CSEAS Lecture Series. Moments of Silence: the Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok
Thongchai Winichakul, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event is free and open to the public; please register at http://bit.ly/3oS7YLq...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Indigenous Voices, Global Echoes: Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature and the ‘Transnational Tribal Solidarity’
Yanshuo Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Home to fifty-five officially recognized ethnic minority groups, China has witnessed a vibrant blossoming of multiethnic literature produced...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Sacred Translations: Parasite, English Subtitles, and Global Korean Cinema
Irhe Sohn, Assistant Professor of Korean, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Smith College
Please note: This session will be held virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is...
CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Undergraduate Students’ Study Abroad for Language and Cultural Learning
Chihiro Tajima, PhD, MEd, Senior Visiting Scholar in the Mixed Methods Program, University of Michigan
Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone....
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand
Scott Stonington, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, International Studies, and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
Free event; register at https://bit.ly/39sKIiE...
Sikh and Punjab Studies Research Webinar Series
Professors Ian Talbot, Ilyas Ahmad Chattha, & Gurharpal Singh
The University of Michigan is launching a regular series of Research Webinars in Sikh and Punjab Studies. Each webinar will be centered...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Becoming 'Inner Kirghiz': Qianlong Emperor’s Policy Toward Five Tribes in Qing Xinjiang
Jaymin Kim, Assistant Professor of History, University of St. Thomas
Using hundreds of Manchu-language archival materials from the Qianlong period, this talk will focus on the Kirghiz, who have largely been...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Governing the Urban in China and India
Xuefei Ren, Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University
Based on her recently published book, Dr. Ren will talk about the different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this...
CJS Lecture Series | Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
Allison Alexy, Assistant Professor, Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures, Women’s and Gender Studies Studies, University of Michigan
What makes a good marriage? How should men and women feel confident deciding which relationships should end? In the early 2000s, amidst...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Film-screening of Ghost Tape #10 followed by a Q&A with the Director
Sean David Christensen, film director
At this CSEAS Lecture Series, we will screen the film "Ghost Tape #10," which will follow with a Q&A with the Director Sean...
More than Text: Excavating a New Understanding of Chuanqi in Early Modern China
Yihui Sheng
Chuanqi is a dramatic genre comprising dialogue and arias that was prevalent in late Ming and early Qing China. Sheng's work...
CSAS Lecture Series | Gandhi and the Claims of Indian Modernity
Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Is there a way to integrate Gandhi’s philosophical and moral ideas with his understanding of British colonialism in the decades long...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation
Silvia Lindtner Associate Professor School of Information University of Michigan
How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Democratization and violence in the Korean context
Jonson Porteux, Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University (Japan)
This event will be held virtually through Zoom. Details will be forthcoming in the coming weeks.
CSEAS Lecture Series. A Village Called Versailles film screening followed by a discussion with Mark VanLandingham and Aurora Le
Mark VanLandingham, Tulane University; and Aurora Le, University of Michigan
Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/2XVakxD...
CJS Lecture Series | At the Crossroads of Peace and Coexistence: Documenting the Lives of Japanese Wives of Korean Repatriates
Kim Jongwook, Freelance Documentary Photographer, Gyeongju, Korea
Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone....
CSEAS Lecture Series. Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia
Diana Kim, Assistant Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Free and open to the public; please register at http://bit.ly/3raW5lZ...
CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Time, Memory, Oblivion: Social Frames and the Production of Collective Pasts
Sumit Guha, Professor, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professorship in History, University of Texas at Austin
Details coming soon......
CJS Lecture Series | “Nuclear Nation” (2013), Screening & Discussion
Atsushi Funahashi, Tokyo-based filmmaker
Please note that this event will begin at 8pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Myth-Busting the History of Chinese Medicine: Going Beyond the "Function, Not Structure" Stereotype
Yi-Li Wu, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and History, University of Michigan
This talk will challenge the widely-held stereotype that Chinese doctors were historically interested in the body's dynamic functions,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Propaganda as Viral Stunts: How Party Press in China Navigates Between Tradition and Innovation
Sheng Zou, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
This talk presents findings from Dr. Zou’s recent work that investigates the production of soft propaganda campaigns on China’s social...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | A Lecture by Monica Kim
Monica Kim, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at edv@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice...
CJS Lecture Series | How Japan Got It Wrong: Government Policy, Gender, and the Birth Rate
Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
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CSAS Book Talk | The Globally: Familiar Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
Gabriel Dattatreyan, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Cultural Mediations in the Great Wall Frontier: The Southern Xiongnu in Northern China
Bryan K. Miller, Research Affiliate, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan
The Great Wall regions of northern China have long been characterized as frontiers of political and cultural expansion in which steppe...
CJS Lecture Series | 3.11—Ten Years Later: Addressing Gender Disparity in Japan’s Disaster Response
Teruko Karikome (Women’s Space Fukushima), Reiko Masai (Women’s Net Kobe), & Etsuko Yahata (Hearty Sendai); moderated by Mieko Yoshihama, U-M Professor of Social Work
Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone....
CSEAS Lecture Series. Making Property Out of Air: Experiments in Urban Form in Phnom Penh
Sylvia Nam, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine
Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/3qqzVLl...
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...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Global Medicine in Chinese East Asia, 1937-1970
Wayne Soon, Assistant Professor of History, Vassar
This presentation makes the case for a new concept of “global medicine" to highlight the multivalent and multidirectional flows of...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Lecture by Sharon (Heijin) Lee, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Sharon (Heijin) Lee, Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
This event will be held virtually through Zoom. Details will be forthcoming in the coming weeks.
CJS Lecture Series | An Introduction to Ishinomaki Kokeshi
Takotoshi Hayashi, Maker of Kokeshi Dolls, Tree Tree Ishinomaki
Please note that this lecture will begin at 7pm, and all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone....
CSEAS Lecture Series. Tradition Never Dies: “Lắng nghe,” Active Listening, and Activism in Contemporary Vietnam
Alexander M. Cannon, Lecturer in Music, University of Birmingham
This event is free and open to the public; please register at https://bit.ly/3lzI791...
CSAS Lecture Series | Theorizing the Company Village: Corporate Social Responsibility in India’s Mining Belt
Sunila Kale, University of Washington, Seattle
Over the last two decades, the pace and scale of private extractive industry in central and eastern India’s mountainous regions has...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dancing Productive Missteps: the American Dance Festival at China’s Reform Era
Fangfei Miao, Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Michigan
This talk explores the paradoxical role that the US played in China’s dance modernization during the Reform Era through a paradigmatic...
CJS Lecture Series | Contrasts in US-Japan Global Supply Chain Management during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Masaaki Kotabe, Washburn Chair Professorship in International Business and Marketing, Fox School of Business, Temple University
Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone....
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
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CSEAS Lecture Series. Displaced in Place: How Conservation-Induced Sedentarization Undermines Upland Livelihoods & Environments in Northern Thailand
Daniel B. Ahlquist, Assistant Professor, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Free and open to the public. Please register at http://bit.ly/3q8h5sf...
CSAS | 10th U-M Pakistan Conference - Religious Landscapes
Full conference details here:...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of More than Humans in Making Chinese Society and History: Thinking With Elephants and Mushrooms
Michael Hathaway, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Over the last few decades, scholars from several disciplines have shown increasing interest in moving beyond anthropocentric studies to...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Visions of Global Solidarity: Anti-Imperialism in Colonial Korea and the Diaspora
Hiroaki Matsusaka, Assistant Professor, History, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
This event will be held virtually through Zoom. Details will be forthcoming in the coming weeks.
CJS Lecture Series | Unseen Artists in a Theater of Timeless Pace: Iconic Bonsai Inspire Iconoclastic Futures
David Michener, Curator, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Vice Provost for Academic Graduate Studies; Carmen Leskoviansky, Collections/Natural Areas Specialist
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design
SE Kile, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
The notion that gardens might offer a private space, apart from the larger public world and even family responsibilities, dates to the...
CJS Lecture Series | The Politics of Volume and the Poetics of Reverberations across the Black Pacific
Will Bridges, Associate Professor of Japanese, University of Rochester
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CSEAS Lecture Series. Stemming the Nationalist Tide: Imperial Control and the Protection of Traditional Islam in British Malaya
Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani, WCED Visiting Associate, University of Michigan
Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/38V5uGZ...
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,...
