Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 20, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 20, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-20T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-20T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 21, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-21T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
Complex Systems/EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar | "Complex interactions and spatial patterns in ecological communities" (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70643 70643-17611230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

*NOTE THIS SEMINAR STARTS AT 12:00 NOON*
IT IS A BROWN BAG SEMINAR (lunch is not provided, though normal Complex Systems coffee etc. will be available)
ABSTRACT
Ecological communities are very complex systems comprising species that interact with each other in spatially extensive settings. Understanding the rules that govern these systems and how they behave in time is fundamental, but it is also of practical importance since it concerns the maintenance of biodiversity in the face of global change. In this talk I combine results from experiments in manipulable communities of small animals and microorganisms with math modeling, and large scale analyses of functional trait information to advance our understanding of the organizational principles linking ecosystems across scales: from individuals’ traits, to the assembly of ecological networks, and the emergence of macroscopic spatial patterns. These findings contribute insights into how local and spatial dynamics interact to influence large scale properties of ecosystems. But they also lead to new questions about the rules of life, highlighting the strong need for a refinement of theoretical methods, more large scale field observations, and creative laboratory experiments that leverage modern technologies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:25:43 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar ashkaan fahimipour headshot
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China (January 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70199 70199-17547232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In the first decade of the new millennium, many educated and ambitious young Tibetans aspired to work in NGOs to promote community development, cultural preservation, and environmental protection. A decade later, the figure of the entrepreneur has replaced the figure of the NGO-worker, and hopes and dreams are now pinned on the private sector. This talk asks why this has come to be, and explores the practices and cultural politics of Tibetan youth entrepreneurship.

Emily T. Yeh is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. She researches development and nature-society relations, particularly in Tibetan parts of the PRC. This has included studies of the political ecology of pastoralism, vulnerability to and indigenous knowledge of climate change, ideologies of nature and nation, and emerging environmental identities and grassroots environmental activism. Her book "Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development" explored the intersection of the political economy and cultural politics of development as a project of state territorialization. She has also co-edited a number of books and special issues including "Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands," "The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Development and Investment in Asia," and "Rural Politics in Contemporary China."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:55:07 -0500 2020-01-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Doing Good by Doing Well?: Tibetan Youth Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China
CMENAS Event. International Liberation and Nonviolent Noncooperation: Martin Luther King and Afro-Asia (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70041 70041-17499535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The nonviolent activism of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is associated in the minds of many primarily with the Civil Rights Movement against institutionalized racism in Jim Crow America. King was, however, a keen observer of decolonization and the awakening of colonized peoples in Afro-Asia to aspirations for self-determination. This anti-colonial perspective led to his opposition to the Vietnam War. Although King was little involved in the Middle East per se, having been more focused on African countries such as Ghana, his vision and his methods have gone on to inspire many civil rights activists in Egypt, Palestine, and elsewhere in the region.

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of *Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires* (Bold Type, 2018), *The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation is Changing the Middle East* (Simon & Schuster, 2014), and *Engaging the Muslim World *(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), among many other works. He also writes on current affairs for *The Nation and Truthdig*, and maintains the *Informed Comment *news and analysis site. He has appeared widely on radio and television as a commentator on the Middle East, including on Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes' *All In,* CNN, ABC's *Nightline*, NBC's *Today Show*, *Democracy Now! *and many others.

This lecture is cosponsored by the U-M African Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:03:27 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion cole-image
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 22, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-22T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
CREES Noon Lecture. Lethal Provocations: Anti-Jewish Violence in French Algeria and Ukraine (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70626 70626-17611207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Jeffrey Veidlinger and Joshua Cole will discuss Prof. Cole's new book, *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria,* with Prof. Veidlinger offering his expertise on Ukrainian pogroms for a comparative perspective.

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, *Lethal Provocation* is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. It reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people.

Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army. Later a member of a notorious French nationalist group that threatened insurrection in the late 1930s, El Maadi became an enthusiastic supporter of France's Vichy regime in World War II, and finished his career in the German SS. The book cracks the "cold case" of El Maadi's participation in the events, revealing both his presence at the scene and his motives in provoking violence at a moment when the French government was debating the rights of Muslims in Algeria. Local police and authorities came to know about the role of provocation in the unrest and killings and purposely hid the truth during the investigation that followed. *Lethal Provocation* brings into high relief the cruelty of social relations in the decades before the war for Algerian independence.

Joshua Cole is professor of history at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria* (2019) and *The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France* (2000), as well as articles on colonial violence and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. He is also the author, with Carol Symes, of *Western Civilizations* (20th ed., 2019).

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the award-winning books *The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage* (2000), *Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire* (2009), and *In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine* (2013). Prof. Veidlinger is a vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies, associate chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is currently working on a book about the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:03:08 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Lethal Provocation book cover
Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and Modern Urban America (January 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69239 69239-17269243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

The history of racism in the South is well known—the chain gangs, lynch mobs and views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow period are, for the most part, common knowledge today. But what do we know about the role the urban North played in shaping views on the intersection of race and crime in American society?

In this talk, Khalil Gibran Muhammad reveals how the idea of black criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America, as were African Americans’ own ideas about race and crime. In the North, crime statistics, immigration trends, and references to America as the “land of opportunity” were woven into a cautionary tale about the threat Black people posed to modern urban society. Excessive arrest rates and overrepresentation in Northern prisons were pointed to by whites—liberals and conservatives alike—as proof of Blacks’ inferiority. The prevailing feeling was that, in the heyday of “separate but equal,” what else but pathology could explain Black people’s challenges in the “land of opportunity”?

Chronicling the beginning of the deeply embedded notion of Black people as a dangerous race of criminals, Muhammed explores a different side of the history of racism, weaving a narrative that is both engaging and educational.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is author of *The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America*, which won the John Hope Franklin Best Book Award in American Studies. Also the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Muhammad is a contributor to a National Research Council study, *The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences*. Recently, he also appeared in several popular documentaries, lending his expertise to Ava DuVernay’s Netflix feature, *13th , Slavery By Another Name* (PBS), and *Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football*.

Muhammad is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history. Much of his research focuses on racial criminalization in modern U.S. history. His work has been featured in a number of f national print and broadcast media outlets, including *The New York Times*—notably as one of the contributors to its’ viral *1619 Project*, which explores and exposes the true history of slavery in America—*The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR*, and *MSNBC*. Muhammad was an associate editor of *The Journal of American History* and prior Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice. He holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, two honorary doctorates, and is on the board of The Museum of Modern Art, The Barnes Foundation, and *The Nation* magazine.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:55:56 -0500 2020-01-22T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Khalil Gibran Muhammad
CSAS Film Series | Indus Blues (January 22, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70994 70994-17766494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Pakistani folk artists describe their struggle to keep a fading art form alive while reminding the world of what it is about to lose. The film tells the story of some of the most precious folk music treasures in the world on the verge of extinction. These musicians are the most prominent figures in their art form but are barely surviving amidst an indifferent society.

Jawad Sharif is a Pakistani filmmaker who believes in using film to inspire social change. Since 2007, he has directed several documentary films and a drama series for television. He has worked on a number of films on human rights, social injustice, arts and culture. Sharif was cinematographer and editor of the critically acclaimed K2 and the Invisible Footmen, which has won accolades in festivals around the world.

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Film Screening Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:43:39 -0500 2020-01-22T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-22T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS Film Series | Indus Blues
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 23, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-23T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69572 69572-17366251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East Asia since the 1970s. Now, however, the fundamental conditions of the trilateral relationship are changing because of a shift in the balance of power, a loss of confidence on American diplomacy, US-China competition and the overwhelming importance of the Chinese economy. How will a change in the relationship between Japan, the United States and China affect the order of Asia? What does improving Japan-China relations mean? Is the Japan-U.S. relationship still strong?

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. He serves as Research Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange, and has been Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. He received his BA from International Christian University and his PhD from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He also studied at the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:09:40 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
LRCCS Occasional Lecture Series | Classical as Contemporary: Choreography and New Media in China Today (January 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71638 71638-17851287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In China today, dance and new media are merging in experimental choreographies for the stage, open-air spaces, galleries, and other site-specific works. In this talk, Tian Tian will discuss recent trends in Chinese contemporary stage performance and choreography through a review of her own recent stage productions. As a practitioner and researcher of Chinese classical dance, Tian draws on historical artifacts, texts, paintings, and operatic theater to create her dance works. She is the creator of a dance movement system based on Liyuan opera, as well as a leading young choreographer in the field of Han-Tang style Chinese classical dance. Her recent series "YONG," inspired by Chinese tomb statues, has received praise from across the dance world in China and represents a merging of classical forms with contemporary media aesthetics. Tian's dance films have recently won awards in Latin America and Europe. Tian will also discuss her experiences working on the artistic team of renowned filmmaker and director Zhang Yimou.

Tian Tian is a choreographer, scholar, and teacher with a specialization in Chinese classical dance, dance and new media, and design and aesthetics. Tian received her undergraduate and master's degrees in Han-Tang Chinese Classical Dance at the Beijing Dance Academy in under the direction of the renowned choreographer and scholar Sun Ying. In 2015, Tian received her PhD from Peking University under the direction of eminent scholar of Chinese aesthetics Ye Lang. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow of Design Science in the School of Design, Hunan University, specializing in Indoor and Outdoor Mega-Event Directing/choreography under the supervision of Zhang Yimou and He Renke. 
Tian is the author or editor of three books and more than thirty academic papers. She is also an award-winning choreographer. Tian's works have been commissioned or sponsored by the China Dancers Association, China National Arts Fund (CNAF) Young Art Talents Creation Project, CNAF Dance Creation Project, Beijing Culture and Arts Fund Work Creation Project, and others. Her representative works include short dance drama “The Role,” dance duet "Co-Existence," group dance "YONG," suite dance "YONG II," etc. Tian's recent research project "The Imaginative Reshaping of Ethnic Body" was selected for the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) Youth of Art Science Project. In 2014-15, Tian was a visiting scholar in the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati.

Note: This talk will be given in Chinese with interpretation by Emily Wilcox, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:11:16 -0500 2020-01-23T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tian Tian 田湉, PhD, Deputy Professor of Choreography and Chinese Classical Dance, Beijing Dance Academy; Managing Editor, Journal of Beijing Dance Academy; Visiting Scholar, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, U-M
CogSci Community: Evolving the Human Mind: What Our Primate Cousins Reveal about Human Cognition (January 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71733 71733-17877247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Professor Alexandra Rosati will be giving a talk on "Evolving the Human Mind: What Our Primate Cousins Reveal about Human Cognition."

Why do humans exhibit flexible, intelligent behavior? Comparative studies of primates, our closest relatives, can help us understand the evolutionary origins of complex human cognition. I will present research examining how other primates like chimpanzees think about the world to address three main questions: how do other animals solve ecological problems like finding food, how do they solve social problems like finding friends, and how do their abilities change and develop over their lifetime? By integrating cognitive science with evolutionary theory, we can understand humans in the context of the natural world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:26:43 -0500 2020-01-23T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 24, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-24T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
BLI Snack N' Chat (January 24, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71512 71512-17836326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Have you ever had an idea for a project but not known where to start? Have you ever wanted to develop your personal leadership skills? Have you ever wanted to facilitate a class and provide guidance for student projects? Come to the Snack N' Chat mass meeting to meet like-minded students and learn about all the opportunities that BLI's supportive environment has to offer! AND FREE INSOMNIA!!

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Rally / Mass Meeting Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:09:07 -0500 2020-01-24T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T12:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Rally / Mass Meeting BLI
CGIS/Psychology Cross Advising (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64869 64869-16483035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS and the Psychology department for a walk-in advising event for all psychology students interested in studying abroad. Both a CGIS advisor and Psychology Advisor will be there to help answer questions on how to fit study abroad into your schedule, financial aid and scholarship options, and more!

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Meeting Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:56:11 -0400 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Psychology & CGIS Study Abroad Co-Advising (January 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63947 63947-16033418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Psychology Undergraduates

Walk-in advising for students interested in studying abroad. Come with your questions to speak with both a Psych Advisor and CGIS Advisor in one session!

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Other Mon, 10 Jun 2019 09:35:49 -0400 2020-01-24T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Psychology Undergraduates Other CGIS Psych flyer
LACS Event. Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961-2003: A Conversation with Jeffrey Parsons (January 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70963 70963-17760237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he studied were on the brink of destruction. The rural landscapes through which he traveled were, in many cases, destined to be plowed under and paved over. In his new book *Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961–2003*, hundreds of photographs taken by Parsons give readers a chance to see archaeological sites that were hundreds or thousands of years old and have since vanished or been irrevocably altered. In this public interview, Howard Tsai will speak to Dr. Parsons about the sites, the people, and the landscapes he had encountered during four decades of research in Latin America.

Jeffrey Parsons served as the University of Michigan’s Curator of Latin American Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology from 1966 until his retirement from the University in 2006. Parsons served as Director of the Museum of Anthropology from 1983 to 1986. Jeff Parsons has been a fundamental innovator in regional studies of the early New World civilizations. He began his research career in the Valley of Mexico in 1963, perfecting the technique of archaeological surface survey now used in many areas of the world. Working closely with Mexican colleagues, his teams walked over almost every square kilometer of the Valley of Mexico that was not sealed by asphalt and concrete. The results were detailed reports on the settlement sites of every period from 1200 BC to AD 1520—more than 2500 hamlet, village and town sites. These published data allowed archaeologists to address broader theoretical issues such as the roles of population growth, irrigation, and conflict. In 1975 Parsons introduced the regional archaeological approach to Peru, undertaking a major survey in the Junin area of the central Andes, which has recently been published as a major monograph. In 1998 he received the highest honor given New World archaeologists, The Alfred V. Kidder Award from the American Anthropological Association.

Howard Tsai is lecturer in the Program in International and Comparative Studies and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tsai received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, specializing in Peruvian archaeology. He has directed a team of archaeologists in excavating the 1000-year-old village of Las Varas in northern Peru. His works on labor organization, pottery style, and ethnic interaction have been published in academic journals and edited volumes. His upcoming book *Las Varas: Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes *will be published by the University of Alabama Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:30:21 -0500 2020-01-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-24T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion ParsonEvent_poster
International Institute 2019 Photo Contest (January 27, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69773 69773-17417487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

The University of Michigan International Institute (II) organizes an annual photo contest, open to all students affiliated with the II and/or its 17 centers and programs, either through funding or study.

Undergraduate and graduate student photographers who participated in research, internship, or study abroad between August 2018–August 2019 have submitted photos from two dozen countries. Visit the International Institute Gallery to see all of the submissions.

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Exhibition Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:42:23 -0500 2020-01-27T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Exhibition event_image
WCEE Distinguished Fellow Lecture. The Russian Media: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall (January 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70723 70723-17619605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Moscow-based “New Times” and a radio host with more than 40 years experience with Soviet, Russian and international media, will give a lecture on the rise and fall of the Russian free press over the last 30 years. Despite perestroika and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, censorship has since returned and the once-famous Russian TV networks have turned back into Soviet-style propaganda machines. The few independent media outlets that remain are struggling to survive in the absence of advertising and financial support, while under pressure from the omnipotent state.

Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author and radio host. Since 2007, she has served as Political Editor and is now Editor-in-Chief and CEO of “The New Times,” a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly. The New Times is digital-only as of June of 2017, when Russian authorities severed its distribution and sales.
Since 2004, Dr. Albats has hosted “Absolute Albats,” a talk show on “Echo Moskvy,” the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the “Chicago Tribune” in 1990, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980, and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She has been a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996.
Albats taught at Yale from 2003 to 2004 and was a full-time professor at the Moscow-based university The Higher School of Economics, where she taught institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy until her courses were canceled at the request of top Kremlin officials in 2011. In 2017 Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. Albats is the author of four books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today. Yevgenia Albats is the inaugural International Institute Distinguished Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020 in partnership with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 16:03:12 -0500 2020-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Yevgenia Albats, radio host, Ekho Moskvy and International Institute/WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M
CSEAS Event. Book Discussion of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas (January 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71111 71111-17777077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Monday, January 27, 2020 / 6:00-8:30 pm / 555 Weiser Hall
Light refreshments from Silvio’s Organic Ristorante will be served at 6:00-6:30 pm

*Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen* by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a book discussion followed by a Q&A, with Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies at the Department of Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, CSEAS outreach coordinator.

CSEAS will give away 25 complimentary copies of Dear America before our book event. To request your copy, contact Rima Hassouneh (at rhassoun@umich.edu; Pick-up location: Weiser Hall, Fourth Floor, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

*Books will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis.*

Additional 25 complimentary copies will be given to the audience members during the book discussion.

Free and open to the general public, faculty, students, and staff, the event highlights the 2020 Washtenaw Reads event on January 30, 2020, at Washtenaw Community College, at which Jose Antonio Vargas will speak about his experiences as an undocumented citizen.

Washtenaw Reads is a community initiative that promotes reading and civic dialogue through the shared experience of reading and discussing a common book. Participating libraries include Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Dexter, Milan, Northfield Township, Saline, and Ypsilanti. For more information about this year's Washtenaw Reads, go to https://aadl.org/washtenawreads.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:04:37 -0500 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion book_discussion-image
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70201 70201-17547233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

States in Asia and the Pacific have been talking about “hedging” and “not choosing sides” between the United States and China since the 1990s. Their aim was to moderate potential tensions between Washington and Beijing and promote cooperation, but this has not appeared to work. Instead, these disparate efforts to find a middle way between the two major powers resulted in greater levels of uncertain that have exacerbated security dilemma dynamics between the United States and China and created greater incentives for rivalry rather than cooperation.

Chong Ja Ian is an Associate Professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2008 and previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the externalities of major power competition, nationalism, regional order and security, contentious politics, and state formation. He works on US-China relations, security and order in Northeast and Southeast Asia, cross-strait relations, and Taiwan politics. Chong is author of "External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893-1952" (Cambridge, 2012), a recipient of the 2013 International Security Studies Section Book Award from the International Studies Association. His publications appear in the China Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, Security Studies, and other journals. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Chong will examine how non-leading state behavior collectively intensifies major power rivalries, paying particular attention to the US-China relationship. He has concurrent projects investigating how states react to sanctions on third parties by trade partners and the characteristics of foreign influence operations.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:11:43 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption (January 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71465 71465-17827817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

This presentation investigates the origins and the development of transnational adoption of Korean biracial children, including the symbolic meanings they carried in Korean society. It would demonstrate the status and representation of biracial children in Korea during the 1950s, analyze the state policies towards them, and trace the historical origins of transnational adoption of Korean children. The biracial children, known as “mixed-blood children,” honhyŏra, became the main representation of the questionable children in the 1950s that could not be “appropriate” members of the nation. The process of rescuing and regulating biracial children would illuminate how Korean society made biracial children into adoptable orphans, which was closely related to the formation of citizenship as well as kinship.

