Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3364/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CANCELED - CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality (March 28, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117579 117579-21839535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

We apologize that we have had to cancel this event. Please note that we have arranged for a new lecture for the same time and location.

Japan is a critical case in a comparative array of welfare states. Contemporary welfare states achieve higher equality by raising revenue from a regressive consumption tax than from a progressive income tax to be redistributed through public expenditures. Politics of taxation matters for this unexpected consequence among long democracies.

Junko Kato (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tokyo. She has conducted research in comparative politics on taxation and the welfare state, party coalitions and government formation, and neuro-cognitive analyses of social decision and behavior. She has authored articles in *American Political Science Review*, the *British Journal of Political Science*, *Electoral Studies*, *Governance*, and so on. She has authored two books: *The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality* (Princeton University Press, 1994) and *Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State* (Cambridge University Press, 2003) in addition to numerous book chapters. She was a co-editor-in-chief of the *Japanese Journal of Political Science* (2019–2023) and worked as a member of the Editorial Board of journals including the *British Journal of Political Science* (1996–2016), *Perspectives on Public Management and Governance* (2016–), and *Journal of East Asian Studies* (2021–). She has launched neuro-cognitive approaches to social sciences and published articles on fMRI experiments of human decision and behavior in *Frontiers in Neuroscience*, *Scientific Reports*, and *Cerebral Cortex*.

*This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:04:35 -0400 2024-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Can You Hear the Difference Between a Tactical Aircraft and a Commercial Airplane?: Views from Okinawa and Transnational Approaches (March 28, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120404 120404-21844660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

*Due to the cancellation of the lecture by Prof. Junko Kato originally scheduled to be on this date, the center is pleased to present this lecture by Ms. Aya Rodriguez-Izumi.*

For this presentation, Ms. Rodriguez-Izumi will talk about several projects within my practice that are informed by the history of Okinawa since World War II and their contemporary repercussions as they manifest on that island and across the broader geopolitical landscape. From her vantage point as both an Okinawan and American artist, Ms. Rodriguez-Izumi will highlight methodologies that are used within her practice to foster cross-cultural understanding and ways that she creates work in collaboration with local and indigenous communities.

Aya Rodriguez-Izumi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work blends sculpture, installation, performance, community engagement, and documentation to explore aspects of ritual retention, cross-cultural identity, and histories that risk erasure. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, and grew up between that island and East Harlem, NY, where she currently lives and holds a studio. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally through presentations at venues such as El Museo del Barrio, MoCADA, the NUS Museum in Singapore, the International House of Japan in Tokyo, the Taipei Fine Art Museum, the Aldrich Museum, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan among others. She was a recipient of the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship in New York, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, the JUSFC Creative Artist Fellowship, the Annual Artist fellowship at Socrates Sculpture Park, and represented Okinawa and the United States in the 2023 Romantic Route 3 Triennial in Taiwan. She earned a BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons the New School for Design and an MFA in Fine Arts from The School of Visuals Arts. Aya centers community building in her practice and work. She brings this sensibility to her teaching in SVA's MFA Fine Art Department and at the Studio Museum in Harlem, as well as her work as a board member at the historic feminist artist run A.I.R. Gallery.

*This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:26:38 -0400 2024-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Can You Hear the Difference Between a Tactical Aircraft and a Commercial Airplane?: Views from Okinawa and Transnational Approaches
13th Annual U-M Pakistan Conference | Undoing Linguistic Hegemony: Rethinking Belonging and Identity Through and Beyond Urdu (March 29, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/119293 119293-21842532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Full conference details and program at https://myumi.ch/xqQb9

This conference examines language use in Pakistan. With an eye towards native linguistic diversity that has challenged colonial-nationalist notions of monolingualism, the 13th Annual Conference on Pakistan seeks to disentangle the relationships between national, regional, and local languages. Historically, studies on languages in Pakistan have highlighted the statewide recognition of Urdu, contesting regionalism established by Punjabi, pre-British Raj Persian courtly and literary works, and, recently, the social status of English in the globalized world. Significantly less attention has been drawn to Pakistan's linguistic pluralism. Drawing upon the groundwork initially established by Tariq Rahman, this conference will serve as a gateway to enrich and complicate the relationships between languages and the ligatures of the state, social movements, literature, devotion, and performance. Using multidisciplinary, multitemporal frameworks to elucidate these relationships, we seek to generate a lively discussion unpacking the language hegemonies associated with Pakistan and their current places within the multilingual spaces that its citizens inhabit. While engaging primarily with Pakistan, we aim to open dialogues that celebrate linguistic diversity across South Asia and its diasporas, particularly as the marks of globalization reveal the everlasting relevance of language recognition and support.

*Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Cosponsored by the Department of History of Art, the U-M Residential College, Arab and Muslim American Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.*

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:53:50 -0400 2024-03-29T09:00:00-04:00 2024-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium 13th Annual U-M Pakistan Conference | Undoing Linguistic Hegemony: Rethinking Belonging and Identity Through and Beyond Urdu
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | The Sins of Their Fathers: Can Political Families in the Philippines be Held Accountable? (March 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117311 117311-21839157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/AWree

The 2022 elections saw the rise to the commanding heights of power in the Philippines of scions of two prominent political families: Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte, who were voted president and vice president, respectively. They are the children of two former presidents who have been accused of the most grievous offenses committed by a Philippine head of state since 1935, when first presidential elections were held during the Philippine Commonwealth, under the aegis of U.S. colonial rule. Ferdinand Marcos Sr. has been accused of grievous human rights abuses and of plundering as much as $20 billion dollars during his 20-year rule (1965-1986). Rodrigo Duterte (2016-2022) presided over a bloody war on drugs that killed thousands, many of them small-time drug peddlers or drug users in urban slums.

Are Philippine elections therefore not accountability mechanisms but more like laundromats that wash away the sins of the past? A cycle of wash, rinse, repeat, whereby political families like the Marcoses and the Dutertes can cleanse themselves of the taint of past wrongdoing and be fresh again?

This talk will examine the enduring hold of political families in the Philippines and the mechanisms that they employ to appeal to the electorate and to control the levers of political power at the local and national levels.

SHEILA S. CORONEL is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and the Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University. She worked for many years as a journalist in the Philippines and was a co-founder and director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s highest prize.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:14:15 -0500 2024-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | The Sins of Their Fathers: Can Political Families in the Philippines be Held Accountable?
Asian x American x Buddhist x Literature (March 29, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116359 116359-21838712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

RSVP for in-person (Koessler Room, Michigan League 3rd Floor) or virtual attendance here: http://tinyurl.com/ahmhe7sw

What creative, political, and liberatory possibilities emerge at the intersections of Asian America, Buddhism, and literature? This roundtable brings together five prolific authors—Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Shin Yu Pai, Ryan Lee Wong, and Bryan Thao Worra—to discuss the cultural and spiritual influences in their work. In a panel conversation moderated by Chenxing Han, these writers will share how a wide range of Buddhist traditions—in conjunction with their Vietnamese, Laotian, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Korean, and Chinese heritages—shape their artistic practice and political commitments.

If you’re able, please join us in person at the Michigan League to welcome our guest speakers, who are visiting from Pittsburgh, New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, Canada. After the author readings and roundtable discussion, there will be time for audience Q&A followed by an informal reception and book signings. Please stay to enjoy light refreshments and to meet the authors one-on-one!

This event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies program, the Nam Center for Korean Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies with local bookshop Booksweet organizing the book signings.

Panelists
*Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng* is a writer and translator born in Việt Nam. Recent publications include Masked Force (Sàn Art), a pamphlet-catalogue on Võ An Khánh’s war photographs, and Chronicles of a Village (Penguin SEA), her translation of a novel by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Jacket2, Modern Poetry in Translation and other venues. Currently studying at Stanford University, she has received support from the PEN/Heim Fund and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, among other honors.

*Tsering Yangzom Lama*’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. Tsering holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies is published in English in Canada, the United States, and India. Translations are available or forthcoming in French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Bulgarian, Tibetan, and Arabic.

*Shin Yu Pai* is currently the Civic Poet of The City of Seattle. She is the author of 13 books, and has received awards for her work from the Academy of American Poets, 4Culture, The Awesome Foundation, and Artist Trust. Shin Yu is host and writer of “Ten Thousand Things”—an award-winning, chart-topping podcast on Asian American stories. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an MA in Museology from The University of Washington.

*Ryan Lee Wong* is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He organized the exhibitions Serve the People at Interference Archive and Roots at Chinese American Museum, and has written on the intersections of arts, race, and social movements. Ryan holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and served on the Board of the Jerome Foundation. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.

*Bryan Thao Worra* is a Lao American poet. With 20+ awards and fellowships, he is the author of 9+ books of poetry on the Lao American diaspora. He has presented at the Library of Congress, Poets House, Kearny Street Workshop, the Singapore Writers Festival, and the Smithsonian, and is the author of over 100 publications. He has documented Lao Theravada Buddhist temples in the US for over 15 years. His newest book American Laodyssey is forthcoming from Sahtu Press in Spring 2024.


