Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CSEAS Lecture Series. The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79670 79670-20444320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free event; register at https://bit.ly/39sKIiE

From his recently released book, *The Spirit Ambulance*, Dr. Stonington will share stories from the deathbeds of Thai elders: their children’s attempts to pay back their “debts of life” via intensive medical care, and the ensuing “spirit ambulance,” a rush to get patients home from the ghost-infested hospital to orchestrate their final breath in a spiritually advantageous place. Out of these stories, Dr. Stonington will abstract outward from Thailand to Southeast Asia and the globe to examine the effects high-tech medicine on vital life transitions.

Scott Stonington is an anthropologist and physician. His primary appointment at U-M is in Anthropology and International Studies. He also practices hospitalist medicine at the VA Ann Arbor and primary care at Neighborhood Family Health Center in Ypsilanti. He has published on end of life and pain management in Thailand, Buddhism and the body, and the roles of improvisation and emotion in medical expertise in the U.S. He is also lead editor of the *New England Journal of Medicine*'s "Case Studies in Social Medicine."

Stonington’s new book is a great read for anyone interested in the global dynamics of healthcare and biomedicine, globalization, rapidly expanding technology, comparing cultures and systems of meaning, and the way global forces act upon the lives of individuals worldwide.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:00:44 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
CMENAS & GISC Event. Fourth Annual MLK Day Lecture: Decolonizing Methods: Nubia and the Politics of Knowledge (February 8, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80028 80028-20547017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Nubians are an internally diverse ethnolinguistic community whose historical homeland is located along the Nile River in southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

Panelists discuss strategies for decolonizing knowledge about Nubia at the fraught intersections of race, politics, and history in the Global South.

Panelists include Yasmin Moll, Geoff Emberling, and Michael Fahy, with a performance by Nabra Nelson & Mona-Sherif Nelson. The discussion will be moderated by Samer Ali.

Yasmin Moll (Assistant Professor of Anthropology) is an anthropologist of the Middle East and North Africa. She has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork on Nubian cultural activism in Egypt since 2015. Yasmin’s maternal family is from Kushtmna Sharq, Nubia.

Geoff Emberling (Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum) is an archaeologist and museum curator. He and his team have been working on Nubian archaeological sites in northern Sudan since 2013.

Michael Fahy (Lecturer, School of Education) did his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Michigan on higher education in Morocco. He conducts a range of innovative courses and educational outreach programs that enhance understanding across cultures

Nabra Nelson (Theater Artist and Director of the Nubian Foundation for Preserving a Cultural Heritage), is a theatre creator and community organizer from Nubia, Egypt, and California.

Mona Mohi Eddin Hassan Sherif Ali Ahmed Dawood Khalil Debbabea Kakea, also known as Mona Sherif-Nelson, is the founder of the Nubian Foundation and the daughter and the heir of Nubia’s cultural leader Mohi Eddin Sherif. She spent a lifetime studying and documenting Fadijja Nubian culture.

Moderated by Samer Ali, Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Global Islamic Studies Center; Associate Professor, Middle East Studies

Join us for this discussion & performance on Monday, February 8th 4:00 - 6:00 PM (ET) by RSVPing here: http://myumi.ch/QAvzg

Cosponsored by: The Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, African Studies Center, Department of Sociology, The University Library

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:35:08 -0500 2021-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Conference / Symposium Fourth Annual MLK Day Lecture: Decolonizing Methods: Nubia and the Politics of Knowledge
LACS Event. Prison-Industrial Complexity: On Carceral Material Worlds & Ethical Aporias in Ecuador (February 18, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81771 81771-20953363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Virtual Event. Register at http://myumi.ch/R5D0Q

Chris Garces is Research Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and a Visiting Invited Professor in the Law School at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. His ethnographic interests range from the study of politics and religion—or contemporary political theologies–to the Western outgrowth of penal state politics, and counter-histories of Catholic ethics in Latin America. His co-edited volume, *Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century *(Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penality), will be published in February 2021.

Everywhere it seems, democracy has been freighted with the psychic weight of punitive infrastructure. Symptomatically, for most citizens, a world without prisons is impossible even to imagine. But consider the flip side of this most curious problem: uncomfortable or intrusive memories—that in the name of enforcing justice and democratic order, living human beings are being held in cages—publicly forgotten almost as soon as they are remembered. The prison is a machine for disappearing humans and remaking worlds. Carcerality as such boxes the prisoner into what might be called ethical aporias, unrelenting state-imposed sacrifice and civil disregard, or an experimental process of human disposal which nevertheless demands increasingly accelerated flows of exchange between free citizens and dehumanized offenders. In this talk, I explore how even the most modest of prison technologies participate in penal infrastructure’s human unmaking and world-remaking processes. Taking into account Ecuador’s 20th century material history of a humble water spigot in a municipal prison, I demonstrate the perverse tenacity of carceral relations and how penality itself—the state-sponsored ritual reproduction of punishment across the prison-neighborhood nexus—involves continuous, albeit disavowed human experimentation on diverse citizen-subjects.