Young Sun Park is an assistant professor in History at the Department of History and Social Sciences at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Her research concerns the history of children in need and their institutionalization in Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her B.A. from Seoul National University, M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. She was a 2018-2019 postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:02:43 -0500 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption
II Event. Fulbright 2021-2022 Kick Off: Brown Bag Info Session (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71500 71500-17836311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Join us for the first Fulbright Info Session in 2020! Come learn about the largest international exchange program for U.S. citizens, offering funding for study, research, and teaching in over 140 countries. No matter your area of study, no matter your academic level, now is the BEST time to learn more about the Fulbright Program and the upcoming competition.

Heather Johnson, U-M Fulbright Program Adviser, will introduce you to the 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition. Heather has worked with Fulbright for over ten years and will give an overview of the U-M Fulbright campus process, which has made U-M a leading public university in Fulbright awardees. We have worked to make our application process accessible for every U-M student, and Heather's presentation will get you started!

Faculty and staff are also invited to this event. Our ability to support students in their applications to Fulbright hinges on the wisdom and experience of U-M's professors, advisers, and U-M Fulbright Alumni.

If you would like more information on how to support our Fulbright Applicants for the 2021-2022 cycle, be sure to join us! We hope to see you there!

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Presentation Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:57:12 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Presentation fulbright-image
GISC Event. Islamic Studies Reading Group: Hacking Islamic Law (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70265 70265-17556186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Join us for an Islamic Studies reading group!

We'll be reading selections from *Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law* by Rumee Ahmed and *Islamic Legal Studies: A Critical Historiography* by Ayesha S. Chaudhry.

For details, and to receive the readings, please contact IslamicStudies@umich.edu

Wed, January 29, 4:00 PM, 455 Weiser Hall

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:59:52 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar sharia-image
Complex Systems Seminar | "Using a wetland community-ecosystem model to explore ecosystem interactions and dynamics from a perspective of complex adaptive systems" (January 30, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71625 71625-17846977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The Seminar is presented as part of UM "Earth Day at 50" and the LSA "Great Lakes Theme Semester".

Abstract: In the complexity research community, ecosystems are often considered to be examples of complex adaptive systems. However, complexity researchers often focus on species interactions in a community but exclude phenomena that ecosystem scientists view as central, such as carbon balance, water flows, and nutrient cycling. Ecosystem process models can provide a bridge between these fields. These models capture and represent our scientific understanding of ecosystem processes and their complex interactions and responses to external drivers. Some of these models also include the dynamics of individual species. In this seminar the Mondrian model will be examined, a community-ecosystem model of Great Lakes coastal wetlands developed by Currie and others here at Michigan. Model results and behavior will be examined from a perspective of complex adaptive systems. Mondrian is a complex, individual-based model that simulates thousands of individual plants of four species and their spatially-explicit competition, while strongly coupling the plant species functionality and competition to balanced ecosystem-level fluxes of carbon and nitrogen as well as water flows through a wetland. The model will be used to examine emergence and in nutrient cycling and community dynamics and to test hypotheses related to attractor behaviors in these variables on a range of time scales. The seminar will also touch on applied questions that the Mondrian model is used to address in coastal wetlands including nutrient retention, carbon storage, biodiversity and invasive plant species.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:05:00 -0500 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar William S. Currie
Next Steps Virtual PICSnics. Brown Bag BlueJeans Video Conference with Nicole Khamis (January 30, 2020 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72124 72124-17940002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 11:45am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Interested in Refugee and Asylum Law, the Fulbright Program, or the International Refugee Assistance Project? Learn from PICS alumna Nicole Khamis (BA ‘17) through her abroad experiences in Jordan and her current work at the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. Please RSVP at the following link to attend: http://myumi.ch/51Ogy

Nicole Khamis graduated in 2017 from the University of Michigan with majors in International Studies and Middle Eastern and North African Studies. During her time as a student, Nicole founded the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, a nonprofit organization which serves to utilize students as resources for recently resettled refugees during the global refugee crisis. In her first year as a post-graduate, Nicole was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and lived in Jordan while working for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees as a teacher. During her time in Jordan, Nicole also interned with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), where she worked as a translator and legal intern. With these experiences and exposures to the injustices and structural inequalities refugees face, Nicole hopes to go to law school in the near future and specialize in Refugee and Asylum Law. Currently, Nicole is a volunteer at the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan.

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 28 Jan 2020 08:17:44 -0500 2020-01-30T11:45:00-05:00 2020-01-30T12:45:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Careers / Jobs Nicole Khamis, American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan; BA International Studies; BA Middle Eastern and North African Studies ‘17, University of Michigan
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71590 71590-17842696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few documents detailing the organization of those trade networks remain – if indeed they were ever written. Using geospatial analysis (GIS) of evidence from written and archaeological records, it becomes possible to trace the flow of goods and people within the Inland Sea region. The environment and geography are central players in this story, affecting the trade routes, networks, and even shipping practices that develop during the late medieval period.

Michelle Damian is an Assistant Professor of History at Monmouth College, IL (USA). She has published chapters in several edited volumes and articles in Japan Forum and Education About Asia. She is also on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Museum of Underwater Archaeology (http://www.themua.org).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:46:42 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Deep Constitution: Militant Constitutional Identity and the Afterlife of Martial Law in Thailand (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71495 71495-17834207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In Thailand, since the adoption of the widely-celebrated 1997 Constitution, all elected governments have been overthrown by the Constitutional Court, the military, or both in the name of democracy. By understanding the 1997 Constitution as a fully liberal-democratic constitution breaking with the country’s military past, most of the academic literature overlooked the resilient continuities and interdependence between military and civilian rule that form, under the patronage of the king, the core of Thailand’s constitutional order. Using historical institutional analysis, this paper documents the inner workings of the Thai Deep Constitution, defined as the legal-operational playbook of Thai democracy’s tutelary powers (the “Deep State”) linked to its Constitutional Identity defined as “Democracy with the King as Head of State.”

Beyond the Thai case study, this paper argues that the constitutional model for any tutelary democracy aims to enshrine, in the name of militant democracy, veto powers of the army and the judiciary over electoral politics in the unamendable part of the constitution, conceptualized as the Deep Constitution.

Eugénie Mérieau is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Prior to this, she held academic positions at Sciences Po (France), the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Thammasat University (Thailand). Fluent in Thai, she worked for four years at the King Prajadhipok's Institute under the Thai Parliament as a full-time researcher. Her most recent publications on Thailand have appeared in Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Southeast Asian Affairs, Buddhism, Law and Society, along more popular venues such as The Atlantic or the New York Times. Her first English-language monograph is forthcoming in 2020 with Hart Publishing under the title "Constitutional Bricolage : Thailand's Sacred King versus the Rule of Law".

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:40:41 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Leadership Lunch: Capstone (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70273 70273-17558234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Join us to learn about Capstone and meet like-minded students with ideas and skills to collaborate with. Teams, individuals, BLI members or those just interested in learning more are all welcome!

This event is perfect for: people who want to learn more about the Capstone Experience; people who have an idea or project but need partners; people who have a passion but not a project; people who have skills that would benefit a team but no team.

Lunch served!

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Meeting Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:18:44 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Meeting BLI Capstone
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Writing South Asian History: Power, Representation and Subjectivity (January 31, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65329 65329-16571523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia
Writing South Asian History: Power, Representation and Subjectivity

Friday, January 31, 2:30pm-4:00pm
Weiser Hall, 10th Floor

Chair and moderator: Leela Fernandes
Director, Center for South Asian Studies, U-M International Institute

Arighna Gupta, History Department: Digitization and Open-Access: Post-coloniality and the politics of archives
Swarnim Khare, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures: Begunaah Qaidi by Abdul Wahid Sheikh - The Practice of Reading and Translating an Indian Prison Narrative
Shourjendra Mukherjee, History Department: Magneto: A Universal Jew and ‘Third World’ from Margin

4:30pm-6:00pm
Keynote Address
Thinking About Politics in South Asian Studies
John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University

Keynote Address by John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University

Thinking About Politics in South Asian Studies

In this talk Professor Harriss will reflect on the ways in which patterns of political mobilization and participation in India over the period since Independence have been understood, drawing on the work of historians and anthropologists, as well of political scientists. How has democracy worked in practice in a context in which, as Barrington Moore argued, there had been no ‘bourgeois revolution’? Is India still to be understood as a ‘patronage democracy’? Has the significance of ideological cleavages emphatically replaced that of social cleavages? Is Indian politics best understood through specifically Indian concepts? He will consider these and other questions about knowledge of Indian politics.

John Harriss, now Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and formerly of the the London School of Economics, began studies of South Asia after driving overland from England to India in 1969. His research has ranged widely from work on agrarian change and labour studies to recent work on business and politics. He is the author (with Stuart Corbridge) of "Reinventing India," among other books.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:23:40 -0500 2020-01-31T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Conference / Symposium CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Writing South Asian History: Power, Representation and Subjectivity
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Keynote: Thinking About Politics in South Asian Studies (January 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71276 71276-17794082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

See details of the full CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events.detail.html/65329-16571523.html

In this talk Professor Harriss will reflect on the ways in which patterns of political mobilization and participation in India over the period since Independence have been understood, drawing on the work of historians and anthropologists, as well of political scientists. How has democracy worked in practice in a context in which, as Barrington Moore argued, there had been no ‘bourgeois revolution’? Is India still to be understood as a ‘patronage democracy’? Has the significance of ideological cleavages emphatically replaced that of social cleavages? Is Indian politics best understood through specifically Indian concepts? He will consider these and other questions about knowledge of Indian politics.

John Harriss, now Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and formerly of the the London School of Economics, began studies of South Asia after driving overland from England to India in 1969. His research has ranged widely from work on agrarian change and labour studies to recent work on business and politics. He is the author (with Stuart Corbridge) of "Reinventing India," among other books.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:41:45 -0500 2020-01-31T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
PICS Professional Development Workshop. Don't Sell Yourself Short: Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn Strategies that Lead to Interviews (February 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71609 71609-17844813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

PLEASE NOTE: STUDENTS CAN DROP IN ANYTIME DURING THE 2-HOUR TIME BLOCK!

Drop in to have your resume, cover letter, and/or LinkedIn reviewed. This is a great opportunity to have these materials reviewed and updated prior to the career fair! If you have class or other commitments, you do not need to stay the entire time.

Cover letters and resumes tell your professional story. They are your first impression when seeking an employment opportunity. This session will help students create impact-centered resumes and cover letters. Resume basics, resume formatting and resume content will be discussed using examples from the resumes of the session participants. Students should bring PRINTED copies of their most up-to-date resumes as they will receive feedback from all the session participants as well as the instructor. Please RSVP at the following link to attend: http://myumi.ch/gj9xP.

This session will also teach participants how to use LinkedIn to research, network, and apply for jobs. Having a LinkedIn profile already created is highly encouraged and students must bring computers to this session.

Klementina (Tina) Sula teaches Network Your Way to an International Internship and Career to students in the Program in International and Comparative Studies. She also offers seminars and workshops for students on various professional development topics. Tina is currently the Chief Development Officer at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, where she is responsible for all of the hospital’s fundraising efforts. Previously, Tina served as the Director of International Giving and Engagement at the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, spearheading the College’s fundraising efforts outside of the United States. Tina has also worked for the US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Club de Madrid in Madrid, Spain and for the State Department (Main State) in Washington, D.C.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:21:18 -0500 2020-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Workshop / Seminar PICS Professional Development Workshop. Don't Sell Yourself Short: Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn Strategies that Lead to Interviews
Complex Systems Seminar | "Human and Ecological System Characteristics Influence Gains from Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management" (February 4, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71748 71748-17877266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The Seminar is presented as part of UM "Earth Day at 50"

Ecosystem-based fisheries management has emerged as a new approach to fisheries management, broadening the scope beyond the traditional single-fishery management paradigm. A broader scope, however, necessitates additional information on system components and new methodologies to design management approaches that consider ecological, human, and human-ecological connections. Although there have been calls for increased consideration of system linkages and ecological and socioeconomic components and outcomes, relatively little work has been done to-date. In this paper we develop a dynamic, integrated, human-ecological model. It incorporates ecological connectivity between species in the form of a foodweb, a human system comprised of fishers who choose among multiple fisheries to fish in subject to management program design, and fisher harvest linking the ecological and human components. We identify the human and ecological conditions under which gains from management approaches that account for the system connectivity relative to traditional single-fishery management policies are greatest, providing insight into when the returns to using more complex models to design fisheries management policies will be greatest.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:37:14 -0500 2020-02-04T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Kailin Kroetz
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Revenge of the Developmental State: Stock Market Struggles in East Asia (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70203 70203-17547316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Revenge of the Developmental State considers the challenges faced by East Asian stock exchanges attempting to refashion themselves in the mold of their global counterparts, and how the state has struggled to redefine its role vis a vis the market. Regulators and the exchanges increasingly have come to loggerheads on listings requirements, new financial instruments, and trading procedures, sometimes in public clashes but more often behind closed doors. Professor Yasuda highlights how the state attempts to dragoon the stock market in service of industrial policy, social welfare, social stability, and economic statecraft highlight obstacles to the rise of financial capitalism in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

John Yasuda is Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, specializing in regulatory governance, bureaucratic politics, and the politics of finance. His most recent book is "On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China" (Dec 2017). His work has been published with Regulation and Governance, the China Quarterly, and Journal of Politics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:01:28 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion John Yasuda, Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
WCED Panel. Is Democracy Promotion Dead? (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70629 70629-17611214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director. Panelists: Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, associate professor of political science, Michigan State University; Jennifer Raymond Dresden, assistant teaching professor of government, Georgetown University; Thomas Flores, associate professor of conflict resolution and political science, George Mason University; Erica Frantz, assistant professor of political science, Michigan State University; Irfan Nooruddin, Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian Politics, Georgetown University; David Waldner, associate professor of political science, University of Virginia.

As of February 2020, WCED will be the new publisher of the scholarly newsletter *Democracy and Autocracy,* featuring articles from members of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) organized section "Democracy and Autocracy." This roundtable discussion will include authors featured in WCED's inaugural issue on the topic "Is Democracy Promotion Dead?" Articles in this issue serve as follow-up reports to the authors' recent contributions to USAID's "Theories of Democratic Change Research Initiative" project (2013-2018).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:05:22 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Democracy and Autocracy cover
PICS Film Screening. "Becoming Labrador" (February 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71821 71821-17888062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) encourages students to explore Arctic regions and culture. PICS administers the Arctic Internship Fellowship which provides $2,000 funding for University of Michigan undergraduate students to complete internships that students secure from reputable organizations, to create independent student-designed research projects, or to participate in an approved study abroad program with a focus on the Arctic. Past fellowship recipients have traveled to the remote region of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada to participate in internship and research projects.

This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International and Comparative Studies Arctic Internship Fellowship and Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

About the film "Becoming Labrador":
In the stark Labrador interior, a growing number of Filipino workers have recently landed in the small regional hub of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, travelling halfway around the world for jobs they hope will offer their families new opportunities and a better life. "Becoming Labrador" follows a handful of those women and men as they make a place for themselves in Labrador’s profoundly foreign climate and culture, and deal with the unexpected costs of living far from parents, partners and children.

Combining documentary footage with interpretive animation, and bringing together the vision of three of Canada’s best young directors, "Becoming Labrador" is a remarkable feat of collaborative authorship. It offers an intimate account of the radical mobility and displacement of the modern world, and of how tenaciously people hold to their roots in the midst of fundamental change. Celebrating the ties that motivate and sustain the Filipino workers and their families, it also reveals a subtler love affair, as people from a tropical country find themselves falling for the North.

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Film Screening Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:11:19 -0500 2020-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Film Screening PICS Film Screening. "Becoming Labrador"
ASP Film Screening | Armen and Me (February 5, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71467 71467-17827818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Free and open to the public!

In Armenian with English subtitles.

"Armen and Me" is the story of two friends, Levon and Armen, who lost contact with one another for 16 years after a tragic accident. The stories of their lives unfold over different geographic and time periods - the collapse of the Soviet Union, modern Armenia and Diaspora, as one casual encounter opens the door to the past and reveals the secrets. Will love and hope help them forget betrayal and mistakes of the past? Will they reclaim what was lost?

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Film Screening Wed, 22 Jan 2020 12:48:13 -0500 2020-02-05T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T21:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Film Screening ASP Film Screening | Armen and Me
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70096 70096-17530444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and the general public in Japan. Tea bowls function as important modern signifiers of tea ceremony praxis, national aesthetics, and a perceived shared affinity for ceramics. This lecture will trace the rise of the tea bowl in Japan from the 1920s onward, considering its status in terms of core aspects of modern Japanese ceramics—materiality, tactility, revivalism, rebellion, and global presence. Within the vast field of modern Japanese ceramics, the tea bowl provides a means to index key production and reception values.

Meghen Jones is Division Head /Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at Alfred University. She recently co-edited with Louise Cort Ceramics and Modernity in Japan and is currently curating for the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum an exhibition titled Path of the Tea Bowl.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:36:28 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Professor Liliana Borcea, the Peter Field Collegiate Professorship in Mathematics, Inaugural Lecture (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70109 70109-17532709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Wave based imaging is an inverse problem for a wave equation or a system of equations with a wide range of applications in nondestructive testing of structures such as airplane wings, ultrasound for medical diagnosis, radar, sonar, geophysical exploration, etc. It seeks to determine scattering structures in a medium, modeled mathematically by a reflectivity function, from data collected by sensors that probe the medium with signals and measure the resulting waves. Most imaging methods formulate the inverse problem as a least squares data fit optimization, and assume a linear mapping between the unknown reflectivity and the data. The linearization, known as the Born (single scattering) approximation is not accurate in strongly scattering media, so the reconstruction of the reflectivity may be poor. I will describe a new inversion methodology that is based on a reduced order model approach. This borrows ideas from dynamical systems, where the reduced order model is a projection of an operator, called wave propagator, which describes the propagation of the waves in the unknown medium. I will explain how such a reduced order model can be constructed from measurements at the sensors and then I will show how it can be used for improving the existing inversion methodology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:29:20 -0500 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion calendar
Finding Your Voice: Confidence and Clarity for Public Speaking (February 6, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71800 71800-17885887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

When you give a presentation, does your voice express confidence? Is it loud enough? Do your listeners easily understand you? Is your audience engaged? Come to this workshop to explore voice and pronunciation techniques to make your presentations shine. You will receive hands-on practice presenting for one minute on a topic of your choice such as a self-introduction, an overview of your broad area of research, a new development in your field, or a quick story of something interesting you’ve experienced.

