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Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon
Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8...
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...
Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon
Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8...
Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon
Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8...
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...
Southeast Asian Noodle Day
Join us on Friday, March 20th from 11 am - 1 pm in the Language Resource Center (1500 North Quad) for our Southeast Asian Noodle Day!...
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...
Dancing with the Dragon | VOLUNTEER to Dance the Dragon
Train together with your friends! Volunteers will train with Golden Tiger Kung Fu & Extended Learning Academy on March 29—fill out our...
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...
CSAS Lecture Series | Misinformation on WhatsApp: Insights From a Large Data Donation Program in India
Kiran Garimella, 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 | 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...
The 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ 31)
Reimagining Japanese Language Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Transformations
We are pleased to announce the 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ) to be hosted jointly by the University of...
