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LSA Asian Languages and Cultures

Culture Day

Are you interested in learning about a new language? Grab some snacks and swag and learn about the languages we offer in ALC!

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...

Tibetan Buddhist Roundtable

with Geshe Tenzin Zopa, Khenpo Tshering Chophel and Lama Nancy Burks

LSA Asian Languages and Cultures invite you to join us for a catered Tibetan Buddhist Roundtable with Geshe Tenzin Zopa, Khenpo Tshering...

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...

Fifth Annual Luis Gómez Memorial Lecture with Professor Jacob Dalton

A Tantric Feast on the Silk Road: Reconstructing a Tenth-Century Ganacakra at Dunhuang

Discovered over a century ago, Mogao Cave 17 on the ancient Silk Road yielded a vast cache of Tibetan...

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...

Korean Performing Arts Initiative | Transfigurations: Han Kang's The Vegetarian in Music and Words

Lisa Sung Ensemble, Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan)

Experience an extraordinary evening where text, sound, and performance converge to explore themes of awakening, resistance, and...

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...