Bring a script or outline with you to explore together.

Registration is required, please sign up here: https://myumi.ch/88kqK

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:41:28 -0500 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
CSEAS Lecture Series. Decomposing a National Language: Pluralism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Language (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71496 71496-17834208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

By the 1930s, the Vietnamese vernacular language had unquestionably come to be viewed as the national language of Vietnam, and the primary medium of anticolonial intellectuality. Nationalist thought, which fueled the anticolonial movement, quickly settled on a narrative—patterned after French nationalism—enshrining the Vietnamese language as a kind of ancient vessel of Vietnamese identity, a thread that bound contemporary Vietnamese all the back to an imagined pre-Sinitic past. However, a closer look at both the social and linguistic history of Vietnam reveals an intensely alloyed and mosaic formation of the Vietnamese language—one intimately bound up with a form of Chinese that was also native to the region. In this talk we will explore the linguistic origins of the Vietnamese language, and discuss how these origins challenge and complicate modern nationalist conceptualizations of language and culture in Vietnam.

John Phan completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in East Asian Literature and Linguistics. After graduating at the end of 2012, he spent two years as a JSPS post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Linguistics at the National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Upon returning to the States, Dr. Phan taught for three years at Rutgers University, before accepting a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University. He is currently completing his first book focusing on the history of Sino-Vietic linguistic contact, and is cocurrently working on the emergence of vernacular literary practice in medieval Vietnam. In addition to the nature of linguistic contact and broad issues in linguistic change and historical phonology, he is keenly interested in the cultural and intellectual ramifications of multiple languages coexisting in single East Asian societies, of linguistic pluralism in general, and of the transformation of oral languages into written literary mediums in historically diglossic cultures of East and Southeast Asia. His current work focuses largely on the rise of the vernacular Vietnamese script known as Chữ Nôm, and its development alongside a sustained and flourishing tradition of Literary Chinese composition.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:43:57 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Lunch with Anne Curzan (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72177 72177-17948646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Join us for this Lunch with series to meet the Dean of the College of Literature, Arts, and Science: Anne Curzan.

Prior to becoming Dean in 2019, Curzan held multiple administrative roles, including Associate Dean for the Humanities for LSA, Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Michigan, and Director of the English Department Writing Program. She teaches courses on the history of English, English grammar, language and gender, and the dynamics of conversations.

Dean Curzan, as a trained linguist who studies the history of the English language, has dedicated a great part of her career to helping students and the broader public understand linguistic diversity as part of cultural diversity, and change in language as a natural part of languages. Her TEDx talk at UM called “What makes a word ‘real’?” has over 1.2 million views.

At Michigan, Curzan aims to promote a culture based on contributing to the common good, the power of learning, the value of play, and the importance of well-being.

Salads Up will be served!

PLEASE NOTE:
-You must commit to being on time and staying through the entire lunch
-If you are unable to attend, please update your registration as soon as possible to make space for another student

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:56:29 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI
Foreign Policy Simulation (February 8, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72024 72024-17914211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Are you interested in international affairs or foreign policy? Do you enjoy debate and public speaking? Join blueMUN, U-M’s competitive Model UN Team for an immersive exercise in foreign policy. In a condensed version of a Model United Nations Conference, you will represent a country’s position to debate and propose a solution to an international issue. We will cover "Reducing the Global Energy Gap" through formal debate, negotiations, and resolution proposals. Lunch will be provided! Contact bluemun.exec@umich.edu to sign up.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to ecsm@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:29:21 -0500 2020-02-08T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Workshop / Seminar blueMUN conference
Saturday Morning Physics | The Universe Caught Speeding: Dark Energy, Two Decades After (February 8, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70879 70879-17726703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Physics Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of dark energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? Professor Huterer will review the exciting new developments in this field, including hints for new physics lurking in the data, and the upcoming ground and space telescopes dedicated to solve the dark energy mystery.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:43:26 -0500 2020-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Dark matter density (left) transitioning to gas density (right). Credit: Illustris Simulations
PICS Career Event. Refugee Resettlement in the United States and Internship Opportunities (February 10, 2020 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71791 71791-17885873@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 11:45am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

The refugee crisis is arguably one of the worst humanitarian crises of our generation. So, what role does the United States play for these 25 million+ people forced to flee from their home country due to war, persecution, or violence? Through this session, learn more about the refugee resettlement process in the United States and the refugee resettlement agencies across the nation. From greeting refugees the second they step off the airplane to completing family reunification immigration applications, see how you can explore opportunities to make a seemingly distant humanitarian issue into an introspective reality.

Please RSVP at the following link to attend: http://myumi.ch/jx40K

John Yim is a graduate student at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, focusing on international policy and national security. He received a bachelor's degree in Public Policy and International Studies at the University of Michigan in 2015. Prior to graduate school, he oversaw the largest refugee resettlement agency in Michigan and fourth in the nation.

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:07:07 -0500 2020-02-10T11:45:00-05:00 2020-02-10T12:45:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Careers / Jobs PICS Career Event. Refugee Resettlement in the United States and Internship Opportunities
OS Hosts Douglas Guthrie (February 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72169 72169-17948639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Doug Guthrie is an organizational sociologist and China scholar. As a former senior executive with Apple in China (2014-19), he will be on campus to provide his experience and insight on organizational strategy and structure.

Talk Title: Organizational Strategy and Structure in the Era of Xi Jinping: The Case of Apple in China

China is a critical location for multinational corporations for a number of reasons: It is the world’s most populous nation, arguably the world’s largest market, and it is home to the world’s most innovative supply chain. After a decade of the Chinese government’s laissez-faire attitude toward foreign corporations operating in China (under Hu Jintao), in 2013, the political environment changed significantly with the ascension of Xi Jinping. Many foreign corporations were caught off guard, and some paid a heavy price. How companies responded to this new political environment is a question of organizational strategy, structure, and design — issues that are at the core of organizational research. In this talk, drawing on decades of China research, and five years as a senior executive working for Apple in China (2014-19), I will use the Apple case to discuss the complexities of navigating China’s current political environment. We will explore Apple’s unique organizational structure — both internally and externally — and its strategy for approaching this critical challenge.

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Presentation Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:42:39 -0500 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T14:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Presentation doug githrie
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Urban Environment Change in Post-Reform China (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70222 70222-17549992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Based on the authors’ past and current research and a critical review of related literature, Dr. Fan will introduce patterns, drivers, and impacts of main urban environmental problems in Chinese cities, focusing on air pollution, urban heat island, and provision of urban green spaces. She will reveal the co-evolved relationship of urbanization, economic development, and urban environmental conditions. She will also discuss Chinese cities’ urban environmental transition, regional and intra-city perspectives, and the environmental impacts of emerging socioeconomic transformations in China.

Dr. Peilei Fan is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Michigan State University (MSU). She has a Ph.D. in Economic Development and a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from MIT. Dr. Fan has served as a consultant/economist for United Nations University –World Institute of Development Economics Research and the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Fan’s research focuses on urban environment and sustainability, innovation and economic development, and planning and policy. Her research projects have been funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) (three as PI and two as Co-PI). She is the Secretary General of International Association of Landscape Ecology (2019-2024). She also serves as the Track Co-Chair for Food Systems, Community Health and Safety for American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She was a Core Fulbright US Scholar for 2017-2018 (Taipei and Shanghai) and is a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations (2019-20). She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and been a guest (co)editor for special issues of four academic journals. She served on the review panels for NASA, EPA, and Fulbright, and been ad-hoc reviewer for NSF and multiple international organizations.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 28 Jan 2020 16:36:43 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Peilei Fan, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
International Studies Virtual Information Session and Q&A (February 11, 2020 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63247 63247-15601672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 4:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Please note: This information session will be held virtually through BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/800113384. Please see step-by-step instructions below for students to join the information session virtually through the BlueJeans Network App.

Students considering a major or minor in International Studies are strongly encouraged to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. International Studies academic advisors will discuss:

• Prerequisites
• Major and minor requirements
• Sub-plans
• How to declare
• Additional majors and minors offered at the International Institute
• Study abroad, grants, and internships
• Relevance of an International Studies major or minor

Undeclared students should plan to attend an International Studies Information Session and Q&A. For dates of all upcoming sessions, please review the PICS event calendar. If you have questions, please e-mail is-advising@umich.edu.

Connecting Using the BlueJeans Network App:

1. Make sure Skype and other meeting apps are shut down
2. Download the free BlueJeans app: https://bluejeans.com/downloads. You do NOT need to sign up for a BlueJeans account, the connection is paid for by the U-M subscription to the service
3. Launch the BlueJeans app
4.. Select “Use Computer audio”, then NEXT
5. Choose "Join as guest” (bottom 1/4 of your screen)
6. Enter meeting ID: 800113384. No Passcode needed
7. Put your name in the guest user field
8. Select JOIN
9. During the guest presentation, please keep your microphone and camera muted in the BlueJeans interface

A half-hour presentation will be followed by questions and discussion. Students can declare the International Studies major or minor at the information session. For more information, please email is-advising@umich.edu.

Parents and prospective students are welcome. For more information, please email is-michigan@umich.edu. Prospective students who would like to receive correspondence about International Studies related orientations, events, and special announcements should sign up for the International Studies Prospective Student email list: http://umich.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=c5d81aed9f753c51ceb597dc0&id=e70f5ce914

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: is-michigan@umich.edu

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:31:17 -0400 2020-02-11T16:15:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:15:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Livestream / Virtual logo
Career Convos: What is Finance? (February 11, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70015 70015-17905474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

At ‘Career Convos: What is Finance?’ students will explore the industry with professionals from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, BP and more. Come ready to explore questions like: What is [investment banking, risk, etc.]? What does it mean to work for a bulge bracket firm vs. a hedge fund? What do I need to do to break into the field? Representatives from these organizations will be there to help students explore the field and better understand whether a career in finance is potentially a good fit.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
- An LSA student with an interest in pursuing a career in finance, no experience is required
- Have a desire to connect with and learn from leading firms in the industry
Graduating in December 2021 or later

What you’ll gain by attending:
- A better understanding of which career path in finance best fits your interests
- Learn how to connect your LSA experience to the finance field
- Valuable connections with leading finance firms interested in talented LSA students

How to Apply:
Submit your résumé and answers to the short prompts as one document by Feb. 9th @ 11:59p

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:11:04 -0500 2020-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Table discussion
CREES Noon Lecture. Terroir, Ecological Stewardship, and Heritage Politics in the Bulgarian Wine Industry (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71275 71275-17794081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Bulgaria is arguably one of the oldest wine-producing countries in the world, and built a large, highly industrialized and export-oriented wine sector during state socialism as a wine-producing specialist of COMECON (the economic alliance of Soviet allies). When socialism collapsed in 1989, the wine industry faced multiple challenges, including the accepted international hierarchy of wine-producing countries through which Bulgarian wines then became understood and marketed. In this talk, I examine the contestations over the idea of *terroir* (a taste of place) among Bulgarian wine professionals to understand how wine is involved in heritage projects. As new resources and opportunities became available through EU heritage politics in which wine traditions became a central piece of the heritage industry and of agricultural and rural development, these debates highlight diverse meanings of ecological stewardship in light of heritage preservation. Understanding wine as a cultural heritage raises important questions of whose and which past is worthy of preservation, and why. The tensions within the Bulgarian wine industry, namely reconciling the cultural pride of winemaking heritage with a competitive hierarchical global wine market, illustrate the multi-faceted aspects of culture, ecology, and politics in the era of post-Cold War globalization.

Yuson Jung is associate professor of anthropology at Wayne State University. Her research explores issues of consumption, food politics, globalization, and postsocialism. She is the author of "Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism" (Indiana University Press, 2019) which examines everyday consumer experience in postsocialist Bulgaria. She has also co-edited (with Jakob Klein and Melissa Caldwell) "Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World" (University of California Press, 2014). Currently, she is working on a book project entitled "The Cultural Politics of Wine: Globalization, Heritage, and the Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry," as well as on a collaborative research project (with Andrew Newman) regarding food politics and urban governance in Detroit.

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 10 Jan 2020 16:42:53 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Bulgarian vineyard
CogSci Connections (February 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71799 71799-17885891@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join the Cognitive Science peer facilitators at this month's CogSci Connections meeting, focused on the theme "What can I do with a CogSci degree?" Don't miss the opportunity to meet fellow CogSci students, ask questions, and enjoy free food while learning how to make the most of your CogSci degree!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 07 Feb 2020 09:36:16 -0500 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Careers / Jobs Weiser Hall
CHOP Film Series | A Way Out, directed by Zheng Qiong (February 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72450 72450-18007183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

"A Way Out", directed by Zheng Qiong, is a documentary film covering six years (2009-2015) in the lives of three Chinese teenagers--one from Beijing, another from a small town in Hubei Province, and a third from a small mountain village in Gansu Province--and their dreams, expectations, fears and hopes as they begin to shape their futures.

Film Discussant: Yun Zhou, U-M Assistant Professor of Sociology, who is a social demographer and family sociologist.

Light refreshments—admission is free and open to the public.

Film cosponsored by the U-M Asia Library.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:48:13 -0500 2020-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Film Screening CHOP Film Series | A Way Out, directed by Zheng Qiong
Love Where You Are: Cultivating a Compassionate Workplace Culture (February 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72316 72316-17974679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

A panel of local entrepreneurs and small business owners will explore different models and approaches to creating and sustaining a more caring and empathetic work environment.

This event is a Mindful Leader Session open to the BLI community!

Featured Panelists:
-James Goebel (Menlo co-founder )
-Jeff Hall ( Second to None founder )
-David Seaman (Detroit Filling Station manager )
-Lisa McDonald (TeaHaus owner)

Dinner is served!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:41:22 -0500 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion Love Where You Are: Cultivating a Compassionate Workplace Culture
CSAS Film Series | Bamboo Stories (February 12, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70995 70995-17766495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

It is midsummer in northeastern Bangladesh. Five men face a dangerous mission. They must conquer the great river with their raft. Their journey will last a month and take them 300 kilometers downstream. Their cargo: 25,000 bamboo logs, which they have to deliver despite endless heat, pouring rain, dangerous rapids, and river pirates who lurk in the dark.

Shaheen Dill-Riaz was a short film maker in Dhaka before he moved to Berlin in 1992 on a scholarship to study art history. He also studied cinematography at the Film University Babelsberg. Besides working as director, cinematographer and producer in Europe and Asia, Dill-Riaz is also a cine-journalist for several magazines.

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Film Screening Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:47:04 -0500 2020-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS Film Series | Bamboo Stories
LECTURE CANCELLED | CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of the Benshi (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69871 69871-17480871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this week's Noon Lecture has been cancelled. At this time there is no plan of rescheduling, but please stay tuned to our website and social media pages for the latest updates. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

The silent film benshi has attracted attention for being a unique aspect of Japanese film culture. With the release of Suo Masayuki’s new feature film, Katsuben!, interest in the benshi will no doubt increase. This lecture will examine the history of the benshi. Special attention will be paid to its role in the immigrant communities of America, as a point of cultural exchange in the Japan-America film relationship a century ago.

Ichiro Kataoka graduated from the Nihon University College of Art and began training under Midori Sawato, in 2002. He is the most well-known benshi of his generation, a rising star that is also the most internationally active benshi, having given performances in countries such as Croatia, Germany and Australia. Performing a broad repertoire of styles, Mr. Kataoka is known for not only performing with the more “traditional” benshi accompaniment of a small ensemble or select Japanese instruments, but also has been open to working with experimental or electronic music. He has appeared as a benshi in various films and also works as a voice actor for animation and video games.

You may also wish to attend the 7:30pm screening of "The Downfall of Osen (Orizuru Osen)." This silent film will be accompanied by a live benshi narration. More details, and information on how to purchase tickets is here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:10:24 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ichiro Kataoka
ASC Event. 2019 UMAPS Colloquium Series (February 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68025 68025-16986085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: African Studies Center

This series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Aminu Dramani, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Examining the Intractability of Low Intensity Conflicts in West Africa: The Case of Ghana

Tesfaye Habtu, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
Representation and State Ideology in Ethiopian Drama: A Critical Study of Historical Dramas of King Thewodros II

John Imokola, Makerere University, Uganda
Perspectives on Television Local Content Regulation in Uganda

Johannes Machinya (Mellon scholar), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Migration and Politics in South Africa: Normalising Xenophobia through Political Demagoguery

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Presentation Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:11:37 -0400 2020-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall African Studies Center Presentation umaps_banner
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. The Rohingya Crisis and Future of Democracy in Myanmar (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71793 71793-17885874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Wai Wai Nu is a former political prisoner and the founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in Myanmar. She spent seven years as a political prisoner in Burma because of her father’s pro-democracy political activism. Since her release from prison in 2012, Nu has dedicated herself to working for democracy and human rights, particularly on behalf of marginalized women and members of her own ethnic group, the minority Rohingya population.

As Executive Director and Founder of Women Peace Network, a platform to build peace and mutual understanding between Myanmar’s different ethnicities, and to empower and advocate for the rights of marginalized women in Arakan and Myanmar; campaigns for women’s rights. She has been working to reduce discrimination and hatred among Buddhist and Muslim communities, building allies and solidarity to improve the human rights of the Rohingya people. Nu has conducted women’s empowerment training, offered legal education seminars, and organized human rights and peacebuilding advocacy, workshops, and forums.

In 2014, Nu co-Founded Justice for Women, a network of women lawyers providing pro-bono legal consultation and education. In 2016, she founded Yangon Youth Center, where young people of diverse backgrounds in Myanmar can explore their ideas, learn civic and political leadership, and build trust and relationships among each other. Nu organized the My Friend Campaign with youth from different communities to promote tolerance and to reduce discrimination among diverse groups. Nu received a law degree from Yangon University in 2014 and graduated with her Master of Laws from the University of California Berkeley in 2018.

Nu is the recipient of N-Peace Wards (2014),; Democracy Courage Tributes (2015), World Movement for Democracy; Hillary Rodham Clinton award in (2018).

Nu was named among "100 Top Women", BBC (2014); among 100 inspiring women, Salt Magazine; among 100 World Thinkers (2015), Foreign Policy Magazine; Next Generation Leader, Time Magazine (2017).; Women of the Year, Financial Times (2018).

Currently, Nu is an Obama Foundation’s visiting Scholar at the Columbia University World Project.

