Happening @ Michigan

CSEAS Film Series. “Yanan,” a film by Mae Caralde. Film screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Mae Caralde, filmmaker and current Fulbright scholar

Ka Yanan, a member of the Philippine revolutionary movement, died during an encounter with government troops in 2012, and is survived by a...

Korean Cinema NOW | I Can Speak / 아이 캔 스피크

Directed by Hyeon-Seok Kim

2017 | 119 Minutes | Hyeon-Seok Kim...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Government Campaigns and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China

Boliang Zhu, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University

How do business elites express policy preferences in the presence of government campaigns in China? This talk advances a theory of strategic...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | De/militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ

Eleana Kim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California- Irvine

With the discovery of rare and endangered species in areas around the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and inspired by the paradoxical flourishing...

LRCCS Distinguished Speaker Series | Film Screening of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" An Lian Tao Hua Yuan 暗戀桃花源

Stan Lai, Playwright and Director, LRCCS Distinguished Speaker

103 mins Chinese with English Subtitles 1992...

LRCCS Distinguished Speaker Series | Reconfiguring the Box — Stan Lai on Creativity

Stan Lai, Playwright and Director, LRCCS Distinguished Speaker

Stan Lai's theories on creativity, heretofore only published in Chinese, are considered groundbreaking in the field (Stan Lai on Creativity,...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of Japan

Takatoshi Ito, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB, Columbia Business School

The lecture describes and analyze (i) why the Japan suffered from two decades of stagnation and fifteen years of deflation; (ii) how...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Neither Mahāyāna Nor Theravāda: Ashin Jinarakkhita and the Indonesian Buddhayāna Movement

Jack Meng-Tat Chia, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Widely regarded as the first Indonesian-born Buddhist monk (biksu pertama putra Indonesia), Ashin Jinarakkhita took it as his mission to...

Why Asian Studies?

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Information Session

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and...

CSAS 9th Annual Pakistan Conference: Spaces of Capital

This conference was made possible with the generous co-sponsorhips by: the Institute for the Humanities, the Rackahm Graduate School, the...

CSAS Film Series | Perween Rahman: The Rebel Optimist

Directed by by Mahera Omar

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing Nature and Culture In and Out of the Studio

Yunshuang Zhang, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University

The studio is an enclosed site specifically used for reading, writing and art creation. During the Song dynasty (960–1279), the studio...

CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Tokyo Godfathers

2003 / 97 min / Comedy/Drama/Anime / PG-13

Directed by Satoshi Kon. Middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki (Candice Moore) and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan

Naomi Kodama, Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University

Short-time work (STW) schemes, publicly subsidized work time reductions, are designed to incentivize firms to use worksharing and avoid...

Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies | How Disasters Begin: The Little Ice Age of 14th-Century China and Data Collection in the Long Durée

Professor Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Free and Open to the Public...

CSAS Film Series | Lock and Key

Directed by by Shilpi Gulati

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018....

CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Railway Sleepers

Directed by Sompot Chidgasornpongse

The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 - a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled The World And The Saga Of Its Return

Catherine Raymond, Associate Professor of Art History, Northern Illinois University

This presentation will profile the return of a rare Buddha image that was stolen from a remote temple in Bagan in 1988 and would travel...

LRCCS Guided Tour of UMMA Exhibit "Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing"

Curator Natsu Oyobe and LRCCS Center Associate Fang Zhang

Presented during the UMMA exhibition Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (February 2 - May 26, 2019), this symposium celebrates three decades of...

LRCCS Panels and Roundtable: Chinese Contemporary Art: Curation, Collection, and Connection

The program includes two panels and two roundtable discussions that will focus on the contributions of museums, exhibitions, collections and...

CSEAS Graduate Student Conference. (Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia

The one-day event culminates with a presentation by keynote speaker, Professor Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, Department of History.

Re)Making Memory in Southeast Asia is a graduate student conference and exhibition highlighting new interdisciplinary research and artistic...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Origins and Evolution of Social Surveillance in China

Martin Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University

This talk focuses on the post-1949 efforts of the Chinese state to develop a panoptical surveillance capacity. Although these efforts have...

Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies

Erin Chung, Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

This book examines how national policies and immigrant advocacy groups interact to shape collective identity formation, solidarity networks,...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Toward the Denuclearized Future: Ruses of Safety Myth and Citizen’s Activisms since the Fukushima Disasters

Katsuya Hirano, Associate Professor of History, UCLA

Since the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese government and the nuclear energy industries have been attempting to promote a new...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. German and Vietnamese Refugees: Interactions and Comparisons

Peter van der Veer, Professor of Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen

This paper examines Germany as a country of and for refugees by focusing on two waves of refugees. The first is the influx of German...

CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space

Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

Cinema’s heterogeneous artifactual status—as a regulated and profit-making commodity, technological apparatus, representational medium...

Korean Cinema NOW | The Spy Gone North / 공작

Directed by Jong-bin Yoon

2017 | 137 Minutes | Jong-bin Yoon...

CSAS Film Series | Rasan Piya

Directed by by Niharika Popli

This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2018....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reinstalling the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Asian Galleries: New Voices and New Perspectives

Katherine Kasdorf, Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, Detroit Institute of Arts

In November 2018, the Detroit Institute of Arts opened expanded Asian galleries in its new Robert and Katherine Jacobs Asian Wing,...

CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Ninja Scroll

1993 / Fantasy/Action / 99 min

Jubei, a highly skilled ninja, is coerced into slaying his own clan of warriors. After begrudgingly killing his fellow swordsmen, he becomes...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Radical Adaptation: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era

Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Policy Management, Keio University, Japan

We regret that due to the weather and the university closure, this lecture will be canceled. We will do our best to reschedule it at a later...

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Graduation and Awards Ceremony

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures will hold its annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 3, 2019, in the Rackham...