Moderator
*Chenxing Han* is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists; one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care; and over twenty articles and book chapters for both academic and mainstream audiences. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at schools, universities, and Buddhist communities across the nation, and currently serves as the Khyentse Visitor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:14:43 -0500 2024-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2024-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Asian American Buddhist Literature Panel Poster
Asian x American x Buddhist x Literature (March 29, 2024 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116359 116359-21839756@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

RSVP for in-person (Koessler Room, Michigan League 3rd Floor) or virtual attendance here: http://tinyurl.com/ahmhe7sw

What creative, political, and liberatory possibilities emerge at the intersections of Asian America, Buddhism, and literature? This roundtable brings together five prolific authors—Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Shin Yu Pai, Ryan Lee Wong, and Bryan Thao Worra—to discuss the cultural and spiritual influences in their work. In a panel conversation moderated by Chenxing Han, these writers will share how a wide range of Buddhist traditions—in conjunction with their Vietnamese, Laotian, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Korean, and Chinese heritages—shape their artistic practice and political commitments.

If you’re able, please join us in person at the Michigan League to welcome our guest speakers, who are visiting from Pittsburgh, New York City, Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Vancouver, Canada. After the author readings and roundtable discussion, there will be time for audience Q&A followed by an informal reception and book signings. Please stay to enjoy light refreshments and to meet the authors one-on-one!

This event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Department of American Culture, the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies program, the Nam Center for Korean Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies with local bookshop Booksweet organizing the book signings.

Panelists
*Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng* is a writer and translator born in Việt Nam. Recent publications include Masked Force (Sàn Art), a pamphlet-catalogue on Võ An Khánh’s war photographs, and Chronicles of a Village (Penguin SEA), her translation of a novel by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Jacket2, Modern Poetry in Translation and other venues. Currently studying at Stanford University, she has received support from the PEN/Heim Fund and the Institute for Comparative Modernities, among other honors.

*Tsering Yangzom Lama*’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. Tsering holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Creative Writing and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies is published in English in Canada, the United States, and India. Translations are available or forthcoming in French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Bulgarian, Tibetan, and Arabic.

*Shin Yu Pai* is currently the Civic Poet of The City of Seattle. She is the author of 13 books, and has received awards for her work from the Academy of American Poets, 4Culture, The Awesome Foundation, and Artist Trust. Shin Yu is host and writer of “Ten Thousand Things”—an award-winning, chart-topping podcast on Asian American stories. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned an MA in Museology from The University of Washington.

*Ryan Lee Wong* is author of the novel Which Side Are You On, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. He organized the exhibitions Serve the People at Interference Archive and Roots at Chinese American Museum, and has written on the intersections of arts, race, and social movements. Ryan holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and served on the Board of the Jerome Foundation. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Temple and is the Administrative Director of Brooklyn Zen Center.

*Bryan Thao Worra* is a Lao American poet. With 20+ awards and fellowships, he is the author of 9+ books of poetry on the Lao American diaspora. He has presented at the Library of Congress, Poets House, Kearny Street Workshop, the Singapore Writers Festival, and the Smithsonian, and is the author of over 100 publications. He has documented Lao Theravada Buddhist temples in the US for over 15 years. His newest book American Laodyssey is forthcoming from Sahtu Press in Spring 2024.


Moderator
*Chenxing Han* is the author of Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists; one long listening: a memoir of grief, friendship, and spiritual care; and over twenty articles and book chapters for both academic and mainstream audiences. She is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at schools, universities, and Buddhist communities across the nation, and currently serves as the Khyentse Visitor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:14:43 -0500 2024-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 2024-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Asian American Buddhist Literature Panel Poster
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Seeing the World like a Sage: Mengzi on Cultivating Perception (April 2, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117591 117591-21839558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in perason or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/MrNjW

Mengzi claims that human beings have natural affective responses that lead them toward being good, but virtue requires extending and modifying these feeling so that they arise in all of the appropriate circumstances. In this talk, I argue that, for Mengzi, the cultivation of emotions is based not on judgment or analogy but on perception. The goal of cultivation is to shape oneself so that the world appears in a certain way.

Franklin Perkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East and West. His main research interests are in classical Chinese philosophy, early modern European philosophy, and in the challenges of doing philosophy in a comparative or intercultural context. He is the author of "Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy" (Indiana, 2014), "Leibniz: A Guide for the Perplexed" (Bloomsbury, 2007), and "Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light" (Cambridge, 2004), and was co-editor of "Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems" (Cambridge, 2015), with Chenyang Li. His most recent book is "Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi" (Oxford University Press, 2021).