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Program in International and Comparative Studies.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 07 Feb 2020 15:59:15 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Lecture with Wai Wai Nu
Say What You Mean: Choosing the Right Words in English (February 13, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71801 71801-17885889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

When you are writing or are in the middle of a conversation in English, do you ever find it challenging to find the right words to communicate exactly what you want to say? Do you ever wonder if your wording “sounds right” when you are writing an important paper? If your answer is “yes” to either question, then this workshop is for you. We’ll look at free, powerful websites where you can investigate useful word patterns and explore how certain words and phrases are most commonly used in academic language. We will also try out alternative word choices to help you expand your flexibility speaking and writing English.

Please bring: 1. A laptop if you can; 2. An idea for a speaking situation you might find challenging; and 3. Something you’ve written that you’d like to review for wording options.

Registration required, please sign up here: https://myumi.ch/88kqK

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:41:49 -0500 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Catastrophes: “Western Armenia” in Comparative Perspective (February 14, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68929 68929-17197027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

For complete workshop details, please see: https://ii.umich.edu/asp/news-events/all-events/workshops/february-2020--afterlives-of-western-armenia.html

As a geography and a concept, Western Armenia is a contested category. The same territory is at once imagined and claimed by disparate yet overlapping groups in often mutually exclusive ways as Western Armenia, Eastern Turkey, and Northern Kurdistan. This geography has been home to many peoples over centuries, including Armenians until the 1915 Catastrophe decimated the Ottoman Armenian community and scattered its survivors across the world, where they founded new homes in the diaspora.

As a result of the rupture of 1915, the Armenian Diaspora came into intimate contact with other communities across the globe. At the same time, on the ancestral lands of the exiled Western Armenians, the material and immaterial remnants of their community live on, animated by the memories and narratives recounted by the muslim Kurds, Turks, and Arabs who continue to live there. Taken together, these constitute two asymmetrically mirroring spaces in which afterlives of Western Armenia continue to develop in dynamic relationships with contemporary political and social processes. What are the afterlives of these histories, communities, and trajectories bound up in the notion of Western Armenia? What are the ongoing effects of the 1915 Genocide of Ottoman Armenians, both in the geography where the mass killing and expropriation took place a century ago and in the diasporic communities where Armenians continue to live today? How are histories of violence and exile inscribed both on the landscape through ruins and in the memories of local communities? And how are they reinterpreted and expressed through literature, art, and language?

Cosponsors: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Departments of Anthropology, Comparative Literature, and History; Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; Global Islamic Studies Center; Global Theories of Critique; and Institute for the Humanities.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:34:36 -0500 2020-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar ASP Workshop | Afterlives of Western Armenia
Leaders Love to Vote! (February 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72479 72479-18018155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Did you know that students who are U.S. citizens are allowed to register at either their local address or their permanent address? It’s your choice.

Here at the BLI, we want to help all eligible students get themselves registered, informed, and turned out to vote! Drop-in on Feb. 14 to learn more about how to register, check your registration, and vote absentee. We will be actively helping students register to vote at this event! Snacks provided!

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Reception / Open House Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:16:59 -0500 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Reception / Open House BLI
CANCELLED - Islamophobia Working Group Meeting (February 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64316 64316-16314274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Dear IWG members,

We're cancelling the next IWG meeting scheduled for March 20th, in light of the public health guidelines and care for your wellbeing.

Please let me or Silan Fadlallah <silanf@umich.edu> know if you have any questions. Stay safe and take good care of yourself.

kind regards,
Samer Ali

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The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We—a group of faculty, staff, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years, the IWG was run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture; starting in Winter 2019, the IWG is led by CMENAS housed in the International Institute. Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student, staff, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus, if you encounter a pertinent issue, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group. If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu).
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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact (email or phone): Samer Ali, samerali@umich.edu

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Meeting Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:10:02 -0400 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Meeting Weiser Hall
CSAS Lecture Series | Islam and the Lessons of Pakistan’s History (February 14, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64845 64845-16460998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

How have Islamic doctrinal orientations, religious institutions, and governmental policies relating to Islam evolved since the establishment of Pakistan in 1947? What has constrained successive Pakistani governments in their policies and their initiatives in the religio-political sphere? What insight and lessons can the history of Pakistan offer for a better understanding of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary world? These are among the questions that this talk will address.

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Global Islamic Studies Center.

Muhammad Qasim Zaman joined the Department of Near Eastern Studies of Princeton University in 2006. He has written on the relation­ship between religious and political institutions in medieval and modern Islam, on social and legal thought in the modern Muslim world, on institutions and traditions of learning in Islam, and on the flow of ideas between South Asia and the Arab Middle East. He is the author of Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids (1997), The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002), Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (2008), Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism (2012), and Islam in Pakistan: A History (2018). With Robert W. Hefner, he is also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (2007); with Roxanne L. Euben, of Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought (2009); and, as associate editor, with Gerhard Bowering et al., of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2013). Among his current projects is a book on South Asia and the wider Muslim world in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:52:30 -0500 2020-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Saturday Morning Physics | Ocean Modeling: Big Computers, Big Science (February 15, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71160 71160-17783477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

In this talk, Professor Arbic will describe how ocean circulation models work and how they predict physical motions in the ocean, including currents, eddies, and tides. He will discuss the many applications of ocean models, including short-term ocean forecasting, national security applications, longer-term global change predictions, and preparing for satellite ocean monitoring missions. The talk will focus on the work done in our group here at University of Michigan, with a focus on oceanic eddies and tides.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:29:14 -0500 2020-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar The Pleiades Supercomputer which some of the models Professor Arbic uses runs on. (NASA)
Complex Systems Seminar | A Minimal Mathematical Model for Free Market Competition Through Advertising (February 18, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72638 72638-18035585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Firms in the U.S. spend over 200 billion dollars a year advertising their products to consumers, around 1 percent of the country's gross domestic product. It is of great interest to understand how that aggregate expenditure affects prices, market efficiency, and overall welfare.

Here, we present a mathematical model for the dynamics of competition through advertising and find a surprising prediction: when advertising is relatively cheap compared to the maximum benefit of advertising, rational firms split into two groups, one with significantly less advertising (a "generic'' group) and one with significantly more advertising (a "name-brand'' group).

We use consumer data to compare predictions from the model with real world pricing and advertising data and find qualitative agreement. We also show that having products be differentiated by advertising is not always best for total profit or total welfare in an industry.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:28:43 -0500 2020-02-18T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Joseph Johnson
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Winners and Losers of the Belt and Road (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70224 70224-17549994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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 Silk Road with an in-depth look at impact areas in Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Georgia, and Poland. What communities are benefiting from the development boom? What communities are being wiped off the map?

Wade Shepard is an author/journalist/filmmaker who has been on the road since 1999, working in over 90 countries. He is the author of "Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities Without People in the World's Most Populated Country," which recounts the two and a half years he spent in China's sparsely populated new cities. His latest book is called "On the New Silk Road: Journeys through China's Artery of Power," which covers the three years he spent traveling up and down the Belt and Road trying to decipher out what is actually going on. Wade has been a guest on top news programs, including BBC World News, NPR 'Morning Edition,' CNBC 'Squawk Box,' ABC News 'The World,' and CCTV China 24.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:59:33 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wade Shepard, Author/Journalist/Filmmaker
Annual Copernicus Lecture. Hint: My Books Aren't Really about Sex and Drugs (February 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71759 71759-17879411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Dorota Masłowska is a novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, "Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną" (Snow White and Russian Red) at 19. It won critical acclaim, was awarded the Paszport Polityki Prize, and was translated into over 20 languages. Her second novel, "Paw Królowej" (The Queen’s Peacock, 2005), won the most prestigious Polish literary prize, the Nike award. Masłowska’s first drama, "A Couple of Poor, Polish-speaking Romanians" (2006), was staged in Australia, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Poland, and her subsequent play, "No Matter How Hard We Try" (2008), garnered a Polish Ministry of Culture Prize. Masłowska’s most recent novel, "Inni ludzie" (Other People, 2018), will soon appear in German, French, and Russian. Her works in English have been translated by Benjamin Paloff, associate professor at U-M.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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, 20 Jan 2020 17:14:00 -0500 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Dorota Masłowska
CSAS Film Series | Swimming Through the Darkness (February 19, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70997 70997-17766497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Born in poverty and visually challenged, Kanai Chakraborty chooses the life of a swimmer. However, his success in the sport doesn’t ensure a steady income. Even at the age of 40, he has to continue swimming to make ends meet. He participates in the world’s longest swimming competition, traversing 81 km on the Ganges. His success brings in temporary glory, but his uncanny knack for chasing uncertainty remains constant.

Supriyo Sen’s filmography includes the documentaries Wait Until Death, Way Back Home, Hope Dies Last in War and Wagah. He has won 36 international awards for his films across the spectrum of international festivals. He has also won three National Awards including the President’s Gold Medal for the Best Documentary for Hope Dies Last in War.

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Film Screening Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:50:05 -0500 2020-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Film Screening CSAS Film Series | Swimming Through the Darkness
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69651 69651-17376503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It was a vibrant and successful urban center built around the residential complex of a warlord (daimyo) who had seized power in the civil wars of the late 15th century. This presentation will introduce the history and archaeology of the city and its residents, then consider the implications of its complete destruction in 1573 as part of Japan’s “unification” process.

Morgan Pitelka is Professor of History and Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His publications include Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice (2003); Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan (2005); What’s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context (2007); and Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (2016).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:04:55 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
CSEAS Lecture Series. Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s Growing Brand in Global Health (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70968 70968-17760241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In areas ranging from universal healthcare to HIV prevention and access to medicine to health technology assessment and tobacco control, Thailand’s public health programs have come to be regarded as a model for the industrializing world. How is it that a resource-constrained nation on the global periphery has produced model policies that are critical to public health and human life so consistently amid such political turmoil? What has led these policies to travel abroad? And more generally, how has a small nation in Southeast Asia exercised such outsized influence in international affairs? Drawing on Fulbright-funded research with policymakers in Thailand and Geneva, this project examines the roots of Thailand’s surprising success.

Dr. Joseph Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University and conducts comparative and historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, public policy, and global health. He is the author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017). Dr. Harris has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, most recently as Specialist on the Political Economy of Healthcare Reform for the Japan-World Bank Project on Universal Coverage. He is a past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Henry Luce Scholarship and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy Studies before joining the faculty at BU. In 2017, Dr. Harris received the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching and a Fulbright Scholarship for a project that explores the diffusion of Thailand’s model public health policies abroad. He serves as Associate Editor at Social Science and Medicine.

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Contact: Jessica Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:17:36 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Leadership Lunch: All about ALA 175 (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70274 70274-17558235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

►Are you a BLI member and haven't taken the lab?

►Are you not a member yet, but want to jump-start your lifelong leadership learning?

►Are you just curious about BLI and what makes us different from the other leadership programs on campus?

ALA 175 is a hands-on, interactive, class that is specially designed to help students develop the skills and confidence they need to grow as leaders. Group exercises and a self-designed team project allow them to practice and reflect on key leadership roles. Your experiences in the Leadership Lab will help you be more confident and successful in your work on campus, in your community, and in the world.

Swing by our Leadership Lunch on Friday, February 21 to learn more about the lab, answer all your questions and meet some of our student leaders who facilitate the lab (and enjoy a lunch)!

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Social / Informal Gathering Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:24:17 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Social / Informal Gathering Leadership Lab Gallery Walk
Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaiṣṇava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal (February 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71142 71142-17783439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This lecture is cosponsored by the U-M Center for South Asian Studies, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

There is a vast body of imaginal literature in Bengali that introduces fictional Sufi saints into the complex mythological world of Hindu gods and goddesses. Dating to the sixteenth century, the stories—pir katha—are still widely read and performed today. The events that play out rival the fabulations of the Arabian Nights, which has led them to be dismissed as simplistic folktales, yet the work of these stories is profound: they provide fascinating insight into how Islam habituated itself into the cultural life of the Bangla-speaking world.

Tony K. Stewart is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in the religions and literatures of early modern Bengal. His works include "The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition," "Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal," and "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination."

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:52:31 -0500 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Talk | Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination
Andean Circle Symposium. Beyond Nature: Animism and Scale (February 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72717 72717-18061846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Keynote Lecture by Catherine J. Allen, The George Washington University: “Stones Who Love Me: miniaturization and animation in the Andes”

In an instruction manual for rural priests, published in 1620, the extirpator Pablo de Arriaga warned that, among Andean “idolatries,” the most difficult to destroy were those carried on privately within individual households. These practices concentrated on miniatures -- small stones in the shapes of, llamas, alpacas maize or potatoes. Far from being rooted out, they continue in many Andean communities, where certain small stone objects are thought to be intrinsically connected to powerful Places that control the vitality and reproduction of herd animals and crops. This illustrated lecture explores the animacy of these stones and compares them with other living stones in the Andean landscape that are said to have experienced a change in dimension at the moment of petrification. The analysis focuses on these shifts of dimensionality and enclosure in relation to the animacy of the Andean cosmos.

Dr. Allen is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in expressive culture and performance. She specializes in ethnography and ethnohistory and also experiments with modes of ethnographic writing and other modes of ethnographic representation. Her latest book is Foxboy: Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories.

Full Symposium Schedule:
10:00 am: Coffee
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Discussion of selected excerpts from Foxboy: Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories with Dr. Allen
12:00 - 1:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 pm: Symposium
4:00 - 5:30 pm: Keynote Lecture

The Andean Circle (also known as Círculo Micaela Bastidas Phuyuqhawa or simply Círculo Andino) is an organization of students and faculty, mostly affiliated with the University of Michigan, whose work focuses on one of the Andean republics. The group is a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop funded and administered by University of Michigan’s Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (LACS).

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:42:51 -0500 2020-02-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Conference / Symposium Weiser Hall
Saturday Morning Physics | The Truth About Entropy (February 22, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71162 71162-17783480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Saturday Morning Physics

Crystalline forms of matter, from ice to diamond, are highly ordered with atoms lined up neatly in rows. Do these crystals have low or high entropy? We are taught that entropy implies disorder, so crystals must have low entropy...or do they? In this talk, find out how some ordered crystal phases of matter can have more entropy than their disordered phases, and why this matters.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:54:49 -0500 2020-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Saturday Morning Physics Workshop / Seminar Crystalline structures pc: NASA David Weitz
International Institute Conference on Migration (February 24, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71117 71117-17777083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

*Presented by the International Institute area studies centers: African Studies Center, Armenian Studies Program, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies*

Monday, February 24, 2020 | 9:00 AM-6:00 PM | 1010 Weiser Hall

The International Institute Conference on Migration will feature International Institute experts in conversation with migration scholars from around the world. The conference hopes to shed light on myriad aspects of migration across the world and from differing perspectives.

Topics to be covered include migration of ideas and languages, causes and effects of migration, the socio-political implications of human movement, culture production and transferral, and countering common narratives about migration, among others. Featuring local and international scholars with expertise on the regions of East Africa, North Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America, this cross-regional and interdisciplinary discussion will be of interest to faculty and students, and members of the general public engaged with issues of migration, immigration, human interaction, culture, language and politics.

Free and open to the public.

Cosponsors: African Studies Center, Armenian Studies Program, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department for Afroamerican and African Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Sociology, Global Islamic Studies Center, International Institute, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:57:32 -0500 2020-02-24T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Conference / Symposium conference-on-migration-banner
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 24, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72212 72212-17957420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Hyesue Jang, U-M graduate student in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, will give a talk titled "Losing money and memory: The effect of loss incentives on working memory in young and older adults."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:05:39 -0500 2020-02-24T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-24T15:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Hyesue Jang
Complex Systems Seminar | Studying dynamics using computational polynomial optimization (February 25, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72568 72568-18018165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Many complex systems are governed by nonlinear ODEs or PDEs that cannot be solved exactly. Various properties of such solutions can be inferred by constructing auxiliary functions that satisfying suitable inequalities. The most familiar example is the construction of Lyapunov functions to infer stability of particular states, but similar approaches can produce many other types of mathematical statements, including for systems with chaotic or otherwise complicated behavior. Such statements include estimates of time-averaged quantities and extreme transient behavior, approximation of nonlinear stability properties, and design of controls. In many cases, the search for the auxiliary function that implies the strongest mathematical statement can be posed as a convex optimization problem. Such problems can be studied analytically or computationally, but in most cases computation is needed to find solutions that are close to optimal. Of particular use are computational methods of polynomial optimization, where the optimization constraints include polynomial inequalities. This talk will provide an overview of different ways in which auxiliary functions can be used to study nonlinear ODEs and PDEs, as well as how polynomial optimization can be used to implement these methods computationally. Methods will be illustrated using applications to various complex systems.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:00:00 -0500 2020-02-25T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar David Goluskin
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) (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70227 70227-17550032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist and native Chinese thought: the Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist literature dating from the Han and Three-Kingdoms period. Often written using a technical vocabulary that was later largely abandoned (and is hence sometimes quite difficult to understand), these texts have rarely been studied systematically by modern scholars interested in Chinese religious or intellectual history. Professor Greene presents some preliminary findings from this corpus concerning the way that the earliest Chinese Buddhist translators tried to render the sophisticated Indian Buddhist vocabulary of sense perception and its relationship to desire. Both the ways that they succeeded and the ways they failed may allow us to see the presuppositions concerning these topics on both sides in this dialog in a new light.

Eric Greene is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale, where he has taught since 2016. He received his BA (Mathematics), MA (Asian Studies), and PhD (in Buddhist Studies) from UC Berkeley, and specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism. His research focuses on topics including Buddhist meditation in China, Chinese Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement, the history of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Buddhist image worship in China, and the history of translation within Chinese Buddhism.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:01:25 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Eric Greene, 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)
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Dictator's Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987 (February 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70681 70681-17617502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Dictator’s Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987 aims to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory views regarding Korea’s path to modernity and democracy. At first blush, South Korea illustrates the basic premise of modernization theory: economic development leads to democracy. However, under Park Chung Hee (1961-1979) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980-1988), Korea’s political system became increasingly authoritarian alongside the growth of the national economy. These South Korean autocrats sought legitimacy of their coup-born regimes by holding legislative elections and investing in economic development. I argue and demonstrate that the structural foundations of modernization (industrial complexes and higher education in particular) had an initial stabilizing effect on authoritarian rule by increasing regime support, but also contributed to the development of mobilizing structures for anti-regime protests in the 1970s and 1980s by various social movement groups, most importantly workers and students. By highlighting the differential impacts of modernization structures over time, my research shows how socioeconomic development acted as a “double-edged sword” by stabilizing the regimes at first, but destabilizing the dictatorship over time.

