Happening @ Michigan

CJS Lecture Series | Difficult Subjects: Religion and Public Schools in Contemporary Japan

Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

As part of a new national policy of “making persons” (hitozukuri) who could support Japan’s rapid economic growth, in the mid-1960s...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Crash Landing on You

Yoon Se-Ri (Son Ye-Jin) is an heiress to a conglomerate in South Korea. One day while paragliding, an accident caused by strong winds leads...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Taekwondo Workshop

Tired of sitting around at home as the weather gets cooler? Get moving with the Nam...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Underrepresented Outperformers: Female Legislators in the Chinese Congress: A presentation of collaborative research by Yue Hou, Xinrui Feng and Mingxin Liu

Yue Hou, Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

Please register for this Zoom webinar here: https://myumi.ch/0WKd9...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | K-Pop Dance Tutorial

Turn up the music with the Nam Center for Korean Studies for a K-Pop Dance Tutorial as part of our Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021! Leaders...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Korean Storytime

Join Eunjae Cheon and Andrea Yun for crafts, songs and stories in Korean!...

CJS Lecture Series | Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community

Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Based upon his latest book, Professor Samuels will explore the history of the Japanese intelligence community from the late 19th to the...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Netflix Party: Kingdom

Set in Korea’s medieval Joseon period, it tells the story of Crown Prince Lee Chang (Ju Ji-hoon), who becomes embroiled in a...

CSAS Lecture | Misinformation and Political Twitter in India

Joyojeet Pal, School of Information, University of Michigan

In the last decade, India has seen a massive uptake in the adoption, and frequency of technology use by citizens, making social media a...

Nam Center Virtual Chuseok Dae Party 2021 | Chuseok Keynote Event Author Reading with Tae Keller: When You Trap A Tiger

We’re hosting a very special Keynote event this year featuring Tae Keller, author of When You Trap A Tiger, Winner of the 2021...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Modern Monumentality: Sculptural Attitudes in Post-1949 China

Vivian Li, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art

60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Epistolary Revolution in Chosŏn Korea

Hwisang Cho, Assistant Professor in Korean Studies, Emory University

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 | Differences between Japan and China: Perspectives from Japanese Journalism, 1980 - Present

Seiichiro Aso, Journalist, Japan

Note that this event begins at 7pm, Ann Arbor time. This talk will be delivered in Japanese with English translation....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Cornucopian Stage: Dramas of Endless Surplus in Early Modern China

Ariel Fox, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

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CJS Lecture Series | Empowering Women Through Radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan

Yoko Okuyama, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Uppsala University

2021 marks the 75th year since Japanese women participated in the national election. In that election, women won 8.4 percent of the seats -...

CSAS Lecture | Outcaste Bombay and Inter-war Marxism

Juned Shaikh, History Department, UC Santa Cruz

Marxism arrived in inter-war Bombay under the reality of surveillance and the threat of proscription. Therefore, Marxist ideas, literature,...

LRCCS 60th Anniversary Alumni Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy

Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

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CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Gender and Voting Preferences in Japan, Britain, and the United States

Gill Steel, Professor of Political Science, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University, Japan

Please note that the time of this lecture is 7:00 pm Ann Arbor time, 8:00 am in Tokyo (10/15/2021)....

CSAS Lecture | India's Newest Poses: The Imaginative Life of Yoga

Shameem Black, Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, Australian National University

Dr. Shameem Black is a literary, gender and cultural studies scholar of modern India and its diaspora who specialises in the ethics and...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Lost in Translation: Chinese Literature and World Literature at the International Writing Program (1979-1988)

Jin Feng, Professor of Chinese, Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature; Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Grinnell College

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CJS Lecture Series | Administrative Litigation Reform in Japan

Rieko Kage, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

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

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

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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...

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....

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | At What Scales Can Water Be Measured: An Inquiry into Environmental Knowledge Production During the Han Dynasty

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Details forthcoming....

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

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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...

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

Details forthcoming....

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....