Happening @ Michigan

LRCCS Special Performance | The Chinese Hip-Hop Experience: Showcase and Discussion

Lil Bag (小包), Don Dream (aka Tang King), and Dana "Showtyme" Burton

This event will feature two Chinese rappers (Lil Bag 小包 and Don Dream aka Tang King) from the Iron Mic (the largest MC competition in...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Ann Arbor and Hikone: 50 years of Sister-City Relationship

Christopher Taylor, Mayor, City of Ann Arbor

Mayor Taylor and guests will discuss the history and importance of the Ann Arbor - Hikone Sister-City relationship, the AAPS-Hikone exchange...

CSEAS Lecture Series. Beyond the East-West Encounter: Inter-Asian Intimacies and Estrangements in Colonial and Postcolonial Burma, 1850–1950

Chie Ikeya, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University

Sexual, conjugal, and household relations between white colonial masters and native women have long served as the paradigm of the colonial...

CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Early Readers and Early Readings of the Mahābhārata

Christopher Minkowski, Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford

The Sanskrit Mahābhārata did not receive a commentary until the eleventh century. Well before then, however, it had become a central...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Re-centering Female Narratives through Murmurs and Song

Hilary Vanessa Finchum-Sung, Executive Director, Association for Asian Studies

Cosponsored by the Department of Ethnomusicology....

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Working on a High Energy Experiment in Japan

Myron Campbell, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan

During the last twelve years I have been working on a High Energy Experiment (HEP) in Tokai, Japan. In this lecture I will summarize the...

CSEAS Film Screening–Thai Movie Night. Ploy / ‘พลอย’

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Director), 2007

A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young...

Nam Center Chuseok Dae Party

The 2019 Chuseok Dae Party is the ninth annual celebration of Korean Thanksgiving....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Whiff of Nirvana: On Why Chinese Buddhists Were Not Vegans

Miranda Brown, Professor of Chinese, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan

Medieval Chinese Buddhists were some of the world's most strident animal rights activists. Monks and devout lay people swore off meat...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP

Keisuke Iida, Professor in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

Since the 1980s, Japan’s foreign policy, including its trade policy, has been known to be “reactive.” Subsequent studies have modified...

CSAS Summer in South Asia Fellowship Symposium

Ten undergraduate students were selected to be 2019 Summer in South Asia Fellows. Fellows designed, implemented, and enacted their proposals...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ambitious and Anxious: Chinese Undergraduates in the US

Yingyi Ma, Associate Professor of Sociology, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate students―mostly self-funded―has swept across American higher...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Curative Violence: How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability

Eunjung Kim, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Disability Studies, Syracuse University

Presenting from her book, Kim will examine a direct link between cure and violence that appears in the representations of disability and...

Mari Katayama: My Body as Material

Penny Stamps Speaker Series

Japanese artist Mari Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Born...

CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonies

Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

In a longer project called The Postcolonial Commons, I am interested in the emergence of fluid political subjectivities around questions of...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reeking of Mud: Japanese Counter-Culture in the 1960s and '70s

Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism, Bard College, NY

The 1960s and '70s were a time of rebellion and counterculture in Japan, as was true in the US. I will highlight some of the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State

Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Coastal smuggling has been a thorny problem for successive governments in modern China. But, while smuggling might have operated on the...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | North Korean Art: Discovering Chosonhwa's Hidden Creativity

B.G. Munh, Professor, Art and Art History, Georgetown University

Cosponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the Department of Art History....

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Prime Minister and Public Opinion in Japan

Yukio Maeda Professor, Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Approval ratings in public opinion polls are the most important power resource for prime ministers in contemporary Japanese politics....

CSEAS Film Screening–Thai Movie Night. The Blue Hour / ‘อนธการ’

Anucha Boonyawatana (Director). 2015

A sexy supernatural love story about a bullied loner, Tam, who finds solace in the arms of Phum, a boy he meets at a haunted swimming pool....

CSEAS Lecture Series. Last Flight to Bangkok: Reflections on 60 Years in Southeast Asia

Gayl D. Ness, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

He focuses on the massive transformation in Development. He is especially attentive to the Environment - Social Organization perspective, or...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Grindr to Cybersovereignty: The Loaded Interplay between Community, National, and Global Standards of Data Governance in China

Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

The Chinese government has become increasingly involved in global standards-making events such as the annual Internet Governance Forum and...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship

John Whittier Treat, Emeritus Professor, Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures, Yale University

Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016, Treat explores recent work...

CSAS Lecture Series | World Literature, the Global South and Indian Ocean Worlds

Debjani Ganguly, Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia

World Literature has emerged as a vital field in twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies, one that reflects on the...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Estimating the Unofficial Income of Officials from Large Asset Purchases

Yongheng Deng, Professor and John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

From a paper co-authored by Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University, FISF, and NBER) and Jing Wu...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place

Youjeong Oh, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas

Cosponsored by the Department of Communication and Media....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liu Liangmo (刘良模1909-1988) —Transpacific Mass Singing, Journalism, and Christian Activism

Yunxiang Gao, Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University

Professor Gao’s talk lifts out of the dustbin of history the life and career of Liu Liangmo, a talented musician, prolific journalist, and...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Emperor Has No Voice: Imperial Utterance in Excavated Han Documents

Charles Sanft, Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The emperor was at the center of Chinese political theory throughout the imperial period. Sometimes this theoretical position found...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature

Michael Emmerich, Professor of Japanese Literature, UCLA

Murakami Haruki is exceptional in many ways, among them the extent of the popularity his works have achieved in translations around the...

CSEAS Film Screening–Thai Movie Night. How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) / ‘พี่ชาย My Hero’

Josh Kim (Director). 2015

After the loss of both parents, 11 years old Oat faces an uncertain future when his older brother must submit to Thailand's annual...

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 Asia Programs Director 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...

CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia

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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...

CSAS 10th UM-Pakistan Conference

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