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CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Angry Spirits and Urban Soundscapes in Ancient Japan

Michael Como, Toshu Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies, Columbia University

From the late seventh to the late eighth centuries, Japanese rulers built no fewer than six capitals, with the largest housing as many as...

Critical Language Scholarship Information Session

Join us to learn more about best application practices and methods to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship. All students studying...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market

Giang Nguyen-Thu, University of Pennsylvania

In this talk, Dr Giang Nguyen-Thu will discuss her forthcoming book Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market by Routledge...

CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | Conflict, Violence and Resistance in Ancient India

Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University (Sonepat)

Our understanding of the past changes dramatically when we recognize violence as an intimate and important part of human experience that...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Why Bother? The Place of Socialist Propaganda Theater in China

Xiaomei Chen, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Film and Theater; University of California at Davis

This presentation argues against the conventional wisdom which views the performance culture of the People’s Republic of China as a...

CSAS Lecture Series | A Vigil Wasted? Notes on the Ruin-Sublime in Afghanistan

Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia

As abandoned remnants of human activity, ruins evoke concerns about the durability of the past, a setting, and of human perception and...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Resource Diversification and Resilience: The Bioarchaeology of Bronze Age Northwest China

Elizabeth Berger, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

Northwest China experienced several marked transitions during the Bronze Age (~2000-1000 BCE), including climate change, the spread of...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jesus Loves Japan: Pentecostal Christianity among Nikkei “Return Migrants” from Brazil

Suma Ikeuchi, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

Today, there are roughly 186,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan, the majority of whom are of Japanese descent. While they benefit from...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Cook to Counterrevolutionary: A Window into Christianity in China through the Saga of a Single Family

Jennifer Lin, Former Beijing Correspondent, "The Philadelphia Inquirer"

A former Beijing correspondent for "The Philadelphia Inquirer," Jennifer Lin chronicles 150 years of family history in "Shanghai Faithful:...

CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Promiscuous Reading: Reading and Writing Poetry Across Languages

Jeffrey Angles, Professor of Japanese Literature and Translation, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Western Michigan University

In The Happy Life, Charles W. Eliot wrote, “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest...

Vietnam Discussion Group. Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals Implementation in Viet Nam through a Citizen-Centric Measuring Tool

Do Thanh Huyen

The Viet Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) is Viet Nam’s largest annual time-series,...

CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. From Orientalism to Modern Rationalization? Buddhism and Colonial Governmentality in Laos and French Indochina (1893-1953)

Patrice Ladwig, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany

French colonial politics in Laos and Cambodia had a strong impact on Buddhism. Both countries were subject to quite similar politics rooted,...

CSAS Kavita S. Datla Memorial Lecture | Dark Genealogies: Ambedkar's Struggles with History

Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University

I have been reading Ambedkar closely over the last few years, but intermittently. This will give me a chance to focus on a single question...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Futures in the Past of Africa-China Engagement

Jamie Monson, Professor of History, Director of the African Studies Center, Michigan State University

This talk will challenge the presentist time frame of much current scholarship on China and Africa. Popular discourse as well as scholarly...

CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | From the Fastest Woman in the World to the First Woman on the Board

Keiko Ihara, Race car driver, Independent Director of Nissan Motor Corporation, Associate Professor of Keio University Graduate School Media Design

I talk about a car racing challenge in the world highest series Le Mans 24-Hour Race and World Endurance Championship,technology development...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China

Ling Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Although China is a global manufacturing titan, the "made in China" model has begun to wane. Starting in the 2000s, China shifted from...

FellowSpeak: "How a Podcast Started a Revolution in South Korea"

Youngju Ryu

A 30 min. talk by Youngju Ryu, 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Hunting Family Fellow and associate professor of modern Korean...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Calling Pyongyang: Changes in Journalistic Approaches to North Korea since 2000

Soomin Seo, Assistant Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University

South Korea had a Watergate moment in 2016, when a corruption scandal led to an impeachment of the president. Two media outlets in...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Was the Opium War Really Destined to Happen?

Stephen R. Platt, Professor of Chinese History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

This talk will explore some of the countercurrents to our dominant understanding of the era leading up to the Opium War of 1839-1842,...

CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Modern Temple Art as “Public” Art

Yasuko Tsuchikane, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cooper Union, New York and Waseda University, Tokyo

Historical Buddhist temples in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan, while often discussed in their association with traditions, can be...

CJS Special Event | How to Enjoy Kyogen Workshop

Ippei Shigeyama, Kyogen Actor

Join the Center for Japanese Studies at the Keene Theater (East Quadrangle) for a special experiential workshop with...

CSAS Lecture Series | “We Were Always Buddhist:" Caste Emancipation and Sexual Politics in South India

Lucinda Ramberg, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

I am a medical and sociocultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including...

Now We See It, Now We Don't: How to Theorize Traditional Chinese Song-Drama

Patricia Sieber, Associate Professor of Chinese, Ohio State University

This talk will attempt to bring premodern Chinese song-drama out of the straightjacket of Western terminology, that is, comedy vs. tragedy,...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Mahan, Baekje, and the Rise of States in South Korea

Rory Walsh, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan

Details forthcoming.

CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Stigma and the Moral Economy of Tokyo's Sex Industry

Gabriele Koch, Assistant Professor, Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for heteronormative sex. This talk asks how adult...

CSAS Lecture Series | Digital Tamil Cinema: Tendencies, Trends, and Possibilities

Swarnavel Eswaran, Associate Professor, English and Media Information, Michigan State University

Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran is an associate professor in the English and MI (Media and Information) Departments at Michigan State University. He...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Chairman Mao’s Children and China’s Difficult Past: Generation, Class, and Memory

Bin Xu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Chinese government sent about 17 million secondary school graduates (the “educated youth” or “zhiqing”)...

CSAS Lecture Series | Understanding the New Credibility Regimes of Development: The Politics of Sanitary Pads as a Pro-Poor Technology in India

Shobita Parthasarathy, Professor of Public Policy, U-M

Technology has long played a central role in efforts to alleviate global poverty, with international NGOs and developed world governments...

CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonies

Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at...

CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation

Srimati Basu, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies; Anthropology, University of Kentucky

Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia...

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...