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2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
Artist Showcase: Historicization, Art, and the Socio-Politics of India: An Artist's Perspective
Shelly Jyoti – Artist, Designer, Poet, Curator
This lecture examines the intersections of historicization, material culture, and socio-political struggle in India through an...
Art Exhibition. "Between Voice and Silence"
Artists: Ira Bondarenko (ceramics), University of Michigan; Katya Lisova (textiles) and Matvii Vaisberg (prints), 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...
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
Art Exhibition. "Between Voice and Silence"
Artists: Ira Bondarenko (ceramics), University of Michigan; Katya Lisova (textiles) and Matvii Vaisberg (prints), 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...
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
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...
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
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
In this talk, based on Tamar Shirinian's recent book titled, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia*...
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
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....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
In-person screening of Short Films from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia at 7 PM, at the Arab American National Museum
Join us on Tuesday, October 14, 7pm at the Arab American National Museum for Muslim Horror Short Films from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mauritania,...
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Online Screening of XOFTEX (Greece, Palestine/Syria, 2024) – Stream online from October 1-15
Xoftex tells the story of a Palestinian-Syrian teenager waiting for asylum in a Greek refugee camp....
CMENAS Colloquium. The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan
This talk explores the social life of theology in relation to both Islamic television production and the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising. Based...
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...
The Origin of the 1960s Korean Developmental Regime: Manchurian Modern
Suk-Jung Han, Emeritus Professor, Dong-A University
In The Origin of the 1960s Korean Developmental Regime: Manchurian Modern, Suk-Jung Han traces the current Korean dynamism through...
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,...
Korean Performing Arts Initiative | King's Orchestra: The Sound of the Korean Royal Court
Korean Traditional Music Orchestra of the Blind
The story of Korea’s Blind Traditional Music Orchestra stretches back centuries, rooted in the legacy of the 관현맹인...
2025 Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
In-person Screening of Agora (Tunisia, 2024) on Tuesday, October 21, 7 PM at the State Theatre
Join us for a free screening of Tunisian horror film Agora (2024) on October 21, 7:00 PM at the State Theatre....
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,...
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...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...