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His research interest focuses on the comparative study of the art and archaeology of early China. Recent publications include *Art and Artistic Thinking in Ancient China* (co-authored with Robert Bagley, 2025) and a chapter on ancient states and the rise of writing in *The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology & Language* (2025).\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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Chen, Julie Chu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, & Paul Kim in conversation with Lisa Nakamura", "event_subtitle":"Brian J. Chen, Julie Chu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, & Paul Kim in conversation with Lisa Nakamura", "event_type":"Lecture \/ Discussion", "event_type_id":"13", "description":"\"You've met me at a very Chinese time in my life.\" American social media users and influencers like Hasan Piker, I Show Speed, and Kris Jenner have become newly interested in China as a source of cultural and technological inspiration. This panel of experts in technology policy, Chinese techno-culture, and the interplay between the U.S. and Asia will discuss the roots of \"Chinamaxxing\" in U.S.-China relations. The panelists are members of the A.I.eeeee Collective and co-authors of a new book project called \"Feeling the Future: Asian American Takes on Techno-Empire\" which discusses Asian semiconductors, A.I., robots, and electric vehicles as sources of both envy and of resentment.\n\nThis event is open to the public, and we encourage all interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students to attend.\n\nFree boba from UniTea will be provided to the first 100 attendees.\n\nA corresponding opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to enjoy a free networking lunch with the panelists will be available. Interested students may register for this session using the same form as the main event.\n\nAdvance registration is recommended:\n\nRegister to attend in-person: https:\/\/sessions.studentlife.umich.edu\/track\/event\/22866\n\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_DDCtopKmSYalc0nf9BadMg\n\nMeet the Panelists:\n\nBrian J. Chen is Data & Society\u2019s policy director, leading the organization\u2019s work to shape tech policy. With a background in movement lawyering and legislative and regulatory advocacy, he has worked extensively on issues of economic justice, political economy, and tech governance. Previously, Brian was a senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project, where he led campaigns to strengthen the labor and employment rights of digital platform workers and others in precarious industries. His writing has appeared in The Baffler, Phenomenal World, Boston Review, and other magazines. He holds a JD from New York University School of Law and a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Michigan.\n\nJulie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state regulatory regimes. Her book, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press, 2010), received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. It was also shortlisted for the 2011 Gregory Bateson Prize from the Society of Cultural Anthropology. Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers, this work will analyze the various infrastructures in place (legal-rational, financial, cosmic, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. \n\nJasmine Ehrhardt is a PhD Candidate in American Culture and Digital Studies at the University of Michigan. Their research engages in critical prison studies, digital media studies, and Asian American studies. Their dissertation \"Making the High-Tech Prison: Media, Infrastructure, and Counter-Narratives of the Digital,\u201d explores the knowledge production, analysis, and media practices of imprisoned radicals and abolitionists, and their relationships to digital technology. Analyzing the archives of abolitionist intellectual and political work from the 1970s to the 2010s\u2014in print and digital forms such as zines, essays, personal correspondence, podcasts, TikToks, and other social media ephemera\u2014this work shows how surveillance, security, and digital communications technologies have structured political organizing and repression inside US prisons. Jasmine's writing has appeared in AfterImage, Journal of Visual Culture, and Amerasia Journal. \n\nPaul Kim is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). His work lies at the intersection of critical AI studies, critical race studies, and visual studies. His dissertation titled \u201cRecommending Race\u201d investigates racial subjectivity within the contemporary recommender system. His work has been supported by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB (IHC) and the Asian\/Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), among others. He has co-organized the 9th iteration of the Media Fields conference, \u201cWitnessing,\u201d and is on the editing team for the ensuant special issue of Media Fields. His work has been published in AI & Society. In his free time, Paul ravenously watches cinema of the 2020s (TikTok and, recently and excitingly, Instagram Reels).\n\nMeet the Moderator:\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the lead Principal Investigator of the DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network along with Rayvon Fouch\u00e9, Catherine Knight Steele, and M. Remi Yergeau. Nakamura is also the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan and has been writing about digital media, race, and gender since 1994. She has written books and articles on digital bodies, race, and gender in online environments, on toxicity in video game culture, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. She is the author of The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet (University of Minnesota, 2026), Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (University of Minnesota, 2007) and Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002). \n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART captioning services will be provided. 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The Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M Astronomy, the Nam Center for Korean Studies, and the Center for Japanese Studies invite you to the Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory for a celebration of the Mid-Autumn Full Moon. \n\nThis drop-in program includes activities in the observatory classroom, exploration of the historic observatory, and telescope viewing of the Moon! Families are welcome! 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The depths of the seas and the heights of the skies did not function as media for actually existing humans in the early modern period, but in the fiction of the time, humans could travel through the sea, both across its surfaces and through its depths, as well as through the sky in all its vastness.\n\nSE Kile is a scholar of early modern Chinese literature and cultural history, focusing on the intersections of multimedia practice across a broad range of cultural objects, from poetry to props, from novels to gardens. An associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Kile\u2019s first book, *Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media* (Columbia, 2023), theorizes early modern mediation and entrepreneurship through Li Yu's cultural production across the areas of playwriting, fiction writing, garden and architectural design, theater direction, and body modification. His current book project argues for the relevance of the \u201cearly modern\u201d to the study of China, exploring how novelists synthesized scientific, religious, and vernacular knowledge about the world.\n\n*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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Far from being corruptions of Chinese food, these beloved dishes preserve a gourmet culinary tradition that once inspired swoons among China's elite and earned rave reviews from New York Times critics.\n\nMiranda Brown is the Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker Collegiate Professor of Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Culture, where she has taught since 2002. A San Franciscan by birth and historian of early China by training, she discovered in her later career her true passion: Chinese food. Her book, *Dumpling Therapy*, will be published by St. Martin's Press in January 2027. 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