind.\n\nPlease register using the link to the right.
UID:95236-21910836@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/95236
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:transfer,Transfer Student Center,Transfer Students
LOCATION:LSA Building - 1180 (Transfer Student Center)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260908T163827
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T170000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:MDP Open Labs 2027
DESCRIPTION:September 28th – October 9th | Various Locations\nStudents can visit ongoing MDP research teams to meet the faculty as well as learn about the research aims and team culture. Remote participation options are available for selected teams.
UID:151532-21911699@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151532
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mdp,Michigan Engineering,Research,Sessions,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:GGB 2636
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DTSTAMP:20261002T120503
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T235959
SUMMARY:Other:No Wisco
DESCRIPTION:BagnUM competes at No Wisconsequences
UID:152911-21914773@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152911
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Hartland, WI
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DTSTAMP:20260914T101215
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T154500
SUMMARY:Film Screening:Sky Tonight
DESCRIPTION:A live presentation on what to find in the sky tonight and for the coming few weeks. This presentation includes how to find the cardinal directions with the North Star\, current and upcoming constellations\, visible planets\, a few deep sky objects depending on the season\, and other interesting astronomical visualizations. If you want to be able to look up from your own backyard and know what to look for\, this is the show for you.
UID:141325-21908142@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141325
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Film,Museum,museums,natural history museum,Natural Sciences,Planetarium,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Science,Space,Undergraduate
LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater
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DTSTAMP:20260812T103351
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T160000
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
UID:138091-21908262@events.umich.edu
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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