Happening @ Michigan

CJS Winter 2025 Film Series | Bad Lands

Directed by Harada Masato, 2h 23m, 2023

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/8rmg5...

CSAS Lecture Series | Afghan Women’s Human Rights in the Age of the Taliban

Zahra Nader (U-M Knight-Wallace Fellow) and Karima Bennoune (U-M Law School)

In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th, the Center for South Asian Studies is pleased to present a conversation focused on...

Korean Cinema NOW | Road to Boston | 1947 보스톤

2023 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 48m ‧ Rated PG-13

View the trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4B9w0FLBk...

Onstage: Kunqu Dramatizations of Chinese Beauties, Clowns, Heroes, and Villains

Lecture, Demonstration, and Performance

Professional performers from the most prestigious Kunqu opera theater company in China will star in a multi-part showcase of the...

Panel Discussion | Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, And Resistance In Japan

Hwaji Shin, Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco and former U-M Toyota Visiting Professor; David Jacobson, Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida; Macario Garcia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kennesaw State University

This hybrid panel discussion is a celebration of Hwaji Shin’s new book, Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, and...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series. The Tang-Song Traduction: The Imperialist Agenda behind Naitō Konan’s (1866-1934) Periodization of Chinese History

Christian de Pee, Professor of History, University of Michigan

During the 1910s and 1920s, the Japanese historian Naitō Konan (1866-1934) published a number of books and articles in which he argued that...

Book Launch: Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food

Alyssa Paredes, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Michigan; Marvin Montefrio, associate professor of environmental sciences, Yale-NUS College

Join Alyssa Paredes (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan) and Marvin Montefrio (Associate Professor, Yale-NUS College) for the...

CSAS South Asian Film Series | All We Imagine As Light

This screening is free and open to the public ...

CJS Winter 2025 Film Series | Jubaku: Spellbound

Directed by Harada Masato, 1h 54m, 1999

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/3Q83k...

Friday Lecture Series | Gambling Coastal Lives: Surprises and Precarity in the Coastal Philippines

Marvin Montefrio, Associate Professor of Social Science (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore

Surprises in the form of risks and uncertainties reinforce and sometimes complicate the vulnerability and precarity of human and nonhuman...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China

Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University

This event is in-person only...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Language Education in America 30 Years: Retrospect and Prospect

Hye-Sook Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University

While there is ‘some’ debate over who started teaching Korean first in American higher education institutions, Korean language education...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality

Junko Kato, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. A Biography of Decolonization in Cold War Southeast Asia

Christian C. Lentz 26, associate professor of Geography and Environment and adjunct associate professor of history, University North Carolina-Chapel Hill

This paper revisits mid-20th century Asia, Southeast Asia especially when the promise of decolonization met the perils of the Cold War....

CSAS Lecture Series | Everyday Futurism: Being towards Belonging in Sufi Tomb Shrines

Anna Bigelow, Stanford University

Attend via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/PkMMz...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Hot Stuff (Barang Panas) Film Screening and Director Q&A

Dandhy Laksono (Director) and Cypri Dale (Producer)

Hot Stuff is an AIFIS film award winning documentary and part of a trio of Indonesian films that delve into energy policies in Indonesia,...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Divine Intimacy, Frustration and the Madness of the City: Changing Transhuman Kinship in China

Robert P. Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/pk1yg...

NCKS Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture | Evolution and Future of Hallyu

Luke Kang, President of The Walt Disney Company, Asia Pacific

Luke Kang is the President of The Walt Disney Company in Asia Pacific. He joined Disney in 2011 as Managing Director of Korea, and in...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Techno-Menses: Period Products and FemTech in Japan

Maura Stephens-Chu, 2024–25 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China

Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/Q61JX...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Waves before the Wave

Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University

During the second half of the 20th Century, large portions of the world encountered three significant waves of South Korean cultural export....

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Uneven Development and Rural Decline: The Other Side of Japan's Economic Miracle

Tomoyuki Sasaki, Professor of Japanese Studies; Director, Japanese Studies Program, College of William & Mary

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 110, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

Korean Cinema NOW | Harbin | 하얼빈

2025 ‧ Action & Adventure ‧ Drama Thriller & Mystery ‧ 1h 48m

View the trailer at: https://youtu.be/APwvisWxjaI?si=S7zRZnQTrgryH91n...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Of Calendars and Cinnabar: The When and What of Dreaming in Late Ming China

Brigid E. Vance, Associate Professor of History, Lawrence University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W5X1W...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Matsumoto Toshio and the Antifascist Avant-Garde

Julia Alekseyeva, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Fact Checking in Low-Resource Languages: A New Dataset and Transformer Model for the Burmese Language

win Moe, PhD Candidate, York University

Misinformation on Burmese social media is a serious problem, fueling hate speech and violence, especially during the 2017 Rohingya genocide....

Korean Cinema NOW | Mungyeong: More than Roads | 문경

2024 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 51m ‧ Rated PG-13

View the trailer at: https://youtu.be/AHdTap8Hbmc?si=V7BRpUZ0jBmIHnd2...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series. Nutritional Imperialism: How Science Turned Difference into Sickness in China

Hilary Smith, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver

In this talk, Dr. Smith will argue that starting in the early twentieth century, the acolytes of a new discipline called nutrition science...