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CSAS Lecture Series | Cultivating a Global Radical Imagination at the Grassroots: Communist Women’s Mobilization in Mid-20th-c. Assam/Eastern Bengal
Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Gathering Fading Voices: Endangered Dialect Research in Japan Today
Joy Taniguchi, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person, we recommend...
For Thee and All the World to See: May 18 Gwangju and the Visual Tenacities of South Korean Democracy
Juhn Ahn, Thierry Bonzon, Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong, Sohl Lee, Hayana Kim, David Dolinger, Na Kyung-taek
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Sixth Annual Luis Gomez Memorial Lecture
Learning to Read from Mahāyāna Sūtras by Natalie Gummer
Learning to Read from Mahāyāna Sūtras...
CSAS Lecture Series | Rummana Hussain's Feminist Cosmopolitics
Rattanamol Johal, University of Michigan
In her relatively brief career, the Indian artist Rummana Hussain (1952-1999) straddled painting, drawing, performance, video, and...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Art in Warring States China (5th-3rd Century BC): Thinking Like a Designer
Haicheng Wang, University of Washington
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
Geophilosophies (3): Cross-Cultural Thinking in Precarious Times
A Workshop Series Exploring Cross-Cultural Thinking Hosted by the University of Michigan in Collaboration with the Uberoi Foundation
In this era of global disorientation, marked by unfolding ecological crises, ongoing wars fueled by technological competition, the idea of...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rivers and the Politics of Temporality in Ainu Mosir
Michael J. Ioannides, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person, we recommend...
CSEAS 2026 Fall Potluck Reception
Join the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for the 2026 Fall Potluck Reception....
Korea Week | Korean Games & Crafts for Kids
Play traditional Korean games and create your own paper charye sang to celebrate Chuseok, a mid-autumn harvest holiday....
Korea Week | The Beauty of Hanbok: Discovering Korean Culture Through Traditional and Modern Hanbok
Laura Park, Leehwa Wedding
Join us to learn about the beauty, history, and cultural significance of Korean hanbok, one of Korea's most treasured cultural...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Sea as Medium in Early Modern Chinese Fiction
SE Kile, University of Michigan
In this talk, Dr. Kile demonstrates how we might better understand Chinese early modernity through environment and experience, categories...
Korea Week | Korean Ink Wash Painting Workshop with Jiyoung Kim When
Jiyoung Kim
Discover the beauty and philosophy of traditional Korean painting (Hangukhwa) through an engaging demonstration. Jiyoung Kim will introduce...
Korea Week | Korean Food: Culture, Politics, and Identities
Rory Walsh, University of Michigan
Korean food is having a moment–one that's been decades in the making. Dr. Rory Walsh explores what Korean food is, how it got that...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Living Ainu Art: Community, Nature, and Intergenerational Knowledge through Song and Dance
Kanako Uzawa; Invited Faculty Member, Hokkaido University; Affiliated Researcher, Historical Museum of Oslo; Guest Curator, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom,...
Korea Week | Learn About Hangul, the Korean Alphabet
Korean Language Program Faculty, University of Michigan
Learn about Hangul (the Korean alphabet) with staff members from the Korean Language Program at the University of Michigan. Then try your...
CSAS 2026 Kavita Datla Memorial Lecture | Minor Cosmopolitanisms: Islam, Urdu, and Secularism in Postcolonial India
Dr. Razak Khan; Senior Research Fellow in Global History, Department of History, Free University, Berlin
Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/e73ZQ...
Korea Week | Traditional Korean Drumming with Sinaboro
Sinaboro, University of Michigan
Learn about samul nori and pungmul nori (traditional Korean drumming) with Sinaboro, the Korean percussion ensemble at the University of...
Korea Week | Korean Storytime
Eunjae Cheon, Andrea Yun
Hear stories told by Eunjae Cheon and sing songs led by Andrea Yun! All activities will be led in Korean. After storytime, stay for a craft!...
Korea Week | Learn about Gangdong-gu!
Learn about AADL's partnership with Gangdong-gu in Seoul while enjoying simple crafts!...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Bad Romance in Southeast Asia: China-Linked Cyber-Scamming, Variegated Govotolerance, and the Geopolitics of Criminality along China's Belt and Road
Tom Narins, University at Albany
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series | Lee Kuan Yew Goes Global?
Say Jye Quah, Cornell University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
Transcultural Studies AMDP Drop-In Info Session
Join us for a drop-in remote information session with the TCS Director to learn about the Accelerated Master’s Degree Program in...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Place-Making in Postindustrial Taiwan
Anru Lee, The City University of New York
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of Unowned Dance: Bodies in Transmission
Yasuko Yokoshi, Choreographer, Dancer, Filmmaker
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448. We recommend entering East Hall using the Church Street entrance and...
In the Shadow of Empire:
Calcutta’s Victoria Memorial and its Cast of Moving Statuary
With a focus on Calcutta’s landmark monument – the most grandiose of the memorials to the Queen of all the ones built across the British...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Metricracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
Chuncheng Liu, Northeastern University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
Author Talk: Chinese Cooking with Food Writer and Chef Fuchsia Dunlop
Fuchsia Dunlop, writer and chef
Fuel your food fantasies for the harvest season with an exploration of Chinese cooking rooted in the ancient philosophy of the five...
CSAS Lecture Series | Beyond the Seas Blue
Asma Kazmi; Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California-Berkeley
In this lecture, Kazmi will discuss Beyond the Seas Blue alongside earlier projects that connect contemporary technologies to...
The 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ 31)
Reimagining Japanese Language Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Transformations
We are pleased to announce the 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ) to be hosted jointly by the University of...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From a 'Ton of Steel' to 'Another Province Overseas': Foreign and Diaspora Tourism to Mao-Era China
Gavin Healy, Columbia University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan
Joshua Schlachet, Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Sacred Edict as Hate Speech: Griffith John, the Hunan Riots, and Qing imperial ideology
Pär Cassel, University of Michigan
In the 1890s, a series of anti-missionary riots swept through Hunan province. While the disturbances were promptly quelled and the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | When Self-Empowerment Goes South (or East, More Precisely): Gender, Neoliberalism, and Romance Fraud in Japan
Yutaka Yoshida, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person, we recommend...
CSAS Lecture Series | Indians and Cowboys: Race, Caste, and Catholic Missionary Priests from India in Rural America
Sonja Thomas, Colby College
Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom, registration is required. Once...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Chinese and Muslim Refugees on the Tibetan Frontier, 1860–1965
Gyatso Marnyi, University of Michigan
From 1860 onward, frequent wars and disasters claimed millions of lives in Northwest China. More than one million Chinese and Muslims sought...