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:35:44 -0500 2024-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Franklin Perkins, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Accessing Korean Art Song: An Under Appreciated Gem (April 2, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119322 119322-21842567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/pkDjq

With a history spanning just over 100 years, Korean art song (Gagok), is an equally sophisticated and beautiful genre as German Lieder or French mélodies. The repertoire has received almost no attention by performers and scholars, however. The majority of those who do study and perform it tend to be of Korean background and already have mastery of the language.

Since 2020, Dr. Matthew Thompson has run a FEAST research team at U-M dedicated to making Korean art song more accessible to English speakers. What are the challenges of encountering this repertoire as a non-native speaker? What materials and resources exist to aid those interested in further study? Dr. Thompson will present both on his research and on the materials that he is developing to help more people engage with this amazing repertoire.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:15:29 -0500 2024-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, University of Michigan
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | For Whom and for What Purposes?: Peace and War Museums in Japan and Its Neighbors (April 4, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117580 117580-21839536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

This lecture will be in-person only and will not be recorded.

Japan and its neighboring nations invaded by its military during WWII host numerous history museums dedicated to the WWII period. Each museum seems to have its political goals to convey its visitors. This talk analyzes Japan's so-called war and peace museums in the context of East Asia.

Takashi Yoshida is a professor of history at Western Michigan University. His publications include *From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea* (Merwin Asia, 2014) and *The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States* (Oxford University Press, 2006).

*This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:00:53 -0400 2024-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | For Whom and for What Purposes?: Peace and War Museums in Japan and Its Neighbors
American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST Biennial Symposium (April 4, 2024 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120688 120688-21845137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Full details and registration link at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/acsaa2024/

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues, and participate in the ACSAA community. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Ann Arbor, Michigan!

All the scholarly talks and panels are free and open to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan.

The symposium is made possible thanks to the generous support of various departments and units at the University of Michigan including the Department of the History of Art and the Museum of Art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:07 -0400 2024-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2024-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
CJS Winter 2024 Film Series | *Kasane* (April 4, 2024 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117437 117437-21839299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2024 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/ezrqX

An ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?

Curator's note by Markus Nornes: Satō's *Kasane* is an edgy and stylish adaptation of Daruma Matsunaga's *manga*. It links two actresses of varying looks and talent through a magical lipstick, which enables the swapping of appearance and being. They attempt to, as it were, combine their talents; but a male acquaintance has ulterior motives.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Read more about the film, including ratings, at https://imdb.com/title/tt7058612/

More about the film series at https://michtheater.org/cjs-film-series-2024

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:15:17 -0500 2024-04-04T19:15:00-04:00 2024-04-04T21:05:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening CJS Winter 2024 Film Series | Kasane
American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST Biennial Symposium (April 5, 2024 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120688 120688-21845138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2024 8:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Full details and registration link at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/acsaa2024/

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues, and participate in the ACSAA community. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Ann Arbor, Michigan!

All the scholarly talks and panels are free and open to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan.

The symposium is made possible thanks to the generous support of various departments and units at the University of Michigan including the Department of the History of Art and the Museum of Art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:07 -0400 2024-04-05T08:30:00-04:00 2024-04-05T16:45:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Women Issuing Fatwas in Indonesia: Gender, Authority, and Everyday Legal Practice (April 5, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117312 117312-21839158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/W281w

Nor Ismah introduces a novel approach to examining fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) within the context of Indonesia, with the aim of contributing to the broader field of Islamic Studies on fatwa-making. It advocates for a redirection of research attention towards women's fatwa-making, emphasizing their lived experiences and the specific locales where they issue fatwas. By integrating Islamic studies frameworks with anthropological research and gender studies, my presentation challenges the conventional concentration on male-dominated institutions, highlighting the grassroots level practice of issuing fatwas, particularly by women.

She contends that fatwa-issuing institutions exhibit gendered structures that marginalize women from significant roles and recognition as Islamic scholars. Consequently, an exploration of women's fatwa-making necessitates an examination of various interaction sites between female muftis and those seeking fatwas. These interactions unveil dynamic shifts in women's experiences, religious authority, and everyday fatwa-making practices influenced by context-specific resources. The active participation of women disrupts traditional norms, challenging gendered structures within fatwa-making institutions.

