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Fulbright U.S. Student Program WEBINAR: Finalizing Your Application

StudyResearch Session (Includes Arts)

U-M Fulbright Program Advisors will review the online Embark application and detail final steps to submitting an application by the U-M...

Fulbright U.S. Student Program WEBINAR: Finalizing Your Application

English Teaching Assistantship Session

U-M Fulbright Program Advisors will review the online Embark application and detail final steps to submitting an application by the U-M...

CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. Politics Matters: (How) Can Aid Help?

Alice Evans, King's College, London

Responding to growing interest in the transnational politics of decent work and inclusive development, this talk explores the drivers of...

CSAS Lecture Series | Changes in Dowry Practices?: Insights on Dowry and Its Regulation

Vikramaditya Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

The Law in India has prohibited demands for dowry since 1961 and expected penalties have been increased multiple times since then, but from...

Selma film screening and discussion

A free screening of the critically acclaimed film Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay and based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights...

DISC Lecture. Political Shari‘a, Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Love in Razinat T. Mohamed’s Novel "Habiba (Beloved)."

Ousseina Alidou, professor of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian languages and literatures, and comparative literature, Rutgers University

By 2002, Islamic law–Shari‘a–had been introduced in several northern Nigerian states. This development took place in the context of...

ISP Lecture. Islamotopia: American Exceptionalism and Muslim Reform

Michael Muhammad Knight, assistant professor of religion, University of Central Florida

The notion of "American Islam," signifying a uniquely American expression of Islam that either presently exists or awaits us as an...

DISC Lecture. Being Muslims: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam

Sylvia Chan-Malik, assistant professor of American studies, women’s and gender studies, Rutgers University

Sylvia Chan-Malik offers a previously untold story of Islam in the United States that foregrounds the voices, experiences, and images of...

WCED Lecture. Elections in Hard Times: Building Stronger Democracies in the 21st Century

Irfan Nooruddin, Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian Politics, Georgetown University

Why are 'free and fair' elections so often followed by democratic backsliding? Irfan Nooruddin answers this critical question, showing why...

CREES Noon Lecture. Problematizing Populism: The Polish Radical Right and the Return of National Communism

Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M

It’s easy to be confused by the rhetoric of the current political struggle in Poland. On the one hand, the ruling party presents itself as...

Marching Forward | Meet-Ups with MARCH Illustrator Nate Powell

Nate Powell

Throughout the day on September 20, 2017, there will be multiple opportunities to meet March illustrator Nate Powell. March powerfully...

ASP Lecture | Armenian Riddles: Learning How to Read with Medieval Poetry

Michael Pifer, Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies

The 12th century catholicos Nerses Shnorhali faced a crisis: how would he address his flock, seemingly scattered to the ends of the earth,...

Marching Forward

A Research and Scholarship Symposium

As part of the U-M Fall 2017 "Marching Forward" series, we invite you to engage across disciplines, generations, and communities to advance...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Cultivating Narratives of Self in Information Visualization

Steven Geofrey Braun, Data Analytics/Visualization Specialist, Northeastern University Libraries

Information visualization is a powerfully compelling medium for working with digital scholarship. Through visualization, we build narratives...

Marching Forward

A Talk by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell are co-authors of MARCH, a graphic novel trilogy that recounts Lewis's experiences...

CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945

Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University

This presentation will survey the changing relations between the US and Burma since World War II. The importance of Burma to American policy...

Record Keeping Without Writing: Khipu Accounting in the Inka Empire

Gary Urton, Harvard University

The Inka recording device, the khipu (Quechua: “knot”) has been the subject of intense interest and study through the 20th century and...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Taiwan's Evolving Identity and the China Challenge

J. Michael Cole, Taipei-based Senior Non-Resident Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series....

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by FoodLab Detroit, Keep Growing Detroit, and GRA Inc. Join us to learn first-hand how community...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Contested Embrace Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

Jaeeun Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Center for Japanese Studies - A 70 Year Legacy of Engaged Learning

Robert Hall, the first director of the Center for Japanese Studies, once remarked: "For both faculty and student, the study of an area on...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Community Design in Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by the Michigan Architecture Prep Program and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we delve into the basics of...

CSAS Lecture Series | Sarandib, Lanka, Ceylon: Banishment and Belonging

Ronit Ricci, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The small, Indian Ocean island known as Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon has figured as an important site of banishment in different periods and...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Real Estate Vacancy in NW Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Revival Detroit LLC and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we discuss the challenges of real estate vacancy in...

Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Ishinomaki Laboratory - Exhibition Opening

Opening reception for Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Brightmoor Bento Maker Workshop

A maker workshop for all ages! Using a DIY kit co-developed by the Brightmoor Maker Space, Ishinomaki Laboratory, and U-M called the...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Ishinomaki Laboratory - Saturday Exhibition

DIY furniture maker Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker Space...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Youth IT Education in SW Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC) and ITNAV Ishinomaki. Join us as we discuss DHDC and...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Non-Violent Activism in Gaza

Ashley Bates, U-M

Non-violent, anti-occupation activist movements in the West Bank-- particularly in the village of Bil'in-- have attracted global media...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Firms’ Strategic Use of Political Connections

Dr. Nan Jia, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series....

CREES Noon Lecture. The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon

Larry Wolff, Julius Silver Professor of History; director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; executive director, Remarque Institute, New York University

This lecture will consider the huge cultural phenomenon of operas about Turks that played out across the stages of Europe from the 1680s to...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Exploring Classical Mokuhanga Printmaking Using Laser-engraving and Bit-map Data

Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Endi Poskovic's creative practice in printmaking considers a range of technologies of reproduction as a way to explore certain...

Christo: The Floating Piers and Work in Progress

Christo is a sculptor known for co-creating large scale ephemeral works worldwide with his longtime artistic partner and wife, Jeanne-Claude...

Islamic Books Reading Group. Book Discussion: Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

Tarfia Faizullah, Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, will be leading a discussion of Exit West,...

CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium

Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2017 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Limits of Chinese Buddhism: Protecting the State in the Dali Kingdom (937-1253)

Megan Bryson Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series....

Donia Human Rights Center Lecture: Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, Professor of Law and Anthropology, University of Connecticut

Richard A. Wilson is the Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and Law and Founding Director of the Human...

CSAS Lecture Series | ‘Marriage’, ‘Trafficking’ and the Transnational Family: Moral and Legal Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women’s Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

Farhana Ibrahim, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology

This paper examines the trans-oceanic migration of women between the Bombay Presidency, Persian Gulf and East Africa during the course of...

CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. The Cost of Uplift: Filipino Labor and Exploitation in American Colonial Schools and Prisons

Genevieve Clutario, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

By the 1910s, the United States had firmly established state-run institutions to carryout its brand of colonialism in the Philippines,...