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International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
Emily Ting Yeh, Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
In the first decade of the new millennium, many educated and ambitious young Tibetans aspired to work in NGOs to promote community...
CMENAS Event. International Liberation and Nonviolent Noncooperation: Martin Luther King and Afro-Asia
Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan and author, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
The nonviolent activism of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is associated in the minds of many primarily with the Civil Rights Movement...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
CREES Noon Lecture. Lethal Provocations: Anti-Jewish Violence in French Algeria and Ukraine
Joshua Cole, professor of history, U-M; Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies, U-M
Jeffrey Veidlinger and Joshua Cole will discuss Prof. Cole's new book, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics...
Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and Modern Urban America
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
The history of racism in the South is well known—the chain gangs, lynch mobs and views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim...
CSAS Film Series | Indus Blues
This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2019
Pakistani folk artists describe their struggle to keep a fading art form alive while reminding the world of what it is about to lose. The...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects
Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East...
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Classical as Contemporary: Choreography and New Media in China Today
Tian Tian 田湉, PhD, Deputy Professor of Choreography and Chinese Classical Dance, Beijing Dance Academy; Managing Editor, Journal of Beijing Dance Academy; Visiting Scholar, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M
In China today, dance and new media are merging in experimental choreographies for the stage, open-air spaces, galleries, and other...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Ugetsu
1953. 97 minutes. Drama/Mystery. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
During 16th century civil wars, village potter Masayuki Mori (Rashomon, The Bad Sleep Well, Floating Clouds) decides to follow the money and...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
LACS Event. Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Conversation with Jeffrey Parsons
Jeffrey Parsons, Professor Emeritus, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan
Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he...
Korean Cinema NOW | A Resistance/ 항거: 유관순 이야기
Directed by Min-ho Cho
2019 | 105 Minutes | Min-ho Cho...
ASP Public Talk| A Personal Introduction to Diaspora Armenian Art
Karen Jallatyan, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
What challenges and opportunities does the Armenian diaspora have? In this presentation, Dr. Karen Jallatyan will address this question by...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
WCEE Distinguished Fellow Lecture. The Russian Media: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Yevgenia Albats, radio host, Ekho Moskvy and International Institute/WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M
Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Moscow-based “New Times” and a radio host with more than 40 years experience with...
CSEAS Event. Book Discussion of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas
Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies , Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, CSEAS outreach coordinator
Monday, January 27, 2020 / 6:00-8:30 pm / 555 Weiser Hall...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific
Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore
States in Asia and the Pacific have been talking about “hedging” and “not choosing sides” between the United States and China since...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption
Young Sun Park, Assistant Professor, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
This presentation investigates the origins and the development of transnational adoption of Korean biracial children, including the symbolic...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
II Event. Fulbright 2021-2022 Kick Off: Brown Bag Info Session
Heather Johnson, International Institute Fulbright Program Advisor
Join us for the first Fulbright Info Session in 2020! Come learn about the largest international exchange program for U.S. citizens,...
GISC Event. Islamic Studies Reading Group: Hacking Islamic Law
Reading group
Join us for an Islamic Studies reading group!...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
Michelle Damian, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth College, IL (USA)
The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few...
CSEAS Event. Thai Movie Night: By The Time It Gets Dark / ดาวคะนอง
Director – Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016
A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | An Autumn Afternoon (Sanna no aji)
1962. 113 minutes. Drama. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignified resignation to life’s...
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest
The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II...
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Deep Constitution: Militant Constitutional Identity and the Afterlife of Martial Law in Thailand
Eugénie Mérieau, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
In Thailand, since the adoption of the widely-celebrated 1997 Constitution, all elected governments have been overthrown by the...
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Writing South Asian History: Power, Representation and Subjectivity
Keynote Address by John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia...
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Keynote: Thinking About Politics in South Asian Studies
John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
See details of the full CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia here:...
PICS Professional Development Workshop. Don't Sell Yourself Short: Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn Strategies that Lead to Interviews
Tina Sula, Lecturer I, Program in International and Comparative Studies
PLEASE NOTE: STUDENTS CAN DROP IN ANYTIME DURING THE 2-HOUR TIME BLOCK!...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Revenge of the Developmental State: Stock Market Struggles in East Asia
John Yasuda, Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Revenge of the Developmental State considers the challenges faced by East Asian stock exchanges attempting to refashion themselves in the...
WCED Panel. Is Democracy Promotion Dead?
Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director. Panelists: Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, associate professor of political science, Michigan State University;...
ASP Film Screening | Armen and Me
Directed by Maxim Airapetov; 2018
"Armen and Me" is the story of two friends, Levon and Armen, who lost contact with one another for 16 years after a tragic...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Meghen Jones, Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies, Alfred University, NY
Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Harakiri
1962. 133 minutes. Drama/Action. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Decomposing a National Language: Pluralism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Language
John Phan, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
By the 1930s, the Vietnamese vernacular language had unquestionably come to be viewed as the national language of Vietnam, and the primary...
Korean Cinema NOW | Dark Figure of Crime/ 암수살인
Directed by Tae-gyun Kim
2018 | 110 Minutes | Tae-gyun Kim...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Urban Environment Change in Post-Reform China
Peilei Fan, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
Based on the authors’ past and current research and a critical review of related literature, Dr. Fan will introduce patterns, drivers, and...
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...
CREES Noon Lecture. Terroir, Ecological Stewardship, and Heritage Politics in the Bulgarian Wine Industry
Yuson Jung, associate professor of anthropology, Wayne State University
Bulgaria is arguably one of the oldest wine-producing countries in the world, and built a large, highly industrialized and export-oriented...
CSAS Film Series | Bamboo Stories
This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2019
It is midsummer in northeastern Bangladesh. Five men face a dangerous mission. They must conquer the great river with their raft. Their...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of the Benshi
Ichiro Kataoka
The silent film benshi has attracted attention for being a unique aspect of Japanese film culture. With the release of Suo Masayuki’s new...
ASC Event. 2019 UMAPS Colloquium Series
This series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to...
ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Catastrophes: “Western Armenia” in Comparative Perspective
Organizers: Karen Jallatyan, Anoush Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows, U-M, and Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History, U-M.
For complete workshop details, please see:...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | The Downfall of Osen (Orizuru Osen)
1935. Drama/Silent. 90 min. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
This silent film will be accompanied by a live benshi narration!...
