Event Types
Location
- Weiser Hall(84)
- East Quadrangle(10)
- Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)(4)
- Detroit Center(3)
- Museum of Art(2)
- Alumni Center(1)
- Art and Architecture Building(1)
- Haven Hall(1)
- Michigan League(1)
- Modern Languages Building(1)
- Off Campus Location(1)
- Power Center for the Performing Arts(1)
- Weill Hall (Ford School)(1)
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CMENAS Colloquium Series. Coffee and Literature
Shachar Pinsker, Associate Professor, U-M Department of Middle East Studies
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Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. LGBTQ Rights in Poland and EU: Legal and Social Perspective
Krzysztof Śmiszek, Polish human rights lawyer, activist, and managing editor of The Anti-Discrimination Law Review
Europe, as well as the rest of the world, is witnessing rapid changes regarding perception and recognition of the rights of LGBTQ persons....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Mobilization in China
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Comparing the political activism of feminists and lawyers in China and drawing on theories of performance and dramaturgy, this project...
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World
The White Helmets
This short but powerful documentary gives a glimpse into the training and day-to-day activities of the White Helmets (aka Syria Civil...
CREES Noon Lecture/Conversations on Europe. Living the End of the Habsburg Empire
Maureen Healy, associate professor of history, Lewis & Clark College
The fall of European empires in the twentieth century brought a variety of challenges for the nations that had once ruled those empires. The...
GISC Conference. Destination: Detroit
Communities of migration in metro Detroit
A conference exploring old and new stories about migration, immigration,...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | After Thirty Years
Motohiro Kondo, Former Editor in Chief, Chuo Koron
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Revolutionary Landscapes: Ecology, Power, and Anarchism in Modern Korea
Albert Park, Associate Professor, Claremont McKenna College
Where should we locate the origins of modern Korea’s environmental problems? Many assume that environmental issues emerged in 1960s South...
Inaugural Lecture as the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies. Democracies Emerging and Submerging
Dan Slater, Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies, WCED director, professor of political science, U-M
Does it still make sense to study emerging democracies in a historical moment when democracies seem mostly to be submerging? In his...
WCED Conference. Democracies Emerging and Submerging
Organizer: Dan Slater, WCED director
Understanding how and why democracies emerge requires attention to how and why they submerge. In this second installment of the multiyear...
GISC Conference. Destination: Detroit
Communities of migration in metro Detroit
A conference exploring old and new stories about migration, immigration,...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Physiologies of the Flesh: Medical and Moral Matter in Late Colonial Indonesia
Kevin Ko, University of Michigan
In the early 20th century, the Netherlands East Indies was awash with revivalist and reformist movements. These included Christian...
CSAS Lecture Series | Buddhism, Secularism and the Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka
Ben Schonthal, Associate Professor of Buddhism and Asian Religions and Associate Dean (International) for the Humanities Division, University of Otago, New Zealand
More than half of all constitutions in South and Southeast Asia give special privileges and/or status to a single religion. Despite this...
WCED Conference. Democracies Emerging and Submerging
Organizer: Dan Slater, WCED director
Understanding how and why democracies emerge requires attention to how and why they submerge. In this second installment of the multiyear...
GISC Conference. Destination: Detroit
Communities of migration in metro Detroit
A conference exploring old and new stories about migration, immigration,...
WCED Panel. How Democracies Live and Die
Steven Levitsky, Harvard University; Thomas Carothers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Didi Kuo, Stanford University
Steven Levitsky, professor of government, Harvard University...
Nam Center for Korean Studies | Chuseok Dae Party
The 2018 Chuseok Dae Party is the eighth annual celebration of Korean Thanksgiving....
Film Screening and Discussion of Soufra
Thomas Morgan, director and producer, Soufra and Quinn Konarska, U-M International Studies alumna and production coordinator, Rebelhouse Group
Soufra follows the unlikely and wildly inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur, Mariam Shaar – a generational refugee who has...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Spatializing Infant Burial in Qing China
Jeff Snyder-Reinke, Professor of Chinese History, The College of Idaho
In the nineteenth century, foreigners in China wrote prolifically about so-called "baby towers"—structures that were erected outside...
Career Event: Thinking About a Career With the CIA?
CIA Analysts
Please join us for this unique opportunity to learn about the real CIA—not the one portrayed on TV! You’ll hear from a CIA Analysts...
WCED Lecture. Cooperate or Resist? State-Society Relations and Authoritarianism in Russia and Beyond
Natalia Forrat, WCED postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan
This talk will outline a theory of state-society relations in weak and strong states and connect it to two types of authoritarianism. It...
Career Event: Thinking About a Career With the CIA?
CIA Analysts
Please join us for this unique opportunity to learn about the real CIA—not the one portrayed on TV! You’ll hear from a CIA Analysts...