Dr. Joan Cho is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Government at Wesleyan University. Cho specializes in authoritarianism, democratization, social movements, and authoritarian legacies in Korea and East Asia. Her research on authoritarian regime support, South Korean democracy movement, and electoral accountability in post-transition South Korea are published in Electoral Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society. Her additional writings

Dr. Cho received her PhD and AM degrees in Political Science from the Department of Government at Harvard University and a BA (cum laude with honors) in Political Science from the University of Rochester. She is an Associate-in-research of the Council of East Asian Studies at Yale University, Executive Secretary of the Association of Korean Political Studies, and a 2018-2019 US-Korea NextGen Scholar. Cho previously held visiting fellow positions at the Asiatic Research Institute at Korea University, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, and the Center for International Studies at Seoul National University.

This lecture is cosponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:30:39 -0500 2020-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Joan Cho, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies and Government, Wesleyan University
CREES Noon Lecture. The Environmental Impacts of Mass Housing in Post-Socialist Europe (February 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70637 70637-17611220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The goal of this lecture is to explore mass housing in the cities of post-socialist Europe and its impacts on the environment. The lecture focuses on the scale of post-socialist mass housing, its inhabitants as users of the living environment, and the challenges of urban renewal, which are increasing the environmental impacts on cities. The presentation will analyze these environmental changes, which began in the cities of post-socialist Europe after 1989 and the post-Soviet urban environment after 1991. The challenges of inhabitants’ participation and urban renewal strategies have slowed urban development. Professor Chabanyuk argues that during the last three decades of post-socialist transition, the living environment of prefabricated mass housing has faced redevelopment challenges due to socio-political and economic change. This question requires efficient and sustainable responses in order to consider the environmental impacts in future urban change.

Oksana Chabanyuk is an associate professor of architecture at Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine. For the 2019-20 academic year she is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. Her research at CREES and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia focuses on the contribution of American specialists to the development of industry and cities in 1920-30s Eastern Ukraine. Dr. Chabanyuk’s academic interests include standardization and early industrialization in the USSR, influence of foreign specialists, prefabrication in industry and housing, post-socialist housing, social housing, and regeneration of residential areas. She is an architect and received her bachelor’s degree in architecture, MA in urban planning (2000), and PhD at the National University Lviv Polytechnic, Ukraine (2004). Her dissertation was entitled “Regeneration of the Residential Environment of High-rise Housing Areas of the 1970-80s (Lviv Case Study).” She has participated in various international competitions, programs, and workshops including: exchange study at Coventry University, UK (1996); Visiting Teachers Program at the AA School of Architecture, London (2010); visiting researcher at the University of Lisbon, Portugal (2014-15); visiting staff at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (2015); and Lublin University of Technology, Poland (2016-18). Professor Chabanyuk has also participated at international conferences, roundtables and seminars in Germany, Portugal, Austria, Poland, UK, USA, and Ukraine.

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:46:48 -0500 2020-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Oksana Chabanyuk
Complex Systems Seminar | Principles of Pattern Formation for Confined Elastic Shells (February 27, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72576 72576-18018177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Dried fruits wrinkle for the same reason that leaves and flowers do — mechanical instabilities arising due to a naturally occurring mismatch in lengths. Can such geometric incompatibilities be used for the rational design and control of wrinkle patterns at will? In this talk, we discuss the possibility of designing wrinkle patterns "in the large" using a recently derived effective or coarse-grained model for wrinkles arising in the vanishing thickness limit. After explaining the basic mechanics involved, we show how the model predicts the patterns in various experiments and simulations of thin and ultrathin confined elastic shells. More generally, we derive a classification scheme for wrinkle patterns into three basic types, as well as a Plateau-like principle predicting the arrangement of wrinkles in the negatively-curved (saddle-shaped) case. Such rules open the way towards the principled design of wrinkle patterns, with potential applications ranging from flexible electronics to synthetic skins.

This is joint work with Yousra Timounay and Eleni Katifori (UPenn), and Desislava Todorova and Joseph D. Paulsen (Syracuse).

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 05 Feb 2020 17:12:15 -0500 2020-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Ian Tobasco
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69649 69649-17376501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is metaphorically analogous to aspects of theater. The text subverts the reliability of visual cues for identification, dissociating the reincarnating being from its physical shell in a way that resembles the relationship between an actor and a role. Hamamatsu also de-emphasizes one’s agency in the karmic cycle, instead portraying it as an inevitable unfolding of narrative along predetermined paths, much like a script for a play. Through the presentation of reincarnation in these theatrical terms, the text produces a dimensional, layered subjecthood.

Terry Kawashima is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She specializes in literature and culture of the Heian and medieval periods in Japan (800-1500), with a particular interest in how texts envision and contribute to the construction of authority, legitimacy, and power in social, political, religious, and gendered arenas. She is the author of two books: Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan, about gendered discourses of marginalization in poetry and prose, and Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan, about narrative strategies of movement, such as representations of exile and divine travel. She is currently working on a project on tropes of rebirth in premodern and modern Japan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:10:27 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Grassroots Perspectives on Business & Human Rights: Insights from "Tethered Fates" (February 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70600 70600-17609143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Global supply chains link consumers, brands, manufacturers, workers, and local community members as “stakeholders” with significantly different levels of risk and benefit. When harm occurs in the course of business activity, prevailing approaches to stakeholder consultation are typically driven by companies, without significant input from people at the grassroots level. This talk reveals where stakeholder consultation is taking place globally; how the process unfolds at the community level; and what types of innovation might be possible but are currently missed by “top-down” approaches to consultation. Hertel’s talk features analysis of quantitative data from over 7,000 companies worldwide; she finds extractive companies across all regions tend to consult more heavily than light manufacturing companies, and corporations determine the mode, scope and content of the practice regardless of sector or region. The talk also features original interview data from paired case studies in two manufacturing towns in the Dominican Republic where collegiate apparel is produced. Hertel reveals local peoples’ insights on the limits of existing approaches to stakeholder dialogue along with their ideas for how better to diagnose problems, predict future challenges, and forge solutions to ongoing violations of economic rights.

Co-sponsor: U-M President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights.

Shareen Hertel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the university’s Human Rights Institute. Drawing on 20 years of policy work with United Nations agencies, foundations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the United States, Latin America and South Asia, her scholarship focuses on economic rights, social movements, and global supply chains. Hertel is Editor of The Journal of Human Rights; co-editor of the Routledge International Studies Intensives book series; and serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Review and Human Rights and Human Welfare. Her published work includes Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities and Rights at Stake (Oxford University Press 2019); Activists Beyond Borders: Conflict & Change Among Transnational Activists (Cornell University Press, 2006); Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement & Policy Issues (Cambridge University Press 2007 with Lanse Minkler); Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011 with Kathryn Libal); along with multiple articles and book chapters. Hertel holds a doctorate in Political Science (2003), Master’s degrees in Political Science (1999) and International Affairs (1992) all from Columbia University, as well as a BA in International Relations (1988) from The College of Wooster.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:08:27 -0500 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Shareen Hertel, associate professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
Cognitive Science Study Abroad with CGIS-Please RSVP! (March 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71331 71331-17888056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Come learn all about Study Abroad through CGIS and how you can get CogSci credit for your classes abroad! You will also receive information on course petitions/credit, scholarships, highlighted programs, alumni experiences, and more!

There will be two presentations at 11:00am and at 12:15pm. Students who attend either presentation will receive CGIS "First Steps Information Session" credit! Light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/sqvfqnp

To set up a Cognitive Science advising appointment, please visit https://tinyurl.com/sd8kxy8 or email Weinberg-Institute@umich.edu
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Meeting Fri, 14 Feb 2020 07:51:34 -0500 2020-03-09T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Meeting Poster
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: The challenge of heritability: genetic determinants of beliefs and their implications (March 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73643 73643-18276412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Wade Munroe, postdoctoral research fellow in the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science, will give a talk titled "The challenge of heritability: genetic determinants of beliefs and their implications."

ABSTRACT

Ethical, political, and religious attitudes are not randomly distributed in a population. Attitudes of family members, for example, tend to be more similar than those of a random sample of the same size. In the fields of social psychology and political science, the historically standard explanation for these attitude distribution patterns was that social and political attitudes are (at least partially) a function of environmental factors like parental socialization and prevailing social norms. This received view is, however, complicated by more recent work in behavioral genetics, which consistently and repeatedly demonstrates that certain ethical and political attitudes dealing with issues like censorship, abortion, capital punishment, and immigration policy have a significant heritability coefficient, to wit, a substantial percentage of attitude variance in a population can be attributed to genetic variance, independent of environmental factors. In this paper, I argue that the genetic influence on our ethical and political attitudes is mediated by what we can agree—without relying on any first-order ethical or political claims—to be irrelevant and distorting factors that can lead moral reasoning astray. Further, I argue that we should significantly lower our credences in ethical and political attitudes that fall within the domains of belief that involve significant genetic influence.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:31:04 -0500 2020-03-09T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Epidemiology and dynamics of the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic (March 10, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73197 73197-18157926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The Center for the Study of Complex Systems

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic is currently leveling off in China but on the upswing in the rest of the world. Understanding and modeling this growth is obviously of high importance. We noticed that for several weeks, the number of deaths in China could be fit by a power law with exponent of about 2.25, suggesting a kind of fractal or small-world behavior going on. Traditional epidemiological models, such as the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered models (SEIR) puts groups in compartments and use differential equations to predict the behavior, but there is no spatial or network properties taken into account. At early times, the growth is exponential depending upon the reproduction rate, and for later times those models predict an s-shaped curve. The power-law result predicted a greater growth of the epidemic than many people were predicting. More recently, the daily deaths in China have dropped off exponentially, in fact following a model of A. Vazquez from 2006. At the same time, the growth in the number of total deaths in other parts of the world is tracking the behavior in China, delayed by one month. The small-world, fractal idea suggested that this world-wide transmission was likely to take place, and the belief that it could be contained in China was clearly short-sighted.

Reference: A. L. Ziff and R. M. Ziff, medrXiv 2020 submitted.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Mar 2020 23:51:52 -0500 2020-03-10T11:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The Center for the Study of Complex Systems Workshop / Seminar Robert Ziff
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land of Ghosts: Rediscovering King Hu’s "Legend of the Mountain" (March 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70228 70228-17550033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled.

Best known for his classic martial arts films like "A Touch of Zen" and "Come Drink with Me," King Hu (1932-1997) was one of the true pioneers of the xuxia genre. This presentation will offer a case study of Hu's 1979 film "Legend of the Mountain," which combined element of the wuxia film with other genres, including the ghost stories, comedy, and the travelogue. Drawing on research and first-hand interviews with the film's lead actor Shih Chun, this talk will be divided into two parts: The first section will discuss the curious production details of the film as a pioneering example of a pan-Asian co-production and the film's curious reception, which went from a long-overlooked minor work to be rediscovered as a "masterpiece" decades after its initial release. During the second half of the talk, focus will turn to the film itself and how it was revolutionary both in terms of film form but also its political intervention.

Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA at UCLA. He is the author of "Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers" (2006), "A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film" (2008), "Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy" (2009), and "Boiling the Sea: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Memories of Shadows and Light" (2014) and co-editor of "Divided Lenses" (2016) and "Modernism Revisited" (2016). Forthcoming books included “An Accented Cinema: Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke;” and an edited collection on the 1930 Musha Incident in Taiwan. He is currently completing a monograph that explores the United States as it has been imagined through Chinese film, literature, and popular culture, 1949-present.

He has contributed to numerous books and periodicals, including "The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas," "A Companion to Chinese Cinema," "Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema," "Columbia Companion of Modern Chinese Literature," "Harvard New Literary History of Modern China," and "The Chinese Cinema Book." Berry has also served as a film consultant and a juror for numerous film festivals, including the Golden Horse (Taiwan) and the Fresh Wave (Hong Kong). He is also the translator of several novels, including "Wild Kids" (2000), "Nanjing 1937: A Love Story" (2002), "To Live" (2004), "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (2008) and most recently "Remains of Life" (2017).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:45:50 -0500 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies; Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Performative Space: Korean Diaspora, Collective Memories, and Spatial Identity (March 10, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71670 71670-17853480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

As South Korea rapidly becomes a multicultural society that is transitioning from an ethnocentric logic of kinship and nationalism to a globalized society of citizenship and cosmopolitanism, the collective desire of Koreans to understand the nation’s history and restructure its racial, national, and cultural identity is exploding. As a powerful yet often overlooked area in research about contemporary Korean studies, public interactions with architectural design and spatial identity play important roles in reflecting sociocultural changes and the political climate in and around South Korea. This project traces the historical significance of the district of Dongdaemun as the leading site of Korean modernity and attempts to read the diasporic sensibility of Koreans and their sense of displacement and collective memory embedded in the process of developing the cityscape.

Miseong Woo is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Yonsei University in South Korea. Her research interests include race, gender, modernity in modern drama, the literary and visual history of Asian diaspora, and cultural encounters between the East and West in popular culture. She published Representation of Asian Women in the West (2014) with Sam & Parkers, which won the 2014 Korea Research Foundation Achievement Award. She received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2011–2012 academic year, taught at Cornell University as a distinguished visiting professor in Korean studies in 2016, and is the first scholar selected as the Fulbright Korea Distinguished Chair at Emory University in 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:22:57 -0500 2020-03-10T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Miseong Woo, Professor, English Language and Literature, Yonsei University
CREES Noon Lecture. Landscapes and Logging in the Russian Far East (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72421 72421-18000493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Faculty of the School of Environment and Sustainability Kathleen Bergen and Joshua Newell will provide insight into how logging, fire, and land use has impacted the globally-important forests and landscapes of Russia’s vast Far East. Despite the region’s importance, research to date has not tried to unravel the respective roles of human and natural in these magnificent landscapes. They will also discuss the growing influence of China, largely through trade in resources, on ecosystems in this region.

Associate Research Scientist Kathleen Bergen, PhD, works in the areas of land-cover/land-use change and human dimensions of environmental change. She uses remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and geospatial methods to study the drivers and consequences of forest and other land changes. She has worked since 2000 on NASA-supported projects using remote sensing to quantify forest and land change in Siberia and the Russian Far East in the context of changing socio-economic eras. She is lead author of the chapter “Human Dimensions of Environmental Change in Siberia” in Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and Their Global Consequences, published by Springer, as well as contributor to the international NASA Northern Eurasia Partnership Initiatives (NEESPI and NEFI) science plans.

Joshua Newell is an associate professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a broadly trained human-environment geographer, whose research focuses on questions related to sustainability, resource consumption, and environmental and social justice. He is recognized authority on environmental and resource use issues in the Russian Federation, especially the Russian Far East. Published work in this area has appeared in Eurasian Geography and Economics, Geoforum, and the International Forestry Review, among others, and he has published two reference texts on environment and development in Russia’s Far East. His work is supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and private foundations, and he has received a Fulbright Award to study Russian-Chinese-U.S. flows of wood and the environmental sustainability challenges they pose.

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Photo of a Russian militia inspection point for logging trucks by Joshua Newell.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:25:12 -0500 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo of a Russian militia inspection point for logging trucks by Joshua Newell.
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar Lecture. Yasmine Diaz: One Way or Another (March 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73294 73294-18190706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

In this talk, Los Angeles based artist Yasmine Diaz will speak about her experiences making work as an agnostic feminist of Muslim heritage in a post 9/11 era of xenophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Her talk will center on a her 2017 piece, One Way or Another (college and hand-cut watercolor paper, 18 x 24)

Yasmine navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity using personal archives, found imagery and various media on paper as well as installation. Born and raised in Chicago to parents who immigrated from the highlands of southern Yemen, her mixed media work often reflects personal histories of the opposing cultures she was raised within. She has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Torrance Art Museum, Charlie James Gallery, and Station Beirut. Diaz is a 2019 California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellow with works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and The Poetry Project Space in Berlin. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:51:51 -0500 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion diaz-yasmine
VIRTUAL Fifth Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture. American Muslims in the Era of Islamophobia (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72092 72092-17937820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Distinguished Lecture will be offered in a virtual format only. Please tune in to the live video feed at:

https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/mpmwp8vk/player.html

The Trump movement has not only brought Islamophobia out into the open, it has brought it into the White House and other centers of American power. In a talk that will draw from his recent book, *Out Of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise*, Eboo Patel will highlight the various ways that American culture and American Muslims are responding to this bigotry. While recognizing the clear challenges of our times, Eboo will draw on Islamic theology, American history and contemporary movements to illuminate a hopeful path forward.

Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a non-profit organization that is working to make interfaith cooperation a social norm in America. He is the author of four books and dozens of articles, has spoken on more than 150 campuses, and served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council.

A key figure on issues of religious diversity and democracy, Eboo was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. He is the author of *Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation*; *Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America*; I*nterfaith Leadership: A Primer*; and *Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise*. He also publishes a regular blog for *Inside Higher Ed*, called ‘Conversations on Diversity’.

Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He has been awarded the Louisville Grawemeyer Prize in Religion, the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, the El Hibri Peace Education Prize, the Council of Independent Colleges Academic Leadership Award, along with honorary degrees from 15 colleges.

Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and two young sons. He is a die-hard fan of Notre Dame Football, Wilco, and really good coffee.

Co-sponsors: International Institute, Global Islamic Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Center for Arab American Studies, Michigan State University Muslim Studies Program

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Each year, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) hosts a Distinguished Lecture featuring a prominent scholar or public figure speaking about issues related to Islamic studies. These events are presented by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Michigan, and the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC), a member of the International Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:18:18 -0400 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Eboo_event
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan (with Tomohiro Machikita) (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69148 69148-17252911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s transition from a feudal regime to a modern regime in the late nineteenth century as a natural experiment. Using plant-level data for 1902, including the foundation year of each plant, we explored how the experience-size profiles of plants differ before and after the regime change. Plants were found to grow much faster after the regime change and the acceleration of growth after the regime change was much greater for the plants in exporting industries, industries intensively using steam power, and plants adopting a corporate form. These findings suggest that access to export markets, access to modern technologies, and availability of the modern corporate form were the channels through which the regime change affected the experience-size profile of plants.

Tetsuji Okazaki is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He served as President of the International Economic History Association from 2015 to 2018. He has published extensively in major journals in economic history and economics, including Journal of Economic History and American Economic Review. His recent research interests include history of industrial organization and history of income distribution.

*This event is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit*.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:50:50 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
[CANCELLED]. CSEAS Lecture Series. Regime Change and Continuity in Malaysia (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70970 70970-17760243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Lily Rahim, Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia and Associate Teaching Professor, Georgetown University

Since its historic May 2018 breakthrough election, Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government has experienced some erosion of public support. The presentation will analyse PH's weakening popularity within the context of its 'catch-22' policy and political conundrum. Simply put, the promised implementation of substantive policy reform, with respect to 'Malay rights', threaten to weaken PH's tenuous relations with the predominantly conservative majority Malay community - susceptible to the fear and racial displacement rhetoric of opposition politicians. At the same time, PH's reluctance to implement substantive institutional and policy reforms have generated disillusionment within its urban, cosmopolitan and middle-class electoral base - key to its electoral breakthrough in 2018 but increasingly wary of the governing coalition's leadership tensions.

