Event Types
Location
LRCCS Special Performance | The Chinese Hip-Hop Experience: Showcase and Discussion
Lil Bag (小包), Don Dream (aka Tang King), and Dana "Showtyme" Burton
This event will feature two Chinese rappers (Lil Bag 小包 and Don Dream aka Tang King) from the Iron Mic (the largest MC competition in...
ASP Roundtable | Pluricentric Armenian in a Diasporic Context: Reflections on Second Dialect Acquisition
Roundtable Participants: Shushan Karapetian, Deputy Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies, University of Southern California; Tamar...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Ann Arbor and Hikone: 50 years of Sister-City Relationship
Christopher Taylor, Mayor, City of Ann Arbor
Mayor Taylor and guests will discuss the history and importance of the Ann Arbor - Hikone Sister-City relationship, the AAPS-Hikone exchange...
Wayetu Moore Roundtable Q&A
Wayétu Moore’s debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years. It was named a best book of 2018...
Wayetu Moore Reading and Book Signing
Wayétu Moore’s debut novel She Would Be King reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years. It was named a best book of 2018...
Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. The Battle of Algiers + Talkback
1966. Algeria, Italy. 123 minutes. Arabic and French with English Subtitles
An essential film for any movie buff, lover of history or Arab/Arab American studies, The Battle of Algiers (1966) is a classic film that...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Beyond the East-West Encounter: Inter-Asian Intimacies and Estrangements in Colonial and Postcolonial Burma, 1850–1950
Chie Ikeya, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Sexual, conjugal, and household relations between white colonial masters and native women have long served as the paradigm of the colonial...
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories
A Conference in Honor of Dena Goodman
This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in...
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Early Readers and Early Readings of the Mahābhārata
Christopher Minkowski, Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford
The Sanskrit Mahābhārata did not receive a commentary until the eleventh century. Well before then, however, it had become a central...
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...
Eighteenth-Century France and Beyond: New Cultural Histories
A Conference in Honor of Dena Goodman
This conference on “The Cultural History of France and the World” will bring together current and former students of Dena Goodman’s in...
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Islamic Law in Movement – Saints, Merchants, and Technocrats: The Diffusion of Malikism in the Islamic West
Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz
The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."...
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...
GISC Event. Hollywood Horror in Iran
Alireza Doostdar, Author and Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion, University of Chicago
Alireza Doostdar is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion at the Divinity School and the College,...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Re-centering Female Narratives through Murmurs and Song
Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung, Executive Director, Association for Asian Studies
Cosponsored by the Department of Ethnomusicology....
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Working on a High Energy Experiment in Japan
Myron Campbell, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
During the last twelve years I have been working on a High Energy Experiment (HEP) in Tokai, Japan. In this lecture I will summarize the...
WCED Lecture. Battle Scars: The Middle East After the Arab Uprisings
Marc Lynch, professor of political science and international affairs and director, Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University
Eight years after the dizzying hopes raised by the Arab Spring, the Middle East is consumed by a bewildering array of conflicts, from wars...
CSEAS Film Screening–Thai Movie Night. Ploy / ‘พลอย’
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Director), 2007
A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young...
Nam Center Chuseok Dae Party
The 2019 Chuseok Dae Party is the ninth annual celebration of Korean Thanksgiving....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Whiff of Nirvana: On Why Chinese Buddhists Were Not Vegans
Miranda Brown, Professor of Chinese, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Medieval Chinese Buddhists were some of the world's most strident animal rights activists. Monks and devout lay people swore off meat...
GISC Screening. Halaloween: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
1h 41 min. Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, USA, 2014
On October 1st, 2019, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night will be the first film to launch our Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween....
WCED Lecture. Brazil under Bolsonaro: What Is Emerging? What Is Submerging?
Moderator: Robert Jansen, Associate Professor of Sociology, U-M
Presenters: Guilherme Casarões, professor of public administration, political science, and international relations, Fundação Getúlio...
LACS Event. A History of Coffee in Three Cups
Casey Lurtz, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Do you know where you coffee came from? If you're at Zingerman's Coffee Company, probably yes. More and more, roasters and coffee...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP
Keisuke Iida, Professor in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Since the 1980s, Japan’s foreign policy, including its trade policy, has been known to be “reactive.” Subsequent studies have modified...
LACS Central American Contexts Series. A Fixed but Porous Border: Nineteenth Century Negotiations over the Mexico-Guatemala Frontier
Casey Lurtz, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
News coverage and political discourse around the ongoing immigration debate and the situation on the US-Mexico border rarely includes the...
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
CSAS Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2019 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...
CREES Distinguished Lecture. From the Soviet Gulag to Franco’s Spain: Historical Fiction’s Power for Global Dialogue
Ruta Sepetys, Author
What determines how history is preserved and recalled? Why do some stories become part of the collective consciousness while others remain...
ASP Lecture | Palimpsests of Ruins: Between Armenian and Kurdish Histories in Anatolia
Anoush Tamar Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Post-doctoral Fellow, U-M
This presentation will focus on the overlapping histories of the Armenian and Kurdish communities in the region of Van in southeastern...
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Libraries and Mobilities
Shamil Jeppie, Associate Professor of History, University of Cape Town
The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."...
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
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...
PICS Career Event. Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control: Challenges, Opportunities, and Careers
Sarah Bidgood, Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, California
The international community faces no shortage of challenges when it comes to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. The crisis in...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Curative Violence: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability
Eunjung Kim, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Disability Studies, Syracuse University
Presenting from her book, Kim will examine a direct link between cure and violence that appears in the representations of disability and...
GISC Screening. Halaloween: Ritual
1h 27 min. Directed by Joko Anwar, Indonesia, 2012
On October 8th, 2019, Ritual will be the second film we screen as a part of our Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween....
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
CGIS Study Abroad Fair
Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your...
What Does Europe Want Now?: Panel and Reading from MQR's Fall 2019 Special Issue
Launch for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Fall Special Issue Guest Edited by Benjamin Paloff
The Michigan Quarterly Review and the Center for European Studies are hosting a reading from the special Fall 2019 issue of MQR entitled...
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonies
Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
In a longer project called The Postcolonial Commons, I am interested in the emergence of fluid political subjectivities around questions of...
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment...
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment
MOSCOW x DETROIT: Transnational Modernity in the Built Environment...
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
International Studies Information Session and Q&A
Thinking About Declaring an International Studies Major or Minor?
Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information...
GISC Screening. Halaloween: Siccin 4
1h 33 min. Directed by Alper Mestçi, Turkey, 2017
On October 15th, 2019, Siccin 4 will be the third film we screen from our Muslim Horror Film Festival: Halaloween....
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages
The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe....
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Crises of Care: Narrating Central American and Mexican Migration through Children and Families
Paige Andersson, Postdoctoral Scholar, DePauw University
Dr. Andersson is a recent graduate of U-M who returns to campus to present her work on Central American and Mexican migration as part of...
