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Nam Center Chuseok Party 2023
The Chuseok Dae Party 2023 is the Nam Center's thirteenth annual celebration of Korean Thanksgiving....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | If You Meet the Medical Buddha on the Road, Kill Him! Tibetan Buddhist Refusals of Brainhood and/as the Figure of Modernity
Matthew King, Director of Asian Studies, Professor of Transnational Buddhism, University of California, Riverside
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/j7AQz....
Transcultural Studies Virtual Information Session
Join us for a virtual information session for the Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Transcultural Studies!...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Significance of Positive Human Factors Contributing to Safety
Makoto Takahashi, Professor of Social System Design, Department of Management Science and Technology, School of Engineering, Tohoku University
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/5JPr3...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Hilary Faxon, assistant professor of environmental social science, University of Montana
Surviving the State examines environmental justice, land governance, and state-making from the vantage point of small farmers and...
Ambassadors’ Dialogue: U.S.-Korea Relations in the Indo-Pacific Era
Featuring Ambassadors Hyundong Cho (ROK-US) and Philip Goldberg (US-ROK), and former Ambassadors Kathleen Stephens (US-ROK) and Dan Shields (US-Brunei)
Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...
CGIS Study Abroad Fair
Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M?...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dao: A Second Century BCE Conceptual Biography
Mark Csikszentmihàlyi, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Eliaser Chair of International Studies; Director, Group in the Study of Religion, University of California at Berkeley
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/qG4P4....
Transcultural Studies Virtual Information Session
Join us for a virtual information session for the Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Transcultural Studies!...
LRCCS Interdisciplinary Workshop | Values of Tics: Unpacking the Organizational Disparities between Tic Disorders and Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder in China
Yanze Yu, U-M MIRS Student
Please RSVP at https://myumi.ch/Qq8zw...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Contested Bodies: Female Imagery in Pre-War Okinawa
Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, 2023–24 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Fujita Tsuguharu’s Okinawan painting of the 1930s offers critical insights into the complex role of art in negotiating the social...
Asian Languages and Cultures 2023-2024 Colloquium Series
“The Rodent Revolution in Chinese Medicine: 1920-1980” Peter Braden
Rodents, including rats and mice, assumed unprecedented roles in medical research and practice during the three decades before and after the...
CSAS Documentary Screening | Seed Stories
Chitrangada Choudhury, PhD candidate in geography, University of Zurich, and Aniket Aga, assistant professor, geography, SUNY Buffalo
Seed Stories...
CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Urdu's Intoxicated Mirror: Maharaja Kishan Parshad and Indian History
Syed Akbar Hyder, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Inspired by Kavita Datla’s pioneering work on Osmania University, Hyder explores the legacy of Maharaja Kishan Parshad “Shād”...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Disciplining Business: Reinventing CCP Networks as Tools of Economic Governance under Xi
Daniel Koss, Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/Xnp1e....
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Reproductive Desires in Colonial Korea
Sonja Kim, Associate Professor, Binghamton University
Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | The Themepark of Nuclear: An Exhaustive Survey on Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Centers in Post-Fukushima Japan
Hajime Hasegawa, Professor of Media Studies, Meiji Gakuin University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
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NCKS Korean Cinema NOW Series | Crossings
Documentary screening followed by Q&A
In 2015, an international group of women activists turned their own bodies into vehicles for peace by crossing the last remaining border of...
South Asian Film Series | Shoebox Screening with Filmmaker Faraz Ali
Faraz Ali, director and co-writer of Shoebox
CSAS will be launching their South Asian Film Series with Shoebox and its filmmaker Faraz Ali....
CSEAS Lecture Series. Working Manila's Waterfront: An Episodic Historical Geography, 1898-1950
Michael Hawkins, University of Michigan
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CSAS Summer in South Asia Symposium
2023 SiSA Fellows
Beginning in 2006, and thanks to a generous gift from an anonymous donor, the Summer in South Asia Fellowship (SiSA) has provided more than...
The Premodern Colloquium. The White Crane of Alagśa: Lost Lives of the Sixth Dalai Lama in Mongolia
Sangseraima Ujeed, U-M Asian Languages and Cultures
Abstract forthcoming....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Bauhaus and Contemporary China
Endi Poskovic, Professor of Art and Design, University of Michigan
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/n7Wed...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | The Power of the Pad: Menstrual Products and Embodied Femininity in Japan
Maura Stephens-Chu, 2023–24 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/x7r8n...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Beholder Onstage: Gazing in Southern Song Landscapes (1127-1279)
Meng Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
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CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Listening to the “Explosive Sound” of U.S. Military Aircraft in Wartime Japan
Keisuke Yamada, 2023–24 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/qGWbE...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Righteous Revolutionaries: Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State
Jeffrey Javed, Former Senior Staff Researcher at Shopify and Meta; Former LRCCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/2mJkN....
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | The Curious Case of Aoto Fujitsuna
Ethan Segal, Associate Professor of History, Chair of the Japan Council, Michigan State University
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/p7WXy...
LRCCS Author Series: Writer and Filmmaker, Curtis Chin
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
LRCCS is inviting Curtis Chin, filmmaker and co-founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, to discuss his memoir about coming of...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Trickle-down Confucianism: War, Reconstruction, and Cultural Assimilation in the Late Qing
Ken Swope, Professor of History, Senior Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/DwMRG....
Search Engines | "Asian futures, without Asians"
Astria Suparak
"Asian futures, without Asians" is a multimedia presentation by artist and curator Astria Suparak, which asks: “What does it...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Changing Perceptions of Geisha in Japanese Culture
Andrew L. Maske, Professor of Museum Studies and Anthropology, Wayne State University
Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/Xnb6r...
CSEAS Lecture Series. "Save the Thai Temple”: Wat Mongkolratanaram, the Heteronormative Logics of South Berkeley, and Queering Thai/America
Pahole Sookkasikon, PhD, Paramount+
In 2008, “Save the Thai Temple” was formed by a group of first- and second-generation Thai/American youth to fight for the religious...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Laozi’s Perspectives on Innovation
Otto Chui-Chau Lin, Senior Advisor to the President, Vice Chancellor, Hong Kong Baptist University
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Feinian Chen, Professor of Sociology, Director for the Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University
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CSEAS Lecture Series. "Agents” of the state or society? Resistance, accommodation, violence and the role of local administrators in post-coup Myanmar
Ardeth M. Thawnghmung, professor of political science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
This talk focuses on how state governing structures have evolved in different local contexts in the post-coup period, and how local...