Lily Zubaidah Rahim is Associate Teaching Professor and Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. She was previously a professor of government and international relations at the University of Sydney, specializing in authoritarian governance, democratization, Southeast Asian Politics, political Islam, and ethic politics. Her books include The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community (Oxford University Press 1998/2001; translated to Malay by the Malaysian National Institute for Translation), Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges (Routledge, 2009), Muslim Secular Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Politics of Islamism: Diverging Visions and Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her current comparative politics book project focuses on regime change and policy reform in Malaysia, Indonesia and Tunisia.

Lily has published in international journals such as Democratization, Contemporary Politics, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Comparative and Comparative Politics, Critical Asian Studies and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Her sole-authored journal article ‘Governing Muslims in Singapore’s Secular Authoritarian State’ was short-listed for the Boyer Prize by the Australian Journal of International Affairs (AJIA). Lily is Vice-President of the Australian Association for Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) and Co-Convener of the Social Inclusion Network (SIN) at the University of Sydney. She was Convener of the multi-disciplinary ‘Religion, State and Society’ (RSS) Network and President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:32:07 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - LACS Event. Utopian Imaginaries: Engaging with the *Fernando Coronil Reader* (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71607 71607-17844812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

In *The Fernando Coronil Reader *(Duke University Press 2019) Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep concern with the Global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire, and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach. Presenting a cross section of Coronil's oeuvre, this volume cements his legacy as one of the most innovative critical social thinkers of his generation.

Fernando Coronil served as faculty in history and anthropology at the University of Michigan from 1988 to 2008. During his time at the University of Michigan, Professor Coronil served terms as director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Histoy, and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

This event brings together editors of *The Fernando Coronil Reader* as well as scholars from the University of Michigan whose work has engaged deeply with Coronil’s work. A panel discussion about the development of the reader and its influence on past, present, and future scholarship will be followed by an open Q&A session with the audience. Refreshments will be served.

Invited panelists:
Julie Skurski, CUNY Graduate Center
Edward Murphy, Michigan State University
Javier Sanjinés, University of Michigan
Gavin Arnall, University of Michigan
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Peggy Somers, University of Michigan

Co-sponsors:
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
History Department
Department of Anthropology
Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:16:37 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event-image
CANCELLED - DISC Supplemental Lecture. Service Provision, Citizenship, and Governance: Exploring the Role of Islam in Mali (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72715 72715-18061844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Dr. Jaimie Bleck is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African politics with a focus on democratization, education, participation, and citizenship. Her first book, Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2015. She and Nicolas van de Walle published, Continuity in Change: Electoral Politics in Africa 1990-2015, with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her work appears in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Comparative Political Studies, African Affairs and Democratization. She spent 2014-2015 on sabbatical in Mali as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, and USAID-DRG.

Professor Bleck is also a concurrent faculty member in the Keough School of Global Affairs, Senior Research Advisor with the The Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity, Faculty Fellow with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and Faculty Affiliate with Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:27:05 -0400 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion jamie_bleck
Cancelled: Writing Cover Letters (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73356 73356-18208320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This event has been cancelled.
Your cover letter is usually the first impression you make on a prospective employer. In this workshop graduate students will review the essential elements to include in a cover letter, and you will spend time working on a letter. Please bring a posting for a job in your field and a draft or outline of a cover letter to the workshop.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:16:36 -0400 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
Writing Cover Letters (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71802 71802-17885890@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Your cover letter is usually the first impression you make on a prospective employer. In this workshop we will review the essential elements to include in a cover letter, and you will spend time working on a letter. Please bring a posting for a job in your field and a draft or outline of a cover letter to the workshop. Pizza will be provided.

Registration starts February 24th: https://lsa.umich.edu/sweetland/graduates/sweetland-rackham-workshops.html

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:24:52 -0500 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
CANCELED - Industry Insiders: Human Resources, People, and Organizational Culture (March 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72714 72714-18061843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

In response to the CDC guidance and the well-being of our students in mind, the LSA Opportunity Hub has decided to cancel Industry Insiders: HR, People, & Organizational Culture for this Friday, March 13th. As this event’s primary purpose was for LSA students to connect their degree to career interests within HR, organizational culture, and people development, the Opportunity Hub is will be following up with additional ways for that exploration

The information you shared within the Engaging Questions document will be used to inform these conversations and further shape the way the LSA Opportunity Hub creates programming around this industry. If you would like to further survey ways to explore these areas of work, please set up a coaching appointment with Megan Downey at the Opportunity Hub. If you have questions or concerns regarding this decision or would like to set up an appointment, please feel free to reach out to Megan at medowney@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:43:47 -0400 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar group discussion at a table
CANCELLED - Albanian Women Refashioning the Future (March 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73422 73422-18217165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Please join us for a unique event featuring Sava Lelcaj-Farah, Gjina Lucaj, and Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian, three successful and charismatic Albanian women from Michigan who will share their stories as innovators and role models in their communities. They will discuss their dedication to profession and family, and the common experiences that shaped and inspired them on their varied routes to success. By challenging traditional boundaries placed on women, each has forged a new path to realize her vision, while never losing sight of the culture and traditions that shaped her individual journey.

Sava Lelcaj-Farah is the founder and CEO of SavCo Hospitality, the restaurant management group behind Ann Arbor favorites Sava’s, Aventura, Wilma’s, and Dixboro House (coming 2020). At age 23, Sava opened her namesake restaurant, pioneering a new breed of eatery in Ann Arbor focused on her signature hospitality. She credits her Albanian upbringing that shapes the way she views opportunity, America, and her approach to hospitality.

Gjina Lucaj is a top-rated business lawyer and partner at Foley & Lardner LLP in Detroit. She practices corporate law with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, and has significant experience with domestic and international strategic and private equity transactions across numerous industries. Gjina received her undergraduate degree from U-M, where she was the president and founder of the Albanian American Student Organization. She received her law degree from Wayne State University Law School.

Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She spent her childhood in Montenegro, and at 15, she was selected to represent Yugoslavia in a global modeling competition that led to a successful international modeling career. Emina currently promotes humanitarian efforts in Albania as a board member of the Fundajve Ndryshe, which recently brought aid to survivors of the November 2019 earthquake.

This lecture is hosted by the Albanian American Student Organization and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. 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 Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:29:47 -0400 2020-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion WCEE Albanian Women panel
CANCELLED. Program in International and Comparative Studies. International Studies Fourth Annual Alumni Career Panel (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68278 68278-17037504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, the 3/16/20 PICS International Studies Alumni Career Panel has been cancelled. We plan to reschedule this event for the Fall 2020 semester. Please review the PICS events calendar for updates on the rescheduled panel.

The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) will host its fourth annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel on March 16, 2020 in 1010 Weiser Hall (10th Floor). This alumni panel will showcase and celebrate the university’s rich history of contributions made by International Studies alumni, while providing valuable insight for current students as they start to develop their own career paths. The panel will include a student Q&A portion.

PICS is home to the International Studies major and minor. Established in 2009, International Studies is one of the largest majors in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with over 2000 accomplished alumni worldwide. International Studies graduates pursue numerous career paths, many going on to work with corporations, non-profits, or government agencies, as well as progressing directly on to graduate school.

Learn where an International Studies major can take you!

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA Opportunity Hub, LSA Honors Program, Department of Political Science, and Sigma Iota Rho – Honor Society for International Studies.

Panelists:

Devin Bathish, Executive Director, Arab American Heritage Council (AAHC)
Flint, MI
BA International Studies – International Security, Cooperation, and Norms; BA Political Science; minor, Arab and Muslim American Studies ‘17
Devin Bathish is the Executive Director of the Arab American Heritage Council (AAHC), an Arab community nonprofit based in Flint, MI. Devin directs the AAHC’s four primary functions: preserving & celebrating Arab culture and heritage, promoting understanding of Arab identity, uniting the Greater Flint Arab community, and providing immigration and translation assistance. Since starting his role in 2017, Devin has served as an ambassador for the Flint Arab community by educating others about Arabs and the Middle East. Additionally, Devin advocates for policies that collectively benefit the Arab American community and empowers younger generations of Flint Arab Americans. While a student at the University of Michigan, Devin served on Central Student Government and worked to create better representation for Middle Eastern & North African students, was a board member of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), a choreographer for the Arabesque Dance Troupe, and a member of the Islamophobia Working Group.

Jasmine Bell, Research Project Manager, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI
BA International Studies – Global Environment and Health; BA Spanish ‘17
Jasmine Bell, MPH is a research project manager in the department of obstetrics and gynecology with the University of Michigan. Jasmine received her master’s in public health from the University of Michigan where she studied health behavior and health education with a concentration in sexual and reproductive health. During her MPH she had the opportunity to participate in a community based surveillance project in rural Ghana to measure maternal mortality. She also had the opportunity to publish with USAID for their family planning division. She also co-instructed a course on facilitating global engagement through the Global Scholars Program. In the future she hopes to be able to merge her research interest in black maternal mortality in a global context, to provide a narrative to the black experience globally.

Matin Fallahi, Juris Doctor Candidate, Michigan State University College of Law 2020
East Lansing, MI
BA International Studies – Comparative Culture and Identity; BA Near East Studies ‘16
Matin Fallahi graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016. During her time at Michigan, she worked as a front clerk at the Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS), was the student commencement speaker for the PICS graduation in 2016, studied abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, was vice president of both the Persian Students Association and Delta Gamma Phi-- a pre-law sorority. Matin is completing her final semester of law school at Michigan State University College of Law. During her law school career, she has had the opportunity to intern at various law firms, argue motions in front of honorable Michigan judges, and work in the in house-legal department of a Fortune 400 company. Matin will be graduating this May and plans to sit for the July 2020 bar exam. She will be working at a large firm in the Metro Detroit area as a law clerk after graduation, and intends to transition to an Associate position at the firm pending bar results.

Melissa Gibson, Associate, Global Markets Team, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
BA International Studies – Global Environment and Health; minor, Afroamerican and African Studies; minor, Science, Technology, and Society ‘15
Melissa Gibson is an Associate on the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s (CHAI) Global Markets Deal Execution Team. Her team focuses their efforts on marketing-shaping interventions, like volume guarantees, across low/middle income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Prior to CHAI, she worked in business development for Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) healthcare and private equity practice areas. (In between leaving BCG and joining CHAI, she spent five months traveling in Asia, which she highly recommends.) Melissa graduated from The University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies - global health focus - and dual minors in African Studies and Science, Technology, and Society. After graduation, she received a year-long Princeton in Africa Fellowship and joined the UN World Food Programme’s Regional Bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon completion of her fellowship, Melissa was hired as a consultant to assist with a regional emergency response to drought-induced drop failure. While at Michigan, Melissa interned with the Clinton Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, and USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS. After her sophomore year, she spent a month in South Africa doing research with two professors and later wrote her thesis on the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. She also spent half her junior year abroad in Spain.

Alex Huang, Director of Programs and Community Engagement, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional StudiesWashington, D.C.
BA International Studies – International Security, Cooperation, and Norms; BA Spanish; minor, Music ‘12
Alex is the Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS). In this capacity, he leads the development and implementation of programming to advance the leadership, representation, and participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the political process from community service to elected office. Most recently, Alex served as the Senior Legislative Assistant in the Office of Congresswoman Brenda L. Lawrence representing Michigan’s 14th Congressional District where he was responsible for developing the Congresswoman’s legislative strategy where he advised on a range of issues including appropriations, education, labor, energy, interior, environment, and housing policy. Alex graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012 with a double major in International Studies, Spanish, and a minor in Music. He then went on to teach second grade in Detroit as a Teach for America Corps Member and in 2015 completed a masters in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan’s School of Education. From 2015-2016, Alex was selected for the APAICS Legislative Fellowship where he served in the Office of Congressman Ami Bera (CA-07) before ultimately joining the office of Rep. Lawrence in 2016. Alex is passionate about educational equity and increasing Asian American/Pacific Islander political engagement. In addition to his current role, Alex also runs a volunteer tutoring program at an elementary school in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood.

Shalini Rao, Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington, D.C.
BA International Studies – Political Economy and Development; BA Economics; minor, Business Administration ‘18
Shalini Rao is a Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton working in foreign policy analysis and government program strategy. Her client is a government agency that partners with countries to manage infectious disease outbreaks and mitigate biological weapons risks. Her daily tasks include assessing geopolitical trends, analyzing how the client's country engagements align with foreign policy objectives, and project management support. Through this work, Shalini is gaining exposure to what various government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, and the United Nations do in global health, and how to implement projects based on policy goals. Prior to working as a consultant, Shalini interned at the Federal Reserve Board's Community Development Division and spent a summer working in economic development with an NGO in Peru. Shalini continues her interest in economic development with volunteer work with District Bridges, a non-profit in DC.

Meghan Rowley, Latin America Program Associate, The International Republican Institute
Washington, D.C.
BA Public Policy; minor, International Studies; minor, Spanish ‘18
Meghan Rowley is a Latin America Program Associate for the Ecuador and Panama portfolios at the International Republican Institute (IRI). In her role, she assists in the implementation of several government grants in both countries aimed at strengthening transparency and accountability, legislative capacity, investigative and electoral journalism, civic participation, and democratic governance. She was previously a Project Assistant at Wiley Rein LLP, assisting in anti-dumping and countervailing cases in the firm’s International Trade practice. A recent graduate of the University of Michigan, she holds a degree in Public Policy with minors in International Studies and Spanish. During her undergraduate years she interned with the Atlantic Council, edited for the Michigan Journal of International Affairs, and studied abroad in Chile and Belgium. She currently serves as a member of the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

Moderator:
Bryna Worner, Program Coordinator, Program in International and Comparative Studies and Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
BA International Studies; BA Political Science; BA Spanish ‘13

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:18:21 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reforms: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and Germany in the 19th Century (March 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71196 71196-17785610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

What are the conditions under which liberalism as “rational centrist reformism” fails to obtain its goals without succumbing to the forces of radicalization — that is, by descending into revolutionary or reactionary extremes? Professor Ding compares two *extreme *paths out of liberalizing reforms that took place in late-Qing China and 19th-century Germany (Prussia). Despite their under-appreciated similarities, the failure of reforms in Qing and Prussia unfolded in dramatically different ways: popular revolution and regime overthrow in China in 1911, and reactionary victory in Germany in the late 19th century. Why?

Iza Ding is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include environmental politics, Chinese politics, and political regimes. Her book "The Performative State: Public Opinion, Political Pageantry, and Environmental Governance in China" is under contract at Cornell University Press. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Associate at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, where she is working on a second book manuscript on political memory.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:00:32 -0400 2020-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion 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
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision-making: Evidence from the Kenyan Appellate Courts (March 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71267 71267-17794063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Do judicial outcomes depend on judicial identity? Research on the determinants of judicial behavior have largely focused on the experience of advanced democracies, most notably the U.S. Considerably less attention has been paid to questions of judicial identity and performance in emerging democracies. This paper addresses this gap by turning to Kenya, a multiethnic society that has recently undergone a massive reform of the judiciary aimed at reducing corruption and bias and improving access to justice. We specifically examine whether ethnic bias plays a role in judicial outcomes by focusing on decisions made by the Kenyan High Court. Using an original web-scraped dataset of over 15,000 criminal appeals from 2003-2017 and for offenses ranging from petty theft to murder, we exploit the conditional random assignment of judges to criminal appeals to estimate the effect of judicial ethnicity on appeal outcomes. We find that judges are more likely to favor coethnic appellants or respondents by 3-4% points in comparison to non-coethnics. We also show that the coethnic bias becomes stronger in cases decided after the 2007 Kenyan election violence, during which inter-ethnic violence resulted in more than 1000 fatalities and hundreds of thousands displaced. Our findings contribute to recent debates on the determinants of equitable justice in developing contexts.

Fiona Shen-Bayh is an assistant professor of Government at William & Mary. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and earned her PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the role that law and courts play in strategies of autocratic survival. Her book project examines when and why autocrats use courts to repress and the ramifications of such strategies on the development of rule of law and judicial power. Drawing on cases from sub-Saharan Africa, she utilizes a mixed-methods approach that combines case studies, statistical modeling, and computational text analysis.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:38:14 -0400 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Fiona Shen-Bayh
CANCELLED - 2020 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem (March 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68932 68932-17197029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

In 1919, David Ohannessian founded the art of Armenian ceramics in Jerusalem, where his work and that of his followers is now celebrated as a local treasure. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, Ohannessian mastered a centuries-old art form in Kütahya, witnessed the rise of violent nationalism in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new tradition in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and spent his final years, uprooted once again, in Cairo and Beirut.

Ms. Moughalian will detail the lineage of her grandfather David Ohannessian’s ceramic tradition and document the critical roles his deportation and his own agency played in its transfer—aspects of the story obscured in the art historical narrative. She will speak about the process of coming to terms with her family’s past, the ways in which that served as an impetus to excavate and reconstruct her grandfather’s history through archival research, and the importance of preserving the stories of peoples displaced through migration.

Sato Moughalian is the author of Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian (Redwood Press/Stanford University Press, 2019). She is also an award-winning flutist in New York City and Artistic Director of Perspectives Ensemble, founded in 1993 at Columbia University to explore and contextualize works of composers and visual artists. She serves as principal flutist of the American Modern Ensemble and Gotham Chamber Opera; guest flutist with groups including Imani Winds, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestras, and the Orquestra Sinfonico do Estado São Paulo, Brazil. She can be heard on more than thirty chamber music recordings for Sony Classics, BIS, Naxos, as well as on YouTube, Spotify, and other major music platforms. Since 2007, Ms. Moughalian has traveled to Turkey, England, Israel, Palestine, and France to uncover her grandfather’s traces, has published articles, and gives talks on the genesis of Jerusalem's Armenian ceramic art.

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Photo shift: Drying pottery on the terrace of Dome of the Rock Tiles, Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem c. 1922.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:12:24 -0400 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled.
CANCELLED - Islamophobia Working Group Meeting (March 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64316 64316-16314275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Dear IWG members,

We're cancelling the next IWG meeting scheduled for March 20th, in light of the public health guidelines and care for your wellbeing.

