BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260302T164656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260312T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8\n\nAttend a workshop to decorate the dragon body with garlands and glitter\, bells and bottlecaps\, sequins and sparkle! Events will be held on March 12\, 17\, 19 from 6 - 9 PM at the Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center).\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cstep@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:146100-21898388@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146100 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center), Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260109T125900 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Globalizing Chinese Theatre: Chinese Dramatists and Transnational Media Ecologies DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/mRz1N\n\nDr. Zhao’s new project investigates the transnational engagements of Chinese dramatists\, actors\, and intellectuals with world theatre from the 1910s to the 1930s and illustrates how they significantly shaped the global perceptions of Chinese theatre. Through case studies of Chinese dramatists working in the United States\, France\, and Britain\, this talk will present how they articulated their own visions of Chinese theatre\, establishing it not as an exotic spectacle but as a site of theoretical experimentation and aesthetic authority. By re-centering Chinese agency within transnational theatre networks\, their work reframed Chinese theatre as a constitutive rather than derivative force in global theatre history and laid the groundwork for the forms and debates that continue to shape Chinese theatre today.\n \n Sophia Tingting Zhao (Ph.D.\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Stanford University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at Virginia Tech\, where she also serves as director of the Chinese program. Her research focuses on Chinese theatre and performance\, performance historiography\, and the intersections of literature\, gender\, urban space\, media\, and global modernity\, with particular emphasis on transnational Chinese theatre. She is the co-author of three scholarly books on Chinese theatre\, including two scholarly editions of traditional poetry on Chinese Kun opera and a scholarly edition of a sixteenth-century dramatic text.\n \n Her forthcoming monograph\, “Globalizing Chinese Theatre”《面向世界的中国戏剧》 (Fudan University Press\, 2026)\, examines how Chinese dramatists\, performers\, and intellectuals engaged transnationally with world theatre and reshaped global narratives of Chinese theatre between 1911 and 1949. She is also the author of Mei Lanfang and Gender Studies 《梅兰芳与女性文化研究》(Beijing Publishing House\, 2026)\, the first book-length gender analysis of female impersonation and theatrical stardom in twentieth-century Chinese theatre. Her article “Wang Guowei’s Weltanschauung: Chinese Theatre in the Age of Globalization” won the 2019 Wang Guowei Award for Academic Paper on Drama. Her scholarship on Mei Lanfang has also been recognized as Top-Ten Papers at the 1st\, 2nd\, and 7th Mei Lanfang Research Young Scholars Forums. Additional honors include the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Asian Performance. UID:143619-21893527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T091841 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260317T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8\n\nAttend a workshop to decorate the dragon body with garlands and glitter\, bells and bottlecaps\, sequins and sparkle! Events will be held on March 12\, 17\, 19 from 6 - 9 PM at the Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center).\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cstep@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:146122-21898410@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146122 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center). Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T092752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260319T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dancing with the Dragon | WORKSHOP for Decorating the Dragon DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the Dancing with the Dragon Inititative. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/JPVp8\n\nAttend a workshop to decorate the dragon body with garlands and glitter\, bells and bottlecaps\, sequins and sparkle! Events will be held on March 12\, 17\, 19 from 6 - 9 PM at the Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center).\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cstep@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:146124-21898418@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146124 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Design Lab (1321 Duderstadt Center). Ann Arbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260109T134538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Transnational Feminist Mediation: The Other Half of the Sky (1975) and US-China People’s Diplomacy DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/Mk23A\n\nAt a moment of renewed U.S.-China antagonism\, this talk revisits a pivotal yet understudied Cold War juncture: the early 1970s\, when ideological hostilities softened and alternative modes of global engagement emerged. Focusing on \"The Other Half of the Sky: The China Memoir\" (1975)\, a documentary co-directed by Shirley MacLaine and Claudia Weill during the first American Women’s Friendship Delegation to China in 1973\, the talk argues that the film articulates a gendered reimagining of diplomacy grounded in everyday encounter. Centering on women’s voices and intimate exchanges\, the documentary maps a form of “people’s diplomacy” that unsettles Cold War binaries and foregrounded socialist feminism\, collective life\, and transnational solidarity—including Sino-African American connections.