CGIS Study Abroad Fair
Advisors, CGIS Alumni, and program representatives from around campus and the world will answer your questions about UM study abroad...
Lost in Translation: The Architecture and/of Chinese Edition
Multidisciplinary Panel Conversation
Have you ever wondered how architecture sounds in Chinese? Or questioned if the language of architecture would sound any more esoteric if it...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Social and Political Lives of Japanese Cherry Blossoms
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, William F. Vilas Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series....
International Studies Transfer Student Information Session
Thinking About Declaring an International Studies Major or Minor?
The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) invites transfer students to join us for an overview of the interdisciplinary...
CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium
Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2018 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...
AMAS and CMENAS Event. Islamophobia Working Group Meeting
The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our...
CMENAS Colloquium Series. How Islam Was Studied: From Dynasties and Civilization to Anthropology, Gender, and the Internet
Alexander Knysh, Professor of Islamic Studies, U-M Department of Middle East Studies
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Plato, Through Confucian Eyes
Eric Hutton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
While many published studies compare ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, such studies usually start by identifying some set of ideas in...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | A Song of Dissent and Democracy: "March for the Beloved" and the Politics of Resistance in South Korea
Susan Hwang, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
In early 1982, a group of writers, labor activists, and musicians gathered at a remote house in the southwestern city of Kwangju. Under the...
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World
Persepolis
Based on the autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Iran at the...
CREES Noon Lecture. Invisible Europe
Dubravka Ugrešić, novelist and essayist
Essayist and fiction writer Dubravka Ugrešić will take a light tone while talking about the "invisible people" of Europe: the migrations...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Tradition and Innovation in English-language Noh, "Blue Moon Over Memphis"
Mariko Anno, Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ethnomusicology
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series...
Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Islamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition
Tariq Modood; professor of sociology, politics, and public policy; University of Bristol
Until recently, the concept of islamophobia was located in the field of religious tolerance and pluralism. Professor Modood pioneered an...
Friday Lecture Series. Lao Murals in Northeast Thailand
Bonnie Brereton, Ph.D, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Research on temple murals in Thailand has focused on those commissioned by the rich and famous—royalty, nobility, or wealthy...
CJS Special Event | Blue Moon Over Memphis
Theatre Nohgaku
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series...
Annual Copernicus Lecture. Contemporary Poland Fighting for Democracy
Barbara Nowacka, politician and progressive activist; former leader of Poland’s United Left coalition
In the 2018 Copernicus Lecture, Barbara Nowacka will discuss the ongoing challenges to democracy in Poland and Polish civil society’s...
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...
CSAS Lecture Series | Lucknow in Letters: Endeavours, Achievements, and Tragedies
Sanjay Muttoo, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Kamla Nehru College, Delhi University
"Lucknow in Letters" is a multilingual (Urdu, English and Hindi) reading of personal letters written to/from Lucknow along with some...
American Portugese Studies Association 11th International Conference
CONFERENCE PRESIDENTIAL THEME “Democracy in Question: What Does and What Can Culture Accomplish?” (English / Portuguese)
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Angry Spirits and Urban Soundscapes in Ancient Japan
Michael Como, Toshu Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies, Columbia University
From the late seventh to the late eighth centuries, Japanese rulers built no fewer than six capitals, with the largest housing as many as...
American Portugese Studies Association 11th International Conference
CONFERENCE PRESIDENTIAL THEME “Democracy in Question: What Does and What Can Culture Accomplish?” (English / Portuguese)
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market
Giang Nguyen-Thu, University of Pennsylvania
In this talk, Dr Giang Nguyen-Thu will discuss her forthcoming book Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market by Routledge...
WCED Lecture. Populism and the Erosion of Democracy
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University
Populist parties and politicians are surging in both developed and new democracies, prompting much analytical and popular concern. Their...
CSAS Thomas Trautmann Endowed Lecture | Conflict, Violence and Resistance in Ancient India
Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University (Sonepat)
Our understanding of the past changes dramatically when we recognize violence as an intimate and important part of human experience that...
American Portugese Studies Association 11th International Conference
CONFERENCE PRESIDENTIAL THEME “Democracy in Question: What Does and What Can Culture Accomplish?” (English / Portuguese)
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Introduction to MENAS Research Resources & Strategies
Evyn Kropf, U-M Librarian for Middle Eastern and Religious Studies
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International Institute Student Fellowships Info Session
The International Institute Student Fellowships (IISF) are designed to support University of Michigan students, regardless of citizenship,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Why Bother? The Place of Socialist Propaganda Theater in China
Xiaomei Chen, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Film and Theater; University of California at Davis
This presentation argues against the conventional wisdom which views the performance culture of the People’s Republic of China as a...