Lecture presented in conjunction with HIST197: Journeys & Stories

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Co-sponsors: Department of History, Prison Creative Arts Project, and The Quito Project
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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:52:19 -0500 2021-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Prison-Industrial Complexity poster
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wleGk

The phrase “Arts of Devotion” typically brings to mind traditional ritual objects used as part of religious practices, or evokes items like costumes, masks, dances, songs, poetry, and literature. Arts of Devotion can tend to be conflated with only those items that are understood as “traditional,” rather than those that emerge from the contemporary moment, as if modern and contemporary art can only be associated with the purely secular world.

Yet there are numerous contemporary artists who have incorporated elements of the devotional into their works, and devotional arts have changed with the advent of modern technologies and changing socio-political contexts. We might also consider Arts of Devotion as potentially extending beyond the usual association with the religious to other “devotional” relationships, such as those for political or revolutionary leaders, or individuals’ loved ones.

This year’s conference explores both contemporary and traditional Arts of Devotion by bringing together scholars from across disciplines and temporal and regional contexts, to engage with one another and a broader audience of faculty, students, and the general public.

Free and open to the public.
This conference is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the U.S. Department of Education

Co-sponsors: African Studies Center, Center for Armenian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, History of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art

For schedule and panel information:
https://ii.umich.edu/ii/news-events/all-events/ii-conference.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
IISS Lecture Series. Revelations from the Cairo Geniza on the Ottoman Era in Egypt (March 5, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82006 82006-21004773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free and open to the public. Register at https://myumi.ch/zx790

The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar is pleased to announce our new public lecture ‘Revelations from the Cairo Geniza on the Ottoman Era in Egypt with Professor Jane Hathaway.

The Abstract:

"In this talk, I will present findings from my recent research in Ottoman-era documents of the Cairo Geniza. While the Geniza is well-known as a rich source for the economic and social history of Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean during the high Middle Ages (roughly 10th-early 13th centuries), the smaller volume of documents from the Ottoman period has remained understudied. For the past several months, I have worked with Arabic-script documents from this corpus. My talk will focus on a paleographically challenging document describing an inheritance dispute in the Mediterranean port of Damietta in 1538, only twenty-one years after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. The case sheds light on the status of Jewish converts to Islam, on Ottoman efforts to revive Damietta as a commercial entrepôt, and on continuities between late Mamluk Sultanate-era and Ottoman-era judicial and chancery practices".

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:49:09 -0500 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Revelations from the Cairo Geniza on the Ottoman Era in Egypt lecture poster
LACS Indigenous Languages Program Event. Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia (March 9, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82092 82092-21034704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Register at https://myumi.ch/3q00K

Lecture presented by Joanne Rappaport, Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University

Discussant: Laura Pensa, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages & Literatures, U-M

In the early 1970s, sociologist Orlando Fals Borda combined sociological and historical research with a firm commitment to grassroots social movements in collaboration with the National Association of Peasant Users on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. The presentation examines the development of participatory action research, highlighting Fals Borda's rejection of traditional positivist research frameworks in favor of sharing his own authority as a researcher with peasant activists and preparing accessible materials for a campesino readership, thereby transforming research into a political organizing tool. The fundamental concepts of participatory action research as they were framed by Fals Borda continue to be relevant to engaged social scientists and other researchers in Latin America and beyond.

Joanne Rappaport is a professor of Latin American cultural studies and anthropology at Georgetown University. An anthropologist pursuing dual lines of research in ethnographic history and collaborative ethnography, she previously looked at the role of literacy and historical memory in indigenous activism in Colombia and at the emergence of indigenous intellectuals in Latin America. Her recent work centers on collaborative ethnography that draws equally on academic and nonacademic agendas, theories, and methods. She is the author of *The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada*, *Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes, and Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia*, and *Cowards Don′t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research* all also published by Duke University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:05:16 -0500 2021-03-09T16:00:00-05:00 2021-03-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Action Research and the Participatory Construction of Knowledge in 1970s Colombia poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. Making Property Out of Air: Experiments in Urban Form in Phnom Penh (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80820 80820-20793350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/3qqzVLl