\n \n Ling Zhang is associate professor of Cinema Studies at the State University of New York\, Purchase College. She received her Ph.D. in cinema and media studies from the University of Chicago. Her research explores film sound and acoustic culture\, Chinese-language cinema and digital media\, and the cultural Cold War. She co-edited *Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media* (Hong Kong UP\, 2025) and is developing two monographs\, “Unruly Sounds: Chinese Cinema and Transnational Acoustic Culture\, 1929–1949\,” and “Sounding Wayward Journeys: Traveling Media in China and the World\, 1949–1989.” Her work appears in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Journal of Popular Culture\, and Film Quarterly. UID:143623-21893531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143623 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251210T163331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260326T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima\, Kyoto\, and the Wokou in Sixteenth-Century Maritime East Asia DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/A1DNw\n \n This presentation uses the theme of navigation to rewrite the sixteenth-century history of so-called Japanese pirates (Ch. *Wokou*) from the participating seafarers’ perspectives. To do so\, Professor Shapinsky traces the development of patronage networks and sea-routes linking islanders from Tanegashima in the Japanese archipelago with Kyoto aristocrats\, Ashikaga shogunal officials\, Chinese diplomatic envoys\, and Chinese sea merchants. These last integrated Tanegashima seafarers into raiding and trading consortia during the high tide of Wokou activity during the 1540s and 1550s.\n \n Peter Shapinsky is a professor of history at the University of Illinois\, Springfield. He is the author of *Lords of the Sea: Pirates\, Violence\, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan* (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies\, University of Michigan\, 2014) and several articles and chapters\, including “Merchants\, Monks\, and Marauders: Medieval Japan on and over the Seas\,” forthcoming in the new *Cambridge History of Japan.*\n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:142552-21891148@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142552 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260303T161647 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260329T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260329T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dancing with the Dragon | VOLUNTEER to Dance the Dragon DESCRIPTION:Train together with your friends! Volunteers will train with Golden Tiger Kung Fu & Extended Learning Academy on March 29—fill out our registration form to participate. We need teams of 8 people to bring the new\, reimagined U-M dragon to life.\n\nREGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://myumi.ch/61AAm\n \n Performances are scheduled at Hill Auditorium on April 6 and the FoolMoon Festival on April 10. Volunteer dancers must be available to perform at BOTH events! \n\n*Accommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cstep@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.* UID:146127-21898420@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146127 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:china LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Room 3358 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260331T114217 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260407T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Yuan Architecture: Where Are the Mongols? DESCRIPTION:In-Person Talk Only\n\nYuan (1267-1368) not only is the period of Chinese history when all of China was ruled by a non-Chinese dynasty\, it is also a period when China was part of a much larger empire. At its zenith\, the Mongol empire spanned from Korea in the East to Eastern Europe in the West. It is thus a period when non-Chinese building traditions should have entered China. This talk explores that question.\n \n Nancy S. Steinhardt is professor of East Asian art and curator of Chinese art at the University of Pennsylvania. She has broad research interests in the art and architecture of China and China’s border regions\, particularly problems that result from the interaction between Chinese art and that of peoples to the North\, Northeast\, and Northwest. Her most recent book\, *Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire* won the 2025 Booklaunch Award for the best book in architectural history. UID:143831-21894100@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143831 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260113T133317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Explaining the Sexual Empowerment of Married Women in China DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/pV41e\n\nThe transition of Chinese marriage from a patriarchal to a more egalitarian model is well known\, but the rise of women’s sexual empowerment within marriage is less so. Using survey data from the 1980s and 90s\, this talk examines a key aspect of a woman’s conjugal power\, her ability to decline to have sex with her husband.\n \n Bill Lavely is Professor Emeritus of international studies and sociology at the University of Washington. Trained at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center\, he is a social demographer who has written on Chinese fertility\, marriage\, mortality\, sex ratios\, and historical demography. UID:143832-21894102@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143832 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260420T142845 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Building a Small Hydropower Station in Mao-era China DESCRIPTION:In-Person Talk Only\n\nBy the end of the 1970s\, the Chinese claimed to have built just under 90\,000 small hydropower stations across the country. This talk\, based on a chapter from an in-progress book\, explores the micro-history of a single such hydropower station. From planning\, finance\, and construction\, to labor\, operation\, and maintenance\, Professor Ghosh’s goal is to explain the political economy that enabled the Chinese to mount small hydropower projects and connect them to local grids\, thereby contributing to our understanding of subnational governance and center-local relations in Mao-era China.\n \n Arunabh Ghosh (BA Haverford\; PhD Columbia) is a professor in the History Department at Harvard University. A historian of modern China\, his interests include social and economic history\, history of science and statecraft\, environmental history\, and transnational history. Ghosh is the author of *Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China* (Princeton\, 2020). He is working on a book titled *The Significance of Small Things: Hydropower and Rural Energy in China* (under contract with Stanford University Press). UID:143887-21894213@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:China LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR