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....
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...
Book talk on "Buddhism: A Journey Through History" with author Prof. Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Donald S. Lopez Jr., U-M Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist & Tibetan Studies; Asian Languages & Cultures
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, Prof. Lopez's new book tells the story of the dramatic journey of Buddhism across the...
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...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Treasure Sand: Management of Abrasive Minerals in Qing Court Production
Yulian Wu, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University; Member, Historical Studies, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2025-2026)
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LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Transgender in Late Imperial China
Matthew H. Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University
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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
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GETSEA x CSEAS Film Simulcast: Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica Production Crew TBA
The film follows Master Hoa back to Southeast Asia to search for the graves of his wife and two children. Having escaped escaped Vietnam in...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist Spaces
Felicity Stone-Richards, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
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...
Korean Performing Arts Initiative | Nonan: A Sonic Collage of Korean Traditions and European Classics
Sinaboro, University of Michigan
Experience a captivating fusion of musical worlds at "Nonan: A Sonic Collage of Korean Traditions and European Classics."...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping
Joseph Torigian, Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University
The Party's Interests Come First is the first biography of Xi Zhongxun written in English. This biography is at once a...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Homo juluensis: A Pan-Eastern Asian Middle Pleistocene Hominin
Christopher Bae, Professor, University of Hawai'i
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Recrafting Closeness in Death: Relational Proxies for Future Japan/ese
Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke 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...
Friday Lecture Series | How Ethnic Rebellion Begins: Theory and Evidence from Myanmar
Jangai Jap, PhD, University of Georgia
Since independence, most of the ethnic minority groups in Myanmar—though not all—have rebelled against the central government, making it...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Image of the Book in the Performance of Reading: The Drunken Man’s Talk as a Charter Text
Canaan Morse, Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Virginia
Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/MkDk5....
