Happening @ Michigan

CSAS Lecture Series | The Indian State that Fails and Delivers

Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies and Director of Asia Programs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Devesh Kapur, is the Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Director of Asia Programs at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks

Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how...

LRCCS Conference | Global Chinese Food

Organized by Professor Miranda Brown, Asian Languages and Cultures.

Full conference details available here:...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Religion and Politics in Japan: Mapping a Shifting Terrain

Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University

In Japan today, a wide range of religious actors are now shaping educational curricula, social policies, and defense postures promoted by...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan

Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University

Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects

Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East...

CJS Noon Lecture | Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy in the US-China Rivalry

Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University, Tokyo

This lecture is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit ....

CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance...

CSAS Lecture Series | Islam and the Lessons of Pakistan’s History

Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion, Princeton University, Department of Religion

How have Islamic doctrinal orientations, religious institutions, and governmental policies relating to Islam evolved since the establishment...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan

Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari

Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston

The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan (with Tomohiro Machikita)

Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo

This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s...

CSAS 10th UM-Pakistan Conference

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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Queer Writing x Asia: Japanese, Taiwanese, and Asian American Literary Worlds

Grace Ting, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programmes, University of Hong Kong

My paper begins by reflecting upon work by Li Kotomi (1989-), a Taiwanese author writing in Japanese about love between women and...

CSAS Lecture Series | In Defense of Collateral Evidence: Refugees and Post-Partition IDs in Delh

Tarangini Sriraman, Professor of Politics and History, Azim Premji University, India

The Partition of India and Pakistan, which brought in its wake a sea of displaced populations, meant it was not merely refugees and their...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | How Pork-Barrel Politics Holds Japan's Governing Coalition Together

Amy Catalinac, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University

For seventeen of the past twenty years, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has governed in coalition with a smaller party, the...

CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US

Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT

Bald will draw upon his past and ongoing historical research to trace out the ways that, for more than a century, South Asians have been...

CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Who was a Muslim? Religious Ideas and Muslim Identities in Mughal North India

Muzaffar Alam, Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

What was a Muslim’s religious identity? What were the factors that influenced and shaped the making of his identity? Immediate, pragmatic,...