Additionally, it signifies the evolution of doctrinal changes and ethical practices, transforming fatwas from static outcomes into a dynamic and inclusive realm of interaction, innovation, and Islamic authority. The presentation argues that the success observed in Indonesia holds paramount importance for a comprehensive understanding of Muslim women's experiences in contemporary Muslim society. To achieve a holistic perspective, the study recommends shifting the focus away from the Middle East and expanding research to encompass Muslims in other regions, particularly Southeast Asia, where the most populous Muslim country is situated. This shift is envisioned to offer a well-rounded depiction of the diverse experiences of Muslim women beyond the conventional geographical center of Islam.

Nor Ismah is Deputy Director of the Institute of Southeast Asian Islam at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Indonesia. She holds a Master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, completing her studies in 2012 with the support of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program. From 2016 to 2023, she pursued her PhD studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), sponsored by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. Nor Ismah’s research focuses on Islam, women's knowledge production, and media. In recognition of her scholarly achievements, Nor Ismah was awarded the Co2libri Early Career Researcher Fellowship at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2023. She received the prestigious 2023-2024 Association of Asian Studies Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies, which is hosted by and has brought her to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:06:14 -0500 2024-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST Biennial Symposium (April 5, 2024 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120688 120688-21845139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2024 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Full details and registration link at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/acsaa2024/

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues, and participate in the ACSAA community. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Ann Arbor, Michigan!

All the scholarly talks and panels are free and open to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan.

The symposium is made possible thanks to the generous support of various departments and units at the University of Michigan including the Department of the History of Art and the Museum of Art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:07 -0400 2024-04-05T17:30:00-04:00 2024-04-05T18:45:00-04:00 Museum of Art Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST Biennial Symposium (April 6, 2024 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120688 120688-21845140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2024 8:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Full details and registration link at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/acsaa2024/

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues, and participate in the ACSAA community. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Ann Arbor, Michigan!

All the scholarly talks and panels are free and open to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan.

The symposium is made possible thanks to the generous support of various departments and units at the University of Michigan including the Department of the History of Art and the Museum of Art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:07 -0400 2024-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2024-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST Biennial Symposium (April 7, 2024 8:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120688 120688-21845141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 7, 2024 8:15am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Full details and registration link at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/acsaa2024/

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, share ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues, and participate in the ACSAA community. We are looking forward to welcoming you all to Ann Arbor, Michigan!

All the scholarly talks and panels are free and open to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan.

The symposium is made possible thanks to the generous support of various departments and units at the University of Michigan including the Department of the History of Art and the Museum of Art.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:57:07 -0400 2024-04-07T08:15:00-04:00 2024-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium American Council for Southern Asian Art XXIST BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Scent from Afar: Aromatics, Healing, and the Making of Olfactory Knowledge in Tang and Song China (April 9, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117592 117592-21839559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/QqyjD

Among the rich variety of substances that flowed into Middle Period China, aromatics (Chi. xiang) figured prominently, including saffron from Kashmir, camphor from Sumatra, and frankincense from Arabia. Introduced by envoys, monks, and traders via both overland and maritime routes, these fragrant materials acquired diverse virtues in Chinese medical, religious, and culinary culture. By focusing on the medicinal uses of these articles in Tang and Song China with attention to the role of smell in healing, this talk reveals the dynamic process of producing new olfactory knowledge and sensorial experience upon cross-cultural exchange.

Yan Liu is an associate professor in History at SUNY, Buffalo. He specializes in the history of medicine in premodern China, with a focus on material practices of medicine, religious healing, the history of the senses, and the global circulation of knowledge. His first book, "Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China," was published by the University of Washington Press in 2021 (open access available), and won the 2023 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. His second book explores a transcultural history of aromatics and the production of olfactory knowledge in Tang and Song China.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:41:01 -0500 2024-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Scent from Afar: Aromatics, Healing, and the Making of Olfactory Knowledge in Tang and Song China
GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening | Bophana Center Short Films - Language and Indigeneity (April 9, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120843 120843-21845417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person at Weiser Hall, or viz Zoom. If you wish to attend via Zoom, please register at https://bit.ly/GETSEASimulcastZoom

In conjunction with the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA), and the Bophana Center present four short films by indigenous Cambodian filmmakers on the themes of "Healing, Memory, and Care."

Each university will connect via Zoom with the film makers located at the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for introductions and a post-screening discussion of the films. Meanwhile, a virtual screening will be available for viewers across the globe at KhmerTV.com. Virtual-only viewers will also be able to join the in-person screening locations for the post-screening discussion with the film makers via Zoom at https://bit.ly/GETSEASimulcastZoom.

