Happening @ Michigan

Friday Lecture Series | Citizens or Subjects? : The Paradox of Citizenship and Subjecthood in a Southeast Asian Kingdom

Mu'izz Abdul Khalid, Global Awareness and Impact Alliance (GAIA), Research Associate

This is virtual event. Zoom registration is required: http://myumi.ch/A1bGx...

Summer in South Asia Symposium

SiSA Fellows

Hear from this year's Summer in South Asia Fellows about their experiences in India and to learn more about this fully-funded...

Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Cuba's Digital Revolution: Between Quiescence and Revolt

Harold Cardenas Lema and Michaelanne Thomas

A new digital revolution is underway in Cuba. Despite the continued repression of freedoms of speech and assembly, a new generation of...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | New Discovery of Datong Music Society (1919-ca.1958) “Ancient Musical Instruments” Collection in Munich: Towards Modeling an Invention of “Heritage” in Chinese Musical Modernity

Joys HY Cheung, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/79r92....

Emerging Democracies Roundtable | A New Era of War and Dictators?

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, NYU Christian Davenport, U-M Megan Stewart, U-M Dan Slater, U-M (moderator)

After the Cold War ended, democracy seemed to become the predominant form of government and civil war seemed to become the predominant form...

2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival

In-person Screening of Algiers (Algeria, 2024) at 7 PM, at the State Theatre

This screening is ONLY in person at the State Theatre in Ann Arbor. Reserve your free tickets: https://forms.gle/pq1ZQehJrzuFa1V38...

CREES Noon Lecture. The Una Runs Through It: A Bosnian City Mobilizes Around its River

Azra Hromadžić, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and professor of anthropology, Syracuse University

Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans, which gave rise to a surge in hydropower investments...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Finding Refined Friends: The Magazine Gayū (1951–70) and Sinitic Poetry in Postwar Japan

Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cohort Replacement and the Waves of Fertility Decline in China

Yong Cai, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W6N6d....

Communicating the Value of your LSA Degree Workshop

Neha Chheda, LSA Opportunity Hub Coach

What can you do with an LSA degree? This workshop identifies ways you can begin exploring pathways within a liberal arts degree....

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Murals Speak: Lee Qoede and the Mexican Muralists’ Vision for National Art

Jinyoung Jin, Director of Asian Art & Culture at the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/e3jPZ...

Vladimir Kara-Murza | 2025 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture

Free People in an Unfree Country: Standing Up to Kremlin Tyranny, Past and Present

Full details at: https://myumi.ch/A1Wdy...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Storied Gulf: Storytelling, Migration, and Masculinities

Salman Adil Hussain, Miami University

The injustices of the Gulf visa sponsorship system and the harsh aspects of migrant life there are well documented. And yet, the heavy...

Book talk on "Buddhism: A Journey Through History" with author Prof. Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Donald S. Lopez Jr., U-M Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist & Tibetan Studies; Asian Languages & Cultures

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History, Prof. Lopez's new book tells the story of the dramatic journey of Buddhism across the...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan's Mountain in Nepal: The First Ascent of Manaslu and Reconciliation with Postwar Asia

Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall (10th Floor) and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

Friday Lecture Series | "What Strange Woman is Here?": Laura Benedict's Fieldwork among the Bagobos of the Southern Philippines, 1906-1908

Juan Fernandez, PhD, University of Wisconsin – Madison

For fourteen months between 1906 and 1908, the American anthropologist Laura Benedict was conducting participant observation fieldwork among...

Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: "Memoria" as Resistance: Comparative Human Rights Education in Chile and Argentina

Mayki Gorosito, Former Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, Argentina; Juan Carlos Vega Briones, Archive Manager, Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Chile

During the Cold War, human rights organizations in Latin America have calculated there were close to 100,000 missing persons due to...

Have Funding, Will Travel

Come join us for a funding opportunity expo for all U-M students! Explore a variety of fellowships, scholarships, and grants for your...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Treasure Sand: Management of Abrasive Minerals in Qing Court Production

Yulian Wu, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University

Attend in person or via zoom: https://myumi.ch/qZmZm....

LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Transgender in Late Imperial China

Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/D8RV8...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Violence, Refusal, and Political (Im)possibility

Loay Al-Arab, University of Michigan

This lecture is concerned with analyzing anti-colonial struggle in the Arab world through the frameworks of refusal and structured...

CAS Guest Lecture. The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979

Houri Berberian, University of California, Irvine; and Talinn Grigor, University of California, Davis

With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of...

32nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with...

32nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with...

32nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival

The Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Polish cinema, organized by the Polish Cultural Fund in collaboration with...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China

Yan Long, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/E8D82...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Beyond the Page and Across Realities: Rethinking Korean Language Learning with virtual reality and augmented reality in the Digital Age

Jayoung Song, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/2r4zD...

GETSEA x CSEAS Film Simulcast: Vietnamerica

Vietnamerica Production Crew TBA

The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Having escaped escaped Vietnam in...

CREES Noon Lecture. Piety and Power: Women and Religious Life in Central Asian Islam

Aziza Shanazarova, assistant professor of religion, Columbia University

This talk introduces the story of Aghā-yi Buzurg, an extraordinary woman who lived in sixteenth-century Bukhara—located in present-day...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Memory as Perseverance: Memory: Archiving Palestine between Homeland and Diaspora

Tamara Rayan, University of Michigan

Tamara Rayan explores how Palestinians preserve collective memory amid the destruction of archives from 1948 to the present. Focusing on...

2025 Global Photo Showcase

Global Photo Showcase

Join various U-M International Education units at the 2025 Global Photo Showcase, featuring student photography from all over the world!...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist Spaces

Felicity Stone-Richards, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in Weiser Hall (10th Floor) and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

Korean Performing Arts Initiative | Nonan: A Sonic Collage of Korean Traditions and European Classics

Sinaboro, University of Michigan

Experience a captivating fusion of musical worlds at "Nonan: A Sonic Collage of Korean Traditions and European Classics."...

CCPS Roundtable. Polish Cinema in the 20th and 21st Centuries: From the Center to the Margins

Elżbieta Durys, Widzinski Senior Fellow, Fall 2025; Magdalena Zdrodowska, Widzinski Senior Fellow, Fall 2025

Contemporary Polish Cinema of National Remembrance...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping

Joseph Torigian, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University

The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Homo juluensis: A Pan-Eastern Asian Middle Pleistocene Hominin

Christopher Bae, Professor, University of Hawai'i

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/w9kqG....

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Sub-Saharan Community Leaders in Morocco

Cynthia Magallanes-Gonzalez, University of Michigan

In cities like Rabat and Tangier, Sub-Saharan African migrants, many from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria build tightly knit communities...

CAS Guest Lecture. Writing Waterline: Patterns in Contemporary Armenian Diaspora Narratives

Aram Mrjoian, University of Michigan

As a young artist beginning to write about my Armenian ethnicity, Aram Mrjoian became fascinated with the conventions and recommendations...

Donia Human Rights Center Panel | The Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia at 30: Successes, Failures, and Challenges Ahead

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University Chicago; Tatjana Papić, Union University Belgrade Law School; Valery Perry, Democratization Policy Council

Thirty years after the signing in Dayton, Ohio, of the peace agreement ending the war in Bosnia, both Bosnia and its neighbors face immense...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Recrafting Closeness in Death: Relational Proxies for Future Japan/ese

Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

Friday Lecture Series | How Ethnic Rebellion Begins: Theory and Evidence from Myanmar

Jangai Jap, PhD, University of Georgia

Since independence, most of the ethnic minority groups in Myanmar—though not all—have rebelled against the central government, making it...

International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A

Danielle Schmidt, Program in International and Comparative Studies Program Coordinator

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

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Image of the Book in the Performance of Reading: The Drunken Man’s Talk as a Charter Text

Canaan Morse, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Virginia

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/MkDk5....

International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A

Danielle Schmidt, Program in International and Comparative Studies Program Coordinator

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