WCEE Lecture. Ukraine’s War in Seven Lives: Writing a People-Centered History of the Present
Danielle Leavitt, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-27
Since 2022, the Russo-Ukrainian war has shaken the global order—and transformed countless individual lives. Drawing on years of personal...
Korean Cinema NOW | House of the Seasons | 장손
2024 ‧ Drama ‧ 2h ‧ PG-13...
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Danielle Schmidt, Program in International and Comparative Studies Program Coordinator
Please note: This information session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration...
Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Free Community Film Screening & Discussion I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ana Guimarães, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent...
CAS Book Talk. Between Armenian(s): A Conversation with Arakel Minassian
Arakel Minassian (U-M) and Michael Pifer (U-M)
Please join us for the re-launch of our graduate student Arakel Minassian’s co-written book Sahmanakhagh(kht): Hayerenn u hayerēně...
Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture | Still Struggling to Cross That Bridge: Connecting the US and African Civil Rights Movements
Hala Al-Karib, Raoul Wallenberg Human Rights Fellow, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)
"I grew up in the diminishing shadows of the African liberation movements. My childhood recollections were filled with long political...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Why Place Matters: The “Publicness” of the Lost Landscape
Saburo Horikawa, Professor of Urban & Environmental Sociology, Hosei University
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...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (ドロステのはてで僕ら)
Directed by Junta Yamaguchi, 2020, 1h 10m
Our film series kicks off with a chaotic one-take film in which a cafe owner discovers that the television in his cafe suddenly shows images...
Korean Cinema NOW | Big Deal | 소주전쟁
2025 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 44 min ‧ Unrated...
WCEE Lecture. AI for National and International Security: Opportunities Without Losing Control
Driart Elshani, Weiser Professional Development Fellow, Fall 2025
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping how we understand and address conflict. This talk introduces emerging tools at the intersection...
CMENAS MLK Day Lecture
Huwaida Arraf, Human Rights Attorney & Activist, ISM Co-founder, and Freedom Flotilla Organizer
Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian American civil and human rights attorney, activist, and organizer whose work for more than two decades has...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Three Questions for Japan in Michigan: Where, Who, and What? An Analysis of Japan’s Presence and Contributions to Michigan by the New Consul General of Japan in Detroit
Hajime “Jimmy” Kishimori, Consul General of Japan in Detroit
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...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Distant Listening: Conceptions of Sound and Language in Japanese Sinitic Poetry
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 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Tampopo (タンポポ)
Directed by Juzo Itami, 1985, 1h 54m
In this film by acclaimed director Juzo Itami, truck drivers stop at a small family-run noodle shop and decide to help its fledgling...
Korean Cinema NOW | Concerning My Daughter | 딸에 대하여
2023 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 46 min ‧ PG-13...
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Erase the Nation (2023, 56 min)
Followed by Q&A with film director and war journalist Tomasz Grzywaczewski. Moderator, Joseph Sywenkyj, Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism, LSA, Communication and Media, U-M
"Erase the Nation" is a documentary war film that sheds light on the tragic chapter of Russian war crimes committed against...
Korean Performing Arts Initiative | Sangjaru: Sounding Korea Outside the Box
Sangjaru and Michael Gould
A Korean Performing Arts Initiative Program...
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Soldiers of Song (2024, 90 min, dir. Ryan Smith)
Musicians unite a war-torn Ukraine through song, sharing stories of resilience and hope amid the Russian invasion. A tribute to courage and...
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Danielle Schmidt, Program in International and Comparative Studies Program Coordinator
Please note: This information session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Remembering the University of Michigan’s Wartime Japanese American Workers
Brad Hammond, Van Hunnick History Department Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
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...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ)
Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005, 1h 54m
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead...
WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Lina (2024, 30 min, dir. Mykola Nosok & Oleksiy Oliyar)
Panel discussion: Mykola Kuleba, Chief Executive Officer, Charitable Fund "Save Ukraine"; Danielle Leavitt, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-27; and Nathaniel A. Raymond, Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab, Yale School of Public Health
This is the story of five-year-old Lina, the seventh child of a family of eight children, who is caught between the frontlines of free...
CCPS Lecture. The Trauma of Serfdom: The Psychological Legacy of Unfree Labor in Poland
Kacper Pobłocki, social anthropologist, writer, and associate professor at the University of Warsaw
Coerced labor was a defining feature of the early modern world. While Atlantic slavery has received most scholarly attention, Eastern...
Korean Cinema NOW | FAQ | 막걸리가 알려줄거야
2023 ‧ Comedy ‧ 92min ‧ PG...
Korean Cinema NOW | A Traveler’s Needs | 여행자의 필요
2024 ‧ Drama, Comedy ‧ 1h 30min ‧ PG-13...
Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Resisting New Authoritarianism(s) in Latin America
Ailynn Torres Santana, La Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ecuador
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Ailynn Torres Santana on the rise of alt-right, authoritarian movements across Latin America. Torres...
WCEE Distinguished Lecture. Navigating Fragmentation: Great Power Rivalry, Trade, and Technology in the 21st Century
Jon Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1992–1993), China (2009–2011), and Russia (2017–2019)
A conversation with Ambassador Jon Huntsman, focusing on international affairs — and in particular on current issues related to Russia and...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (星くず兄弟の伝説)
Directed by Makoto Tezuka, 1985, 1 hr 40m
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the...
Korean Cinema NOW | No Other Choice | 어쩔수가없다
2025 ‧ Dark Comedy, Thriller, Drama ‧ 2h 19min ‧ R...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima, Kyoto, and the Wokou in Sixteenth-Century Maritime East Asia
Peter Shapinsky, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Springfield
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...
CCPS Lecture. 79.89.09: Iran and Poland
Slavs and Tatars
79.89.09 looks at two key modern moments—the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland’s Solidarność [Solidarity] movement in the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | James Marshall Plumer’s Collecting Journey in War-torn Japan: Mingei Pottery, Folk Deities, and Ainu Art
Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art
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...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Good Morning (お早よう)
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, 1959, 1h 34m
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good...
Korean Cinema NOW | Voices | 목소리들
2025 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 29min ‧ Unrated...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Powering Empire: Hydroelectricity and Highland Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule
John Kanbayashi, Assistant Professor of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall. It will not be livestreamed or recorded....
CCPS Lecture. East of the Atlantic. Black and White (But Not Quite)
Oliwia Bosomtwe, author
Oliwia Bosomtwe, the author of Jak biały człowiek (2024) [Like a White Man], explores the stories of people of African descent...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | A Queer Girl in Modern Japan: Yoshiya Nobuko
Sarah Frederick, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University
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...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | School in the Crosshairs (ねらわれた学園)
Directed by Taku Mayumura, 1981, 1h 30m
Obayashi’s first groundbreaking idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected...
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Danielle Schmidt, Program in International and Comparative Studies Program Coordinator
Please note: This information session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration...