Dull Trail (2020) Directed by Khon, Raksa, Peou Mono, and Choey Rickydavid. Bunong language.

My Wish (2021) Directed by Kasol Sinoun. Jarai language.

Trung (2022) Directed by Khamnhei Hea. Karvet Language.

Alive Skin (2022) Directed by Veasna Oem and Vantha Rat. Khmer language.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:41:46 -0400 2024-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 2024-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening GETSEA Simulcast Film Screening | Bophana Center Short Films - Language and Indigeneity
CHOP | China Ongoing Perspectives Film Series (April 10, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120753 120753-21845230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Two nights of film viewing showcasing documentaries about China through the lens of European and Chinese directors--with stories spanning the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Discussants are U-M Postdoctoral Fellows Gavin Healy and Yukun Zeng. Refreshments, Q/A following the films.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the U-M Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) film series.

*Wednesday, April 10*

*Sunday in Peking ‘Dimanche à Pekin’*
Director: Chris Marker
1956, 18.5m
French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker takes the viewer on a journey through Peking--its traditions, history, and banalities of everyday life.

*Chung Kuo, Cina*
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1972, first 32 m
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni was invited to China in 1972, where he produced a film presenting his impressions of a five-week tour of cities, historical sites, and monuments of socialist construction. Later denounced by the Chinese government as an “anti-China clown” who employed “despicable tricks” to defame the Chinese people, the following decades have come to see a reassessment of Antonioni and his film.

*How Yukong Moved the Mountains*
Director: Joris Ivens
1974 (The Ball), 17.5m
A supporter and documentarian of Chinese socialism since the 1930s, Joris Ivens returned to China in the last days of the Cultural Revolution to produce a multi-part chronicle of ordinary people and their place in the Chinese revolution.

*Thursday, April 11*

*A Young Patriot*
Director: Haibin Du
2015 1h 45m
A Chinese documentary that explores China's youths born after 1990 through 19-year-old "patriotic exhibitionist" Zhao as he begins to question nationalism and is challenged by Western influences.

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:22:57 -0400 2024-04-10T18:00:00-04:00 2024-04-10T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening CHOP | China Ongoing Perspectives Film Series
CANCELED - CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Japanese Traders in Seventeenth-Century Mexico City (April 11, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117581 117581-21839537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

We apologize that we have had to cancel this event.

Franco Xuo “of the Japanese nation” was living in Mexico City in the 1630s, working as a trader. How did he come to be there and why did he stay? This talk examines his experiences along with those of other Japanese men to answer these questions. Their stories reveal that global trade in the early modern period depended on working men who moved thousands of miles away to take advantage of commercial centers knowing they might never return to their homelands.

Tatiana Seijas is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She writes about global migrations, long-distance trade, urban economies, and the joined history of freedom and slavery. Her latest monograph “American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City in the Seventeenth Century” is a new history of one of the early modern world's greatest entrepôts centered on the economic lives of ordinary people.

*This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*

*Image source: “Nova Mexico, Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld” (Amsterdam, 1671). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.*

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:02:01 -0400 2024-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Nova Mexico, Die Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld” (Amsterdam, 1671). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library.
Manuscript Studies Interest Group (April 11, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116755 116755-21837903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

The Manuscript Studies Interest Group aims to bring together faculty, graduate students, librarians/curators, fellows/visiting scholars, and anyone else at U-M interested in manuscript studies or engaged in research on manuscripts. Manuscript cultures are central to premodern societies. Different manuscript formats and material substrates connect texts, images, languages, reading practices, and ritual performances, which in a university setting are often split across multiple departments and fields. Having this broad framework will enable the interest group to explore collaboration across disciplines and facilitate research among different manuscript traditions through an object-centered approach.

In monthly meetings during the Fall and Winter terms, participants will present on current research interests as well as give more general overviews of particular manuscript cultures for informal discussion and exchange. They will also occasionally discuss key readings which have shaped manuscript studies in specific areas or in broader ways. In addition, the interest group hopes to be able to explore manuscript collections in person together, both in and around Ann Arbor as well as further afield. Inviting an external speaker once a year (potentially funded through the History of Art Department) would be a great way to connect the interest group with scholars beyond U-M.

Organized by Tina Bawden (History of Art) and Trent Walker (Asian Languages & Cultures)

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:23:27 -0500 2024-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Workshop / Seminar MSG poster
CHOP | China Ongoing Perspectives Film Series (April 11, 2024 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120753 120753-21845231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Two nights of film viewing showcasing documentaries about China through the lens of European and Chinese directors--with stories spanning the 1950s, 1970s, and 1990s. Discussants are U-M Postdoctoral Fellows Gavin Healy and Yukun Zeng. Refreshments, Q/A following the films.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the U-M Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) film series.

