Happening @ Michigan

CSEAS Lecture Series. The Past, Present, and Future of LGBT Activism in Singapore: A Roundtable on Pink Dot

Alfian Sa’at, Michelle Lazar, Robert Phillips, Pavan Mano, Adi Saleem Bharat

Free and open to the public. Register at: http://myumi.ch/0W3r9...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Ecology of China’s Early Political Systems

Brian Lander, Assistant Professor of History and Environment Studies, Department of History, Brown University

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/dOlYw...

LRCCS 60th Anniversary Author Series | Reading The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies, U-M Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature

The Center’s 60th anniversary programming will feature author Peter Ho Davies, Charles Baxter Collegiate Professor of English Language and...

In Search of China's Soul ~ WebinART | Architecture with Chinese Characteristics: How the Past is Driving New Ideas for China's Future Cities

Join top architects and urban thinkers for a wide-ranging discussion on China’s cities of the future. For decades, China’s planners...

GISC Beyond The Films Series. Halaloween Roundtable: Muslim Horror in the 21st Century

Karla Mallette, University of Michigan; Kristian Petersen, Old Dominion University; Sena Duran, University of Michigan; Alireza Doostdar, University of Chicago; Alicia Izharuddin, University of Malaya

Join us on Thursday, October 28, from 4-6 PM ET as we wrap up Halaloween with a panel discussion on Muslim horror, the use (and...

CJS Lecture Series | Judging Inequality: Japan in Comparative Perspective

Yeonju Lee, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan

Please note the 7pm (in Ann Arbor) start time for this lecture....

CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India

Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan

Rescheduled from September 24....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Weighing the Matter of Water in the Imperial Politics of Han China

Alice Yao, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Registration here for this Zoom webinar is required: https://myumi.ch/lxn0D...

CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa

C. Anne Claus, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, American University, Washington DC

Please register here in advance for this Zoom webinar: https://myumi.ch/pdYAd...

CSEAS Lecture Series. Is the Philippines Asia's Banana Republic? Vertical Disintegration After Empire

Alyssa Paredes, LSA Collegiate Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Please register at https://myumi.ch/PlgjR...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | When Campaign-Style Enforcement Meets Local Strategic Compliance: The Case of National Affordable Housing

Zhilin Liu Associate Professor and Director, Public Policy Institute, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/BoOY1...

CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Contemporary Literature: Perspectives and Aporia in the Global 21st Century

Cécile Sakai, Professor, Paris University, France

Please note that the start time here is 12:00 pm Ann Arbor time and 6:00 pm, Paris, France....

CSAS Lecture | The Modern Cosmopolis: Sovereignty, Cosmology and the Extrapolitical

David Gilmartin, Department of History, NC State University

Sheldon Pollock’s vision of a “Cosmopolis,” a vision of power (and culture) transcending, and encompassing, particular systems of rule...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Framing China: Visual Technologies, Missionary Modernity, and Transnational Visions in Sino-US Encounters

Joseph W. Ho, Assistant Professor of History, East Asian History, Albion College

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/qgMwy...

CJS Lecture Series | The Massacre and the Conspiracy: Locating the Japanese diaspora in Seventeenth Century Southeast Asia

Adam Clulow, Professor, University of Texas at Austin

In 1621, Japanese soldiers participated in a massive Dutch East India Company invasion of the Banda islands in Southeast Asia. Pressed into...

CSAS Lecture | Scaffolding of the Rule of Law: Legal Violence, Policing, and Scientific Interrogations in India

Jinee Lokaneeta, Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations, Drew University

Details forthcoming....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Logic of Social Media Repression in China

Blake Miller, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, Methodology Department, London School of Economics

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Catching up with the West: Chinese Households Join the Global Middle Class

Terry Sicular, Professor and Undergraduate Director, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/O4ngQ...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | ‘Willing to be Pushed to the Limit’: Totalising Power and Individual Agency within the K-elite Sport Development Regime

Minhyeok Tak, Lecturer, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University (UK)

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 | Japan as a Marine Tourism Mecca

Kirk R. Patterson, former President/Dean, Temple University Japan

Please note the start time for this event is 7pm, Ann Arbor time....

CSAS Thomas R. Trautmann Honorary Lecture | (Indian) Animals Are Good to Think With

Stephanie Jamison, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

Ancient and medieval Indian literature, both religious and secular, is saturated with animals—animal fables, animal transformations,...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Vineyard Garden in the Afterlife: The Shi Jun/Wirkak Tomb (580 CE) and Viticulture on the Silk Road

Jin Xu, Assistant Professor Art History and Asian Studies, Vassar College

Please register in advance for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/Gk4pp...

CJS Lecture Series | Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database

Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Professor of Japanese History, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan

Please take note of the 7pm (Ann Arbor time) starting time....

CSAS Lecture | Bombay Cinema and the Caribbean: Rhythmic Flows and Cultural Migrations across Creolized Geographies

Usha Iyer Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University

Scholarship on Indian cinema has focused mainly on the subcontinent and the newer, so-called “First World diasporas” of Europe and North...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Origins of Korean Cuisine: Prehistoric Foodways from Foraging to Farming

Gyoung-Ah Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon

Please note: This session will be held in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but...

CSAS Lecture | Spatializing Islam during the Early Cold War: the ‘Ahmadi Question’ in the Munir Kayani Report and Pakistani Literature

Cara Cilano, Department of English, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Michigan State University

With reference to several fictive and non-fictive texts, this talk explores how Ahmadis, classified as “non-Muslims,” have occupied and...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown

Sharon Yoon, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, University of Notre Dame

Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...

CSAS Lecture | Market Futures: On Capital and Resistance in India Adda, Davos

Ravinder Kaur, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

The spectacular assembly of the global elite at the World Economic Forum, Davos is a brief moment when the powerful networks of capital...

CSAS Lecture | Registration and resistance in nineteenth century Jaffna

Nira Wickramasinghe, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University

By sanctioning and tapping into a perceived local practice of slavery and legally constituting slaves, Dutch colonial rulers in eighteenth...

CSAS Lecture | Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: The Ideas of Citizenship and Belonging in Pakistan

Ali Usman Qasmi Humanities Center, Stanford University

Details forthcoming....

Nam Center Colloquium Series Lecture

Junyoung Kim, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Media, Latin American Culture and Literature, University of Pittsburgh

Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...

CSAS Book Talk | Running Toward Mystery

Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, Director, Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts...

CSAS U-M Pakistan Conference

Details forthcoming....

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Film Roundtable

Professors: Ungsan Kim (University of Michigan), Kelly Jeong (UC-Riverside), and Jinsoo An (UC-Berkeley)Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public, but registr

Please note: This session is planned to be held both in-person and virtually EST through Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public,...

CSAS Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Liberalism and Anticolonial Politics in South India

Rama Mantena, Department of History, University of Illinois Chicago

Details forthcoming....

CSAS Muslim Modernity in South Asia Workshop

Details forthcoming....