Runaway land prices, market euphoria, and an open economy together generated effects that continue to reverberate throughout Phnom Penh today. Beginning in the 2000s, Asian capitalists gave new buoyancy to Phnom Penh’s built environment when land once again became an object of intense speculation. But unlike earlier booms, the relationship between land and space was fundamentally reworked by foreign developers proposing large construction projects theretofore unseen in Cambodia’s otherwise low-slung capital. These projects would not only physically transform the city but required the fabrication of new things. Over the last decade, condominiums have become the most explosive part of Phnom Penh’s real estate market evidenced in the swell of units across the city. In this talk, I highlight the making of Phnom Penh’s first condominiums to argue how the condominium as a go-to urban form was never self-evident nor guaranteed despite its proliferation. The condominium — recognizable in cities across the globe from Singapore to New York — is a tenure category even though it is often treated as a residential type, usually in high-rise buildings. I track the real estate strategies and logics to argue how formatting urban space is born out of social and technical experiments that are part of the messiness in making markets and building experiments that are constitutive of Phnom Penh’s speculative urbanism. The built environment not only indexes the volatilities and vibrancies of the market, it is the mundane terrain through which ambitions, values, and forms are negotiated and made material. I situate the condominium as a property form born out of experiments to fabricate property able to capture values.

Sylvia Nam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in cities, markets, and expertise. Her work brings together anthropological engagements with value alongside geographical theories on the production of space as the cutting edge of accumulation.

She is currently working on a book project, Phnom Penh, City of Speculation, which is an ethnographic examination of speculative practices of real estate in Cambodia’s capital, the role of Asian investment in radically reshaping the city’s landscape, and the regulatory regimes that enable speculation and investment.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:34:25 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion CSEAS Lecture Series speaker: Sylvia Nam
Alumni Networking | The Society for Asian Studies Students (March 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83077 83077-21266959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

The Society for Asian Studies Students (SASS) is hosting an alumni networking event with Julia Shiota and Elise Huerta, two U-M Asian Studies graduates!

If you're interested in pursuing a degree in Asian Studies or want to learn more about what you can do with an Asian Studies major or minor, join us!

Register for the event at tinyurl.com/sassalumni

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:08:05 -0400 2021-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Yellow Background Featuring Photos of Julia Shiota and Elise Huerta
LACS Colombia Film Series. A Conversation about *Como el cielo después de llover* (2020) (March 25, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81576 81576-20927565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Please join us for the next event in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Spring 2021 Colombia Film Series. Join us on March 25 for a conversation about the film *Como el cielo después de llover* (2020) with the Mercedes Gaviria (Director) and Dr. Juana Suárez (Associate Arts Professor, New York University). Moderated and organized by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies, University of Michigan).

Registration for the panel discussion: https://myumi.ch/yKBKM
Registered attendees will receive links to a Canvas course site with a link to the film, as well as a link to the Zoom meeting on March 25.

*Como el cielo después de llover* (2020)
After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to Colombia to work on the next film by her father, the famous Víctor Gaviria. Fluctuating between admiration and reproach, Mercedes constructs a private diary that goes beyond familial conflicts to question the place of women in the film world, which is still strongly ingrained with a patriarchal mindset. A documentary about gender, identity, and the arts.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12209212/

Please register on the Google form to receive the link to the Zoom meeting. Please note this is a conversation, not a film screening. Please watch the film before the event on March 25. University of Michigan affiliates will find the movie available to watch online through the university library. Registered attendees will receive an email with further instructions, including a link to a Canvas site for the Colombia Film Series and a link to the Zoom meeting on March 25.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:20:43 -0500 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Como el cielo poster
CSEAS Lecture Series. Stemming the Nationalist Tide: Imperial Control and the Protection of Traditional Islam in British Malaya (April 16, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81006 81006-20832765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at http://bit.ly/38V5uGZ

While early nationalist movements led by modernist Muslims were brewing on the coasts of the Malay Peninsula in the early decades of the twentieth century, a competing project – sponsored by the British colonial administration – was underway inland in the Malay states. In the Malay states, the authority of traditional rulers was enhanced through the systematic protection and regulation of Islam and Muslim subjects. Uncovering administrative reports from the colonial archives, I show that there was unprecedented surveillance over two classes of religious activities: conversions into and out of Islam, and the publication and sale of religious materials, both of which served to strengthen and protect traditional authority. With these materials, I explore a hitherto under examined yet concerted imperial project of state-led traditional religious nationalism devised to stem the tide of modernist Muslim and anti-colonial movements in British Malaya.