*Wednesday, April 10*

*Sunday in Peking ‘Dimanche à Pekin’*
Director: Chris Marker
1956, 18.5m
French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker takes the viewer on a journey through Peking--its traditions, history, and banalities of everyday life.

*Chung Kuo, Cina*
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
1972, first 32 m
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni was invited to China in 1972, where he produced a film presenting his impressions of a five-week tour of cities, historical sites, and monuments of socialist construction. Later denounced by the Chinese government as an “anti-China clown” who employed “despicable tricks” to defame the Chinese people, the following decades have come to see a reassessment of Antonioni and his film.

*How Yukong Moved the Mountains*
Director: Joris Ivens
1974 (The Ball), 17.5m
A supporter and documentarian of Chinese socialism since the 1930s, Joris Ivens returned to China in the last days of the Cultural Revolution to produce a multi-part chronicle of ordinary people and their place in the Chinese revolution.

*Thursday, April 11*

*A Young Patriot*
Director: Haibin Du
2015 1h 45m
A Chinese documentary that explores China's youths born after 1990 through 19-year-old "patriotic exhibitionist" Zhao as he begins to question nationalism and is challenged by Western influences.

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:22:57 -0400 2024-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 2024-04-11T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening CHOP | China Ongoing Perspectives Film Series
CJS Winter 2024 Film Series | *Kwaidan* (April 11, 2024 7:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117438 117438-21839302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2024 7:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/JpMG5

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai (Rentarō Mikuni) marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden (Keiko Kishi), but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hōichi (Katsuo Nakamura) is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author (Osamu Takizawa) relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

Curators note by Markus Nornes: Masaki Kobayashi omnibus-adapts four stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of ghost stories. With an all-star cast, refined photography, and a stunning soundtrack by Tōru Takemitsu, *Kwaidan* won a special jury prize at Cannes and garnered a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Read more about the film, including ratings, at https://imdb.com/title/tt0058279/

More about the film series at https://michtheater.org/cjs-film-series-2024

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at wugou@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:22:59 -0500 2024-04-11T19:15:00-04:00 2024-04-11T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening CJS Winter 2024 Film Series | Kwaidan
Korean Cinema NOW | The Talent Show | 장기자랑 (April 13, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116526 116526-21837285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

In South Korea, the Sewol ferry disaster is associated with a “national trauma.” The emotional impact of the tragedy was heightened by the fact that so many of the victims were young school children. In 2019, the group created their first original play based on testimony they had gathered from school’s mothers. *The Talent Show* tells the story of a talent show the Danwon High students had been preparing before leaving for their school trip to Jeju. In the play, the children arrive safely on the island, and are able to put on the show. Through the play, the mothers are able to reconnect with their lost children and see them again in a new light.

Directed by Sohyun Lee

Presented in Korean with English subtitles.

*The Talent Show* is being screened in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster. Screened at the Michigan Theater, the film is free and open to the public.

Details at the Michigan Theater website: https://michtheater.org/korean-cinema-now

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Film Screening Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:51:03 -0500 2024-04-13T13:00:00-04:00 2024-04-13T14:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Film Screening Korean Cinema NOW | The Talent Show | 장기자랑
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Tariff Wall Jumping at the China-Vietnam Border (April 16, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117593 117593-21839560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/Nk3jp

Co-authored by Matthew E. Kahn and Wen-Chi Liao

The Trump Administration's tariffs created a wedge between mutually beneficial trades between China's producers and US consumers. Moving production to nearby Vietnam allows firms to jump the tariff wall. Locations within Vietnam differ in their proximity to China, industrial mix, and existing transport infrastructures such as roads, rails, and ports. We exploit these exogenous attributes to explore Vietnam's new emerging economic geography induced by the US/China Trade War. Using data from 2015 to 2021 on Vietnamese cities and provinces, we conduct a Bartik shift-share analysis to study the effects of the S310 China tariffs. Locations within Vietnam closer to China gain more—a border effect—in output and new FDI, particularly for industries producing goods the US demands. A multiplier effect benefits the local sector, evidenced by retail sales. The border effect relates to global-value-chain restructuring and manufacturing reallocation. We study how the urban lights at night and local air pollution PM2.5 evolve as Vietnam's cities grow. We compare the lessons between Vietnam's urban growth through tacit integration with China during the US/China Trade War and Mexico's growth through joining NAFTA.