Please let me or Silan Fadlallah <silanf@umich.edu> know if you have any questions. Stay safe and take good care of yourself.

kind regards,
Samer Ali

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The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We—a group of faculty, staff, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years, the IWG was run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture; starting in Winter 2019, the IWG is led by CMENAS housed in the International Institute. Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student, staff, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus, if you encounter a pertinent issue, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group. If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu).
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Meeting Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:10:02 -0400 2020-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Meeting Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Reinterpreting Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Comparative Perspective (March 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71497 71497-17834210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally eventful. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, lived through two dictatorships, a republic, and a civil war, and died in a democracy. In this lecture, Professor Casanova will reflect on the main historiographical currents that have guided his research in the last three decades: social history and change, with special emphasis on civil wars and revolutions; comparative historical sociology; and collective violence in the 20th century.

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University. He has authored and co-authored important books on the history of Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s Spain which were published, in English, by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and I.B. Tauris. He is currently completing a new book about collective violence in twentieth-century Europe, to be published in April 2020. In addition to his scholarship, Casanova is a frequent contributor to the Spanish "El País," and serves as a historical consultant in the television and film industry, both in documentaries and TV series and films.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:31:18 -0400 2020-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion cassanova_image
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70286 70286-17564359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourteen years of Maoist detention in a series of triumphant, recuperative tours of rural Tibetan regions. To this day, the absent presence of the tenth Panchen Lama looms large in those regions, where Tibetans lament the loss of his advocacy and voice amidst intensifying state-led development pressures. She takes up Uradyn Bulag's critique to reject the positivist, textualist, and statist premises of "oral history" in favor of a linguistic anthropological approach to narrative as a multimodal and dialogic process of (dis)embodying selves and others in spaces and times. Professor Makley asks, in the context of intensifying surveillance and central state-led censorship, can our Tibetan interlocutors' awkward silences and earnest affirmations, the un- or under-said of their stories about the tenth Panchen Lama, be taken as a politics of refusal that, in the telling, itself works to re-constitute his fugitive presence, and by proxy that of a Tibetan sociality and future currently being erased?

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of state-building, state-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China's restive frontier zone (SE Qinghai and SW Gansu provinces) since 1992. Her analyses draw especially on methodologies from linguistic and economic anthropology, gender and media studies, and studies of religion and ritual that unpack the semiotic and pragmatic specificities of intersubjective communication, exchange, personhood and value. Her first book, "The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China," was published by University of California Press in 2007. Her second book, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China," published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically Tibetan region of Rebgong (SE Qinghai province) in the wake of China's Great Open the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The book brings anthropological theories of states, development and personhood into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity, agency, and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).

For more information about her research projects, publications, courses, and media archives, visit her website: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/makley/index.html, or her Academia.edu page: https://reed.academia.edu/CharleneMakley.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:02 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet
CANCELLED - WCED Book Discussion. Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71268 71268-17794066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Authors: Samuel A. Greene, reader of Russian politics, King’s College London; Graeme B. Robertson, professor of political science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Discussants: Natalia Forrat, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Ronald G. Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, U-M.

What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson craft a compellingly original account of contemporary Russian politics. Telling the story of Putin’s rule through pivotal episodes such as the aftermath of the "For Fair Elections" protests, the annexation of Crimea, and the War in Eastern Ukraine, Greene and Robertson draw on interviews, surveys, social media data, and leaked documents to reveal how hard Putin has to work to maintain broad popular support, while exposing the changing tactics that the Kremlin has used to bolster his popularity. Unearthing the ambitions, emotions, and divisions that fuel Russian politics, this book illuminates the crossroads to which Putin has led his country and shows why his rule is more fragile than it appears.

Sam Greene is reader in Russian politics and director of the Russia Institute at King's College London. His research focuses on the relationships between citizens and the state in Russia, and in societies experiencing social, economic and political transformation more broadly. His first book, "Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia," was published by Stanford University Press in 2014. Sam also serves as associate fellow in the Russian and Eurasian Programme of the International Institute for Security Studies and a visiting professor at the UK Defence Academy.

Graeme Robertson is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. His work focuses on political protest and regime support in authoritarian regimes. Graeme is the author of "Revolution and Reform in Ukraine," published by PONARS Eurasia (with Silviya Nitsova and Grigore Pop-Eleches) and "The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia," published by Cambridge University Press. He has published articles in many academic journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, as well as contributing regularly to the media on Russia and Ukraine. Graeme currently serves as the Associate Editor for Comparative Politics for the American Journal of Political Science.

Natalia Forrat is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow who studies state-society relations and authoritarianism. Her book project "Solidarity Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations and the Political Regime in Russia" develops a theory of an authoritarian regime based on the blend of group solidarity and the state. Her earlier research on the role of schoolteachers in falsifying Russian elections and the political economy of higher education in Putin's Russia has been published in Comparative Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs. Natalia received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in 2017. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan, emeritus professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago, and senior researcher at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The grandson of the composer and ethnomusicologist Grikor Mirzaian Suni and a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University, he taught at Oberlin College (1968-1981); as visiting professor of history at the University of California, Irvine (1987); and Stanford University (1995-1996). He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995), where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. He was Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan from 2005 to 2015 and director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies from 2009 to 2012.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:45:15 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Putin v. the People
CANCELLED - CREES Noon Lecture. Epic Proportions: Translating Poland’s National Epic for the 21st Century (March 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71012 71012-17768619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk will offer a practitioner’s reflections on what it means to translate an epic poem in the twenty-first century. What can epic poems of the past mean to us today, and how specifically is that meaning transmuted in the crossing of linguistic, cultural, and temporal borders? Using the experience of translating Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 Polish-language epic narrative poem "Pan Tadeusz" as both starting point and finish line, Johnston will consider such underconceptualized aspects of translation as imagined and actual readership; the role of aesthetic pleasure in the reading experience; and translation as trespass.

Bill Johnston translates from Polish, working in a wide range of genres and historical periods. His awards include the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, both for Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel "Stone Upon Stone" (2012); the Found in Translation Prize for Tomasz Różycki’s mock-epic poem "Twelve Stations" (2016); the National Translation Award for Adam Mickiewicz’s epic in verse "Pan Tadeusz" (2019); fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and, for his overall contributions to promoting Polish literature and culture, the Transatlantyk Prize (2014) and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2012). He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:40:02 -0400 2020-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Pan Tadeusz cover
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | Queer Writing x Asia: Japanese, Taiwanese, and Asian American Literary Worlds (March 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69653 69653-17376504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

My paper begins by reflecting upon work by Li Kotomi (1989-), a Taiwanese author writing in Japanese about love between women and referencing both Japanese lesbian fiction and the iconic Taiwanese lesbian writer Qiu Miaojin (1969-1995). From Japanese and Taiwanese queer fiction, I then pivot to queer Asian American writing such as that by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong (1988-), who uses Qiu’s lines to open his book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). Through these texts, I address how “queer” figures into discourses of ekkyō bungaku (border-crossing literature), tongzhi literary tradition, and Asian American writing.

Grace En-Yi Ting specializes in queer feminist approaches to Japanese literary and cultural studies. She is working on a book manuscript titled *Minor Intimacies: Queerness, the Normative, and the Everyday in Contemporary Japan*. From 2018-2020, she is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:51:23 -0400 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Ting, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programmes, University of Hong Kong
CANCELLED - CSAS Lecture Series | In Defense of Collateral Evidence: Refugees and Post-Partition IDs in Delhi (March 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64844 64844-16460997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

The Partition of India and Pakistan, which brought in its wake a sea of displaced populations, meant it was not merely refugees and their effects but equally the identity documents that were issued to them prior to migration that suffered from a sense of displacement. Given that the figure of the refugee was alien to the memory of the colonial state, it was hardly surprising that there were no pre-existing genres of recognizing her. With the exception of Calcutta, Delhi received a disproportionate number of refugees compared to other cities and urban authorities had to grapple with the absence of an infrastructure of enumerating and identifying them. In this city, various actors such as the Ministry of Relief and Rehabilitation, housing agencies, the Delhi administration and refugee associations acted in concert to fortify the process of rehabilitation from the chaos of displaced identity documents. While an official identity document, termed the refugee registration certificate did emerge, it was unrealistic for authorities to undertake rehabilitation on the strength of the scarce possession of this document. Simultaneously, urban rehabilitation authorities refused to exempt (Dalit, upper caste Hindu and Sikh) refugee ‘squatters’ from encumbrances of submitting evidence of their caste, nationality, displacement, entry, occupation and presence in the planned city. Using several genres of primary historical sources, this paper inquires into how the Indian state went about knowing the refugee dwelling in urban spaces in ways that straddle the philosophical and the feasible, the material and the intangible. In particular, it asks the question, what role did refugee knowledge play in the fashioning of identity documents between 1947 and 1960? This paper must also be read in another register, namely, the popular making and not just the popular life of identity documents in marginal spaces of dwelling at an early hour of state formation.

Tarangini Sriraman is author of In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India published by OUP India. The book weaves together a hitherto unattempted history of making and verifying identification documents in the urban margins of India. She teaches Politics and History at the School of Liberal Studies in Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She has previously been a South Asia Program Fellow, Cornell University, Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi and Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She has also received the Charles Wallace Research Grant, London. Her work has been published in journals like Economic and Political Weekly, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Indian Economic and Social History Review, and South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:50:05 -0400 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Tarangini Sriraman, Professor of Politics and History, Azim Premji University, India
CANCELED: 4th Annual Cognitive Science Community Colloquium (March 28, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73090 73090-18140506@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The Cognitive Science Community is excited to announce that we’ll be hosting our 4th annual colloquium on Saturday, March 28th at Weiser Hall 10th Floor. As part of the Undergraduate Research Showcase, we’re currently looking for students to apply to share their work. If you’ve contributed to a cognitive science research project at any level of involvement, we’d love to have you! We encourage submissions from related fields such as computer science, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and more!

Submit an abstract and the submission form through this site: https://sites.google.com/view/csccolloquium2020/home

Submissions highlighting interdisciplinary research are especially welcome. Please apply by March 10th at 11:59pm. If this deadline is an issue, feel free to contact us at cogscicmty@umich.edu and we will be happy to work with you. You can also reach out to us via that email with any other questions you may have.

Anyone interested in attending can also RSVP here: https://forms.gle/qafD3VdB5QsZZJVv6 and follow the colloquium website linked above for updates.

Sincerely,

Cognitive Science Community

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:14:20 -0400 2020-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Conference / Symposium Call for submissions
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History (March 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70229 70229-17550034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

During the past three decades, China has witnessed an enormous growth of intellectual interest in defining a Chinese cultural identity. At the center of this trend lies a claim that China’s future ought to be rooted in China’s own cumulative civilization, especially in the Confucian learning traditions. This exceptionalist turn in intellectual culture has provided a new legitimizing ideology that the Chinese Communist Party has quickly adopted to reinvent itself as the inheritor of China’s cultural traditions. Making sense of this contemporary turn requires us to understand the deeper roots of modern Chinese national thought. Different from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the search for a Chinese cultural identity became central to the debates over political system and moral values in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If “cultural identity” was an answer, what was the question? Were there alternatives?

Wen Yu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2018. Her research focuses on China’s social and political thought, ideological movements, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, "The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Cultural Identity,” explores the roots and development of modern Chinese exceptionalism by tracing how the search for a Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates over shared values in modern China. Her dissertation was awarded the 2017 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:32 -0400 2020-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
CANCELLED - CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon (April 1, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72422 72422-18000494@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This exhibit has been postponed due to COVID-19. We are working to reschedule Gluklya's campus visit, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview which was recently conducted by our alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square: https://youtu.be/QHO-gCuWQjY.

In "Brodsky on the Horizon" Gluklya will show the video from her latest project, "Carnival of Oppressed Feelings," which was last exhibited in 2019 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several examples of her "Utopian Clothes," previously used in performances and workshops, works on paper and other selected videos will be displayed as well. These works will visualize the artist's personal connection to Joseph Brodsky’s poems and writings. The exhibit will also depict Joseph Brodsky's time at the University of Michigan, through reproduced photographs from the Ardis Records in Special Collections of the Hatcher Library.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist. Her manifesto states: “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, video, participatory projects, text, and research to develop a concept of fragility. For Gluklya, fragility is interpreted not as “delicate beauty” but as “invisible strength.” Her work explores topics of social exclusion, untapped intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights, and stereotypes. Considered a pioneer of Russian performance art, Gluklya is a co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) and the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?). In 2012, FFC became the Utopian Unemployment Union, a project that unites art, social science, and progressive pedagogy to give people from all social backgrounds an opportunity to make art together. Today, the artist participates in many international shows including the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (2015) and Positions #4 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2018-19). She has been awarded numerous art prizes and grants, including a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Memorial Fund in 2014 and support from the Mondriaan Fund for recent projects.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:57:23 -0400 2020-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Exhibition CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon
CANCELLED - Lecture | Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915 (April 1, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69037 69037-17220018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armenian migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response, dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution of these networks resemble those that drive the phenomenon of migrant smuggling in the present day. Furthermore, migrants who returned home found themselves stuck in an uneasy legal limbo as both Ottoman and United States governments disavowed them as citizens, leaving them vulnerable to deportation from their own ancestral lands. As this talk contends, the Armenian migratory experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both parallels and sheds light on themes such as smuggling, deportation, and the criminalization of migration, that are central to the issue of global migration in the 21st century.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:13:38 -0400 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915
CANCELED: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939 (April 1, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70168 70168-17540924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

Come celebrate the publication of "Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918—1939" edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, Volume 8 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
This compilation of Jewish primary sources produced between the world wars examines what was simultaneously a tense and innovative period in modern Jewish history. During these decades, Jews vigorously fought over religion, politics, migration, and their relation to the state and to one another. Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman’s selections capture the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous years. The texts, translated from many languages, span a wide range of politics, culture, literature, and art. Join Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman in a fascinating discussion of the volume and enjoy a sample of its riches.

For access to Elevators:
Enter through the main entrance (North side), make a left at the end of the hallway, and make another left. Elevators will be on both sides. Enter through the farthest south entrance, and there will be an elevator within the stairwell.
If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:05:38 -0400 2020-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Crisis and Creativity Publicity Image
CANCELLED - CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon (April 2, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72422 72422-18000495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 2, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This exhibit has been postponed due to COVID-19. We are working to reschedule Gluklya's campus visit, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview which was recently conducted by our alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square: https://youtu.be/QHO-gCuWQjY.

In "Brodsky on the Horizon" Gluklya will show the video from her latest project, "Carnival of Oppressed Feelings," which was last exhibited in 2019 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several examples of her "Utopian Clothes," previously used in performances and workshops, works on paper and other selected videos will be displayed as well. These works will visualize the artist's personal connection to Joseph Brodsky’s poems and writings. The exhibit will also depict Joseph Brodsky's time at the University of Michigan, through reproduced photographs from the Ardis Records in Special Collections of the Hatcher Library.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist. Her manifesto states: “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, video, participatory projects, text, and research to develop a concept of fragility. For Gluklya, fragility is interpreted not as “delicate beauty” but as “invisible strength.” Her work explores topics of social exclusion, untapped intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights, and stereotypes. Considered a pioneer of Russian performance art, Gluklya is a co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) and the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?). In 2012, FFC became the Utopian Unemployment Union, a project that unites art, social science, and progressive pedagogy to give people from all social backgrounds an opportunity to make art together. Today, the artist participates in many international shows including the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (2015) and Positions #4 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2018-19). She has been awarded numerous art prizes and grants, including a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Memorial Fund in 2014 and support from the Mondriaan Fund for recent projects.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:57:23 -0400 2020-04-02T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Exhibition CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon
CANCELLED - CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon (April 3, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72422 72422-18000496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This exhibit has been postponed due to COVID-19. We are working to reschedule Gluklya's campus visit, but in the meantime, enjoy this interview which was recently conducted by our alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79), curator and art advisor of Galerie Blue Square: https://youtu.be/QHO-gCuWQjY.

In "Brodsky on the Horizon" Gluklya will show the video from her latest project, "Carnival of Oppressed Feelings," which was last exhibited in 2019 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Several examples of her "Utopian Clothes," previously used in performances and workshops, works on paper and other selected videos will be displayed as well. These works will visualize the artist's personal connection to Joseph Brodsky’s poems and writings. The exhibit will also depict Joseph Brodsky's time at the University of Michigan, through reproduced photographs from the Ardis Records in Special Collections of the Hatcher Library.

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) is a visual and performance artist. Her manifesto states: “The place of the artist is on the side of the weak.” She uses clothing, installations, video, participatory projects, text, and research to develop a concept of fragility. For Gluklya, fragility is interpreted not as “delicate beauty” but as “invisible strength.” Her work explores topics of social exclusion, untapped intuitive knowledge, mind-body connections, violation of human rights, and stereotypes. Considered a pioneer of Russian performance art, Gluklya is a co-founder of the Factory of Found Clothes (FFC) and the group Chto Delat (What is to be done?). In 2012, FFC became the Utopian Unemployment Union, a project that unites art, social science, and progressive pedagogy to give people from all social backgrounds an opportunity to make art together. Today, the artist participates in many international shows including the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale (2015) and Positions #4 at the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands (2018-19). She has been awarded numerous art prizes and grants, including a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fellowship Memorial Fund in 2014 and support from the Mondriaan Fund for recent projects.

Presented in partnership with the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:57:23 -0400 2020-04-03T08:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Exhibition CREES Pop-Up Exhibit. Brodsky on the Horizon
CANCELLED - GISC Conference. Muslims in Comics: Superheroes & Scapegoats (April 3, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71494 71494-17834206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We will reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

All Day Conference
Fri, April 3, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
555 Weiser Hall

Panelists will include: Esra Mirze Santesso, Chris Gavaler, Aliyah Khan, & Karla Mallette. A keynote address will be given at 4:00 PM by Saladin Ahmed.

This event is free and open to the public but please RSVP: https://forms.gle/MKZ96YSR7JgiYvHn8

Schedule:
10:00-11:00: Esra Mirze Santesso
11:00-12:00: Karla Mallette
12:00-2:00: BREAK
2:00-3:00: Aliyah Khan
3:00-4:00: Chris Gavaler
4:00-5:30: Saladin Ahmed

From dissidents to villains to superheroes, how are Muslim characters written--and how does the public read them--in comic books today? This workshop explores the roles open to Muslim characters in serialized comics and graphic novels. The medium of serialized comics, commercialized in the twentieth century by mainstream comics publishers such as Marvel and DC, and epitomized by their respective superhero universes, has long been associated with a lack of racial and religious diversity, the sexualization of female characters, and a reader base that is stereotypically young, male, and white. Minority characters were often limited to tokenized villains or sidekicks designed for comic relief. But the contemporary young Muslim female superhero Ms. Marvel symbolizes a comics landscape that is changing. In the contexts of the Gulf Wars, 9/11, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian conflict, ongoing civil unrest in the Middle East, and worldwide refugee migrant crises, writers and artists from the Muslim and Arab worlds, and others writing journalistically and historically about those locales, are at the forefront of graphic medium literary production.

Graphic novels and comics by and about Muslims and Arabs comprise a growing and distinctive narrative strain within comics studies—one that this workshop of comics and Muslim and Arab Studies artists and scholars seeks to investigate.

Keynote speaker and Eisner Award-winning comics artist and science fiction and fantasy author Saladin Ahmed (*Throne of the Crescent Moon*, *Miles Morales: Spider-Man*, *Black Bolt*, *Exiles*) will speak about his new work for Marvel and other enterprises.

Chris Gavaler (*On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1*, 2015) explores the Islamicist history of the 20th-century superhero.

Esra Mirze Santesso (*Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature*, 2013) discusses human rights discourse in narratives of war and dissidence in Iran and Kashmir.

Karla Mallette (*European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean*, 2010) reports on resistance to Muslim and other minority identity politics from some comics readers.

Aliyah Khan (*Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean*, 2020) examines orientalist representations of Muslim female superheroes.

The presenters bring postcolonial, decolonial, comics studies, and historicizing methodologies to bear on understanding commonalities and differences among Islamic, Muslim, and Arab graphic narratives, reading them as transnational works that, as many of their subjects do, cross borders and resist authoritarian states.


Cosponsored by: The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Middle East Studies, and Arab and Muslim American Studies

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:41:27 -0400 2020-04-03T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Conference / Symposium Muslims_in_comics_poster
[CANCELLED]. CSEAS Lecture Series. Islamizing a Sacred Hindu-Javanese Text: The Story of Jimat Kalimasada in Javanese Wayang Puppet Play (April 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70971 70971-17760244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

Before the arrival of Islam, Javanese people had lived in Hindu–Javanese hybrid culture. The Islamization of Java has given rise to not only the expansion of different groups of people with diverse syncretistic religion and culture, but also rich variations in the content and context of Java-Islamic cultural performance genres and ideologies. Believing in the performing arts as one of the major venues for the blending of beliefs and practices, my presentation discusses a particular wayang story, Jimat Kalimasada, to show the complex processes of religious and cultural transformation from Hindu-Javanese to Islam-Javanese world of view.

Sumarsam has played Javanese gamelan since childhood. He is also a keen amateur dhalang (puppeteer) of wayang puppet play. He holds a BA degree from Akademi Seni Karawitan Indonesia, MA from Wesleyan, and PhD from Cornell. Currently holding the status of Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, he has taught at Wesleyan since 1972. His research on the history, theory, and performance practice of gamelan and wayang, and on Indonesia-Western encounter theme has resulted the publication of numerous articles and two books: Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (1995) and Javanese Gamelan and the West (2013).

Sumarsam's recent research focuses on the intersections between religion and performing arts, examining discourses of transculturalism, the performing arts, and Islam among the Javanese. He is the recipient of a number of fellowship grants and awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies fellowship (2016-17), Indonesian Bintang Satyalencana Cultural Award (2017), the International Gamelan Festival Literacy Award (2018), and Yale Institute of Sacred Music Fellowship (2019-20). He was recently named the 2018 honorary membership of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:00 -0400 2020-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - CSAS Lecture Series | The Price of Acceptability: On South Asian Inclusion and Exclusion in the US (April 3, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65325 65325-16571520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 3, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Bald will draw upon his past and ongoing historical research to trace out the ways that, for more than a century, South Asians have been simultaneously celebrated and vilified in U.S. popular culture and accepted only within narrowly and purposefully drawn limits as immigrants and citizens. He will examine a series of moments in South Asian American history - the "India Craze" at the turn of the 20th century; the shifting immigration laws of 1917 and 1965; the 1923 Supreme Court case of Bhagat Singh Thind; the 2016 presidential election - assessing how the "model minority" idea functions not simply as a myth, but as part of structures and processes of state discipline.

Vivek Bald is a scholar, filmmaker, and digital media producer whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press, 2013). Bald's articles and essays have appeared in Souls, Dissent, South Asian Popular Culture, and the collections Black Routes to Islam, Asian Americans in Dixie, and With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims, Racism, and Empire. His documentary films include Taxi-vala/Auto-biography (1994) and Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music (2003). Bald is currently working on a second book, The Rise and Fall of "Prince" Ranji Smile: Fantasies of India at the Dawn of the American Century, as well as the transmedia "Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project" which includes a feature-length documentary film, "In Search of Bengali Harlem", slated for broadcast on PBS in 2012, and an accompanying web-based community history platform. He is Associate Professor in Comparative Media Studies and Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT's Open Documentary Lab.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:50:39 -0400 2020-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 2020-04-03T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Vivek Bald, Comparative Media Studies, MIT
CANCELLED - Nam Center K-pop Party | Trivia and Translation (April 5, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73067 73067-18138325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 5, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Join the University of Michigan Nam Center for Korean Studies for an afternoon of K-pop! Show off your knowledge of K-pop through the decades at our trivia stations, learn the dance moves of your favorite idols, and sing your heart out in the Karaoke room – all for a chance to earn prizes! This event is free and open to the public. Snacks will be provided.

RSVP on Facebook at http://bit.ly/kpop-party

Are you a student in Michigan between the grades of 6-12 who loves K-pop? Check out our “K-Pop Translation Contest” for a special prize opportunity (open until 3/22/20): https://ii.umich.edu/ncks/translation

What is K-pop?
K-pop, or Korean pop music, is the largest cultural export of Korea. The style of K-pop blends elements of pop/R&B/rap tones, repetitive verses, dancing, and unique fashion. Referred to as part of ‘Hallyu’ (한류), or the ‘Korean Wave,’ K-pop captivated audiences of Asia and traveled the world into the United States, including our community in Ann Arbor.

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Exhibition Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:40:18 -0400 2020-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2020-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Exhibition Nam Center K-pop Party | Trivia and Translation
CANCELLED - Conversations on Europe. The European Court of Justice's Case Law on Data Privacy in Europe and Beyond (April 6, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71795 71795-17885880@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

In this lecture, Judge von Danwitz will provide an overview of the normative and jurisprudential foundations of data protection law in the European Union and discuss some of the landmark judgements of the Court of Justice in this field: the Digital Rights Ireland, Google Spain, Tele2 Sverige and Watson, and Google France (Territorial Scope). Justice von Danwitz will discuss the EU law regime governing the transfer of data outside the European Union and the lessons to be learned from the Schrems case on the "Safe Harbor."

Thomas von Danwitz (born 1962) is a legal scholar who has served since 2006 as a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He received his Doctor of Laws from the University of Bonn in 1988, the International Diploma in Public Administration from the École national d’administration in 1990, and his teaching accreditation at the University in Bonn in 1996. He was professor of German public law and European law from 1996-2003, dean of the Faculty of Law of the Ruhr University Bochum from 2000-01, and professor of German public law and European law at the University of Cologne from 2003-06. He served as director of the Institute of Public Law and Administrative Science until 2006. He has held several visiting professorships, including at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the François Rabelais University Tours, and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the François Rabelais University.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:31:47 -0400 2020-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 2020-04-06T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Judge Thomas van Danwitz
CANCELLED--IISS Lecture. Museums, Cultural Heritage Preservation, and Neoliberalism in the Middle East (April 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73641 73641-18276410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Diana Abouali will be speaking about recent issues of cultural heritage the Middle East, especially as new museum institutions have begun to open their doors throughout the Arab world. In her talk, Abouali will speak to her experience working with the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit and the Petra National Trust in Jordan, as well as her other leading roles in cultural heritage in the region.

Diana Abouali, PhD, was named the Director of the Arab American National Museum in early 2019. She holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and was previously a faculty member at Duke University. Following her teaching career, she relocated to Birzeit to to work as head of research and collections at the newly-established Palestinian Museum (which opened to the public in 2016 in Birzeit). Relocating to Amman, Jordan, in 2014, she worked as director of education, outreach and awareness at the Petra National Trust and later as a senior consultant for Turquoise Mountain in Jordan. She was project manager at Tiraz: Widad Kawar Home for Arab Dress on an AHRC-ESRC Global Challenges Fund (UK) project, in cooperation with Plymouth University and the Information and Research Center-King Hussein Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:29:57 -0400 2020-04-06T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-06T19:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dui yang 對揚, or ‘Responsive Exaltation:’ Performative Dimensions of Court Speech and Civil Examinations in the Early Tang (April 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71464 71464-17827816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

The phrase dui yang 對揚 (roughly, “responsively exalt”) is a ubiquitous formula in Zhou bronze inscriptions, evoking a symbiotic interaction between virtuous minister and sage ruler whereby ritually or verbally efficacious response from the former enhances the might and reputation of the latter. The medieval empires of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Tang, a millennium and a half or so later, were naturally utterly different in nature, structure, and complexity from the old Bronze-age kingdoms recorded and mythologized in the classics, but they nonetheless operated under a sort of contractual obligation to represent their own functioning as a continuation or restoration of those mythic sagely kingdoms. This talk, centering on medieval traditions of court speech and related aspects of examination and educational culture, explores the processes of historical “translation” through which medieval rulers and their ministers strove to carry on this responsive and exaltative function as they understood it.

Robert Ashmore is Associate Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests lie in the literary and scholarly traditions of early medieval to Tang and Song China, with particular focus on questions of music and performance, hermeneutical thought, and commentarial practice.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:02:05 -0400 2020-04-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Berkeley
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting State Repression: An Analysis of Spells (April 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71587 71587-17842694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Christian Davenport is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan as well as a Faculty Associate at the Center for Political Studies and Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war and social movements), measurement, racism and popular culture. He is the author of six books: "The Peace Continuum" with Erik Melander and Patrick Regan (2017, Oxford University Press); "How Social Movements Die" (2016, Cambridge University Press); "Media Bias, Perspective and State Repression: The Black Panther Party" (2010, Cambridge University Press) – winner of Best Book in Racial Politics and Social Movements by the American Political Science Association; "State Repression and the Promise of Democratic Peace" (2007, Cambridge University Press); "Repression and Mobilization" with Carol Mueller and Hank Johnston (University of Minnesota Press. 2004), and "Paths to State Repression: Human Rights Violations and Contentious Politics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:45:59 -0400 2020-04-07T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - Nam Center Colloquium Series | The Origins of Korean Cuisine: Prehistoric Foodways from Foraging to Farming (April 7, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73457 73457-18241312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Archaeology can offer a long-term perspective on foodways well before writing was invented. How food is procured and prepared impacts environments and our own cultural identities today, and this is no difference in prehistoric times. This talk will engage the audience what Dr. Lee and her team have found on food culture of over 8,000 years in Korea. One of the key questions is how prehistoric communities managed various food resources and constructed sustainable niches over the long term before, during, and after farming began. Examples come from diverse landscapes, including hilly sand dunes on the east coast, alluvial flats along the Nam River, coastal inlets of Busan harbor, and Jeju Island. Food culture flourished well before the recipe was written.

Gyoung-Ah Lee is an archaeologist investigating ancient human-environment interactions and cultural niche construction in prehistoric Asia. Her work deals primarily with the long transition from hunting and gathering to dependence on farming for food, and has been featured in media outlets ranging from scientific journals to NPR. She and her research team secured various funding from the Korean Studies Promotion Service, the Henry Luce Foundation, National Geographic, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and more. While focused in Asia, her research spans the globe, and she has led archaeological projects and participated in excavations in Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam. Since 2007 she has been based at the University of Oregon, in Eugene, as a member of the faculty of Anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:44:17 -0400 2020-04-07T16:30:00-04:00 2020-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Gyoung-Ah Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon
CANCELLED - Book Tour | Embattled Dreamlands The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory (April 8, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73363 73363-18208327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 8, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Embattled Dreamlands explores the complex relationship between competing national myths, imagined boundaries and local memories in the threefold-contested geography referred to as Eastern Turkey, Western Armenia or Northern Kurdistan.

Spatially rooted in the shatter zone of the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space, it sheds light on the multi-layered memory landscape of the Lake Van region in Southeastern Turkey where collective violence stretches back from the Armenian Genocide to the Kurdish conflict of today. Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping, and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts. "Embattled Dreamlands" provides a unique insight into the development of national identity which will provide a great resource to students and researchers in sociology and history alike.

David Leupold is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. He was the 2018-19 Manoogian postdoctoral fellow with the Armenian Studies Program, U-M. He holds a doctoral degree from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Based on his doctoral research on contested landscapes of memory, Dr. Leupold's first monograph “Embattled Dreamlands – The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory” is in print with Routledge. He is fluent in German (native), English, Russian, Armenian, Turkish and Farsi. His field of research encompasses the politics of memory, mnemonic landscapes and counter-narratives in the post-Ottoman and post-Soviet space.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:14:18 -0400 2020-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-08T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion David Leupold, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | What Motivates Skilled Workers to Emigrate from Japan? (April 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70097 70097-17530447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

Although the Japanese government has been promoting the acceptance of highly skilled foreign workers, the lack of skilled labor force in Japan is already at the critical level. Furthermore, the number of Japanese skilled workers (defined as those who have a university degree) moving overseas as permanent residents has been increasing. What motivates them to relocate to other countries permanently? As part of a research program aimed to understand demographic changes in Japan and their ramifications, we fielded a survey experiment to test hypotheses regarding the factors that motivate Japanese skilled workers to emigrate from Japan to other countries.

Yusaku Horiuchi is a Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on applying experimental designs and statistical methods to a range of empirical questions in political science. His substantive research interests include political behavior, public opinion, electoral institutions, and Japanese politics.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:52:07 -0400 2020-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies,Dartmouth College
CANCELLED - Eleventh Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | Medicine, Madness, and Maladies of the Mind in Armenian Studies Past and Present (April 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68934 68934-17197034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

In recent years, the history of medicine, mental illness, and the literary, anthropological, and sociological studies of madness have gained a remarkable momentum internationally. Still, there have been virtually no substantial studies of a premodern and modern understanding of medicine, madness, and maladies of the mind in Armenia and its Diaspora. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to interrogate the stories of both medical and psychiatric sciences as well as that of the concept of madness in Armenian political, historical, literary, and cultural discussions in the past and present.

The workshop will focus on the histories of medicine and psychiatry and the portrayals of madness as a form of behavior, marker of difference, and tool of body politics across periods and geographies. The workshop organizers are interested in the broader history of medicine, but they would like to draw particular attention to the historical and contemporary landscapes in which medical professionals sought to exercise their authorities over mental illnesses and the mind itself. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tools and theories have provided medical professionals with renewed opportunities to intervene in the social, political and cultural spheres with the shared objective of devising and implementing therapies of madness.

In this, the workshop will initiate an inter-disciplinary conversation about the concept, diagnosis, treatment, and social construction of “madness.” The goal is to consider new perspectives, methodologies and cross-disciplinary frameworks that will put Armenian Studies in conversation with, among others, the growing fields of history of medicine, science and technology studies. In the course of the workshop, the hope is to call into question what was and is culturally defined as madness as well as medical and societal interventions to “cure” madness and “contain” the mad.

Therefore, this meeting will situate the notion of madness at the intersection of politics, medicine, literature, sociology, and anthropology and seeks to explore the changes in its definition and the underpinnings of perceptions of mental illnesses at critical junctures of history in Armenia and amongst its diasporic communities across the globe.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:14:45 -0400 2020-04-10T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Workshop / Seminar Eleventh Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | Medicine, Madness, and Maladies of the Mind in Armenian Studies Past and Present
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact (April 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70230 70230-17550035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

At the center of China’s rapid urbanization is land: land leasing provides both current revenue and collateral for future revenue streams. The so-called land finance has paid for massive infrastructure development in particular. This presentation will discuss a confluence of factors underlying land finance and its impact on the production of China’s contemporary cityscape.

Weiping Wu is a Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Director of the MS Urban Planning program at Columbia University in New York City. She also is on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Columbia Population Research Center. Her research and teaching have focused on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. Among her many publications are books "The Sage Handbook on Contemporary China" (2018), "The Chinese City" (2012)," Local Dynamics in a Globalizing World" (2000), "Pioneering Economic Reform in China’s Special Economic Zones" (1999), and "The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities" (1997).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:02:32 -0400 2020-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion LRCCS Noon Lecture Series * Event Title (e.g., Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?): Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Populism, Nationalism, and the Rise of Radical Politics in Europe and the United States (April 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71589 71589-17842695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, Resident Faculty at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where he co-directs the Research Cluster on Challenges to Democracy and serves as Director of Undergraduate Programs. Using relational survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, his work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and the rise of radical-right parties. His publications have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Brown Journal of World Affairs, and a number of other peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:37:31 -0400 2020-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion speaker-image
CANCELLED - Islamophobia Working Group Meeting (April 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64316 64316-16314276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Dear IWG members,

We're cancelling the next IWG meeting scheduled for March 20th, in light of the public health guidelines and care for your wellbeing.

Please let me or Silan Fadlallah <silanf@umich.edu> know if you have any questions. Stay safe and take good care of yourself.

kind regards,
Samer Ali

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The Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We—a group of faculty, staff, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years, the IWG was run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture; starting in Winter 2019, the IWG is led by CMENAS housed in the International Institute. Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student, staff, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus, if you encounter a pertinent issue, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group. If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu).
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Meeting Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:10:02 -0400 2020-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Meeting Weiser Hall
CANCELED: CogSci Connections (April 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72629 72629-18033405@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join the Cognitive Science peer facilitators at this month's CogSci Connections gathering, organized as a pre-finals study session. Study snacks and coffee will be provided.

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Other Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:34:30 -0400 2020-04-19T19:00:00-04:00 2020-04-19T23:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Other Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy (April 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70269 70269-17556193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

This talk examines the unfolding controversy surrounding human genome editing in and across China’s national public sphere and national sphere of experts, the transnational public sphere, and the transnational sphere of experts between 2015 and 2019.

Ya-Wen Lei is an assistant professor of sociology at Harvard University. She is the author of "The Contentious Public Sphere" (Princeton University Press, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:03:23 -0400 2020-04-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-21T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - CREES 60th Anniversary Series. 2020 Vision on CREES: Viewing the Field through Directors’ Eyes (April 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70722 70722-17619604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Four former CREES Directors will reflect on the contributions of the University of Michigan to Russian, East European and Eurasian studies over the past 60 years, and discuss the continued relevance of area studies today. Moderated by the current CREES Director, Professor Geneviève Zubrzycki.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:12:17 -0400 2020-04-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion CREES 60th Anniversary Series. 2020 Vision on CREES: Viewing the Field through Directors’ Eyes