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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T173000
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SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:CSEAS 2026 Fall Potluck Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for the 2026 Fall Potluck Reception.\n\nCSEAS will provide appetizers\, drinks\, and utensils.\n\nWe ask that you share your favorite dish (Southeast Asian or non-Southeast Asian) dish that can feed 8-10 people.\n\nRSVP Link - https://myumi.ch/G7GNJ\n\nContact us at cseas@umich.edu for any questions\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:151745-21912084@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151745
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Southeast Asian Studies,Southeast Asia,international studies,International Students,Free,Food,Culture,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Fourth Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260810T164813
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Lee Kuan Yew Goes Global?
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: http://myumi.ch/PbkD4\n\nThere is little that connects the Chinese Communist Party\, British Conservative Party\, Kenyan leadership\, Silicon Valley right-wing\, and elites in post-Soviet states. But they all exhibit an acute fascination with founding Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew\, invoking select strands of his political thought and practice to legitimate their own political projects or imaginaries. Yet\, while interest in Lee outside of Singapore is consistently growing\, within Singaporean society there is a growing sense of exhaustion and indifference in appealing to his figure – especially when it is perceived as a cynical means to derive political profit for his long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP). Using this observation as a launching pad\, this lecture explores the contradictions of Lee’s legacy and develops rudiments to pursue a global history of Lee Kuan Yew\, bringing his international reception and footprints within a single frame. This entails treating Lee as a global figure of world-historical importance\, situating his political thought\, movements\, and interventions within global trends and networks. While this global approach magnifies Lee’s stature\, it also amplifies the less comfortable aspects of his legacy: his “original sin” is no longer the detention without trial\, but his role in legitimizing the bloody Vietnam War. A global history of Lee thereby presents intensified contradictions to grapple with.\n\nQuah Say Jye is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He is a political theorist of postcolonial modernity\, with a focus on Southeast Asia. His writing is forthcoming or can be found at the *American Journal of Political Science*\, *Review of International Studies*\, *Journal of Contemporary Asia*\, *Critical Asian Studies*\, *International Affairs*\, and *Perspectives on Politics*. For more\, see https://quahsayjye.wordpress.com/about/.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:150078-21907988@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150078
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Southeast Asia,Politics,international policy,center for southeast asian studies,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
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DTSTAMP:20260811T101823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261120T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | After the War: Vietnamese Memory\, Identity\, and the Unfinished Stories of Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: http://myumi.ch/G74ng\n\nWhat happens to a war after the war is over?\n\nVietnamese journalist and documentary filmmaker Van Le reflects on the Vietnam War through the memories of those who lived through it. Drawing on her years of reporting and documentary filmmaking\, she explores how the war continues to shape Vietnamese identity\, relationships\, and understandings of the past—both in Vietnam and across the diaspora. The talk focuses on personal memories of loss\, fear\, displacement\, loyalty\, and silence\, and how trauma is remembered\, carried\, and passed across generations.\n\nVan Le is an investigative journalist\, author\, and independent documentary filmmaker based in Vietnam. She is a 2026–2027 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. She was a reporter for the acclaimed documentary The Stringer and has contributed environmental reporting to ProPublica. She previously worked as a feature writer and investigative journalist for Thanh Nien Newspaper\, a national news outlet in Vietnam.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.*
UID:150113-21908029@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150113
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,center for southeast asian studies,Cseas Lecture Series,History,Journalism,Southeast Asia,Vietnam
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
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DTSTAMP:20260825T121713
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261206T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261206T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gamelan Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy this performance featuring our advanced gamelan players. Arrive early for a performance by beginner gamelan players at 6:00 pm. All are welcome for refreshments and presentations preceeding this concert at 6:45 pm. \n\nComprising of seventy-five gongs\, percussion and other instruments\, the U-M gamelan\, named Kyai Telaga Madu (Venerable Lake of Honey)\, is part of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. The U-M Gamelan Ensemble offers members the opportunity to explore new music composed for gamelan and helps train an important generation of scholars in Southeast Asian music.\n\nGamelan performances bring the music\, dance and puppetry of Central Java to the stage in Ann Arbor\, often featuring eminent Javanese artists-in-residence. The gamelan program is part of U-M’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies at LSA.
UID:148736-21904678@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148736
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Diversity,Free,Interdisciplinary,Music,North Campus,Culture
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
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DTSTAMP:20260610T181728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270410T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270410T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Gamelan Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Comprising of seventy-five gongs\, percussion and other instruments\, the U-M gamelan\, named Kyai Telaga Madu (Venerable Lake of Honey)\, is part of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. The U-M Gamelan Ensemble offers members the opportunity to explore new music composed for gamelan and helps train an important generation of scholars in Southeast Asian music.\n\nGamelan performances bring the music\, dance and puppetry of Central Java to the stage in Ann Arbor\, often featuring eminent Javanese artists-in-residence. The gamelan program is part of U-M’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies at LSA.
UID:148848-21905013@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148848
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Diversity,Culture,Free,Interdisciplinary,Music,North Campus
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre
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