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CSAS Lecture Series | The Indian State that Fails and Delivers

Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies and Director of Asia Programs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Devesh Kapur, is the Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Director of Asia Programs at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced...

GISC Event. A Conversation On Muslim Identity with Aymann Ismail

Aymann Ismail, award-winning podcast host, video editor, photographer, and writer at Slate

Aymann Ismail is an award-winning podcast host, video editor, photographer, and writer at Slate whose work focuses on identity and religion....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Periphery, Locality, and Status in Writings from Sixteenth-Century Dali, Yunnan

Eloise Wright, LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

From 1253, when Mongol armies invaded the independent Dali Kingdom in the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas, its capital, Dali, was...

LACS Central American Contexts Series. From Coffee to Tourism: Grassroots Organizations and Returned Migrants Navigating Economic Shifts in Guatemala

Eric Sippert, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Much of the recent news coverage and scholarly attention on Central America has focused on reasons for migration including violence, climate...

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...

Conversations on Europe. What’s Left of the Yellow Vest Movement

Anne-Claire Defossez, visiting researcher, Institute for Advanced Study; Didier Fassin, professor of social science, Institute for Advanced Study

The emergence of the yellow vests movement, its rapid extension, its endurance, and its popularity have been a source of surprise and...

IISS Book Workshop Series. Book Workshop with Professor Alexander Knysh

Alexander Knysh, professor of Islamic studies, University of Michigan

IISS is pleased to announce our first book workshop of the semester with Prof. Alexander Knysh on his most recent book Sufism: A New History...

CREES Noon Lecture. "Stalin's Master Narrative": The General Secretary's Rewriting of Party History in the 1938 Short Course

David Brandenberger, professor of history, University of Richmond

The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) defined Stalinist ideology, both at home and...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks

Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how...

ASC Event. 2019 UMAPS Colloquium Series

Wawa Nkosi (Moody scholar), Stellenbosch University, South Africa; John Hena, Kenyatta University, Kenya; Chinwe Ikpo (Moody scholar), University of the Western Cape, South Africa

This series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to...

Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. Flesh Out

2019. Mauritania, Italy. 94 minutes. Hassaniya with English Subtitles

In keeping with the traditions of her Mauritanian home, the announcement of Verida’s impending arranged marriage brings with it the...

LRCCS Conference | Global Chinese Food

Organized by Professor Miranda Brown, Asian Languages and Cultures.

Full conference details available here:...

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems presents: A Nobel Symposium

An afternoon symposium.

Eight scholars discuss the work, impact, and personality of the Laureates of this year's SEVEN! Nobel Prizes. (Snacks and coffee will...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Religion and Politics in Japan: Mapping a Shifting Terrain

Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University

In Japan today, a wide range of religious actors are now shaping educational curricula, social policies, and defense postures promoted by...

ASP Lecture | Overwhelming Absurdity: Vahé Oshagan’s Discourse of Diasporic Culture

Karen Jallatyan, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M

This lecture investigates how an obsession with absurd informs Vahé Oshagan’s (1922-2000) vision of diasporic Armenian culture across his...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan

Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University

Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood...

Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and Modern Urban America

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies

The history of racism in the South is well known—the chain gangs, lynch mobs and views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects

Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East...

CJS Noon Lecture | Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy in the US-China Rivalry

Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University, Tokyo

This lecture is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit ....

CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance...

ASC Event. 2019 UMAPS Colloquium Series

This series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to...

ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Western Armenia

Organizers: Karen Jallatyan, Anoush Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows, U-M, and Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, U-M.

For complete workshop details, please see:...

ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Western Armenia

Organizers: Karen Jallatyan, Anoush Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows, U-M, and Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, U-M.

For complete workshop details, please see:...

CSAS Lecture Series | Islam and the Lessons of Pakistan’s History

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University, Department of Religion

How have Islamic doctrinal orientations, religious institutions, and governmental policies relating to Islam evolved since the establishment...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan

Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari

Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston

The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is...