Happening @ Michigan

CSEAS Lecture Series. The Past, Present, and Future of LGBT Activism in Singapore: A Roundtable on Pink Dot

Alfian Sa’at, Michelle Lazar, Robert Phillips, Pavan Mano, Adi Saleem Bharat

Free and open to the public. Register at: http://myumi.ch/0W3r9...

PICS Career Event. Humanitarian and International Development Careers with Mercy Corps

Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Director, Mercy Corps Nepal

Interested in humanitarian and international development careers with Mercy Corps? Join us to learn from Michelle LeMeur, Gender Equality...

Boren Awards Information Session with the International Institute of Education

Kyle Cox, Boren Awards Outreach and Recruitment Representative, International Institute of Education

Join our Boren Award Info Session!...

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...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems

Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment Studies, Department of History, Brown University

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/dOlYw...

LRCCS 60th Anniversary Author Series | Reading The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies, U-M Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature

The Center’s 60th anniversary programming will feature author Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and...

CCPS Lecture. The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine

Patrice Dabrowski, associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

In The Carpathians, Patrice M. Dabrowski narrates how three highland ranges of the Carpathian mountain system were discovered for a...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Do We Speak COVID-19? Language and Translation in the Era of Global Crises

Sameer Naser Olimat, Assistant Professor of Translation Studies and Computational Linguistics, English Department, Salt Faculty of Human Sciences, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."...

CAS Artist Spotlight Stories | Nora Martirosyan and her film “Should the Wind Drop” (2020)

Nora Martirosyan, film director and artist.

In-person and virtual event....

In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities

Join top architects and urban thinkers for a wide-ranging discussion on China’s cities of the future. For decades, China’s planners...

CJS Lecture Series | Judging Inequality: Japan in Comparative Perspective

Yeonju Lee, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan

Please note the 7pm (in Ann Arbor) start time for this lecture....

Imperial Pasts in the Present: Affect, Indigeneity, and Memory

Part of the series Intersectionality in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Moderator: Aslı Iğsız, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, New York University. Presenters: Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex...

CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India

Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan

Rescheduled from September 24....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Weighing the Matter of Water in the Imperial Politics of Han China

Alice Yao, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Registration here for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/lxn0D...

WCED Lecture. Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in Aging Japan

Charles T. McClean, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, U-M

Young people are underrepresented in most political institutions. Yet, there is a lack of research on either the causes behind the shortage...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Panic, Pestilence and Religious Coping; Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A psychological Perspective on Arab Countries

Justin Thomas, Professor and Chair of Psychology at Zayed University; Ibrahim Aref Kira, Managing Director of Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies and affiliate of The Center of Stress, Trauma and Resiliency, Georgia State University

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa

C. Anne Claus, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC

Please register here in advance for this Zoom webinar: https://myumi.ch/pdYAd...

CSEAS Lecture Series. Is the Philippines Asia's Banana Republic? Vertical Disintegration After Empire

Alyssa Paredes, LSA Collegiate Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Please register at https://myumi.ch/PlgjR...

Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Indomitable Violence: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe

Julián Casanova, professor of contemporary history, University of Zaragoza; visiting professor, Central European University

The analysis of indomitable violence in Europe that Professor Casanova proposes in his new book breaks with the widely accepted division of...

WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Nicaragua

Panelists: Luciana Chamorro, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics,...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | When Campaign-Style Enforcement Meets Local Strategic Compliance: The Case of National Affordable Housing

Zhilin Liu Associate Professor and Director, Public Policy Institute, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/BoOY1...

CREES Noon Lecture. The Image is the Frame: Revolution, Aesthetics, and Gender in 21st Century Ukraine

Jessica Zychowicz (PhD Slavic '15), Director of the Fulbright Program in Ukraine and Institute of International Education Kyiv Office

This lecture draws upon over a decade of research toward the book, Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in Twenty-First...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Obesity in Schoolchildren and its Link to Chronic Diseases; Weight and Body Image in the Middle East: Perspectives from 2021

Huda M. Al Hourani, Associate Professor at The Hashemite University; Sarah Trainer, ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change Affiliate Researcher and Seattle University ADVANCE Program & Research Coordinator

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."...

CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Contemporary Literature: Perspectives and Aporia in the Global 21st Century

Cécile Sakai, Professor, Paris University, France

Please note that the start time here is 12:00 pm Ann Arbor time and 6:00 pm, Paris, France....

CSAS Lecture | The Modern Cosmopolis: Sovereignty, Cosmology and the Extrapolitical

David Gilmartin, Department of History, NC State University

Sheldon Pollock’s vision of a “Cosmopolis,” a vision of power (and culture) transcending, and encompassing, particular systems of rule...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Framing China: Visual Technologies, Missionary Modernity, and Transnational Visions in Sino-US Encounters

Joseph W. Ho, Assistant Professor of History, East Asian History, Albion College

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/qgMwy...

The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. BOOK TALK: The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier: The Yazıcıoğlu Family

Carlos Grenier, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University

This study follows the lives and ideas of the Yazıcıoğlu brothers Mehmed Yazıcıoğlu and Ahmed Bican, Sufis of the frontier city of...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Alcohol Harm Reduction in Lebanon: The Context, The Industry and the Young Consumer; The Role of Islam in Public Health Policy on Smoking Cessation

Lilian Ghandour, Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut; Peter Walton, Independent Researcher

The 2021 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibit."...

CJS Lecture Series | The Massacre and the Conspiracy: Locating the Japanese diaspora in Seventeenth Century Southeast Asia

Adam Clulow, Professor, University of Texas at Austin

In 1621, Japanese soldiers participated in a massive Dutch East India Company invasion of the Banda islands in Southeast Asia. Pressed into...

Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

John H. Knox, Henry C. Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University; Jennifer Haverkamp, Professor from Practice, Law and Public Policy, University of Michigan; Graham Family Director, U-M Graham Sustainability Institute

Please note: This panel discussion will be offered in person on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus at 555 Weiser Hall (500 Church...

CAS Edward Hagop Noroian Annual Lecture | Imagined Landscapes and Crafted Worlds: Spacetime and Natureculture in Medieval Armenia

Kate Franklin, Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in History, Classics and Archeology, Birkbeck University of London

Hybrid event: Room 1010, Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109...

CSAS Lecture | Scaffolding of the Rule of Law: Legal Violence, Policing, and Scientific Interrogations in India

Jinee Lokaneeta, Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University

Details forthcoming....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Logic of Social Media Repression in China

Blake Miller, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Methodology Department, London School of Economics

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Catching up with the West: Chinese Households Join the Global Middle Class

Terry Sicular, Professor and Undergraduate Director, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/O4ngQ...

The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Digital City: A Spatial Study on Nonextant Islamic Infrastructure in Early Modern Ottoman Filibe

Grigor Boykov, Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences

The symbolic rupture with the imperial past in many post-Ottoman cities in the Balkans materialized via organized effort for...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | ‘Willing to be Pushed to the Limit’: Totalising Power and Individual Agency within the K-elite Sport Development Regime

Minhyeok Tak, Lecturer, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University (UK)

Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

CJS Lecture Series | Japan as a Marine Tourism Mecca

Kirk R. Patterson, former President/Dean, Temple University Japan

Please note the start time for this event is 7pm, Ann Arbor time....