II Event. Fulbright 2021-2022 Kick Off: Brown Bag Info Session
Heather Johnson, International Institute Fulbright Program Advisor
Join us for the first Fulbright Info Session in 2020! Come learn about the largest international exchange program for U.S. citizens,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Revenge of the Developmental State: Stock Market Struggles in East Asia
John Yasuda, Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Revenge of the Developmental State considers the challenges faced by East Asian stock exchanges attempting to refashion themselves in the...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Urban Environment Change in Post-Reform China
Peilei Fan, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
Based on the authors’ past and current research and a critical review of related literature, Dr. Fan will introduce patterns, drivers, and...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Winners and Losers of the Belt and Road
Wade Shepard, Author/Journalist/Filmmaker
An on-the-ground look at some of the local communities that are being impacted by China's Belt and Road initiative and the broader New...
International Institute Conference on Migration
Featuring local and international experts on migration
University of Michigan International Institute areas studies centers have collaborated to present the International Institute Conference on...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE)
Eric Greene, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land of Ghosts: Rediscovering King Hu’s "Legend of the Mountain"
Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies; Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Best known for his classic martial arts films like "A Touch of Zen" and "Come Drink with Me," King Hu (1932-1997) was...
Grace Lin Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture
Before Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picturebooks, early readers and middle grade novels,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reforms: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and 19th Century Germany
Iza Ding, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh; WCED Visiting Associate, 2019-2020; U-M Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, 2019-2020
What are the conditions under which liberalism as “rational centrist reformism” fails to obtain its goals without succumbing to the...
Jenny Zhang Reading & Book Signing
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet
Charlene Makley, Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province)...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History
Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
During the past three decades, China has witnessed an enormous growth of intellectual interest in defining a Chinese cultural identity. At...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dui yang 對揚, or ‘Responsive Exaltation:’ Performative Dimensions of Court Speech and Civil Examinations in the Early Tang
Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Berkeley
The phrase dui yang 對揚 (roughly, “responsively exalt”) is a ubiquitous formula in Zhou bronze inscriptions, evoking a symbiotic...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact
Weiping Wu, Professor and Director, Urban Planning Program; School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
At the center of China’s rapid urbanization is land: land leasing provides both current revenue and collateral for future revenue streams....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy
Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
This talk examines the unfolding controversy surrounding human genome editing in and across China’s national public sphere and national...
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception
Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with the African Studies Center; Center for European Studies; Center...
