LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Children's Ambient Heat Exposures, Family Adaptation, and Early Developmental Outcomes: New Evidence from the Survey of Early Education and Developmental Strengths (SEEDS)
Emily Hannum, Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/qZrN2....
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea
Bohyeong Kim, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Critically Capitalist examines South Korea’s mass investment culture through the lens of “critical capitalism”—a...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Scripting Suicide in Japan
Kirsten Cather, Professor and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Texas at Austin
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall. It will not be live-streamed or recorded....
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Island Societies and Maritime Networks between Ryukyu and Japan: The Amami Islands, 1609-1878
Thomas Monaghan, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 747, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
The Origin of the 1960s Korean Developmental Regime: Manchurian Modern
Suk-Jung Han, Emeritus Professor, Dong-A University
In The Origin of the 1960s Korean Developmental Regime: Manchurian Modern, Suk-Jung Han traces the current Korean dynamism through...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Beyond Spiritual Succession: The Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation and its 21st-Century Geopolitics
Lobsang Sangay, Lecturer, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
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Korean Performing Arts Initiative | King's Orchestra: The Sound of the Korean Royal Court
Korean Traditional Music Orchestra of the Blind
The story of Korea’s Blind Traditional Music Orchestra stretches back centuries, rooted in the legacy of the 관현맹인...
Friday Lecture Series | Citizens or Subjects? : The Paradox of Citizenship and Subjecthood in a Southeast Asian Kingdom
Mu'izz Abdul Khalid, Global Awareness and Impact Alliance (GAIA), Research Associate
This is virtual event. Zoom registration is required: http://myumi.ch/A1bGx...
Balikan: Shared Stewardship & Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections Symposium
On October 24-25, 2025, join us for Balikan*: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections, a two-day symposium at the...
Balikan: Shared Stewardship & Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections Symposium
On October 24-25, 2025, join us for Balikan*: Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns for Philippine Collections, a two-day symposium at the...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | New Discovery of Datong Music Society (1919-ca.1958) “Ancient Musical Instruments” Collection in Munich: Towards Modeling an Invention of “Heritage” in Chinese Musical Modernity
Joys HY Cheung, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Finding Refined Friends: The Magazine Gayū (1951–70) and Sinitic Poetry in Postwar Japan
Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cohort Replacement and the Waves of Fertility Decline in China
Yong Cai, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Nam Center Colloquium Series | Murals Speak: Lee Qoede and the Mexican Muralists’ Vision for National Art
Jinyoung Jin, Director of Asian Art & Culture at the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan's Mountain in Nepal: The First Ascent of Manaslu and Reconciliation with Postwar Asia
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall (10th Floor) and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
Friday Lecture Series | "What Strange Woman is Here?": Laura Benedict's Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906-1908
Juan Fernandez, PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison
For fourteen months between 1906 and 1908, the American anthropologist Laura Benedict was conducting participant observation fieldwork among...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Treasure Sand: Management of Abrasive Minerals in Qing Court Production
Yulian Wu, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
Yan Long, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
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Nam Center Colloquium Series | Beyond the Page and Across Realities: Rethinking Korean Language Learning with virtual reality and augmented reality in the Digital Age
Jayoung Song, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist Spaces
Felicity Stone-Richards, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall (10th Floor) and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Joseph Torigian, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University
The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Homo juluensis: A Pan-Eastern Asian Middle Pleistocene Hominin
Christopher Bae, Professor, University of Hawai'i
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Recrafting Closeness in Death: Relational Proxies for Future Japan/ese
Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
Friday Lecture Series | How Ethnic Rebellion Begins: Theory and Evidence from Myanmar
Jangai Jap, PhD, University of Georgia
Since independence, most of the ethnic minority groups in Myanmar—though not all—have rebelled against the central government, making it...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Image of the Book in the Performance of Reading: The Drunken Man’s Talk as a Charter Text
Canaan Morse, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Virginia
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