Siqi Zheng’s field of specialization is urban and environmental economics and policy, including sustainable urbanization, sustainable real estate, and urbanization in emerging economies. She published in many peer reviewed international journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, and the Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Geography, European Economic Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Transportation Research Part A, Environment and Planning A, Ecological Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. A book she has co-authored with Matthew Kahn, "Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China" (Princeton University Press) was published in 2016. Dr. Zheng has completed or been undertaking research projects granted or entrusted by the World Bank, the MassCPR, MITEI, MIT Portugal, MIT MCSC, the Asian Development Bank, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, among others. She won the MIT Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising in 2022; and Asian Real Estate Academic & Professional (AsREAP) Woman Achievement Award (by Asian Real Estate Society) in 2023. She received her PhD in urban development and real estate from Tsinghua University in 2005, and did her post-doc research at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Prior to coming to MIT, she was a professor and the director of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University, China. Her research website is http://www.siqizheng.com.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:45:48 -0500 2024-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Siqi Zheng, STL Champion Professor of Urban and Real Estate Sustainability CRE, DUSP and SA+P, Faculty Director, MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE), Director, MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Democracy on Edge: Japan’s Atsumi Peninsula During the Allied Occupation (April 18, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117583 117583-21839538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at http://myumi.ch/W28QA

This lecture will not be viewable as a recording on the CJS YouTube channel. Please attend in real time.

This talk uses Aichi Prefecture's Atsumi Peninsula and the waters that surround it as a lens for understanding post-WWII democratization efforts on a micro scale in a region far removed from the oversight of General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Tokyo. Citizen efforts in the late 1940s and early 1950s to combat the power of entrenched local political and economic bosses will be considered in light of disputes regarding seaweed harvesting rights, opposition to the requisitioning of local land for a Self Defense Forces Shooting Range, and the reconstruction of infrastructure following the 1953 Ise Bay Typhoon.

Emer O'Dwyer is director of the East Asian Studies Program at Oberlin College and associate professor of history and East Asian studies. She specializes in 20th-century Japanese history with research interests in imperialism, democracy, and the post-war Allied Occupation. She is currently working on a history of “boss rule” in Japan from the wartime era through the beginning of the high-growth era in the mid-1950s.

*This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:02:59 -0400 2024-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Democracy on Edge: Japan’s Atsumi Peninsula During the Allied Occupation
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath (April 23, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117594 117594-21839561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/358WA

In four decades since the late 1970s, China has experienced one of the most consequential economic transformations in world history. One-fifth of the Earth’s population has left behind a life of scarcity and subsistence for one of abundance and material comfort. Based on his newly published book, Wang Feng revisits the origins, forces, and processes of the meteoric rise in living standards of the Chinese population, and offers a systematic historical and sociological analysis of this unique historical juncture. Anticipating headwinds, including an aging population, increasing inequality, and intensifying political control, Wang Feng discusses why China’s age of abundance has come to an end, and the challenges China faces in its aftermath.

WANG Feng currently holds the position of professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a scholar with expertise in China’s social and demographic changes, of social inequality, and of comparative population and social history. He is the author of multiple books and many articles in professional journals, books, and other media outlets. His work and views have appeared frequently in major global media outlets. He has served as an expert for the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum, among many others. His multifaceted professional service includes terms as Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine (2007-2010), Senior Fellow in Foreign Relations and in Global Development at the Brookings Institution, a leading think-tank in the United States, and the Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing (2010-2013). He is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association, an honor society of sociologists in the United States. He is also an elected foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (National Academy of Italy). Professor Wang Feng is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the first from the PRC receiving a PhD degree in social sciences at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 20 Jan 2024 13:50:38 -0500 2024-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Lecture / Discussion Wang Feng, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Concerned Asian Scholars, 55 Years Later: A Symposium (May 10, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/120338 120338-21844589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 10, 2024 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

The Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) was founded in 1968 in the wake of the US aggression in Vietnam. Fifty-five years later, what lessons might be drawn from CCAS' efforts to practice anti-imperialist research? Join us for a full day of intergenerational conversations among the founding and early members of CCAS, editors of critical Asian studies journals, and younger scholars working on Asia. We will discuss the place of politically committed scholarship in the academy and the role of the public intellectual in our society, all in order to ask: What does it mean to be a scholar concerned about Asia in the US today?

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:59:27 -0400 2024-05-10T09:00:00-04:00 2024-05-10T18:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Asian Languages and Cultures Conference / Symposium CCAS Poster