Event Types
Location
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Futures in the Past of Africa-China Engagement
Jamie Monson, Professor of History, Director of the African Studies Center, Michigan State University
This talk will challenge the presentist time frame of much current scholarship on China and Africa. Popular discourse as well as scholarly...
LACS Lecture Series. Beyond Left and Right: Grassroots Social Movements and Nicaragua's Civic Insurrection
Dr. Jennifer Goett, Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics, James Madison College, Michigan State University
This talk offers some starting points for understanding Nicaragua’s civic insurrection via an account of social movements that oppose the...
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World
The Square
This documentary traces the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath from 2011-2013. The film follows individuals from a range of demographics...
International Institute Student Fellowships Info Session
The International Institute Student Fellowships (IISF) are designed to support University of Michigan students, regardless of citizenship,...
Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Detaining Refugee Children: What’s At Stake?
James C. Hathaway, Sherrie Kossoudji, Ann Chih Lin, and Kiyoteru Tsutsui
The intensifying border control efforts by the Trump administration came to a head earlier this year when the authorities started...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | From the Fastest Woman in the World to the First Woman on the Board
Keiko Ihara, Race car driver, Independent Director of Nissan Motor Corporation, Associate Professor of Keio University Graduate School Media Design
I talk about a car racing challenge in the world highest series Le Mans 24-Hour Race and World Endurance Championship,technology development...
Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies
Situating Daoist Medicine: Digital Tools to Track Materia Medica in the Daoist and Buddhist Canons
Light lunch will be provided. Free and Open to the Public....
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series
2018-2019 U-M African Presidential Scholars
This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are...
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Living in a Liminal Age: Cairo’s al-Darb al-Ahmar District Enters the Early Modern
Shauna Huffaker, associate professor of history, University of Windsor
Early modern Cairo was crowded urban environment replete with centuries of architectural models from which to draw. Both builders and...
Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. The Feeling of Being Watched + Talkback
Assia Boundaoui, Director
In the Arab American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of the neighbors think they have been...
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Love of Siam
Directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul
Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy’s older sister goes missing...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies
Workshop on Data Mining the Daoist and Buddhist Canons with DocuSky
Speakers: Dr. Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源, Nanyang Technological University and Dr. Hu Chijui 胡其瑞, National Taiwan University...
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Domestic Architecture and Urban History: The Promise and Limitations of Property Deeds Written in Cairo’s Early Ottoman Courts
Shauna Huffaker, associate professor of history, University of Windsor
The documentary record of Cairo is among the richest for any part of the pre-modern Islamic world. Using examples from the archive of the...
CPPS Panel & Recital. Poland’s Centennial: An Evening of Reflection and Celebration
Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, CPPS director. Panelists: Matthew Bengtson, Paul Brykczynski, and Benjamin Paloff
Paul Brykczynski (PhD History ‘13, U-M) will discuss the political turmoil surrounding the election of the first President of the Polish...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Bureaucrats, Business, and the Manipulating of Capitalism in China
Ling Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Although China is a global manufacturing titan, the "made in China" model has begun to wane. Starting in the 2000s, China shifted from...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Calling Pyongyang: Changes in Journalistic Approaches to North Korea since 2000
Soomin Seo, Assistant Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University
South Korea had a Watergate moment in 2016, when a corruption scandal led to an impeachment of the president. Two media outlets in...
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World
Ali Zaoua
Ali Zaoua follows a group of homeless kids living in Casablanca. When one of the group is killed, three of his friends resolve to give him a...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures
Various Speakers
There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures
Various Speakers
There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures
Various Speakers
There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Was the Opium War Really Destined to Happen?
Stephen R. Platt, Professor of Chinese History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This talk will explore some of the countercurrents to our dominant understanding of the era leading up to the Opium War of 1839-1842,...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. Visit http://www.ii.umich.edu/wced for details about upcoming events.
Fall Film Series: Contemporary Cinema from the Islamic World
Caramel
Taking place largely around a beauty salon, Caramel follows the lives of a group of women living in Beirut. Each woman is dealing with her...
ASC/WiSER Mellon Workshop 2018. The Filmic and the Photographic: African Visual Cultures
Various Speakers
There is a rich and growing literature in African Studies that critically assesses both past and present generations of photography and film...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
ASP Lecture: The Armenian Cause, Statehood, and Democracy: Reflections on Levon Ter-Petrossian’s Writings
Arman Grigoryan, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Lehigh University
Armenia has experienced a series of transformative events since the late 1980s – the Karabagh movement, independence, war, and political...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
FLAS Fellowship Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Modern Temple Art as “Public” Art
Yasuko Tsuchikane, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cooper Union, New York and Waseda University, Tokyo
Historical Buddhist temples in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan, while often discussed in their association with traditions, can be...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
CJS Special Event | How to Enjoy Kyogen Workshop
Ippei Shigeyama, Kyogen Actor
Join the Center for Japanese Studies at the Keene Theater (East Quadrangle) for a special experiential workshop with...
CSAS Lecture Series | “We Were Always Buddhist:" Caste Emancipation and Sexual Politics in South India
Lucinda Ramberg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
I am a medical and sociocultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
Sinking Cities: Documenting the realities of climate change in cities around the world
This exhibit provides a platform to begin understanding the effects of rising sea levels along the coasts of Indonesia, Bangladesh, The...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Now We See It, Now We Don't: How to Theorize Traditional Chinese Song-Drama
Patricia Sieber, Associate Professor of Chinese, The Ohio State University
This talk will attempt to bring premodern Chinese song-drama out of the straightjacket of Western terminology, that is, comedy vs. tragedy,...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Mahan, Baekje, and the Rise of States in South Korea
Rory Walsh, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan
Baekje, the first state-level society in South Korea, has long had its origins explained as the result of ‘influence’ of one kind or...
