Happening @ Michigan

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

In this talk, based on Tamar Shirinian's recent book titled, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia*...

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

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,...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...