Happening @ Michigan

Disability Inclusion Panel: Making U-M Events More Welcoming & Accessible

All are welcome! Due to an explosion of interest, this event has been moved to Rackham Auditorium. Please RSVP here: http://alturl.com/iw3mr...

CREES Noon Lecture. Nature, Consumption, and Waste in the Cold War and Beyond

Zsuzsa Gille, professor of sociology and director of global studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The goal of this lecture is to reevaluate state socialism’s environmental record from a transnational rather than a comparative...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Border Walls and Violent Borders

Reece Jones, Professor of Geography and the Environment, University of Hawai'i

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."...

Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Donia Human Rights Center, and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

Why have the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former...

CREES 60th Anniversary Signature Lecture. The Ukrainian Famine: What We Know Now—And Why It Matters

Anne Applebaum, foreign policy columnist, The Washington Post

In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949

M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Since 1949, China has adopted nine national military strategies, which govern how the PLA plans and prepares for war. This talk will review...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE)

Eric Greene, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University

This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ambitious and Anxious: Chinese Undergraduates in the US

Yingyi Ma, Associate Professor of Sociology, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students―mostly self-funded―has swept across American higher...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Reshaping of Persian after the Seventh-Century Arabian Conquest and Colonization

Kevin van Bladel, Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Yale University

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State

Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Coastal smuggling has been a thorny problem for successive governments in modern China. But, while smuggling might have operated on the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Grindr to Cybersovereignty: The Loaded Interplay between Community, National, and Global Standards of Data Governance in China

Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

The Chinese government has become increasingly involved in global standards-making events such as the annual Internet Governance Forum and...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. South-South Relations in the Era of Far-Right Populism: The Syrian Refugee Crisis on Brazilian Television

Wail S. Hassan, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Estimating the Unofficial Income of Officials from Large Asset Purchases

Yongheng Deng, Professor and John P. Morgride Distinguished Chair in Business, Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

From a paper co-authored by Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University, FISF, and NBER) and Jing Wu...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | History of Furigana

Professor Shinji Konno, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Seisen University,Tokyo.

Furigana has its origins in Chinese documents and started to be used in Japan around the 10th century. Furigana was used to indicate the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liu Liangmo (刘良模1909-1988) —Transpacific Mass Singing, Journalism, and Christian Activism

Yunxiang Gao, Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University

Professor Gao’s talk lifts out of the dustbin of history the life and career of Liu Liangmo, a talented musician, prolific journalist, and...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan

Michael Strausz, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies, Texas Christian University

Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Emperor Has No Voice: Imperial Utterance in Excavated Han Documents

Charles Sanft, Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The emperor was at the center of Chinese political theory throughout the imperial period. Sometimes this theoretical position found...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Overreach and Overreaction: The Crisis in U.S.-China Relations

Susan Shirk, Chair, 21st Century China Center, University of California, San Diego

Relations between the United States and China today have become more competitive and tense than they have been during the past forty years...