Happening @ Michigan

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...

Transcultural Studies Information Session

The Program in Transcultural Studies is an accelerated master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. Students choose...

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...

Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies

Situating Daoist Medicine: Digital Tools to Track Materia Medica in the Daoist and Buddhist Canons

Light lunch will be provided. Free and Open to the Public....

CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Love of Siam

Directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul

Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy’s older sister goes missing...

Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies

Workshop on Data Mining the Daoist and Buddhist Canons with DocuSky

Speakers: Dr. Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源, Nanyang Technological University and Dr. Hu Chijui 胡其瑞, National Taiwan University...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Bureaucrats, Business, and the Manipulating of Capitalism 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...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Calling Pyongyang: Changes in Journalistic Approaches to North Korea since 2000

Soomin Seo, Assistant Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University

South Korea had a Watergate moment in 2016, when a corruption scandal led to an impeachment of the president. Two media outlets in...

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, Adjunct 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...

CJS Special Event | How to Enjoy Kyogen Workshop

Ippei Shigeyama, Kyogen Actor

Join the Center for Japanese Studies at the Keene Theater (East Quadrangle) for a special experiential workshop with...

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...

LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Now We See It, Now We Don't: How to Theorize Traditional Chinese Song-Drama

Patricia Sieber, Associate Professor of Chinese, The 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,...

Nam Center Colloquium Series | Mahan, Baekje, and the Rise of States in South Korea

Rory Walsh, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan

Baekje, the first state-level society in South Korea, has long had its origins explained as the result of ‘influence’ of one kind or...

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...

CSEAS Family Workshop. Make-Your-Own Shadow Puppet

Carrie Morris, Carrie Morris Arts Productions (CMAP), Detroit

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies and UMMA invite you and your family to learn about the Javanese tradition of wayang, or shadow...

Javanese Gamelan Music & Dance

Under the direction of renowned Yogyakarta gamelan musician, Raharja

Under the guest direction of renowned Yogyakarta gamelan musician Raharja, this program features pieces for concert and dance in the...

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: Looking for "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...

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...