Happening @ Michigan

CJS Lecture Series | Difficult Subjects: Religion and Public Schools in Contemporary Japan

Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

As part of a new national policy of “making persons” (hitozukuri) who could support Japan’s rapid economic growth, in the mid-1960s...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Crash Landing on You

Yoon Se-Ri (Son Ye-Jin) is an heiress to a conglomerate in South Korea. One day while paragliding, an accident caused by strong winds leads...

The road ahead for U.S.-Russia relations

Stephen Biegun, former Deputy Secretary of State, and Alina Polyakova, President of the Center for European Policy Analysis

Open to U-M students, faculty, and staff....

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Taekwondo Workshop

Tired of sitting around at home as the weather gets cooler? Get moving with the Nam...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress: A presentation of collaborative research by Yue Hou, Xinrui Feng and Mingxin Liu

Yue Hou, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/0WKd9...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial

Turn up the music with the Nam Center for Korean Studies for a K-Pop Dance Tutorial as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021! Leaders...

CCPS Lecture. Translating Pan Tadeusz: A Conversation with Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston, professor of comparative literature, Indiana University

This interactive talk will offer a practitioner’s reflections on the making of a new translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 narrative...

CAS Artist Spotlight Stories | Daniel Tahmizian and “The Wanderer” (2017)

Daniel Tahmizian, film director and writer.

Please register in advance to receive the streaming link and attend the Q/A session with the film director here: https://myumi.ch/QAdoY...

Afghanistan Series. Flowers, Love and the Landscape of Violence: Queering War in Afghanistan

Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the Thomas Jefferson University

Join us on Wednesday, September 22nd at 1:00 PM ET for a conversation with Dr. Ahmad Qais Munhazim on Flowers, Love and the Landscape of...

Career Event. Internships with the U.S. Department of State

Shannon Farrell, U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence

The U.S. Department of State offers over 1,000 summer internships at its embassies and missions throughout the world, at its headquarters in...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Korean Storytime

Join Eunjae Cheon and Andrea Yun for crafts, songs and stories in Korean!...

CJS Lecture Series | Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Based upon his latest book, Professor Samuels will explore the history of the Japanese intelligence community from the late 19th to the...

Latvia, Europe, and the Road Ahead: A Conversation with the President of Latvia, Egils Levits

The Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia welcomes the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, to the University of Michigan on September 23....

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Kingdom

Set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period, it tells the story of Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon), who becomes embroiled in a...

CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India

Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan

In the last decade, India has seen a massive uptake in the adoption, and frequency of technology use by citizens, making social media a...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Chuseok Keynote Event Author Reading with Tae Keller: When You Trap A Tiger

We’re hosting a very special Keynote event this year featuring Tae Keller, author of When You Trap A Tiger, Winner of the 2021...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Modern Monumentality: Sculptural Attitudes in Post-1949 China

Vivian Li, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series...

WCED Lecture. Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the End of East European Serfdom

Brendan McElroy, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M

The predominant analysis of representative institutions in the development literature casts them as the guardians of property against...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea

Hwisang Cho, Assistant Professor in Korean Studies, Emory University

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

CREES Noon Lecture. The Insecurity State: Views from Belarus

Misha Friedman, photographer

2017 marked the 23rd year of power of Aleksandr Lukashenko over Belarus. In those years, his opponents have been silenced, murdered, exiled,...

IISS Lecture Series. Sacred Relics, Insignia, and Kingship: the Ottoman Case in Comparative Perspective

Gottfried Hagen, professor of Turkish studies, University of Michigan

IISS is pleased to announce the public lecture "Sacred Relics, Insignia, and Kingship: the Ottoman Case in Comparative...

CJS Lecture Series | Differences between Japan and China: Perspectives from Japanese Journalism, 1980 - Present

Seiichiro Aso, Journalist, Japan

Note that this event begins at 7pm, Ann Arbor time. This talk will be delivered in Japanese with English translation....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Endless Surplus in Early Modern China

Ariel Fox, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

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

WCED Roundtable Discussion. Flashpoint: Afghanistan

Panelists: Adam E. Casey, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Dipali Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs,...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Ecologies of Empire: Ottoman Arabia, the Indian Ocean Hajj, and the Global Crisis of Cholera

Michael Christopher Low, Assistant Professor of History, Iowa State University

The 2020 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibition."...

CJS Lecture Series | Empowering Women Through Radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan

Yoko Okuyama, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Uppsala University

2021 marks the 75th year since Japanese women participated in the national election. In that election, women won 8.4 percent of the seats -...

CSAS Lecture | Outcaste Bombay and Inter-war Marxism

Juned Shaikh, History Department, UC Santa Cruz

Marxism arrived in inter-war Bombay under the reality of surveillance and the threat of proscription. Therefore, Marxist ideas, literature,...

CREES/Ford U.S.-Russia Future Leaders Professional Development Workshop. U.S.-Russian Strategic Stability Dialogue

Mark Pekala (BA Political Science '81), former. U.S. Ambassador to Latvia

This is an in-person event for U-M students only. This event will not be recorded or livestreamed. This event’s RSVP will open on Monday,...

LRCCS 60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy

Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

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

CREES Noon Lecture. Does Culture Matter? Complexity, Creativity, and Social Change in the Kyrgyz Republic

Noor O’Neill Borbieva, Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Although culture is one of American anthropology’s signature analytical concepts, interest in the culture concept has waned in recent...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Public Health Under Siege: A View from the Gaza Strip

Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Roskilde University

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

Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Documenting Atrocities: Overcoming Barriers in Syria

Mohammad Al Abdallah, Executive Director, Syria Justice and Accountability Centre; Leigh Pearce, PhD, MPH, Professor, Epidemiology, U-M School of Public Health

Please note: This panel discussion will be offered in person on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus at 1010 Weiser Hall (500 Church...

II Conference. Gender and Health in Global, Transnational, and Historical Perspectives

Various Speakers

International Institute Conference on Gender and Health in Global, Transnational, and Historical Perspectives...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Gender and Voting Preferences in Japan, Britain, and the United States

Gill Steel, Professor of Political Science, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University, Japan

Please note that the time of this lecture is 7:00 pm Ann Arbor time, 8:00 am in Tokyo (10/15/2021)....

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The 1918 influenza pandemic in Indonesia and comparisons with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University

Free and open to public. Register at https://myumi.ch/NxPrv...

CSAS Lecture | India's Newest Poses: The Imaginative Life of Yoga

Shameem Black, Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, Australian National University

Dr. Shameem Black is a literary, gender and cultural studies scholar of modern India and its diaspora who specialises in the ethics and...