Happening @ Michigan

CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. Politics Matters: (How) Can Aid Help?

Alice Evans, King's College, London

Responding to growing interest in the transnational politics of decent work and inclusive development, this talk explores the drivers of...

CSAS Lecture Series | Changes in Dowry Practices?: Insights on Dowry and Its Regulation

Vikramaditya Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

The Law in India has prohibited demands for dowry since 1961 and expected penalties have been increased multiple times since then, but from...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Cultivating Narratives of Self in Information Visualization

Steven Geofrey Braun, Data Analytics/Visualization Specialist, Northeastern University Libraries

Information visualization is a powerfully compelling medium for working with digital scholarship. Through visualization, we build narratives...

CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. A Delicate Relationship: The United States and Burma/Myanmar since 1945

Kenton Clymer, Northern Illinois University

This presentation will survey the changing relations between the US and Burma since World War II. The importance of Burma to American policy...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Taiwan's Evolving Identity and the China Challenge

J. Michael Cole, Taipei-based Senior Non-Resident Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK

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CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by FoodLab Detroit, Keep Growing Detroit, and GRA Inc. Join us to learn first-hand how community...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Contested Embrace Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea

Jaeeun Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | The Center for Japanese Studies - A 70 Year Legacy of Engaged Learning

Robert Hall, the first director of the Center for Japanese Studies, once remarked: "For both faculty and student, the study of an area on...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Community Design in Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by the Michigan Architecture Prep Program and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we delve into the basics of...

CSAS Lecture Series | Sarandib, Lanka, Ceylon: Banishment and Belonging

Ronit Ricci, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The small, Indian Ocean island known as Sarandib, Lanka, and Ceylon has figured as an important site of banishment in different periods and...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Real Estate Vacancy in NW Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Revival Detroit LLC and Makigumi LLC. Join us as we discuss the challenges of real estate vacancy in...

Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Ishinomaki Laboratory - Exhibition Opening

Opening reception for Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Brightmoor Bento Maker Workshop

A maker workshop for all ages! Using a DIY kit co-developed by the Brightmoor Maker Space, Ishinomaki Laboratory, and U-M called the...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Ishinomaki Laboratory - Saturday Exhibition

DIY furniture maker Ishinomaki Laboratory's debut exhibition in the United States. Presented in partnership with the Brightmoor Maker Space...

CJS Conference | Building Community in Detroit & Regional Japan

Youth IT Education in SW Detroit & Regional Japan

An experiential workshop co-hosted by Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC) and ITNAV Ishinomaki. Join us as we discuss DHDC and...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Firms’ Strategic Use of Political Connections

Dr. Nan Jia, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

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CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Exploring Classical Mokuhanga Printmaking Using Laser-engraving and Bit-map Data

Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Endi Poskovic's creative practice in printmaking considers a range of technologies of reproduction as a way to explore certain...

CSAS Lecture Series | Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium

Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2017 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Limits of Chinese Buddhism: Protecting the State in the Dali Kingdom (937-1253)

Megan Bryson Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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CSAS Lecture Series | ‘Marriage’, ‘Trafficking’ and the Transnational Family: Moral and Legal Regulation of Nineteenth Century Women’s Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

Farhana Ibrahim, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology

This paper examines the trans-oceanic migration of women between the Bombay Presidency, Persian Gulf and East Africa during the course of...

CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series. The Cost of Uplift: Filipino Labor and Exploitation in American Colonial Schools and Prisons

Genevieve Clutario, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

By the 1910s, the United States had firmly established state-run institutions to carryout its brand of colonialism in the Philippines,...

CSAS Lecture Series | Inordinate Knowledge: Intimacy and Publicity in a Slum in Delhi

Veena Das, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

This paper starts with a local incident of the abduction of a young girl, her bodily mutation, and her eventual return to her parents. I...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Literary Inscription of Things in Early Modern China

Thomas Kelly, Michigan Society of Fellows

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LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Commodifying Art, Chinese Style: The Making of China’s Visual Art Market

Jun Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto

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CSAS Lecture Series | Film Screening and discussion of Khoon diy Baarav (Blood Leaves its Trail)

Iffat Fatima, Filmmaker

The film Khoon Diy Baarav enters the vexed political scenario in Kashmir through the lives of families of the victims of enforced...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Consuming Belief: Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the PRC

John Osburg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester

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LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Capital Punishment and “Confucian Clemency”: The Quandaries of Qing Criminal Justice

Thomas Buoye, Associate Professor of History, University of Tulsa

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LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | Transmitting the Mind-Ground: The Formation of Esoteric Buddhist Initiation Lineages in Late-Medieval China

Amanda Goodman, Assistant Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

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CSAS Lecture Series | Self and the World in a Life Narrative: Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah's Aatish-i-Chinar

Chitralekha Zutshi, James Pinckney Harrison Professor of History, College of William and Mary

This talk examines the autobiography of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, the Kashmiri political leader, from the perspective of life narrative as...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | ‘Spoken Drama (Huaju) with a Strong Chinese Flavor:’ The Resurrection and Demise of Popular Spoken Drama (Tongsu Huaju) in Shanghai in the 1950s and Early 1960s

Siyuan Liu, Associate Professor of Theatre, University of British Columbia

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CSAS Lecture Series | “Minimum Government, Maximum Governance”: Modi’s Statue of Unity and the Sense of Scale

Kajri Jain, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto

Kajri Jain is Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on images...

LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | The Geography of Political Self-Censorship in an Authoritarian State by Charles Chang and Melanie Manion

Melanie Manion, Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science, Duke University

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CSAS Lecture Series | India's Archaeological Heritage Since Independence: Challenges and Dilemmas

Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka University

India’s archaeological heritage has continued to to grow in many different ways since independence, even as the monuments and relics,...

CSAS Lecture Series | Atmospheric Citizenship: Distributions of Life in the Wake of Delhi’s Airpocalypse

Asher Ghertner, Department of Geography, Rutgers University

D. Asher Ghertner is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and director of the South Asian Studies Program at Rutgers...

CSAS Lecture Series | Reactive Viewing: Screens and Publics in 21st Century India

S.V. Srinivas, Azim Premji University

Film and television in India have engendered excessive responses from sections of the audience for well over half a century now. There are...

CSAS Lecture Series | Lucknow in Letters: Endeavors, Achievements, and Tragedies

Sanjay Muttoo & Saman Habib

"Lucknow in letters: endeavours, achievements, and tragedies" is a multilingual (Urdu, English and Hindi) reading of personal letters...

CSAS Lecture Series | The Rise of the Imperial Eunuchate under Emperor Aurangzeb, 1658-1707

Munis Faruqui, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

This talk examines the development of the imperial eunuchate during Emperor Aurangzeb's reign (1658-1707). Although the imperial eunuchate...

CSAS Lecture Series | Consumer Citizenship: The Social Life of Industrial Foods in India

Amita Baviskar

Amita Baviskar is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of...