Hanisah Binte Abdullah Sani is a comparative-historical and political sociologist of empire and state-formation, modernization and development. She studies how law and religion organize elites and build states and specializes in the colonial and modern histories of Southeast Asia. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 2019 and is currently a National University of Singapore overseas postdoctoral fellow. As visiting associate at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies at the University of Michigan, she is working on her book project, *Sacred States and Subjects: Law, Religion and Colonial State-Building in Malaya*.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:56:55 -0400 2021-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Speaker Image
Honors Colloquium (April 28, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83852 83852-21555864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Yingchao He
-Fashioning Contemporary Political Leadership in the People's Republic of China: A Case Study of Xi Jinping's Cadre Jacket

Limmy Kim
-The Entertainment of Divorce

Kimiko Varner
-The End of Mitsubishi *Zaibatsu: A Study of SCAP Policy and Opposition

Ruchi Wankhede
-When Perceptions Fall Short: Understanding the Relationship Between the Government and Marginalized Groups in China and India

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:36:53 -0400 2021-04-28T13:00:00-04:00 2021-04-28T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Blue poster with white writing: HONORS COLLOQUIUM with guests listed
CGIS Winter Advising (May 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619171@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
CGIS Winter Advising (May 20, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83938 83938-21619172@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

As studying abroad becomes more of a possibility for U-M students, particularly for Winter 2022, CGIS will be offering a 2-day Winter Advising event where students can learn more about major-specific programs such as programs in the environment, pre-health, and public health and interest-specific program sessions such as studying abroad in the UK and English-Taught programs in Asia to name few. The LSA Scholarship Office and the Office of Financial Aid will join us on May 20th to help answer questions you may have on funding your semester program abroad as well as walking you through the application process! First Step sessions will be offered each day of the event as well. Each info session will be interactive. Each session will offer an opportunity to interact with advisors and address questions or concerns you may have regarding study abroad. To get a general idea of participation, please RSVP below and select info sessions that you'd be interested in. We'll send you a Zoom link as we get closer to the event!

DISCLAIMER: With each passing term, a small yet increasing number of our programs seem to offer the possibility of receiving students, so CGIS proceeded with very cautious optimism that students will be able to study abroad in the coming academic year. CGIS and the University of Michigan continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation as it develops worldwide. Parents and other concerned parties who would like to receive this information should ask their students to share the updates with them. Students planning to participate in CGIS programs worldwide are advised to continue to closely monitor the latest developments and to adhere to any national and international public health directives issued by their host country or institution. CGIS will contact students who have opened or submitted an application to a CGIS program if and when updates are available.

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Presentation Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:02:10 -0400 2021-05-20T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-20T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Presentation Flyer
Southeast Asian Languages and Scholarship Information Session (June 4, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84067 84067-21619803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 4, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Want to learn about all the Southeast Asian languages we offer? Want to learn about opportunities to work in Southeast Asia and scholarships for these languages? Attend this information session! You will listen to our Filipino, Indonesia, Thai, and Vietnamese instructors and students directly. Our center staff will also answer questions about applying for a first year language scholarship and FLAS fellowship. Graduate and undergraduates at all levels and with varying backgrounds are welcome to attend. There will be a virtual showcase of Southeast Asian unique cultures as well as games and door prizes (T-shirts, tote bags and notebooks, and Amazon gift cards). So, don’t miss out!

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/PPpVt4X4cvRhdcHG7.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 May 2021 09:19:30 -0400 2021-06-04T11:00:00-04:00 2021-06-04T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Event Poster with Southeast Asian Images
CSEAS Cosponsored Event. MINDANAO REGIONAL FORUM: “Plantations for Peace in Mindanao Conflict Areas: Pitfalls, Promise, Prognosis” (July 7, 2021 10:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84377 84377-21623641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 10:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

July 6, Tuesday, 10 PM Eastern Time
*July 7, Wednesday, 10 AM Philippines Time*

Please register at https://bit.ly/PESmindanaoforum2021.

We welcome all interested scholars to the following multi-stakeholder roundtable on the place of industrial agriculture in the past and future imaginaries of the Philippine South.

Economic stagnation, poverty, and armed conflict are locked in a vicious cycle with tremendous impacts on lives and livelihood. One attempt to break the cycle was the pioneering investments in banana plantations in former conflict areas that initially solved multidimensional problems involving property protection, harmonization of local cultural norms with international business practices, and complementary investments. However, this model has recently been beset by external and internal challenges that threaten business viability—and also the peace it provides. This forum aims to extract the issues surrounding this development paradigm and highlight the pitfalls and the promise of such a model.

