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: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:african and afroamerican studies,Lgbtq,women 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:Business,Career,Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneur Services,Entrepreneurship,Free,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Professional Student Life,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Startup,Startups,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan 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:Mathematics,Seminar 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:Economics,Public Finance,seminar 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260311T121839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260316T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Presented by Professor Edward Watts\, the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of History at UC San Diego\, received his BA in Classics from Brown University in 1997 and his PhD in History from Yale University in 2002. His research centers on the intellectual\, political\, and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. He is the author of seven books and the editor of five more\, including The Final Pagan Generation (UC Press\, 2015)\, Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher\, (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny (Basic Books\, 2018)\, and The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press\, 2021). His most recent book\, The Romans: A 2000 Year History (Basic Books\, 2025)\, traces the history of the Roman state from the 8th century BC through 1204 AD. His work has also been featured in Time\, Vox\, Smithsonian\, the Economist\, the Wall Street Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, British Museum Magazine\, and the New York Times. Before coming to UCSD in 2012\, Professor Watts taught for ten years at Indiana University. He teaches courses on Byzantine History\, Roman History\, Late Antique Christianity\, Roman numismatics\, and the history of the Medieval Mediterranean. \n\nThe Roman citizen body lived an almost inconceivably long life. Between the 8th century BC and the 15thcentury AD\, nearly 100 generations of Romans superintended a political legacy they had inherited from their ancestors and handed down to their children. Nearly every element of Roman life changed during those two millennia. The state expanded from a hilltop settlement into a massive empire. Its center moved from Italy to Constantinople. Its dominant language changed from Latin to Greek. Its weaponry evolved from iron swords and bronze spears to Greek fire and gunpowder. It incorporated countless new gods before ultimately becoming Christian. And yet the thread linking the Roman present to its past never snapped. For all of their history\, Romans used this past to help understand their world and determine the contours of its future. Tradition served as a governor on the pace of necessary change.\n\nThis Thomas Spencer Jerome lecture series introduces the idea of Roman interchronological history to explain how Romans found and maintained this balance between innovation and tradition. Interchronological history recognizes that Roman scholastic\, social\, familial\, and religious traditions created situations in which Romans in the present spoke the words and felt the feelings of figures from the real or imagined past. These ancient situations encouraged people to connect personally and emotionally with figures from the past and made it natural to see in the past a set of frameworks that allowed one to both understand the present and imagine possible futures that might result from it. \n\nThese lectures explain how Roman educational\, family\, religious\, and literary culture produced this way of interpreting the present and imagining the future through deep engagement with the past. They will then show how an interchronological approach to Roman history expands our understanding of everything from the political power of Roman women to the nature of Iconoclasm and the surprising durability of the Roman bond market. By their conclusion\, the lectures will point to new ways to answer questions about the Roman past and suggest non-Roman contexts in which this historical method can also be applied.\n \nProfessor Watts will present four lectures and one seminar between March 9 and 19\, 2026: \n\n• What is Interchronological Roman History? Monday\, March 9\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League\nThis lecture reconstructs an interchronological historical method based on how Romans were educated and socialized to connect with the words\, experiences\, and feelings of people in their shared past in a fashion that ensured their reactions in the moment and plans for the future remained connected to the traditions of the past.\n\n• Interchronological History and the Political Power of Roman Women\, Thursday\, March 12\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League\nUsing an interchronological approach\, this lecture shows how literature\, public commemorations\, and monuments encouraged Romans of both genders to recognize the political power of Roman women by speaking the words of female political exemplars\, feeling their emotions\, and understanding the circumstances surrounding their political interventions. \n\n• Classical Studies Graduate Student Seminar: Containerization and the Creation of Interchronological Spaces in Imperial Rome\, Friday\, March 13\, 12:00 pm \nThis seminar will look at how the creators and sponsors of a series of monuments in Rome curated space to generate an experience that joined the present in which the monument was unveiled with elements of the past to define a transition to a promised future. Using the theory of artistic containerization\, we will see how each space was designed to showcase elements of the Roman past in a way that channeled specific themes important to both the present identity of the monument’s sponsor and a future they were promising to deliver.\n\n• An Interchronological Approach to Roman Religion and Political History Monday\, March 16\, 5\;30 pm\, Vandenberg Room\, Michigan League\nThis lecture explains how an interchronological history of Roman religion and politics can help us understand why this basic understanding of the role of the divine in shaping the tangible realities of Roman life persisted as Roman religion evolved from the practices of a small pagan city state into those of a large Christian empire.\n\n• The Failures of Justin II and the Case for Interchronological Roman Macroeconomic History\, Thursday\, March 19\, 5:30 pm\, Hussey Room\, Michigan League \nThis uses an interchronological comparative framework to reconstruct the institutional history of Roman finance and macroeconomics in order to explain how the sixth century emperor Justin II inadvertently crippled Rome's nearly 800-year-old financial system. UID:145427-21897338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145427 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Rome,Archaeology,Classical Studies,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,Lecture LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenberg Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR