Event Types
Location
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
Emily Ting Yeh, Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
In the first decade of the new millennium, many educated and ambitious young Tibetans aspired to work in NGOs to promote community...
CSAS Film Series | Indus Blues
This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2019
Pakistani folk artists describe their struggle to keep a fading art form alive while reminding the world of what it is about to lose. The...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects
Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East...
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Classical as Contemporary: Choreography and New Media in China Today
Tian Tian 田湉, PhD, Deputy Professor of Choreography and Chinese Classical Dance, Beijing Dance Academy; Managing Editor, Journal of Beijing Dance Academy; Visiting Scholar, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M
In China today, dance and new media are merging in experimental choreographies for the stage, open-air spaces, galleries, and other...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Ugetsu
1953. 97 minutes. Drama/Mystery. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
During 16th century civil wars, village potter Masayuki Mori (Rashomon, The Bad Sleep Well, Floating Clouds) decides to follow the money and...
Transcultural Studies Information Session
The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Join us for an...
Korean Cinema NOW | A Resistance/ 항거: 유관순 이야기
Directed by Min-ho Cho
2019 | 105 Minutes | Min-ho Cho...
CSEAS Event. Book Discussion of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas
Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies , Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, CSEAS outreach coordinator
Monday, January 27, 2020 / 6:00-8:30 pm / 555 Weiser Hall...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific
Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore
States in Asia and the Pacific have been talking about “hedging” and “not choosing sides” between the United States and China since...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption
Young Sun Park, Assistant Professor, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
This presentation investigates the origins and the development of transnational adoption of Korean biracial children, including the symbolic...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
Michelle Damian, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth College, IL (USA)
The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few...
CSEAS Event. Thai Movie Night: By The Time It Gets Dark / ดาวคะนอง
Director – Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016
A film director and her muse who was a student activist in the 1970s, a waitress who keeps changing jobs, an actor and an actress, all live...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | An Autumn Afternoon (Sanna no aji)
1962. 113 minutes. Drama. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignified resignation to life’s...
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Deep Constitution: Militant Constitutional Identity and the Afterlife of Martial Law in Thailand
Eugénie Mérieau, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
In Thailand, since the adoption of the widely-celebrated 1997 Constitution, all elected governments have been overthrown by the...
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Writing South Asian History: Power, Representation and Subjectivity
Keynote Address by John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia...
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Keynote: Thinking About Politics in South Asian Studies
John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
See details of the full CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia here:...
Malaysian Cultural Night 2020
For the past 10 years, the Michigan Malaysian Students' Association (MiMSA) has come together to prepare for one special night every...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Revenge of the Developmental State: Stock Market Struggles in East Asia
John Yasuda, Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Revenge of the Developmental State considers the challenges faced by East Asian stock exchanges attempting to refashion themselves in the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Meghen Jones, Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies, Alfred University, NY
Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Harakiri
1962. 133 minutes. Drama/Action. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Decomposing a National Language: Pluralism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Language
John Phan, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University
By the 1930s, the Vietnamese vernacular language had unquestionably come to be viewed as the national language of Vietnam, and the primary...
Korean Cinema NOW | Dark Figure of Crime/ 암수살인
Directed by Tae-gyun Kim
2018 | 110 Minutes | Tae-gyun Kim...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Urban Environment Change in Post-Reform China
Peilei Fan, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
Based on the authors’ past and current research and a critical review of related literature, Dr. Fan will introduce patterns, drivers, and...
CSAS Film Series | Bamboo Stories
This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2019
It is midsummer in northeastern Bangladesh. Five men face a dangerous mission. They must conquer the great river with their raft. Their...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of the Benshi
Ichiro Kataoka
The silent film benshi has attracted attention for being a unique aspect of Japanese film culture. With the release of Suo Masayuki’s new...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | The Downfall of Osen (Orizuru Osen)
1935. Drama/Silent. 90 min. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
This silent film will be accompanied by a live benshi narration!...
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...
Korean Cinema NOW | Goodbye My Love, North Korea/ 굿바이 마이 러브NK: 붉은 청춘
Directed by So-young Kim
2017 | 89 Minutes | So-young Kim...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Winners and Losers of the Belt and Road
Wade Shepard, Author/Journalist/Filmmaker
An on-the-ground look at some of the local communities that are being impacted by China's Belt and Road initiative and the broader New...
CSAS Film Series | Swimming Through the Darkness
This documentary is part of Traveling Film South Asia 2019
Born in poverty and visually challenged, Kanai Chakraborty chooses the life of a swimmer. However, his success in the sport doesn’t ensure...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan
Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Tokyo Drifter (Tōkyō nagaremono)
1966. 82 minutes. Drama/Thriller. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s Growing Brand in Global Health
Joseph Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University
In areas ranging from universal healthcare to HIV prevention and access to medicine to health technology assessment and tobacco control,...
Book Talk | Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination
Tony K. Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities, and Professor and Chair, Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University
The book talk is cosponsored by the U-M Center for South Asian Studies, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and the Digital Islamic Studies...
Korean Cinema NOW | Battle of Jangsari/ 장사리: 잊혀진 영웅들
Directed by Kyung-taek Kwak & Tae-hoon Kim
2019 | 104 Minutes | Kyung-taek Kwak & Tae-hoon Kim...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE)
Eric Greene, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Dictator's Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987
Joan Cho, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies and Government, Wesleyan University
Dictator’s Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987 aims to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory views...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari
Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is...
CSEAS Event. Thai Movie Night: Censor Must Die
Director – Ing Kanjanavanit, 2014
When Shakespeare Must Die, a Thai film adaptation of Macbeth is banned by the Thai government as a threat to national security, the film’s...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime)
1973. 97 minutes. Drama/Mystery. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin...
Korean Cinema NOW | Hotel by the River/ 강변호텔
Directed by Sang-soo Hong
2018 | 96 Minutes | Sang-soo Hong...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land of Ghosts: Rediscovering King Hu’s "Legend of the Mountain"
Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies; Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Best known for his classic martial arts films like "A Touch of Zen" and "Come Drink with Me," King Hu (1932-1997) was...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Performative Space: Korean Diaspora, Collective Memories, and Spatial Identity
Miseong Woo, Professor, English Language and Literature, Yonsei University
As South Korea rapidly becomes a multicultural society that is transitioning from an ethnocentric logic of kinship and nationalism to a...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan (with Tomohiro Machikita)
Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Tampopo
1985. 114 minutes. Comedy/Western. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this...
CSEAS Lecture Series. Regime Change and Continuity in Malaysia
Lily Rahim, Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia and Associate Teaching Professor, Georgetown University
Since its historic May 2018 breakthrough election, Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government has experienced some erosion of...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reforms: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and 19th Century Germany
Iza Ding, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh; WCED Visiting Associate, 2019-2020; U-M Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, 2019-2020
What are the conditions under which liberalism as “rational centrist reformism” fails to obtain its goals without succumbing to the...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Nobody Knows (Dare mo Shiranai)
2004. 141 minutes. Drama. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Inspired by a real-life incident of child abandonment, this piercing family drama is a testament to the everyday resilience of four young...
Korean Cinema NOW | My Name Is Kim Bok-dong/ 김복동
Directed by Won-geun Song
2019 | 107 Minutes | Won-geun Song...
