CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva, D.Phil., Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Loneliness has been increasingly recognized as one of the greatest public health threat and this talk examines what is and is not...
CSAS Lecture | Market Futures: On Capital and Resistance in India Adda, Davos
Ravinder Kaur, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
The spectacular assembly of the global elite at the World Economic Forum, Davos is a brief moment when the powerful networks of capital...
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Thinking About Declaring an International Studies Major or Minor?
Please note: This information session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Dancing in a Swirl of Imagery: A History of Butô Book Talk
Bruce Baird, Associate Professor, Director, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Program Director, Japanese Language & Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Butô is one of the most important performing arts of the latter half of the 20th century. In this talk, I will consider some of the most...
CJS Thursday Lecture | Rabelais, Rakugo and Me
Anna Ogino, Professor of French Literature, Keio University, Japan
Please note that the start time of this lecture is 7pm, Ann Arbor time....
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Democracy without Policy Competition: Voter Preferences and Single-Party Dominance in Japan
Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Government, Program in Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College
Based on a nationwide survey administered before the House of Representatives election in Japan, which was held on October 31, 2021, we...
CSAS Lecture | Registration and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna
Nira Wickramasinghe, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
By sanctioning and tapping into a perceived local practice of slavery and legally constituting slaves, Dutch colonial rulers in eighteenth...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Stranger in the Shogun's City: From the Archive to the Page
Amy Stanley, the Wayne V. Jones Research Professor of History, Northwestern University
In the early nineteenth century, an irrepressible woman named Tsuneno ran away from home. Defying convention, she made a life for herself in...
CSAS Lecture | Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: The Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging in Pakistan
Ali Usman Qasmi Humanities Center, Stanford University
Details forthcoming....
Nam Center Colloquium Series Lecture
Junyoung Kim, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Media, Latin American Culture and Literature, University of Pittsburgh
Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...
CSAS Book Talk | Running Toward Mystery
Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director, Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Minamata: Lens on Postwar Democracy and Persistent Legacy of the Transwar Period
Timothy George, Professor Emeritus, University of Rhode Island
Timothy George has written about how responses to the mercury poisoning in Minamata, which became the symbol both of the dark side of high...
CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference
Details forthcoming....
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Film Roundtable
Professors: Ungsan Kim (University of Michigan), Kelly Jeong (UC-Riverside), and Jinsoo An (UC-Berkeley)Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registr
Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Literary Toilet Papers of Japan and Beyond
Linda Galvane, 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
This talk will examine the history and significance of toilet paper as both a medium and theme of literary production. While the main focus...
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Liberalism and Anticolonial Politics in South India
Rama Mantena, Department of History, University of Illinois Chicago
Details forthcoming....
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A
Thinking About Declaring an International Studies Major or Minor?
Please note: This information session will be held virtually ET through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration...
