Happening @ Michigan

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...

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...

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...

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...

WCEE Film Series on Ukraine. Lina (2024, 30 min, dir. Mykola Nosok & Oleksiy Oliyar)

Panel discussion: Mykola Kuleba, Chief Executive Officer of Charitable Fund "Save Ukraine", Danielle Leavitt, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-27, and Nathaniel A. Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Hea

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...

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...

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 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...

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...