CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Finding a Dream in Adversity
Ikuo Kabashima, Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Lecture Series...
CSAS Lecture Series | Decasticization,"Dirty work" and Dignity: A case study of Arunthathiyars in Tamil Nadu
Ram Mahalingam, Professor, Department of Psychology, U-M
Using the Chennai floods as a case study, I will explore how intersections of caste, class, "dirty work," and the politics of cleaning...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | The Big House" Project: How and Why We Made the Documentary in Observational Method and Style
Kazuhiro Soda, Peabody Award-winning Filmmaker
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Lecture Series...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Mobilization in China
Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Comparing the political activism of feminists and lawyers in China and drawing on theories of performance and dramaturgy, this project...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series
Motohiro Kondo, CJS First Toyota Visiting Professor 1988-89
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Lecture Series...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Physiologies of the Flesh: Medical and Moral Matter in Late Colonial Indonesia
Kevin Ko, University of Michigan
In the early 20th century, the Netherlands East Indies was awash with revivalist and reformist movements. These included Christian...
CSAS Lecture Series | Buddhism, Secularism and the Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka
Ben Schonthal, Associate Professor of Buddhism and Asian Religions and Associate Dean (International) for the Humanities Division, University of Otago, New Zealand
More than half of all constitutions in South and Southeast Asia give special privileges and/or status to a single religion. Despite this...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Spatializing Infant Burial in Qing China
Jeff Snyder-Reinke, Professor of Chinese History, The College of Idaho
In the nineteenth century, foreigners in China wrote prolifically about so-called "baby towers"—structures that were erected outside...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Social and Political Lives of Japanese Cherry Blossoms
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Lecture Series....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Plato, Through Confucian Eyes
Eric Hutton, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Utah
While many published studies compare ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy, such studies usually start by identifying some set of ideas in...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Tradition and Innovation in English-language Noh, Blue Moon Over Memphis
Mariko Anno, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Lecture Series...
CSAS Thomas Trautmann Endowed Lecture | Conflict, Violence and Resistance in Ancient India
Upinder Singh, Professor of History, Ashoka University (Sonepat)
Details to be announced.
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
Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of In Stereotype: South Asia in the...
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...
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, Poet & Professor of Japanese Literature, 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...
CSAS DATLA Endowed 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...
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, 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...
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,...
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: 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...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hanson, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hanson, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
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...
