Happening @ Michigan

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Chinese Espresso: A Story of Global China in Italy’s Local Coffee Bars

Grazia Deng, Research Scholar, Brandeis University

Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | James Marshall Plumer’s Collecting Journey in War-torn Japan: Mingei Pottery, Folk Deities, and Ainu Art

Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Good Morning (お早よう)

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, 1959, 1h 34m

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good...

Korean Cinema NOW | Voices | 목소리들

2025 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 29min ‧ Unrated...

CANCELED: Korean Cinema NOW | Remembering Jeju 4.3 Uprising And Massacre: Film Screening, Postmemory Talk & Book Discussion on Han Kang's "We Do Not Part"

Sonia Singh, University of Michigan & Seohyung Kim, University of Michigan

NOTE: This event has been postponed to next year. Please visit our events webpage https://myumi.ch/xwxE2 for future updates....

CSEAS x GETSEA | Film Screenings "Sotong" and "Against this Messy World" with Directors Q&A

Directors of "Sotong" Zinc Chew and "Against this Messy World" Aw See Wee and Rina Tsou

This Spring, GETSEA will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal,...

CSAS Lecture Series | Misinformation on WhatsApp: Insights From a Large Data Donation Program in India

Kiran Garimella, Rutgers University

Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Yuan Architecture: Where Are the Mongols?

Nancy Steinhardt, Professor of East Asian Art; Curator of Chinese Art, University of Pennsylvania

Yuan (1267-1368) not only is the period of Chinese history when all of China was ruled by a non-Chinese dynasty, it is also a period when...

Border-Riding: The Works of David Chung

Remarks by Meredith Woo (Former Director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies), Natsu Oyobe (Art Curator of UMMA), Carlos Jackson (Dean of Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design)

We are honored to invite you to a special event featuring the visionary artist and filmmaker, Y. David Chung....

2026 Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture and Award Ceremony

Meredith Woo, Former Director of the Nam Center

Meredith Woo is a political scientist who teaches at Arizona State University. She served as President of Sweet Briar College, and directed...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Powering Empire: Hydroelectricity and Highland Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule

John Kanbayashi, Assistant Professor of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall. It will not be livestreamed or recorded....

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Incentivizing Lending to Women Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam

Markus Taussig, Rutgers University

Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Explaining the Sexual Empowerment of Married Women in China

Bill Lavely, Professor Emeritus, International Studies and Sociology, University of Washington

Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | A Queer Girl in Modern Japan: Yoshiya Nobuko

Sarah Frederick, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University

Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...

CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | School in the Crosshairs (ねらわれた学園)

Directed by Taku Mayumura, 1981, 1h 30m

Obayashi’s first groundbreaking idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Words as Weapons: British Black Propaganda and Psychological Warfare in Indonesia, 1963–66

Chris Hulshof, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

CSAS Annual Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture 2026 | India’s War on the Mughal Empire

Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona

Please note: This lecture will be held in person and livestreamed on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...

Korean Cinema NOW | My Daughter is a Zombie | 좀비딸

2025 ‧ Zombie Horror, Comedy, Drama ‧ 1h 54min ‧ PG-13...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Building a Small Hydropower Station in Mao-era China

Arunabh Ghosh, Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard University

By the end of the 1970s, the Chinese claimed to have built just under 90,000 small hydropower stations across the country. This talk, based...

The 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ 31)

Reimagining Japanese Language Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Transformations

We are pleased to announce the 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ) to be hosted jointly by the University of...