Happening @ Michigan

CCPS Lecture. Polish Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movies

Agata Zborowska, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow; postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; and assistant professor, Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw

In this talk, Zborowska will examine home movies and related oral histories as sources for studying the transformation of the...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy

Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan

In early modern Islamic history, women are often excluded from the historical record, leaving gaps in our understanding of gendered...

Between Voice and Silence Opening Reception

Artists: Ira Bondarenko, University of Michigan; Katya Lisova and Matvii Vaisberg, Ukrainian Union of Artists BZH-ART

CREES is delighted to support the international art exhibition Between Voice and Silence. Dedicated to the fallen Ukrainian poet Maksym...

ASC Webinar. UMAPS 2025-2026 Application Info Session

Omolade Adunbi, African Studies Center Director and Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies

The African Studies Center director, Omolade Adunbi, discusses program details, the application process, selection criteria, and much more...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Labor of Love: The Poor First Son of Bitches

Hanan Hammad, University of Houston

Between the two world wars, millions of Egyptians experienced industrial work and urban life for the first time, transitioning from rural,...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways as Postwar Japan

Christine R. Yano, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Hawaii; President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology

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

Friday Lecture Series | Botany's (Un)making: Vernaculars of Plant Knowing in the Early 20th-Century Davao Gulf

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, University of California, Santa Cruz , Assistant Professor of History

Attend in person or via Zoom: http://myumi.ch/xwZ2d....

Japanese Music Workshop: "Performance Exploration for Shakuhachi, Koto, and Voice" with David Kansuke Wheeler and Yoko Hiraoka

Presented as part of a series: "A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P....

“In Honor of William P. Malm: Facilitating Global Musical Encounters,” Christine R. Yano

Presented as part of a series: "A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P....

Pre-Concert Lecture on Japanese Music & Dance

Presented as part of a series: "A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P....

Concert: "A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm"

Presented as part of a series: "A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P....

UMMA Family Day: Dragons Everywhere All At Once

University of Michigan Museum of Art

Dragons stir the global imagination, writhing through water, sky and earth. Join us as we learn more about the many facets of dragons...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Meanings of Zero: The Performative Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy

Bin Xu, Professor of Sociology, Emory University

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/9py49...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. Confronting Silence and Invisibility: The Forgotten Genocide in Libya

Ali Ahmida, University of New England

Professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida presents a powerful subaltern narrative of genocide in Libya, grounded in survivor testimonies, oral...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | THE SOUND OF MANGA: From Erotica to Sitcom in Gengoroh Tagame's Oeuvre

Anne Ishii, Writer, Translator, and Musician; Program Director, United States Artists; Co-founder and Owner, MASSIVE GOODS

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

CAS Guest Lecture. Unknown Land: Armenian Studies in the Context of Acentric Medieval History

Alison M. Vacca, Columbia University

Lecture Abstract: Can we bring together Persian poetry, Georgian romance, Shi'i ḥadīth collections, Greek patriography, Arabic...

CSAS 2025 Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Spectral Conversions: Becoming Muslim in Late-Seventeenth-Century Mughal India

Munis D. Faruqui, Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley

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

Welcome Reception for the 2025–26 Academic Year

Matthew Hull, Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan

Please join the Center for South Asian Studies for refreshments immediately following the Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture on Friday, September...

ASC Programs Information Webinar. African Students Applying to the University of Michigan Graduate Programs

Omolade Adunbi, ASC Director and Afroamerican and African Studies Professor, University of Michigan

The African Studies Center at the University of Michigan invites you to register for our upcoming graduate program webinar....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing Economic Policy Paradigms in China: Bureaucratic Politics and the Many “China Models”

Yingyao Wang, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia

Attend in person or via Zoom:...

Elections Against the Grain: A Roundtable with Emerging Democracies Authors

Luis Schiumerini, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame: Mollie J. Cohen, Assistant Professor, Purdue University: Masaaki Higashijima, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

This roundtable features authors from the University of Michigan’s Emerging Democracies book series and explores the complexities of...

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...

Donia Human Rights Panel. The Hazards of Human Rights Reporting: Reports from the Field

Knight-Wallace Fellows: Clavel Rangel Jimenez and Tenzin Pema

Please join Clavel Rangel Jimenez (Venezuela) and Tenzin Pema (Tibet), two of this year's Knight-Wallace Fellows, as they discuss the...

Green Economy, Human Rights and Labor Reform in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Carlotta Ferrero, Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Business, UN Global Compact Network Saudi Arabia

Join us for a guest lecture with Carlotta Ferrero, Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Business with the UN Global Compact Network Saudi...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Children's Ambient Heat Exposures, Family Adaptation, and Early Developmental Outcomes: New Evidence from the Survey of Early Education and Developmental Strengths (SEEDS)

Emily Hannum, Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/qZrN2....

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

Bohyeong Kim, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

Critically Capitalist examines South Korea’s mass investment culture through the lens of “critical capitalism”—a...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. U.S. Massacres of Civilians in Iraq

Madeleine Baran, Journalist for New York Times/ Condé Nast

Madeleine Baran is an award-winning investigative reporter and host of In the Dark, produced by The New Yorker. Her reporting has...

CAS Guest Lecture. The Politics of 'No!': Armenia's National Survival and Queer Futures

Tamar Shirinian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Abstract: In this talk, based on my recent book Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Scripting Suicide in Japan

Kirsten Cather, Professor and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), University of Texas at Austin

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall. It will not be live-streamed or recorded....

WCEE Lecture. The Long Shadow of Home: New Russian Political Migrants in Georgia and Serbia

Liudmila Listrovaya, WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-26

WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow Liudmila Listrovaya will present findings from her ethnographic research on recent Russian political...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Island Societies and Maritime Networks between Ryukyu and Japan: The Amami Islands, 1609-1878

Thomas Monaghan, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 747, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Beyond Spiritual Succession: The Dalai Lama’s Reincarnation and its 21st-Century Geopolitics

Lobsang Sangay, Lecturer, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School

Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/JP6wq....

CREES Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Student-Led Direct Democracy in Serbia’s Hybrid Regime

Gazela Pudar Draško, Director and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Gazela Pudar Draško will explore the emergence of participatory plenums as a student-driven strategy in Serbia’s recent wave of protests,...

CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Caribbean Qasida: Muslim Devotional Performance in Guyana and Trinidad

Aliyah Khan, University of Michigan

This lecture explores the evolution of Guyanese and Trinidadian Muslim devotional songbook and music albums featuring pre-Partition,...