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Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
Onstage: Kunqu Dramatizations of Chinese Beauties, Clowns, Heroes, and Villains
Lecture, Demonstration, and Performance
Professional performers from the most prestigious Kunqu opera theater company in China will star in a multi-part showcase of the...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
Panel Discussion | Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, And Resistance In Japan
Hwaji Shin, Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco and former U-M Toyota Visiting Professor; David Jacobson, Professor of Sociology, University of South Florida; Macario Garcia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Kennesaw State University
This hybrid panel discussion is a celebration of Hwaji Shin’s new book, Being Korean, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood, Citizenship, and...
ASC Film Screening and Fireside Chat: The People's Uncle by Kavena Hambira
Kavena Hambira, filmmaker
About the film:...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series. The Tang-Song Traduction: The Imperialist Agenda behind Naitō Konan’s (1866-1934) Periodization of Chinese History
Christian de Pee, Professor of History, University of Michigan
During the 1910s and 1920s, the Japanese historian Naitō Konan (1866-1934) published a number of books and articles in which he argued that...
Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture. Claims, Complaints and Democratization of the Local State in India
Speaker: Anindita Adhikari, National Law School of India University, Bengalurul; Responder: Yamini Aiyar, Centre for Policy Research/Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/4jqew...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
Book Launch: Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food
Alyssa Paredes, assistant professor of anthropology, University of Michigan; Marvin Montefrio, associate professor of environmental sciences, Yale-NUS College
Join Alyssa Paredes (Assistant Professor, University of Michigan) and Marvin Montefrio (Associate Professor, Yale-NUS College) for the...
CSAS South Asian Film Series | All We Imagine As Light
This screening is free and open to the public ...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
Annual Copernicus Lecture. The Post-Populist Predicament: On Redemocratization and Rule-of-Law Restoration in Poland since 2023
Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney, and professor, Center for Europe, University of Warsaw
On October 15, 2023, Polish voters elected, by a wide margin, a coalition of democratic parties and thus ended an 8-year episode of...
CJS Winter 2025 Film Series | Jubaku: Spellbound
Directed by Harada Masato, 1h 54m, 1999
Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/3Q83k...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
Friday Lecture Series | Gambling Coastal Lives: Surprises and Precarity in the Coastal Philippines
Marvin Montefrio, Associate Professor of Social Science (Environmental Studies) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore
Surprises in the form of risks and uncertainties reinforce and sometimes complicate the vulnerability and precarity of human and nonhuman...
ASC Winter 2025 UMAPS Research Colloquium Series. Innovative Approaches to Overcoming Barriers in Global Health: Insights into Behavior, Technology, and Culture in Africa (Group 1)
Yilkal Hunegnaw, Hailu Azerefegn Demsash, Dorcas Mwigereri, Norah Aziamin Asongu
This series features the Winter 2025 U-M African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
Falasteen on Screen. Lyd (2023) Film Screening & Q&A with filmmakers at the State Theatre
1 hr 18 min, A Sci-fi documentary directed by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland
Sci-fi Documentary | 1hr 18 min | Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland | 2025 | Filmmaker Q&A to follow after the film with Rami Younis,...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
Program in International and Comparative Studies Annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel and Reception
International Studies Alumni
The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) will host its annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel in person and...
WCEE Distinguished lecture. Russia Beyond Putin
Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition politician, historian, and former political prisoner, current Vice President of the Free Russia Foundation
Doors open to the public at 4:30 p.m. Seating will be limited and on a first-come, first served basis....
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China
Benno Weiner, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University
This event is in-person only...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Language Education in America 30 Years: Retrospect and Prospect
Hye-Sook Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University
While there is ‘some’ debate over who started teaching Korean first in American higher education institutions, Korean language education...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
CREES Noon Lecture. Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Its Afterlives
Kevin Bartig, professor of musicology, Michigan State University
In 1938, the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein finished his first sound film, Alexander Nevsky, a historical epic that casts a...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky), ritual...
CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity, an installation by Gluklya
Gluklya, artist
Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender, class, and cultural identity. By focusing on...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality
Junko Kato, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
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...
The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times Workshop
Part of a Two-Part Event with Nicolas Campisi
In this workshop, Nicolas Campisi will discuss his most recent book. By situating his argument at the intersection of ecocritical and...
Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival
Featuring Muna (2019) and a Q&A with director Warda Mohamed; Goodbye Julia (2023); Timbuktu (2014); Four Daughters (2023)
The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind, screening films from all across Africa that were made by, for, or about Muslims....