Speakers and panelists:

Cielito Habito, Ateneo de Manila University
Senen Bacani, Department of Agriculture, Philippines
Alyssa Paredes, University of Michigan
Charlotte Conde, Land Bank of the Philippines
Bai Mariam S. Mangudadatu, Province of Maguindanao
Datu Abubakar P. Paglas, Datu Paglas Maguindanao

This event is co-sponsored by the Philippine Economic Society, the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Northern Bukidnon State College.

For inquiries, please email pes.eaea@gmail.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:55:12 -0400 2021-07-07T22:00:00-04:00 2021-07-07T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Mindanao Regional Forum
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The 1918 influenza pandemic in Indonesia and comparisons with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (October 15, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87096 87096-21638697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to public. Register at https://myumi.ch/NxPrv

The 1918 influenza pandemic had a profound impact on Indonesia. This presentation highlights research on pandemic impacts on various aspects of key demographic aggregates in Indonesia. These include estimates of the toll of the pandemic in the absence of reliable birth and death registration data, the timing, size, and geographic spread of waves of infection and mortality, and the impacts of the pandemic on health policy in Indonesia. Where relevant, comparisons are made with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

About the Speaker:
Siddharth Chandra is professor and director of the Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University. His research interests include pandemics, the intersection of economics, health, and history in Asia, behavior and policy relating to addictive substances, and applications of portfolio theory to fields outside finance, for which the theory was originally developed. Much of his research is spatial and historical in nature. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for his historical research, which has appeared or will appear in a variety of journals including the *American Journal of Public Health*, the *American Journal of Epidemiology*, *Emerging Infectious Diseases,* *Demography, the Journal of Global* *History, the Journal of Economic History*, and the *Journal of Asian Studies*. His recent research on the influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 in Asia and the USA has been featured on BBC World as well as in a variety of newspapers and magazines worldwide. Professor Chandra received his PhD in economics from Cornell University, his AM (Ph.D. pass) in economics from the University of Chicago, and his BA (with honors) in economics from Brandeis University. Prior to joining Michigan State University, he was director of the Asian Studies Center and associate professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact cseas@umich.edu.

Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Sep 2021 14:18:18 -0400 2021-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion The 1918 influenza pandemic in Indonesia and comparisons with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Nhu Quynh’s Stardom: The (Re)making of Womanhood on Screen, Creative Labor, and the Contemporary Vietnamese Film Industry (November 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88658 88658-21656501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Free and open to the public; register at https://myumi.ch/dOm0B

This talk discusses cinema in post-reform Vietnam through a combined analysis of gender, creative labor, and transnational filmmaking by looking at the five-decade career of a prolific and well-known socialist film star Nhu Quynh. As an experienced actress who has been awarded by the Vietnamese government with one of the highest artistic titles—the People’s Artist—Nhu Quynh has made an important contribution to the success of many high-profile, international film projects shot in Vietnam after the country began opening its economy in the late 1980s such as *Indochine* (1992), *Cyclo* (1995), and *The Vertical Ray of Summer *(2000), as well as that of highly acclaimed films of the Vietnamese New Wave like *Wharf of Widows *(*Bến không chồng*, 2001) and *Pao's Story* (*Chuyện của Pao*, 2006). By exploring the complexities of cinematic female images embodied through her characters, Nhu Quynh challenges the current reading of Vietnamese cinema that fixates on the representations of suffering, submissive, repressive women as the singular response to the heroic, triumphalist portrayals of wartime heroines. Defying the prevailing hypothesis that women would be a victim of the market economy, Nhu Quynh’s stardom illustrates the actress’s capability to take the opportunities of the open-economy policies to cultivate an impressive career amidst the crisis of the Vietnamese film industry in the post-socialist era.

Qui-Ha Hoang Nguyen is a postdoctoral associate at Yale University MacMillan Center for Southeast Asian Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California in 2020. Her research interests include film postcolonial historiography, gender, and feminist studies, transnational film/media industry, environmental humanities, and global Asian cinema. Nguyen’s current book project, *Figuring Women in Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema (1945 – 1975): Representation, Affect, and Agency*, is a study of women’s lived experiences, emotions, and agency on and off-screen in wartime Vietnam.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 10:32:31 -0400 2021-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Qui-Ha Hoang Nguyen, Yale University MacMillan Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Why Asian Studies? ALC Undergraduate Information Session (November 19, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89051 89051-21660335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Why should you study Asian Studies? Find out at the ALC Information Session and ask our Director of Undergraduate Studies any questions you have.

Register at myumi.ch/w1DnG

Topics that will be covered:
◾ Asian Studies major
◾ Asian Languages and Cultures minor
◾ Asian Studies minor
◾ Language learning opportunities
We hope to see you there!

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:33:21 -0500 2021-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2021-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Asian Languages and Cultures Livestream / Virtual Event Poster with Info from Description