Event Types
Location
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Rapping Minority-ness: Rap as Vernacular Theory in China
Bendi Tso, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
What does it mean to recognize ethnic minority rappers as cultural theorists in China? This talk approaches minority rap, with a particular...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Private Violence and the Law in Late Chosŏn Korea
Ha-kyoung Lee, Academy of Korean Studies
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 | Three Questions for Japan in Michigan: Where, Who, and What? An Analysis of Japan’s Presence and Contributions to Michigan by the New Consul General of Japan in Detroit
Hajime “Jimmy” Kishimori, Consul General of Japan in Detroit
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...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java
Adam Bobbette, University of Glasgow
Please note: This lecture will be held virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Illegal Enforcement Against Insider Trading in China's Securities Markets – Rule of Law Defects and Rule of Law Responses
Nicholas Calcina Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Chair Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/e3812...
Dancing with the Dragon | Meet the Artist | Rewriting Power: Zhen Guo's Journey to Feminist Art
Zhen Guo, Artist in Residence, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Distant Listening: Conceptions of Sound and Language in Japanese Sinitic Poetry
Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis 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 | Tampopo (タンポポ)
Directed by Juzo Itami, 1985, 1h 54m
In this film by acclaimed director Juzo Itami, truck drivers stop at a small family-run noodle shop and decide to help its fledgling...
Dancing with the Dragon | Songs of the Dragon, Images of Fantasy: Music and Visual Arts Re-imagined
Zhen Guo, artist in residence; Sunhong Kim, p'iri; Xiadong Wei, erhu, and Chinese Music Ensemble
Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8...
Korean Cinema NOW | Concerning My Daughter | 딸에 대하여
2023 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 46 min ‧ PG-13...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Legitimizing Painting as a Livelihood for "Gentlemen" (shi 士) in 10th–13th Century China
Zach Berge-Becker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
One of the most paradigmatic frameworks in Song dynasty (960–1279) art history is a division between high-status, avocational...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Reply 1997: K-Dramas and Conjunctural Analysis
Michelle Cho, University of Toronto
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...
Korean Performing Arts Initiative | Sangjaru: Sounding Korea Outside the Box
Sangjaru and Michael Gould
A Korean Performing Arts Initiative Program...
CSAS Lecture Series | Revolutions Half-Made: The Political Effects of Education Expansion in India
Emmerich Davies, University of Michigan
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 | Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China
Yanshuo Zhang, Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, Pomona College
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 | Remembering the University of Michigan’s Wartime Japanese American Workers
Brad Hammond, Van Hunnick History Department Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
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 | Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ)
Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005, 1h 54m
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Pain and Buddhism in Thailand: How does Bodily Experience affect Religious Worlds?
Scott Stonington, University of Michigan
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...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Public Perceptions and Acceptance of Vaccination in Malaysia and Indonesia: Insights from Recent Fieldwork
Yogambigai Rajamoorthy, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
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...
Korean Cinema NOW | FAQ | 막걸리가 알려줄거야
2023 ‧ Comedy ‧ 92min ‧ PG...
Korean Cinema NOW | A Traveler’s Needs | 여행자의 필요
2024 ‧ Drama, Comedy ‧ 1h 30min ‧ PG-13...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Globalizing Chinese Theatre: Chinese Dramatists and Transnational Media Ecologies
Sophia Tingting Zhao, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech
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 Winter 2026 Film Series | The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (星くず兄弟の伝説)
Directed by Makoto Tezuka, 1985, 1 hr 40m
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Nations, DissemiNation, ImagiNation and its people: Internal Exiles in post-coup Burma
Ei Thin Zar, Chiang Mai University
Please note: This lecture will be held virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Once...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Transnational Feminist Mediation: The Other Half of the Sky (1975) and US-China People’s Diplomacy
Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, State University of New York, Purchase College
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...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Efficacy of Using Singing as a Learning Tool in Foreign Language Acquisition
Moon-Sook Park, University of Arkansas
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 | Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima, Kyoto, and the Wokou in Sixteenth-Century Maritime East Asia
Peter Shapinsky, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Springfield
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Empty Hands: Kinship and Loss in a Former Phang Nga Mining Town
Chantal Croteau, University of Michigan
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 Lecture Series | Ghosts of Scandals Past: Inter-Caste Relationships and the Question of the Village in Himalayan India
Radhika Govindrajan, 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...
Korean Cinema NOW | No Other Choice | 어쩔수가없다
2025 ‧ Dark Comedy, Thriller, Drama ‧ 2h 19min ‧ R...
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...
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...
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
Marcus 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 | Sufis and Sufi Institutions in Premodern South Asia: a Comparative Approach by Richard M. Eaton
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...
